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Frederick Ahen, PhD is a research fellow at the Turku School of Economics at the University
of Turku, Finland. Frederick’s research straddles the areas of sustainable global health
governance and the role of corporations in changing and being changed by institutions.
Other related areas of focus include corporate responsibility, ethics, and firm–stakeholder
relations. His research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals such
as critical perspectives on international business; Foresight: The Journal of Future Studies,
Strategic Thinking and Policy; Social Responsibility Journal; and Technology and Innovation
Management Review. In addition to several conference papers, he has book chapters pub-
lished by Springer, Emerald, Palgrave MacMillan, Routledge, Edward Elgar Publishing,
and Greenleaf Publishing. Frederick is the recipient of several distinguished awards includ-
ing the 2015 Turku Finnish University Association’s ‘Best Doctoral Dissertation Award’
and the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence ‘Highly Commended Paper
Award’ in 2016. Frederick received his BSc in Economics and International Management
from the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy; MSc in International Business from
London South Bank University (in cooperation with Hochschule, Mainz, Germany); and
PhD in International Business from the University of Turku, Finland.
Martin Albert is a research associate at the Professorship of Innovation Research and
Technology Management at the Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany. He holds a
diploma in business administration and engineering and a doctorate of engineering from
Technische Universität Chemnitz. He is interested in sustainability and sustainability
innovations.
Jorge A. Arevalo is Associate Professor of Management, Department of Marketing and
Management Sciences, William Paterson University, USA. He earned his PhD and MS
from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA and his BA from Montclair State
University, USA. His research interests span sustainability practices and firm strategy,
outcomes of CSR program integration, business strategy and management in emerging
economies, executive leadership and leader/managerial development, employee engage-
ment and productivity/citizenship, and sustainability in management education. His work
has been published in: Journal of Business Ethics; Corporate Governance: An International
Review; Journal of Corporate Citizenship; Journal of Management Development; Journal of
Management and Organization; and Business Ethics: A European Review. He has chapter
contributions published by Springer, Emerald, and Greenleaf Publishing. Prior to his aca-
demic career, he held marketing and customer relations positions for the airline industry
and the public utilities sector. He is a proud member of the PhD Project, 2004 Cohort and a
dedicated mentor and coach for Alpha Kappa Psi – Chi Omicron Chapter. He has also held
visiting positions at LIM College – Where Business Meets Fashion – in New York City.
Kaushik Ranjan Bandyopadhyay is Associate Professor at the Department of Business
Sustainability, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) University, India. An econo-
mist by training, he has around 17 years of research and teaching experience. His current
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research interests include business sustainability, corporate social responsibility, energy
pricing, sustainable transportation, urban and rural energy transition, reforming fossil fuel
subsidies, and the nexus between trade, energy, and climate policy. He has spearheaded and
guided a number of studies on fossil fuel subsidies reform in India that had been under-
taken by the TERI and International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD) and
commissioned by the Climate and Energy Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and
DFID, UK, the OECD, and ADB respectively. He also has a keen interest in development
evaluation, has a certification in policy analysis and evaluation from Cornell University,
USA, and was part of a number of evaluation and impact assessment studies that were
commissioned by the Indian government as well as international governments and organi-
zations, which included Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Harvard University,
USA. Previously, he served: as a member of the sub-group on the transport sector formed
by the Indian government to provide inputs to the India Chapter of the Energy Technology
Perspectives 2010, brought out by the International Energy Agency (IEA); as a columnist on
the energy sector with Financial Express; as a visiting faculty member with United Nations
University (UNU-IIST) for their PhD program on ICT and sustainable development; and
as a visiting scholar with the Asian Growth Research Institute (AGI), Japan under the aegis
of the Japanese Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS). He has published extensively in a
range of peer-reviewed journals of repute, including the Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Reviews (Elsevier), Renewable Energy Law and Policy (Lexxion), Carbon and Climate Law
Review (Lexxion), and Economic and Political Weekly, among others.
Luciano Barin Cruz is Associate Professor of Management and Sustainability at HEC
Montréal, Canada. Some keywords of his work are social innovation, sustainable develop-
ment, and corporate social responsibility. His research, which investigates how management
and organizational theories and practices contribute to social and environmental inclusion,
has been published in the Journal of Management Studies, Organization, World Development,
Business and Society, Journal of Business Ethics, and Management Decision, among others.
R. Greg Bell is an associate professor at the University of Dallas Satish and Yasmin Gupta
College of Business, USA. He teaches courses in international entrepreneurship and cor-
porate sustainability. His area of research includes corporate governance, international
entrepreneurship, and venture capital strategy.
Suzanne Benn is Professor of Sustainable Enterprise in UTS Business School, University
of Technology, Sydney, Australia. She has degrees in the social sciences and sciences,
including a PhD in environmental studies from the University of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia. Her work is published in four books and more than a hundred arti-
cles and book chapters and largely focuses on organizational change and sustainability,
education for sustainability, and corporate social responsibility. She has collaborated in a
number of major projects that have led to the take-up of sustainability in business, gov-
ernment, and educational institutions. Her work has been supported by the Australian
Research Council, by the Australian government, and by leading corporates.
Marcos Bidart Carneiro de Novaes has a PhD in business administration (2012) from
Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil, with human and social manage-
ment in organizations and competences development as his area of research. He earned
his master’s degree in management (2008) from the Universidade de São Caetano, Brazil.
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He graduated in management from Escola de Negócios Trevisan, Brazil (2006) and in
economics from the University of Bonn, Germany (1979). He was a manager and direc-
tor of marketing and sales in insurance companies for 20 years. He is now a professor at
FGV-IDE, Brazil, with a research focus in leadership and interpersonal communication,
and is a partner consultant at Potenciar Consultores Associados, Brazil.
Neil Boyd is a Professor of Management at Bucknell University, USA. His published work
examines topics in human resource management, social sustainability, organizational devel-
opment and change, and action research. His work has appeared in leading publication
outlets in the fields of management, public management, and psychology. His latest research
explores community experiences at work and how employees and organizations can benefit
when a workplace is infused with a culture of community. This work coincides with his inter-
est in helping organizations design effective organizational cultures that allow employees to
thrive in the pursuit of exceptional organizational outcomes. He is a past Division Chair for
the Public and Non-Profit Division of the Academy of Management, is the current Chair of
the Organization Studies Interest Group in the Society for Community Action and Research
(Division 27 of the American Psychological Association), and is on the editorial boards of
several academic journals. He holds a PhD in public administration and a master’s degree in
business administration from the Pennsylvania State University, USA, a master’s degree in
experimental psychology from the University of Notre Dame, USA, and a bachelor’s degree
in psychology from Bloomsburg University, USA.
Julia Breßler is a research associate at the Professorship of Innovation Research and
Technology Management at the Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany. She holds a
diploma in vocationomics from Technische Universität Chemnitz. She is interested in the
expansive learning processes and their implication for sustainability and higher educa-
tion. Her research priorities are in the areas of innovation didactics, education manage-
ment, and social innovation.
Martin Brueckner is a senior lecturer at the School of Business and Governance
at Murdoch University, Australia and Co-Director of the Centre for Responsible
Citizenship and Sustainability. He is a social ecologist with a background in manage-
ment, economics, and environmental policy and research interests in industry–commu-
nity relations, sustainable communities, and regional sustainability with a social justice
emphasis.
Janette Brunstein is a PhD researcher and professor in the Stricto Sensu Postgraduate
Program in Business Administration in Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil. Her
research interests are focused on education, learning, and development of competences for
sustainability, in the environmental, academic, and organizational fields. She is the leader of
a research group entitled Research and Foundation in Administration, which is supported
by the National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq). She has
more than ten years of academic experience, and over the last six years has been coordinat-
ing a project within the national ambit, supported by an agency of the Brazilian govern-
ment, which aims to insert the theme of sustainability into business administration courses.
Norman Christopher is the Executive Director of the Office of Sustainability Practices
at Grand Valley State University, USA and an adjunct faculty member in the Seidman
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College of Business. As a seasoned executive, he helped improve business performance
at Dow Chemical, Olin Corporation, Lubrizol Corporation, and Haviland Enterprises in
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. He was also appointed to serve on Governor Granholm’s
Michigan Climate Action Council and the United States Department of Commerce’s
Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee. He has a BA from the University
of North Carolina, USA and an MBA from the University of Connecticut, USA, and
he completed the Program for Management Development at Harvard University, USA.
He is the author of the book Sustainability Demystified! A Practical Guide for Business
Leaders and Managers.
Melissa Edwards is a senior lecturer and early-career academic at the UTS Business
School, Australia. She has degrees in business and arts in international studies and a PhD
in management. She is chair of the Sustainability Working Party at the UTS Business
School, which is an interdisciplinary academic group working to integrate sustainability
within the curriculum. She is a chief investigator on the Australian federal government’s
Office of Learning and Teaching initiative to develop and manage the sustainability edu-
cation online portal (www.sustainability.edu.au), a resource for sustainability education
practitioners. Over 360 sustainability educators are now members of this online com-
munity. For her work in sustainability education she was awarded a university teaching
citation and was a finalist in ‘Award Excellence’ in the 2015 Australasian Green Gown
awards. She has published work on sustainability and organizational learning and sustain-
ability in business education. In the past six years, she has completed her PhD with high
commendation and published 12 peer-refereed journal articles, three book chapters, one
research book, and two non-research books.
Quang Evansluong is an Assistant Professor in Enterprise Management at the Bristol
Business School, University of the West of England, UK. His research interests center
on immigrant entrepreneurship, the entrepreneurial opportunity creation process, social
integration, diversity, sustainable entrepreneurship, and sports entrepreneurship. He
earned his PhD in Entrepreneurship at the Jönköping International Business School. In
his doctoral dissertation, he studied entrepreneurial opportunity creation as an integra-
tion process among immigrant entrepreneurs in Sweden. His research on immigrant
entrepreneurship and opportunity creation is published in book chapters and journals.
He was a key member in a number of research projects on: developing business models
integrating remittance transfer and savings services in developing countries; mobilizing
international competences for regional development; and the diaspora as wealth creators.
As a practitioner, he is an experienced business developer and a business mentor in men-
toring programs for both start-ups and growth firms in Jönköping. He also established a
start-up in the tourism sector in Sweden.
Paola Schmitt Figueiró has a PhD in management from Federal University of Rio
Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. As part of her PhD program she studied at HEC
– Montréal, Canada. Her research focuses on education for sustainability, social learn-
ing, social entrepreneurship, and socio-environmental management. She is a member
of the Research Group in Sustainability and Innovation (GPS), a professor at Feevale
University, Brazil, and coordinator of Catálise, a project focused on the development of
educators.
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Dale Fodness is an associate professor at the University of Dallas Satish and Yasmin
Gupta College of Business, USA. He teaches courses in marketing, business and society,
and innovation. His areas of research include socially responsible marketing, sustainable
tourism, and innovation.
Corey J. Fox is an assistant professor of management at Texas State University, USA.
He received his PhD in business administration from Oklahoma State University, USA.
His research interests are focused on issues related to corporate strategy, particularly
the risk management process in organizations, as well as corporate social responsibility.
His research has been published in Strategic Organization, the Journal of Leadership,
Accountability and Ethics and the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher
Education.
Antonia Girardi is an associate professor in the School of Business and Governance at
Murdoch University, Australia. She teaches in the areas of human resources manage-
ment and research methods, and has recently been awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Award
for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. She currently researches in the area of people
management, and is interested in the importance graduate employers attach to personal
adaptability, and how university curricula can influence soft skill development and con-
tribute to graduate employability.
Timothy A. Hart is an assistant professor of management at the Collins College of
Business at the University of Tulsa, USA. He holds a PhD in business administration
from the University of Oklahoma, USA and a JD from the University of Tulsa. He
researches issues related to corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and organiza-
tional learning. His work has appeared in Strategic Organization, Business and Society,
the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education and Entrepreneurship
Theory and Practice.
Jamie R. Hendry is an associate professor and Chair of the Managing for Sustainability
Program in Bucknell University’s School of Management, USA. Her courses help stu-
dents learn to relate theory to practice, seriously incorporate stakeholder perspectives
in managerial decision making, think systemically about organizations, and manage in
complex and uncertain environments. Her scholarly interests center on ethics, sustain-
ability, and business–NGO collaborations. She has published in Business and Society,
Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, IEEE Engineering Management
Review, Case Research Journal, and others. She earned a PhD from Virginia Tech, USA,
an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School, USA, and a BS from George
Mason University, USA. She holds leadership positions in the Academy of Management
and the International Association for Business and Society. Prior to entering academia,
she had over a dozen years of experience managing small businesses and consulting.
Tammy Bunn Hiller is a professor of management in the Managing for Sustainability
Program at Bucknell University. She teaches introductory management, upper level
sustainability courses, and courses in the college core curriculum. She co-developed and
teaches in Bucknell’s interdisciplinary summer program in Cape Town, South Africa. Her
teaching employs deep experiential, collaborative, and service learning/community part-
nership pedagogies. Her scholarship focuses on work related to these pedagogies, issues
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of trust and justice, and various organizational case studies. Her research has appeared in
the Journal of Management Education, Business History, Case Research Journal, Business
Case Journal, and Employee Rights and Responsibilities Journal. She holds a PhD in
organizational behavior from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
Stefan Hüsig is a professor of innovation research and technology management at the
Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany. He holds a diploma and a PhD in busi-
ness administration from the University of Regensburg, Germany. He is interested
in the management of innovation and its implication for sustainability and higher
education. His research has been published in journals such as Research Policy, R&D
Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Journal of
Innovation Management, Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice, and Journal of
Product Innovation Management.
Pedro Roberto Jacobi is a sociologist, with a master’s degree in urban and regional plan-
ning from Harvard University, USA and a PhD in sociology from the University of São
Paulo, Brazil. He is a full professor at the School of Education and Graduate Program
of Environmental Science/Institute of Energy and Environment at the University of
São Paulo. He is: Head of the Division of Management, Science and Environmental
Technology at the Institute of Energy and Environment; Coordinator of the Research
Group in Environmental Governance of the Institute of Energy and Environment –
GovAmb; Coordinator of the Lab on Research and Practice in Environment and
Sustainability (LAPPES) of the Institute of Energy and Environment; Coordinator of
the Research Group on Environment and Society at the Institute of Advanced Studies at
the University of São Paulo; Editor of the journal Ambiente e Sociedade; and President
of the Brazilian Board of ICLEI (Local Governments and Sustainability) since 2011.
Yumiko Jakobcic is the Campus Sustainability Coordinator for Grand Valley State
University, USA. She received her BS in natural resources management from Grand
Valley State University and her MEM in conservation science and policy from Duke
University, USA, and she is currently a doctoral student studying natural resources at
the University of Vermont, USA. She previously served as the Executive Director of the
Winooski Valley Park District and was on the Rubenstein School of Environment and
Natural Resources’ Board of Advisors, USA. Her research interests include the trans-
boundary management of natural resources, human diversity in conservation, and neigh-
borhood cohesion supported by natural areas. She is passionate about engaging students
in a more sustainable lifestyle.
Meghan D. Kachler is a third-year student in the Odette School of Business, University
of Windsor, Canada, Honours Business Administration (Coop) Program specializing in
accounting. Her participation in this project was supported by the University of Windsor
Outstanding Scholars Program. This program recognizes high performing students with
a combination of scholarships and the opportunity to participate in faculty research pro-
jects and develop research skills in addition to their normal program of studies.
Steve Klomp is particularly interested in the area of quadruple bottom line reporting. It
may be that this concept can be expanded to include the long term impact of actions and
plans, and the need for continual review. Under the Centre for Responsible Citizenship
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and Sustainability, Australia group he is one of four researching on the longer term impact
of corporate social responsibility spending. He is also concerned about the irresponsibil-
ity innate in taking financial advantage of currency fluctuations. He has a background
in energy management, but his key focus is the plight of Australia’s Aboriginal people.
Although Australia is one of the richest countries on Earth, Aboriginal people often live
in Third World conditions, so much so that World Vision operates in Northern Australia.
As an Australian he finds that to be a source of great shame.
John Korstad is a professor of biology and Honors Program Director at Oral Roberts
University, USA. He holds a PhD in zoology from the University of Michigan and a
master’s in environmental science from California State University–Hayward. His research
specialty is limnology (lake ecology and management). In 1993–1994 he was a Fulbright
scholar to Norway, where he did aquaculture research at SINTEF in Trondheim. He has
co-authored several articles on biofuels and is especially interested in growing algae for bio-
fuels using waste stream nutrients and carbon dioxide. Most recently his focus has been on
sustainability, with the desire to optimize environmental, social, and economic concerns.
Linda Krzykowski is the Assistant Vice Provost for Student Engagement for the University
at Albany, USA and is a clinical professor of business for the School of Business. She co-
teaches the School of Business’s award winning MBA capstone class, G3: Going Green
Globally, and business presentation skills at the graduate level. She is a consultant to many
organizations on communication and leadership issues and is a member of the SUNY
Chancellor’s Advisory Council for Applied Learning. Her work has been published in
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning and LAMS: Journal of the Leadership and
Management Section. Additionally, she teaches at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos
Aires, Argentina and has led MBA students on international business explorations around
the world. She was named one of the Women’s Business Council’s ‘Capital Region Women
of Excellence’ and received the President’s Award for Excellence at the University at
Albany and the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Faculty Service for the School of Business.
She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Gamma, and Omicron Delta Kappa.
Ritika Mahajan is an assistant professor in the Department of Business Sustainability,
TERI University, India. She completed her doctoral research on management education
in India as a research fellow in the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute
of Technology (IIT) Roorkee in 2014, following which a book on this work titled Masters
Speak: Management Education in India was published by Bloomsbury Publishers. In
her current engagement in TERI University, she is furthering the research base of her
work in the area of management education for sustainable development, including
principles of responsible management education (PRME), business sustainability, and
stakeholder experiences with sustainability management education. She has written more
than 25 research papers, book chapters, and popular articles published in peer-reviewed
national and international journals and presented in national and international confer-
ences. She is also a regular reviewer for many international journals. She holds an MBA
(Gold Medalist) and a BBA Honors (Gold Medalist) degree. In 2015–2016, she co-led two
five-day schools on sustainable consumption and production (SCP) under an agreement
between TERI University and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to
support learning on SCP, that is, Sustainable Development Goal 12, supported by the
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European Union funded SWITCH-Asia Programme. The schools were attended by more
than 200 participants, including government officials, researchers, practitioners, academi-
cians, and students from South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and India).
She was also one of the two participants selected from India to attend the United Nations
Winter School on Sustainable Consumption and Production held in the Asian Institute
of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand in January 2016.
Susan L. Manring, PhD is Associate Professor of Management in Elon University’s
Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, USA. She teaches courses in manage-
ment and organizational behavior and sustainable enterprise management. She has
published papers on sustainable social-ecosystem management since 2003 in journals
including Environmental Practice, Ecology and Society, Journal of Cleaner Production,
and Journal of Organization and Environment. She has co-led undergraduate study abroad
sustainability-related courses in New Zealand and the Yucatan. Prior to joining Elon, she
was an organizational development consultant for business, industrial, and health care
companies. She received her PhD in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve
University, USA.
Eric Martin is Associate Professor of Management in the Managing for Sustainability
Program at Bucknell University, USA. He teaches introductory management and upper
level sustainability courses through experiential learning. His students work with host
clients across the university, within local communities, and at times internationally. His
research regarding civil society and community building focuses on inter-organizational
and cross-sectoral partnering to improve the delivery of international development in
complex humanitarian emergencies. He has spent much time in Central, Eastern, and
Southern Europe studying change and conflict in many different settings. His work
has appeared in Disasters, Journal of Management Inquiry, Nonprofit and Voluntary
Sector Quarterly, Public Management Review, International Public Management Journal,
Organization Studies and Voluntas.
Angela Vidal Gandra da Silva Martins has a PhD in philosophy of law (jurisprudence)
from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. She is a professor of
philosophical anthropology and researcher at Harvard Law School, USA. Her main pub-
lications are: The Morality of Law as a Condition of Freedom in Lon Fuller (2013, Editora
Magister); ‘General theory of contracts and postmodernity’, in Revista Lex/Magister de
Direito Empresarial (2011, Editora Magister); and ‘The fundamentals of the rule of law
in Lon Fuller’, in Anuario de Derecho Internacional Latino-Americano (2014, Konrad
Adenauer). Her areas of expertise are anthropology, philosophy of action (freedom), and
political sciences (rule of law).
Elina Meliou is Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour and HRM at Newcastle University,
UK. She received her MSc and PhD from the University of Montpellier, France and has
been a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of La Sapienza, Italy. Her theoretical work
builds on critical contributions from the field of organisation studies and contemporary
management thinking, and focuses in particular on the intersection of leadership, gender
and entrepreneurship. Her research has been published in leading academic journals
such as Human Relations and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and has been presented in
international conferences. She has received funding from various academic institutions,
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the British Academy of Management and the British Academy of Humanities and Social
Sciences. She has led initiatives to enhance student experience, including a funded project
entitled ‘Introducing Gender in Management Education’, which focuses on introduc-
ing threshold concepts around gender in the curriculum of the Business School in order
to enhance students’ learning and understanding of equality and diversity. Her current
research project focuses on career trajectories of women entrepreneurs and how they nego-
tiate social structures shaping their lives, creating opportunities and starting new ventures.
Paul Miesing is an associate professor and the Founding Director of the Center for
Advancement and Understanding of Social Enterprises (CAUSE) in the School of
Business at the State University of New York at Albany, USA. His current research inter-
ests are in social entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, and corporate govern-
ance. He has published dozens of articles and papers in both academic and practitioner
journals, including the following Financial Times ‘top 45’ journals (among numerous
others): Academy of Management Journal, California Management Review, Journal
of Business Ethics, and Journal of Marketing. He was a Fulbright lecturer at Fudan
University in Shanghai, China and has taught in numerous countries. He served on several
peer review boards, including the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)
and the National Science Foundation. A member of Beta Gamma Sigma (national honor
society in business), Fulbright Association (charter member, Eastern New York Region
Alumni Chapter), and Sigma Iota Epsilon (national honorary management society), he
is also a recipient of a Distinguished Research Award and the Outstanding Graduate
Teaching Award in the UAlbany School of Business.
Richard Miller is an assistant professor at the University of Dallas Satish and Yasmin
Gupta College of Business, USA. He teaches courses in operations and supply chain
management. His area of research includes sustainability in supply chains and entrepre-
neurial supply chains.
Shelley F. Mitchell is Professor of Management and Sustainability at Hult International
Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, where she teaches Corporate Social
Responsibility. She completed her PhD (2012) in natural resources and environmental
studies as part of an interdisciplinary program between the Natural Resources and Earth
Systems Science Graduate Program and the Paul College of Business and Economics
at the University of New Hampshire, USA, where she also earned her MBA (2002)
with an emphasis in entrepreneurship. At the University of New Hampshire, she was
Instructor and Course Coordinator for Introduction to Business and currently teaches
Strategic Management and Business, Government, and Society courses. Prior to aca-
demia, she worked in a variety of executive roles in the private, public, and non-profit
sectors, including as a startup co-founder and with New Hampshire Public Television
and the Indianapolis Zoological Society. Her empirical research focuses on how small
and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) use innovation for ecological sustainability,
strategy and sustainable business models, social enterprises and entrepreneurship, and
sustainability in management education. In 2010, she was selected to participate in the
first oikos Foundation for Economy and Ecology Young Scholars Entrepreneurship
Academy in Urnäsch, Switzerland. In 2016, she was a co-recipient of the Junior Faculty
Best Paper Award for the most significant contribution to management education from
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the Management Education and Development division of the Academy of Management.
At AOM, she is a frequent chair and organizer of professional development workshops
and symposia.
Erin E. Nill is a financial analyst at Verizon, and she holds an MBA from Oklahoma State
University, USA. Her research interests include sustainability, education, and art history.
Her assistance in gathering data was instrumental in work published in the International
Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education.
Farley S. Nobre is a professor at the School of Management of the Federal University
of Parana (UFPR) in Curitiba, Brazil. He coordinates the Corporate Sustainability and
Innovation (CSI) Research Group, and he has supervised graduate students on corporate
sustainability, sustainable entrepreneurship, base of the pyramid, education for sustain-
ability, and design thinking for sustainability, along with frugal and green innovation. He
also has experience in organization theory and strategy, manufacturing systems, cogni-
tive machines, and fuzzy sets theory. He received a PhD in manufacturing and mechani-
cal engineering at the University of Birmingham, UK and was a guest researcher with
the Institute of Organization Theory and the Artificial Intelligence Research Group
at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany (2003). With NEC, he received the 1998
Industrial Honor Prize for his contributions in the areas of software innovation and
quality. He has published in international journals and congresses. He is the principal
editor of F.S. Nobre, D. Walker and R. Harris (eds), Technological, Managerial and
Organizational Core Competencies: Dynamic Innovation and Sustainable Advantage (2012,
New York: IGI Global).
Erik E. Nordman is Associate Professor of Natural Resources Management at Grand
Valley State University, USA. His teaching and research interests include the economic
and policy dimensions of renewable energy and ecosystem services as well as international
issues in sustainability. In 2012, he served as a Fulbright scholar at Kenyatta University
in Nairobi, Kenya, where he taught in the Department of Environmental Studies and
Community Development. He has an MS in forest resource management and a PhD
in natural resource policy and economics, both from the State University of New York
College of Environmental Science and Forestry, USA.
Megan Paull is Director for Postgraduate Research and Co-Director of the Centre for
Responsible Citizenship and Sustainability in the School of Business and Governance,
Murdoch University, Australia. Her research interests are in the areas of volunteering,
non-profit management and governance, and organizational behavior, including when
behavior is not so ‘good’.
Marlei Pozzebon is a full professor at HEC Montréal, Canada and associate professor
at FGV/EAESP, Brazil. Some keywords of her research are social innovation, social
change, citizen creativity, local and sustainable development, and global–local dialogue.
Her research interests are linked to the relationship between technology and society and
to the possibilities of better understanding and promoting social change using practice-
based theoretical lenses and qualitative research methods. In terms of theories, she focuses
on structuration theory, different forms of social constructivism, and critical approaches.
She has published articles in international journals like Organization Studies, Journal of
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Management Studies, Journal of Change Management, and Public Administration, among
others, and in leading Brazilian journals such as Revista de Administração de Empresas
(RAE).
Marcela Ramírez Pasillas is Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship and UN Manager
of United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) at
Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), Sweden. She is interested in entrepre-
neurial phenomena that are socially based triggering different sustainable entrepreneur-
ships. The sustainable entrepreneurships are working attitudes, modes of thinking, and
social practices that are crucial in today’s societies, as they foster human, organizational,
and economic growth in sustainable ways. She is affiliated to the Centre for Family
Enterprises and Ownership (CEFEO) at JIBS. She currently serves as a co-chair of the
EURAM Doctoral Colloquium. She received both her licentiate and PhD in business
administration at Linnaeus University, Sweden. She studied for her bachelor’s degree
in the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico. Her research related to
entrepreneurship and branding in family businesses, immigrant entrepreneurship and
entrepreneurship in-between international trade fairs and cluster networks is published
in book chapters and academic journals. She recently co-edited the book Contextualizing
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies and Developing Countries with Ethel Brundin
and Magdalena Markowska.
Emmanuel Raufflet (PhD in management, McGill University, Canada) is Associate
Professor of Management at HEC Montréal, Canada. His research focuses on social
innovation, corporate social responsibility, and sustainable development. He has been a
guest professor in several universities and business schools, including ESSEC Business
School, France, SDA Bocconi, Italy, EGADE, Mexico, EAFIT, Colombia, and Freie
Universität, Berlin, Germany. He has led research projects related to energy, sustain-
ability, and social acceptability with organizations including Rio Tinto, Rio Tinto Alcan,
the Canadian Mining Institute, Québec Ministry for Sustainable Development, and
Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux, Québec. A French and Canadian national, he
has lived in Spain, Brazil, and Mexico. He has published and co-edited six books, and
authored more than 20 chapters, 25 articles, and 30 teaching cases. He is the Director of
the Graduate Degree in Management and Sustainable Development at HEC Montréal.
Eliot Rich is an associate professor in the Department of Information Technology and
Management, School of Business, University at Albany, State University of New York,
USA. His research includes applications of modeling and simulation to problems of
sustainability, information security, critical infrastructures, organizational change, inno-
vation, and knowledge management. He holds an MPP from Harvard University, USA
and earned his PhD in information science from the University at Albany.
Alan J. Richardson is the Odette Research Chair and Professor of Accounting at the
Odette School of Business, University of Windsor, Canada. He has been teaching envi-
ronmental accounting and sustainability reporting in business schools since the 1980s and
introduced interdisciplinary courses on these topics at Queen’s University, Canada, York
University, Canada, and the University of Windsor. His research on the role of social
and environmental information in equity valuation has appeared in leading accounting
journals. In 2010 he received the L.S. Rosen Outstanding Accounting Educator Award
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given by the Canadian Academic Accounting Association for contributions to Canadian
accounting education over a sustained period of time. He is a past president of the
Canadian Academic Accounting Association.
Isabel Rimanoczy, EdD has made it her life purpose to promote change accelera-
tors. Aware of the complex challenges our planet and the people in it are facing, she
works alongside those who can make an impact on a greater scale. She developed the
Sustainability Mindset, a concept she researched by studying business leaders who cham-
pioned corporate initiatives with a positive impact on the environment and the commu-
nity. What inspired these leaders to act in a business-as-unusual way? She is the Convener
and Chair of LEAP!, the PRME Working Group on the Sustainability Mindset, a global
network of business school professors promoting an evolutionary shift in consciousness.
She is Academic Ambassador of Aim2Flourish, a UN-supported global learning initia-
tive to discover and celebrate untold stories about business innovations for good, using
the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. She is the author
of several books, among others Stop Teaching: Principles and Practices for Responsible
Management Education and Big Bang Being: Developing the Sustainability Mindset, and
has published over 140 articles and book chapters. She is a blogger for the Huffington
Post and is currently working on an edited book about the Sustainability Mindset. She
is co-founder of the charitable organization Minervas: Women Changing the World.
She earned her doctorate at Columbia University, USA, and has an MBA from the
Universidad de Palermo, Argentina, and is a Licensed Psychologist from the Universidad
de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Marta Fabiano Sambiase has a PhD in business management from Universidade
Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Brazil (2009) and a degree in business administration from
EAESP-FGV-CEAG, Brazil (1998). She graduated in history from FFLCH-USP, Brazil
(1988). She has been a professor and researcher at the Universidade Presbiteriana
Mackenzie Social and Applied Sciences Center (CCSA) since 2007. She has execu-
tive experience over 18 years in information technology services and agribusiness. Her
research interests are focused on the management area and manager education, with
emphasis on cooperation, and a focus on individual and intangible resource management,
values-based management, behavioral strategy, and strategy for sustainability.
Soraia Schutel has a PhD in management from Federal University of Rio Grande do
Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. As part of her PhD, she studied and developed her theses at
HEC Montréal, Canada. She specialized in social psychology at the State University
of St. Petersburg, Russia and studied leadership for transition at Schumacher College,
UK. Her research focuses on education for sustainability, transformative learning, and
women and leadership. She has academic and professional experience in more than 25
countries, including Brazil, Italy, China, Russia, Belgium, Canada, France, and Latvia.
She is an assistant professor at Unisinos Business School, Brazil. She is a professor at
Escola de Você (School of You), an online project that promotes non-cognitive skills and
entrepreneurship for women in Brazil, which in two years has reached more than 250 000
students.
Claire A. Simmers is Chair and Professor, Department of Management, at Saint Joseph’s
University, USA. She received her PhD from Drexel University, USA and is a behavio-
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ral strategist, focusing on socio-technical interfaces in the workplace. Her publications
addressing sustainability include two book chapters: ‘Corporate social responsibility
(CSR) as a derivative of capitalistic anxieties’ (with A. McMurray and S. Mravlek), in
Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch (ed.), Corporate Social Performance: Paradoxes, Pitfalls and
Pathways to the Better World (2015); and ‘Environmental innovation and talent’ (with
A. Bullough, M.S. Finney, D. Hennessy, L. Ingraham, and O. Hawn), in Deborah E. de
Lange (ed.), Research Companion to Green International Management Studies (2012). She
has also published an article on sustainability: ‘Using an ethical framework to examine
linkages between “going green”’ (with M. Zaman and M. Anandarajan) in Research
Practices and Information and Communication Technologies (2011). She has developed
new education programs and curricula and teaches a graduate MBA course, Leading for
Sustainability, linking sustainability with value enactment.
Sara Soderstrom is an assistant professor in organizational studies and Program in the
Environment at the University of Michigan (UM), USA. She studies individual and
organizational responses to the ambiguity and uncertainty surrounding sustainability and
how individuals within organizations mobilize others, develop coalitions, and access deci-
sion makers when they are implementing sustainability initiatives. She completed her PhD
at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA and postdoctoral
work at the Erb Institute, UM. Prior to her PhD, she worked at McKinsey & Company.
She holds MSE degrees in chemical and environmental engineering and a BSE degree in
chemical engineering from UM.
Rochelle Spencer is a lecturer in development studies and Co-Director of the Centre for
Responsible Citizenship and Sustainability, Murdoch University, Australia. As a develop-
ment anthropologist she has a background in international development, anthropology,
and sustainability. Her strengths lie in: analyzing the factors driving poverty, marginali-
zation, and vulnerability in the developing world; designing and implementing capacity
building strategies to redress these factors in sustainable ways; and translating complex
issues and stories into well-analyzed, coherent, and compelling narratives to a wide
audience.
Robert Sroufe is a professor of sustainability, operations, and supply chain management,
and Murrin Chair of Global Competitiveness at Duquesne University, USA. Within the
MBA Sustainability Program he develops and delivers courses on sustainable theories and
models and business applications of sustainability, and oversees action-learning consult-
ing projects every semester with corporate sponsors. The MBA Sustainability Program is
a top-ranked US MBA program by Corporate Knights, and for the previous six years has
been ranked in the top ten MBA programs internationally by the Aspen Institute. He is the
Environmental and Social Sustainability for Business Advantage Collections Editor for
Business Expert Press. His research with global corporations involves sustainable business
practices, environmental management systems, and sustainable supply chain manage-
ment. He has published in numerous academic and environmental business journals, and
books on environmental management and sustainability.
Mark Starik is a professor of management and the Director of the MS in sustainability
management at American University’s Kogod School of Business, USA. He was pre-
viously a professor of supply chain and operations management in the University of
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Technology, Sydney Business School, Australia, and served as a professor of management
and sustainability and the Director of the Center for Ethical and Sustainable Business
in the College of Business at San Francisco State University, USA. At these institutions,
he researched and taught in the areas of sustainability management, strategic and supply
chain management, business environmental management and policy, and business energy
and climate issues and solutions. His career experience includes more than 20 years at
George Washington University, USA, during which he co-founded and co-directed two
sustainability-related centers and chaired the Department of Strategic Management and
Public Policy in the GW School of Business. He has also held several positions in and
consulted with various business, government, and non-profit organizations, primarily in
the energy and environment areas, and is a co-founder of several sustainability non-profit
organizations, including the Academy of Management’s Organizations and the Natural
Environment (ONE) Interest Group (now a division). He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the
journal Organization and Environment and holds a PhD in strategic management (major)
and operations and information systems management (minors) from the University of
Georgia, USA, and an MA in natural resources policy and administration and a BA in
economics, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He is widely pub-
lished, has made numerous academic presentations and practitioner public appearances
throughout his career, and enjoys jazz music, baseball, science fiction, and various ethnic
vegetarian cuisines.
Adam Sulkowski is an associate professor of Babson College, USA and has taught and
advised students from all continents in a variety of formats at the undergraduate, gradu-
ate, and executive education levels. His teaching specializations are in the fields of business
law, sustainable business, and corporate social responsibility. His research has appeared
in over 40 publications, including over 29 peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles, and
has explored topics related to sustainability reporting (also known as triple bottom line
reporting), integrated reporting, and corporate and environmental law. His findings have
been cited in Inc. magazine, MSN, the Times of India, Science Daily, and Cities Today,
among other news sources. He has advised start-ups such as www.Waste-Hub.com and
has engaged in entrepreneurial projects related to his research and teaching. These have
included pioneering the deployment of sustainability reporting – a widely adopted prac-
tice in the private sector for boosting good governance and efficiency – with cities on two
continents. He received his JD and MBA from Boston College, USA and BA from the
College of William and Mary, USA, became a licensed attorney in two states, and was a
manager at an education company for several years before becoming a professor at the
University of Massachusetts, USA, where he was awarded tenure. He has won awards
for teaching, service, and research, including the Holmes-Cardozo Distinguished Paper
Award from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business. He has served academic organi-
zations in various roles, including president, conference chair, section chair, editor, and
reviewer. In 2014 and 2015 he was a Fulbright scholar in Europe. A Polish-American dual
citizen, he frequently works internationally and has taught, researched, consulted, and
explored in over 90 countries.
Diego Vazquez-Brust is Professor of Corporate Sustainability at Portsmouth Business
School (PBU), UK. Previously he was Director of The Centre for Research into
Sustainability (CRIS) at Royal Holloway University of London. He has an MBA and
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a PhD in management, both from RHUL, and two degrees in civil and environmental
engineering from La Plata University, Argentina. He has more than 20 years of practi-
cal experience in issues related to sustainability and development, which he developed
working as a project manager for the Argentinian government from 1992 to 2002
and as an advisor for organizations including the Inter-American Development Bank
(IDB), the UNDP, and the World Bank until 2007. From 2007 to 2012 he worked as
a senior research associate at the BRASS Research Centre (Business Relationships,
Accountability, Sustainability and Society) at Cardiff University, UK. He specializes
in research on sustainable and responsible business and green growth policy, and is
Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Book Series on Greening of Industry Network
Studies. He has published in the Journal of Business Ethics, Business Strategy and
the Environment, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Operations and
Production Management, and Journal of Operational Research. He is co-author of a
monograph, three edited books – all published by Springer – and a textbook in globali-
zation and sustainable business (2016, Palgrave). His last edited book is Collaboration
for Sustainability and Innovation: A Role for Sustainability Driven by the Global South
(co-edited with J. Sarkis and J. Cordeiro, 2014, Springer).
J. Lee Whittington is Professor of Management and Director of Doctoral Programs at
the Satish and Yasmin Gupta College of Business at the University of Dallas, USA. He
teaches courses on leadership and followership, organizational behavior, complex organi-
zations, and applied research methods.
Jannine Williams is Lecturer in HRM Organizational Behaviour at the University of
Bradford School of Management, UK. Her research interests are broadly underpinned by
critical management studies using qualitative research methods, including: categories of
social relations; constructions of disability as negated difference, ableism and impairment
effects, and gender; career studies with a focus on career boundaries; and women’s intra-
gender relations, friendship at work, and media representations of women and leadership.
Her research has been published in academic journals such as the International Journal of
Management Reviews, Studies in Higher Education, British Journal of Management and
Human Resource Development Review.
Leo T. Wong is an assistant professor at MacEwan University, Canada, and gradu-
ated with a PhD in marketing from the University of Alberta, Canada. He teaches and
researches new business concepts that are aligned with conscious consumerism, respon-
sible advertising, socially and environmentally responsible thinking, and ethical decision
making, while working with a generation of students who will shape our sustainable
world. He has done applied research with social enterprises, taught undergraduate and
graduate business courses related to sustainability, and designed courses focused on cor-
porate social responsibility. In addition, he was a research fellow for the Aspen Institute
and the Beyond Grey Pinstripes program. In the community, he has been involved with
setting up a local initiative to promote the United Nations Global Compact to small
and medium-sized businesses, and has volunteered on the board for the International
Association for Volunteer Effort.
Natalia Yakovleva is a senior lecturer in international business strategy at Newcastle
University London, UK. She has a PhD in environmental studies and a bachelor’s degree
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