Academy11

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption: An Organizational Science Perspective

January 16 - 21, 2011, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich (Switzerland)

Climate change is a major issue facing the world in the 21st century. Drastic reductions of greenhouse gas emissions are crucial for stabilizing the world’s ecosystems. The business sector needs to mitigate the sources of climate change and adapt to its effects even while both its magnitude and economic implications are uncertain. Consequently, the appropriate climate change mitigation and adaptation becomes a cornerstone of competitive strategy. The PhD-Academy is centered on these challenges from an organizational science perspective. The aim of the annual ETH PhD-Academy is to promote excellent PhD-research in the area of sustainability and technology and to develop responsible leaders for tomorrow. While the 2011 Academy again focuses on climate change, it is also open to PhD-students working on similar challenges with respect to environmental sustainability. The five days of the Academy concentrate on improving the research design and methodology of participants’ PhD-projects. We invite PhD-students with a background in strategic management, technology/innovation management, or institutional change to participate in the Academy. Besides content-related discussions, students will get valuable feedback from their peers and three professors with long-standing organizational research experience:

• Prof. Dr. Irene Henriques (Professor at Schulich School of Business, York University Toronto, Canada; Former chair of Organizations and Natural Environment division at AOM)

• Prof. Dr. James P. Walsh (Professor at Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, USA; Current president of the Academy of Management (AOM))

• Prof. Dr. Volker Hoffmann (Professor for Sustainability and Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerlan)

Papers focused on – but were not limited to – the following topics:

• Organizational strategy in a carbon constrained business environment
• Clean technologies and innovation strategies
• Carbon risk assessment & analysis
• Managing the carbon value chain
• Future development of carbon markets and climate regulations
• Corporate adaptation to climate change

For any additional questions please contact Timo Busch at tobusch@ethz.ch.

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