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Interactive Symposium: Sustainability, Ethics and Entrepreneurship (ONE, ENT, SIM)

Date: Monday, Aug 8 2016

Time: 11:30AM - 1:00PM

Location: Anaheim Marriott in Orange County Ballroom 1

This symposium-an AOM Emerald Best International Symposium Award Finalist-features eight, highly developed and interrelated papers.  Following 3-5 minutes of opening remarks from the co-chairs, the authors of each of the papers will give a 5 minutes (5 slides) overview of their studies.  This 45-minutes part will lead to interactive, three theme-focused discussions with substantial emphasis on audience engagement.

The theme-focused discussions are:

Theme 1: Policies, Hybrid Firms, and Effectuation (authors: Hunt & Fund; York, O'Neil, & Sarasvathy; and Akemu, Whiteman, & Kennedy; discussant; Michael Russo).

Theme 2: Rhetoric and Social Issue Selling (authors: Waldron, Fisher & Pfarrer; and Alt & Craig; discussant; Dev Jennings).

Theme 3: Stakeholders and Crowdfunding (authors: Shevchenko, Lévesque, & Pagell; Crucke & Knockaert; and Calic & Mosakowski; discussant; Johanna Mair).

The theme-focused discussions allow the audience and authors to engage; here are three prompt questions:

1.            What are the main takeaways from each paper?

2.            What key research and practical questions should the domain ask and why?

3.            What research designs and practices are called for to address the above questions?

The Recapped Timeline:

1. Co-Chairs to articulate the purpose of the format of the symposium: 3-5 minutes.

2. Paper Presentations: 40 minutes (8 papers x 5 minutes each).

3. Transition into groups: 3-5 minutes.

4. Theme-focused (group) Discussions: 45 minutes.

Organizer: Gideon D Markman, Colorado State U.

Organizer: Tom Lumpkin, Syracuse U.

Discussant: Michael V. Russo, U. of Oregon

Discussant: Johanna Mair, Hertie School of Governance

Discussant: P Devereaux Jennings, U. of Alberta

Environmental issues, poverty, inequality, corruption and social discontent are intricately linked with business activity, and as such, they cannot be disentangled or addressed in isolation. The needs to understand the Earth and its limited resources, security for humankind and justice for society mean that the demand for social science knowledge is increasing. The fact that sustainability and ethics are intertwined with the concepts of business and organizations (including NGOs) is no longer new. Indeed, ethical choices are critical to any business activity and thus influence how startups, small firms, medium enterprises, and large, multinational corporations-whether those are for profit or not- influence the sustainability of the environment and society. We actually suggest that sustainability, ethics, and entrepreneurship triangulate and give meaning to every ecological consideration, social value, and economic opportunity. The goal of the symposium, then, is to advance knowledge about the meaning and intersection of sustainability, ethics, and entrepreneurship.

Paper 1: Crowding Out Effects of Well-Intended Environmental Policies

Presenter: Richard Hunt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Presenter: Bret Ryan Fund, U. of Colorado, Boulder

Paper 2: Environmental Entrepreneurship: Identity Coupling, Venture Goals, and Stakeholder Incentives

Presenter: Jeffrey G. York, U. of Colorado, Boulder

Presenter: Isobel O'Neil, The U. of Nottingham

Presenter: Saras D. Sarasvathy, U. of Virginia

Paper 3: Social Enterprise Emergence from Social Movement Activism: The Fairphone Case

Presenter: Ona Akemu, Erasmus U. Rotterdam

Presenter: Gail Whiteman, Erasmus U. Rotterdam

Presenter: Steve Kennedy, Rotterdam School of Management

Paper 3: How Social Entrepreneurs Facilitate the Adoption of New Industry Practices

Presenter: Theodore L. Waldron, Baylor U.

Presenter: Greg Fisher, Indiana U.

Presenter: Michael D. Pfarrer, U. of Georgia

Paper 4: Selling Issues With Solutions: Igniting Social Intrapreneurship in For-Profit Organizations

Presenter: Elisa Alt, Anglia Ruskin U.

Presenter: Justin B Craig, Northwestern Kellogg School of Management

Paper 5: A Theoretical Exploration of Why Firms Delay Reaching True Sustainability

Presenter: Anton Shevchenko, Concordia U.

Presenter: Moren Levesque, York U.

Presenter: Mark Pagell, U. College Dublin

Paper 6: When Internal Representation Leads to Faultlines: A Study of Board Performance in Social Enterprise

Presenter: Saskia Crucke, Ghent U.

Presenter: Mirjam Knockaert, Ghent U.

Paper 7: Kicking Off Social Entrepreneurship: How a Sustainability Orientation Influences Crowdfunding

Presenter: Goran Calic, Purdue U.

Presenter: Elaine Mosakowski, Purdue U.