Business sustainability researchers provide insights and solutions for the Covid-19 pandemic and for other natural environmental disasters and stressors.
This forum brings together business school researchers from multiple professional societies:
- Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management (ONE)
- Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS)
- Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment (GRONEN)
- Network for Business Sustainability (NBS)
- Responsible Research for Business and Management Network (RRBM)
- Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management
Aiming to generate a better understanding of, ideas, and/or solutions to the Covid-19 pandemic, we are cooperating to promote a joint Online Essay/Opinion Forum for management scholars. We are seeking commentary essays discussing: How your current/previous research can help to develop better understanding and solutions for the Covid-19 pandemic and/or more generally for other natural environmental disasters and stressors (750 words max, Word file). Interested authors can reach out to Jorge Rivera, jrivera@email.gwu.edu.
To find a summary of the preceding articles, please visit the Network for Business Sustainability and read What Business Professors Are Saying about COVID-19.
What Can Corporations Do to Help Navigate the Storm that is COVID-19?
Judith Walls & Steve Walls
Responding to Slow Onset Disasters: The Boiling Frog Syndrome
Jorge Rivera
From Tima’s Desk: Does the Coronavirus Offer Lessons for Climate Change?
Tima Bansal
The COVID-19 Pandemic, Paradox, and Sustainability
Tobias Hahn
How We Respond to COVID-19 Foreshadows Future Life in the Anthropocene
Andrew Hoffman & Dev Jennings
Learning to Carry the Cat by the Tail: What We Know about Business Response to Disasters and How that Relates to the COVID-19 Crisis
Jennifer Oetzel & Chang Hoon Oh
Climate change in the Time of Corona: That’s So 2019…
Jonatan Pinkse
Coronavirus and Global Supply Chain Disruption: A Wake-Up Call for Climate Policy?
Nives Dolsak & Aseem Prakash
Companies vs. Coronavirus: A Call for Rapid Responsible Innovation
Leopoldo Gutierrez-Gutierrez, Ana Castillo, & Ivan Montiel
Understanding COVID-19: A Behavioral Corporate Social Responsibility Perspective
Herman Aguinis
Resilience in Uncertain Times
Martina Linnenluecke
Using Scenario Planning to Prepare for Pandemics
Nardia Haigh
Good distances make good neighbors: Coordinating self-regulation in the face of our communal crisis
Michael Barnett
Why Don’t Businesses See This Coming?
Glen Dowell
What is Essential?
Sarah Birrell Ivory
Blood Banking in the Time of Corona
Juan L Senga and Geoffrey A. Chua
COVID-19 and the destitution of workers in global supply chains
Andrew Crane
Pandemic bonds: The financial cure we need for COVID-19?
Dror Etzion
Privacy In The Age Of A Pandemic
Kirsten Martin
The Socioecological Systems Framework, COVID-19 and Organizations
Pete Tashman
Covid-19, business and faith: An intriguing field of research in (an the practice of) responsible
Fabien Martinez
There’s a Crack in Everything. That’s Where the Light Gets In
Sandra Waddock
Are companies Coronawashing? Ten pieces of evidence
Vera Ferrón Vílchez
Coronavirus will have long-term implications for business leaders. Here are the top five
Ralph Hamann
COVID-19: A Wake Up Call for Collaborative Action Towards a More Sustainable Nigeria
Paul Appiah-Konadu & Oreva Atanya
COVID-19 crisis: A call for responsible leadership research
Anne S. Tsui
COVID- 19- Could this be the ‘wake-up call’ that we need?
Shaista Khilji
COVID-19 and philanthropy in Africa: a stitch in time?
Kenneth Amaeshi
Is Authoritarian Response to Covid19 Superior?
Shaomin Li & Ilan Alon
Stockpiling Bottled Water? Maybe Social Media is To Blame
Jaigris Hodson & Sarah Wolfe
The trade policy implications of COVID-19
Louise Curran
What Does “Flattening the Curve” Mean? Will It Also Flatten the Global Economy?
Farok J. Contractor
Community kitchen for Common man in the times of Coronavirus
Ranjith P.V. & Uma Warrier
“Do-undo-redo”: unlocking sustainable strategic renewal in services after the coronavirus
Carlos Martin-Rios
How COVID-19 is Changing Philanthropy and Responsible Business Practices in Africa
Ijeoma Nwagwu
Let Values Drive Your Board
Cynthia Clark
Preventing future pandemics: A research avenue for corporate sustainability/social responsibility scholars
Rajat Panwar
The coronavirus crisis: A catalyst for entrepreneurship
Klaus Meyer, Carsten Lund Pedersen, & Thomas Ritter
What about the toiletpapergate? Global pandemics and sustainability in a world of global value chains
Valentina De Marchi
What can the COVID-19 crisis teach us about the importance of geographical communities to enable human connection?
Wendy Smith & Natalie Slawinski
Covid19 and International Business: A Viewpoint
Ilan Alon
Exposure, Black Swans, and Real Options
Luis Perez-Batres & Len Treviño
Lifting the Mask of Materiality
Robert Sroufe
The Power of Social Entrepreneurship in the Face of Urgent Grand Societal Challenges
Sophie Bacq
COVID–19: I saw it coming and was vilified for taking it serious!
Frederick Ahen
COVID, Culture, and Political-Economic Systems
Jonathan Doh
The Return of the State
Mette Morsing
Let’s also flatten the climate curve!
Christopher Wickert
Post COVID 19: Economic and Social Impact in India
K.V. Sriram
Post-COVID-19. Reflections on the role of the firm in addressing environmental sustainability
Miguel Angel Lopez-Navarro
‘Glocalization’ in a post-COVID-19 world
Arijit Paul, Romana Rauter, & Rupert J. Baumgartner
North meets South: A call for inclusive global research
Smaranda Boros, Anita Bosch & Yuliya Shymko
Sustainable Finance in Corona Times
Timo Busch & Sabine Dobeli
Collaborating in a Pandemic: Coordination through Adaption and Information Sharing
Mark Clark
“Disabled” by COVID19?
Anica Zeyen & Oana Branzei
Eco-Audits during Covid-19 Retain Credibility, Exacerbate Inequities
Graeme Auld & Stefan Renckens
What Business Professors Are Saying about COVID-19
Tima Bansal
Despite What You’ve Heard, Americans Support Wearing Masks and other Efforts to Reduce Exposure to COVID-19
Deserai A. Crow, Lindsay Neuberger, Danielle Blanch Hartigan, Rob DeLeo, Tom Birkland