OM PDW 2024
"Institutional Leadership and Policy Innovations for Purpose-driven Business:
Exploring the Case of B Corp movement"
August 10th, 2024
12.00pm-4.00pm
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Marriott, Salon A - 5th Floor
Submission Deadline: June 15th
Link for submission: link
Sponsor: ONE
Chairs: Leonardo Boni, Emily Landry, Martina Pasquini, Garima Sharma
The ONE Division will sponsor a Paper Development Workshop (PDW) titled "Institutional Leadership and Policy Innovations for Purpose-driven Business:Exploring the Case of B Corp movement" at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Chicago, USA.
Participants will have the chance to receive developmental feedback from the following list of scholars with a specific expertise in the field of the B Corp movement, but also in the field of sustainability strategy, management, and measurement. The faculty mentors include:
Organizers:
Leonardo Boni, Polytechnic of Milan, School of Management leonardo.boni@polimi.it
Emily Landry, Washington and Lee University, elandry@wlu.edu
Martina Pasquini, IE Business School, mpasquini@faculty.ie.edu
Garima Sharma, Kogod Business School, American University, gsharma@american.edu
Panelists
Leonardo Boni, Polytechnic of Milan, School of Management
Ke Cao, Wilfrid Laurier University
Todd Schifeling, Fox School of Business and Management
Cristian Loza Adaui, THI Business School
Discussant:
Garima Sharma, Kogod Business School, American University
Round Table Facilitators:
Leonardo Boni, Polytechnic of Milan, School of Management
Gorgi Krlev, ESCP Business School
Martina Pasquini, IE Business School
Kunyuan Qiao, Cornell University
The PDW is structured in two sections: the first section will be dedicated to a panel discussion, in which panelists will introduce B Corp research and present past and ongoing research trends involving the role of institutions for the governance of purpose-driven ecosystems such as that of B Corp movement. Panelists and Discussant will converse about potential research trajectories involving B Corps, measurement systems, and institutions preserving the integrity of sustainable development. Specifically, scholars will explore the role of institutional leadership and policy innovations for purpose-driven assessment schemes by highlighting the field of B Corps and the role of B Lab, the institution that oversees the B Corp certification assessment. Panelists may concentrate on the following question: how institutions can support the diffusion of purpose-driven businesses? Is the case of B Lab for the B Corps and benefit corporations the model to follow? What alternative models are emerging? The final part of this section will be dedicated to Q&A with the audience.
The second section of the PDW is dedicated to participants who have submitted short papers. The admitted participants will receive feedback from the Round Table Facilitators and other participants. The Round Table Facilitators represent different backgrounds and methodological expertise, but all share interests, experience and ongoing research activities about the B Corp movement. The organizers will develop themes for each round table so that participants sharing similar interests will be grouped together.
Registration
Registration is required for Part 2 of the workshop. To register, participants must submit:
- a short (maximum 4,000 words) paper or project related to B Corps or benefit corporations structured as follows:
o title page
o abstract
o introduction
o literature and theoretical framework
o data
o results or expected results
o potential contributions
- please indicate the stage of the project and the type of feedback that would be most helpful to you
Please submit the paper at the following (link), by June 15th, 2024. Please note that you need to be registered for the AOM conference in order to participate in this PDW.
Questions? Please contact the organizers: Leonardo Boni, leonardo.boni@polimi.it, Emily Landry, elandry@wlu.edu, Martina Pasquini, mpasquini@faculty.ie.edu, Garima Sharma, gsharma@american.edu
Participants will be notified about the acceptance of their submissions by July 1st, 2024.
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Leonardo Boni, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
TIRESIA Research Centre, Politecnico di Milano
