Register here for the Keynote Panel Discussion: "Should Sustainability Management Be a Field?", as part of the GRONEN Research Conference 2022, hosted by the Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam.

This plenary session aims to discuss the following question: Should sustainability be a distinct field in management? The speakers will provide different perspectives, such as those of early career, editors, deans, and senior scholars in the field. We propose to engage the audience through surveys during the event and a Q&A section with the speakers. The goal is to open a discussion about shifting the focus of business schools toward creating a distinct field of sustainability management, discuss the aspirational roles of sustainability within business, and collectively, define strategies to strengthen our ability to incorporate sustainability into theory and practice.

Keynote panelists:

• An early career scholars’ perspective: Lucrezia Nava, Postdoctoral Fellow, Judge Cambridge Business School
• Senior sustainability scholar’s perspective: Minna Halme, Professor of Sustainability Management at Aalto University School of Business
• Editors’ perspective: Christopher Wickert, Associate Professor of Ethics & Sustainability VU Amsterdam & JMS associate Editor
• Deans’ perspective: Sanjay Sharma, Dean and Professor Grossman School of Business

Organizers:

Valentina De Marchi, GRONEN President, University of Padova, Italy and a team of early-career scholars who are writing a paper on the topic under review at JMS Says:

• Simone Carmine, University of Padova, Italy
• Lucrezia Nava, Cambridge Judge Business School, United Kingdom
• Lucie Baudoin, Excelia Business School, France
• Nicholas Poggioli, University of Michigan, United States
• Onna Malou van den Broek, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen

Time: Thursday June 2, 3:30pm-4:45pm CEST // 9:30am-10:45am EDT // 9:30pm-10:45pm SGT

Format: Online via Zoom (link will be sent separately)