Publications Database
Welcome to the new Schulich Peer-Reviewed Publication Database!
The database is currently in beta-testing and will be updated with more features as time goes on. In the meantime, stakeholders are free to explore our faculty’s numerous works. The left-hand panel affords the ability to search by the following:
- Faculty Member’s Name;
- Area of Expertise;
- Whether the Publication is Open-Access (free for public download);
- Journal Name; and
- Date Range.
At present, the database covers publications from 2012 to 2020, but will extend further back in the future. In addition to listing publications, the database includes two types of impact metrics: Altmetrics and Plum. The database will be updated annually with most recent publications from our faculty.
If you have any questions or input, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Search Results
Pouyan Tabasi-Nejad and Yuval Deutsch (2025). "Beyond Dangling Carrots: The Effect of Policy Maker Motives on Their Response to Corporate Political Activity", Academy of Management Review, In-Press.
Abstract
Management scholars have predominantly theorized corporate political activity (CPA) as an exchange wherein a firm offers resources to a policy maker in return for favorable policy. While the CPA literature has extensively explored what drives firms to engage in CPA, it remains largely silent on the question of why a policy maker would accede to a firm’s attempt at influence. Drawing on social influence theory, we develop a framework that extends current CPA theory and centers a policy maker’s perspective when faced with CPA. We introduce a policy maker’s noninstrumental motives and identify novel types of CPA that appeal to these motives. We also consider the role of the bureaucrat—a heretofore largely ignored but important type of policy maker whose motives differ from those of politicians in key respects that shape whether and how a given policy maker is influenced. Lastly, we examine how third-party lobbyists affect the CPA process, identifying key pathways through which they are likely to enhance a firm’s CPA. By theorizing around the motives of the policy maker faced with CPA, we present a novel policy maker-centered framework that helps us better understand this socially and economically important strategy.Weitzner, D. & Deutsch Y. (2023). "Harm Reduction, Solidarity, and Social Mobility as Target Functions: A Rortian Approach to Stakeholder Theory", Journal of Business Ethics, 186, 479–492.
Abstract
Instrumental Stakeholder Theory has begun to suffer from what might be termed “mission drift.” Despite its initial success in creating a foothold for ethics in managerial decision-making, the efficiency arguments which now dominate this research stream have become counterproductive to the original goal of connecting ethics and capitalism. We argue in this paper that the way forward is by re-centering contingency, conversation, and inefficiency in stakeholder theory. To start this process, there needs to be a reckoning of some unintended impacts of the success of the instrumental stream of stakeholder research. For a contrasting approach, we draw on Richard Rorty’s pragmatism and its foundation of ethical “irony,” a state of continuous doubts about the utility of one’s moral vocabulary. We offer a Rortian approach to stakeholder theory, unearthing the possibility for new corporate target functions in the goals of harm reduction, solidarity, and social mobility, the foundational building blocks of an ironist ethical perspective.G. Kistruck and Slade Shantz, A (2021). "Research on Grand Challenges: Adopting an Abductive Experimentation Methodology", Organization Studies, 43(9), 1479–1505.
