Conferences

As part of ARCS's mission to foster first-rate research and build the community of scholars in this domain, we hold an annual conference designed to bring together scholars interested in corporate sustainability strategy and management. The inaugural conference was held May 8-9, 2009, and hosted by the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan. The conference will rotate among Alliance members in future years.

We are receptive to a wide range of research perspectives and methodologies including formal theoretical modeling, quantitative research drawing upon historical or archival data, surveys or publicly available data, and qualitative research. We are particularly interested in papers that have implications for management and policy. Papers drawn from economics, political science, strategic management, and other fields are within the realm of the conference.

Suitable topics for the conference include non-market strategy, climate change management, sustainability reporting and disclosure, green supply chains, green marketing, sustainable finance, renewable energy investments, business/NGO partnerships, sustainable mobility, social dimensions of sustainability, cleantech innovation, green entrepreneurship