Amsterdam Business School
Corporate Responsibility
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Corporate responsibility (environment/sustainability, social and ethical issues, corporate governance) has been an area of specific interest at ABS for quite some years, both as specific expertise of researchers who are also embedded in their disciplinary areas and, for others, as one of the topics of interest within a wider portfolio.
Dedicated CR Expertise
Dedicated CR Expertise currently at ABS (junior and senior researchers):
- Prof.dr. Ans Kolk: chair in sustainable management, research fully focused on CR (social, ethical and environmental issues, corporate governance, climate change, partnerships, poverty and development, codes of conduct and standards, sustainability/CR reporting and assurance; CR in international business) (strategy & marketing programme, which she directs, also head of section);
- Prof.dr. Brendan O'Dwyer: chair in (social and environmental) accounting, research fully focused on CR (corporate and NGO auditing and accountability, reporting and assurance), stakeholder engagement, professional accounting ethics and disciplinary procedures, corporate governance) (accounting programme, which he directs, also head of section);
- Dr. Jonatan Pinkse: former PhD student at ABS (defended his dissertation on business responses to global climate change in 2006), currently assistant professor (strategy & marketing programme);
- Dr. Mark van der Veen: defended his dissertation on the integration of environmental management in new product development in 2007, currently lecturer (strategy & marketing section);
- Dr. Georgios Georgakopoulus: assistant professor, accounting programme, joined ABS in 2007;
- Dr. Fabienne Fortanier: former PhD student at ABS (defended her dissertation on Multinationals, institutions and sustainable development in 2008) (strategy & marketing programme), currently assistant professor (small part-time appointment, furthermore senior researcher at Dutch Bureau of Statistics (CBS);
- Dr. Frank de Graaf: defended his dissertation on corporate governance and stakeholders in the financial sector in 2005; currently part-time lecturer in the Dutch executive programmes, but also active in research and publications on CR, related to strategy & marketing programme;
- Niamh O'Sullivan: PhD student on social accountability and the finance sector (the institutionalisation of the Equator principles) (started in 2005), will be post-doc on the corporate governance project subsequently to finalisation (accounting programme);
- Karianne Kalshoven: PhD student on ethical leadership behaviour at work (started in 2006) (HRM/OB programme);
- Nesrien Abu Ghazaleh: PhD student on ethic minority applicants' attitudes to, and perceptions of, discrimination during employee selection (started in 2006) (HRM/OB programme);
- Marlene Vock: Ph.D student on social aliances, consumers and CSR (started in 2007) (strategy & marketing programme);
- René Bohnsack: PhD student on the topic of strategy, innovation and climate change in the automobile industry (started in 2008) (strategy & marketing programme);
- Meg Lee: PhD student on CSR, consumer perceptions and corporate communications (online and offline) (started in 2008) (strategy & marketing programme);
Roel Boomsma: PhD student on NGO accounting and accountability (started in 2008) (accounting programme).
Other staff members interested in CR
In addition, there are quite some others amongst the core faculty who are also interested in CR aspects, which they study alongside other topics. This includes:
- Accounting: Sanjay Bissessur (earnings management); Tjalling van der Goot (integrity of financial markets); Igor Goncharov (fair value accounting, corporate governance, transparency); Allan Hodgson (insider trading, corporate governance); Victor Maas (ethical dilemmas in management accounting);
- Finance: Arnoud Boot (corporate governance & financial markets); Ines Chaieb (firm and country governance); Erasmo Gambiano (governance for real estate firms); Enrico Perotti (corporate governance & corporate finance); Zacharias Sautner (corporate governance, internal governance);
- HRM/OB: Deanne den Hartog (ethical leadership);
- Information Management: Michel Avital (information technology & sustainable development/value); Ard Huizing (immaterial/ethical values in organisational learning); Erik de Vries (ethical/security issues and innovative ICT in the Dutch police);
Strategy & Marketing: Yanto Chandra (international entrepreneurship & sustainability); Willemijn van Dolen (CSR & marketing); Mark Leenders (green innovation); Roger Pruppers (branding & CSR); Jan-Willem Stoelhorst (ethics and governance). Plus three new faculty members will join per 1 January 2010: John Cullen (professor of strategy - cross-cultural ethics); Ilir Haxhi (assistant professor of strategy - corporate governance); Jean Johnson (professor of marketing - ethics in marketing strategy).