Sub-theme 37: Leadership Imperatives, Imperfections, and Impossibilities in Addressing Climate Crises
Convenors:
Owain Smolović Jones, The Open University, United Kingdom
Anja Schaefer, The Open University, United Kingdom
Antonio Jiménez Luque, University of San Diego, USA
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, D2.0.382
Tipping Point
Chair: Antonio Jimenez Luque
Yasmin Schwegler and Jeffrey Petty
Activists or opportunists? How environmental entrepreneurs differ from conventional ones
Discussant(s): Marian Iszatt-White
Stephen Allen, Charles Barthold and Carole Elliott
Ecological sustainability uncompromised: How do progressive green business leaders mobilise discourses about leadership and
sustainability?
Discussant(s): Owain Smolovic Jones
Guy Huber and David Knights
Leadership and ethics: Dealing with the environmental, epistemological and pandemic crises
Discussant(s): Charles Barthold
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, D2.0.382
Activating Climate Leadership
Chair: Anja Schaefer
Antonio Jiménez Luque
Environmental Leadership Activism as Critical Performativity: The Movement for the Global ‘Buen Vivir’ as a Sustainable Economic
and Political System for Cognitive and Social Justice
Discussant(s): Charles Barthold / Stephen Allen
Owain Smolović Jones
Small body, huge powers: The spatial leadership of Greta Thunberg
Discussant(s): Stephen Allen
Rune Schanke Eikum
Exploring planet-centric leadership: How do you talk about it?
Discussant(s): Antonio Jimenez Luque
Session III: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, D2.0.382
Undoing Climate Leadership
Chair: Owain Smolovic Jones
Sarah Gilmore, Jackie Ford and Nancy Harding
Why leadership tends to fail at tackling major crises
Discussant(s): Hugo Gaggiotti
Selen Kars-Unluoglu, Hugo Gaggiotti, Kay Galpin and Carol Jarvis
‘Humanity will not be saved by promises’: Using an unleadership lens to restory the ‘blah blah bah’ of leadership at COP26
Discussant(s): Jackie Ford
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, D2.0.382
Identities to Save the World?
Chair: Owain Smolovic Jones
Carole Bataillard
Are CEOs’ identities linked to better levels of CSR tensions’ management?
Discussant(s): Natalya Sergeeva
Natalya Sergeeva
Sustainability work and the workplace identity
Discussant(s): Carole Bataillard
Birte Prinzhorn
Humility, narcissism and green innovation: Examining seemingly contradictory traits
Discussant(s): Ajit Nayak
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 15:30, D2.0.382
Leading Industry
Chair: Antonio Jimenez Luque
Janine Heck
Sustainability tensions on the way to greenhouse gas neutrality in the chemical industry
Discussant(s): Olga Andrianova
Petteri Lillberg and Laura Albareda
TIME, IMPERFECTION AND ACTION: EXPERIMENTALIST LEADERSHIP DURING EARLY COVID-19 OUTBREAK
Discussant(s): Simon Lilley
Olga Andrianova, Owain Smolović Jones and Anja Schaefer
Environmental leadership of front-line managers
Discussant(s): Janine Heck
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, D2.0.382
Leading Sustainability
Chair: Anja Schaefer
Charlotta Levay
Subsidiarity as a guiding principle for sustainability leadership
Discussant(s): Matt Gitsham
Matt Gitsham, Jonathan Gosling and Ajit Nayak
The echo of conscience: Developing responsible leadership for sustainability transitions
Discussant(s): Charlotta Levay
Markéta Svobodová
Organizational paradoxes and dialectics causing unleadership in sustainability
Discussant(s): Anja Schaefer
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, D2.0.382
Thinking Big, Winding Down
Chair: Owain Smolovic Jones
Marian Iszatt-White
Getting rid of the L-word: Are our best aspirations for ‘leadership’ not leadership at all?
Discussant(s): Marta Gasparin / Martin Quinn
Martin Quinn, Marta Gasparin, Michael Saren, William Green and Simon Lilley
Leading the response to the climate crisis by re-organizing for public value in the Anthropocene
Discussant(s): Nancy Harding