Invitation for Lecture: Organization and the Ecological Crisis
Location: Kilen, Ks 48. (Kilevej 14, 2000 Frederiksberg)
Organization and the ecological crisis – a lecture series
Lecture 2: Silent Storm: How Business Schools Can Find Their Climate Voice
This is a series of public lectures in which connoted scholars will present research addressing the ecological crisis and organization. Speakers will focus on their research’s concrete suggestions for how we can better organize and / or on the impact of their work for new and more productive forms of scholarly societal engagement today. The lecture series serves as a platform for discussion, networking, and collaboration among scholars, educators, students, and experts.
Lecture 2: Silent Storm: How Business Schools Can Find Their Climate Voice
Are business schools helping to solve the climate crisis or perpetuating business models that accelerate it? Management scholarship generally rewards theoretical contributions over real-world impact. With clear evidence that the climate crisis has exceeded planetary boundaries and with many businesses retreating from their net zero carbon commitments, I propose that business schools need to play a central role in not just theorizing change, but catalysing climate action through transdisciplinary and multifunctional dialogue. Business schools need to not only build scientific models but integrate that knowledge into practical tools. These tools need to be developed in dialogue with practice, not independent to it. I argue that management scholars are uniquely positioned to foster dialogues between corporations, scientists, and policy makers, yet doing so requires scholars to shift from focusing on puzzles to focusing on problems.
Program:
15:00 – Lecture and Q&A
16:00 – Reception and networking
Pratima (Tima) Bansal is a Professor and Canada Research Chair of Business Sustainability at the Ivey Business School, Western University (London, Canada). She has been investigating sustainability-related issues for almost 30 years by viewing business strategy through the lenses of time, space, scale. Her research has been published in many of the most influential management journals and she has completed two terms on the editorial team as an Associate and Deputy Editor of the Academy of Management Journal. Beyond academia, Bansal has built bridges between research and practice by founding two influential organizations: the Network for Business Sustainability, which connects thousands of researchers and business leaders worldwide, and Innovation North, which partners with companies to reimagine innovation through systems thinking. Her work reveals how business can move beyond short-term thinking to create lasting positive impact. Bansal is currently visiting the Centre for Organization and Time at the Department of Organization in the context of the Actionable Futures project .