Action & Initiatives

Track Coordinators:
Geraldo Ferrer, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Peter Groenewegen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Track Kick-Off Session (Monday, 1:15-2:30pm)

Speaker: Richard Wells, The Lexington Group

Title: Sustainability Actions and Initiatives: State of the Art

Making Sense of Sustainability (Monday, 3:00-4:15pm)

Moderator: Peter Groenewegen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Joyce	Miller	Building "Connectivity" with Stakeholders: The Link Between Environment and Strategy
Anita	Mac	When Firms Makes Sense of Ecological Agendas of Society
M. Anjali Jeffrey Ryan Stu	Sastry Bernicke Quinn Hart	Shades of Green: Corporate Environmental Reports and the Unfolding Interaction of Institutional Pressures, Sensemaking and Organizational Change

Diffusion of Innovation (Tuesday, 9:45-11:00am)

Moderator: Anne Feldhusen, Hewlett Packard

Mark	Rossi	Making the Local-Global Connection:  The Role of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Diffusing Environmental Ideas
Marcel Guadalupe	Crul Riba	Capacity Building for Ecodesign in Central-American Industry
Anne	De Vries	Life After the Federal Register Notice: Tracking Processes of Environment-Saving Innovation in Three Industries

Implementation (Tuesday, 11:15am-12:30am)

Moderator: Sabine Dembkowski, A.T. Kearny Ltd

Ken Chris	Green Foster	Greening the Innovation Process    Download .pdf
Brian	Nattrass	The Natural Step for Business:  Integrating Sustainable Development into Business Practice
Carsten Jürgen Frank	Dreher Fleig Arnold	Intensifying Use and Prolonging Product Life-Time in German Companies - Impacts On Manufacturing Strategies and Workforce    Download .pdf

Voluntary Agreements (Tuesday, 2:00-3:15pm)

Moderator: Reinhard Paulesich, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien

Bruce	Paton	Voluntary Environmental Initiatives and Sustainable Industry    Download .pdf
Jennifer	Nash	The Emergence of Trade Associations as Agents of Environmental Performance Improvement    Download .pdf
Michael	Lenox	Emerging Institutional Arrangements for Environmental Regulation

Environmental Management Systems (Wednesday, 11:15am-12:30pm)

Moderator: Kirvil Skinnerland, Trilogy LLC

Dennis Michael	Rondinelli Berry	Environmental Citizenship in Multinational Corporations:  Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development    Download .pdf
Richard Nicole Deborah	Andrews Darnall Gallagher	Environmental Management Systems: A Sustainable Strategy for a Sustainable World?
Arne Uffe Soren	Jensen Sonderhousen Rasch Jensen	Integrated Environmental Management – A Way to Achieve Cost Effective Sustainability