ORGANIZATIONS AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT (ONE)
The ONE Division has once again assembled an exciting, stimulating and relevant collection of sessions that span teaching, research, and practice. Our sessions leverage off the overall AOM program theme, "Opening Governance," as well as our linkages with many other divisions, interest groups, and committees. The Division's own theme is "The Next 20 Years." Twenty years ago we held our interest group meetings at the 1995 AoM in Vancouver; now is the time to review those two decades of development and consider then next twenty.
The PDW program launches early Friday morning with a session on "Fossil Fuel Divestment" followed by a PDW on "Beyond the Automobile." Early Friday afternoon is the SIM/ONE Doctoral Consortium, along PDWs on theorizing entrepreneurship, organizational performance, sustainable innovation, and cross-sectoral incubators will also be held. For those needing a break, a novel, co-sponsored bike ride around Stanley Park begins at 1:00 p.m. Saturday's PDWs open early with the SIM/ONE Junior Faculty Consortium, the co-sponsored "Beyond Capitalism," and the "Sustainable Management Education" PDWs staring at 8:00 a.m. At 9:00 a.m. is another co-sponsored bike, this time to Granville Island. During the day, several other high quality PDWs will be held on topics ranging from sustainable governance to authentic sustainability. To increase the number of PDW offerings, some of these sessions will be on-site, and others off-site. At 3:15 on Saturday is a thematic session for the ONE Division, "The Emergence of ONE," which examines the roots and evolution of the division. The ONE Welcome Reception will be convenes in the evening in the Vancouver Convention Center.
Sunday is devoted to All-Academy business, including board and exec meetings as well as discussion paper presentations. The ONE Division has two paper sessions. The first, at 11:15, focuses on responses to the natural environment, in particular organizational and community resilience. The second, at 1:00 p.m., revolves around the topics of environmental and social performance.
On Monday and Tuesday, we launch into our nine co-sponsored symposia and fifteen paper sessions. In keeping with the Academy and Division's Theme, at 8:00 a.m. Monday is "Governance for the Future Earth." In the late morning is Susan Taylor's symposium on technology and sustainability, flanked by Angelique Slade Shantz's governance symposium on the embeddedness of natural resources. In the afternoon is the pairing, Sharma et al. "Paradox and Sustainability" and Guerber's et al.'s session on sustainability and entrepreneurship. Early Tuesday is a great symposium on activists and firms and then Alfie Marcus's panel on innovation. Tuesday early afternoon is the co-sponsored symposium on environmental leadership, likely a big draw. Turning to the paper sessions, we see ample evidence of the rich and varied research being conducted in our Division. There are three sessions on institutional and cross-level dynamics; three on innovation, capabilities and adaptation; two on supply chain; a couple on certification and regulation; one on CSR and sustainability metrics; a session on environmental leadership and one on emotional work, and, finally, a session on environmental changing environmental behavior and practice.
As a final set of highlights, please note that on Monday mid-morning is the ONE Plenary, a panel and discussion devoted to the "The ONE Division's Next Twenty Years." Later in the afternoon is the ONE Business Meeting, held from 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM in the VCC room 210, followed by the ONE Division Social, hosted at SFU's Segal Centre. The ONE Social will be a celebration of the last and the next twenty years for the Division.
Dev Jennings/ ONE Program Chair