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Integrating Environmental and Social Issues into Corporate Practice
(2000-03)
The concept of environmental management has clearly entered the reality of business practice. And equally clearly, the term sustainable development has entered the lexicon of corporate dialogue. But, integration of the ...
Environmental Demands and the Emergence of Social Structure: Technological Dynamism and Interorganizational Network Forms
(2015-06)
This study investigates the origins of variation in the structures of interorganizational networks across industries. We combine empirical analyses of existing interorganizational networks with an agent-based simulation ...
Exceptional Boards: Environmental Experience and Positive Deviance from Institutional Norms
(2012-03)
This paper explores the phenomenon of positive organizational deviance from institutional norms by establishing practices that protect or enhance the natural environment. Seeking to explain why some organizations practice ...
Ranks and Rivals: A Theory of Competition
(Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2006)
Social comparison theories typically assume a comparable degree of competition between commensurate rivals on a mutually important dimension. In contrast, however, the following set of studies reveals that the degree of ...
Institutional-Political Scenarios for Anthropocene Society
(2018-12)
Natural scientists have proposed that humankind has entered a new geologic epoch. Termed the “Anthropocene,” this new reality revolves around the central role of human activity in multiple Earth ecosystems. That challenge ...
Shades of Green
(2008-11)
A schism seems to be emerging between two camps: the dark greens and the bright greens. The dark green ENGOs seek radical social change to solve environmental problems, often by confronting corporations. The bright green ...
Competition-Based Dynamic Pricing in Online Retailing: A Methodology Validated with Field Experiments
(2017-01)
A retailer following a competition-based dynamic pricing strategy tracks competitors' price changes and then must answer the following questions: (1) Should we respond? (2) If so, respond to whom? (3) How much of a response? ...
Achieving High Growth in Policy-Dependent Industries: Differences between Startups and Corporate-Backed Ventures
(2016-06)
This research examines which firms achieve high growth in policy-dependent industries. Using the European solar photovoltaic industry as our empirical setting, we investigate the impact of policy support on the growth of ...
Reflections: Academia's Emerging Crisis of Relevance and the Consequent Role of the Engaged Scholar
(2016-01)
Universities are facing a crisis of relevance. While there are multiple reasons for this to be happening, one that deserves particular attention is the extent to which academic scholars do not see it as their role to engage ...
Organizational Fields Past, Present and Future
(2016-01)
The central construct of neo- institutional theory has been the organizational field. Strictly speaking, the field is ‘a community of organizations that partakes of a common meaning system and whose participants interact ...