Systemic Sustainability Management Complexity, Resilience and Systems Thinking 7 th and 8 th October 2013 Autumn meeting of the Section Sustainability Management of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) at the new campus of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Programme
Sunday, 6 th October 2013 19:00 informal Get-Together (Place: Brasserie Stadtboden, 1010 Wien, Krugerstrasse 8) Monday, 7 th October 2013 8:00 Arrival and registration (Building TC, Atrium) 8:45 Opening and welcome address (Building TC, TC5.27) Christoph Badelt, Rektor der WU Wien: The new campus and the Competence Center for Sustainability at WU 9:00-10:30 Key notes ((Building TC, TC5.27) Georg Müller-Christ, Universität Bremen: Dealing with complexity and ambiguity in sustainability management Nigel Roome, Professor an der Vlerick Business School: Management for Sustainable Development insights into a Systems Problem Joana Krizanits, Consultant and trainer for systemic corporate development: Systemic organizational development and sustainability management 10:30-11:00 Coffee break (Building TC, Atrium) 11:00-12:00 Knowledge Market Place (Building TC, Atrium) 12:00-13:00 Lunch break 13:00-14:45 Parallel sessions Track A: Systems Thinking (German) Track B: Supply Chain Management (English) (Building TC, TC.3.08) 14:45-15:15 Coffee break (Building TC, Atrium) 15:15-17:00 Parallel sessions Track C: Resilience (English) Track D: Human Resources and Leadership (German) (Building TC, TC.3.08) 17:00-18.00 Meeting of the Commission (Building TC, TC.3.08) 19:00 Conference dinner at Heurigenrestaurant Fuhrgassl-Huber, with kind support from the Mayor of Vienna, Dr. Häupl
Tuesday, 8 th October 2013 08:00 Arrival and registration (Building TC, Atrium) 9:00-10:00 Key notes (Building TC, TC.5.27) Gandolfo Dominici, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Co-founder of the Business System Laboratory: Sustainability according to the Viable Systems Perspective Hans-Ulrich Zabel, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg: Corporate ethics and sustainability - a systemic perspective on integrated individual and institutional ethics 10:00-10:30 Coffee break (Building TC, Atrium) 10:30-12:15 Parallel sessions Track E: Performance, Decision Support and Reporting (German) Track F: Change, Diversity and Project Management (English) (Building AD, AD.0.114) 12:15-13:15 Practice Round Table (Building TC, TC.5.27) 13:15-13:30 Summary, feedback and closing address (Building TC, TC.5.27) 13:30 Lunch 15:00-18:00 Vienna Walk (Meeting point: building TC, Atrium) Wednesday, 9 th October 2013 09:00-15:00 Workshops Workshop 1: Systemaufstellungen in der Praxis (German) Workshop 2: Publish or Perish (German) (Building TC, TC.3.08)
Parallel sessions 7 th October 2013 Track A: Systems Thinking (German) Katja Nowak, Universität Leipzig, Institut für Infrastruktur und Ressourcenmanagement: Nachhaltigkeitspolitik aus systemtheoretischer Perspektive Track B: Supply Chain Management (English) Sadaat Ali Yawar, Stefan Seuring, Chair of Supply Chain Management, University of Kassel: Socially Responsible Supplier Development in Dairy Supply Chains in India Nana Karlstetter, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg: Sustainable Transformation of Business Processes Michele Pinelli, Department of Management, Ca Foscari University, Venice: Sustainable development and corporate global strategy: from vertical to horizontal efficiency of production systems Stefan Hielscher, Matthias Will, Till Vennemann, Martin-Luther- Universität Halle-Wittenberg: Mentale Modelle unternehmerischer Nachhaltigkeit Ann Crabbé, Inge Vermeesch, Anne Bergmans, Marc Craps, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences; Structure and agency - Developing an interdisciplinary view on the transition towards sustainable materials management. Helge Löbler, Institut für Service und Relationship Management, Universität Leipzig: The Nature of Service and the Service of Nature using Luhmann s System Theory for an Integrating Perspective Georgina Villarreal Herrera, Rural Sociology Group, Wageningen University: Transformation in the Food System: Sustainability Initiatives in the Conventional Food Supply Chain
Track C: Resilience (English) Marina Beermann, Systain Consulting: Divergence and Convergence in Sustainable Development and Resilient Systems Track D: Human Resources and Leadership (German) Nina Königslehner, Eva Szigetvari, Claudia Brechlmacher, Michael Müller-Camen, WU, Institute for Human Resource Management: Human Rights in Multinational Corporations: An investigation of Human Resource Management s Contribution Ulrike Gelbmann, Romana Rauter, Ulrike Seebacher, Rupert Baumgartner, Universität Graz: A House of Enterprise Resilience to Climate Change Erika Quendler, Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Vienna: A new language: competences, knowledge and skills for SD Julia Hillmann, Dresden Leibniz Graduate School : Empirical research on organisational resilience: How far have we come? Marlen Arnold, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Fakultät für Bildungs- und Sozialwissenschaften: Deutsche Wasserwirtschaftsunternehmen als lernende Organisationen mit Blick auf Nachhaltigkeit Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger, Verena Schuhbeck, WU, Gender and Diversity Management Group: CSR and Diversity Management: Similarities, Differences and Contradictions
Parallel sessions 8 th October 2013 Track E: Performance, Decision Support and Reporting (German) Christoph Trumpp, Thomas W. Günther, TU Dresden, Lehrstuhl für Betriebliches Rechnungswesen und Controlling: Interrelations among Corporate Environmental Performance, Corporate Environmental Disclosure and Corporate Financial Performance Track F: Strategic Management and Change (English) Hanna Schneider, Florentine Maier, Pascal Dey, WU & University of St. Gallen: Everyone a Changemaker - Social Entrepreneurship as new Hegemony? Christine Jasch, Ernst & Young: Will Integrated Reporting lead to Integrated Thinking? Lynn Keeys, SKEMA Business School: SD Strategic Aims in Projects Barnim Jeschke, Nils Mahnke, FOM Hochschule für Ökonomie & Management ggmbh: SUDEST - Decision Support for Sustainable Management Maria Jell, Andre Martinuzzi, WU, Institute for Managing Sustainability: Public CSR Policies and responsible competitiveness Alexandra Sporbert, Christian Härtwig, Kathrin Heinitz, FU Berlin: Zur Realisierung von Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien. Formen der Bewältigung organisationaler Herausforderungen und Zielkonflikte Viktor Kulhavý, Department of Corporate Economy, Masaryk University Brno: Organizational continuous improvement from the perspective of conservation psychology