Robert Sroufe

• Professor
• Falk Chair of Socially Responsible Business at Chatham University

I'm looking for studies on different types of experiential learning, how these activities impact students, and what types of learning have significant impacts on a range of learning outcomes. I'm particularly interested in business students and experiential learning involving aspects of sustainability, but also looking for studies with all kinds of university students, all types of experiential learning, i.e., projects, consulting, study abroad, buildings and campuses as living laboratories, etc., and relationships to learning outcomes.

 I am looking for papers about how external drivers, internal enablers, and performance measurement have already enabled the Integrated Management of sustainability within and across business functions.  I am particularly interested in environmental, social, and governance performance as constructs for more sustainable business practices.  Thank you in advance for any help with this question.

https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Integrated-Management/?k=9781787145627

A resource for Business School Sustainability Courses and curriculum. Endorsed by the CEO of Unilever Paul Polman, John Elkington, Scholars from Harvard, MIT, Boston College, American University, The Aspen Institute, The Living Futures Institute and industry consultants.

This book is an evidence based how-to resource. Faculty and students will find action learning activities and integration exercises in each chapter aimed at making the intangible tangible, while showcasing best practices by top ranked companies.

It’s easy to say sustainability is important, yet not so easy to understand how it is part of the decisions that are made every day and how it cuts across business functions, systems, and supply chains. The information within this book, the application of systems thinking to complex problems, development of a vision and action plan, your own research, and action learning activities are all designed to accelerate management action, value creation, and the goal of a sustainable future.

Each chapter includes applied learning, what’s your Integrated Enterprise (IntEnt) questions, along with templates for a customizable integrated management strategy statement; strategic sustainability assessment; use of the social cost of carbon dioxide in financial decision analysis; and the creation of a vision and action plan for any reader.

I welcome any comments, suggestions for improving the book and can provide a syllabus to use in conjunction with this book. sroufer@duq.edu

Dear Scholars;

Business Expert Press’s focus is on publishing concise, academically sound, applied books aimed at providing supplemental material for advanced undergraduate and MBA business education as well as for the business executive education marketplace, an underserved market segment. These short books (150 pages or less) will be used in executive education, and as supplementary material in undergraduate and MBA programs. They are useful for the professional market. The books will be supplemented, as necessary, with cases, articles, newsletters and simulations, and to this end BEP distributes its books through University Readers, Xanedu and in selected cases Harvard Business Publishing – the leading providers of cases and course packs.

As the collection editors for the Environmental & Social Sustainability for Business Advantage collection, we will review your proposal and offer you feedback on your manuscript prior to making the approval decision. Professional copy editors will also help you with the final manuscript. Business Expert Press employs a quick, 120-day production timeline from start to printed book in-stock.

The collection is envisioned as a comprehensive set of teaching material designed primarily for the needs of executive education programs across functions and disciplines. While Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Environmental Management are a prime focus of the collection, we see core management courses, such as accounting, finance, organizational behavior, strategy, marketing, leadership, and operations as prime targets for the content and spirit of the sustainability-related publications. To meet the needs of such a diverse audience, we have an open call for proposals and invite your submissions for book proposals for the following subject areas: sustainability, sustainable value, shared value, green marketing, change management for sustainability, extended producer responsibility, sustainable measurement/accounting and reporting, entrepreneurship, and sustainable operations. Additional subjects and focus areas, relevant for the overall goals of the collection, will also be considered.

There are several reasons why you might want to consider publishing a book with BEP. You could use such a book in your teaching, both in traditional settings and executive settings. The book could enhance your consulting practice. It will also enhance your vita. Business Expert Press will sell your book both in print and in digital collections to the business school libraries of the world. The library market is large – 7000 libraries globally – and the prices paid for these one-time sales are relatively high when compared to one-time, direct-to-consumer sales. Thus they yield good royalty potential.

Converting your expertise into a short focused book for the business education market will be a valuable contribution. If you have an idea for a book that would fit this business model, please contact us via email. We look forward to discussing this opportunity with you.

Collection Editor

sroufer@duq.edu

Rob Zwettler, BEP

Acquisitions Editor

rob.zwettler@businessexpertpress.com

Paul Shrivastavaa, Klaus-Peter Schulzb*, Kamel Mnisric, Robert Sroufe

a Pennsylvania State University, Sustainability Institute, Smeal College of Business State College, PA, paul.shri@gmail.com

b ICN Business School, Metz, France, *corresponding guest-editor: kpschulz@icn-groupe.fr,

c ICN Business School, Nancy, France, kamel.mnisri@icn-groupe.fr

d Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, sroufer@duq.edu

Past and present researches on creativity and sustainability have demonstrated that the topic is not restricted to certain fields and could be approached from cross-disciplinary perspectives. The objective of this special issue is to create a discursive space among academics, professionals and doctoral students in areas such as engineering, arts, sociology, education and management to tackle the relation between sustainable development and creativity in its different dimensions.

The perception of an impending environmental crisis, different war situations with subsequent refugee streams, difficult access to education in various parts of the world, resources shortage, all are just some examples of the challenges people, organizations and societies have to overcome. Faced with these challenges, societies, economic systems and organizations need to respond and adapt. It is fundamental to learn how to preserve and responsibly utilize social, financial and natural resources. Creative eco-efficiencies, social and organizational innovations would allow them to cope with different risks and challenges of the environment. Regardless of the sector and the industry, organizations, communities and societies as a whole must rethink their strategies and approaches to coping with the challenge of sustainable development.

Sustainable development demands have recently been addressed from a creativity perspective, particularly in a special issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production (e.g.: Cucuzzella, 2016; Gómez-Bezares et al., 2016; Schulz et al., 2017; Shrivastava, 2014). Literature, music, and fine-arts have been articulated with management and technological tools and instruments to address the organisational demands emerging from financial, social and ecological constraints. A variety of models have been developed to address comprehensive views on creativity (e.g. Amabile, 1988; Sternberg and Lubart, 1991; Woodman et al., 1993; Amabile and Kramer, 2011). These models put forward processes of exploring the realm of creativity and show paths towards how creativity can nurture sustainable development. Based on these research outcomes, the 2017 special issue in the Journal of Cleaner Production and the encounters of the ARTEM OCC conference 2017 on Organizational Creativity and Sustainability, we would like to continue and deepen the discussion on how sustainable development can be facilitated and fostered by the creativity of individuals, groups and organizations.

Diving into the relationship between creativity and sustainable development, some scholars (e.g. Levent, 2011; Stables, 2009) propose that creativity is necessary for sustainable development and the need for promoting sustainable development pillars may be a trigger to creativity. However it is often without providing conceptual solutions on how they can be interrelated. This may be better explained through the disciplinary origins and an ontological diversity of the concepts. Creativity is often assigned to arts or psychology (e.g. Berthoin Antal & Strauß, 2014; Shrivastava et al., 2012; Erez & Nouri, 2010; Rickards et al., 2008; Shalley et al., 2004) seen as a characteristic or capability of individuals, groups or even organizations. The origins of sustainability can mainly be attributed to ecology and culture (e.g. Hilgenkamp, 2006; Meadows et al. 1972), and adopted consequently within technological and societal spheres. Hence from an ontological view two different perception levels have to be connected when searching for interrelations of the two concepts.

This call for papers aim is to approach the topics of creativity and sustainability from different disciplinary and thematic perspectives in theory and practice, and in alternative ways. We therefore welcome disruptive, controversial and non-traditional approaches that challenge mainstream perspectives on management and organization and the subsumed manner these can solve environmental, social, and economic problems. From our point of view we would like to raise two central questions that remain open when addressing how creativity relates to sustainable development:

1. How are creativity and sustainable development interrelated from a conceptual perspective?

And:

2. What perspectives, concepts and methods drive the relationship between creativity and sustainable development?

By asking these two questions, we are not exclusively interested in dialectic models. Different perspectives and empirical examples that represent the mutual influence and dependency between the two concepts, and inherent to provide an initial pattern on how to facilitate the dialectic process can also be seen as an orientation for further research. The editorial team welcomes conceptual, review or methodological contributions as well as empirical case studies. The editorial team’s intention therefore is to provide a discursive frame where authors bring their different perspectives to addressing the concepts of organizational creativity and sustainable development. We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions that investigate the following areas:

However other contributions addressing perspectives, concepts, methods and empirical examples of creativity and sustainable development would also be considered.

- Submission deadline: Authors will be expected to submit their ‘peer-review ready’ full papers to Elsevier via the EES system latest by 31st May 2018.

- Reviewing process: Peer review/paper revision process will be performed from January 2018 to September 2018.

- Final revisions: Authors will receive final feedback by end of August 2018 and are asked to submit their finalized paper by 31st of October 2018.

- Publishing date: The virtual Special Issue is expected to be published by the end of December 2018.

Authors are invited to submit their theoretical or empirical papers of a length between 7,000 and 8,500 words to the Elsevier’s EES system. Papers must be written in quality English. Authors with limitations of written English are recommended to have their papers edited by a native English science editor before the submission. All authors must follow the editorial guidelines provided in the instructions for authors for the Journal of Cleaner Production, which can be accessed via the website: http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-ofcleaner-production/0959-6526/guide-for-authors. Authors should submit their manuscripts in MSWord via the Elsevier Editorial System http://ees.elsevier.com/jclepro/ EES site for the Journal, selecting the Special Issue ‘SD creative approaches’.

By submitting a manuscript, the author(s) must certify that the contribution is original and has not been published or is not under consideration for publication elsewhere and that no part of the material breaches the copyrights of others. All articles will be first evaluated by the editors of this SV to ensure suitability with the scope of both the SV and of the JCLP. After the first screening, suitable papers will be submitted to a blind, peer review process according to the standards of the JCLP. The review/revision process may need to be repeated several times for some articles to ensure that all authors or author teams achieve top quality manuscripts.

I want to better understand the literature on how and why decision makers have included buildings, how they are constructed, how efficient they are, or how green they are, within any level of analysis (strategic, tactical, or operational) the field of Operations Management. Thank you in advance for your help toward this matter.

Integration can be found in examples such as integrated supply chains, integrated design for buildings, and the integration of IS/IT within an enterprise.  I am looking for papers about how integration is measured and used as a construct when evaluating the integration of a new paradigm within or across different business functions.  A new paradigm for this application of integration I am particularly interested in is sustainability.  Thank you in advance for any help toward this matter.