SUBSCRIPTION (OPEN SESSIONS): click here.
VENUE: School of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting (FEA-USP), Universidade de São Paulo, SAFRA AUDITORIUM (Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto 908, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP, Brazil)
As
part of the UN’s 2030 agenda, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the new
drivers for promoting sustainability among stakeholders in developed and
developing economies. SDGs comprise 17 goals, 169 objectives and more than 200
indicators and are meant to reduce inequalities and help organisations facing
sustainability issues in all dimensions (economic, social and environmental).
The
UK is a developed country with a long history of industrialization. However, in
recent years there has been a rise on sustainability concerns, which are now
reflected in the UK’s current industrial strategy with a commitment to ‘Cleaner
growth’. Brazil is a developing country which is both rich in natural resources
and has a wealth of industries. Making progress towards achieving the SDGs is
of clear importance to both countries.
The
proposed workshop aims to tackle: SDG #12 “Responsible consumption and
production” (especially in the UK), and SDG#9 “Build Resilient Infrastructure,
promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation”
(especially in Brazil).
From
the operations and performance management perspective, industrialists are
struggling to identify: how can they plan and operationalize their activities
according to this new agenda, and how to measure their progress towards
achieving SDGs. Despite the attempts to deal with sustainability performance in
a systematic and effective way, this issue still lacks consensus and requires
new approaches and methods.
This
workshop will gather UK and Brazilian academics to discuss key pressing SDGs
challenges faced by industrialists. Through action research, the workshop will
go beyond presentations and activities by providing tangible actions/measures
to be proposed to industrialists to tackle the key pressing challenges. The
workshop will help ECRs and post-docs to become established academics and to
foster long-term research collaborative relationships among their groups at
their home institutions.
Participants:
Researchers
at an earlier stage in their career, i.e., have been awarded their PhD for not
more than 10 years prior to the workshop (linked to educational institutions in
the São Paulo State or the UK). The workshop
official language is English – we expect all participants to be fluent in English
in order to effectively engage in the workshop activities.
Preliminary Program (Subject to Change): click here.
Organization Committee:
Isak
Kruglianskas, FEA-USP
Marly Monteiro de Carvalho, EP-USP
Luisa Huaccho Huatuco, University de York
Peter Ball, University of York
Steve Evans, University of Cambridge