S&O Research Seminar with Magali Delmas
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The S&O lunch seminars are back! Save the date on September 26, from 12.00 pm to 2.00 pm on HEC Campus with the kickoff of the academic year with Magali DELMAS, Professor of Management at UCLA Institute of the Environment and the Anderson School of Management.
She will present her paper :
The Uncertainty of Corporate Sustainability Metrics
She is the director of the UCLA Center for Corporate Environmental Performance and the Center for Impact@Anderson. She was the President of the Alliance for Research in Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) from 2014 to 2017, an organization that serves as a vehicle for advancing rigorous academic research on corporate sustainability issues.
Her research interests are primarily in the areas of Business strategy and Corporate Sustainability. Magali Delmas has written more than 90 articles, book chapters and case studies on business and the natural environment. She is the recipient of the Academy of Management/Organization and the Natural Environment Distinguished Scholar Award.
She works on developing effective information strategies to promote conservation behavior and the development of green markets. Here is a short video of her recent work on green consumers, and a link to her recent book: The Green Bundle: Pairing the Market with the Planet published at Stanford Press.
More about her on the UCLA website
Abstract of her paper "The Uncertainty of Corporate Sustainability Metrics":
We propose a framework to assess corporate sustainability metrics based on the uncertainty associated with the effectiveness of the metric and its measurement. We argue that organizations should use outcome metrics when uncertainty in measuring the performance outcome is low and process-based metrics when the outcome is difficult to measure or the link between process and outcome is undetermined. When both types of uncertainty are high, it is unclear whether metrics should be used at all. We explore stakeholder perceptions of metric uncertainty and our framework through a survey on carbon offsets. Our framework enriches our understanding of the uncertainty associated with corporate sustainability disclosures and can be useful for government agencies thinking about mandated disclosures, for managers thinking about what metrics to disclose, and for researchers developing or using sustainability metrics.