The UArctic Assembly 2026 convenes in Tórshavn
Around 150 participants joined the UArctic Assembly 2026 in Tórshavn, the Faroe Islands, on 29 May 2026. The Assembly meeting was held as part of the UArctic...
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Established in 2022 at SKEMA Business School, the SKEMA Centre for Sustainability Studies (SCSS) is a forward-looking research centre dedicated to understanding how business can be a force for good in the world.
SKEMA Business School is a state-recognised, graduate-level institution governed as a non-profit association under French law (1901). Founded in 2009 through the merger of ESC Lille and Ceram Business School, SKEMA's mission is to develop high-achieving students and practitioners who drive sustainable organisational performance through innovation, technical expertise, and a cross-disciplinary, international mindset.
The SCSS brings together scholars from human resource management, organisational behaviour, entrepreneurship, economics, and sociology to produce rigorous, inter- and trans-disciplinary research at the intersection of business and sustainability. Our work spans four core thematic areas within sustainability studies described below.
Rooted in our local communities and committed to real-world impact, we translate our research into actionable insights for practitioners, policymakers, and educators — contributing to both theoretical advancement and meaningful change on the ground.
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As part of these four thematic areas, current research projects focus on:
This theme brings together scholars addressing the grand sustainability challenges of our time: climate change, biodiversity loss, energy transitions, and socioecological resilience. It integrates the natural and social sciences with organizational research to understand how societies, firms, and institutions navigate complex environmental transformations. We examine how firms transform business models, adopt governance mechanisms, and engage with complex socioecological systems to adapt to climate risks and mitigate environmental impacts.
Key research areas include sustainability strategy, governance and business model transformation; climate change adaptation and resilience; climate change mitigation; sustainability transitions and environmental stewardship; losses from extreme weather events; and earth systems change and planetary boundaries.
This theme explores the dynamic relationship between technology and innovation and organisational practices - examining how they mutually shape one another across dimensions including business models, environmental sustainability, and governance mechanisms. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches, it bridges technology and innovation management, sociology of innovation, operations and supply chain management, and organisational learning to contribute to scholarship and generate insights for firms and policy making.
The theme brings together scholars working at the intersection of AI, digital platforms, green technologies, intellectual property, and responsible innovation, with an ambition to produce research that is inclusive, attentive to geopolitical dynamics and committed to ensuring that the benefits of technological change are equitably distributed.
This theme focuses on the social dimensions of global challenges: diversity in all its forms and foregrounding human agency to understand the role and responsibilities of organisations within society and the environment, across individual, organisational, and societal levels. Our research attends to the social injustices of our moment: the backlash against sustainability governance, the narrowing of democratic and civic spaces, and the ways these pressures weigh on gender and human rights, push vulnerable stakeholders to the margins and affect well-being and health in organisations and society. We are equally interested in what alternatives might look like - forms of organising that could help advance social justice, equality, diversity, inclusion, and rights - and in how these questions play out differently across the world, from Europe to the Middle East, the African continent, the Americas, and the poles.
This theme views corporate sustainability as meeting the needs of a firm’s direct and indirect stakeholders (such as shareholders, employees, clients, pressure groups, communities, etc.) without compromising its ability to meet the needs of future stakeholders as well. Based on this conceptualisation, the Human-Centric Corporate Sustainability theme investigates the psychological, behavioural, and organisational mechanisms that drive organisational members engagement in sustainable transitions.
While traditional sustainability research often focuses on macro trends or technical environmental metrics, this theme places the human factor at the center of the sustainable enterprise. We explore how individual values, employee behaviours, and leadership style and characteristics can contribute together to address the sustainability (i.e., social and environmental) grand challenges.
Our objective is to unlock the "black box" of corporate sustainability by investigating it across three interconnected levels of analysis: the Individual (micro-level), the Change Agents (meso-level), and the Organisation (macro-level).