Symbolic Information Causes Biased Decisions In assessing the outcomes of decisions, people often rely on the symbolic information while neglecting other crucial information. People may be especially prone to rely on this information on topics that are subject to social norms, such as environmentally friendly behavior, environmental risks or risks for humans. I present a […]
MAKING SOCIAL ISSUES COUNT: How Businesses Address Social and Environmental Issues in Strategic Decision-Making Pratima (Tima) Bansal, Ivey Business School, Western University (London, Canada) Prior research tends to investigate organizational responses to social and environmental issues after the organization has already responded, often exploring why or how organizations are socially or environmentally responsible. The problem […]
Leading by Doing: How Female Supervisors Motivate Worker Productivity through Subordinate Scut Work Aruna Ranganathan is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Abstract: Using ethnographic, personnel, and field experimental data from an Indian garment factory, this paper investigates whether manager gender affects worker productivity and if so, how. We argue that […]
Take a Stand or Keep Your Seat: Independent Director Turnover following Social Activist Challenges Outside directors play a major role in modern corporate governance by providing firms with valuable human and social capital as well as serving as the primary monitors of managers. Given their influence, researchers have been increasingly interested in understanding what motivates […]
Todd Schifeling will present a study of the evolution of green marketing over the last thirty years that engages with two key questions: i) are green consumer products merely a case of greenwashing? and ii) how have green marketers attempted to earn the trust of skeptical consumers? Co-sponsor: Center for Sustainable Systems
Title: “Shine on me: Industry coherence, social movement support, and government endorsement of the solar photovoltaic industry” 3:30pm Location: Ross, R2320 Panikos Georgallis Dow Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Erb Institute; Energy Institute, University of Michigan
Perspectives from the Periphery This is part of a series of (virtual) conversations with policymakers from Canada, the United States, and Mexico, on climate and energy intergovernmental relations, transnational collaboration and North American climate policy. Join us for a conversation with two leading Canadian and Mexican scholars, Debora L. VanNijnatten and Marcela López-Vallejo, about the […]
Politics of Pipelines This is a series of (virtual) conversations with policymakers and scholars from Canada, the United States, and Mexico, on climate and energy policy, intergovernmental relations, transnational collaboration and conflict, and the future of North American climate policy. RSVP here Join leading scholars to discuss the politics associated with oil and gas pipeline […]
Thursdays at Noon in March and April, bring your lunch and join Environmental Justice Colleagues to consider new directions in scholarship, learning, and practice Keeping Ourselves: The Role of Land and Corporeality in Environmental Justice Education." Speaker: Esme G. Murdock Join Zoom Meeting Passcode: 812830 Esme G. Murdock received her Ph.D. in the Department of […]
Public opinion on North American climate policy This is a series of (virtual) conversations with policymakers and scholars from Canada, the United States, and Mexico, on climate and energy policy, intergovernmental relations, transnational collaboration and conflict, and the future of North American climate policy. RSVP here Speaker Christopher P. Borick, Erick Lachapelle, Itzkuauhtli Zamora Saenz […]
Thursdays at Noon in March and April, bring your lunch and join Environmental Justice Colleagues to consider new directions in scholarship, learning, and practice Bernadette Atuahene earned her JD from Yale and her MPA from Harvard. After graduating, she served as a judicial clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and then practiced as […]
Urban climate governance in North America: Exploring the roles of the largest North American cities This is a series of (virtual) conversations with policymakers and scholars from Canada, the United States, and Mexico, on climate and energy policy, intergovernmental relations, transnational collaboration and conflict, and the future of North American climate policy. RSVP here Speaker […]
