[AISWorld] [Call for Papers] Defining Systems Change in Sustainable Business

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What does systems change mean for the future of sustainable business?

Share your insight in Amplify

https://www.cutter.com/journals/amplify

— formerly Cutter Business Technology Journal.

Abstract deadline: March 2, 2022

Article deadline: April 1, 2022

Climate change is more than an environmental issue. It is a systems 
breakdown with widespread implications for human life by impacting 
weather patterns, growing conditions, disease proliferation, coastal 
flooding, droughts, wildfires and more. Adding urgency, climate change 
is just one planetary boundary that scientists warn we are crossing in 
what has been termed the Anthropocene. By exceeding the sustainable 
boundaries for land system use, nitrogen and phosphorous waste and novel 
chemical releases, we are causing elevated rates of species extinction, 
reduced agricultural productivity, and degraded marine ecosystems across 
the globe. These deep systemic breakdowns pose an existential threat to 
health and well-being everywhere on Earth, leading to widespread calls 
for systems change to prevent the worst projected outcomes from 
occurring. The costs for climate change alone have been projected as 
high as $23 trillion in reduced annual global economic output.

With that as a rather dark introduction, this special issue probes the 
necessary scope and scale of solutions that can be provided by the 
market. It does so by exploring the concept of "systems change" itself. 
What does systems change mean, in a conceptual and tangible way, when 
thinking about, analyzing and realizing the future worlds we want and 
need?

Many have argued that systems change means we need to fundamentally 
alter the form of our economic, political and social institutions as 
well as the subsystems within them. Proposed solutions include moving 
business from reducing unsustainability and toward creating 
sustainability, from enterprise integration toward market 
transformation, from incremental adjustment toward transformative 
change, or from our present state toward Regenerative Capitalism, Donut 
Economics or a host of other reorienting models. The levels of these 
transitions have been depicted at the sectoral scale, such as moving 
from automobiles to mobility, and the economy and societal scale, 
calling out the need for a new form of capitalism with new systems of 
material flows and supply-chains, corporate governance, valuation 
techniques and metrics, legal and tax structures, global ethics, 
cultural values and more. Some compare the scale of change before us to 
the societal transformations experienced in the Enlightenment, the 
Scientific Revolution and the Reformation. All of this testifies to 
scale of the massive systemic shift before us, but leave us unclear on 
its specifics.

To explore these questions and possible answers, an upcoming issue of 
Amplify with Guest Editors, Dr. Andrew Hoffman and Dr. Nicholas 
Poggioli, will address the question, "What does 'systems change' mean 
for the future of sustainable business in the Anthropocene?"

Article ideas may include, but are not limited, to the following:

How can we conceptualize systems change at the local, regional, national 
or international levels; and/or at the sectoral or economy-wide scales?

What does systemic change look like in 2030, 2050 or 2200?

How does government fit into the idea of systems change? What kinds of 
policies can be deployed to move the economy, the market and capitalism 
towards a new set of systemic structures that address the challenges of 
the Anthropocene?

What kinds of metrics might we apply that link natural and economic 
systems? What measures and outcomes would indicate that systems change 
has been achieved and further change is unneeded?

What does systems change mean in the context of non-human stakeholders 
like animals, plants, landscapes, and sacred sites?

Which elements of business management are conceptualized as systems, 
which are not, and why?

For elements seen as systems, what about them needs to change, how do we 
measure change, and what new state is needed to be considered 
sustainable?

Does the desired outcome affect how we conceptualize and measure systems 
and systems change? For example, are the management systems that matter 
to preventing climate change above 1.5 Celsius the same or different 
from systems that matter to reducing species extinction, reduced 
agricultural productivity, and degraded marine ecosystems across the 
globe?

What are the political implications of a focus on systems change? For 
example, who benefits by leaving the systems as they are or systems 
change undefined? How do specific stakeholders attempt to influence the 
definition of systems change? Who benefits from a focus on systems 
change?

What are the social equity considerations in a shift to systems change? 
How does systems change impact human rights, social inclusion and equal 
opportunity around the world?

What conflicts, if any, exist between sustainable business and our 
current system of organizing business by industry, sector, nation, etc.? 
What alternative ways of organizing the market might accelerate the kind 
of systems change we need?

How have specific industries or stakeholders conceptualized systems 
change? For example, what has systems change meant in the global 
agribusiness, automotive or energy sectors, Chinese manufacturing, or 
United States financial services? How have management scholars, Fortune 
500 executives, or trade associations conceptualized systems change?

FOR CONSIDERATION: Please send an abstract (~ 300 words or less of 
proposed article scope and author(s) bio) by March 2 to Dr. Andrew 
Hoffman, Dr. Nicholas Poggioli and Christine Generali . Final articles 
are due April 1. Article length is typically 2,000-3,500 words plus 
graphics. More editorial guidelines

https://www.cutter.com/call-papers#Editorial%20Guidelines

. 

Learn more or submit a proposal!

https://www.cutter.com/call-papers#systems

Amplify

https://www.cutter.com/journals/amplify

is published monthly as a forum for thought leaders, academics, business 
practitioners, and industry experts to present innovative ideas, current 
research, and solutions to the critical issues facing business 
technology professionals competing in today's digital economy.

Compensation: Authors receive a complimentary subscription to Amplify 
and get exposure to an audience of business-technology leaders spanning 
industries across the globe. Articles are also featured on social media 
including LinkedIn and Twitter.

If you have any questions, please contact Christine Generali , Amplify

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Group Publisher.

We look forward to the opportunity of working with you!

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