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About Dirk Matten
Dirk Matten is a Professor at the Schulich School of Business where he holds the Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility. He has a doctoral degree and the habilitation from Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf in his native Germany. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of London, the University of Nottingham and at Sabancı University in Istanbul.
Dirk currently serves as Schulich’s Associate Dean, Research. He is also the Co-Founder and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business (COERB) at the Schulich School of Business.
Dirk has taught and done research at academic institutions in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Turkey, and the USA. He has published 24 books and edited volumes as well as more than 80 articles and book chapters which have won numerous prestigious awards. His work has appeared in many international journals including Academy of Management Review, California Management Review, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies.
Dirk is a co-editor of the journal Business & Society (SAGE). He is frequently cited and interviewed for newspapers and TV and writes Op-Eds for papers such as Der Spiegel or The Globe and Mail. The Cambridge based think tank CSR International ranks him among the ‘Top 100 CSR Leaders’.
Honours
2011 Schulich School of Business ranked No 2 globally in the Beyond Grey Pinstripes Report for ‘integrating issues of social and environmental stewardship into curricula and research’ by The Aspen Institute, New York City
2010 Ranked as the 6th most cited German management professor, http://www.wiwi.uni-muenster.de/io/forschen/downloads/DP-IO_01_2010.html.
2010 Ranked among the ‘Top 100 CSR Leaders’ globally in an independent poll by the think tank ‘CSR International’ (www.csrinternational.org)
2010 ‘A to Z of CSR’ ranked as ‘Noteworthy Title’ by the Reference and User Services Association (www.asa.org)
2008 Most cited paper published in Academy of Management Review
2006 Max Weber-Award for Business Ethics (Category Textbook) [Max Weber-Lehrbuch-Preis für Wirtschaftsethik] from the ‘Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft’, Cologne, for Crane & Matten ‘Business Ethics’
2006 Nomination for Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award, Academy of Management Conference, Atlanta
2006 Honorary Chair in Business Ethics [Leerstoel Jeff Van Gerwen s.J.], University of Antwerp, Belgium
2005 Textbook Award of the Association of University Professors of Management, Germany [Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.] for Crane & Matten ‘Business Ethics’
2005 Appointment as academic member of the ‘World Corporate Ethics Council’ (others include Samuel Huntington and Jeremy Rifkin, see www.cca-institute.org)
2003 Best paper at the 16th European Business Ethics Network Conference, Inclusion in the Best Paper Special Issue of the Journal of Business Ethics
2002 Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award, Academy of Management Conference, Denver
2002 Best paper at the 15th European Business Ethics Network Conference, Inclusion in the Best Paper Special Issue of the Journal of Business Ethics
2002 Best Paper Award of the International Management Division, Academy of Management Conference
2002 Best Paper Award of the International Management Division, Academy of Management Conference
2001 Finalist for the Best Paper Award at the 63. Meeting of the German Association of University Professors in Management, Freiburg, Germany
Recent Publications
Articles in Refereed Journals:
A. Crane, I. Henriques, B. Husted, D. Matten. Publishing Country Studies in Business & Society. Or, Do We Care About CSR in Mongolia?, Business & Society, Vol. 55 (2016), No 1, 3-10.
A. Crane, I. Henriques, B. Husted, D. Matten. Defining the Scope of Business & Society, Business & Society, Vol. 54 (2015), No 4, 427-434.
A. Crane, I. Henriques, B. Husted, D. Matten* A New Era for Business & Society, Business & Society, Vol. 54 (2015), No 1, 3-8.
A.G. Scherer, G. Palazzo, D. Matten. The business firm as a political actor: A new theory of the firm for a globalized world, Business & Society, Vol. 53 (2014), No 2, 143-156
A. Crane, G. Palazzo, L.J. Spence, D. Matten. Contesting the value of “Creating Shared Value”, California Management Review, Vol. 56 (2014), No 2, 130-149
A. Crane, G. Palazzo, L.J. Spence, D. Matten. A reply to ‘A response to Andrew Crane et al.’s article by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer’, California Management Review, Vol. 56 (2014), No 2, 151-153
S. Brammer, G. Jackson, D. Matten. Corporate Social Responsibility and Institutional Theory: New Perspectives on Private Governance, Socio Economic Review, Vol. 10 (2012), No. 1, 3-28
K. Bondy, J. Moon, D. Matten. An institution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in multi-national companies (MNCs): form and implications, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 111 (2012), No. 2, 281-299
W. Cragg, D. Matten. Ethics, Corporations, and Governance, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 102 (2011), Supplement 1, 1-4
J. Doh, B. Husted, D. Matten, M. Santoro. Ahoy There! : Toward Greater Congruence and Synergy Between International Business and Business Ethics Theory and Research, Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 20 (2010), No. 3, 481-502
Books:
A. Crane, D. Matten Business Ethics – Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization, 4th edition, Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2016
D. Matten, J. Moon (eds.) Corporate Citizenship, Vol 14 of the series: Corporate Governance in the New Global Economy, Cheltenham (Edward Elgar) 2013
A. Crane, D. Matten, L. Spence Corporate Social Responsibility: Readings and Cases in Global Context, 2nd edition, London (Routledge) 2013
R. Hahn, H. Janzen, D. Matten (eds.) Die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung des Unternehmens. Hintergründe, Schwerpunkte und Zukunftsperspektiven [The social responsibilities of business. Background, Core Issues and Future Perspectives], Stuttgart (Schäffer-Poeschel) 2012
A. Crane, D. Matten (eds.) New Directions in Business Ethics – Four Volume Set, SAGE Library in Business and Management, London (Sage) 2012
W. Visser, D. Matten, M. Pohl, N. Tolhurst (eds.) The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility - A Complete Reference Guide to Concepts, Codes and Organisations, 2nd edition, London (John Wiley), 2010
A. Crane, D. Matten Business Ethics – Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization, 3rd edition, Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2010
Chapters in Books:
R.N. Tata with D. Matten Corporate Community Involvement in the 21st century, in: D. Barton, D. Horváth, M. Kipping (eds.), Re-imagining Capitalism: Towards a responsible, long-term model, Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2016, forthcoming
A. Crane, D. Matten Engagement required: The changing role of the corporation in society, in: D. Barton, D. Horváth, M. Kipping (eds.), Re-imagining Capitalism: Towards a responsible, long-term model, Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2016, forthcoming
A. Crane, D. Matten 2015 Update: Fear and loathing in the JCC: unleashing the monster of ‘New Corporate Citizenship Theory’ to confront category crisis, in: M. McIntosh (ed.), Business, Capitalism, and Corporate Citizenship, Sheffield (Greenleaf) 2015, 122-128
D. Matten, J. Moon Corporate Citizenship: Introducing Business as an actor in political governance, in: D. Matten, J. Moon (eds.), Corporate Citizenship, Vol 14 of the series: Corporate Governance in the New Global Economy, Cheltenham (Edward Elgar) 2013, xiii-xxvi
A. Crane, J. Moon, D. Matten Citizenship, identity and the corporation: exploring new avenues of political mediation, in: K.S. Helgesson, U. Mörth (eds), The Political Role of Corporate Citizens. An Interdisciplinary Approach. Basingstoke (Palgrave Macmillan) 2013, 41-64
D. Matten, H. Janzen, R. Hahn Die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung des Unternehmens - Einführung [The social responsibilities of business - Introduction], in: R. Hahn, H. Janzen, D. Matten (eds.), Die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung des Unternehmens. Hintergründe, Schwerpunkte und Zukunftsperspektiven [The social responsibilities of business. Background, Core Issues and Future Perspectives], Stuttgart (Schäffer-Poeschel) 2012, 1-17
D. Matten, A. Crane, J. Moon Corporate Governance Towards Sustainability – A Critical Appraisal from a Citizenship Perspective, in: R. Hahn, H. Janzen, D. Matten (eds.), Die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung des Unternehmens. Hintergründe, Schwerpunkte und Zukunftsperspektiven [The social responsibilities of business. Background, Core Issues and Future Perspectives], Stuttgart (Schäffer-Poeschel) 2012, 179-198
J. Moon, A. Crane, D. Matten Corporations and Citizenship in New Institutions of Global Governance in: Crouch, C.; Maclean, C. (Eds.) The Responsible Corporation in a Global Economy, Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2011, 203-224
K. Bondy, D. Matten The relevance of the natural environment for corporate social responsibility research, in: Hoffman, A.; Bansal, P. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Environment, Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2011, 519-536
Dirk Matten
Professor of Strategy; Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility; Associate Dean, Research
Dr.rer.pol. & Dr.habil. (Düesseldorf, Germany)Dipl.-Kfm. (Essen, Germany)