Dr. Paul Shrivastava (Art and Sustainability)

Dr. Paul Shrivastava (Art and Sustainability)

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Biography

Born in Bhopal, India, in 1951, Dr. Paul Shrivastava is the David O'Brien Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and Director of the David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at Concordia University, Montreal. He also leads the International Research Chair in Art and Sustainable Enterprise at ICN Business School, Nancy, France. In these roles he combines scientific and artistic approaches to sustainable development, exemplified in the conference Balance unBalance 2011,[1] and his book Learning from the Financial Crisis (edited with Matt Statler) published by Stanford University Press [2] He has published 17 books and over 100 articles some of which are listed below under Publications.[3]

Shrivastava held the Howard I. Scott Chair in Management, a distinguished professorship at Bucknell University(Lewisburg, PA), and was Associate Professor of Management at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He was awarded Fulbright Program Senior Scholar award to study Japanese corporate environmental management at Kyoto University, Japan. He has taught at the Helsinki School of Economics, and IIM Shillong. He is the author of Bhopal: Anatomy of a Crisis (1989), a book that launched the field of organizational crisis management.[4] He founded the Organizations and Natural Environment Division] of the Academy of Management (the world's largest academic professional association in Management studies).[5] He received a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta and Ph.D., (University of Pittsburgh).

He co-founded two academic journals - The Industrial Crisis Quarterly published by Elsevier, and Organization and Environment published by Sage Publications, has served on the Editorial Boards of several leading Management studies journals, on the Board of Trustees of DeSales University, Allentown, PA, on the Board of the Finance and Sustainability Initiative, Montreal,[6] and as Senior Advisor to the Indian Institute of Management Shillong.

Work

Paul Shrivastava's major contributions to the field of business management are concepts for understanding strategic industrial and environmental crises and crisis management, corporate strategies for sustainability and sustainable strategic management. His contributions to management practice include crisis management techniques, environmental and sustainability strategies, and use of the arts for creativity and sustainability programs.

Shrivastava's professional work is rooted in a concern for human-technology-nature relationships. Having grown up in the small town of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, the most backward state of India, he was enchanted by the promise of technology to improve the lives of people. He studied engineering in college and graduated first (gold medal) in his mechanical engineering class. He received a Post Graduate Diploma in Management at IIM Calcutta and Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh. The Bhopal disaster (the worst industrial accident in history) revealed the two-headedness of technology, and he turned to examining the risks and crises associated with industrial technologies, leading to systematic studies of crisis management. The field of crisis management has emerged since then as a vital field of study.[citation needed] It is concerned with identifying systemic causes and consequences of crises. It has led to development of crisis management and crisis prevention practices in the areas of industrial disasters, computer disasters, risk management, worker safety, metals mining and oil industries.[7]

He developed "embodied learning" methods wherein concepts are intertwined with physically and emotionally engaging activities to create learning experiences that endure and transform.[8] His course "Managing with Passion" is an events management course in which students learn by planning, organizing, training for and participating in a real event – a USA Triathlon sanctioned public triathlon race. Students gain understanding of concepts that are interwoven with physical activities, emotional activities, cognitive exercises and online activities.[9]

An element in Shrivastava professional work is the creation of new organizations. He helped launch HCL Enterprise group of computer companies in 1976 along with six entrepreneurs from Microcomp Pvt. Ltd., and eSocrates, Inc. He also created academic organizations such as the ONE Division of the Academy of Management, the Organizations and Environment Journal, the David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, the World Business School Council for Sustainable Business[10] and non-profit organizations (Industrial Crisis Institute). He is steering WBSCSB in collaboration with UN-Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) and Global Responsible Leadership Initiative, to create a report on the Next 50 Years of Management Education to be presented at Rio+20 Conference in May 2012.[11]

Paul Shrivastava has been studying corporate sustainability for the past two decades. Despite the scientific understanding of global climate change, global poverty, and biodiversity decline, global leaders[who?] are unable to reach effective international agreements to address these challenges. He suggests that science alone will not solve the problem of sustainability. Humans have to find a new way of engaging nature, that allows them to care and preserve it in enduring ways.[citation needed] Shrivastava is extending the scientific understanding of sustainability to the realm of the arts. Arts as the repository of human emotions offer a vehicle for creating passionate engagement between humans and nature.[12]This project uses transdisciplinary approaches to science and arts in aesthetic inquiry into sustainability issues. This collaboration of a dozen researchers in France, Canada, USA and India, has produced results including the Balance unBalance 2011 conference [13] and Montreal Degrowth 2012 conference.[14]

Publications

Partial List of Book Publication:

  • 1. Shrivastava, P., A. Huff and J. Dutton (Eds). Advances in Strategic Management, Vol. 9. Greenwich CT.: JAI Press, 1993.
  • 2. Shrivastava, P., Strategy Formulation and Implementation. Cincinnati, OH: Southwestern Publishing Co., 1994.
  • 3. Shrivastava, P., A. Huff and J. Dutton (Eds). Advances in Strategic Management, Vol. 10. 1994, Greenwich CT.: JAI Press.
  • 4. Shrivastava, P., and C. Stubbart, Advances in Strategic Management, Vol 12 (A & B), (Challenges from Outside the Mainstream, Challenges Within the Mainstream), Greenwich CT: JAI Press, 1995.
  • 5. Shrivastava, P., Greening Business: Profiting the Corporation and the environment. Cincinnati, OH: Thomson Executive Press, 1996.
  • 6. Shrivastava, P., A. Huff and J. Dutton (Series Eds). Advances in Strategic Management, Vol. 13. 1996, Greenwich CT.: JAI Press.
  • 7. Shrivastava, P., A. Huff and J. Dutton (Series Eds). Advances in Strategic Management: Organizational Learning and Strategic Management, Vol. 14. 1997, Greenwich CT.: JAI Press.
  • 8. Timo Busch and P. Shrivastava, Corporate Strategies for Global Climate Change, Greenleaf Publishers, London, 2011.
  • 9. Paul Shrivastava and Matt Statler, Learning from the Global Financial Crisis: Sustainably, Reliably, Creatively. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto CA, 2011.
  • 10. Alfred Marcus, Paul Shrivastava, Sanjay Sharma, and Stefano Pogutz (Eds), Cross Sector Leadership for the Green Economy, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2012.

Recent Articles Published

  • 1. Shrivastava, P. “Sustainable Organizational Technology”, International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management, 2008.
  • 2. Shrivastava, P. “For a new sustainable economic order” Economic and Political Weekly of India, November 4, 2008.
  • 3. Shrivastava, P. “Culture of consumption isn’t sustainable”. Harrsisburg Patriot News, December 21, 2008.

http://www.pennlive.com/patriotnews/stories/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1229720119207280.xml&coll=1

  • 4. Shrivastava, P., “Ecological Antecedents of Terrorrism”, International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management, Spring, 2009.
  • 5. Shrivastava, P. “A Pedagogy of Passion for Susainability” Academy of Management Learning and Education, September 2010.
  • 6. Shrivastava, P. and R. Paquin, “Sustainable enterprises: Addressing management challenges in the 21st Century” In Subash Gupta and Ben Kedia (Eds) Enhancing Global Competitiveness through Sustainable Environmental *Stewardship, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2011.
  • 7. Shrivastava, P. and M. Statler, “Aesthetics of Resilient Systems” (In French) Telescope, August, Volume 16, 2010
  • 8. Shrivastava, P. and Stephanie Berger, “Sustainability Principles” Organizations Management Journal, 7, 246–261, 2010
  • 9. Shrivastava, P. “Sustainability 2.0” in Andrew Hoffman and Pratima Bansal (Eds), Handbook of Environmental Management, Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • 10. Mathews, Damon, and Paul Shrivastava, “Canada’s complacency on climate change is an embarrassment”, The Montreal Gazette, July 1, 2011

His work has been featured in

and on the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour

References

  1. ^ http://www.balance-unbalance2011.hexagram.ca/%20Balance%20unBalance%202011
  2. ^ http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=18621 Learning from the Global Financial Crisis
  3. ^ http://johnmolson.concordia.ca/en/faculty-research/research-centres/david-obrien-centre-for-sustainable-enterprise/our-people/meet-director-shrivastava
  4. ^ http://www.jstor.org/pss/258581
  5. ^ http://one.aomonline.org/ONE_Web/Home.html
  6. ^ http://www.ifd-fsi.org
  7. ^ http://paulshrivastava.com/Research%20Publications%20Directory%5CA%20Native%20Son%20Returns%20to%20Bhopal%20.pdf
  8. ^ [1]
  9. ^ http://technologysource.org/article/online_communities_as_a_new_learning_paradigm/
  10. ^ http://www.wbscsb.com
  11. ^ http://www.50plus20.org/
  12. ^ http://www.rcinet.ca/english/column/the-indo-canadian-report-with-rashi-khilnani/16-14_2011-01-26-eco-efficiency-a-path-to-profitability/
  13. ^ [2]
  14. ^ http://www.Montreal.Degrowth.org

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