Researching the Processes and Practices of Tackling Responsible Management and Sustainability Challenges

How can management studies better address responsibility and sustainability challenges?

Amid the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, process- and practice-based approaches have been increasingly mobilised to advance the study of responsibility and sustainability challenges. Important insights have emerged across diverse research conversations, including responsible management-as-practice, practice-based studies of grand challenges, strategy-as-practice, and sustainability transitions, among others.

The proliferation of research streams, drawing on different process- and practice-theoretical inspirations, offers both challenges and opportunities. This international research workshop brings scholars, early career researchers, and PhD students into conversation across streams around shared concerns with process, practice, sustainability, and responsibility. The workshop, organised by Nottingham Business School, provides a platform to take stock, foster cross-stream exchange, and explore promising future directions, while supporting participants in developing networks, skills, and work-in-progress that can seed contributions beyond the event. These research agendas provide strong scientific foundations for, and can enhance, various forms of practice‑based and experiential learning and pedagogy for responsible management. They therefore attract researchers and lecturers interested in PRME.

Please note registration for the event closes Sunday 15 March 2026, 8.00 pm