Paul Shrivastava

Paul Shrivastava is the Distinguished Professor and Di-rector of David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterpriseat Concordia University.

1 Biography

Born in Bhopal, India, in 1951, Dr. Paul Shrivastavais the David O'Brien Distinguished Professor of Sustain-able Enterprise and Director of the David O'Brien Cen-tre for Sustainable Enterprise at Concordia University,Montreal. He also leads the International Research Chairin Art and Sustainable Enterprise at ICNBusiness School,Nancy, France. In these roles he combines scientic andartistic approaches to sustainable development, exempli-ed in the conference Balance unBalance 2011,[1] and hisbook Learning from the Financial Crisis (edited withMattStatler) published by Stanford University Press [2] He haspublished 17 books and over 100 articles some of whichare listed below under Publications.[3]

Shrivastava held the Howard I. Scott Chair in Manage-ment, a distinguished professorship at Bucknell Univer-sity (Lewisburg, PA), and was Associate Professor ofManagement at the Stern School of Business, New YorkUniversity. He was awarded Fulbright Program SeniorScholar award to study Japanese corporate environmentalmanagement at Kyoto University, Japan. He has taught atthe Helsinki School of Economics, and IIM Shillong. Heis the author of Bhopal: Anatomy of a Crisis (1989), abook that launched the eld of organizational crisis man-agement.[4] He founded the Organizations and NaturalEnvironment Division of the Academy of Management(the worlds largest academic professional association inManagement studies).[5] He received a Bachelors degreein Mechanical Engineering from the Maulana Azad Na-tional Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Post GraduateDiploma in Management (MBA) from Indian Instituteof Management Calcutta and a Ph.D. from University ofPittsburgh.He co-founded two academic journals - Industrial CrisisQuarterly published by Elsevier, and Organization & En-vironment published by Sage Publications, has served onthe Editorial Boards of several leading management stud-ies journals, on the Board of Trustees of DeSales Uni-versity, Allentown, PA, on the Board of the Finance andSustainability Initiative, Montreal,[6] and as Senior Advi-sor to the Indian Institute of Management Shillong.

2 WorkPaul Shrivastavas major contributions to the eld of busi-ness management are concepts for understanding strate-gic industrial and environmental crises and crisis manage-ment, corporate strategies for sustainability and sustain-able strategic management. His contributions to manage-ment practice include crisis management techniques, en-vironmental and sustainability strategies, and use of thearts for creativity and sustainability programs.Shrivastavas professional work is rooted in a concern forhuman-technology-nature relationships. Having grownup in the small town of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, themost backward state of India, he was enchanted by thepromise of technology to improve the lives of people. Hestudied engineering in college and graduated rst (goldmedal) in his mechanical engineering class. He receiveda Post Graduate Diploma in Management at IIM Calcuttaand Ph.D. fromUniversity of Pittsburgh. The Bhopal dis-aster (the worst industrial accident in history) revealed thetwo-headedness of technology, and he turned to examin-ing the risks and crises associated with industrial tech-nologies, leading to systematic studies of crisis manage-ment. The eld of crisis management has emerged sincethen as a vital eld of study. It is concerned with identi-fying systemic causes and consequences of crises. It hasled to development of crisis management and crisis pre-vention practices in the areas of industrial disasters, com-puter disasters, risk management, worker safety, metalsmining and oil industries.[7]

He developed embodied learning methods whereinconcepts are intertwined with physically and emotionallyengaging activities to create learning experiences that en-dure and transform.[8] His course Managing with Pas-sion is an events management course in which studentslearn by planning, organizing, training for and participat-ing in a real event a USA Triathlon sanctioned publictriathlon race. Students gain understanding of conceptsthat are interwoven with physical activities, emotional ac-tivities, cognitive exercises and online activities.[9]

An element in Shrivastava professional work is the cre-ation of new organizations. He helped launch HCL En-terprise group of computer companies in 1976 along withsix entrepreneurs from Microcomp Pvt. Ltd., and eS-ocrates, Inc. He also created academic organizationssuch as the ONE Division of the Academy of Manage-ment, theOrganization & Environment journal, the DavidO'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, the WorldBusiness School Council for Sustainable Business[10] and

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non-prot organizations (Industrial Crisis Institute). Heis steeringWBSCSB in collaboration with UN-Principlesof Responsible Management Education (PRME) andGlobal Responsible Leadership Initiative, to create a re-port on the Next 50 Years of Management Education tobe presented at Rio+20 Conference in May 2012.[11]

Paul Shrivastava has been studying corporate sustainabil-ity for the past two decades. Despite the scientic un-derstanding of global climate change, global poverty, andbiodiversity decline, global leaders are unable to reacheective international agreements to address these chal-lenges. He suggests that science alone will not solve theproblem of sustainability. Humans have to nd a newwayof engaging nature, that allows them to care and preserveit in enduring ways. Shrivastava is extending the scienticunderstanding of sustainability to the realm of the arts.Arts as the repository of human emotions oer a vehiclefor creating passionate engagement between humans andnature.[12] This project uses transdisciplinary approachesto science and arts in aesthetic inquiry into sustainabil-ity issues. This collaboration of a dozen researchers inFrance, Canada, USA and India, has produced results in-cluding the Balance unBalance 2011 conference [13] andMontreal Degrowth 2012 conference.[14]

3 PublicationsPartial List of Book Publication:

1. Shrivastava, P., A. Hu and J. Dutton (Eds). Ad-vances in Strategic Management, Vol. 9. GreenwichCT.: JAI Press, 1993.

2. Shrivastava, P., Strategy Formulation and Imple-mentation. Cincinnati, OH: Southwestern Publish-ing Co., 1994.

3. Shrivastava, P., A. Hu and J. Dutton (Eds).Advances in Strategic Management, Vol. 10. 1994,Greenwich CT.: JAI Press.

4. Shrivastava, P., and C. Stubbart, Advances inStrategic Management, Vol 12 (A & B), (Challengesfrom Outside the Mainstream, Challenges Withinthe Mainstream), Greenwich CT: JAI Press, 1995.

5. Shrivastava, P., Greening Business: Proting theCorporation and the environment. Cincinnati, OH:Thomson Executive Press, 1996.

6. Shrivastava, P., A. Hu and J. Dutton (SeriesEds). Advances in Strategic Management, Vol. 13.1996, Greenwich CT.: JAI Press.

7. Shrivastava, P., A. Hu and J. Dutton (SeriesEds). Advances in Strategic Management: Organiza-tional Learning and Strategic Management, Vol. 14.1997, Greenwich CT.: JAI Press.

8. Timo Busch and P. Shrivastava, Corporate Strate-gies for Global Climate Change, Greenleaf Publish-ers, London, 2011.

9. Paul Shrivastava and Matt Statler, Learning fromthe Global Financial Crisis: Sustainably, Reliably,Creatively. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto CA,2011.

10. Alfred Marcus, Paul Shrivastava, SanjaySharma, and Stefano Pogutz (Eds), Cross Sec-tor Leadership for the Green Economy, PalgraveMacmillan, New York, 2012.

Recent Articles Published

1. Shrivastava, P. Sustainable OrganizationalTechnology, International Journal of SustainableStrategic Management, 2008.

2. Shrivastava, P. For a new sustainable eco-nomic order Economic and Political Weekly of In-dia, November 4, 2008.

3. Shrivastava, P. Culture of consumption isnt sus-tainable. 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 Ter-rorrism, International Journal of Sustainable Strate-gic Management, Spring, 2009.

5. Shrivastava, P. A Pedagogy of Passion for Su-sainability Academy of Management Learning andEducation, September 2010.

6. Shrivastava, P. and R. Paquin, Sustainableenterprises: Addressing management challenges inthe 21st Century In Subash Gupta and Ben Ke-dia (Eds) Enhancing Global Competitiveness throughSustainable Environmental *Stewardship, EdwardElgar Publishers, 2011.

7. Shrivastava, P. and M. Statler, Aesthetics of Re-silient Systems (In French) Telescope, August, Vol-ume 16, 2010

8. Shrivastava, P. and Stephanie Berger, Sustain-ability Principles Organizations Management Jour-nal, 7, 246261, 2010

9. Shrivastava, P. Sustainability 2.0 in An-drew Homan and Pratima Bansal (Eds),Handbookof Environmental Management, Oxford UniversityPress, 2011.

10. Mathews, Damon, and Paul Shrivastava,Canadas complacency on climate change is an em-barrassment, The Montreal Gazette, July 1, 2011

3His work has been featured in

The Los Angeles Times,

The Philadelphia Inquirer,

The Christian Science Monitor

The Globe and Mail

The Montreal Gazette

and on the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour

4 References[1]

[2] Edited by Paul Shrivastava and Matt Statler. Learningfrom the Global Financial Crisis. Sup.org. Retrieved2012-12-03.

[3] Meet Director Shrivastava. Johnmolson.concordia.ca.Retrieved 2012-12-03.

[4] http://www.jstor.org/pss/258581

[5] Home. One.aomonline.org. 2012-08-06. Retrieved2012-12-03.

[6] Summary of FSI, what it is, why it has been estab-lished?". Ifd-fsi.org. Retrieved 2012-12-03.

[7] http://paulshrivastava.com/Research%20Publications%20Directory%5CA%20Native%20Son%20Returns%20to%20Bhopal%20.pdf

[8] http://paulshrivastava.net/Research%20Publications%20Directory/Pedagogy%20of%20Passion%20for%20Sustainability.pdf

[9] Morrison, James L. (2000-11-20). The TechnologySource Archives - Online Communities as a New Learn-ing Paradigm: An Interview with Paul Shrivastava.Technologysource.org. Retrieved 2012-12-03.

[10] World Business School Council for Sustainable Busi-ness. Wbscsb.com. Retrieved 2012-12-03.

[11] 50+20 Home : 50+20. 50plus20.org. 2012-06-15. Re-trieved 2012-12-03.

[12] RCI // Eco-eciency - A path to protability. Rcinet.ca.Retrieved 2012-12-03.

[13] ABOUT. Balance-unbalance2011.hexagram.ca. 2011-05-19. Retrieved 2012-12-03.

[14] International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas.Montreal.degrowth.org. Retrieved 2012-12-03.

5 External links Personal Website www.paulshrivastava.net David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise,Directors Page

International Research Chair in Art and SustainableEnterprise www.ircase.org

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