The ONE Division will sponsor a Paper Development Workshop (PDW) titled “Systems and Sustainability: Certified B Corporations and Benefit Corporations as a Useful Research Context” at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Boston, USA. Participants will have the chance to receive developmental feedback from scholars with a specific expertise in the field of the B Corp movement, but also in the field of sustainability strategy, management, and measurement.
**Please note: In order to attend this event you must be registered to attend the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. All are welcome to attend part 1 of this event, in order to attend part 2 you need to register and submit a paper (details below).
To attend part 2, paper feedback section of the workshop participants must submit:
- A short (maximum 4,000 words) paper or project related to B Corps or benefit corporations structured as follows:
- Title page
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Literature and theoretical framework
- Data
- Results or expected results
- Potential contributions
- Please indicate the stage of the project and the type of feedback that would be most helpful to you
Please submit the paper at the following link, by June 15th . Please note that you need to be registered for the AOM conference in order to participate in this PDW.
Questions? Please contact the organizers: Leonardo Boni, leonardo.boni@polimi.it, Joel Gehman, jgehman@email.gwu.edu, Martina Pasquini, mpasquini@faculty.ie.edu, Garima Sharma, gsharma@american.edu
Participants will be notified about the acceptance of their submissions by July 1st, 2023.
Submissions ClosedAgenda Tentative
Part 1: Panel Discussion
The first section will be dedicated to a panel discussion, in which panelists will introduce B Corp research and present past and ongoing research trends involving the B Corp movement. Panelists and Discussant will converse about potential research trajectories involving B Corps, systemic change, and sustainable development.
Specifically, scholars will explore how the B Corp certification and benefit corporation legislation provide ways of re-conceptualizing impact from business-centric to society-centric metrics, and facilitate a shift from exploring independent social and environmental issues to seeing them as a system. The final part of this section will be dedicated to QA with the audience.
Part 2: Paper Feedback
The second section of the PDW is dedicated to participants who have submitted short papers. The admitted participants will receive feedback from the Round Table Facilitators and other participants.
The Round Table Facilitators represent different backgrounds and methodological expertise, but all share interests, experience and ongoing research activities about the B Corp movement. The organizers will develop themes for each round table so that participants sharing similar interests will be grouped together.
Event Faculty Mentors
Chairs:
Leonardo Boni, Joel Gehman, Emily Landry, Martina Pasquini, Garima Sharma
Organizers:
Leonardo Boni, Polytechnic of Milan, leonardo.boni@polimi.it
Joel Gehman, George Washington University School of Business, jgehman@email.gwu.edu
Martina Pasquini, IE Business School, mpasquini@faculty.ie.edu
Garima Sharma, Kogod Business School, American University, gsharma@american.edu
Panelists
Alim Beveridge, Nottingham University Business School
David Lucas, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University
Suntae Kim, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University
Kendall Park, Owen Graduate School of Management, Tuner Family Center
Discussant:
Garima Sharma, Kogod Business School, American University
Round Table Facilitators:
Leonardo Boni, Polytechnic of Milan
Ke Cao, Wilfrid Laurier University
Rosanna Garcia, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Gorgi Krlev, ESCP Business School
Martina Pasquini, IE Business School
Todd Schifeling, Fox School of Business and Management
