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Dear SIM Academy Colleagues,

Please join us for a very insightful AAT symposium on Systems & Sustainability at AOM!

AAT SYMPOSIUM

Systems & Sustainability: Towards a New Research Agenda

Sunday, Aug 6 2017 12:15PM - 1:45PM 

at Hyatt Regency Atlanta in Techwood

http://my.aom.org/program2017/SessionDetails.aspx?sid=12568

The overall aim of the symposium is to introduce system perspectives to a wide audience and to use business sustainability as an illustrative context for how the application of systems thinking needs to be strengthened in management research. Business sustainability provides a meaningful context, because early sustainability research was grounded in systems thinking and stressed the need to apply a systems paradigm. But business sustainability research has primarily analyzed individual system components and their interdependencies. Instead of addressing complex sustainability phenomena, the main emphasis has been on improving organizational performance and understanding institutional conditions. Therefore, we invite leading scholars from different disciplines to discuss questions such as why systems theory is not as popular is it used to be in (business) sustainability research and work towards the corner posts of a future research agenda at the interface of systems and sustainability research.

PANELISTS

Jochen Markard, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETH

Raghu Garud, Pennsylvania State U.

Gail Whiteman, Erasmus U. Rotterdam

Fabrizio Ferraro, IESE Business School

David R. Keith, MIT Sloan School of Management

Terry B. Porter, U. of Maine

Benyamin Bergmann Lichtenstein, U. of Massachusetts, Boston

ORGANIZER

Sylvia Grewatsch, Ivey Business School, Western U., sgrewatsch@ivey.ca
Christina Bidmon, Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus U., chb@mgmt.au.dk

Sylvia Grewatsch, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow at Ivey Business School,

Network for Business Sustainability (NBS),

Western University,

London ON (Canada)