Creating shared value and the challenge of climate change: business strategy and government policy

Seminar by Patrick O'Sullivan

Abstract

The focus of this presentation is on two areas of strategy to deal with climate change and environmental sustainability:

1. Business Strategy: based on the work of Michael Porter and Mark Kramer on the basis of creation of shared value 
2. Government policy struggles to achieve any significant progress in practice despite lofty declarations of principle and there is no overarching referee or authority that can enforce common policies in respect of anthropogenic climate change mitigation efforts. In the face of highly interdependent policy challenges facing large swathes of humanity across multiple national boundaries there is a case for some kind of overarching supranational authority to formulate and enforce policies in these areas.

Bio

Patrick O’Sullivan holds degrees in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. Senior Professor at the Grenoble Ecole de Management, he has been visiting professor, among others, at the University of Cambridge, the ESCP Europe Business School Torino, the University of Warsaw and the Università di Parma. He is co-editor of the book “The Meaning of Shared Value. New Perspective on Creating Shared Value” (Routledge 2023).