Below is a brief presentation I made today at the 2017 Global B Corp Academic Community Roundtable at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management. The Roundtable was held on October 4-5 in parallel with the 2017 B Corp Champions Retreat.
Category Archives: Talks
Positively Deviant Social Entrepreneurs
Today I presented the latest version of our research on woman-owned businesses and sustainability certifications at the 2017 Global B Corp Academic Community Roundtable. The paper is co-authored with Matthew G. Grimes (Indiana University) and Ke Cao (University of Alberta) and has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Business Venturing as part of a special issue on “Enterprise Before and Beyond Benefit: A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for Prosocial Organizing.” The special issue is being edited by Oana Branzei (Ivey Business School), Ed Gamble (Montana State University), Peter Moroz (University of Regina), and Simon Parker (Ivey Business School).
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Broken Paths or Path Breaking Failures?
On Thursday, I presented some of my latest research — “Legitimation Spillovers and Piggybacking: How Distributed Successes and Failures Move Market Categories” — at the West Coast Research Symposium on Technology Entrepreneurship. Co-authored with J.-F. Soublière, the paper develops and tests a set of novel theoretical predictions about the role of prior successes and failures on the legitimation of new ideas and products (i.e., the extent to which they garner the attention and support of key audiences).
Pathbreaking failures – JF & @joelgehman highlight an important interaction between individual failure & community success #wcrs2017 pic.twitter.com/IAgK7hC2WH
— Madeline Toubiana (@drtoubiana) August 31, 2017
The Business-Society Interface
This afternoon I had an opportunity to give a talk — “The Business-Society Interface: Meeting the Challenges of Sustainability, Social License to Operate, and Innovation” — to a group of oil and gas executives visiting the University of Alberta from India. The talk covered topics such as sustainability, ESG ratings, and fossil fuel divestment, while also drawing on ideas which originated in two of my published articles: Metatheoretical Perspectives on Sustainability Journeys and Social License to Operate.
Research Prospects at the Intersection of Robust Action Strategies and Power
On August 7, I gave a talk at the 2017 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2017, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA as part of a symposium on “Addressing Grand Challenges with Institutional Research: The Critical Role of Power.” My talk was entitled: “Tackling Grand Challenges: Research Prospects at the Intersection of Robust Action Strategies and Power.” The slides of my talk are accessible through SlideShare below.
What Does Sustainability Mean for Business?
Today, I gave a luncheon talk on sustainability and finance to the Association for Financial Professionals – Edmonton Chapter.
Theory-Method Packages Showcase Symposium
The video below was recorded during a Showcase Symposium held at the 2016 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California. The event was organized by Joel Gehman and Vern L. Glaser (both from the University of Alberta). Speakers included Kathleen M. Eisenhardt (Stanford University), Dennis A. Gioia (Pennsylvania State University), Ann Langley (HEC Montréal), and Kevin G. Corley (Arizona State University).
The Effectiveness of Fracking Disclosure Regimes in Canada
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s Imaging Canada’s Future Initiative
Today, at the Imagining Canada’s Future Forum, we presented a summary of our research project: From availability to accessibility: effectively using information disclosure to govern energy production. The invitation-only event was held at the University of Calgary and featured presentations from 21 researchers funded in November 2015 through Knowledge Synthesis Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada as part of its Imaging Canada’s Future initiative.
A Postcard from a Research Project
On November 4, I gave a talk at Open Minds 2015. The Office of the Vice President of Research was kind enough to send me a copy of the video. Enjoy!
The slides I presented are available here.
Sustainability Journeys
Today, I presented a version of our forthcoming paper entitled “Metatheoretical Perspectives on Sustainability Journeys: Evolutionary, Relational and Durational” at the 2011 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in San Antonio (USA). Earlier versions of this research were presented at the Industry Studies Association Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh (USA) and the European Group for Organization Studies Colloquium in Gothenburg (Sweden).