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Dear colleagues

We would like to draw your attention to a call for papers for a Special Thematic Symposium in the Journal of Business Ethics on "PARADOXES IN CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY: MANAGING TENSIONS BETWEEN SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES".

This Special Thematic Symposium provides an opportunity to explore the role of paradoxical management with regard to the tensions between social, economic and environmental aspects in organisations, not least to challenge the current dominance of the business case. We welcome theoretical and empirical papers from various disciplines on diverse levels and foci. The questions below are indicative of the scope of the Special Thematic Symposium:

§  Managing with a paradoxical logic: What would different paradoxical strategies in corporate sustainability look like? How and under what conditions can tensions be temporally or spatially separated? How can decision-makers genuinely keep a paradox open and live with tensions?

§  Managerial and organisational cognition: How do managers make sense of the different tensions between social, economic and environmental issues? Under what conditions can we expect paradox to be the dominant logic in an organisation to address these tensions?

§  Determinants of paradoxical approaches to managing tensions in corporate sustainability: Which are the various antecedents of managers' and organisations' ability to deal with tensions between social, economic and environmental aspects in a paradoxical way?

§  Change process: What are the dialectical interactions between evolutionary development and creative destruction? What implications does this tension have for managing opposing yet interrelated social, economic and environmental concerns?

§  New organisational forms: What is the role of hybrid forms of organizing that blur the boundary between the for-profit and non-profit worlds for the management of tensions between social, economic and environmental challenges?

§  Spatial and temporal tensions: How can paradoxical management help to address the tensions between opposing time frames in corporate sustainability? What are the role of and organisational responses to conflicting institutional expectations and logics behind environmental and social issues in different places?

Submissions that raise additional research questions in line with the sketched agenda are welcome.

Submission Process and Deadlines

Authors are strongly encouraged to refer to the Journal of Business Ethics website and the instructions on submitting a paper. For more details about the types of manuscripts that will be considered for publication, see http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/applied+ethics/journal/10551

Submission to the Special Thematic Symposium – by 30 November 2015 – is required through Editorial Manager at http://www.editorialmanager.com/busi/

Questions about expectations, requirements, the appropriateness of a topic, and so forth, should be directed to the editors of the Special Thematic Symposium:

Tobias Hahn (tobias.hahn@kedgebs.com)

Lutz Preuss (Lutz.Preuss@rhul.ac.uk)

Jonatan Pinkse (Jonatan.Pinkse@grenoble-em.com) 

Frank Figge (figge@sustainablevalue.com)

Paper Development Workshop in Vancouver in August 2015

To help authors prepare their manuscripts for submission, the guest editors will hold a workshop just prior to the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Vancouver on Thursday, 6 August 2015 (more details can be found here). Authors are invited to present and discuss their papers during the workshop. To be considered for the workshop, please send a short version of your paper of ca. 3000 words to Frank Figge (figge@sustainablevalue.com) by Monday, 2 March 2015. Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their paper for the workshop by Friday, 13 March 2015. Presentation of a paper at the workshop is not a precondition for submission to the Special Thematic Symposium. More information on the workshop can be obtained from the guest editors.

Dr Tobias Hahn

Professor of Corporate Sustainability

KEDGE Business School

Domaine de Luminy - BP 921

13 288 Marseille cedex 9

France

tobias.hahn@kedgebs.com

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