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Please join us for an All Academy Symposium on:
Substitution and Sustainable Development: Towards a Research Agenda
Sunday, Aug 9 2009 1:00PM - 2:30PM; Hyatt Regency Chicago in Grand C North
Co-Chairs: Steve Maguire, McGill University & Jennifer Howard-Grenville, University of Oregon
The transition to a global political economy consistent with the ideal of sustainable development can be conceptualized as a large number of product and process technology substitutions, with polluting technologies supplanted by greener alternatives. Despite substitution being a central concept within the literatures on strategy, technology and organization, processes of substitution have not received much systematic attention or theorization, especially as they relate to organizations and the natural environment.
This panel symposium seeks to begin to fill this gap by reporting on several empirical studies of substitution driven by sustainable development issues, making connections between the findings of these studies, and proposing a future research agenda. The studies have been selected to highlight different theoretical perspectives on substitution as well as two key sustainable development issues – chemical pollution and climate change.
The format will be interactive, encouraging audience participants to identify other empirical cases of substitution as it relates to sustainable development and to discuss relevant theoretical frames for advancing this work.
Panel presentations include:
Substituting Production Techniques: The Emergence and Diffusion of Green Chemistry
Presenter: Jennifer Howard-Grenville; U. of Oregon
Presenter: Andrew Nelson; U. of Oregon
Substitution via Sustainable Development Innovation: An Evolutionary Perspective
Presenter: Jeremy K Hall; Simon Fraser U.
Presenter: Stelvia Matos; Simon Fraser U.
Public Policy, Substitution Effects, and Alternative Energy
Presenter: Michael V. Russo; U. of Oregon
Theorizing Risk: Organization, Technology and Stakeholders
Presenter: Steve Maguire; McGill U.
Presenter: Nelson Phillips; Imperial College London
Jennifer Howard-Grenville
Assistant Professor of Management
Lundquist College of Business
University of Oregon
541 346-3347
jhg@uoregon.edu