RMIT Business Faculty has a number of PhD completions focusing on sustainability/CSR/environment. Mine was completed in 2003 - see:
http://intergon.net/phd for most of my thesis in MSWord format.
I am trying to get a list of all the PhD thesises that were completed in recent years concerning sustainability - wait out
Lionel
PS - RMIT=Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lionel Boxer CD PhD MBA BTech(IndEng) - 0411267256
Research Fellow -
lionel.boxer@rmit.edu.au
Centre for Management Quality Research
Read The Sustainable Way - see
http://intergon.net/tsw
Luncheon 1230 15 Nov Naval and Military Club
$45=lunch+copy of The Sustainable Way
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anastasia.orourke@YALE.EDU 10/11/2005 4:33:59 am >>>
I am going to sidestep Dina's questions for now, and just to add that I hope
the Pinstripes' next iteration includes an assessment of Doctoral Programs
in business schools on environment/csr. It seems to me there is a
disconnect - business schools are mainly hiring PhDs from business schools
but very few business schools have PhD programs that are geared towards
studying these topics. Who will be the next generation of teachers in
b-schools on environmental and/or CSR?. While I agree it's ultimately better
to integrate environmental and social issues into the different disciplines
as they stand, I am not convinced that those teaching these disciplines are
able to adequately do so. For one thing, in their own doctoral training,
were they ever taught anything on the topics?
Regards
Anastasia
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I cannot disagree more.
Environmental issues are social issues, as society (writ large) suffers
from pollution. Consider the huge impacts of particulate matter
emissions on lung function and premature death. These were the main
source of social benefits in cost benefit analysis of the 1990 Clean Air
Act Amendments. When ecosystems break down, water quality decreases, and
thus drinking water and/or fisheries are affected, among other impacts.
Mercury emissions from power plants end up in water, and because they
cannot be broken down readily are passed up the foodchain
(bioaccumulate) to high human health threatening concentrations in tuna.
Thus, the human system (say "society") and the environment are tightly
interlinked. ONE, by its name, addresses questions of anthropocentric
nature.
Now, the question to the ONE community is, do you measure environmental
performance in terms of pollution/emissions? Concentrations of
pollutants in the environment? Ecosystem disfunction? And/or adverse
human health outcomes? (Or is ONE research limited by available
databases or availabe knowledge?) These are questions for society, and
for social/human quality of life. It has seemed to me for a long time,
that the outcome of concern with the most traction for our human species
is to determine adverse human health outcomes, as we are (biologically,
emotionally and politically) most concerned with the survival and
well-being of our species. As a species on top of the food chain, if we
suffer, no doubt other species suffer too.
I think the ONE community is better served by applying systems thinking
and focusing on integrated systems which underlie environmental problems
- many if not most of which have social causes. EPA has for many years
focused on single media problems, but solutions need to be multi-media.
There is a gradual shift in the agency to apply more multi-media
policies. ONE should also think along disciplines, not within
disciplines.
Dinah Koehler, Sc.D.
Economics and Decision Sciences Research
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David,
This is one of the concerns I have about the whole issue of the role
environmental issues should play within sustainability. The difficulty
we
are having is something that was mentioned over a decade ago at one of
the
AOM meetings early in ONE's life where the debate was what makes the
environment different than other SIM issues. We are continuing to
struggle
with that and the term sustainability has not been much help on this
issue
and has caused a lot of this murkiness. And I know others have argued
for
the fact that you can have both and should have both, but it seems to me
at
the expense of environmental issues. Politically (and more generally
from a
society perspective) these issues are linked. This could be something
that
hinders environmental progress. Because there are those who would
support
environmental issues, but may be deterred because of the connotations of
being a 'blue state' topic. See a recent article in the New York Times
on a
short example of this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/07/politics/07air.html?emc=eta1
Overall, it seems this is a SIM award and not a ONE award. This is a
marginalization of the environmental issues faced by organizations and
society. SIM seems, to me, to be focused primarily on anthropocentric
issues, environmental issues play a role, but a more peripheral one.
Unfortunately, what I thought was primarily an ecological focus by
WRI/ASPEN
is now much more focused on social issues. Isn't money making a social
issue
too? It addresses poverty. Thus, all our finance courses are socially
conscious...let me mark down 8 courses...there I feel better.
-Joe S.
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Graduate School of Management
Clark University
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Rankings can always be useful to push schools in a good direction, but I
find the new system is weaker and less useful in the way that it puts
environmental and social content together. I have a lot of students ask
about environmental content in MBA programs, and I used to point them to
the Pinstripes reports, but it's lost its value for this. The new report
tends to neglect the niche players in enviro mgt - or at least, hard to
identify them. With a broader view of social responsibility, I also
would be a bit concerned about the potential to massage the numbers - I
think about our courses, and the temptation to emphasize the social
content for particular reporting purposes.
For next time, they should go back to reporting environmental programs
and courses separately from the social issues courses! - at least make
clear which schools have specialized grad programs, concentrations, and
how many dedicated courses in each area.
David
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University of Massachusetts, Boston
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Tel: 617-287-7860
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