About GRONEN

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The Group of Research on Organizations and Natural Environment (GRONEN) is an international network of scholars and managers interested in researching on management and the natural environment all around the world.

Our mission

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GRONEN aims to offer new ways to generate open and rigorous thinking on sustainability. Specifically, GRONEN aims these five main objectives:

  • To generate HIGHEST LEVEL OF RESEARCH RIGOR.
  • To encourage FREE and OPEN THINKING in order to generate innovative ways of protecting the Earth.
  • To promote PERSONAL INTERACTIONS between people working on the analysis of the relationships between natural environment and organizations.
  • To obtain geographical, methodological, and paradigmatic HETEROGENEITY. Specially, internationalization of the activities and the scholars is definitely a plus for GRONEN.
  • To have FLEXIBILITY to develop all the initiatives matching with previous characteristics. An innovative way of organizing through a NETWORK of scholars. Individual members are interested in these objectives, promote small or big activities, and forget centralized hierarchies.

What is the GRONEN history?

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GRONEN inspiration arises in Seattle 2003 where Sanjay Sharma (Canada), J. Alberto Aragón-Correa (Spain), Alfie Marcus (USA), and Stuart Hart (USA) meet in a cafe to think about a dynamic way to promote more opportunities of flexible interaction between scholars working on sustainability issues. Since the very beginning, one of the original ideas was to promote an open network of individual scholars in order to make bridges between American and European scholars working in organizations and natural environment. They thought that GRONEN might complement the traditional activities of the Organizations and Natural Environment (ONE) Division of the Academy of Management.

Scholars from more than 100 universities and institutions have collaborated with scientific and organizing GRONEN committees

One of the first GRONEN outputs was the decision to promote specific conferences (especially out of traditional North-American locations) generating an open network of people focused on high level research regarding organizations and the natural environment.

After four successful bi-annual conferences GRONEN, the network has created solid bridges between North American and European scholars, now GRONEN aims to reach a global scale including scholars from all over the world.