May 2021: Researcher Update

What Sustainability Centres Learned in a Year of Virtual Connection

Members of the NBS Sustainability Centres Community share insights related to handling COVID-19, running a centre, and advancing the sustainability transformation.

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Register by July 1: NBS Sustainability Centres Community Workshop

Leaders of business school sustainability centres will gather online for the NBS Sustainability Centres Community (SCC) Workshop, July 12-15, 2021. The registration deadline is July 1.

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NBS Live: Overcome Circular Economy Challenges

Join guests Barb and Jury on LinkedIn Live to learn about their experience with Canada’s first circular food economy. This conversation will connect research and practice to address key barriers to the circular economy. The conversation will be Thursday, June 3 at 11:30 ET/3:30 GMT.

May Table of Contents

NBS’s monthly compilation of the latest business sustainability research prioritizes in-press articles, in order to highlight cutting-edge knowledge. The list draws from Financial Times Top 50 journals and other publications.

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Opportunities and Announcements

Please share your information about opportunities related to sustainability scholarship at discuss.nbs.net.

Events

Webinar: Necessary Conversation with Paul Shrivastava about Transforming Management (June 7, 2021, Virtual, International Humanistic Management Association)
Forum: Accelerating the Collective Impact of Management Education in the Decade of Action (June 16-17, 2021, Virtual, Principles for Responsible Management Education)
Conference: Poverty and Prosperity: Implications for Advancing the SDGs and Responsible Management Education in a Post-Pandemic World (October 19-22, Virtual, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China)

Journals and Publications

Call for Papers: Overcoming Shortcomings of Measuring Organizational Sustainability: Assessing and Driving Societal Impact (Organization Studies)
Call for Proposals: Handbook of Multi-Level Climate Actions: Sparking and Sustaining Transformative Approaches (Edward Elgar Publishing)
Call for Chapters: Measuring Sustainability and CSR : What are the issues and what are the solutions?

Positions

Postdoctoral Researcher (2 positions): Social Theory/Organization Theory Approaches to Climate Change, Risk and Insurability (June 2 & June 8, 2021, University of Queensland, Australia)
Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Fellow: Indigenous Entrepreneurship (June 14, 2021, Australian National University, Australia)
International Doctorate Programme (12 positions): Business and Human Rights : Governance Challenges in a Complex World (June 15, 2021, Elite Network of Bavaria)
Faculty Lecturer: Strategy and Sustainability (June 18, 2021, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Canada)
Postdoctoral Position: Behavior Science for Energy Conservation (June 30, 2021, UCLA, United States)

Other

Call for Initiatives: Co-Creating ‘Next Economies’ (June 15, 2021, Bounce Beyond)

May 2021: Researcher Update

What Sustainability Centres Learned in a Year of Virtual Connection

Register by July 1: NBS Sustainability Centres Community Workshop

NBS Live: Overcome Circular Economy Challenges

May Table of Contents

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