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12th Annual Ivey/ARCS PhD Sustainability Academy
November 14 – 17, 2019
Hosted by the Ivey Business School at Western University
Accelerating Researcher-Practitioner Collaborations in Sustainability Research
October 11 – 12, 2019
Hosted by the HEC Paris
11th Annual ARCS Research Conference
June 5 – 7, 2019
Hosted by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
ARCS Focused Workshop Pilot Leads to Special Issue from Organization and Environment
One of the outcomes of the 2019 ARCS Focused Workshop Pilot was the Special Issue on "The Role of the Corporation in Sustainability Transitions" from Organization and Environment. The state of the planet calls for large-scale sustainability transitions involving systemic adoption of markedly better environmental and social practices. The objective…
CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics Wins 2019 Best Article Award from California Management Review
Each year, California Management Review recognizes the article published during the preceding year that has made the most important contribution to management education. This article was selected as a finalist based on its performance and distribution, and the final selection was made by members of the California Management Review Editorial…
Voluntary Versus Mandatory Corporate Responsibility
Frank Dixon
GlobalSystemChange.com System change will soon become the dominant issue in the corporate responsibility field and $23 trillion Sustainable/Responsible Investing (SRI) market. Flawed economic and political systems compel all companies to degrade the environment and society. These systems are the root causes of the major environmental, social and economic problems addressed by the UN Sustainable Development…
Thinking ahead: AI and automating corporate ethics
Ioannis Ioannou 
Sam Baker
The digital revolution has brought in a new dimension to the challenge of ensuring responsible behaviour The issue of corporate ethics is never far from the business media headlines. Take the troubles embroiling former Nissan chair Carlos Ghosn, or the accounting problems at Patisserie Valerie in the UK, to name just two recent examples. Despite…