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Tuesday 26 June 2012
From 18h00 on: Welcome reception and buffet (Monastery garden)

Wednesday 27 June 2012
9h00-9h30: Opening plenary (Room: Bibliothèque)
9h30-10h30: Theory development workshop with Prof David Whetten (Room: Bibliothèque)
10h30-11h00: Break
11h00-12h30: Theory development workshop (continued)
12h30-14h00: Lunch
14h00-15h00: Paper sessions



Paper session 1: Environmental Management (Room: Bibliothèque)

Raymond L Paquin, Timo Busch & Suzanne G Tilleman:
Industrial Symbiosis: Paths towards Eco-efficiency and Eco-development

Luca Berchicci & Andrew A. King
:
Do Managers Systematically Underestimate The Potential For Waste Reduction?

Jörg H. Grimm, Joerg S. Hofstetter & Joseph Sarkis:
Multi-Tier Supplier Sustainability Compliance Management


Paper session 2: Sustainability and CSR (Room: St. Thomas)

Lorenzo Massa:
Sustainable Development, Corporate Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility

Michael Wood & Pratima Bansal:
Do You See What We See? The Role of Spatial Scale in Perceiving Environmental Issues

Ralf Barkemeyer & Frank Figge:
The False Promise of the Transnational CSR Strategy


15h10-16h10: Research development sessions



Research development session 1 (Room: Bibliothèque)
(Discussant: Nicole Darnall)

Jodi Short & Michael W. Toffel:
Private Enforcement of Labor and Environmental Standards in Global Supply Chains

Omar Asensio & Magali Delmas:
Conservation Messaging: A Behavioral Science Approach

James J. Cordeiro, Joseph Sarkis & Tara Shankar Shaw:
Lean is not always Green: Evidence from US Manufacturing Supply Chains


Research development session 2 (Room: St. Thomas)
(Discussant: Sanjay Sharma)

Panikos Georgallis:
The impact of practice-breaking and practice-building tactics on firms' resource commitment in the solar photovoltaic industry

Martin Lehmann & Anna Zinenko:
Making Sense of CSR in Danish Frontrunners




16h10-16h40: Break
16h40-18h00: Paper session 3: Climate change (Room: Bibliothèque)
Nicola Misani, Stefano Pogutz & Angelo Russo:
Investigating the Relationship Between Firm Carbon Intensity and Financial Performance: The Role of Organizational Responsiveness
Natalie Slawinski & Pratima Bansal:
Managing the Time Paradox in Business Sustainability: Responding to Climate Change in the Oil and Gas Industry
Naeem Ashraf & Emmanuelle Reynaud:
Institutional and Strategic Motivations of Reducing Carbon Emissions under CDM
Chonnikarn (Fern) Jira & Michael W. Toffel:
Engaging Supply Chains in Climate Change
20h00: Dinner

Thursday 28 June 2012
8h30-9h30: Paper sessions



Paper session 4: Performance (Room: Bibliothèque)

Olivier Boiral & Jean-François Henri:
Can Sustainability Performance Be Measured? A Content Analysis of GRI Reports

Magali Delmas, Dror Etzion & Nicholas Nairn-Birch:
Triangulating Environmental Performance: What Do Environmental Ratings Really Capture?

Haiying Lin:
Determinants of Environmental Performance in Emerging Economies: Theoretical Perspectives and Strategy Implications


Paper session 5: Innovation (Room: St. Thomas)

Brodie Boland & Jorge Rivera:
Not Only Laggards: Small Firms as a Vanguard for Green Technology Innovation

Natalia Ortiz-de-Mandojana, Javier Aguilera-Caracuel, José M. de la Torre-Ruiz & Vera Ferrón-Vílchez:
Is environmental regulatory uncertainty hindering or encouraging environmental performance? The role on a national level of innovation promotion

Dante-Ignacio Leyva-de la Hiz, J Alberto Aragón-Correa & Eulogio Cordon-Pozo:
The dilemma of exploitation versus exploration and relation with firm performance: Applicability to the development of environmental innovations


9h40-10h40: Research development sessions



Research development session 3 (Room: Bibliothèque)
(Discussant: Frances Bowen)

Julia Wolf:
Nested Structures and Corporate Sustainability: An Empirical Investigation into the Firm-Society-Nature Relationship

Moritz Loock & Diane Phillips:
Semiotics and Firm Reputation: The First Mover Advantage in Perceptions of the Sustainable Organization

Elmar Friedrich:
Grieving Organizations: Evidence from the German Energy Industry


Research development session 4 (Room: St. Thomas)
(Discussant: George Kassinis)

Giorgos Papagiannakis & Irini Voudouris:
Environmental management practices and environmental innovations: Examining the role of "green" absorptive capacity and stakeholder integration capabilities
Friederike Neugebauer:
Can corporate sustainability strategies emerge from innovation projects? Exploring emerging patterns with the help of Action Research

Ambra Galeazzo & Andrea Furlan:
Unpacking the Black Box of Proactive Environmental Strategy: A Conceptual Model


10h40-11h10: Break
11h10-12h30: Paper sessions 6: Markets and entrepreneurship (Room: Bibliothèque)
Magali Delmas & Neil Lessem:
Eco-Premium or Eco-Penalty? Eco-labels and quality in the organic wine market
Liudmila Nazarkina:
How to Grow Your Organic Business: Multiple Organizational Identities of Sustainable Enterprises and Their Growth Strategies
Jonatan Pinkse & Koen Groot:
Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Corporate Political Strategy: Overcoming Market Barriers in the Clean Energy Sector
Alfred Marcus, Joel Malen & Shmuel Ellis:
Conferring Legitimacy: Clean Energy Venture Capital (VC) 2002-2009
12h30-14h00: Lunch
14h00-15h30: Special topic workshop on sufficiency (Room: Bibliothèque)
Impulse speakers:
John Lastovicka:
Homo Consumerus: Consumers’ Biological-Evolutionary Roots & Sustainable Consumption
Thomas Princen:
Sufficiency: In Principle, In Practice
15h30-16h00: Break
16h00-17h00: GRONEN plenary (Room: Bibliothèque)
18h00: oikos-excursion: Wine degustation & picnic at organic winery Château Duvivier

Friday 29 June 2012
9h00-9h15: oikos Faculty Symposium Introduction (Room: Bibliothèque)
9h20-11h00: oikos Faculty Symposium PDWs



PDW1: Re-designing Management Education: Curricula Development Laboratory (Room: Bibliothèque)
(Conveners: Andrew Hoffman & Jost Hamschmidt)

John M Jermier & Linda Forbes:
The Politics of Sustainability in MBA Education in a College of Business in the United States

Kevin Laverty:
The Fundamental Questions: Establishing an Agenda for Sustainable Business Education


PDW2: Methods in Teaching Corporate Sustainability: Impact Assessment Laboratory (Room: St. Thomas)
(Conveners: Renato Orsato & Luca Berchicci)

Adele Santana:
Business Strategy and Policy for Sustainable Development: Accessing Students’ Ideal Worlds

Rebecca Luce:
For Proposed New Major in Economic Sustainability (ECOS): ECOS Experiential Integrative Project Capstone Course


PDW3: Beyond Teaching Cases: Using Simulations and Games to Teach Business Sustainability (Room: Lagrange)
(Convenors: Magali Delmas & Liudmila Nazarkina)

Elmar Friedrich:
The CEMS Model UNFCCC

Charles Corbett:
Offshore Wind Farm. Negotiation game


11h00-11h30: Break
11h30-13h00: Paper session 7: Proactive environmental practices and Best paper award (Room: Bibliothèque)
Sanjay Sharma & Pramodita Sharma:
Family Involvement in Dominant Coalitions as a Driver of Capability Building for a Proactive Environmental Strategy
José Céspedes-Lorente & Miguel Pérez Valls:
Green practices and organizational design as sources of strategic flexibility and performance
Vera Ferrón-Vílchez, Nicole Darnall & J Alberto Aragón-Correa:
Stakeholders’ Influences on the Comprehensiveness and Visibility of Facilities’ Proactive Environmental Practices
Best paper award
13h00-14h30: Lunch and end of conference


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