22739: Biodiversity and Business: From Mitigation to Action (CANCELLED)

Sunday, July 27, 2025

13:45 - 15:15 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B2-m6

Session Type: Symposium (panel)
Orientation: Practice,International,Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/QGWAXx

Organizer(s)

JF

Jonathan Feddersen

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
AW

Amanda Nicole Williams

IMD Business School, Switzerland

Panelist(s)

CR

Carten Rahbek

University of Copenhagen
JW

Judith Louise Walls

HSG U. of St. Gallen, Switzerland
SK

Steven Kennedy

-, Netherlands

This panel symposium explores the ongoing renegotiation of the relationship between biodiversity and business. It takes a starting point in the observation that we need to engage in dialogue with natural scientists specializing in biodiversity and conversation and with practitioners operating in this ill-defined space to understand the (potential) role of organization and management research in this renegotiation. Therefore, the panel brings together organization and management researchers with a world-leading biologist, a practitioner taking bold steps toward biodiversity net-positive, and an ecologist who advises on nature-based solutions. Through this conversation, the panel seeks to carve out a research agenda for organization and management studies able to guide companies’ biodiversity actions in alignment with ecosystem-based principles. The panel will be structured around the following three themes: 1. Defining and measuring biodiversity 2. Reconciling corporate and ecosystem-based management 3. Innovating biodiversity