Our world is facing challenging tensions in all aspects of society: economic, political, technological, social, and environmental. All 195 member-states of the United Nations have pledged to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity within the next 15 years.1 http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ The National Academy of Engineering encourages the profession to meet 14 grand challenges in the…
This is a Web Story for the 2022 Responsible Research Summit. The Summit was held from 6-7 June in Philadelphia, USA. It was hosted by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and sponsored by Wharton and INSEAD in collaboration with Responsible Research in Business & Management. The Summit aims to reward responsible research…
This post was originally published on Network for Business Sustainability Earlier this month, my son was tested for his next belt at the local karate dojo. For a karate learner, every test is a special occasion as they look to advance in belt colours: each signifying progress (and a rank). As a father, these occasions…
Including Practitioners in Co-Creating Desirable Future Speaker: Dr Garima Sharma (Georgia State University) Management research fails to impact practice because our focus is on evidence from the past that may not reflect practitioners’ current reality. Further, we use this historical evidence to predict the future. However, as the current crises has shown, often…
OBJECTIVES The goal of the Responsible Research Roundtable was to develop a SHARED UNDERSTANDING and a JOINT COMMITMENT for a systemic move toward business knowledge co-production by academia and its stakeholders (business, institutions, civil society) for the betterment of society. The specific action-oriented objectives we aspired to achieve were: Why? IDENTIFY…
Group lists First Name Last Name Primary Affiliation Primary Professional Role Country Group 1 Africa Arino IESE Business School Professor Strategy Spain Ruben Atekpe MECOWA Group Executive Chairman Ghana Sudipta Basu (*) Temple University Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Programs USA Ibrat Djabbarov (*) Cranfield School of Management PhD Candidate UK Kem Ferag IBM…
Participant list First Name Last Name Primary Affiliation Primary Professional Role Country Robert Allen American Accounting Association President-Elect USA Africa Arino IESE Business School Professor Strategy Spain Tima Bansal Western University Professor of Sustainability Canada Sudipta Basu Temple University Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Programs USA Sharifa Batts Maritime Transportation Senior Executive Environment, …
Eva Cools, DBA Manager & Research Manager of Vlerick Business School and co-chair of the 2021 EFMD Doctoral Programmes Conference (DPC), shares her reflections from the conference. Recently I had the honour to co-chair the 2021 EFMD Doctoral Programmes Conference (DPC), together with Christine Unterhitzenbergerfrom the University of Leeds. Although we already chose the conference…