Researching the Processes and Practices of Tackling Responsible Management and Sustainability Challenges

International Research Workshop, 7 – 8 September 2026, NTU London campus

Workshop agenda

How can management studies better address responsibility and sustainability challenges?

Amid the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, process- and practice-based approaches have been increasingly mobilised to advance the study of responsibility and sustainability challenges. Important insights have emerged across diverse research conversations, including responsible management-as-practice, practice-based studies of grand challenges, strategy-as-practice, and sustainability transitions, among others.

The proliferation of research streams, drawing on different process- and practice-theoretical inspirations, offers both challenges and opportunities. This international research workshop brings scholars, early career researchers, and PhD students into conversation across streams around shared concerns with process, practice, sustainability, and responsibility. The workshop, organised by Nottingham Business School, provides a platform to take stock, foster cross-stream exchange, and explore promising future directions, while supporting participants in developing networks, skills, and work-in-progress that can seed contributions beyond the event. These research agendas provide strong scientific foundations for, and can enhance, various forms of practice‑based and experiential learning and pedagogy for responsible management. They therefore attract researchers and lecturers interested in PRME.

Research topics

We welcome participants with an interest in a wide array of topics related to this field, whether related to processes and practices of managing, organising or strategising for sustainability and responsibility challenges.

Keynote contributors

·       Anja Danner-Schröder (University of Kaiserslautern)

·       Silvia Gherardi (University of Trento)

·       Renate Kratochvil (Stockholm School of Economics)

·       Oliver Laasch (ESCP Business School, Berlin)

·       David Seidl (University of Zurich)

·       Eero Vaara (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford).

(Convenor: Toke Bjerregaard NBS, NTU)

Who should apply

We welcome PhD students and other early career researchers. Senior academics are also welcome to apply.

Funding support

Some travel and accommodation bursaries are available for PhD students and early career researchers (see below link).

Discussants/roundtable chairs 

Such as Gary Burke (University of Bristol)

Katharina Dittrich (Warwick Business School) 

Organising team

Toke Bjerregaard, (toke.bjerregaard@ntu.ac.uk) (Nottingham Business School, NTU)

Natalie Toms (natalie.toms@ntu.ac.uk) (NBS)Maimoona Waseem, (NBS)Sahar Bakr, (NBS)

Derrick Boakye, (Aston Business School)

Venue

NTU London campus

A SAMS-funded workshop, organised by NBS (RSB Lab)

For more information and application form (deadline 15^th March 2026), please click here