SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH

Ivey plays a lead role in creating intellectual capital that leads to corporate best practices, more competitive businesses and a more competitive economy. This intellectual capital also filters into the classroom and ensures that Ivey's curricula are at the leading edge of business practice.

Some of the topics that are researched within this Centre include:

• Measuring organizational performance
• The value drivers for superior long term performance
• Consumer advocacy
• Stakeholder management, communication and activism
• Corporate social responsibility, sustainable development, business ethics
• Corporate governance and executive compensation
• Employee issues
• Closed loop supply chains, offshore outsourcing, equity in supply chains
• Social/environmental impacts of deregulation, privatization, globalization
• The non-profit sector

This section of the website lists the Centre's research activities that meet those objectives.

“Sustainability products make a variety of claims that can be difficult to support. Retailers are wary of the reputation risks associated with charges of greenwashing when products don't measure up.” Brent McKnight, Environmental Expert
 

Sustainability Seminars

Sustainability seminars will be held every other Thursday, starting January 26, 2012 to include faculty and PhD students.

The purpose of the seminar is to discuss new research ideas, proposals, and papers.