IoE Rough Cut Science:
Enabling organizational sustainability: A social-ecological systems perspective on voluntary standards programs
Date:
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Time: 12:00pm -
1:00pm
Speaker(s): Dr. Brooke Lahneman
Location: https://montana.webex.com/montana/j.php?MTID=m6add3c84d2a3ed89f3c7c39c3c8a37c7
Speaker(s):
Dr. Brooke Lahneman
Professor of Business at Montana State University
Dr. Brooke Lahneman is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship. Her research aims to contribute to our greater understanding of how organizations can navigate increasingly complex environments, through the lenses of social-ecological systems (SES), culture, & identity. In this seminar, Brooke will present a qualitative working paper, in which she and her co-author analyze the evolution of LIVE, a non-profit organization that developed a voluntary standards program (VSP) in the U.S. Pacific Northwest wine industry, over a 17-year period. The study presents a grounded conceptual model describing how a VSP can serve in a ‘bridging’ capacity to enable systems-based sustainability action across organizations co-located in a region. In this role, the VSP accumulates and integrates scientific and experiential knowledge of cross-scale SES dynamics, over time, to curate a repertoire of practices that is flexible and tailored to the emergent state of members’ particular issues while also safeguarding the resilience of the regional biophysical environment.
Dr. Brooke Lahneman
Professor of Business at Montana State University
Dr. Brooke Lahneman is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship. Her research aims to contribute to our greater understanding of how organizations can navigate increasingly complex environments, through the lenses of social-ecological systems (SES), culture, & identity. In this seminar, Brooke will present a qualitative working paper, in which she and her co-author analyze the evolution of LIVE, a non-profit organization that developed a voluntary standards program (VSP) in the U.S. Pacific Northwest wine industry, over a 17-year period. The study presents a grounded conceptual model describing how a VSP can serve in a ‘bridging’ capacity to enable systems-based sustainability action across organizations co-located in a region. In this role, the VSP accumulates and integrates scientific and experiential knowledge of cross-scale SES dynamics, over time, to curate a repertoire of practices that is flexible and tailored to the emergent state of members’ particular issues while also safeguarding the resilience of the regional biophysical environment.