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Implications of the power sector emissions on the deep decarbonisation of Nigeria: evaluating long-term model based scenarios
No full textLimited energy access is one of Nigeria’s most pressing development challenges. At the same time, Nigeria has pledged to attain net-zero by 2060. However, science-based evidence that is necessary to support this ambition is still lacking. Thus, this work investigates the implications of the power sector’s emission on Nigeria’s net-zero goal. This research employs three scenarios to decarbonise the Nigeria’s power sector up to 2060. The three scenarios—Current Policy Scenario (CPS), Gas Economy Scenario (GES), and Renewable Energy Scenario (RES), were modelled using the Low Emission Analysis Platform, on the premise that Nigeria achieves its energy-for-all agenda by 2030. The findings suggest that the Nigerian power capacities must grow to 398 GW, 250 GW, and 347 GW in the CPS, GES, and RES, by 2060. Also, the decarbonisation scenarios suggest that the power sector’s emissions would be reduced to 0.5, 0.1, and 0.1 MMT CO2 − eq, respectively, for the CPS, GES, and RES, as against 112.5 MMT CO2 − eq in the baseline scenario, by 2060. Key message to policy makers is that Nigeria can fulfil its energy-for-all obligation while simultaneously decarbonising the electricity sector towards attaining its net-zero goal. However, this would require a significant rollout of solar energy (in either the CPS or RES scenarios) or large-scale carbon capture installations (in GES). Therefore, unless the government urgently prioritises an uptake of clean technologies, and creates a political environment that encourages investment in clean energy, the country is likely to fall behind in its climate and energy access goals
Parent(-ing) at work: how employees navigate parenthood at work
No full textRecent studies indicate that both work and nonwork experiences influence each other, leading to a highly interconnected and blended work-life experience for employees. This insight challenges the traditional assumption that the institutionalized nature of work and home confines roles to specific times and spaces. However, this insight has yet to be sufficiently incorporated into management scholarship, hindering our ability to fully understand how work-nonwork roles overlap and are managed. The parent role constitutes a dominant nonwork role that impacts work in a range of ways. Scholars disproportionately focus on the incompatibility between parent and work roles without addressing the outcomes of this incompatibility for employees’ lives or how it is managed. Our symposium presents five papers that exhibit the consequences of combining parenthood and work for the lives of employees as well as its navigation in both work and nonwork domains. Contributors draw on diverse theoretical perspectives¬—relational exchange, infrastructure shock, gender schema, role theory, boundary work, and identity—and unique contexts—entrepreneurship, a religious community, COVID-19, and fishermen community—to provide a broad vision of the parenthood-work overlap dynamic and its navigation. To foster meaningful discussions between the authors and the audience, our symposium will use a round table format instead of featuring a discussant after the paper presentations. When Motherhood and Entrepreneurship Collide Author: Elinor Flynn; London Business School Author: Vanessa Conzon; Boston College Passing As Stay-At-Home Moms: When Women Work in Patriarchal Societies Author: Elise B. Jones; U.S. Coast Guard Academy Author: Christine Deborah Bataille; Work-Family Infrastructure Shock: Challenging the Status Quo of Ideal Parent and Worker Author: Keimei Sugiyama; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Author: Jamie Jocelyn Ladge; Boston College Hockey Moms and Ballet Dads: On Forming a Parent Social Identity at Work Author: Namrata Sandhu; George Mason University Author: Heather Ciara Vough; George Mason University Fishing (for) Identity: Intergenerational Work Identity among Fathers and Sons Author: Muhammad Aqeel Awan; London School of Economics and Political Science Author: Niranjan Srinivasan Janardhanan
Pathways of purpose: longitudinal research on careers and meaningful work
No full textThis symposium explores the pursuit of meaningful work over time, focusing on how individuals and organizations foster, sustain, and adapt this sense of purpose throughout careers. Drawing on longitudinal research, the symposium examines how personal experiences, career transitions, and organizational factors shape perceptions of meaningful work. Presentations span qualitative and quantitative methodologies, offering nuanced insights into the subjective and structural elements that influence career trajectories. These presentations collectively illuminate the interplay between individual agency, external forces, and the pursuit of meaning through work and provide a foundation for understanding how perceptions of meaningful work evolve, the strategies individuals adopt to maintain fulfillment, and how organizations can support sustainable career paths. Privilege, Serendipity and Career Success: The Case of Elite MBA Graduates Author: Hannah Weisman; Harvard Business School Author: Leslie Perlow; Harvard Business School Call Me Maybe: The Calling Alignment Model Author: Shoshana Dobrow; London School of Economics and Political Science Author: Jennifer Tosti-Kharas; Babson College Author: Hannah Weisman; Harvard Business School Downshifting at Work: Journeys of Self-Learning Born from Quests to Work Less Author: Megan Gorges; Harvard Business School Promoted Out of or Away from Passion? How Nurses Navigate Promotions from Patient Care to Management Author: Solomiya Draga; Harvard Business School Author: Jon Michael Jachimowicz; Harvard Business School When Meaningful Work Meets Organizational Change: A Longitudinal Study of Employees’ Perceived Work Meaningfulness During a Merger Author: Shawn Chan; INSEAD Author: Yuna Cho; Sungkyunkwan University Author: Winnie Jiang; INSEAD Author: Lucas Dufour; Toronto Metropolitan University Author: Arnaud BANOUN; ESC Clermont Business Schoo
Perspectives on corporate volunteering programs: why they matter and new directions
No full textResearch on the volunteering experiences of employees and their relationships with personal and organizational outcomes has blossomed in recent years. However, much of this research has not distinguished between employees’ engagement in personal and corporate-sponsored volunteering programs. Personal volunteering (i.e., employees volunteering their own time to causes that support the community) is distinct from corporate volunteering – employees’ participation in corporate-sponsored activities, with support from their employer in terms of paid time or other supporting resources. Given our shortage of knowledge regarding the impacts of corporate-sponsored volunteering programs in particular, this symposium brings together five presentations that seek to advance our understanding of the impacts of corporate volunteering programs from a variety of perspectives. Collectively, the papers use a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to provide novel insights into why corporate volunteering matters, the processes through which organizations design and implement these programs, the impacts such programs can have on employees, the expectations various stakeholders in these programs hold of each other, and how these programs can be designed to be sustainable over time. The symposium will close with an audience discussion led by our discussant on the implications of the five papers for the study of corporate volunteering programs. Employee volunteering as a change catalyst Author: Katerina Gonzalez; Suffolk University Author: Florencio F. Portocarrero; London School of Economics and Political Science Broadening the Social Impact: How Volunteering Enables Servant Leadership Author: Haoying Xu; Stevens Institute of Technology Author: John Lynch; University of Illinois at Chicago Author: Sandy J. Wayne; Author: Siyi Tao; Employee volunteering programs: a marginal and essentially performative CSR tool Author: Bethania Antunes; London School of Economics and Political Science Author: Cecile Guillaume; University of Surrey Author: Lisa Jean Cafora; University of Surrey The (Mis)Alignment of Expectations across Corporate Volunteering Program Stakeholders Author: Jonathan Edward Booth; Author: John Lynch; University of Illinois at Chicago Author: Aaron Aujla; London School of Economics and Political Science Author: Haoying Xu; Stevens Institute of Technology When in Rome? Selling centralized HR policies across subsidiaries: A qualitative investigation Author: Kiera Dempsey-Brench; Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Author: Mihwa Seong; King's College London Author: Amanda Shantz; Not Associate
The electoral effects of state-sponsored anti-LGBTQ measures
No full textDo strategies of state-sponsored homophobia translate into electoral gains? While a growing body of literature documents the increasing politicization of LGBTQ- and gender-related issues by illiberal elites, little is known about the electoral effects of these strategies. We address this important question by studying whether anti-LGBTQ mobilization pays off electorally for government parties. Empirically, we study the adoption of anti-LGBTQ resolutions in many Polish municipalities prior to the 2019 parliamentary election. Using a synthetic differences-in-differences design, we find that these resolutions significantly depressed turnout in affected municipalities, with opposition parties showing less mobilization capacity. By contrast, turnout for the incumbent Law and Justice Party increased. Overall, this study’s findings are relevant for understanding the electoral consequences of both elite-led mobilization against stigmatized and discriminated groups and policies of subnational democratic backsliding
Taking a social inclusion lens on persons with disabilities and public finance management
No full textPeople with disabilities (PWDs) in Zimbabwe continue to face implicit social acceptance of violation their rights in rural communities (but also in urban communities) and widespread reluctance to address the issue. This problem statement triggers the need for public expenditure towards the inclusion and welfare of PWDs. This chapter analyses the strengths and weaknesses and areas of progress or stagnation by specifically focusing on how the national budgets have been allocated towards empowerment and social protection of PWDs. Public spending towards various indicators, including those related to access, participation, institutions and hard and soft infrastructure, is analysed using the latest available data in relation to various international and national commitments. Overall, the chapter concludes that whilst progress towards allocation of public funds is being made, it is not sufficient, especially given the cumulative deficits that already exist
Climate risk perception and climate information use: gendered differences among South African entrepreneurs
Get PDFFemale entrepreneurs in South Africa face heightened challenges arising from climate change compared with men. Recognising and addressing the gendered dimensions of climate vulnerability, including with regard to the provision of climate information, is essential for ensuring equitable and effective climate adaptation decision-making for entrepreneurs across both the formal and informal sectors. This brief presents findings from a survey of 202 female and male entrepreneurs in South Africa (see Figure 1) to assess gendered differences in climate information use and provide recommendations for government policymakers
Insurance, equity and nature in England’s changing climate
No full textPranav Shankar Kaundinya and Mariam Parekhelashvili present eight reflections on how flood insurance can be made more equitable as flood risk intensifies in England – and consider how nature might be integrated into the conversation
The Cali Fund in operation: the potential of sustainable finance instruments and next steps
No full textA recent call for submissions to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on the implementation of the newly agreed Cali Fund provided an important opportunity for stakeholders to shape its operationalisation. Lea Reitmeier, Agata Makowska-Curran and Jasmine Kindness reflect on the importance of getting the Cali Fund right for scaling-up private sector contributions, including the possible use of green bonds to incentivise contributions
This 'moment of opportunity' a new rulebook for pragmatic cooperation around clean trade and industrial policy
No full textTrade tensions and declining compliance with trade rules are likely to further fragment an already strained trade system, frustrate international climate cooperation, and stymie clean energy investment into new markets if left unaddressed. The authors of this commentary propose a modernised rulebook in response to the UN Secretary-General’s calls to ‘supercharge the new energy era’ through climate-aligned trade and industrial policy and explain how Europe can lead on implementation