Call for abstracts: Leuphana Sustainability Summit
"Sustainability: Enabling a Transdisciplinary Approach"
29 February - 2nd March, 2012, Leuphana University of Luenburg, Germany
***EXTENDED DEADLINE (abstracts): 7 November, 2011***
Track 4: "Transdisciplinarity in Corporate Sustainability"
Keynote speakers: Prof. Paul Shrivastava, Prof. Dirk Matten
Journal special issue: Business Strategy and the Environment (submission
Spring 2012)
This track is offered together with The Academy of Business in Society (EABIS)
A growing number of businesses is dealing with corporate sustainability
issues. As corporate sustainability covers a wide range of complex topics
such as emission reductions, biodiversity management,
sustainability-oriented product and service innovation, sustainable supply
chain management, or corporate influences on communities and regional
development, its successful implementation depends on the contributions of
experts from various disciplines in management, environmental science,
psychology, sociology, economics, and related disciplines. In fact, the
complexity of many sustainability challenges requires problem-solving
approaches that transcend not only boundaries between academic disciplines
but also between academics and practitioners. This is what
transdisciplinarity is about. Transdisciplinary approaches, however, are
just being developed. Both managers and academics are only beginning to
learn to organize joint transdisciplinarity processes of analysis and
solution creation.
The full call is available at:
http://www.leuphana.de/fakultaet-nachhaltigkeit/aktuell/leuphana-sustainability-summit/call-for-papers.html
The deadline for abstract submission (500 words) is 7 November, 2011.