Faculty and Research

Post-Copenhagen climate policy and its impact on business
Dan Esty (Yale)

Chair: Andrew King (Dartmouth)

Examining institutional deviance: board diversity, network effects and environmental behavior
Judith Walls (Concordia) with Andrew Hoffman (Michigan)

Social responsibility of business beyond profits
Justin Tumlinson (Berkeley)

Research sketches are short presentations (4 minutes) where presenters sketch their research question and approach and present some central findings, using either no slides or at most two slides. They are scheduled to encourage informal discussions during the breaks that immediately follow. † indicates research that will also be presented in the poster session on Thursday evening.

† The cross-national transfer of low-income business models: Institutions and the global growth of commercial microfinance, 1998-2007
Joshua Ault (South Carolina)†, with Andrew Spicer (U. of South Carolina)

† Embeddedness of environmental cultural change in a multinational corporation
Johanna Nurkka (Aalto University School of Economics), with Elizabeth Rose (Aalto University School of Economics)

† Corporate social responsibility and shareholder wealth - A longitudinal mixed-models analysis
Pinar Celikkol Geylani (Duquesne), with Philip Baird (Duquesne) and Jeffrey Roberts (Duquesne)

† Consumer perceptions of corporate responsibility activities: The CSR halo effect
Craig Smith (INSEAD) with Daniel Read (Yale) and Sofía López-Rodríguez (Univ Lille Nord de France; LSMRC / INSEAD Social Innovation Centre)

Chair: Eric Orts (Penn)

Redeployment of compliance-specific capabilities and renewable energy growth in the United States
Adam Fremeth (Western Ontario)

Corruption and environmental certification: The countervailing impacts of policy-specific and general corruption
Ivan Montiel (California State - Los Angeles), with Bryan Husted (York), Petra Christmann (Rutgers)

† Benefiting from social innovation: Implications for sustainability, organizing and public policy
Peter Bryant (IE Business School, Spain)

Strategic alternatives and influence opportunities: When managers expect to benefit from public policy
Susan Cohen (Pittsburgh), with Kathleen Sutcliffe (Michigan) and Alfred Marcus (Minnesota)

† Policy drivers of the direction of innovative activity: An examination of renewable energy incentives in driving innovation
Michael Lenox (Virginia), with Jeffrey York (Virginia) and Mary Margaret Frank (Virginia)

† Environmental institutions in emerging markets: How effective are they?
Frank Wijen (Erasmus)

Chair: John Maxwell (Indiana)

Sense and sensibility: Testing the effects of attention structures and organizational attention on financial performance
Luciana Carvalho de Mesquita Ferreira (Erasmus), with Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens (Erasmus)

Is leasing greener than selling?
L. Beril Toktay (Georgia Tech), with Vishal Agrawal, Mark Ferguson, Valerie Thomas (all Georgia Tech)

ISO 9000 systems as a mediator between international and domestic pressures and the adoption of proactive environmental practices by Chinese firms
James Cordeiro (State University of New York), with Qinghua Zhu (Dalian University of Technology and Joseph Sarkis (Clark)

Whether it's green or brown, buy local: Exploring the acquisition choice of manufacturing firms
Glen Dowell (Cornell), with Luca Berchicci (Erasmus) and Andrew King (Dartmouth)

The role of motivation on environmentally driven operations performance
Robert Sroufe (Duquesne), with Karen Chinander Dye (Florida Atlantic), Frank Montabon (Iowa State), and Steven Melnyk (Michigan State)

Key drivers in the market for remanufactured products: Empirical evidence from eBay
Ravi Subramanian (Georgia Tech), with Ramanath Subramanyam (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Chair: Glen Dowell (Cornell)

Efficiency meets responsibility: Configuring an accountable and responsible supply chain
Anne Parmigiani (Oregon), with Robert Klassen (Western Ontario), Michael Russo (Oregon)

Competition under product take-back laws: Individual or collective systems?
Atalay Atasu (Georgia Tech), with Ravi Subramanian (Georgia Tech)

The poster session will feature work by the following individuals, in addition to those indicated with † in the Research Sketches.

External stakeholder engagement: Transforming corporate social responsibility from principled rhetoric to theoretically grounded practice
Lite Nartey (Wharton)

From Green to Clean: Industry emergence and the institutional framing of cleantech in North America
Anastasia O'Rourke

Legitimacy in the solar energy sector: The role of entrepreneurs and environmental organizations
Desiree Pacheco (Portland State)

Red-blooded aliens: A re-examination of foreign firms' corporate environmental performance
Ryan Raffety (Western Ontario)

Are members of Business for Social Responsibility more responsible?
Peter Tashman (George Washington)

Policy drivers of the direction of innovative activity: An examination of renewable energy incentives in driving innovation
Jeffrey York (Virginia)

Auden Schendler, Executive Director of Sustainability, Aspen Skiing Company

Chair: Tima Bansal (Western Ontario)

The evolution of corporate sustainability agendas: An interaction ritual perspective
Klaus Weber (Northwestern), with Sara Soderstrom (Northwestern)

Dialogue and field-level organizing for sustainability
Aarti Sharma (U. of South Florida)

A triptych inquiry: Rethinking sustainability, innovation and financial performance
Timo Busch (ETH Zurich), with Bryan Stinchfield (Franklin & Marshall) and Matthew Wood (UNC Wilmington)

Collective environmental advantage: Toward a theory of industrial symbiosis
Marian Chertow (Yale), with John Ehrenfeld

The "chemical commons" problem: Are firms that use the same toxic chemical bound to a shared fate?
Luis Diestre (Instituto de Empresa Business School), with Nandini Rajagopalan (U. Southern California)

An industry level view of environmental performance
Dror Etzion (McGill)

Chair: Lori Bennear (Duke)

Sustainability and the dynamics of green building
Nils Kok (Maastricht), with Piet Eichholtz (Maastricht), John Quigley (Berkeley)

News media as a channel of environmental information disclosure: Evidence from an EGARCH Approach
Ran Zhang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), with Kenneth L. Simons (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), David I. Stern (Australian National U.)

Chair: Tom Lyon (Michigan)

Turning waste into by-product
Deishin Lee (Harvard)

Orchestrating net environmental gains: Actions and impacts of facilitating industrial symbiosis networks in the UK
Raymond Paquin (Concordia), with Jennifer Howard-Grenville (Oregon)