Session Information
AOM 2009 Annual Meeting
Industrial Symbiosis: Collective Action for Sustainable Material and Energy Use
Track : August 9, 2009
Program Code: 451
Date: Sunday, August 9, 2009
Time: 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM  EST
Location: HRC - Grand D North
CHAIR (S):
Jennifer Howard-Grenville, U. of Oregon
Dayna Simpson, Oregon State U.
FACILITATOR (S):
Raymond L. Paquin, Concordia U.
Sara B. Soderstrom, Northwestern U
Brent A McKnight, U. of Western Ontario
PARTICIPANT (S):
John Ehrenfeld, International Society for Industrial Ecology
Marian Chertow, Yale U
Joseph Sarkis, Clark U.
William Hoffman, Chicago Manufacturing Center
Description
The proposed All Academy PDW will bring together scholars from OM, OMT, BPS, ONE, and SIM to define and develop a research agenda around the growing field of Industrial Symbiosis (IS). IS presents an approach to managing waste that involves one firm making productive use of another firm's 'waste' resources. It is a practice of great interest to organizational scholars seeking new models for environmental sustainability as it can both reduce environmental impact and generate new sources of revenue or cost savings for firms. IS demands the development of interfirm relationships that emphasize collaboration, innovation, and the creation of complex networks rather than linear chains. As such, it raises fundamental questions for organizational theorists, operations management scholars, and strategists around issues such as the development of trusting relationships outside traditional supply chains, and the discovery and creation of opportunity in undervalued resources. To date, isolated pockets of research on IS have appeared in the management and operations literature, and elsewhere, with limited attempts to unite the insights of these. Our PDW will bring together scholars with different backgrounds in an interactive setting in order to catalyze and shape future work in this important field. To motivate the discussion, several leading scholars and practitioners who have extensive knowledge and experience of IS will give brief presentations prior to and following the breakout discussion. The format of the PDW is discussed in detail later in this proposal.


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