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 and John Amis
Preventing field ideology transitions – the case of asset managers acting on climate change
Discussant(s): TBC
Miia Toikka and Jari Autioniemi
Sustainability agency of civil servants: Is there room for manouevre?
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 employee-led ESG proposal participation in semiconductor firms
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 and Ai Yu
Fostering empathy and collaboration towards sustainability awareness and action via dialogic storytelling workshops
Discussant(s): TBC
Kirsi Snellman, 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 M. Pless
Navigating the profit–sustainability paradox: Responsible leadership in the mining industry
Discussant(s): TBC
Adina Arth, Tiziana Gaito 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 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
Beyond positive illusions: extending hubris theory through moral identity in sustainable ventures
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 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