Lionel,
Have a look at
http://www.is4ie.org/thesis/dissert3.htm for a somewhat older overview of some of these PhD theses.
Kind regards,
Frank de Bakker
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Dr. ir. Frank G.A. de Bakker
Vrije Universiteit - Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
Afdeling Bestuur en Organisatie
de Boelelaan 1081, 1081HV Amsterdam
Vrije Universiteit - Faculty of Social Sciences
Dept. of Public Administration & Organization
de Boelelaan 1081, 1081HV Amsterdam
the Netherlands
phone +31-20-4446912
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From: Organizations and the Natural Environment Discussion [mailto:
ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU]On Behalf Of
roome@FSW.EUR.NL
Sent: donderdag 10 november 2005 0:41
To:
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Subject: Re: Sustainability PhD programs of study ... Re: Pinstripes
On the request for Ph.Ds in CSR, sustainability and corporate
environmental management. Since 1999 I ran [well it was run by the
students and I just facilitated the meetings] a PhD workshop for students
in the Netherlands from different Universities.
There is a similar group emerging under the aegis of EABiS.
Hope this helps.
Nigel Roome
> 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
>
>>>>
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
>
> Anastasia R. O'Rourke | Ph.D. Candidate | Yale University |Ph. +1 203 432
> 5216 (office) | + 1 203 215 1575 (cell) |
anastasia.orourke@yale.edu |
>
>
>
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>
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 10:17 AM
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> Subject: Re: Pinstripes
>
>
> 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
> National Center for Environmental 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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>
>
> =============================================Joseph Sarkis
> Professor of Operations and Environmental Management
> Graduate School of Management
> Clark University
> 950 Main Street
> Worcester, MA 01610-1477
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> [mailto:
ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of David Levy
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 10:16 PM
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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
>
> --
> David Levy
> Professor, Department of Management
> University of Massachusetts, Boston
> 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125, USA
> Tel: 617-287-7860
>
http://www.faculty.umb.edu/david_levy/
>