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Join Marian Chertow, Director of the Industrial Environmental Management Program at Yale, and her colleagues Jennifer Howard-Grenville (University of Oregon), Dayna Simpson (Oregon State University), Raymond Paquin (Concordia University), Sara Soderstrom (Northwestern University), Brent McKnight (University of Western Ontario), John Ehrenfeld (International Society for Industrial Ecology), Joseph Sarkis (Clark University), William Hoffman (Chicago Manufacturing Center) in a professional development workshop to define and develop a research agenda around the growing field of industrial symbiosis. The session is on Sunday, August 9, 2009 from 2:30-5:00 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Chicago - Grand D North.
Industrial Symbiosis (IS) presents an approach to managing waste that involves one firm making productive use of another firm’s ‘waste’ resources. It is a practice of great interest to organizational scholars seeking new models for environmental sustainability as it can both reduce environmental impact and generate new sources of revenue or cost savings for firms. IS demands the development of interfirm relationships that emphasize collaboration, innovation, and the creation of complex networks rather than linear chains. As such, it raises fundamental questions for organizational theorists, operations management scholars, and strategists around issues such as the development of trusting relationships outside traditional supply chains, and the discovery and creation of opportunity in undervalued resources. To date, isolated pockets of research on IS have appeared in the management and operations literature, and elsewhere, with limited attempts to unite the insights of these. Our PDW will bring together scholars with different backgrounds in an interactive setting in order to catalyze and shape future work in this important field. To motivate the discussion, several leading scholars and practitioners who have extensive knowledge and experience of IS will give brief presentations prior to and following the breakout discussion.
CENTER FOR INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
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