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Mike Valente

Mike Valente

Associate Professor in Organization Studies and Business Sustainability; Director, BBA/iBBA Programs

PhD (York)
MBA (Wilfrid Laurier)
BCom (Laurentian)
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    mvalente@schulich.yorku.ca

    (416) 736-2100 ext. 66009

    Office: Room N328, SSB

    Area(s) of Expertise

    • Business Ethics ›
    • Organization Studies ›
    • Responsible Business ›

    Research Interests

    • Business and Sustainability
    • Complexity Theory
    • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Organizational Change
    • Organizational Strategy
    • Organizational Theory
    • Qualitative Methods
    • Social Innovation
    • Strategic Management
    • Strategy Implementation
    • Sustainability Management
    Download CV Organizing for Sustainability
  • About Mike Valente

    Mike’s research examines the interaction between business strategy and society.  He is interested in the typology of organizational responses to social, ecological, and economic issues and the key drivers that explain variations in responses to sustainability.  In light of the increasing complexity of organizational environments, Mike’s more recent stream of work has looked at how organizations respond to complex problems like poverty, obesity and the financial crisis. Mike’s research is propelling him into a more critical perspective where he seeks to examine how companies, in their pursuit of strategic value appropriation, exploit the many irrational decisions of consumers and extract value from society. Mike sits on the editorial board of Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business & Society. Mike also consults for companies in the area of strategy and sustainability and is a board director. More information about Mike can be found at his website – www.organizingforsustainability.com

    Honours

    2016 2nd Place Seymour Schulich Award for Teaching Excellence at the Graduate Level

    2012 Research Merit Award, Richard Ivey School of Business

    2011 Ivey HBA Teaching Award: Recipient of the David Burgoyne Award for Dedication In and Out of the Classroom

    2011 Nominated for Green Award, University of Western Ontario

    2011 USC Teaching Honour Roll for Excellence in Teaching Business, University of Western Ontario.

    2009 Service Award: Office of the Vice-President Academic and Provost Single Year Award for bringing into focus the issue of business and sustainability at the Faculty of Business, University of Victoria.

    2009 Best Paper Award. Indigenous Resource and Institutional Capital: Understanding its Role in Private Sector Sustainable Development. International Academy of African Business Development (IAABD), Kampala.

    2009 Excellence in Service Award, University of Victoria Business.

    2009 Recipient of the University of Victoria Business Award for Teaching Excellence

    2009 Faculty of the Year Award: Commerce Students Society, University of Victoria Business

    2008 Service Award: Office of the Vice-President Academic and Provost Single Year Award for bringing into focus the issue of business and sustainability at the Faculty of Business, University of Victoria.

    2007 Finalist for the Social Issues in Management Dissertation Award, Academy of Management, Philadelphia.

    2007 Governor Generals Academic Gold Medal Award Recipient, Canada.

    2007 Nominated for the William H. Newman Award for an outstanding single- authored paper from a dissertation. Academy of Management, Philadelphia.

    2007 Nominated for the 2007 York University Doctoral Dissertation Award.

    2007 Best Paper Award International Academy of African Business Development (London, 2007)

    2006 First Place Seymour Schulich Award for Teaching Excellence

    2006 Chosen as 1 of 9 PhD students to attend the Swiss Master Class in Corporate Social Responsibility at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland

    2004 Best Student Paper Award Strategy Division, ASAC

    2002 Robert Breadner Entrepreneurial Fund Scholarship: $2,000

    2002 Selected to represent Wilfrid Laurier at the 2002 Concordia M.B.A. Case Competition, Montreal, Quebec

    2001 Selected to represent Laurentian University at the 2001 Excalibur Case Competition, University of Montreal. (Placed 2nd)

    2000 Senator Rheale Belise Award, Laurentian University: $3,700

    Recent Publications

    Valente, M. and Oliver, O. (forthcoming). Meta-organization formation and sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa. Organization Science.

    Valente, M. (2018). Meridian Credit Union: Challenging the Big Banks. Ivey Publishing.

    Valente, M. (2018). Academic Social Responsibility: Sine Qua Non for Corporate Social Performance. Eds. Stachowicz-Stanusch, A., Amann, W. 177-196. Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC.

    Valente, M. (2017). Corporate Responsibility Strategies for Sustainability. In Corporate Social
    Responsibility: Strategy, Communication, and Governance. Eds. Rasche, A., Morsing, M., Moon, J. Pg. 86-109. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

    Valente, M. (2015). “Business sustainability embeddedness as a strategic imperative”,
    Business & Society 54(1): 126-142

    Valente, M. (2015). Tata Chemicals Magadi: Confronting Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ivey Publishing.

    Deutsch, Y. and Valente, M. (2013). The trouble with stock compensation. Sloan Management Review, 54(4): 19-20. http://sloanreview.mit.edu/x/54408

    Deutsch, Y. & Valente, M. (2013) Compensating outside directors with stock: A multiple stakeholder perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 116(1): 67-85 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-012-1447-7

    Valente, M. (2013). Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement. Ivey Publishing.

    Valente, M. (2013). Frogbox. Ivey Publishing.

    Lepoutre, J., & Valente, M. (2012) “Fools breaking out: The role of symbolic and material immunity in explaining institutional nonconformity”, Academy of Management Journal, 55(2): 285-313.

    Valente M. (2012) “Indigenous resource and institutional capital: The role of local context in embedding sustainable development”, Business & Society, 51(3): 409-449.

    Valente, M. (2012) “Theorizing organizational adoption of sustaincentrism”, Organization Studies, 33(4): 563-591.

    Valente, M. (May 23rd, 2012 ) “Business sustainability embeddedness as a strategic paradigm: A
    multilevel process framework”. Business & Society:
    http://bas.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/05/22/0007650312443199

    Valente, M. (2012). Pure organic food and juice bar. Ivey Publishing.

    Valente, M. (2011). PepsiCo’s turning point: establishing a role in sustainable society. Ivey
    Publishing.

    Valente, M. (2011). Suncor’s political role in Fort McMurray. Ivey Publishing.

    Valente, M. (2011) South Side Restaurant’s carbon wine list. Ivey Publishing.

    Valente, M., & Crane, A. (2010) “Private enterprise and public responsibility in developing countries”, California Management Review, 52(3): 52-78.

    Valente, M. (2010) “Public and private partnerships for sustainable development: A process framework”, Journal of African Business, 11(1): 49-69.

    Valente, M. (2010). “Demystifying the struggles of private sector paradigmatic change: Business as an agent of a complex adaptive system”. Business & Society, 49(3): 439-476.

    Courses Taught

    Business and Sustainability

    Responsible Business Leadership

    Strategic Management

    Organization Studies

    Grants

    Project Title Role Award Amount Year Awarded Granting Agency
    Project TitleBoundary Conditions for the Substitution of CSR for Government: The Moderating Roles of Egalitarian and Deliberative Democracy RolePrinciple Investigator Award Amount$2,500.00 Year Awarded2018 Granting AgencyYork University Internal SSHRC Grant
    Project TitleProcesses of group negotiation in contexts of logic multiplicity RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$812.08 Year Awarded2013-2014 Granting AgencyYUFA Junior Faculty Research Fund
    Project TitleIs Strategic Management Sustainable? RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$3,904.00 Year Awarded2010-2011 Granting AgencyIRG & SSHRC General Research/Creative Activity Grants
    Project Title RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$15,000.00 Year Awarded2006 Granting AgencyOntario Graduate Scholarship
    Project Title RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$15,000.00 Year Awarded2006 Granting AgencyInternational Order of the Daughters of the Empire (IODE) - War Memorial Scholarship
    Project Title RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$20,000.00 Year Awarded2005 Granting AgencyInternational Development Research Centre (IRDC) - Doctoral Research Award
    Project Title RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$40,000.00 Year Awarded2004 Granting AgencySocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council - Doctoral Fellowship
    Project Title RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$15,000.00 Year Awarded2004 Granting AgencyOntario Graduate Scholarship
    Project Title RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$22,000.00 Year Awarded2003 Granting AgencySchulich School of Business - Ph.D. 2nd Year Entrance Scholarship
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