The 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) is taking place in Chicago, Illinois, USA on 9 - 14 August 2024. PRME Secretariat will be hosting a booth as well as organizing and/or speaking at several sessions. See below for our schedule of events (all times are in Central Time).

If you are a PRME Signatory Member and will be hosting a session at the Annual Meeting of the AOM, please write to us with your session title, ID, and description at info@unprme.org so we may add your session to our growing list.

PRME will be hosting booth #517 in the Hyatt Regency Chicago - Grand Ballroom. Come see us!

9 August 2024

19721: Role of Management Scholars in Influencing Public Policy for the UN SDGs

8:00AM - 9:30AM at Marriott in Addison

Organized by: Rumina Dhalla, University of Guelph

This PDW will explore the role of management scholars and business schools in influencing public policy in response to global challenges. This PDW will use the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) framework and the experiences of past and present Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) Champions in influencing public policy aimed to increase integration of the SDGs into research, teaching, and service—the three pillars of scholarship—to accelerate and amplify the achievement of SDGs. We argue that the lack of progress in the global achievement of the SDGs requires greater engagement and collaboration between higher education institutions and public policy and policy makers. We also argue that while business schools are expert in teaching and researching public policy, they are much less active and expert in the influencing and actioning of public policy.

Participants:

• Australia (Swati Nagpal)

• Canada (Rumina Dhalla)

• Ireland (Sheila Killian)

• United Kingdom (Carole Parkes)

• United States (Anne Magro)

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12669: The Sustainability Mindset Indicator: How Professors develop a Mindset for Innovation and Resilience

8:30AM - 10:00AM at Marriott Chicago Downtown

Organized by: PRME Working Group on the Sustainability Mindset

Attending a session on developing a sustainability mindset at the AOM Annual Conference (2014), a professor asked how we would know if such a mindset was successfully developed, and how it could be assessed. This question prompted exploring if an appropriate tool existed, or how to develop it (Kassel, Rimanoczy, & Mitchell, 2018; Rimanoczy & Llamazares 2021, Rimanoczy & Klingenberg, 2021). The resulting Sustainability Mindset Indicator (SMI®) maps where students are in the development of their sustainability mindset, providing educators with resources to further develop it. Students receive a thought-provoking report for their own personal growth. Aggregated results can be used for research, comparing the profile of a group pre and post a course in sustainability, training, or other interventions, measuring impact and effectiveness. The components associated with a sustainability mindset are ecological worldview, systems perspective, emotional and spiritual intelligence, and are critical for developing readiness to think, innovate and implement sustainability actions (Rimanoczy, 2021). Acting in new ways means developing resiliency, one of the most important skills in uncertain times (European Union Skills Agenda, 2020). This session introduces the key features of the SMI®. Eleven professors from nine countries share interactively their use of the SMI®, and what they are learning as they do so. The session is inspired by the suq, a traditional North African market where the community gathers to talk and interact with the vendors. Here, presenters and participants will be joining from far away and diverse contexts, which will enrich the conversations and exchange.

Speakers:

• Beate KlingenbergIn

• Albachiara Boffelli

• Giselle Rentería

• Louis (Jody) Fry

• Emmanuelle Reuter

• Ngoc-Quynh Dao

• Ruben Burga

• Isabel Rodríguez-Tejedo

• Amelia Naim

• Rachel Fichter

• Ekaterina Ivanova

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10479: Corporate Sustainability: Imperatives and Challenges

10:00AM - 12:00PM at Marriott in Addison

Organized by Copenhagen Business School Department of Management

This PDW explores the concept of Corporate Sustainability (CS), specifically its meaning and its imperatives & challenges for innovation, policy and purpose of corporations, and thus for business & management researchers and educators. The presenters are editors and authors of a recent graduate level text (Rasche et. al. Eds. 2023 Corporate Sustainability: Managing Responsible Business in a Globalised World Cambridge; review in AMLE https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2...). The PDW addresses the imperatives & challenges that CS brings which go well beyond those of the conventional business models of shareholder and stakeholder capitalism. These include engagement with full societal and planetary responsibility, the integration of market approaches, and a more collaborative relationship with regulators, public and private. The imperatives and challenges are addressed in respect of four key questions: how does CS relate to corporate social responsibility?; how does CS relate to government policy?; how does CS relate to international development?; what are the leadership and governance challenges of sustainability transitions? The Panel Discussion brings in questions arising in neighboring fields and from the global South. PDW participants frame the concluding discussion with their questions about the teaching and research issues and skills raised by CS.

Speakers:

• Jette Steen Knudsen, Tufts U.

• Sarah Jack, Lancaster U. Management School

• Afua Konadu Owusu-Kwarteng – -

• Andrew Crane, U. of Bath

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10307: Accreditation Values and Reporting: The Impactful Five Pedagogy as a Tool Professional Development Workshop (PDW)

10:30AM - 11:30AM CT at Hyatt, Crystal A - Lobby Level (West Tower)

Organized by: PRME Secretariat

As the world changes, the standards for accreditation are evolving. There is a need for change in higher education and accreditation institutions are noticing. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Association of MBAs (AMBA), and the European Foundation for Management Development’s (EFMD) are the three leading international accreditation bodies for many business schools. Over the years, there has been a notable shift in the content of criteria for accreditation towards focusing on impact, teaching, and developing of skills. These three components are the foundation on which the Impactful Five (i5) project is built. The i5 project focuses on integrating five characteristics into the pedagogy and teachings of business schools. The five characteristics– meaning, joy, social interaction, active engagement, and iteration –will provide graduates with the holistic skill set needed to create the largest impact in their careers, society, and on the world. In this PDW, participants will be engaging and discussing how the i5 can be used as a tool to aid business schools with reporting as well as acquiring and maintaining accreditation.

Speakers:

• PRME Senior Advisor

• John Goodwin, Executive Chairman, The Learning Economy Foundation

• Meredith Storey, Senior Manager, PRME

• Samantha Thompson, i5 Coordinator, PRME

• Zein Ibrahim, Research Coordinator, PRME

10 August 2024

12685: AI is Innovation: Now Educators Need to Focus on the Human-ness". Isabel Rimanoczy and myself are the organisers

12:00PM - 1:30PM at Marriott Chicago Downtown - Magnificent Mile in Addison

Organized by: PRME Working Group on the Sustainability Mindset

Artificial Intelligence is not new. It has been part of our technological progress for many years. Yet it was not until November 2022 that it became ubiquitous to educators and the public in general. Over the past year, developments multiplied and new features were seen almost weekly, making visible our incapacity to anticipate the impacts of this technology, not even by their most savvy creators themselves. Educators have been discussing and improvising ways to incorporate Chat GPT and other AI applications into their classrooms and experimenting with ways of dealing with this new challenge. At the Global Deans Forum in Denmark organized by the accreditation institution AACSB in September 2023, AI was one of the two main themes. Business speakers shared the competencies they would like schools to develop to face the AI revolution, while educational institutions shared how they were trying to address the challenge. But there was a second main theme, and it was Purpose.

Speakers:

• James A Stoner, and James Weichert

• Alexander Nuer, and Keren Naa Abeka Arthur

• Mehdi Majidi

• Pia Manalastas

• Aurora Díaz-Soloaga

• Ayako Huang

• Ekaterina Ivanova

• Amelia Naim

• Beate Klingenberg

18750: Innovation & Social Impact of Academia - Contributing to the SDGs

12:30 – 14:00 Marriott Belmont

Organized by ESSEC Business School

As this Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) unfolds, this workshop provides an occasion for reflecting on our collective contribution as scholars. Being the SDGs targets both ambitious and urgent, we need to consider new ways, new ideas, new inspirations. This workshop is the natural continuation of a fruitful conversation begun last year during the Boston conference at the PDW “Social Impact of Academia”, organized by the same group of colleagues. All of them are affiliated to schools in the Council on Business & Society (CoBS), a global alliance of eleven business schools in five continents, dedicated to increase the social impact of academia both in research and in pedagogy. This workshop intends to expand this ongoing conversation to the larger community of scholars at the AoM. Session attendees will briefly present their reflections about innovations related to their research, their pedagogy, and their different engagements in their respective business schools. Then, in roundtable discussions, session participants will discuss their experiences of impact. Organizers will strive to gently challenge, propose, and motivate participants to think out of the box. This PDW will conclude with a graphic representation to illustrate the potential paths for innovative initiatives in pedagogy, actionable research, and school leadership.

Speakers:

• Adrian Zicari, ESSEC Business School

• DARREN Thomas BAKER, U. College Dublin

• Mário Aquino Alves, FGV EAESP

• Armand Bam, U. of Stellenbosch Business School

• Steven Kilroy, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin

• Elspeth Murray

• Tommaso Ramus, ESSEC Business School

16742: Understanding and Building Stronger Supply Chain Research in Africa

2:00PM - 3:30PM at Sheraton in Columbus A

Organized by the American University in Cairo

Academic and practitioner articles on supply chain issues have proliferated in the literature since the late 1980s. In many academic journals, the discourse on operations and supply chain management (OSCM) and logistics research has mainly focused on issues related to North America, Europe and certain developing countries in Asia. However, supply chain management and logistics issues have received little attention in Africa (Oyedijo et al., 2022). Therefore, it is likely that this uneven distribution of international research data representation has a negative impact on the current state of knowledge and understanding of various phenomena within logistics and supply chain management (Svensson et al., 2008). Africa is poised to become a major player in the global supply chain (World Economic Forum, 2023a), given its growing importance as a manufacturing hub for high-tech industries and a key link in global supply chains (UNCTAD, 2023). It is surprising that many studies have not focused on Africa, given that Africa has higher growth prospects and greater potential to influence global trade and the economy than other developed continents. With so many global supply chains starting and ending in Africa, it is therefore imperative to recognise the continent's critical role. The PDW builds on Africa's potential emergence as a global supply chain powerhouse, where many African economies can become major participants in the global value chain, and explores how SCM research could enable this. Through this PDW, we aim to continue the ongoing discussions by scholars (e.g., Ibrahim et al., 2021; Oyedijo et al., 2021; Oyedijo, 2022) and various stakeholders (e.g., UNCTAD, 2023; World Economic Forum, 2023; Maersk, 2023) on advancing SCM research in Africa. Participants will work with scholars from different disciplines in open roundtables to develop interdisciplinary and multi-methodological ways to address the many challenges associated with SCM in Africa. The PDW will conclude with a future research-oriented discussion with all participants, based on the results generated in the parallel roundtable discussions.

Speakers:

• Ade Oyedijo, Baylor U.

• Sherwat Elwan Ibrahim, American U. in Cairo

• Samuel Fosso Wamba, TBS Education

11 August 2024

Teaching & Learning Conference

10049: Responsible Management Pedagogy Caucus - Innovating the Future Through Impactful i5 Pedagogy

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM CT at Swissotel Chicago in Élevé River View 2

Organized by: PRME Secretariat

The purpose of the PRME i5 project is to transfer and apply these practices of effective playful learning into the domain of business schools in order to create an impactful pedagogy for responsible management that is also applicable to other business domains and divisions. The PRME i5 framework was initially developed in 2022 and was launched publicly in June 2023. Since then, PRME undertook various activities to roll out the i5 framework and build a community of practice. At the same time, the i5 framework has faced some criticism for its limited integration of various existing responsible leadership pedagogies, and for its seemingly limited specificity to the responsible leadership theme more generally. In this caucus, we aim to convene people who are interested in furthering creative pedagogy and praxis for responsible management education by not only applying it in their teaching, but also developing the i5 framework and clarifying the connections to other existing pedagogies and by articulating to their own experiences.

Facilitators:

• Meredith Storey, PRME Senior Manager

• Dirk C. Moosmayer, Kedge Business School

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10048: Innovative Praxis in the Classroom – Sharing Experiences with the PRME Impactful Five (i5) Pedagogy Symposium

8:30AM - 9:30AM CT at Marriott Chicago Downtown - Magnificent Mile in Los Angeles

Organized by: PRME Secretariat

Management learning and education must develop leaders’ ability to address today’s pressing sustainability challenges. The need to educate for creative and impactful development of skills such as systems thinking, futures thinking, circular thinking, design thinking, sustainability science, digital skills, and change management is well documented. To drive the development of these crucial skills, the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) collaborated with The LEGO Foundation and developed the Impactful Five (i5) framework. In this TLC session, we bring together i5 experts, colleagues who have used i5 methods in their teaching since its global launch one year ago, and i5 novices who are interested in innovative responsible management pedagogies. We showcase exemplary interactive and playful learning interventions that i5 experts and early adopters have applied within the i5 framework. We then discuss with participants how they can adapt them for their own teaching, allowing them to go home with at least one concrete innovative impactful intervention for their own teaching.

Speakers:

• PRME Senior Advisor

• Meredith Storey, PRME Senior Manager

• John Goodwin, Executive Chairman, The Learning Economy Foundation

• Dirk C. Moosmayer, Kedge Business School

• Christian Van Buskirk, University of Victoria

• Marina Anna Schmitz, IEDC-Bled School of Management

• Aurora Díaz Soloaga, Almaty Management University

• Benito Teehankee, De La Salle University

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10047: Innovating Pedagogy for Responsible Leadership – Learning with the PRME Impactful Five (i5) Project PDW

9:45 AM - 11:15 AM CT at Hyatt Regency Chicago in Randolph 3

Organized by: PRME Secretariat

The Impactful Five (i5) builds on research by the LEGO Foundation that finds learning most effective when applying the five characteristics of meaning, active engagement, iteration, social engagement, and joy. Applications of the i5 framework started in June 2023 after a year of piloting. To further broaden and strengthen the i5 framework through a community of practice, this PDW will share learning experiences from this past year of application and discuss avenues for innovating the future for larger impact. In this workshop, you will first learn about the i5 project, some institutional roll-out activities, and how i5 has been applied in the classroom. You will then engage in roundtables that explore different facets and opportunities that evolved in this past year around the i5 pedagogy: The PRME principles and their relevance to i5, global partnering and exchange opportunities evolving around i5, effective i5 narratives, the i5 framework’s role in faculty training and induction, i5 as a means of incentivization and recognition, and i5 research opportunities. You will come out of this PDW with a clear understanding of the opportunities to benefit from and get involved with the innovative i5 pedagogy.

Speakers:

• PRME Senior Advisor

• John Goodwin, Executive Chairman, The Learning Economy Foundation

• Meredith Storey, Senior Manager, PRME

• Samantha Thompson, i5 Coordinator, PRME

• Zein Ibrahim, Research Coordinator, PRME

EDUCRACY: Democratizing Student Debates to Develop Non Violent Communication in Gen Z (21305)

09:45 - 10:45 CT at Marriott: Miami

Organized by BIMTECH

‘Suicide’ is a severe health issue taboo to be spoken about, in a culturally diverse and sensitive society like India. ‘Suicidal behavior’ is inexplicable despite many explorations (Bryan and Rudd, 2016). Discussing sensitive and difficult topics by the educators is in a way empowerment for students (Sedlovskaya, 2022). The presenters intend to share the impact of a debate organized by a debating club of a leading AACSB accredited premier Higher Education Institutes (HEI) in India. The intervention was to make students discuss and debate a difficult issue such as “death by suicide”. The intention was to ingrain understanding of psychological safety and non-violent communication trough a “learning by doing” pedagogy which is strengthening the grand challenge of mental well-being of youth ie., SDG 3 targets. HEIs need to nurture future ready authentic leaders within their campuses (SDG#4), who upon joining their world of work, play a vital role in establishing a psychological safe organisation and normalize conversations around mental health (SDG#3), thus contributing in mainstreaming and supporting colleagues who are dealing with mental health issues. Deloitte’s Mental Health Survey 2022 has reported that around 80 percent of the Indian workforce has reported mental health issues in 2022. But is anyone talking? So debate it to eliminate it!

Speakers:

• Saloni Sinha, Birla Institute of Management Technology

• Maya Vimal Pandey, Birla Institute of Management Technology

945: ONE-ISC Impact Safari

5:00PM - 6:00PM at Marriott Chicago Downtown - Magnificent Mile in Marriott Lobby

Organized by Brock University

Join Brock University in Chicago for an ONE Social Event with the Impact Scholar Community (ISC). In line with the ISC’s mission to connect research and real-world impact, the event will meet with and be guided by local environmental non-profit, Friends of the Chicago River. Staff from Friends of the Chicago River will take participants for a guided walk from the conference venue, along the river, to their historic bridge-house museum. Along the way, participants will have a collaborative discussion with Friends of the Chicago River on how management research and insights might address some of their business challenges. The event will finish with some food and opportunity to socialize and enjoy the beautiful history and nature of the area.

Registration is limited to 50 participants and will be first-come-first serve, with a sign-up sheet in the lobby of the Downtown Marriott before leaving on the walk. Please save the date in your calendars (Google calendar invite link here). Sign-ups will start at 4:30pm.

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942: Insider Social Change Agents: Integrating Research to Innovate for the Future (20457)

3:00 - 6:00 PM at Fairmont: State Room

Organized by University of Michigan

Across the Academy, scholars have increasingly been focusing on how employees organize within and across organizations to combat critical societal issues, such as the climate crisis, race and gender inequalities, and worker rights in supply chains. In this PDW, we seek to bridge knowledge silos to create a broader community of researchers and educators around insider social change agents: individuals or groups who seek to propel their organizations toward contributing to positive social change. We structure the PDW in two parts. Part 1 consists of a panel of leading management scholars who will share their knowledge and expertise in studying insider social change agents across academic fields and societal issues. The goal of the panel discussion is to connect as-yet siloed lines of inquiry and explore synergies between them under the insider social change agents umbrella. Part 2 includes several roundtable discussions that will allow emerging and established researchers to connect around empirically defined topic areas and identify frontiers, challenges, and opportunities for developing their scholarship. By structuring roundtables around empirically defined topic areas, we seek to enable focused discussions that can cross-fertilize insights across literatures, generating novel communities of practice and knowledge outcomes. Overall, the PDW aims to empower researchers to co-create opportunities for future research, education, and impact that reimagine and transform organizations from the bottom-up and inside out.

12 August 2024

1367: Creating Impact: Incorporating the UN Sustainable Development Goals Into the Management Curriculum

11:30 - 13:00 at Hyatt: Michigan 2

Organized by Quinnipiac University

Public scrutiny of business has grown over the past decades in the wake of financial, environmental, ethical, and social crises, placing increasing responsibility on business schools to increase focus on societal concerns. Accrediting bodies have also responded with calls to action, such as AACSB Standard 9, requiring business schools to document how their actions align with the social impact and engagement standard. Many business schools have struggled with implementing social impact into their research and curriculum, and AACSB has suggested the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework (2023). The panelists will discuss how they have incorporated the SDGs in their courses or schools, followed by a moderated discussion and question and answer session with the audience. This session will discuss best practices, obstacles, and tips for increasing social impact and engagement and documenting these efforts. In addition to aligning with AACSB Standard 9, these initiatives will also help prepare students for the business environment of their future careers.

Speakers:

• D'Lisa McKee, Quinnipiac U.

• Amy C. Lewis, Texas A&M U., San Antonio

• Margaret Goralski, Quinnipiac U.

• Robert F. Scherer, Trinity U.