ONLY 2 WEEKS LEFT TO PREPARE YOUR SUBMISSION!
Dear AoM ONE scholars,
I want to draw your attention to a unique opportunity for those of you working on topics related to sustainability in the chemical industry, including innovation and commercialization of greener chemical technologies, the transition to bio-based materials, risk management, etc.
Please consider submitting a paper to Symposium #383 on " Advancing Sustainability: Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Scholarship for Green Chemistry at the 2015 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem). Pacifichem is a renowned international chemistry conference that is staged only once every five years; and Pacifichem 2015 will take place in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, on December 15-20, 2015.
This particular symposium represents a unique opportunity to showcase management/organizational and other social science perspectives on green/sustainable chemistry and the role they can play in understanding – and hopefully accelerating – the transition to a sustainable global chemical enterprise; to build a network of business school and other social science scholars researching green/sustainable chemistry; and to interact with open-minded chemists.
More details about the overall conference can be found here: http://www.pacifichem.org/
Details about the symposium, immediately below, can also be found here: http://www.pacifichem.org/symposiadesc2015/c_symp_383.htm
Green chemistry may be a science but its implementation in industry – or not! – will result from the interplay of social processes traditionally theorized by business school researchers, legal and policy scholars, historians, economists and political scientists as well as scholars of science and technology. If implementation is the goal, understanding green chemistry as well as its social context from multiple perspectives can yield valuable insights. This session provides a forum for exemplifying the initial implementation of green/sustainable chemistry in both academic and industrial settings and overlays a discussion of how green/sustainable chemists interact with social scientists interested in green/sustainable chemistry and to share their research results as well as to network with each other. Ultimately it is the commercial practice of green chemistry that will enable the transition to a more sustainable planet. Commercial scale implementation is gaining global traction and the role of social science in enabling this transition will be critical to the pace of change and acceptance. This symposium will enable a rich dialogue at the interface of the physical and social sciences.
Among a range of other topics, papers for this session could address:
· In which ways is green chemistry the same as or different from other technologies for which theories of innovation and frameworks for thinking about adoption in industry exist?
· What are the business logics for green chemistry? How do these logics map to different parts of the global chemical enterprise? How do these logics map to different sub-fields within green chemistry?
· What role does corporate and business strategy play in the development of green chemistry as a science and in its implementation in industry?
· What role does regulation and government policy play in the development of green chemistry as a science and in its implementation in industry?
· What role do industry codes of conduct such as Responsible Care play in the development of green chemistry as a science and in its implementation in industry?
· What role do pre-competitive industry forums such as roundtables or research consortia play in the development of green chemistry as a science and in its implementation in industry?
· How does green chemistry relate to the broader social movement seeking reform of chemicals management regimes at state, national and international levels? What role does this movement play in the development of green chemistry as a science and in its implementation in industry?
· Case studies of the development and commercialization of green chemistry innovations
· Case studies of interdisciplinary teaching and education programs bringing together students from a range of disciplines with chemists or materials scientists to design cleaner, safer and more sustainable products or processes
The Call for Abstracts is open from January 1 – April 3, 2015; and abstracts are limited to 2,000 characters (~ 250 words). So there is lots of time to prepare your submission. More details about submitting an abstract can be found here: http://www.pacifichem.org/congress-details/abstracts/
Please do consider submitting an abstract and joining us in Honolulu.
Cheers,
Steve
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Steve Maguire
Director, Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management [www.mcgill.ca/mdiim]
Desautels Chair in Integrated Management
Professor of Strategy and Organization
Desautels Faculty of Management - McGill University
1001 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H3A 1G5, Canada
t. +1.514.398.2115
f. +1.514.398.3876
steve.maguire@mcgill.ca