Dear community, If you are considering going to the R&D Conference this year and you are doing research on sustainability (e.g. sustainable business models, sustainable decision-making, collaborative processes), please consider submitting your work to our research track on Organizing for Sustainability: a multilevel challenge
Track summary: The urgency to take action on broad societal challenges is influencing today's market scenario. Understanding how these challenges are addressed is relevant to investigate sustainability transitions at different levels of analysis: organizational, inter-organizational, ecosystem, and societal levels.
In the last decades, external stakeholder pressures boosted companies' awareness and sense of responsibility in solving both societal and planetary challenges. Therefore, some established organizations (firms but also value chains and clusters), pressured by the need to reconsider their established structures, strategies, and business models, progressively started to shape their transition.
While organizations alone are less effective when it comes to tackling grand societal challenges, wider stakeholder collaborations around sustainability are contributing to the sustainable transition of established industries and markets. The need for different interests and actors to collaborate for sustainability-oriented purposes may create resilient organizational architectures that transcend organizational boundaries, such as sustainable supply chains, sustainable digital platform ecosystems, sustainable business networks, etc.
Therefore, there is a need to investigate sustainability transitions at different levels, thus addressing challenges and opportunities taking place at organizational, inter-organizational, ecosystem, and societal levels. The track welcomes empirical and theoretical advanced work in-progress and complete research papers based on qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods investigating the multilevel challenge of organizing for sustainability.
Abstract submission deadline for the R&D conference: 14 February, 2024
Link to the conference website: R&D Management 2024 – Transforming industries through technology (rnd2024.org)
We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts! On behalf of the other track proponents,
Bob Bastian
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Bob Bastian
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