Academy of International Business Sustainability Shared Interest Group

Dear all, Welcome to AIB’s Knowledge-Sharing Network for Sustainability Scholarship! The Academy of International Business (AIB) Sustainability Shared Interest Group (SIG) is a network of scholars dedicated to exchanging knowledge across the wide range of academic subfields related to international business, creating greater connectivity around issues of sustainability, and informing current IB theories, practices, and policies. You can find more information about the AIB Sustainability SIG at our website: https://lnkd.in/gX-QttaA Our leaders and Co-Chairs - John Dilyard and Shasha Zhao, are responsible for all Shared Interest Group functions, including member outreach, event coordination, and financial management. You can read more about them here: https://lnkd.in/g_DgHpsZ The AIB Sustainability SIG Working Committee consists of 11 Officers: - Communications Officers (Sarah Ku, Hinrich Voss, and Maria Ilieva); - Engagement Officers (Sandra Seno-Alday, Marina Schmitz, and HaiTao Yu (he/him); - Finance & Administration Officers (Marc Oberhauser, Christian Keen, PhD, and Inés Villafana); - Events & Webinar Officers (Glenn Muschert, and Martin Heinberg). You can find out more about them here: https://lnkd.in/gp2QxZfu You can find the latest News about the AIB Sustainability SIG here: https://lnkd.in/gnrW3n2K Please, feel free to contact us, if you have any comments or questions: https://lnkd.in/gUJGRRpy We are looking forward to working with you! AIB Sustainability SIG Team! #aibsustainabilitysig

🌐 I'm very grateful for having had the chance to attend the 13th United Nations Forum on Business and #HumanRights in #Geneva over the past few days. 🙏 Many thanks to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights for bringing together so many distinguished speakers and curating a fantastic program. A special thanks to Fernanda, Lyra, and Robert for being so welcoming to me as a first-time attendee. 💬 I'm looking forward to continuing these important conversations and participating in future #UNForumBHR events to keep the dialogue alive! #BizHumanRights #ESCP

AIB Sustainability SIG @ COP29 Azerbaijan: Pervez N. Ghauri and Shasha Zhao represented AIB Sustainability SIG at COP29 Azerbaijan. They promoted the SIG and Academy of International Business (AIB) by highlighting the extensive impactful research the community has been conducted. Along with Sung-Ah K. of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Bilha Ndirangu of Great Carbon Valley, Nadia Paleari of UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Emily Barran of Climate Action Platform for Africa (CAP-A), and Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, PhD of UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), they spoke about actionable plans to make international trade an important vehicle for achieving climate positive growth. The Sustainability SIG will continue to promote sustainable international business research that leads to impact on business and policies. Please reach out to us if you would like to explore opportunities to collaborate.

Dear AIB community, this is a final call! 🏆

First Call for Nominations: 2025 AIB Sustainability SIG Awards The Academy of International Business Sustainability Shared Interest Group is delighted to invite nominations for the inaugural AIB Sustainability SIG Awards.  We invite nominations for the following three categories:  • Sustainability SIG Research Award  • Sustainability SIG Educator Award  • Sustainability SIG UNCTAD Impact Award Submission Guidelines  • What to submit: A nomination statement outlining the nominee’s eligibility criteria and impact (maximum 3 pages); supporting evidence (for example, a copy of the nominee’s published work in the case of Research Award nominations)  • Self-nominations are accepted • How to submit: Send your nominations in one single PDF document via email to sustainabilitysig@aib.world, with the subject “[Research/Educator/Impact] Award” Key Dates  • Submission deadline: November 30, 2024  • Winners informed: End of March 2025  • Announcement: AIB Annual Conference 2025 Recipients will be recognized at one of the SIG events during 2025 AIB Annual Conference. Academy of International Business (AIB) UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Shasha Zhao John Dilyard Hinrich Voss Martin Heinberg Marc Oberhauser Sandra Seno-Alday Maria Ilieva

Other SIGs might "work hard and party hard", the Academy of International Business Sustainability Shared Interest Group held "board meetings" for three days in a row at the #AIB2024Seoul. Stay tuned for for more information how to join as a regional representative the SIG that has most fun working together! Shasha Zhao @John Dilyard Hinrich Voss Martin Heinberg Marc Oberhauser Sandra Seno-Alday Marina Schmitz Maria Ilieva Matt (Matevž) Raskovic

The Academy of International Business Sustainability Shared Interest Group hosted a social networking event at #AIB2024 conference is Seoul, South Korea sponsored by the International Business Department at Leeds University Business School, UK. The event took place at Platinum Launch Bar at the official conference hotel Lotte on 4th July 2024 from 07:00 pm to midnight. It was open for all conference delegates but it needed preliminary registration. The 40 attendees limit was filled in very quickly and some of the conference delegates joined us later in the evening which resulted in 60-70 people in total attending the social networking event. They all enjoyed a variety of cheeses, snacks, fruits, and beverages of their preference. Many of them expressed gratitude on the next day for the warm atmosphere, and they said that the event had such a pleasant spirit that it exceeded their expectations. They also asked for the same social networking event to be organized again next year. They said that they liked most that the SIG representatives went around all the tables and talked to everybody, so that nobody felt left behind. We would like to especially thank to our sponsor the International Business Department, Leeds University Business School, UK and to the Deputy Dean Professor Niall Hayes and the Head of IB Department Prof Mohammad Faisal Ahammad for approving and supporting it. Leeds University Business School was highlighted as one of the conference sponsors during the opening and closing ceremonies. Once again special thanks to the conference organizers Tunga Kiyak and Ieva Kule, CMP, CTA and the whole Academy of International Business (AIB) team, also Jasper Minton-Taylor manager of the IB department admin team for the full support during the preparation and organizing of the event. Thank you everyone for joining us! We are looking forward to seeing you again at future events! Shasha Zhao Matt (Matevž) Raskovic Hinrich Voss Martin Heinberg Marc Oberhauser Sandra Seno-Alday Marina Schmitz David H. Yoon Maria Ilieva Sarah Ku Marina Papanastassiou David Schulzmann Elizabeth Yi Wang Caifei C. Meng Song Luis Alfonso Dau Ausrine Silenskyte Immanuel Azaad Moonesar Ph.D., R.D. Everyone who is not tagged here, please tag yourselves in the comments.

📣 Call for Papers - Special Issue on: Twin Transformation: Understanding the Nature and Combination of Digital and Sustainability Transformation in the International Journal of Innovation Management (IJIM). 🌎 Sustainability and digitalisation are two current and relevant topics that play a significant role in science, practice, politics, and society. In this regard, the interplay of digitalisation and sustainability opens up promising possibilities for shaping a more sustainable economy and society, paving the way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted within the framework of the United Nations Agenda 2030. 💻 🌳 The special issue calls for submissions of theoretical, conceptual, and empirical papers as well as studies that tackle the challenges, threats and opportunities presented by Twin Transformation, i.e., simultaneous consideration of sustainable management and digital transformation. We invite contributions that delve into state-of-the-art in literature, case studies, empirical analysis, approaches, and tools offering insights into the phenomena of Twin Transformation, encompassing both digital and sustainability transformations. 🔎 Find more information in the CfP. The submission deadline is 15th September, 2024. 🙏 Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Daniel Schallmo Jens Kolb Tassilo Schuster Nicky Athanassopoulou Dr. Anastasios Sepetis #twintransformation #sustainability #digitalisation #innovationmanagement #callforpapers https://lnkd.in/d2MM-8FZ

What great engagement we had at the Sustainability SIG Café 2: Sustainability Impact on 5th July 2024 led by Hinrich Voss, University of Bristol and Martin Heinberg, University of Leeds! The participants discussed different institutional set-ups to capture sustainability impact across different countries and understand how this translates into IB research. We brainstormed how our scope of sustainability impact pathways can be broadened beyond firms and policy makers, overlooking potential effects on communities, health, the environment, quality of life, etc.  This café was a nice a platform to explore if the impact achieved in one research project could be transferable to other contexts/countries. I hope that this may be a start of future research projects and collaborations and achieving greater societal impact than originally anticipated. Academy of International Business Sustainability Shared Interest Group Academy of International Business (AIB) #AIB2024Seoul Shasha Zhao Maria Ilieva Sandra Seno-Alday

What great exchange of ideas we had at the Sustainability SIG Café 1: Embedding Sustainability in International Business Education: a Research Agenda on July 4th, 2024! The Café Facilitators Sandra Seno-Alday, University of Sydney and Maria Ilieva, University of Leeds started the session with interactive discussions on challenges and opportunities to embed sustainability in international business education. Most of the participants were using sustainability is some of their lectures for various modules they were teaching and were using different approaches according to the number of students they had in a class. We exchanged various ideas of diverse topics including how to use AI in the classroom and in assessments, how to teach responsible business and gambling to future casino managers, and many others. The session then introduced opportunities to develop papers for the Academy of International Business Sustainability Shared Interest Group and AIB Teaching & Education Special Interest Group special issue on Preparing Leaders to Tackle Grand Challenges in the Journal of Management Education (JME). Focusing on the aims of the special issue, the short workshop discussed ways to develop an academic journal article for JME but applicable to management education journals in general. Academy of International Business Sustainability Shared Interest Group Academy of International Business (AIB) #AIB2024Seoul Shasha Zhao Hinrich Voss Sarah Ku Amanda Budde-Sung Jennifer S. A. Leigh Martin Heinberg Marc Oberhauser Marina Schmitz