ORGANIZATIONS & THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT (ONE)
2017 ONE Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions
Program Chair: Jonatan Pinkse, University of Manchester; onedivision.aom@gmail.com
The Academy of Management's ONE division is devoted to research – theory, methods, empirics, and practice – regarding relationships of organizations to the natural environment. Major topics include: corporate sustainability, environmental strategies and performance, sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship, sustainable business models, industrial ecology and the circular economy, green human resource management and organizational behaviour, environmental reporting and carbon disclosure, environmental leadership, green marketing and sustainable consumption, environmental stakeholders and social movements, corporate environmental politics, environmental attitudes and decision making, and international or comparative dimensions of these topics. As the natural environment is integral in all individual, organizational and societal activity, the division encourages holistic, integrative, and interdisciplinary analysis. It promotes joint exploration of these topics with all other disciplines present in the Academy.
The ONE division invites papers and symposia that address all aspects of the relationship between organizations and the natural environment. The ONE division should be able to contribute significantly to the 2017 AOM theme of 'At the Interface'. The ONE division is particularly interested in the interface between organizations and natural systems. In the announcement of the theme for 2017, the Academy described the importance of seeing opportunities in managing this interface with the natural environment:
"Today's Grand Challenges (e.g., aging populations, climate change) increasingly demand large-scale multi-perspective strategies. When the interstitial space is large, organizations may feel greater responsibility to tackle societal issues that are not part of their formal mandate and are unlikely to deliver any immediate benefit to their traditional stakeholders (e.g., employees, customers and investors). But how far can organizations expand their missions before they are rudderless and off course?"
At the Interface is a theme that is at the heart of the ONE Division. The ONE Division encourages submissions that reflect on the question how interface changes with the natural environment lead to new types of firms, novel ways of organizing, and more sustainable business models. In the spirit of the 2017 AOM theme of crossing organizational boundaries, ONE specifically welcomes joint symposium proposals that reflect the natural links with other Academy divisions and interest groups.
Call for reviewers and submission: It is important that you sign up this year as one of our ONE reviewers. The reviewers sign up website is: http://aom.org/annualmeeting/review/ (the website will be active in mid-October when reviewer recruitment starts). Finally, the submission website is: http://aom.org/annualmeeting/submission/ (it will be active November 15, 2016 when the submission site opens). The deadline for submissions is January 10, 2017 at 5:00 PM ET (NY Time).
Division Awards: ONE Division awards are offered for the best paper, the best unorthodox paper, and for the outstanding dissertation submitted to the Division. We also recognize reviewers with reviewing awards. When submitting papers, please also indicate eligibility for the William H Newman Award for an outstanding single-authored paper from a dissertation and the Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award (see Orientation and Awards section in the submission guidelines for more details).
If you have any questions regarding the Call for Submissions, please don't hesitate to contact me at onedivision.aom@gmail.com.
Looking forward to receiving your submissions!
Jonatan Pinkse
Jonatan Pinkse | Professor of Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship