Achieving a Sustainable Planet: The Transition for Strategic Business Managers, September 27, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. in Emerson Suites A. presented by Professor Ed Stead and Professor Jean Stead of East Tennessee State University
Achieving sustainability will require that business organizations make the transition from strategic environmental management, which focuses on achieving economic, social, and ecological efficiency, to sustainable strategic management which focuses on achieving economic, social, and ecological effectiveness. This transition will require several shifts in the ways organizations think about how they do business. The presenters will examine some of the requisite changes, in how managers view their role and the role of organizations, that must occur for progress to be made toward achieving sustainability. This presentation is based on the research done for their recent book published by M. E. Sharpe entitled Sustainable Strategic Management. Sustainable Strategic Management is their second book. Their earlier book entitled Management for a Small Planet: Strategic Decision Making and the Environment (Sage, 1992 and 1996) received a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award in 1992, and both editions have been used at dozens of universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Background on Speakers
Ed Stead has written extensively for more than 20 years in the fields of social issues in management and organizations and the natural environment. He was a founding member of the Organizations and Natural Environment Interest Group (ONE) of the National Academy of Management and has served as program chair and division chair of ONE. He serves on the editorial review board of Business Strategy and the Environment. For the past five years, he has participated in a number of community sustainability projects in the Southern Appalachian region. He currently serves on the board of directors of Appalachian Sustainable Development, is a member of the Northeast Tennessee Development District's Ozone Action Partnership, and serves as a community sustainability consultant for the Clinch River chapter of the Nature Conservancy.
Jean Stead was a founding member of the Organizations and Natural Environment Interest Group (ONE) of the National Academy of Management and has held several positions in ONE. In 1995, she received East Tennessee State University's faculty award for outstanding teaching. For the past five years, she has been involved in several community sustainability projects in the Southern Appalachian region and she currently serves on the board of directors of Appalachian Sustainable Development, is a member of the Northeast Tennessee Development District's Ozone Action Partnership, and serves on the eco-loan committee of the Clinch River chapter of the Nature Conservancy.
The event is open to the entire campus and local community.
Contributed by Mark Cordano
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