Upcoming

Cross-border Partnerships for Sustainability and Innovation:  A role for South-driven Sustainability?

Author/Editor(s): Diego Vazquez Brust, Joseph Sarkis and James Cordeiro

Call for Papers for the edited volume

The book aims to provide conceptual and empirical tools addressing North-South and East-West multi-stakeholders collaboration to feed in on the new sustainability agenda to be formed in the upcoming Rio 2012 summit.

Although a broad focus on sustainability, technology, sustainable development, and policy will be included in the book, the emphasis is on the challenges and needs of cross-border collaboration for innovation and sustainability. Now, more than ever, the transition to a global low-carbon economy requires international (particularly north-south) consensus on means and objectives. This transition is especially true after the disappointing results of the Copenhagen meetings in 2009. A compelling case can be made for interdisciplinary research that goes beyond the existing, dominant perceptions of what constitutes good practice to foster innovation. Among the topics that can be covered in the book are the following issues:

• Challenges and drivers in Cross-border Partnerships and collaboration
• Sustainable Technologies originated in developing countries
• Cross-country Triple-Helix approaches
• Greening and innovation in global supply chains
• Strategic alliances
• CSR in developing countries
• Supranational agencies initiatives
• Role of NGOs in north-south exchanges and collaboration
• MNEs impacts in developing countries
• Business Models of MNEs from developing countries
• Sustainability Values, attitudes and perceptions in developing countries
• Global Just Sustainability and Social Justice
• Models of Innovation in Developing Countries
• Global knowledge exchange models
• Technology adaptation and assimilation
• North-South  and South-South Research and Education Agendas
• Poverty alleviation in developing countries
• Environmental and social challenges in developing countries.
• Theoretical approaches ( i.e. Networks Theory, Stakeholders, Systems, Critical Management)
• Global Bio-security and how crises generate innovation
• Impacts of Globalization on Sustainability

Please send your proposal to Diego Vazquez, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .