November 2009 Spotlight on Research (and more)

This month's spotlight on research features Bruce Rockwood.

Below is:
- the part of his original e-mail that pertains to research and
- the abstract and copyright information for his paper.

Excerpt from Bruce's e-mail:

In June-July 2008, I presented a paper on my MBA Ethics class exercise on climate change at the World Association of Case Method Research and Application (WACRA) annual meeting held at Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland. I attach the peer reviewed version of that paper which was published in December, 2008.

I have a paper on corporate disinformation using the tobacco and climate change cases accepted for publication in the next issue of JNABET – more information on that when it comes out.

We had an excellent local one day conference connected to the National Teach-in On Climate Change in February, 2009, and I am on the committee to prepare our involvement for the February, 2010 teach-in.

I recommend people interested in the field join as associates of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) ---they have a lot of good on-line mid-day conferences on current issues you can watch from your office. And John Dernbach edited an excellent work, “Agenda for a Sustainable America” (ELI, 2009) that I highly recommend.

Take care. Bruce L. Rockwood, J.D. , Professor of Legal Studies and Chair, Finance & Legal Studies Department, Bloomsburg University (Pa).

Copyright information and abstract

International Journal of Case Method Research & Application (2008) XX, 4
© 2008 WACRA®. All rights reserved ISSN 1554-7752

EXPLORING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION WITH THE STABILIZATION WEDGE ROLE-PLAYING EXERCISE IN AN MBA ETHICS CLASS
Bruce Lindsley Rockwood

Bloomsburg University
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A.

An emerging consensus agrees that anthropogenic global warming causes extreme weather patterns, resulting in flooding, droughts, fires, high insurance costs, threats to human health and the world’s food supply. The business community in the United States has been slow in adapting to this development.

The dual goal of this paper is to present the case for climate change as a genuine challenge and to explain the pedagogical methods the author uses to make students aware of the urgency of the problem and the opportunities created through the acceptance of socially responsible investments in alternative energy projects. The stabilization wedge game (developed at Princeton University) is a useful interdisciplinary exercise for exploring and developing, through teamwork, innovative solutions that are socially responsible and profitable at the same time.

KEY WORDS: Climate change, global warming, business ethics, socially responsible investing, corporate citizenship, corporate social responsibility (CSR), greenhouse gases, scientific consensus, stabilization wedge game, sustainable development, alternative energy, IPCC.