Sub-theme 55: Sustainability Agency: Exploring an Evolving Multi-Theoretical, Multi-Level, and Interdisciplinary Field of Study
Convenors:
Satu Teerikangas, University of Turku, Finland
Efrosyni Konstantinou, University College London, United Kingdom
Gustavo Birollo, Université Laval, Canada
Session Time Corridor 1: Thursday, July 09, 08:00 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Individual change agents & emotions
Break 1: 10:00 to 10:30
Chair: Satu Teerikangas
Torben Trapp, John Amis and John M. Amis
Preventing field ideology transitions – the case of asset managers acting on climate change
Discussant(s): TBC
Miia Toikka and Jari Autioniemi
The tensions of civil service ethics in shaping the (un)sustainability agency of civil servants
Discussant(s): TBC
Susana Esper, Gustavo Birollo and Maria Castillo
BETWEEN STUDENT ACTIVISM AND INTERNAL RESISTANCE: HOW SUSTAINABILITY MANAGERS USE PUBLIC POLICY TO STRENGTHEN THEIR ROLES
Discussant(s): TBC
Yuyu Liao and Ying-Che Hsieh
Sustainability Agency from Within: Exploring the Motivation Behind Semiconductor Employees’ Participation in ESG Proposal
Initiatives
Discussant(s): TBC
Claire Brouwer and Tijs Adriaan van den Broek
Moral emotions in motion: How self-compassion and reproach calibration enhance support for the circular transition
Fabien Littel, Ai Yu and Ai Yu
Fostering empathy and collaboration towards sustainability awareness and action via dialogic storytelling workshops
Discussant(s): TBC
Kirsi Snellman, Iiris Saittakari, Tiina Ritvala, Iiris Saittakari and Tiina Ritvala
Reasons, emotions and motivations behind local resistance and support towards green foreign direct investments
Discussant(s): TBC
Session Time Corridor 2: Thursday, July 09, 16:00 to 18:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Leadership as sustainability agency
Chair: Efrosiny Konstantinou
Kaveen Bachoo, Thomas Maak and Nicola Pless
Navigating the profit–sustainability paradox: Responsible leadership in the mining industry
Discussant(s): TBC
Adina Arth, Tiziana Gaito, Giannina Faktor and Giannina Faktor
Responsible leadership orientations and stakeholder engagement: Aims and impacts in advancing the circular economy
Discussant(s): TBC
Shamini Abeysirigunawardana
The chief sustainability officers and corporate social responsibility decoupling: The moderating effect of external scrutiny
Discussant(s): TBC
Linruyuan Tan, Nada Kakabadse and Nadeem M. Khan
Board Diversity as Governance Activation: Translating ESG Disclosure under Institutional Complexity in China
Discussant(s): TBC
Session Time Corridor 3: Friday, July 10, 10:00 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Companies' sustainability agency
Chair: Gustavo Birollo
Martina Tafuro, Gianluca Gionfriddo, Niccolò Maria Todaro and Andrea Piccaluga
“Corporate Social Generativity: Systematic Literature Review, construct definition, and measurement”
Discussant(s): TBC
Saeid Rahanjam and Jean-Pascal Gond
Disambiguating political corporate social responsibility: A meta-theoretical perspective
Discussant(s): TBC
Marja Turunen and Satu Teerikangas
Companies’ Strategic and Leadership Approaches to Addressing Biodiversity in Business -Toward A Maturity Model
Discussant(s): TBC
Fozail Ahmad
Capital, Caste, and Corporate Sustainability: A Marxian Critique of CSR and Environmental Justice in India
Discussant(s): TBC
Lisa Pramann
Beyond blended value creation: A review and multilevel perspective on impact investing strategies
Discussant(s): TBC
Coralie Lhabitant, Victor DOS SANTOS PAULINO, Christian Gnekpe and Laurent Deroin
Environmental Sustainability in Early-Stage Socio-Economic Assessments: A Systematic Review of Innovation Projects in the
Space Ecosystem
Session Time Corridor 4: Friday, July 10, 16:00 to 18:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Collective forms of sustainability agency
Chair: Efrosiny Konstantinou
Vanessa Robertson, Maike Gossen and Suleika Bort
Transforming the system from within: how businesses pursue radical sufficiency through incremental steps
Discussant(s): TBC
Celina McEwen and Martina Linnenluecke
Driving climate risk governance through epistemic adaptation
Discussant(s): TBC
Christian Thomas Scheiding
Subcultural conditions of sustainability agency: Regimes of basic assumptions in effectiveness, legitimacy and responsibility
Discussant(s): TBC
Maria Cristina Zaccone and Stefanie Remmer
When no-one or everyone comes to their senses: Collective sensemaking as a foundation for sustainability agency in firms
Discussant(s): TBC
Marie Wehinger
How open-system orchestrators build sustainability agency: Evidence from an emerging Circular Economy field in Germany
Discussant(s): TBC
Leonie Dienst and Verena Meyer
Collective agency in rural communities: Exploring a social-regenerative approach for building sustainable futures
Mitra Kooche Moshki, Ruben Burga and Eric Lyons
Sustainability Agency in Collective Governance: How Managerial Pathways Shape Sustainable Futures in Member-Owned Golf Clubs
Discussant(s): TBC
Session Time Corridor 5: Saturday, July 11, 09:00 to 12:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Inter-organizational forms of sustainability agency
Break 1: 10:30 to 11:00
Chair: Satu Teerikangas
Guillaume Pain, Raymond Paquin and Catherine Morin
Orchestrating sustainability knowledge through an industry association to address grand challenges
Discussant(s): TBC
Blas Rivas Santos and Nicolas T. Deuschel
Hubris in Sustainable Entrepreneurs: Moral Identity and Regulatory Perception as Cognitive Lenses
Discussant(s): TBC
Li-Hsiang Yi and Akihiro INOUE
Exercising Agency through Hybridity: A Multi-dimensional Taxonomy of Sustainable Business Models in Social Enterprise
Discussant(s): TBC
Monika Okreglicka-Mazur
Waste management – literature review from a network perspective
Discussant(s): TBC
Erik Treppo, Filomena Canterino, Raffaella Cagliano and Raffaella Cagliano
Assessing sustainability in urban production ecosystems: Delphi-based insights from domain experts
Discussant(s): TBC
Patrick Elf and Sophie Whitehouse
Enabling sustainability agency: Services as relational architectures and the role of social representations
Discussant(s): TBC