Practitioners Identify Greatest Sustainability Challenges
On May 11 2007, the Network's Leadership Council of industry, government, and non-profit managers discussed, debated and reached a consensus on the key research questions that they need answered in order to move forward in sustainability.
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June 4 Networking Event
On 4 June, the Network held its first networking event at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada meeting in Ottawa, where Environment Canada Assistant Deputy Minister, Michael Martin, talked about government and sustainability.
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Sustainability in SMEs
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are often described as Canada's engines of innovation, but they rarely feature in discussions about sustainability. But not everyone has forgotten about sustainability in the SME sector.
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Research Impacting Practice
Little is known about employee volunteerism - how companies support it, how pervasive it is, which sectors or regions are most actively involved, and so on. Network members Debra Basil and Mary Runte of Lethbridge University have set out to change that.
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Two Network Researchers Become Deans
In the last year, two prominent Network researchers, David Wheeler and Sanjay Sharma, have become Deans. The new Deans will help their institutions meet the increasing demand from industry and government for graduates who are able to manage more than one bottom line.
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Eye on New Projects
Learn about your colleagues' research activities and find out what their projects might mean to your work. Learn about climate change and new product innovation (Devashish Pujari), institutional entrepreneurship and technology evolution (Steve Maguire), the relationship between environmental disclosure and performance (Yue Li), product reusability and the effect of remanufacturing cost and demand uncertainties (Vedat Verter), motivations for environmental commitment in the airline industry (Jen
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Researcher Profile
This story profiles Dr. Stephan Vachon, whose research program touches various aspects of environmental sustainability-from supply chain management, to energy policies, to country culture.
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Hot Issue
Bill C-30, Canada's Clean Air and Climate Change Act, now looks very different than it did last fall when it was first introduced by Stephen Harper's minority government.
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