On Thursday 17 June 2021, T.J.H. Geradts will defend his PhD dissertation, entitled: ‘Moving Beyond the Why and What Question: How Corporations Achieve Sustainable Development’.
- Promotor
- Promotor
- Promotor
- Date
- Thursday 17 Jun 2021, 15:30 - 17:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Senate Hall
- Building
- Erasmus Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
In today’s world sustainable development is considered to be an important driver for a corporation’s competitive advantage. Pursuing sustainable development provides corporations with a source of innovation, creates opportunities to improve their standing among a broad range of stakeholders, and allows them to strengthen their organizational resilience. Sustainable development is not only essential for corporations to achieve shortterm efficiencies and long-term market development, but also serves as a powerful engine of positive societal change. While scholars have focused a lot on reasons why corporations would pursue sustainable development and what they could do to effectively deliver on their ambition to achieve sustainability, much remains unknown about the “how to” of sustainable development. To address this gap, the four studies in this dissertation answer four research questions, which are aimed at advancing our understanding how managers may effectively drive sustainable development.
Due to corona, the PhD defences do not take place publicly in the usual way in the Senate Hall or in the Professor Andries Querido Room. The candidates will defend their dissertation either in a small group or online.
