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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 and is the Associate Dean of Research, a role he previously served from 2014 to 2018. He is also the founding director of Schulich’s Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business. He has a doctoral degree and the habilitation from Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf in Germany. In 2019/20 he was the Gourlay Visiting Professor of Ethics in Business at Trinity College of the University of Melbourne. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of London, the University of Nottingham, Copenhagen Business School and at Sabancı University in Istanbul. He has taught and done research at academic institutions in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Turkey, and the USA.
He has published 29 books and edited volumes as well as more than 90 journal articles and book chapters, which have won numerous prestigious awards. In August 2018, his paper with Jeremy Moon on ‘Implicit and Explicit CSR received the highly prestigious “Academy of Management Review Paper of the Decade Award”. In the same year he was also ranked #44 in the ‘Top 100 Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Leader’ ranking (next to CEOs and CSR leaders of Unilever, Google, Apple etc. He is the only academic scholar on the list). In 2019 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from his school as well as the York Research Leader Award.
Honours
2019 York Research Leader Award, York University, Toronto, Canada
2019 Lifetime Achievement Award, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada
2018 Winner of the “Paper of the Decade” Award from the Journal ‘Academy of Management Review’, Chicago, 2018
2018 Ranked in the “Top 100 Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Leader” award list of Assent Compliance
2017 Emerald Citations of Excellence Award (for ‘Contesting the value of “Creating Shared Value”’ paper)
2017 Insight Grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SHHRC), $87,000 for a project on ‘Openacity’
2016 Schulich School of Business ranked No 1 globally in Green MBA ranking by Corporate Knights Magazine, Toronto (for a third year in a row)
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:
F. DeBakker, D. Matten, L.J. Spence, C. Wickert. The Elephant in the Room: The Nascent Research Agenda on Corporations, Social Responsibility and Capitalism, Business & Society, forthcoming
D. Matten, J. Moon. The Meaning and Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility, Academy of Management Review, Vol. 45 (2020), No 1, 7-28
M. Flyverbom, R. Deibert, D. Matten. Governance of Digital Technologies, Big Data, and the Internet: New Roles and Responsibilities for Business, Business & Society, Vol. 58 (2019), No 1, 3-19.
M. Ararat, A.M. Colpan, D. Matten. Business Groups and Corporate Responsibility for the Public Good, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol 153 (2018), 911–929
A. Crane, I. Henriques, B. Husted, D. Matten. Twelve Tips for Getting Published in Business & Society, Business & Society, Vol. 56 (2017), No 1, 3- 10.
A. Crane, I. Henriques, B. Husted, D. Matten. What Constitutes a Theoretical Contribution in the Business and Society Field?, Business & Society, Vol. 55 (2016), No 6, 783-791
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, L.J. Spence, S. Glozer
Business Ethics – Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization, 5th Edition, Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2019A. Crane, D. Matten, L.J. Spence
Corporate Social Responsibility: Readings and Cases in Global Context, Indian Edition, London (Routledge) 2018A. Crane, D. Matten
Business Ethics – Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization, International Edition, Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2016
A. Crane, D. Matten Business Ethics – Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization, 4th edition, Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2016D. 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:
M. Ararat, A.M. Colpan, D. Matten. Corporate Social Responsibility in Business Groups, in: D. Poff, A. Michalos (eds.), Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics, Berlin (Springer Nature), forthcoming 2020
D. Matten, J. Moon. The dynamics of CSR in a comparative perspective: convergence towards divergent hybrids, in: J.B. Ciulla, T.K. Scharding (eds.), Ethical Leadership in Troubling Times, Cheltenham (Edward Elgar) 2019, 22-40
R.N. Tata, 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, 68-83
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, 116-134
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; Associate Dean, Research; Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility; Director of Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business
Dr.rer.pol. & Dr.habil. (Düesseldorf, Germany)Dipl.-Kfm. (Essen, Germany)