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SUSTAINABILITY
2015 SEE CONFERENCE
PROGRAM (Overview
ETHICS
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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APRIL 30—MAY 1, 2015 /UNIVERSITY OF DENVER /DENVER, COLORADO
/THURSDAY, APRIL 30
22PM—2:00PM
LIGHTNING PRESENTATION SESSION #1
1:00
(Groups 1 & 2) - Joy Burns Center
TAKE OFF THE BLINDERS: VIEWING SUSTAINABILITY FOR THE LONG TERM - ROOM 229
SESSION CHAIR: AMY GUERBER, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
Sustainability: Is a Dematerialized Economy the Answer?
Steven Hinson, Webster University
Business Sustainability in Entrepreneurial Firms: Examining the Signaling Impact of Virtue and
Temporality on Market Performance
G. Tyge Payne, Texas Tech University; Curt Moore, West Virginia University; Miles Zachary, West
Virginia University & Keith Brigham, Texas Tech University
Enhancing the Sustainability Narrative: Conceptualizations from Thermodynamics and Ecology
Manjula Salimath, University of North Texas & Vallari Chandna, University of North Texas
IT’S COMPLICATED: RECOGNIZING RELATIONSHIPS AMONG STAKEHOLDERS,
INSTITUTIONS, AND SOCIETY— ROOM 231
SESSION CHAIR: PAUL SEABORN, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
Firm “Kingmaking" as an NGO Strategy to Achieve a Transformational Partnership in an Industry Sector
Roland Kidwell, University of Wyoming; Rhoda Davidson, University of Wyoming & Corey
Billington, University of Wyoming
Does Entrepreneurial Society Undermine Corporate Social Responsibility? An Empirical Investigation
of Institutional Setting
Hessam Sarooghi, University of Missouri-Kansas City & Niloofar Abolfathi, Bocconi University
Entrepreneurship in Contested Industries: The Case of the Marijuana Industry
Dara Szyliowicz, University of the Pacific & Tammy Madsen, Santa Clara University
Standing on Its Head: Using Institutional Entrepreneurship Theory to Facilitate Change
Craig VanSandt, University of Northern Iowa
2:00PM—2:15PM
Break
2:15PM—3:15PM
LIGHTNING PRESENTATION SESSION #2 (Group 1) - Joy Burns Center
SHOW US THE MONEY: HOW TO GET IT, KEEP IT, AND GROW IT—ROOM 229
SESSION CHAIR: JOE COOPER, UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
Value and Valuation for a Sustainable Approach to Finance
Scott Fullwiler, Presidio Graduate School; Vanessa Fry, Boise State University & Steven Crane,
Presidio Graduate School
Do Constraints from Socially Responsible Investing Impact an Investment Manager’s Discretion?
John Hughen, University of Denver
When the crowd gives credit: The ethics of debt-based crowdfunding
Claire Ingram, Stockholm School of Economics & Michel Elmoznino Laufer, Stockholm School of
Economics
Who Is Manning the Gates? Gatekeepers and Crowdfunding
R. Scott Livengood, The Ohio State University & Claire Ingram, Stockholm School of Economics
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2:15PM—3:15PM
LIGHTNING PRESENTATION SESSION #2 (Group 2) - Joy Burns Center
CHANGE THE DISCUSSION: RESPONDING TO STAKEHOLDER CONCERNS AND MEASURING
RETURNS—ROOM 231
SESSION CHAIR: SAMANTHA CONROY, COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
Escaping Unscathed: The Varying Treatment of Firm Misconduct by Markets and Civil Society
Jocelyn Leitzinger, University of Michigan & Ivana Katic, Columbia University
Animating Stakeholder Engagement Processes: Lessons from the Ceres-Nike Corporate Responsibility
Reporting Process
Amanda Moss Cowan, University of Oxford; Doug Creed & Marc Ventresca, University of Oxford
Principals vs. Principles: How Environmentally and Ethically Responsible are Firm Managers?
Ralf Steinhauser, University of Hamburg
Toward a New ROI: Measuring Intangible Entrepreneurial Returns on Investment
Mellani Day, Colorado Christian University & Mary Boardman, Globalytica, LLC
3:15PM—3:30PM
Break
3:30PM—5:00PM
PANEL DISCUSSION - Joy Burns Center - ROOM 229
THE CANNABIS CONUNDRUM: PERSPECTIVES ON COLORADO’S “GROWING” INDUSTRY
FACILITATOR: ROLAND KIDWELL, UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
PANELISTS:
Skyler McKinley, Deputy Director of Marijuana Coordination for the State of Colorado, Office of the
Governor John Hickenlooper
Michael Elliott, Executive Director of the Marijuana Industry Group
Don Childears, President and CEO of the Colorado Bankers Association
David Spitz, Chief Executive Officer of Kind Love
Diane Carlson, Co-Founder of Smart Colorado
5:00PM—6:30PM
RECEPTION & INTERACTIVE POSTER SESSION - Joy Burns Center, Atrium
Anita Bhappu, University of Arizona
Sharing Tribes: Using Collaborative Consumption to Engage Millennial Employees
Silvia Dorado, University of Rhode Island; Alex Nicholls, Said Business School, Oxford University &
Bogdan Prokopovych, Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research
Marketized, Activist, and Brokered Market Social Orders
Michael Elmes Worcester Polytechnic Institute & Karla Mendoza-Abarca, Worcester Polytechnic
Institute
From "Pounds Delivered” to “Shortening the Line”: Food Bank Leaders in the U.S. as Ethical
Sensemakers and Social Innovators
Amy Guerber, University of Alberta & Samantha Conroy, Colorado State University
Is Information Enough? An Investigation of the Effects of Executive Pay Disclosure on Future Pay
Practices
Chanhyo Jeong, University of Oregon
No Chaos, No Creation – The Role of Physical Environment for Entrepreneurs
Kip Kiefer, U.S. Air Force Academy
Predicting and Examining Links between IPO Hype, Managerial Expectations, and Firm Outcomes
Jaemin Kim, Richard Stockton College & Clay Dibrell, University of Mississippi
Attributes of Environmental Disaster & TMT Attention to Natural Environmental Issues
Cristina Martinez, IE Business School & Peter Bryant, IE Business School, Madrid
Value Experience and Persistence: A Regulatory Engagement Perspective on what Keeps Social
Entrepreneurs Engaged over Time
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5:00PM—6:30PM
RECEPTION & INTERACTIVE POSTER SESSION - Joy Burns Center, Atrium
Sid Saleh, University of Colorado-Boulder; Maw Der Foo, University of Colorado-Boulder & David
Hekman, University of Colorado-Boulder
Mentor or Tormentor: Understanding How Mentors Impact Entrepreneurs’ Performance Using a
Creativity Perspective
Chris Sutter, Miami University; Justin Webb, University of North Carolina-Charlotte & Geoff
Kistruck, York University
Changing the Cassette: Exploring Institutional Field Change Among Nicaraguan Dairy Farmers
Isaac Wanasika, University of Northern Colorado & Abe Harraf, University of Northern Colorado
Big Pharma and BOP Markets: An Entrepreneurial Approach
Nathan Woolard, Emporia State University
Beyond the Investment: The Social and Communal Impact of a Localized Microlending Project
6:30PM—7:15PM
DINNER - Joy Burns Center, Main Dining Room
7:15PM—7:30PM
WELCOME - BRENT CHRITE—Dean, Daniels College of Business, University of
Denver
INTRODUCTION - LYNN SCHOFIELD CLARK—Department Chair and Professor,
Department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies, University of Denver
7:30PM—8:15PM
KEYNOTE SPEAKER — RIVA FROYMOVICH— Author of End of the Good Life: How
The Financial Crisis Threatens a Lost Generation—and What We Can Do About It
Sponsored by: The Morton Margolin Distinguished Journalism Lectureship Endowed Fund &
Department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies-University of Denver
8:30PM
Shuttle Departs to Hotel
End of Day One
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/FRIDAY, MAY 1
6:00AM—7:00AM
YOGA at the Hilton Garden Inn Denver, Cherry Creek
7:30AM—8:15AM
BREAKFAST - Joy Burns Center, Main Dining Room
8:15AM—8:30AM
OPENING WELCOME & INTRODUCTION — ROLAND KIDWELL, Chair of the
Department of Management and Marketing in the College of Business,
University of Wyoming
8:30AM—9:15AM
KEYNOTE SPEAKER – MICHAEL RUSSO - Lundquist Professor of Sustainable
Management at the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon
9:15AM—9:30AM
Break
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9:30AM—10:45AM
PARALLEL SESSION #1 (Groups 1 & 2)
CHASING THE LIGHT: CHALLENGES TO BEING “GOOD” - ROOM 229
SESSION CHAIR: FRANCES AMATUCCI, SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Moral Communities as Antidotes to Moral Deafness and Blindness
Nino Antadze, University of Waterloo; Oana Branzei, Richard Ivey School of Business,
University of Western Ontario & Haiying Lin, University of Waterloo
When Organizational Form Influences Ethics: Intrafirm Co-opetition in Hybrid Organization
Peter Gianiodis, Clemson University & Jill Brown, Bentley University
Do Organizations Light a Candle and Hide It Under a Bushel? The Strategic Publication of
Certification Status
Chad Carlos, Brigham Young University & Ben Lewis, Brigham Young University
BREATHING BETTER: LESSONS IN REDUCING CO2 - ROOM 231
SESSION CHAIR: MATTHEW GRIMES, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
Authenticity in CO2 Reductions: the Impact of Women Directors
Elizabeth Cooperman, University of Colorado-Denver; John Byrd, University of Colorado-Denver
& Ken Bettenhausen, University of Colorado-Denver
Spillover Effects of Institutional Entrepreneurship: Observations from the Global Carbon Offset
Industry (Best Paper Contender)
Hans Rawhouser, University of Nevada-Las Vegas & Michael Cummings, University of NevadaLas Vegas
Gains, Large and Small Through Industrial Symbiosis
Suzanne Tilleman, University of Montana; Raymond Paquin, Concordia University & Jennifer
Howard-Grenville, University of Oregon
10:45AM—11:00AM
Break
11:00AM—12:15PM
PARALLEL SESSION #2 (Groups 1 & 2)
JUGGLING ACT: MANAGING RISK, REDUCING UNCERTAINTY, AND SUCCESSFULLY
DEPLOYING RESOURCES - ROOM 229
SESSION CHAIR: CHARLIE STEVENS, LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
Stuck in the Middle: Corporate Innovation and Environmental Performance
Jegoo Lee, Stonehill College & Sang-Joon Kim, University of California-Irvine
Firm Strategies for the Development of Environmental Technology Capabilities
Alfred Marcus, University of Minnesota & Joel Malen, Hitotsubashi University
Sustainability Commitment in IPO Firms: The Role of Board Capital
Krista Lewellyn, University of Wyoming
CREATING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: LESSONS FROM EMERGING GREEN INDUSTRIES
ROOM 231
SESSION CHAIR: DESIREE PACHECO, PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
Insider-Driven Change in Fields of Practice: Exploring the Case of Green Chemistry
(Best Paper Contender)
Andrew Nelson, University of Oregon; Jennifer Howard-Grenville, University of Oregon; Andrew
Earle, University of New Hampshire; Julie Haack, University of Oregon & Doug Young, Lane
Community College
Cultivating an Industry Identity: The Agency and Influence of Stakeholders in Colorado’s Emerging
Cannabusiness
Aimee Hamilton, University of Denver & Paul Seaborn, University of Denver
Cleantech Clusters and Firm Performance: Evidence from Young Private U.S. Firms
Y. Lisa Zhao, University of Missouri-Kansas City & Sanwar Sunny, University of Missouri-Kansas
City
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12:15PM—1:00PM
LUNCH - Anderson Academic Commons
12:450PM—1:00PM
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION– MINDEE FORMAN—Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation
1:00PM—1:45PM
KEYNOTE SPEAKER - ANDREW WICKS - Ruffin Professor of Business
1:45PM—2:00PM
Break
2:00PM—3:15PM
PARALLEL SESSION #3 (Groups 1 & 2)
Administration at Darden School of Business and Director of the Olsson Center for
Applied Ethics at the University of Virginia
LEARNING 2 B: COMBINING SOCIAL WELFARE WITH COMMERCIAL LOGIC - ROOM 229
SESSION CHAIR: ABE HARRAF, UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO
How Social Hybridity Can Be Sustained From the Ground
Laura Claus, University of Cambridge
Hybrid Social Enterprise and the Problem of Identity Correspondence
Michael Conger, Miami University; Jeff York, University of Colorado-Boulder & Jeffery
McMullen, Indiana University
50$, a Laptop, and a Client – The Start to How Impact Makers Has Become a Business Working to
Better Their Community
Joseph Sprangel, Mary Baldwin College & Amanda Slemaker, Mary Baldwin College
DEFINING ENTREPRENEURIAL ADVANTAGES: BUNDLING RESOURCES AND LEVERAGING
COMMUNITIES - ROOM 231
SESSION CHAIR: MELISSA AKAKA, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
Community-Building Strategies: The Role of Non-Pecuniary Incentives, Rewards, and Exchanges
Christina Kyprianou, University of Texas-Austin
Two Purposes are Better Than One: The Ambidextrous Creation of Economic and Social Value
Krista Lewellyn, University of Wyoming
Towards Understanding Community-based Enterprise Performance in Resource Constrained
Environments (Best Paper Contender)
Kiven Pierre, Syracuse University; Tom Lumpkin, Syracuse University & Todd Moss, Syracuse
University
3:15PM—3:30PM
Break
3:30PM—4:45PM
PARALLEL SESSION #4 (Group 1)
ENERGY CONVERSION: INVESTIGATING THE ROLES OF COMMUNITY AND GOVERNMENT
ROOM 229
SESSION CHAIR: RICHARD HARRISON, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Shine on me: Firm density, social movement support, and government endorsement of the solar
photovoltaic industry (Best Paper Contender)
Panayiotis Georgallis, University of Michigan; Glen Dowell, Cornell University & Rodolphe
Durand, HEC Paris
Do I put solar panels on my roof if my neighbors can see them? Uniqueness and conformity as
drivers of individual technology adoption
Jörg Claussen, Copenhagen Business School & Anders Ørding Olsen, Copenhagen Business
School
Organizational Responses to Public and Private Politics: An Analysis of Climate Change Activists
and U.S. Oil and Gas Firms
Jake Grandy, University of Southern California; Shon Hiatt, University of Southern California &
Brandon Lee, Melbourne Business School
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3:30PM—4:45PM
PARALLEL SESSION #4 (Group 2)
SHIFTING BOUNDARIES: ATTAINING LEGITIMACY AND CREATING VALUE FROM NEW
PRODUCTS AND CATEGORIES - ROOM 231
SESSION CHAIR: SHARON ALVAREZ, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
Market Mediators and the Tradeoffs of Legitimacy-Seeking Behaviors in a Nascent Category
(Best Paper Contender)
Brandon Lee, Melbourne Business School; Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta & Shon
Hiatt, University of Southern California
Institutionalizing Fair Trade: A Rhetorical Analysis of New Market Category Creation
Bob Doherty, University of York; Helen Haugh, University of Cambridge & Benjamin
Huybrechts, HEC, University of Liege.
Entrepreneurial Round Tripping: Contributing to Sustainability through Multi-Directional Value
Creation
Richard Hunt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & Lauren Ortiz-Hunt, Center for Innovation and
Entrepreneurship-Virginia Polytechnic Institute
4:45PM—5:00PM
5:00PM—6:30PM
Break
AWARDS CEREMONY & CLOSING RECEPTION - Joy Burns Center, Atrium
Sponsored by the University of Denver
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Lightning Presentations
SUSTAINABILITY
ETHICS
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
APRIL 30—MAY 1, 2015 /UNIVERSITY OF DENVER /DENVER, COLORADO
/THURSDAY, APRIL 30
Lightning SESSION #1– GROUP 1 - Joy Burns Center, Room 229 - 1:00PM—2:00PM
TAKE OFF THE BLINDERS: VIEWING SUSTAINABILITY FOR THE LONG TERM
SESSION CHAIR: AMY GUERBER, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
Sustainability: Is a Dematerialized Economy the Answer?
Steven Hinson, Webster University
It now seems evident that the global economy has overshot the ecological carrying capacity of the planet. Yet there
remains some difference of opinion as to whether this necessitates limits on economic growth. This paper critiques
the ‘weak’ sustainability argument that the substitution of human-made capital and technology for natural capital
allows for potentially unlimited growth. Yet the need for continued growth is real. One possible answer put forward
is the dematerialization of economic activity. This paper discusses the potential weaknesses of the dematerialization
argument but acknowledges that this may yet be the best way forward.
Business Sustainability in Entrepreneurial Firms: Examining the Signaling Impact of Virtue and
Temporality on Market Performance
G. Tyge Payne, Texas Tech University; Curt Moore, West Virginia University; Miles Zachary, West Virginia University &
Keith Brigham, Texas Tech University
Business sustainability is the ability to virtuously manage a business such that short-term demands can be addressed without compromising the future of the business, its stakeholders, or society. As such, two key dimensions of business sustainability must be considered from an organizational level of analysis: temporality and virtue. In this manuscript, we
conceptually develop these dimensions and empirically examine their ability – as independent and combined signals
of business sustainability – to influence the market performance of entrepreneurial firms. Our findings, based on a
longitudinal sample of 236 IPO firms, support our main hypothesis regarding the effect of sustainability on performance. Hypotheses on the differential influences of each dimension and curvilinear effects of business sustainability
are also supported.
Enhancing the Sustainability Narrative: Conceptualizations from Thermodynamics and Ecology
Manjula Salimath, University of North Texas & Vallari Chandna, University of North Texas
Constant growth fueled by endless consumption, production and waste harms the ecosystem’s ability to regenerate
natural resources and creates areas of excesses and voids. In this paper, we present two key vocabularies: entropy and
metabolic rift to add to the dialog of sustainability. We provide relevant arguments from Georgescu-Roegen, Marx,
Foster, Moore and other scholars that provide a sound rationale for advancing the current work in sustainability using the underlying fundamentals of systems theory and natural-resource based theory. In our search for additional
conceptualizations, we were encouraged by the deep thinking of earlier scholars who were able to bridge the domains
of ecology and thermodynamics to render a holistic perspective that we believe provides value and informs future understanding of sustainability.
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Lightning SESSION #1– GROUP 2 - Joy Burns Center, Room 231 - 1:00PM—2:00PM
IT’S COMPLICATED: RECOGNIZING RELATIONSHIPS AMONG STAKEHOLDERS, INSTITUTIONS, & SOCIETY
SESSION CHAIR: PAUL SEABORN, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
Firm “Kingmaking" as an NGO Strategy to Achieve a Transformational Partnership in an Industry Sector
Roland Kidwell, University of Wyoming; Rhoda Davidson, University of Wyoming & Corey Billington, University of Wyoming
This study illustrates how a non-governmental organization working with a utility firm used a deliberate partnership
strategy to create large-scale transformational benefits in the form of a lower carbon economy. The adoption of a
“kingmaker” strategy by the NGO allowed the firm to gain appreciable competitive advantage through an agreement to
reduce its carbon emissions in return for strong NGO support. Joint partnership projects additionally created
“networked enablers” that subsequently brought institutional pressure to bear on government and industry competitors
leading to the signing of an environmentally-friendly energy policy in The Netherlands. This longitudinal case study
illustrates the factors required to create a transformational partnership and demonstrates how a deliberate NGO strategy can create systemic and sustainable change.
Does Entrepreneurial Society Undermine Corporate Social Responsibility? An Empirical Investigation of
Institutional Setting
Hessam Sarooghi, University of Missouri-Kansas City & Niloofar Abolfathi, Bocconi University
Previous studies on institutional determinants of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) have contributed to our understanding of the ceteris paribus effect of specific elements of institutional environments (e.g., rules, norms) on CSR.
However, the contingencies that enhance or diminish the effect of these elements on CSR have not been explored in
previous studies. To fill this gap, current study focuses on how entrepreneurial institutions (entry regulations and entrepreneurial culture) interact with social institutions (labor regulations and social empathy) to affect the social performance of firms embedded within different institutional settings. The preliminary results show that labor regulations are
less efficient in improving CSR when firms are located in countries with entrepreneurship-friendly entry regulations.
Results have implications for theory and efficient cross-sectoral policy making.
Entrepreneurship in Contested Industries: The Case of the Marijuana Industry
Dara Szyliowicz, University of the Pacific & Tammy Madsen, Santa Clara University
Entrepreneurs in Colorado are pioneering businesses in the marijuana industry, an industry grossing over $600 million
in 2014, that the federal government considers illegal. As a result, innovative entrepreneurs face a series of conflicting obstacles, or sources of contestation that hinder the development of a durable and productive industry. We identify five different
drivers that generate contestation in industries -- actor heterogeneity, regulatory arrangements, competing logics, institutional voids and changes in social belief systems. We examine how these drivers influence contestation in, and the evolution of,
the marijuana industry in Colorado and, in turn, the choices entrepreneurs make.
Standing on Its Head: Using Institutional Entrepreneurship Theory to Facilitate Change
Craig VanSandt, University of Northern Iowa
Institutional theory seeks to identify and explain, post hoc, the processes and mechanisms leading to organizational
stability and change, and ways in which those mechanisms constrain human agency. We will stand the existing agenda
on its head. Rather than explaining how institutional change occurs, we will use institutional entrepreneurship theory
to explore how organizational fields might facilitate more efficient evolution processes. In particular, we will focus on
the well-established energy production fields—coal, oil, and natural gas. Our premise for spotlighting this particular
field is the crucial need to move from “dirty” sources of energy generation to cleaner, renewable supplies, such as hydropower, wind, and solar. We will use a model of institutional change processes proposed by Dorado as the starting point
for our analysis.
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Lightning SESSION #2– GROUP 1 - Joy Burns Center, Room 229 - 2:15PM—3:15PM
SHOW US THE MONEY: HOW TO GET IT, KEEP IT, AND GROW IT
SESSION CHAIR: JOE COOPER, UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
Value and Valuation for a Sustainable Approach to Finance
Scott Fullwiler, Presidio Graduate School; Vanessa Fry, Boise State University & Steven Crane, Presidio Graduate School
Financial tools, models, and theories play a powerful role in the planning, assessment, and decision making about
the economic aspects of an enterprise. The concept of value within these foundations largely means economic value,
namely it can be counted and converted to a monetized unit. Acceptance of value as economic value continues to
dominate research on value concepts in the social and natural sciences disciplines even when an alternative approach to value is proposed. Our research attempts to expand concepts of value beyond financial/economic and be
inclusive and integrative with social and ecological value. We believe this research is critical and important to influence the education of finance in business and management schools that offer course work or focus on sustainability.
Do Constraints from Socially Responsible Investing Impact an Investment Manager’s Discretion?
John Hughen, University of Denver
Investment managers commonly construct equity portfolios subject to client-imposed constraints. Common constraints include restrictions on investing in socially responsible companies (SRI). When clients impose severe restrictions, the portfolio manager is prevented from applying his investment strategy, and the account is classified as
a non-discretionary portfolio. Most investment management firms have now adopted ethical guidelines (GIPS
Standards) that prevent non-discretionary portfolios from being included in performance presentations to prospective clients. This paper uses Compustat data and ASSET4 ESG ratings on environmental, social, and corporate governance performance to quantify the impact of SRI. As measured by Jensen’s alpha, SRI constraints generally do not
impact a portfolio manager’s discretion in implementing popular investment strategies. This study is the first to provide guidelines on how SRI constraints impact manager discretion.
When the crowd gives credit: The ethics of debt-based crowdfunding
Claire Ingram, Stockholm School of Economics & Michel Elmoznino Laufer, Stockholm School of Economics
Existing investment legislation and standard terms around investments are implemented with professional investors
in mind. Allowing consumers, or crowdfunding creditors, to invest smaller amounts of money than professional investors online may require a different regulatory framework. This paper looks into the implications of applying the
existing arrangements to debt-based crowdfunding, first through an examination of the differences between professional investors and consumers who make purchases online and then through an examination of the terms and conditions of a debt-based crowdfunding company based in Sweden. We find that professional investors and crowd investors differ in three key ways: first, in the amounts that they invest, second in the variance of their levels of education and experience of investment, and third how they interact with investment opportunities.
Who Is Manning the Gates? Gatekeepers and Crowdfunding
R. Scott Livengood, The Ohio State University & Claire Ingram, Stockholm School of Economics
Providers of financial capital play an integral role in the entrepreneurial process. From one perspective, financiers
provide capital to resource-constrained enterprises and make possible activities that otherwise would not occur.
From another perspective, however, financial institutions can also act as gatekeepers, withholding funds from enterprises that are not deemed to have a high likelihood of success and effectively allocating funds to those new firms
that appear to capitalize on promising opportunities in the marketplace. This theoretical paper examines the underlying characteristics and motivations of various sources of financial capital available to early-stage firms in light of
their roles as gatekeepers of both social and economic value creation. This gatekeeper model is then applied to a relatively new form of entrepreneurial finance, crowdfunding.
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Lightning SESSION #2– GROUP 2 - Joy Burns Center, Room 231 - 2:15PM—3:15PM
CHANGE THE DISCUSSION: RESPONDING TO STAKEHOLDER CONCERNS AND MEASURING RETURNS
SESSION CHAIR: SAMANTHA CONROY, COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
Escaping Unscathed: The Varying Treatment of Firm Misconduct by Markets and Civil Society
Jocelyn Leitzinger, University of Michigan & Ivana Katic, Columbia University
Prior research indicates that firms caught in acts of misconduct may suffer a loss of legitimacy, damage to their reputations, or other sanctions. Yet, despite pressures to conform, many prominent firms continue to “misbehave” –
some successfully, and others to the outcry of stakeholder audiences. In this study, I suggest that both discrepancies
may be due to variation in stakeholders’ assessments of firm actions as instances of misconduct, and that these assessments depend on characteristics of the wrongdoing allegation, the firm accused, and the act itself. Using a
unique data-set of corporate front groups in the U.S., I examine how markets and society react to allegations of firm
misconduct – investigating changes in the accused organization’s social legitimacy and market value after their misdeeds are made public.
Animating Stakeholder Engagement Processes: Lessons from the Ceres-Nike Corporate Responsibility
Reporting Process
Amanda Moss Cowan, University of Oxford; Doug Creed & Marc Ventresca, University of Oxford
In 2005, environmental NGO Ceres’ stakeholder report review process with Nike yielded unexpected, positive outcomes. By 2015, the organization’s Roadmap to Sustainability had institutionalized expectations for business reporting of sustainable business practices. This paper explores the formative experiences underpinning Ceres’ work supporting firms and stakeholders working on difficult issues. As this qualitative study reveals, practical lessons from
the Ceres-Nike go beyond current ‘best practices,’ also illustrating how the presence of ambiguity and unpredictability leads to progress in these complex multi-stakeholder dialogues. In contrast to accounts that treat ambiguity as a
deficit, we identify opportunities for breakthrough outcomes through the robust, intentional managing of these ambiguities. This case reveals the ways that a carefully convened process enhances firm’s strategic capabilities and creates stakeholder-to-stakeholder benefits.
Principals vs. Principles: How Environmentally and Ethically Responsible are Firm Managers?
Ralf Steinhauser, University of Hamburg
The separation of ownership and control in corporations opens up the potential for moral hazard. Thus it is conventional wisdom that managers who are not closely monitored pursue personal goals rather than maximize shareholder wealth. Yet little is known about what these goals are. This paper provides new insights into managers’ personal
preferences by studying the variations in corporate environmental and social performance associated with different
corporate governance provisions. I employ a unique dataset to exploit variations in takeover defenses to analyze differences in managers’ behavior. We find that with weaker governance, more resources are allocated into environmentally and socially responsible objectives and away from core responsibilities. These findings support a theory
that ethical principles are important for the subjective well-being of managers.
Toward a New ROI: Measuring Intangible Entrepreneurial Returns on Investment
Mellani Day, Colorado Christian University & Mary Boardman, Globalytica, LLC
Scholars have discussed both the profit motive (Simons & Astebro, 2010) and a broader set of motives (Elkington,
1997; Becker, 1993; Balog, et al, 2014) when studying entrepreneurial behavior. Some of these are internal and underlie how entrepreneurs perceive and experience risk and reward, costs and benefits. These motivators that may
affect an internal return on investment (ROI) calculation can also be examined through a neuroentrepreneurship
lens. Day (2014) takes a first step in this through framing the issue, identifying a set of potential costs and benefits,
and developing a hypothesis for how these may be ranked in order of importance. This current paper presents a first
step in the empirical testing of the ROI model presented in Day (2014). It does so by identifying existing data that
measures these costs and benefits to varying degrees, then discussing the future research necessary to build upon
this moving forward.
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Panel Discussion
SUSTAINABILITY
ETHICS
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
APRIL 30—MAY 1, 2015 /UNIVERSITY OF DENVER /DENVER, COLORADO
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Panel Discussion - Joy Burns Center, Room 229 - 3:30PM—5:00PM
THE CANNABIS CONUNDRUM: PERSPECTIVES ON COLORADO’S “GROWING” INDUSTRY
FACILITATOR: ROLAND KIDWELL, Professor of Management and Chair of the Department of Management and
Marketing in the College of Business at the University of Wyoming
Roland Kidwell's research has been published in Academy of Management Review, Journal of
Man agement, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of
Business Ethics, Journal of Family Business Strategy, Journal of Management History, and Human
Resource Management. He is co-editor of the book Managing Organizational Deviance (Sage, 2005).
He is on the editorial boards of several journals including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and
Journal of Small Business Management. He is chair of the Management History Division of the
Academy of Management, and previously served as the division’s scholarly program and professional
development workshop chair. He has held visiting teaching and/or research positions in Australia,
Norway and France. For 11 years, Roland worked as a newspaper reporter and then city editor of the
Roanoke (Va.) Times. He has a BS in journalism from the University of Maryland—College Park, an
MBA from Radford (Va.) University, and a PhD in Business Administration from Louisiana State University.
PANELISTS
Skyler McKinley, Deputy Director of Marijuana Coordination for the State of Colorado, Office of the Governor
John Hickenlooper
A fourth-generation Pueblo, Colorado native and proud product of Lakewood High School,
Skyler McKinley graduated summa cum laude from American University in Washington,
D.C. with degrees in journalism and law & society. He began his career consulting and in
senior staff positions with political campaigns and nonprofits at the local, state, and
national level. He then moved into government administration as a policy and communications adviser to members of House leadership in the Colorado General Assembly – where
he received a formal commendation on the House floor for “extraordinary leadership” and
“bringing new voices into the political conversation through pioneering work in new media.”
Skyler contributed to the book "Citizen Power: A Mandate for Change" with former U.S.
Sen. Mike Gravel. He also worked as a writer and researcher under renowned investigative
journalist and author Chuck Lewis at the Investigative Reporting Workshop in Washington, D.C. As the deputy director of
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s Office of Marijuana Coordination, Skyler’s mission is to ensure the efficient, effective, and
transparent implementation of the world’s first recreational marijuana regulatory regime by coordinating public policy priorities, messaging, and budget requests across state agencies.
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Michael Elliott, Executive Director of the Marijuana Industry Group
Mike Elliott is an attorney and the Executive Director of the Marijuana Industry Group
(MIG), a trade association of licensed marijuana businesses based in Denver, Colorado.
MIG was formed in 2010. MIG’s mission is to build a comprehensive and robust regulatory
framework for the sale of cannabis in Colorado. Mike has also run several political
campaigns, including the 2010 campaign that defeated a proposed ban of medical marijuana
centers in El Paso County (Colorado Springs).
Don Childears, President and CEO of the Colorado Bankers Association
Don Childears has served the Colorado Bankers Association since 1975, preceded by legislative and
campaign work for a Congressman. He completed his Juris Doctor from University of Denver College
of Law, and BSBA from Colorado State University. Community activities vary including: First
Amendment Council, Referenda C & D Finance Committee, Civil Justice League, Governor’s Y2K TF,
Kids Voting, Housing Council, two graduate schools of banking, and political activities and campaigns.
Business activities include ABA BankPac, Colorado Competitive Council Steering Committee, BancInsure, a publishing company, a network predating the internet, and a burglar alarm company. He frequently
speaks (NBC Nightly News, ABA’s Annual Convention) and teaches government, political influence,
and banking.
David Spitz, Chief Executive Officer of Kind Love
Mr. Spitz joined Kind Love in 2014 as its CEO. He transformed Kind Love from a “basement grower”
venture into a very analytical, scalable and differentiated player-making Kind Love one of the biggest
companies in the market. He expanded the company’s operations from medical to recreational, finished the
company’s state-of-the-art facility in Denver, and optimized the production of marijuana infused products.
With the introduction of new technologies, Mr. Spitz has positioned Kind Love as a leader in the highquality cannabis industry.
Mr. Spitz has 30 years' experience creating and extracting value for shareholders in a variety of companies
and industries. In 1979 he founded IES Ltd., a group of companies specializing in IT, Internet, healthcare
and homeland security; and executed IPOs, secondary public offerings, and several mergers and acquisitions. He expanded
IES and sold the company in February 2001. From 2001 to 2007 Mr. Spitz was an investment banker at Bathgate Capital.
Since 2007 Mr. Spitz has been involved in numerous companies in a variety of business-development consultancy positions.
He was also an in-house M&A specialist for Pioneer Behavior Health, partner and COO for Altos Medical, and partner with
DaVinci Capital in Denver.
Diane Carlson, Co-Founder of Smart Colorado
Smart Colorado is a non-profit organization at the forefront of protecting the health, safety and futures
of Colorado youth as marijuana becomes increasingly available and commercialized. Smart Colorado
formed after the passage of Amendment 64, which legalized recreational marijuana in the state of
Colorado, by a group of concerned citizens who voted both for and against the Constitutional Amendment with the sole interest of protecting Colorado youth. Smart Colorado has grown rapidly ever since.
Ms. Carlson studied economics at the University of Maryland and received a Master’s in Public Policy
from Harvard. As a financial and policy analyst at the New York Federal Reserve Bank she became an
expert in banking regulatory and legislative policy. She later built and managed a successful human
resource company in New York City, which she grew to over 40 million in revenues specializing in
staffing solutions for major corporations and financial institutions.
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SUSTAINABILITY
ETHICS
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
APRIL 30—MAY 1, 2015 /UNIVERSITY OF DENVER /DENVER, COLORADO
/THURSDAY, APRIL 30
INTERACTIVE POSTER SESSION— Joy Burns Center, Atrium - 5:00PM—6:30PM
Sharing Tribes: Using Collaborative Consumption to Engage Millennial Employees
Anita Bhappu, University of Arizona
In today’s global economy, motivated and productive employees are the differentiating factor when it comes to business performance and competitive advantage (Rich, Lepine & Crawford, 2010). Organizations today are struggling to
engage their employees, especially Millennials – the generational cohort born between 1980 and 2004 – who will be
75% of the workforce in 2025 (Council of Economic Advisers, 2014). 51% of Millennials report that they prefer to
share rather than buy things (Havas, 2014), which is why collaborative consumption is the essence of the rapidly
growing sharing economy (Botsman, 2010). This exploratory research investigates, both theoretically and empirically, whether organizations can better engage and integrate Millennials into their enterprise by encouraging collaborative consumption among their employees.
Marketized, Activist, and Brokered Market Social Orders
Silvia Dorado, University of Rhode Island; Alex Nicholls, Said Business School, Oxford University & Bogdan Prokopovych,
Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research
This paper contributes to research on the advancement of social value within markets. It advances a typology that
establishes a connection between the 'social order' of a market and variances (beyond those rooted in organizational
charter) in (a) the degree to which the generation of social value generates financial/competitive upsides, (b) the potential for private value to crowd out social value, and (c) the challenges of balancing private and social value. Here,
social order describes institutional alignments which solve the three inevitable coordination problems required for a
market to operate (Beckert, 2009): An alignment which defines the use value derived by customers; reconciles the
competitive forces framing how much of this value is privatized, and limits the risk of opportunistic behavior in exchanges. This alignment is institutional rooted by emerges stochastically as actors interactions layer historically and
generate differences among markets.
From "Pounds Delivered” to “Shortening the Line”: Food Bank Leaders in the U.S. as Ethical Sensemakers
and Social Innovators
Michael Elmes, Worcester Polytechnic Institute & Karla Mendoza-Abarca, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
This paper considers the critical role that food bank leaders are playing in sensemaking around the ethical and justice
dimensions of hunger and food-related illnesses in the U.S. These food bank leaders are engaged in a kind of ethical
sensemaking (Sonenshein, 2009) that has led to a shift from a traditional operationally-focused strategy (food-in/
food-out efficiencies and pounds served) to one that both provides emergency food aid and tries to “shorten the line”
through experimentation with innovative, ethical solutions designed to eliminate hunger at its source. We consider
food justice as a discourse of resistance to the logic of industrial agriculture and at how some food banks as ethical
sensemakers are trying to bridge these discourses in their approach to hunger and food-related diseases. To illustrate
the phenomenon, we consider the transition that has occurred at one food bank in the US and the justice-based innovations that they have designed and implemented across its county to end hunger. We conclude by proposing a model
of ethical sensemaking that may help to explain how some food bank leaders have successfully adopted a variety of
new strategies in their approach to food insecurity.
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Is Information Enough? An Investigation of the Effects of Executive Pay Disclosure on Future Pay Practices
Amy Guerber, University of Alberta & Samantha Conroy, Colorado State University
Social unrest due to the increasing wealth gap in the U.S. could lead to a widespread legitimation crisis – threatening the
sustainability of social, economic, and government institutions. Although the government has passed legislation requiring
increased reporting of pay policies and outcomes for top managers and for average workers, questions about the likelihood
that these policies will have a meaningful impact persist. In the current paper, we explore the conditions under which
compensation disclosures may influence future pay outcomes for executives as well as average employees. We propose a
model explaining the impact of compensation disclosure characteristics on future compensation outcomes for both executives and workers, and we explore the moderating impact of stakeholder influence (specifically employee and shareholder
bargaining power) on this relationship.
No Chaos, No Creation – The Role of Physical Environment for Entrepreneurs
Chanhyo Jeong, University of Oregon
Entrepreneurship is all about creativity. Without enough understanding, we design our work environment based on intuition and anecdotal evidences. Although some research found a causal link between clutter and divergent thinking ability,
their research covered neither team creativity nor convergent thinking. Our brain does not always make a distinction between physical and cognitive activity. We hypothesize that being surrounded by disorganization will activate the alleviation of controlled self. We also expect that it will take less time for a team in a disorganized environment to complete creativity tasks. We predict that people in a disorganized space will reach a consensus for a convergent thinking task quicker,
because a disorganized environment will hinder a team to carefully evaluate each option due to ego depletion.
Predicting and Examining Links between IPO Hype, Managerial Expectations, and Firm Outcomes
Kip Kiefer, U.S. Air Force Academy
This paper provides a model for understanding the information environment and explores how differential relationships
between media hype and managerial behavior exist. A key aspect of the model is sources and timing of hype, particularly a
concept from communications literature called a trigger event. The specific trigger event explored is the IPO. Results indicate that managers are influenced by media hype in that they exhibit actions reflecting overconfidence when the media
hype generated about the firm surrounding its IPO is volumous, salient with respect to the focal firm and relatively positive in nature. Curiously, results reveal that media’s influence is not the same at all times and that it impacts managerial
expectations and firm outcomes differently for different types of hype at different times.
Attributes of Environmental Disaster & TMT Attention to Natural Environmental Issues
Jaemin Kim, Richard Stockton College & Clay Dibrell, University of Mississippi
Research in the attention-based view literature has made advances in exploring the effects of organizational characteristics
on its attention and responses. However, less is understood about why top management teams (TMTs) allocate their limited attention to natural environmental issues in response to environmental disasters. Combining attention-based view
and stakeholder theory, we hypothesize that technological disaster, economic damages, and number of occurrence affect
the extent to which TMTs elaborate a cognitive category of the issues associated with stakeholders. Examining five most
polluting industries for 10 years, we found that technological disasters and economic damages of environmental disasters
stimulated TMTs to attend to natural environmental issues and the frequent occurrence was inversely U-related with the
TMT attention.
Value Experience and Persistence: A Regulatory Engagement Perspective on what Keeps Social
Entrepreneurs Engaged over Time
Cristina Martinez, IE Business School & Peter Bryant, IE Business School, Madrid
We develop a theoretical explanation of how value experience and level of engagement in entrepreneurial goal pursuit help
to explain social entrepreneurs persistence through the entrepreneurial process, or withdrawal from it. In doing so, we
examine the role of entrepreneurial behaviors and self-regulatory orientation on motivation and engagement. This conceptual integration proposes a novel explanation for what keeps individuals engaged in social entrepreneurship over time: it is
not only the pursuit of an opportunity as an outcome which explains entrepreneurial persistence over time, but also the
strength of motivation and engagement with the entrepreneurial process itself and the value derived from this experience.
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Mentor or Tormentor: Understanding How Mentors Impact Entrepreneurs’ Performance Using a
Creativity Perspective
Sid Saleh, University of Colorado-Boulder; Maw Der Foo, University of Colorado-Boulder & David Hekman, University of
Colorado-Boulder
Mentors benefit entrepreneurs by lending them expertise and access to contacts (Ozgen & Baron, 2007; Davidsson &
Honig, 2003). Using a creativity lens, we explore how mentor-investors (mentors who invest) influence startup performance. Self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985) suggests mentor-investors may stifle creativity increasing the
likelihood of startup failure. In contrast, the learned industriousness theory (Eisenberger, 1992) suggests that rewards
influence individuals’ behavior towards goals that enhance creativity. We suggest that choice control (Byron and Khazanchi, 2012) moderates the relationship between rewards and startup creativity. This study links the entrepreneurship, creativity and mentoring literatures. We offer insights into how mentor-investors may undermine the creativity
that they need to recoup their investments.
Changing the Cassette: Exploring Institutional Field Change Among Nicaraguan Dairy Farmers
Chris Sutter, Miami University; Justin Webb, University of North Carolina at Charlotte & Geoff Kistruck, York University
This study examines an institutional entrepreneur’s efforts to orchestrate field-level change: a non-governmental organization’s efforts to change rural Nicaraguan dairy farmers’ long-held beliefs and practices, restructure their relationships and market transactions, and establish new rules for milk production as means to incorporate the farmers
into more developed dairy supply chains. We find that the institutional entrepreneur uses inter-related tactics to
change the understandings, relationships, and rules that characterize the field. We also find that field members’ willingness to participate varied depending on their prior experience with alternate institutional logics as well as their
openness. We seek to contribute to theory regarding institutional entrepreneurship by exploring the relationships between understandings, relationships, and rules during field change and by clarifying how distributed agency fits into
this process.
Big Pharma and BOP Markets: An Entrepreneurial Approach
Isaac Wanasika, University of Northern Colorado & Abe Harraf, University of Northern Colorado
The purpose of this paper is to develop an entrepreneurial framework for effective economic and social performance of
big pharma in base of the pyramid (BOP) markets. BOP markets have immense business challenges and are the most
underserved segments of the pharmaceutical industry. However, these markets have significant potential for sustainable growth and the most urgent medical needs. Instructively, other industries such as telecommunications and the consumer sector have made inroads in BOP markets, despite the odds. Big pharma stands to achieve sustainable benefits
through increased focus on BOP markets. In this paper, we develop an entrepreneurial and transaction economics theoretic approach towards effective performance of big pharma in BOP markets.
Beyond the Investment: The Social and Communal Impact of a Localized Microlending Project
Nathan Woolard, Emporia State University
The opportunity to invest in small business is changing due to Kickstarter and other creative venture funding websites.
The purpose of this research project is to explore how participants in a specific Midwestern community crowdfunding
project define their involvement in terms of social and political importance that may extend beyond contractual obligations. Specifically, the research will attempt to determine whether participants in the crowdfunding project were motivated by means beyond potential return on investment, and the extent in which communal obligation and consideration for localized economic development impacted the likelihood of their investment. This qualitative case study focuses on a specific large-scale micro-lending project, where an entrepreneur group worked with a local economic development agency to solicit micro-lenders for gap financing for a “BrewPub.”
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ETHICS
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APRIL 30—MAY 1, 2015 /UNIVERSITY OF DENVER /DENVER, COLORADO
/FRIDAY, MAY 1
PARALLEL SESSION #1– GROUP 1 - Joy Burns Center, Room 229 - 9:30AM—10:45
CHASING THE LIGHT: CHALLENGES TO BEING “GOOD”
SESSION CHAIR: FRANCES AMATUCCI, SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Moral Communities as Antidotes to Moral Deafness and Blindness
Nino Antadze, University of Waterloo; Oana Branzei, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western
Ontario & Haiying Lin, University of Waterloo
Management scholars have explored moral impairment of organizations (Bird, 1996; Shadnam & Lawrence, 2011;
Palazzo et al., 2012). Yet, less is known about how organizations go about reclaiming and restoring their moral conduct. Drawing on the case of the deadly collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Dhaha, we suggest that morality can be
externally sourced. We explain how the emergence of concern-focused moral communities can help their individual
members reverse the decline and even restore moral conduct, when their internal cultures have eroded their own
moral hearing and seeing abilities.
When Organizational Form Influences Ethics: Intrafirm Co-opetition in Hybrid Organization
Peter Gianiodis, Clemson University & Jill Brown, Bentley University
Ethical tensions can manifest when current environmental conditions place pressure on an organization to adapt in
a manner that may contradict with the imprinting related to its original mission. As firms have increasingly adopted
hybrid organizational forms to better fit more challenging external environmental conditions, they have had to
manage the ethical challenges resulting from intrafirm co-opetition. In this study, we investigate how a new hybrid
form and the adoption of intrafirm co-opetition affected ethical decision-making within a hospital setting. We find
that, consistent with prevailing game theory’s prisoners dilemma and organizational explanations of moral misconduct, tensions inherent in intrafirm co-opetition can provoke unethical decision-making. We also find that control
mechanisms and incentives increase tensions and perpetuate opportunities for misconduct, rather than reduce
them.
Do Organizations Light a Candle and Hide It Under a Bushel? The Strategic Publication of
Certification Status
Chad Carlos, Brigham Young University & Ben Lewis, Brigham Young University
Scholars have long recognized the symbolic value of certifications in helping organizations to acquire legitimacy and
other benefits. However, extant research has largely treated the attainment and publication of a certification as a
single process. In so doing, previous literature provides few insights as to why organizations might attain a certification and at times elect not to publicize their certification status. Drawing upon impression management theory, we
suggest that the attainment and publication of certification status are two distinct actions and that firms may engage in strategies to limit communications about a certification if their recent actions appear hypocritical in light of
the claims associated with the certification. We test our hypotheses by examining variation in the publication of
membership in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
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PARALLEL SESSION #1– GROUP 2 - Joy Burns Center, Room 231 - 9:30AM—10:45AM
BREATHING BETTER: LESSONS IN REDUCING CO2
SESSION CHAIR: MATTHEW GRIMES, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
Authenticity in CO2 Reductions: the Impact of Women Directors
Elizabeth Cooperman, University of Colorado-Denver; John Byrd, University of Colorado-Denver & Ken
Bettenhausen, University of Colorado-Denver
This paper adds to the literature on the impact of corporate board gender diversity on the environmental performance of corporations. Using a sample of 214 S&P 500 companies during 2010 to 2013, reporting to the CDP on
corporate environmental commitments and CO2 emissions, we examine whether the presence of women board of
directors, along with other corporate governance characteristics, are associated with firm carbon reductions. We
identify companies that made a high commitment to reducing their carbon emissions and the firms among these
actually reporting lower emissions in the following two to three years. The empirical results show for firms with a
high organizational commitment about climate change, those with a larger percentage of women on their boards are
more likely to follow through and reduce CO2 emissions. We also find a significant relation between CEO tenure
and the likelihood that a firm will have CO2 emission reductions. JEL Classification: G38, M14, J16, Q56 Keywords: Corporate governance, Diversity, Board of Directors, Environmental Performance
Spillover Effects of Institutional Entrepreneurship: Observations from the Global Carbon
Offset Industry (Best Paper Contender)
Hans Rawhouser, University of Nevada-Las Vegas & Michael Cummings, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
New industries are often the source of revolutionary changes in economic, organizational, and social life. This study
focuses on the creation of an institutional infrastructure to support an emerging industry (Van de Ven, 1993). In
particular, it explores the role of public and private sector institution-building activities in the global carbon offsets
industry. Insights from our study may provide lessons for future market-based approaches to economic externalities
or social value creation.
Gains, Large and Small Through Industrial Symbiosis
Suzanne Tilleman, University of Montana; Raymond Paquin, Concordia University & Jennifer Howard-Grenville,
University of Oregon
Addressing the challenge firms face to improve environmental performance while simultaneously earning profits,
we test learning and capability development by firms completing successful industrial symbiosis exchanges. These
exchanges provide an opportunity to reduce carbon dioxide equivalent emissions while also finding new avenues for
financial benefit by selling waste. Using data on 5,016 industrial symbiosis exchanges in in the United Kingdom
from 2003-2012, we find partner experience is significant in completing industrial symbiosis exchanges for all
firms. However, the impact is greater for novice firms who do not continue after the most opportunistic exchanges
are completed. Also, firms gain more financially when they commit to seeking out many industrial symbiosis exchanges despite losses during the development of a capability in industrial symbiosis.
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PARALLEL SESSION #2– GROUP 1 - Joy Burns Center, Room 229 - 11:00AM—12:15PM
JUGGLING ACT: MANAGING RISK, REDUCING UNCERTAINTY,
DEPLOYING RESOURCES
AND
SUCCESSFULLY
SESSION CHAIR: CHARLIE STEVENS, LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
Stuck in the Middle: Corporate Innovation and Environmental Performance
Jegoo Lee, Stonehill College & Sang-Joon Kim, University of California-Irvine
This research proposes that a firm considers environmental issues once it achieves innovation at certain levels.
Combining the resource allocation approach and the good management theory, we hypothesize the u-shaped relationship between firms' patenting activities and their environmental performance, and test this hypothesis with a
panel of 1564 firms from 1991 to 2010. Based on research findings, we suggest that the motivation for “doing good”
for environment is accelerated once corporate innovation through patenting activities are accumulated. We also
offer a practical implication that corporations who are “stuck in the middle” with moderate innovation level should
attempt to diminish the negative environmental activities as well as to develop knowledge creation further.
Firm Strategies for the Development of Environmental Technology Capabilities
Alfred Marcus, University of Minnesota & Joel Malen, Hitotsubashi University
This study identifies strategies that firms employ when technological objectives include the internalization of negative environmental externalities as well as mitigation of additional risk brought about by the market, technological,
and public policy uncertainties associated with ETD. Employing data from 256,649 patents held by 347 US manufacturing firms over a 20-year period allow for a clear distinction between ETD and non-ETD activities and enable
the use of estimation strategies that control for unobserved firm-level heterogeneity. Results indicate that when
firms develop environmental technologies they modify their innovation strategies by relying less on their own
knowledge and capabilities, more on publicly generated knowledge, and by adopting a more incremental approach
to innovation.
Sustainability Commitment in IPO Firms: The Role of Board Capital
Krista Lewellyn, University of Wyoming
The IPO event is fraught with uncertainty. Being committed to sustainability so as to help address environmental
and social issues creates even greater uncertainties since the costs and any benefits of sustainability initiatives on
the IPO’s future performance are not certain. According to institutional theory one means by which organizations
attempt to reduce uncertainties is through mimetic isomorphism, or imitating competitive and proven strategies of
successful organizations. From a resource dependency theory view IPO firms attempt to reduce uncertainty by receiving valuable resources such as strategic advice from the human and social capital of their boards. Using a
unique, hand-collected dataset of IPO firms between 2009 – 2011, we explore the relationships between industry
sustainability, board capital, and a focal firm’s commitment to sustainability.
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PARALLEL SESSION #2– GROUP 2 - Joy Burns Center, Room 231 - 11:00AM—12:15PM
CREATING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: LESSONS FROM EMERGING GREEN INDUSTRIES
SESSION CHAIR: DESIREE PACHECO, PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
Insider-Driven Change in Fields of Practice: Exploring the Case of Green Chemistry
(Best Paper Contender)
Andrew Nelson, University of Oregon; Jennifer Howard-Grenville, University of Oregon; Andrew Earle,
University of New Hampshire; Julie Haack, University of Oregon & Doug Young, Lane Community College
Insiders can be effective at mobilizing to bring about change in organizations or professions, yet we know little
about how they work to influence change in a less structured field of work practice. Drawing on interview, observational, and archival data, we inductively investigate the emergence and growth of “green chemistry,” an
effort within the chemical sciences to improve the health, safety, and environmental impacts of chemicals
through changing practices associated with chemical synthesis and design. We find that advocates mobilized
other chemists through a multivocal discourse and flexible principles, as opposed to a cohesive resonant frame.
A pluralistic community resulted, which demanded ongoing efforts to both check and sustain this pluralism.
The trajectory of green chemistry suggests that insiders can leverage the very elements that structure a field –
shared expertise and work practices – in service of change, but that these same elements are threatened by such
change. We discuss implications for theory on insider-driven change in fields of practice, the strategic use of
multivocality, and the challenges of social and environmental change among those bound by common expertise,
including members of occupations.
Cultivating an Industry Identity: The Agency and Influence of Stakeholders in Colorado’s
Emerging Cannabusiness
Aimee Hamilton, University of Denver & Paul Seaborn, University of Denver
Despite considerable work in the identity theory literature on how collectives develop workable, coherent, sustainable identities, major questions remain regarding how other types of interested parties influence the emergence of a new industry as well as the identity of that new industry. Our paper uses stakeholder theory to understand how the actions taken by entrepreneurs and other stakeholders in Colorado’s emerging marijuana industry interrelate to form a collective identity. In highly regulated industries, such as our setting, governments hold
tremendous power to influence industry identity through their requirements in areas such as ownership qualifications, vertical integration and marketing. In addition to issues pertaining to entrepreneurship in a new market, we also consider the industry’s ethical conflicts and sustainability challenges.
Cleantech Clusters and Firm Performance: Evidence from Young Private U.S. Firms
Y. Lisa Zhao, University of Missouri-Kansas City & Sanwar Sunny, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Although Cleantech represents a fast growing sustainable economy, the market is still nascent and uncertain. As
a result, a wide range of responses in business strategies and government policies are emerging; yet it is not
clearly how these will affect Cleantech performance at both regional and individual firm levels. This study attempts to fill the literature gap by examining how local entrepreneurship and innovation climate, government
policy, resources, and general population awareness affect Cleantech entrepreneurial firm creation and performance using the lenses of institution theory, resource-based theory and economy of agglomeration. Our results
show that entrepreneurship and innovation climate and access to resources have positive impact on geographical clustering and entrepreneurial firm performance but findings about policy and public awareness are mixed.
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PARALLEL SESSION #3– GROUP 1 - Joy Burns Center, Room 229 - 2:00PM—3:15PM
LEARNING 2 B: COMBINING SOCIAL WELFARE WITH COMMERCIAL LOGIC
SESSION CHAIR: ABE HARRAF, UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO
How Social Hybridity Can Be Sustained From the Ground
Laura Claus, University of Cambridge
While much research has focused on how complexity can be managed at the organizational level, we know less
about how individuals experience and cope with conflicting institutional prescriptions. To examine how individuals balance multiple logics as an ongoing accomplishment, we conducted an in-depth case study at a leading
Benefit Corporation in the U.S. – a newly emerging hybrid form that incorporates a social welfare and commercial logic at its core. We find that not every organizational member experienced complexity to the same degree,
and that individuals caught between objectives coped by means of anchoring. Anchoring served to mitigate the
discomfort experienced from having to satisfy competing demands, safeguard against drift toward either alternative and sustain hybrid organizing from the ground.
Hybrid Social Enterprise and the Problem of Identity Correspondence
Michael Conger, Miami University; Jeff York, University of Colorado-Boulder & Jeffery McMullen, Indiana
University
The rise of social enterprise as a new class of organization and the basis of emerging hybrid industries has potential implications for the future of both charity and business. However, we know relatively little about the processes or means by which individual actors and organizations become aligned with movements, or the mechanisms by which this alignment leads to active participation in collective action and, ultimately, field emergence.
We examine this phenomenon through an inductive study of the B Corp movement in the U.S. and build a process model of identity correspondence spanning the individual and organizational levels. Our findings shed light
on the role of identity processes in the emergence of hybrid organizational forms, industries, and fields.
50$, a Laptop, and a Client – The Start to How Impact Makers Has Become a Business Working to Better Their Community
Joseph Sprangel, Mary Baldwin College & Amanda Slemaker, Mary Baldwin College
B Lab is leading a global movement to redefine success in business. This research is a qualitative study of Impact
Makers (IM) a for-profit company and B Lab Certified B Corporation that contributes 100% of their net profits
($247k in 2013) to their nonprofit partners. The design strategy of this qualitative inquiry was a purposeful sampling of IM as an “information rich” organization where the intent is to share empirical evidence of organizational success that can be generalized to the current and future Certified B Corporation population. The data
collection involved 22 interviews to date of in-depth open interview questions of representatives of the various
stakeholder groups of IM.
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PARALLEL SESSION #3– GROUP 2 - Joy Burns Center, Room 231 - 2:00PM—3:15PM
DEFINING ENTREPRENEURIAL ADVANTAGES: BUNDLING RESOURCES
LEVERAGING COMMUNITIES
AND
SESSION CHAIR: MELISSA AKAKA, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
Community-Building Strategies: The Role of Non-Pecuniary Incentives, Rewards, and
Exchanges
Christina Kyprianou, University of Texas-Austin
A type of firm-sponsored external stakeholder community, customer communities increasingly play a central role in
how entrepreneurial firms create and capture value. Existing research, however, still lags in explicating the mechanisms through which firms build customer communities. Through an inductive multi-case study, I explore entrepreneurial firm strategies that support community building while focusing on the role of non-pecuniary incentives, rewards and exchanges. Findings suggest that firms face a central strategic challenge: balancing the growth of the community against the quality of its membership. Firms approach this problem by pursuing three sets of processes: community organizer training, community member education, and social processes of inclusion. These findings provide
evidence of the important yet neglected role of non-pecuniary mechanisms that support community-building strategies.
Two Purposes are Better Than One: The Ambidextrous Creation of Economic and Social Value
Krista Lewellyn, University of Wyoming
The objective of this paper is to extend the organizational ambidexterity concept to include an organization’s fundamental purpose for being, specifically that corporations are able to simultaneously create economic advantage while
also generating resilient social value that contributes to mitigating social issues. Drawing from the literature that explores how economic value is created and captured from the combination, allocation, and deployment of resources,
the conceptual model also explores organizational antecedents that facilitate balancing, reconciling and synchronizing the paradoxical contradictions that allow for ambidexterity to manifest in organizations. Propositions are put
forth with respect to these enablers of ambidexterity and suggestions for empirically testing the framework are also
discussed.
Towards Understanding Community-based Enterprise Performance in Resource Constrained
Environments (Best Paper Contender)
Kiven Pierre, Syracuse University; Tom Lumpkin, Syracuse University & Todd Moss, Syracuse University
While there has been considerable research into the effect of market oriented development in less developed economies on entrepreneurship in general, research on the relationship between such development and community-based
enterprise has remained sparse. Building on entrepreneurship, institutional theory, and resource dependence literatures, the present study addresses this gap by exploring the effect of pro-market institutions and resource dependence factors on the performance of community-based enterprises within resource constrained environments. Using
multi-level random effects estimation on a cross-country sample we find evidence that pro-market institutions have
both positive and negative effects on the performance of community-based enterprises which are contingent on a
country’s magnitude of dependence on the external environment. We discuss the theoretical and practical contributions of these findings to entrepreneurship literature.
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PARALLEL SESSION #4– GROUP 1 - Joy Burns Center, Room 229 - 3:30PM—4:45PM
ENERGY CONVERSION: INVESTIGATING THE ROLES OF COMMUNITY AND GOVERNMENT
SESSION CHAIR: RICHARD HARRISON, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Shine on me: Firm density, social movement support, and government endorsement of the
solar photovoltaic industry (Best Paper Contender)
Panayiotis Georgallis, University of Michigan; Glen Dowell, Cornell University & Rodolphe Durand, HEC
Paris
In this paper we treat regulative institutions as dependent on firm populations and supportive collective action.
We argue that in emerging sectors, as the number of firms grows it signals legitimacy and growing acceptance of
the sector, which in turn increases the likelihood that the government will endorse it. We further disentangle the
influence of two different types of entry – by de novo and de alio firms – on government endorsement, and consider the role of supportive social movements in augmenting the influence of firm density on the establishment
of favorable regulation. Analyses of the feed-in-tariff policy support scheme in the European Union suggest that
government endorsement depends on the number of firms in a country, and that the presence of a supportive
movement increases the effect of de novo firm density on government endorsement. We discuss the implications of our findings for institutional theory, research of social movements and markets, and industry creation.
Do I put solar panels on my roof if my neighbors can see them? Uniqueness and conformity
as drivers of individual technology adoption
Jörg Claussen, Copenhagen Business School & Anders Ørding Olsen, Copenhagen Business School
Utility from technology adoption is not only derived from economic value but also influenced through social
factors. We argue that visibility of technology adoption can be an important social factor that can increase adoption if individuals want to signal uniqueness or decrease adoption if they want to conform to their peers. We
study in how far the potential visibility of solar panels from the street influences the adoption decision of
122,349 Danish households and find that conformity motivations seem to dominate, i.e. the average household
is less likely to adopt if solar panels are visible from the street, but less wealthy households are more likely to
adopt of solar panels are visible. These findings generate policy implications for supporting the adoption of sustainable technologies.
Organizational Responses to Public and Private Politics: An Analysis of Climate
Change Activists and U.S. Oil and Gas Firms
Jake Grandy, University of Southern California; Shon Hiatt, University of Southern California & Brandon
Lee, Melbourne Business School
We explore how activists’ public and private politics elicit different organizational responses. Using data on U.S.
petroleum companies from 1982-2010, we investigate how climate change activists serving as witnesses at Congressional hearings and engaging in firm protests influenced firms’ internal and external responses. We find
that public politics induced internally focused technical actions while private politics induced externally focused
institutional actions. The results suggest that activists can have a significant impact on firm behavior by instilling regulatory uncertainty in the early phases of the policymaking process. We discuss the implications of our
study for social movement research, organization theory, and nonmarket strategy.
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PARALLEL SESSION #4– GROUP 2 - Joy Burns Center, Room 231 - 3:30PM—4:45PM
SHIFTING BOUNDARIES: ATTAINING LEGITIMACY AND CREATING VALUE FROM NEW
PRODUCTS AND CATEGORIES
SESSION CHAIR: SHARON ALVAREZ, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
Market Mediators and the Tradeoffs of Legitimacy-Seeking Behaviors in a Nascent Category (Best
Paper Contender)
Brandon Lee, Melbourne Business School; Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta & Shon Hiatt, University of
Southern California
This study contributes to a growing body of research on the emergence and growth of new product market categories
by focusing attention on market intermediaries and their role in garnering legitimacy for a nascent market category.
Although extant research has demonstrated the importance of attaining legitimacy for new market categories, few have
considered the tradeoffs associated with such actions. Using the U.S. organic food product category as a context, we
explore how one type of market intermediary—a standards-based certification organization—sought to balance the expansion of a nascent market category with retaining its distinctive coherence and identity. Our findings suggest that
standards-based certification organizations can expand a market and demarcate clear categorical boundaries, but at a
cost to the initial collective identity of the category’s members. Our findings hold important implications for the literatures on legitimacy, new category formation and growth, market intermediaries, and movement-driven markets.
Institutionalizing Fair Trade: A Rhetorical Analysis of New Market Category Creation
Bob Doherty, University of York; Helen Haugh, University of Cambridge & Benjamin Huybrechts, HEC, University of Liege
We draw on category and rhetoric theories to examine how language is employed to create and mainstream new market categories. Originating in the 1970s from consumer interest in alternative trade, annual sales of fair trade certified
products now exceed $6 billion. From our analysis of archival data and interviews, we theorize three rhetorical strategies that we connect to new market category creation: Oppositional rhetoric demarcates the new market and establishes the boundaries between new and existing categories; impact rhetoric communicates the purpose and achievements
of the new category; and regulatory rhetoric formalizes, disciplines and monitors category membership. Growth rhetoric mainstreams the new market category by selectively combining elements of oppositional, impact and regulatory
rhetoric with growth. Category growth proceeds against a backdrop of competing member interests concerning the
plasticity and rigidity of category boundaries. We propose the process of category elaboration to explain how members
relax category boundaries to accommodate increasing membership and certification variety.
Entrepreneurial Round Tripping: Contributing to Sustainability through Multi-Directional
Value Creation
Richard Hunt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & Lauren Ortiz-Hunt, Center for Innovation and EntrepreneurshipVirginia Polytechnic Institute
One of the key drivers of sustainable growth involves the development of commercial processes that allow for the extended use, reuse or recycling of disposable productive assets. One significant way in which this enhanced utilization
occurs is in the realm of multi-directional value creation, which refers to profits that are generated from the development of solution sets that allow commercializable goods and services to flow in more than one direction. The focal
point of our investigation centers on the paradox of incumbency in round-tripping: that despite possessing insider
knowledge, efficient scale and technical resources, incumbent firms often fail to develop the leading solution sets for
multi-directionality. Far more often, it is innovating entrepreneurs, who create and capitalize on these sustainabilitydriven gains.
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SUSTAINABILITY
2015 SEE CONFERENCE
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
ETHICS
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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7:30PM — 8:15PM — Joy Burns Center — Main Dining Room
2015 Margolin Distinguished Journalism Lecture
RIVA FROYMOVICH Author, Policy and Content Development
Riva Froymovich is a millennial journalist, author and first-generation American, raised on the
promise of the American Dream and now writing about ensuring its future.
Froymovich will be recognized as the University of Denver’s (DU) 2015 Margolin Distinguished
Journalism Lecturer. DU’s Media, Film, and Journalism Studies (MFJS) department is partnering
with Daniels College of Business to host Froymovich as a keynote speaker at the 2015
Sustainability, Ethics & Entrepreneurship Conference on Thursday, April 30. Froymovich will
present “Resilience and the Millennial Generation.”
About Riva Froymovich
Riva Froymovich is a vice president at Citi Community Development, which leads Citi’s
commitment to achieving financial inclusion and economic empowerment for low-income and
urban communities. She is the author of End of the Good Life: How the Financial Crisis
Threatens a Lost Generation - and What We Can Do About It (Harper Perennial), which
chronicles the impact of the latest financial crisis on Generation Y and promotes reforms in education, employment, and
public policy.
She is a journalist and has reported both in print and on camera for The Wall Street
Journal and the Dow Jones Newswires, among other outlets. She has covered the
euro-zone in the throes of economic collapse, the U.S. dollar’s historic decline during
the Great Recession, the rapid rise of emerging economies, central banks as they
faced their biggest challenge since the Depression, and politicians’ attempt to cobble
together financial regulation. She previously worked on content ideation and
implementation for events at The Economist. Now, she focuses on increasing access
in underserved communities, microfinance and inclusive business models – and telling
their stories. Froymovich graduated from New York University with a degree in journalism and minors in urban studies and politics. She resides in New York City.
In End of the Good Life: How the Financial Crisis Threatens a Lost Generation and What We Can Do About It, she chronicles the impact of the financial crisis on
Generation Y and promotes innovative reforms to forge a better future. Far from a tomb
of complaints, the book collects in-depth research and interviews from across the world
and encourages Generation Y to find new ways to succeed.
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The Morton Margolin
Distinguished
Journalism Lectureship
Endowed Fund
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2015 Margolin Distinguished Journalism Lecture
Sponsored by
Morton Margolin Distinguished Journalism Lectureship
The Morton Margolin Distinguished Journalism Lectureship is made possible through an
endowed fund established by the Margolin Family and friends in 1979.
The fund was created in memory of Morton Margolin to bring distinguished business, ethics or
economics journalists to DU. Visiting journalists present lectures, master classes and
participate in related programs.
Morton Margolin
Morton Margolin was a long-time Colorado
business journalist. He received many awards,
including a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize,
during his 35-year career as a journalist with the
Rocky Mountain News and Colorado Business
Magazine (which he helped to establish), among
other publications. His series of news stories
exposing controversial U.S. reclamation projects
in the Riverton, Wyoming, area in 1952 won him
that nomination.
Historically, DU’s former School of Communication (now the Department of Media, Film &
Journalism Studies (MFJS), and the Daniels College of Business presented this prestigious
award annually to Colorado journalists, in recognition of their outstanding reporting on
Colorado businesses or its economy.
See previous Business Journalism recipients
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Keynote Speakers (Continued)
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8:30AM — 9:15AM — Joy Burns Center — Main Dining Room
Michael V. Russo
Lundquist Professor of Sustainable Management at the Lundquist
College of Business at the University of Oregon
Dr. Russo served as the Founding Director of the Center for Sustainable Business
Practices. Mike’s current research projects include a study of the impact of social
and environmental issues on global supply chains, and analyses of geographic clustering of mission-driven companies and wind and solar energy companies. His articles have appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science
Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, Production and Operations
Management, and Strategic Management Journal, and he serves on the editorial
boards of the Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Management Journal.
Mike has won a number of research and teaching awards, including the Moskowitz
Prize in Social Investing, the oikos Sustainability Case Writing Competition Grand
Prize, and most recently a Silver Nautilus Book Award for his book, Companies on a Mission: Entrepreneurial
Strategies for Growing Sustainably, Responsibly, and Profitably.
1:00PM — 1:45PM — Anderson Academic Commons
Andrew C. Wicks
Ruffin Professor of Business Administration at Darden School of
Business at the University of Virginia
Dr. Wicks is director of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, director of the doctoral
program, academic advisor for the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics.
Wicks also serves as an adjunct professor in the Religious Studies department and the
Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at University of Virginia.
Wicks is co-author of four books including Managing for Stakeholders: Survival, Reputation
and Success, published in 2007 by Yale University Press; Business Ethics: A Managerial
Approach, published in 2010 by Prentice Hall; Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art;
and Public Trust in Business, published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. He has
published over 30 journal articles, and his work has appeared in a wide variety of journals
in business ethics, management and the humanities.
His research interests include stakeholder responsibility, stakeholder theory, trust, health
care ethics, total quality management and ethics and entrepreneurship. He works with
MBA students, executives and corporations in the United States and abroad. Wicks is
actively working with Ethics-LX, an entrepreneurial venture, to create a series of web-based simulations that incorporate
ethics into the functional areas of business. He has received awards for both his research and teaching.
Wicks joined the Darden faculty in 2002 after teaching for 10 years at the University of Washington Graduate Business
School.
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Sponsors
SUSTAINABILITY
ETHICS
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
APRIL 30— MAY 1, 2015 /UNIVERSITY OF DENVER /DENVER, COLORADO
Organizing Sponsors
Daniels College of Business—University of Denver
Monfort College of Business—University of Northern Colorado
College of Business—University of Wyoming
Collaborating Institutions
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
Society for the Advancement of Management Studies
Supporting Sponsors:
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