Sub-theme 15: [SWG] System Change, Not Climate Change: Alternative Futures for a World beyond Environmental Crisis --> HYBRID!
Convenors:
Paul S. Adler, University of Southern California, USA
Zlatko Bodrožić, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Steffen Boehm, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Session I: Thursday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30
- Parallel Stream -
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].
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].
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)
Session II: Thursday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30
- Parallel Stream -
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
Session III: Thursday, July 06, 14:00 to 15:30
- Parallel Stream -
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
Session IV: Friday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:30
- Parallel Stream -
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
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
Session V: Friday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30
- Parallel Stream -
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
Session VI: Friday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30
- Parallel Stream -
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
Session VII: Saturday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, Economia – A – 0_11
ROUND TABLE A: System Change Laboratory I: Key System-Level Impediments
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
(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
Session VIII: Saturday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, Economia – A – 0_11
ROUND TABLE B: System Change Laboratory II: Alternative Futures
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
(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