Dear Colleagues,
(Apologies for cross-posting)
We would like to invite you to attend the symposium on Innovation and Organizational Responses to Sustainability: An Institutional Perspective. This session brings together a series of papers focused on understanding the ways in which organizations devise and implement innovative new technologies as solutions to address the environmental challenges of our time. The symposium also features Professor Andrew Hoffman who will discuss future avenues of research at the intersection of innovation and sustainability. We hope that this session not only provides a forum for the exchange of ideas on these important topics, but also creates an opportunity to bring together a diverse set of scholars with interests in innovation, sustainability, and technology management.
We hope to see you in San Antonio!
Chad and Shon
Symposium Title: Innovation and Organizational Responses to Sustainability: An Institutional Perspective
Monday, Aug 15 2011 3:00PM - 4:30PM at San Antonio Convention Center in Room 206 B
Devising innovative solutions to the environmental challenges facing the world is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Organizations are increasingly turning to new technologies as a path to a sustainable future, yet this path is fraught with a host of challenges beyond the mere effectiveness of the technology itself. In order for innovations to solve problems, they must be widely diffused and implemented as intended. However, new technologies are often not well understood, or valued. In some instances they may even be perceived as illegitimate or socially unacceptable. Furthermore, new technologies often confront regulatory obstacles and opposition from incumbents and other stakeholders. This symposium compiles a set of diverse, yet, related papers that address a variety of processes and mechanisms by which sustainable technologies and practices can emerge, spread, and become part of the taken-for-granted landscape of the broader global economy. Our hope is that this symposium will generate greater interest in the institutional context when examining business and the environment topics such as clean technology, climate change, and corporate sustainability.
Discussant: Andrew J. Hoffman; U. of Michigan
Chair: Shon R Hiatt; Harvard Business School
Organizer: W Chad Carlos; Cornell U.
What it Means to Be Sustainable: A Comparative Analysis of the Lay Models of Sustainability
Presenter: Klaus Weber; Northwestern U.
Presenter: Sara B. Soderstrom; U. of Michigan
Intermediaries in a Nascent Field: The Case of the Clean Development Mechanism
Presenter: Brandon H. Lee; London Business School
Innovation and Regulative Ambiguities in the U.S. Geothermal Power Sector
Presenter: Shon R Hiatt; Harvard Business School
Presenter: Sangchan Park; National U. of Singapore
The Evolving Influence of Social Movement Organizations on the U.S. Wind Power Industry
Presenter: W Chad Carlos; Cornell U.
Presenter: Wesley Sine; Cornell U. |
W. Chad Carlos
PhD Candidate
Management & Organizations
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Cornell University
wcc22@cornell.edu