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Paradox and Sustainability: Moving Beyond the Business Case

2015; Academy of Management; Volume: 2015; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5465/ambpp.2015.14106symposium

2376-7197

Tobias Hahn, Garima Sharma, Alfred A. Marcus,

Complex Systems and Decision Making

Business sustainability is inherently paradoxical. The skills, resources, and expectations of stakeholders related to profitability goals are often at odds with those for social and environmental goals. Yet, the business case for sustainability masks the underlying paradox. Ignoring this paradox has likely hampered the ability of organizations to act sustainably and undermined sustainability in broader ecological, social and economic systems. The objective of the symposium is to better understand paradox in sustainability. Specifically, the papers in this symposium will explore (1) the locus of the paradox, i.e., how does it manifest in the goals, processes and/or identity of the firms with regard to contradictory but interrelated sustainability aspects; (2) the ways to navigate and address the paradox, such as cognitive, practice-based and institutional; and (3) the characteristics of paradoxical sustainability outcomes, i.e. their generative and processual nature as different from the business case outcomes. Building Bridges by Building Distance: Engaging Paradox through Sociocognitive Differentiation Presenter: Garima Sharma; Richard Ivey School of Business Exploring Sustainability Paradoxes in a Hybrid Organization Presenter: Natalie Slawinski; Memorial U. of Newfoundland The Paradox of Sustainability in the Anthropocene: Moving beyond the Business Case Presenter: Andrew J. Hoffman; U. of Michigan Presenter: Lianne Lefsrud; U. of Michigan It Takes All Kinds: Focused and Integrative Strategies to Handle the Paradox of Sustainability Presenter: Jonatan Pinkse; U. of Manchester Presenter: Tobias Hahn; Kedge Business School Presenter: Frank Figge; Kedge Business School Presenter: Lutz Preuss; U. of London Reconsidering HR Roles for Sustainability: Rebalancing Old Roles and Managing New Tensions? Presenter: Ina Ehnert; U. Catholique de Louvain Presenter: Jean-Pascal Gond; Cass Business School, City U. London Presenter: Valérie Swaen; Louvain School of Management