The ONE Division will sponsor a Professional Development Workshop (PDW) titled “Institutional Leadership and Policy Innovations for Purpose-driven Business: The Case of “B Corps””, for the 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management taking place in August 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. 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, Emily Landry, elandry@wlu.edu
Participants will be notified about the acceptance of their submissions by July 1st, 2024.
Submissions HereAgenda Tentative
Part 1: Panel Discussion
Panel discussion open for all. This year’s topic will look the case of B Corps to deepen on the institutional leadership and policy dimensions for purpose-driven businesses. Panelists will deepen on the following questions: How institutions can support the diffusion of purpose-driven businesses? Is the case of B Lab for the B Corps and Benefit Corporations the model to follow? What alternative models are emerging?
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
Emily Landry, The Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics, Washington and Lee University, elandry@wlu.edu
Panelists:
Leonardo Boni, POLIMI School of Management
Ke Cao, Wilfrid Laurier University
Todd Schifeling, Fox School of Business at Temple University
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
