CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline: January 8, 2018
Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability Tenth Annual
Research Conference
June 11-13, 2018
MIT Sloan School of Management Cambridge, MA, USA
https://corporate-sustainability.org/events/10th-annual-arcs-research-conference/
We are excited to host and celebrate the tenth annual research
conference of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability
(ARCS), a consortium of universities and individuals that serves as a
professional society of scholars studying the interface between
business and sustainability. Our annual research conference brings
together researchers from a variety of disciplinary and methodological
perspectives who seek to advance the state of the field.
The conference welcomes unpublished working papers focused on business
and sustainability (both social and environmental) from all
disciplines and research areas. Papers drawn from economics, finance,
law, operations, organizational theory, political science, psychology
and decision making, sociology, strategy and other fields are within
the realm of the conference. We are receptive to a wide range of
perspectives and methods, including empirical research (quantitative
and qualitative), theory development, formal theoretical modeling, and
experimental methods. We are particularly interested in papers that
have implications for management, organizations and policy.
Examples of suitable topics for the ARCS Conference include non-market
strategy, climate change management, sustainability reporting and
disclosure, green supply chains, green marketing, sustainable finance,
renewable energy investments, business/NGO partnerships, sustainable
mobility, social dimensions of sustainability such as inequality, fair
wages and working conditions, social and environmental justice,
cleantech innovation, green entrepreneurship, sustainable natural
resource management, and “base of the pyramid” development strategies.
We especially encourage submissions from junior scholars and scholars
new to the field.
Submission Information: DEADLINE January 8, 2018
Please click here to submit your papers. The paper submission deadline
is January 8, 2018; the program will be announced in February 2018.
Additional information is available on the ARCS website.
https://corporate-sustainability.org/
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must be working papers not yet accepted for publication.
Papers should be journal-article length and include an abstract.
Supplements can be included. You can submit up to two papers total for
either the conference program or the pre-conference Ph.D. workshop.
The Ph.D. workshop is a superb opportunity to get feedback on
in-process work, as well as mentorship on publishing and career
building in the multi-disciplinary field of sustainable business. The
ARCS Conference includes two types of sessions, described below. All
authors of submissions accepted will be listed in the program.
Submitting a paper implies your commitment to review other submissions
if asked by the conference committee.
Presentation Slots (20-30 minutes): These provide presenters the
opportunity to present their research and obtain feedback from a
highly engaged audience.
Research Sketches (5 minutes): These are short presentations that
sketch the presenter's research question and approach and present some
central findings, using either no slides or at most two slides. These
Sketches will enable us all to know a bit more about what these
participants are working on, and are scheduled to encourage informal
discussions during the breaks that follow. They have been extremely
well-received during past ARCS Conferences.
Review Process
Reviews will be double-blind. You must submit papers without names of
authors or other identifying information.
Awards
Two types of awards will be presented at the Conference:
ARCS Outstanding Paper Award: The Program Committee will select
several papers for the Outstanding Paper Award. This award will be
based on the research paper's potential impact on management practice
and rigor of analysis. All submissions will automatically be
considered for this award.
ARCS Conference People's Choice Award: Conference attendees will
select this award from among presentations and research sketches. This
award will be based on individual attendees’ own criteria for high
impact work.
Conference Location and Contact Information
· Conference Location: MIT Sloan School of Management,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
· Conference Chair: Professor John Sterman, MIT Sloan School of
Management
· For all questions regarding the conference and/or the
conference program, please e-mail:
arcs2018@mit.edu
About ARCS
ARCS is a consortium of universities and individuals, and serves as a
professional society of scholars studying the interface between
business and sustainability. ARCS provides data, tools, and networking
opportunities to researchers who are developing a greater
understanding of the opportunities and limits of policies and
strategies to foster sustainable business.
Faculty members, doctoral students, and researchers from any
university or academically-oriented institutes and think-tanks are
welcome to become ARCS individual members. A one-year individual ARCS
membership is included in the conference fee. Individual membership
benefits include access to member services and networking
opportunities, as well as opportunities to serve on ARCS Working
Committees.
ARCS’ institutional members are Bocconi University, Colorado-Boulder,
Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Erasmus, Georgia Tech, Harvard,
HEC Paris, Indiana, INSEAD, Michigan, MIT, NTU Singapore,
Northwestern, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Stockholm School of
Economics, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Virginia, U. Western and Yale.
For more information, including individual and institutional
membership details, click here.
For general information about ARCS, including access to the ARCS
Dataverse, which hosts corporate sustainability datasets, please visit
our website.
ARCS Board of Directors
Vanessa Burbano – Columbia Business School
Dylan Minor – Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern
Aaron Chatterji – Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Eric Orts – The Wharton School, U. Penn
Marian Chertow – Yale University
N. Craig Smith – INSEAD, France
Magali Delmas - UCLA Anderson School of Management
John Sterman – Sloan School of Management, MIT
Glen Dowell – The Johnson School, Cornell
Michael Toffel – Harvard U. Center for the Environment
Rodolphe Durand – HEC Paris
Beril Toktay – Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech
Olga Hawn – Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC
David Vogel – Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Guy Holburn – Ivey Business School, Western U.
Judith Walls – NTU Singapore
Michael Lenox – Darden School, U. Virginia
Frank Wijen – Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus U
Lin Lerpold – Stockholm School of Economics
Jeff York – Leeds School of Business, U. Colorado Boulder
Thomas Lyon – Ross School of Business, U. Michigan
Maurizio Zollo – CRIOS, Bocconi University
John Maxwell – Kelley School of Business, Indiana U
We look forward to receiving your paper submission for the 2018 ARCS Conference!
- The ARCS Conference Program Committee
Magali (Maggie) Delmas
Professor of Management, UCLA
www.environment.ucla.edu/delmas/
310-825-9310 /
delmas@ucla.edu / @maggiedelmas