Broadly, my research examines how environmental policies and institutional context shape the environmental protection strategies of businesses in the United States and other countries. One stream includes studies evaluating how participation in environmental certification initiatives is associated with business competitiveness and environmental performance. Another examines how institutional, industry, and firm level factors are associated with corporate adaptation to climate change. Currently, I am also beginning work (with a group of  doctoral students) on a project studying the drivers of environmental technology innovation for renewable energy and bio-degradable plastics.

Over the past ten years, I have published two books and several dozen journal articles, journal special issues, book chapters, and cases. Last year, my book entitled Business and Public Policy (by Cambridge University Press), received the Outstanding Book Award by one of the divisions of the Academy of Management. Two of my articles in the Policy Studies Journal (2004 and 2006) are respectively the first and third most cited manuscripts published by this journal between 2004-2012. One of my papers is also the third most cited article published by the Policy Sciences journal (2002) during the last decade. Additionally, my work has received Best Paper Awards from the Academy of Management in 2001 and the Policy Sciences Society in 2003. My research findings have been mentioned in more than 30 news stories by national and international newspapers including the New York Times. My research publications have also been recognized at GWU, where between 2008-2010, I was one of only 3 professors in the School of Business to be conferred the Dean’s Research Scholar Award. Most recently, I received a university wide research prize when I was selected as a 2012-13 GWU Public Policy Scholar.

Currently, I am Co-Editor in Chief of the new Cambridge University Press’s Book series on Organizations and the Natural Environment. Since 2009, I have been serving as an Associate Editor of the Policy Sciences journal. Between 2009-12, I also served as an Associate Editor of Business & Society. In August 2012, I finished my term as the Chair of the Academy of Management’s Organizations and the Natural Environment Division. In this position, I led a comprehensive performance review that resulted in the successful renewal of the division status for another five years period.

Updated: 05/07/2013