EGOS - SUB-THEMES - European Group for Organizational Studies

Convenors:

Parallel Stream A: What is the System? - Room: Economia – A – 0_11

Chair: Paul S. Adler

Sébastien Burdalski and Mehran Ebrahimi

Free markets and capitalism: A love-hate relationship

Discussant(s): Juan Pablo Casadiego Guevara (or co-author)

Paul S. Adler and Zlatko Bodrožić

Oligarchy, Localism, Authoritarianism or Democratization? A neo-Schumpeterian perspective on alternative paths for confronting the climate crisis

Discussant(s): Jens Marquardt

Marcus Vinícius Peinado Gomes, Takahiro Endo and Rick Delbridge

Atomized goals? Formation of ‘sustainability’ in the Japanese fishing sector

Discussant(s): Giuseppe Delmestri (or co-author)

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IMPORTANT, please note!
This sub-theme kicks off with a joint 10 minutes introduction in the main room Economia – A – 0_11 [incl. online].
Subsequently, we continue to work in three parallel streams in different rooms:
• Parallel Stream A: Economia – A – 0_11 [main room]
• Parallel Stream B: Economia – A – -1_Lab. Inf. LISS D
• Parallel Stream C: Online only!
We come back together in Sessions VII & VIII in the main room Economia – Economia – A – 0_11 [incl. online].

Parallel Stream B: How Inertia and Ignorance are Hindering Alternatives - Room: Economia – A – -1_Lab. Inf. LISS D

Chair: Steffen Böhm

Charles Barthold, Caroline Clarke, Richard Longman and Matthew Cole

Organizing Ignorance in the Anthropocene: Agnosis and the Anthropogenic drivers of global environmental crises

Discussant(s): John Murray (or co-author)

Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright, Vanessa Bowden and Olivia Hamilton

The power of path dependency: Locking in an unhabitable planet

Discussant(s): Moritz Gruban (or co-author)

Aurélien Acquier

Anthropocene, systemic inertia and conceptual obsolescence – On the conceptual dynamics of the field of corporate sustainability

Discussant(s): Ester Barinaga

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IMPORTANT, please note!
This sub-theme kicks off with a joint 10 minutes introduction in the main room Economia – A – 0_11 [incl. online].
Subsequently, we continue to work in three parallel streams in different rooms:
• Parallel Stream A: Economia – A – 0_11 [main room]
• Parallel Stream B: Economia – A – -1_Lab. Inf. LISS D
• Parallel Stream C: Online only!
We come back together in Sessions VII & VIII in the main room Economia – A – 0_11 [incl. online].

Parallel Stream C: Corporate Responses to the Climate Crisis - Room: Online only!

Chair: Christopher Wright

John M. Jermier and John Bellamy Foster

The great acceleration and the corporate environmentalism controversy: Critical perspectives on alternative futures from radical ecology

Discussant(s): Steen Vallentin (or co-author)

Eline R. Roomer and Sheila Cannon

An integrative approach to corporate environmentalism in management literature

Discussant(s): Martina Linnenluecke (or co-author)

Elena C. Pierard and Aoife Brophy

Negotiating oil futures: The role of incumbents in framing contests for climate action

Discussant(s): Fabian Maier (or co-author)

Parallel Stream A: The Role of the State - Room: Economia – A – 0_11

Chair: Jens Marquardt

Herman Stål

Can local governments’ planning monopoly help us imagine forceful climate policy? A practice perspective

Discussant(s): Lama Arda

Jonathan Labbe and Elen Riot

The splendour and misery of nature: Comparing two ecosystems of innovation in bioeconomy and genetics in relation to public good

Discussant(s): Yousaf Nishat-Botero

Yousaf Nishat-Botero

Planning in the Anthropocene: Metabolic regimes and post-growth planning futures

Discussant(s): Paul Adler

Parallel Stream B: Discourses and Identities in Mobilizing Communities - Room: Economia – A – -1_Lab. Inf. LISS D

Chair: Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes

Anselm Schneider and John Murray

Merchants of solace: Mobilizing processes in organized climate change denial

Discussant(s): Nicolas Béfort (or co-author)

Caitlin Gardner, Christopher Wright and Leanne Cutcher

Fossil fuel hegemony and collective future visions in an Australian coal mining region

Discussant(s): Julia Kirch Kirkegaard (or co-author)

Friederike Döbbe

Hegemony on the menu: Keeping business legitimate in multi-stakeholder governance

Discussant(s): Julien Lafaille

Parallel Stream C: Political and Economic Systems - Room: Online only!

Chair: Jacqueline Kirk

Steen Vallentin and David Murillo

Market Fundamentalism as Reactionary Rhetoric

Discussant(s): John Jermier

Nikodemus Solitander

Overcoming the reflexive impotence of the business school curriculum? Envisioning alternatives

Discussant(s): Eline Roomer (or co-author)

Shann Turnbull

Reducing hidden sources of inequality to eternally sustain humanity

Discussant(s): Yuxi Zhao

Parallel Stream A: Industrial Transformation - Room: Economia – A – 0_11

Chair: Giuseppe Delmestri

Clara Roussey, Florence Palpacuer and Christophe Alliot

Politicizing waste: Ontological shift or matter of materiality? The case of French e-waste value chain

Discussant(s): Sebastien Burdalski (or co-author)

Jozef Cossey and Anaïs Périlleux

Minimizing rebound effects in the circular economy: The role of behavioral and contextual factors in addressing imperfect substitution

Discussant(s): Effie Kesidou (or co-author)

Niki Khorasani and Madeline Toubiana

Entrepreneurship and degrowth: Promise or oxymoron?

Discussant(s): Iu Tusell (or co-author)

Parallel Stream B: Creating Climate Change Commodities - Room: Economia – A – -1_Lab. Inf. LISS D

Chair: Daniel Nyberg

Ester Barinaga

Greening monies: Re-making money for catalysing system change

Discussant(s): Charles Barthold

John Murray, Tim Bartley and Maria-Therese Gustafsson

Regulating carbon emissions in overseas markets: Can level playing fields level ‘up’?

Discussant(s): Aurélien Acquier

Moritz Gruban and Aurélien Feix

An organizational legitimacy perspective on marketization: Theorizing the socio-cognitive mechanisms involved in stakeholder acceptance and exploring means of resistance

Discussant(s): Miguel García Sánchez

Parallel Stream C: Communities and Social Movements - Room: Online only!

Chair: Christopher Wright

Fabian Maier, Kate Seymour and Friederike Döbbe

Rage against business as usual: Moving from climate carelessness to caring forms of anger

Discussant(s): Ruben Nicolas (or co-author)

Jessica Enara Vian

Developing community’s power to shape change: A case study of community-led forestry in Scotland

Discussant(s): Jacqueline Kirk

Parallel Stream A: Business Models and Practices - Room: Economia – A – 0_11

Chair: Effie Kesidou

Effie Kesidou, Anastasia Ri , Stephen Roper, Anastasia Ri and Stephen Roper

Twin net zero and digital transition – myth or reality? Evidence from UK SMEs

Discussant(s): Takahiro Endo (or co-author)

Juan Pablo Casadiego Guevara, Verónica Devenin and Alfred Vernis Domènech

Exploring business models for regenerative sustainability: An organizational value logics view

Discussant(s): Elen Riot

Diana Muslimova and Giuseppe Delmestri

Paradoxical decarbonisation: Translation of climate change within carbon-intensive organizations

Discussant(s): Clara Roussey (or co-author)

Parallel Stream B: Transitions in the Anthropocene - Room: Economia – A – -1_Lab. Inf. LISS D

Chair: John Murray

Nicolas Béfort and Lucie Wiart

Discourses and organizations in the transitions at the time of the "Anthropocene": The case of waste management for the development of a circular economy

Discussant(s): Daniel Nyberg

Julia Kirch Kirkegaard and Tom Cronin

The struggle for making dissenting voices heard in the meteoric rise of Power-to-X as a solution to the energy transition

Discussant(s): Friederike Döbbe

Julien Lafaille

Much ado about nothing: The hydrogen economy from the perspective of the critical theory of technology

Discussant(s): Catlin Gardner

Miguel García Sánchez

Exploring the notion of transformative knowledge co-creation in urban transitions

Discussant(s): Anselm Schneider (or co-author)

Parallel Stream C: New Business Models - Room: Online only!

Chair: Jacqueline Kirk

Jianlei Han, Martina Linnenluecke, Jing Shi and Tom Smith

“Systems change, not climate change”: Investigating the role of political connections in the transition to a low-carbon economy in China and Australia

Discussant(s): Pallavi George (or co-author)

Yuxi Zhao

Ecological fix: Can environmental and financial crisis be solved simultaneously? Entrepreneur’s privatization and commodification of ecosystem services

Discussant(s): Shann Turnbull

Mehmet Yetim and Furkan Gur

Environmentally conscious decision-making in employee-owned ventures

Discussant(s): Jacqueline Kirk

Parallel Stream A: Politics - Room: Economia – A – 0_11

Chair: Zlatko Bodrožić

Ambreen Ben-Shmuel

Intergenerational confrontation and organizational change: Negotiations of environmental organizational identity during political conflict

Discussant(s): Paul Adler

Jens Marquardt

Current struggles, future visions: Three layers of politicization in governing climate change

Discussant(s): Herman Stål (or co-author)

Eugenia Cacciatori, Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek and Konstantinos Chalkias

Cross-sectoral partnerships in disaster insurance: Between maladaptation and resilience

Discussant(s): Olivier Berthod

Parallel Stream B: Indigenous and Alternative Knowledge - Room: Economia – A – -1_Lab. Inf. LISS D

Chair: Ester Barinaga

Ana María Peredo and Audrey Maria Popa

Organizing for conservation: Exploring indigenous approaches to conservation financing

Discussant(s): Kate Seymour

Chellie Spiller, Amber Nicholson and Rodger Spiller

Stewardship as a conscious adaptive system: Indigenous insights for alternative futures beyond environmental crises

Discussant(s): Sideeq Mohammed

Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes

Ontological transformations in the web of life: The transformative potential of regenerative agriculture

Discussant(s): James Scott Vandeventer

Parallel Stream C: New Frameworks - Room: Online only!

Chair: Christopher Wright

Pallavi George and Rama Mohana R. Turaga

Planetary boundaries and corporate sustainability: A study of the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi)

Discussant(s): Jessica Enara Vian

Oz Gore and Uri Ansenberg

Thinking with permaculture: Radical imaginative powers, ecologically-embedded management and the threat of measurement

Discussant(s): Jacqueline Kirk

Jacqueline Kirk

The role of deliberative democracy in empowering alternative now(s)? To what extent do climate assembly participants contribute to crafting alternative systems?

Discussant(s): Moshe Farjoun

Parallel Stream A: Collaborations - Room: Economia – A – 0_11

Chair: Paul Adler

Héla Yousfi

“Under the sun”: Recognizing the history of resistance against the fossil economy for a world beyond environmental crisis Arab perspectives

Discussant(s): Paul Adler

Iu Tusell, Siavash Alimadadi and Stephan D. Manning

The project-system dynamic of tackling grand challenges

Discussant(s): Jozef Cossey

Olivier Berthod

Cross-sector collaborations for environmental and climate action: How much “organization” do they need to deliver?

Discussant(s): Eugenia Cacciatori (or co-author)

Lama Arda

Setting sustainability agenda at the local level: A process of compromise making

Discussant(s): Niki Khorasani (or co-author)

Parallel Stream B: Future Imaginaries and Alternatives - Room: Economia – A – -1_Lab. Inf. LISS D

Chair: Daniel Nyberg

Kate Seymour

Socio-ecological reflexivity as a governing virtue in the economic sphere; or workplace democracies for the Anthropocene

Discussant(s): Chellie Spiller (or co-author)

James Scott Vandeventer

Management at the precipice: Spatial imaginaries for organizing (in) the climate emergency

Discussant(s): Audrey M. Popa (or co-author)

Sideeq Mohammed

Refractions: On desire, annihilation, and alternative futures for a world beyond crisis

Discussant(s): Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes

Parallel Stream C: Models for Change - Room: Online only!

Chair: Jacqueline Kirk

Moshe Farjoun

Interlocking surprises: What are they? What difference do they make? How can organizations respond?

Discussant(s): Oz Gore (or co-author)

Ruben Nicolas, Helen S. Toxopeus and Fredo Schotanus

The ‘integrated approach’ How municipalities create additional public value in the urban space

Discussant(s): Nikodemus Solitander

Chair: Zlatko Bodrožić

In this joint session, all participants of the three streams come together to discuss key insights with respect to the following questions:
(1) How should we characterize the prevailing system (foundational theory; key concepts characterizing the system)?
(2) How does this system impede resolution of the climate crisis?

The discussion is guided by inputs (succinct syntheses of key insights from each stream) of the three convenor teams:
• Parallel Stream A: Paul S. Adler & Zlatko Bodrožić
• Parallel Stream B: Steffen Böhm & Daniel Nyberg
• Parallel Stream C: Jacqueline Kirk & Christopher Wright

Chair: Paul Adler

In this joint session, all participants of the three streams come together to discuss key insights with respect to the following questions:
(3) What alternative system (or change processes) do we need to meet the climate change challenge?
(4) How to mobilize for (or otherwise contribute to) system-level change to address the climate crisis?

The discussion is guided by inputs (succinct syntheses of key insights from each stream) of the three convenor teams:
• Parallel Stream A: Paul S. Adler & Zlatko Bodrožić
• Parallel Stream B: Steffen Böhm & Daniel Nyberg
• Parallel Stream C: Jacqueline Kirk & Christopher Wright

Organizing for the Good Life: Between Legacy and Imagination

Sub-theme 15: [SWG] System Change, Not Climate Change: Alternative Futures for a World beyond Environmental Crisis --> HYBRID!