Sustainability in Management:Trends and Future Research Directions

Joel Gehman Ivey Business School Sustainability ConferenceNovember 4, 2016

Q1. What do you think is the current position of sustainability in the management research landscape?

I played with three options here.

• One: sustainability is a peripheral member

• Two: a broker, connecting otherwise isolated thought worlds

• Three: a source of novelty and insight

Q2. What do you believe are the current trends in research on sustainability?

I am focused on four issues:

• Relationality

• Temporality

• Performativity

• Materiality

Q3. Which areas/methods/topics do you think will be topical in the coming decade?

• UNSDGs

• Genetics

• Grand Challenges

• Gates Foundation, etc.

17 goals to transform the world

Q4. What would you personally like to see in 10 years?

Beam me up Scottie

Q5. Where do you see yourself as an academic in 15 years?

Writing papers from the beach