Dear
Organization & Environment Editorial Board Member and SIM members :
We have invited the O&E Editorial Board members to the 2014 Editorial Meeting during the upcoming Academy of Management conference in Philadelphia the first week of August. At the same time, we want to invite any of you to contact us if you are thinking about future submissions to the journal or considering the possibility of proposing a special issue. We will be happy to meet you in the Academy meeting and discuss your ideas with any of the O&E Co-Editors or Associate Editors.
We want to update all the participants in the Academy meeting on a number of items, including our excellent journal's progress in a number of key areas, our upcoming special issues, and our new awards for best recent O&E articles. At the same time, we want to encourage any of you to share any reflections you may have on the journal's current status and your suggestions for its future improvement.
Meanwhile you might also want to check some of our most exciting and recent papers (http://oae.sagepub.com/cgi/collection/recent_exciting_papers?page=1) or the Table of Contents and abstracts in our last issue (please see below).
Representatives from SAGE, our journal's publisher, are finalizing the location of our editorial meeting, but, in the meantime, we wanted to ensure that you reserved the early evening of Sunday, August 3rd, from 6pm to 7:30pm for our brief editorial meeting, followed by a nice reception. If you are coming to the editorial meeting, please let us know your email and we will make sure that you receive the specific location as soon as the confirmation is ready.
We look forward to working with you, whether you are an O&E editorial board member, author, reviewer, and/or advisor, over the next exciting year!
Collegially,
J. Alberto Aragon-Correa Mark Starik
University of Surrey, UK San Francisco State Univ., USA
Co-Editors-in-Chief, Organization & Environment
Organization & Environment, March 2014, 27 (1) Table of Contents and Abstracts.
Collaborative Guest Editorial
With a Little (Urgent) Help From Our Friends: Management Academic Leadership for a Sustainable Future. Mark Starik and Marie-France Turcotte (http://oae.sagepub.com/content/27/1/3.full.pdf+html)
Welcome to our first Organization & Environment (O&E) Collaborative Guest Editorial! As
O&E enters its second year of new directions and approaches, and in an effort to test the first of
several innovative ideas suggested by our stakeholders, coeditors Alberto Aragón-Correa and
Mark Starik have invited Professor Marie-France Turcotte of UQAM to join Mark in collaborating
on this first O&E editorial of 2014. Marie-France, in general, contributes her decades-long
interest and expertise in both sustainability management and collaboration to this effort and,
specifically, offers several suggestions on one of this issue's main subthemes-urgent academic
sustainability management actions.
Essays
Beyond "Saddle Bag" Sustainability for Business Education. Sanjay Sharma and Stuart Hart (http://oae.sagepub.com/content/27/1/10.full.pdf+html)
Revisiting the historical evolution of the corporation helps explain how the challenge of sustainability has been addressed in business education. Business schools emerged toward the end of the 19th century after U.S. Supreme Court judgments absolved corporate directors from the duty of adhering to social missions embodied in their limited liability charters. This coincided with the rise of neoclassical economics that placed shareholders above other stakeholders. As evolving societal demands have forced businesses to consider business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability in their performance, and as AACSB has added these learning objectives, business schools have reactively responded by adding new courses to their existing curricula. However, these "saddle-bag" approaches do not integrate the topics into the core functional areas of business. Only recently have a few business schools boldly overcome organizational inertia to develop curricula that lead practice by embedding sustainability into the core to educate managers who can rise to the demands of the global sustainability challenges facing the world in the 21st century.
Walking the Eco-Talk Movement: Higher Education Institutions as Sustainability Incubators. Denis Collins and Amy Gannon (http://oae.sagepub.com/content/27/1/16.full.pdf+html)
Management scholars can have a major impact on advancing environmental sustainability by focusing on their own home institutions. A "four-type" sustainability action model is presented to foster thinking about how professors can engage and empower students, faculty, and staff to be active environmental change agents on their own campuses and local community. Faculty can assign sustainability class projects, integrate sustainability throughout the Business School's core curriculum, participate on a campus sustainability committee, and conduct research on sustainability in higher education that flows out of these activities. Some examples of these different types of efforts are offered based on experiences at Edgewood College, a small U.S. Midwestern college. A coordinated effort among faculty engaged in similar activities on other campuses would dramatically advance environmental sustainability.
Articles
Marcellus Shale Development and the Susquehanna River: An Exploratory Analysis of Cross-Sector Attitudes on Natural Gas Hydraulic Fracturing. Mark A. Heuer and Zui Chih Lee (http://oae.sagepub.com/content/27/1/25.full.pdf+html)
In this exploratory analysis, we survey Susquehanna River basin stakeholders regarding the environmental, social, and economic impacts of natural gas hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Region. Our survey involved collecting data based on four categories: economic opportunity, protection of health and safety, preserving communities, and achieving energy security. We separated responses on a cross-sector basis in order to differentiate between the nonprofit, government, and private sectors. Overall, responses by the three sectors are relatively similar. Of the 21 questions measured by a 5-point Likert-type scale (with 5 being the highest priority), 17 questions measure above 3 for all three sectors. With hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Region in the early stages of a typical energy "boom-bust" cycle, the results of this survey provide baseline data to compare with stakeholder attitudes at later stages of the cycle.
Sustainable Behavior in the Business Sphere: A Comprehensive Overview of the Explanatory Power of Psychological Models. Regina Lulfs and Rudiger Hahn (http://oae.sagepub.com/content/27/1/43.full.pdf+html)
This conceptual article illuminates multiple determinants of sustainable behavior in companies by adapting the comprehensive action determination model proposed by Klöckner and Blöbaum. We apply this behavioral model specifically to the corporate sphere and illustrate that its determinants match the theoretical and empirical research on sustainable behavior in companies. By extending the model to the business context and by applying it to the broad sphere of sustainability, we build a connection between psychological findings (especially those related to environmental psychology) and research on organizational behavior and provide a coherent framework for corporate interventions to enforce individual sustainable behavior fostering corporate sustainability. In doing so, we provide an extensive overview of contemporary research on the psychological determinants of sustainable behavior within companies
Alliance Network Position, Embeddedness and Effects on the Carbon Performance of Firms in Emerging Economies. Naeem Ashraf, Pierre-Xavier Meschi, and Robert Spencer (http://oae.sagepub.com/content/27/1/65.full.pdf+html)
This article explores the effect of network structure on the carbon performance of firms in emerging economies at an ego network level. Building on the theoretical framework of social networks, we posit that an ego firm's network position, structural embeddedness, and structural constraint affect carbon performance. We examine the research hypotheses using a panel data set made up of 44 Indian firms that entered into alliances under the Clean Development Mechanism over the 2005-2009 period. Our main results show that the central position of the focal firm in the network and its degree of network embeddedness exert a positive effect on its carbon performance. This article contributes to the literature on climate strategy by exploring the influence of the structural characteristics of the firm's ego network in the carbon market on its environmental performance.
Green Christians? An Empirical Examination of Environmental Concern Within the U.S. General Public. John M. Clements, Aaron M. McCright, and Chenyang Xiao (http://oae.sagepub.com/content/27/1/85.full.pdf+html)
Since the mid-1960s, many scholars have characterized Western Christianity as at odds with environmentalism and ecological values. Yet since the mid-1990s, many observers claim there has been a "greening of Christianity" in the United States. Using nationally representative data from the 2010 General Social Survey, we analyzed how pro-environmental self-identified Christians in the U.S. general public are in their self-reported environmental attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Using structural equation modeling, we find that self-identified Christians report lower levels of environmental concern than do non-Christians. Among Christians, religiosity relates positively to pro-environmental behaviors but not to pro-environmental attitudes or beliefs. These results suggest that this presumed greening of Christianity has not yet translated into a significant greening of pro-environmental attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of rank-and-file Christians in the U.S. general public.