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Dirk Matten

Dirk Matten

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Political Science
Canada
2026
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Law and Political Science
Canada
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
52
Citations
29852
World Ranking
194
National Ranking
5

Business and Management

D-Index
54
Citations
34108
World Ranking
749
National Ranking
42

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Dirk Matten is affiliated with York University in Canada and specializes in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their work covers multiple subfields including Strategy and Management, Marketing, Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, as well as Finance.

The main focus of Matten's research lies in Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, with additional interests in Environmental Sustainability in Business, Ethics in Business and Education, Management and Organizational Studies, Global trade, sustainability, and social impact, and Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds.

Dirk Matten has published research in various academic journals. Recent papers include:

  • Reflections on the 2018 Decade Award: The Meaning and Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility (2020) in Academy of Management Review
  • COVID-19 and the Future of CSR Research (2020) in Journal of Management Studies
  • The Elephant in the Room: The Nascent Research Agenda on Corporations, Social Responsibility, and Capitalism (2020) in Business & Society
  • Settlement Constellations and the Dynamics of Fields Formed Around Social and Environmental Issues (2022) in Organization Science
  • Corporate social responsibility disclosure: a topic-based approach (2022) in Accounting and Business Research

Frequent co-authors in Dirk Matten's work include:

  • Jeremy Moon
  • Andrew Crane
  • Frank G. A. de Bakker
  • Laura J. Spence
  • Christopher Wickert

The scholar's publications appear regularly in well-known venues such as:

  • Academy of Management Review
  • Journal of Management Studies
  • Business & Society
  • Organization Science
  • Accounting and Business Research

Overall, Dirk Matten's work engages deeply with themes of corporate social responsibility and sustainability, often collaborating with notable researchers in the broader field of management and organizational studies.

Best Publications

  • “Implicit” and “Explicit” CSR: A Conceptual Framework for a Comparative Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility

    Dirk Matten;Jeremy Moon

  • Corporate Social Responsibility

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  • Corporate Citizenship: Toward an Extended Theoretical Conceptualization

    Dirk Matten;Andrew Crane

  • Business Ethics: Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization

    Andrew Crane;Dirk Matten

  • The Oxford Handbook Of Corporate Social Responsibility

    Andrew Crane;Abagail McWilliams;Abagail McWilliams;Dirk Matten;Jeremy Moon

  • Corporate Social Responsibility and institutional theory: new perspectives on private governance

    Stephen Brammer;Gregory Jackson;Dirk Matten

  • Contesting the value of "creating shared value"

    Andrew Crane;Guido Palazzo;Laura J. Spence;Dirk Matten

  • Behind the mask: Revealing the true face of corporate citizenship

    Dirk Matten;Andrew Crane;Wendy Chapple

  • Can Corporations Be Citizens? Corporate Citizenship as a Metaphor for Business Participation in Society

    Jeremy Moon;Andrew Crane;Dirk Matten

  • Corporate Social Responsibility Readings and Cases in a Global Context

    Andrew Crane;Dirk Matten;Laura J. Spence

  • Corporate Social Responsibility Education in Europe

    Dirk Matten;Jeremy Moon

  • Corporate Social Responsibility in a Global Context

    Andrew Crane;Dirk Matten;Laura J. Spence

  • The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility

    Wayne Visser;Dirk Matten;Manfred Pohl;Nick Tolhurst

  • An Institution of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Multi-National Corporations (MNCs): Form and Implications

    Krista Bondy;Jeremy Moon;Dirk Matten

  • Corporations and Citizenship:Business, Responsibility and Society

    Andrew Crane;Dirk Matten;Jeremy Moon

  • Stakeholders as citizens? Rethinking rights, participation, and democracy

    Andrew Crane;Dirk Matten;Jeremy Moon

  • Employee Volunteering and Social Capital: Contributions to Corporate Social Responsibility

    Judy N. Muthuri;Dirk Matten;Jeremy Moon

  • Business Ethics: A European Perspective: Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization

    Andrew Crane;Dirk Matten

  • The Business Firm as a Political Actor: A New Theory of the Firm for a Globalized World

    Andreas Georg Scherer;Guido Palazzo;Dirk Matten

  • The Adoption of Voluntary Codes of Conduct in MNCs: A Three‐Country Comparative Study

    Krista Bondy;Dirk Matten;Jeremy Moon

  • The Corporate Social Responsibility Agenda

    Andrew Crane;Abagail McWilliams;Dirk Matten;Jeremy Moon

  • The Governance of Digital Technology, Big Data, and the Internet: New Roles and Responsibilities for Business:

    Mikkel Flyverbom;Ronald Deibert;Dirk Matten

  • The rise of CSR: implications for HRM and employee representation

    Lutz Preuss;Axel Haunschild;Dirk Matten

  • The Social Construction of Contextual Rationalities in MNCs: An Anglo‐German Comparison of Subsidiary Choice*

    Mike Geppert;Karen Williams;Dirk Matten

  • COVID-19 and the future of CSR research

    Andrew Crane;Dirk Matten

  • Can Corporations Be Citizens? Corporate Citizenship as a Metaphor for Business Participation in Society

    Dirk Matten;Jeremy Moon;Andrew Crane

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Crane
Andrew Crane University of Bath
Jeremy Moon
Jeremy Moon Copenhagen Business School
Guido Palazzo
Guido Palazzo University of Lausanne
Bryan W. Husted
Bryan W. Husted Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Andreas Georg Scherer
Andreas Georg Scherer University of Zurich
Laura J. Spence
Laura J. Spence King's College London
Irene Henriques
Irene Henriques York University
Jonathan P. Doh
Jonathan P. Doh Villanova University
Donald S. Siegel
Donald S. Siegel Arizona State University
Stephen Brammer
Stephen Brammer University of Bath

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