Management Science Special Issue on Business and Climate Change
Co-editors: Rajesh Chandy, Glen Dowell, Colin Mayer, Erica Plambeck, George Serafeim, Mike Toffel, Beril Toktay, Elke Weber
Climate change poses major risks and opportunities for a wide array of companies and industries-and to society at large. Recent scientific and policy reports, including the U.S. National Climate Assessment and by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), provide increasingly alarming conclusions about the direness of the disruptions and displacements that climate change will elicit, especially under "business as usual" scenarios. Yet, far too little research is being conducted to provide the critical insights that companies and managers need to adjust how they plan, measure, site, forecast, innovate, develop products and services, and manage supply chains in light of opportunities to mitigate climate change and adapt to climate change's physical consequences and regulatory changes. Management Science, given its wide recognition as a top journal across many disciplines and departments, seeks to stake a leadership position in addressing this deficit by spurring a wide array of scholars to conduct more rigorous and relevant research in this critical area.
Regular and Fast Track submissions are welcome from across the full scope of Management Science topics as they relate to business and climate change. For example, topics suitable for the Special Issue include submissions focused on business decisions related to climate change adaptation, mitigation, carbon reporting, climate finance, risk assessment and corporate disclosure, corporate strategy (e.g., divestment and acquisition of climate-sensitive industries), management control systems (target setting, incentive provision), corporate governance structure and process, organizational change, valuation and investor behavior, climate-relevant technology, innovation, and big-data analytics.
The Special Issue seeks research that provides the insights that managers need to operate in a world in which climate change affects freshwater availability and quality, sea levels, ambient temperature and moisture, the frequency and intensity of hurricanes, drought, and floods, with disproportionate implications for more vulnerable populations and major changes in transportation and energy systems. Managers need to know how to effectively adjust how they plan, site, forecast, innovate, develop products and services, invest, finance, insure, and manage organizations and supply chains in light of opportunities to mitigate climate change (i.e., reduce its magnitude) and to adapt to climate change's physical and social consequences and regulatory changes. Managers also need to identify and implement innovative approaches to mitigate emissions in manufacturing and services, transportation and energy systems, construction, and supply chains, as well as potentially via carbon sequestration and geoengineering.
Submission
Please submit your manuscript online via https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ms. In Step 1, select either "Special Issue on Business and Climate Change" or "Special Issue on Business and Climate Change - Fast Track" as the Manuscript Type. In Step 5, recommend at least three preferred Associate Editors (AEs), drawing from the current Management Science Editorial Board (which includes many AEs with expertise relevant to climate change) and from the following list of Guest AEs for the Special Issue. In Step 6, select your preferred special issue coeditor as a Department Editor. Reviews will be conducted on a rolling basis. Submission Deadline: November 30, 2020.
Associate Editors
Vishal Agrawal, Georgetown University
Amir Amel-Zadeh, University of Oxford
Ravi Bansal, Duke University
Brad Barber, University of California, Davis
Pauline Barrieu, London School of Economics and Political Science
Ian Bateman, University of Exeter
Bryan Bollinger, Duke University
Patrick Bolton, Columbia University
Kent Daniel, Columbia University
Shijie Deng, Georgia Institute of Technology
Wedad Elmaghraby, University of Maryland
Caroline Flammer, Boston University
Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University
Deishin Lee, Ivey Western
Tom Lyon, University of Michigan
Ho-Yin Mak, University of Oxford
Mary-Hunter McDonnell, University of Pennsylvania
Nigel Melville, University of Michigan
Vikas Mittal, Rice University
Om Narasimhan, London School of Economics and Political Science
Elias Papaioannou, London Business School
Sanjay Patnaik, George Washington University
Stefan Reichelstein, Stanford University
Henri Servaes, London Business School
Alina Sorescu, Texas A&M University
Stijn van Osselaer, Cornell University
Gernot Wagner, New York University
Timothy Werner, University of Texas, Austin
Owen Wu, Indiana University
Jeff Wurgler, New York University
Joshua Graff Zivin, University of California, San Diego
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Beril Toktay
Professor of Operations Management
Brady Family Chairholder
Faculty Director, Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business
Scheller College of Business
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
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