11585: Regenerative Economy: A New Paradigm

Saturday, July 26, 2025

10:30 - 12:30 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall C- C3-m3

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/Kp85WY

Coordinator(s)

KQ

Katinka J.P Quintelier

Vrije U. Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics, Netherlands

Facilitator(s)

AG

Anja Grüll

WU Vienna U. of Economics and Business, Institute for Managing Sustainability, Austria

Panelist(s)

AD

Ankita Das

Maastricht University, Netherlands

Facilitator(s)

AM

Anna Margolis

University of Hamburg, Germany

Moderator(s)

CF

Canio Forliano

U. of Turin, Department of Management, Italy

Facilitator(s)

JV

Joeri Van Hugten

Vrije U. Amsterdam, Netherlands

Panelist(s)

JG

Jury Gualandris

-, Canada
LA

Laura Albareda

LUT Business School, Finland
JK

Johanna Kujala

Tampere U., Finland

Facilitator(s)

MM

Magdalena Marczewska

U. of Warsaw, Poland

Moderator(s)

MP

Martina Panero

University of Turin, Italy

Panelist(s)

ML

Martina K. Linnenluecke

U. of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Organizer(s)

NT

Nina Telg

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Panelist(s)

PR

Paavo Ritala

LUT Business School, Finland

Moderator(s)

SG

Simona Grande

U. of Turin, Department of Management

Facilitator(s)

TS

Tomas Santa-Maria

University for Development, Chile

A groundswell of management and organization scholars explore regeneration – actively restoring or enhancing natural and social systems – as a new and hopeful approach to social and environmental sustainability. Current sustainability efforts often aim to decrease harm to society and nature or decrease organizations’ negative impact. Yet, such sustainability efforts are insufficient to protect and enhance the state of the world. Scholars and practitioners, therefore, have started to develop novel assumptions, research questions, methods, and theories to investigate how business can help socio-ecological systems to regenerate. In other words, how can businesses move beyond reducing harm, towards increasing benefits to society and nature, or how can organizations achieve a truly positive impact? Although a powerful idea, regeneration is likely to collide with underlying assumptions (such as anthropocentrism) about concepts, methods, and theories, and with the scope of research phenomena. Given the urgency of environmental and social issues, the time is right for management and organization scholars to turn around outdated assumptions, and come up with new, creative approaches to sustainability for positive impact – to develop the paradigm of a regenerative economy. This research PDW, therefore, connects groundbreaking scholars and participants to exchange knowledge and inspiration, to amplify the research impact of regenerative ideas, concepts, research questions and assumptions, and ultimately to renew sustainability research.