“Environmental Sustainability and Business Models” (May 13)
Organizer
Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS), Waseda University
Co-organizer
Research Institute for Environmental Economics and Management, Waseda University
WINPEC Renewable Energy Project, Waseda University
Speaker
Professor of strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship, Executive Director, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Alliance Manchester Business School
Jonatan Pinkse is a Professor of strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship at and Executive Director of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester. His research interests focus on corporate sustainability, business model innovation, social entrepreneurship, cross-sector partnerships, and the sharing economy. In his research, Jonatan analyses how firms make strategic decisions to adapt to a more sustainable economy and deal with the ensuing tensions between issues and actors. He also investigates barriers to firm adoption of disruptive technologies from cognitive, organizational, and institutional perspectives.
Before moving to Manchester, he held positions at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and Grenoble Ecole de Management. Jonatan has authored more than 50 scholarly and practitioner articles in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Studies, California Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. He is associate editor at Organization & Environment and Business & Society and past chair of the ONE division of the Academy of Management.
Moderator
MALEN, Joel Baker
Associate Professor, School of Commerce
Date & Time
Thursday, May 13 2021, 16:30 – 18:00
Venue
This seminar will be held online by Zoom.
Language
English
Outline
Professor Pinkse will present insights from his recent work using a complex systems perspective to link sustainable business models to socio-scological resilience through the use of cross-sector partnerships and lead an informal discussion about the role of business models in promoting environmental sustainability.
Prospected Audience
Faculty members of university, graduate students
Registration
Please send an e-mail titled “May 13th WIAS Sustainability Seminar” including your name and affiliation to rieem.waseda [at] gmail.com by May 12 (Wed).
You will receive a reply mail with registration URL.
