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University of Bath
University of Bath School of Management
School of Management
University of Bath
Bath, Somerset BA2 7AY
United Kingdom
[Research Exhibition]: Sustainable Energy and the Environment
Activity Type: Other
Description: This event "Sustainable Energy and the Environment" profiles
a significant portfolio of work addressing our future energy and environmental landscapes. The exhibition showcases the most innovative, exciting, groundbreaking and internationally leading research at the University of Bath and Higher Educational Institutions across the South West including:
-Using learning history to learn from experiences of change - Dr Gill Coleman, University of Bath
- Sustainable Enterprise Executive Roundtable [SEER]: Inter-organizational collaborative learning in action in Southern California - Hilary Bradbury, University of Southern California
- Local Communities Empowered to Plan? Applying PAR to Establish Democratic Communicative Spaces for Sustainable Rural Development - Barbara Bodorkós and György Pataki, St. István University, Gödöll, Hungary
- What’s money got to do with it? Using action research to challenge the power of the system- Mark Gater, Britannia Building Society
- Developing Leadership for Sustainability: action research as adult education Professor Judi Marshall, Lancaster University
- The role of action research for organizational breakthroughs to high level ecological management - David Ballard, Alexander Ballard Ltd.
The Design and Construction of an Eco Factory at Thurulie, Sri Lanka
Activity Type: Seminar
Description: Our research into the adoption of low carbon technologies in industry aims to identify the barriers and enablers of technological change toward a low carbon future. We challenge the supposition that the rate of low carbon innovation is solely, or maybe even primarily, a technological research and development challenge. As literature broadly in the social construction of technology suggests, technological change must be considered in a wider societal context and as an interaction between social, economic and technical factors.
As part of this research we have used learning history, an action research approach, to explore the development, construction and commissioning of a low carbon lingerie factory in Sri Lanka which supplies Marks and Spencer.
The presentation will briefly discuss the design of the factory and move on to discuss the interrelation between technological and contextual factors in its development.
Action Research to Promote the Social Stewardship of Ecosystem Services
Activity Type: Seminar
Description: Sustainable development is a truly multi-disciplinary endeavour, involving natural and other scientists, social scientists, business people, activists, economists, policymakers, ordinary citizens, etc. These groups construct their worlds very differently from others so that the social context for sustaining ecosystem services becomes hotly contested and even the leading thinkers do not agree about what we are trying to achieve. Whilst there are good reasons for this disagreement, it can become a reason for inertia.
Action research has a lot to offer such a complex and contentious field for accelerating innovation and overcoming inertia. Action research generates knowledge which is directly relevant to practical issues by bringing diverse actors together to experiment in action. Action research facilitates learning and meaningful dialogue within and across different groups. Drawing on speakers who have experience of action research for sustainability and using a World Café approach to facilitate discussion, we will explore the practices of acting for sustainable solutions in a wide variety of contexts.
Socially and Environmentally Responsible Procurement: New Evidence
Activity Type: Seminar
Description: Dr Brammer’s current research activity explores the interfaces between business organizations and the societies in which they operate, principally through conceptual lenses drawn from strategic management, psychology and economics. Much of his research examines the stimuli for socially responsive corporate behavior and the relationships between firm social performance and other dimensions of corporate performance. Specific recent projects include: an investigation of the importance of corporate social performance for corporate reputation; an analysis of the drivers of corporate social and environmental reporting; and a study of the role that corporate news media visibility plays in stimulating social responsiveness. His research has been widely published in leading journals such as the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Business Research, Financial Management, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the Journal of Business Ethics and Business & Society.
Sharing the market or getting close for fight?
Activity Type: Speaker
Description: Electronic coordination links markets that have initially been separated by transport costs, which in turn raises competitive pressure and affects incentives to differentiate products. However, making use of electronic coordination and repositioning of products is not costless. We analyze investment decisions in a heterogeneous product duopoly with two spatially separated markets. We consider both price (most likely with digital products) and quantity competition (capacity choices for physical products) and compare private and social investment incentives. While firms always invest in transport cost reductions, product differentiation may be enhanced or reduced. Speaker: Professor Karl Morasch, Department of Economics, Bundeswehr University Munich.
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