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Frances Westley

Frances Westley

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
17080
World Ranking
4563
National Ranking
267

Overview

Frances Westley is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada and focuses on research within the Social Sciences, specifically Sociology and Political Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

Their research topics cover a range of areas such as Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems; Ecosystem dynamics and resilience; Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment; Misinformation and Its Impacts; Mental Health Research Topics; Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development; and Innovation, Technology, and Society.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere, 2021, AMBIO
  • Belief traps: Tackling the inertia of harmful beliefs, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Navigating the chaos of an unfolding global cycle, 2020, Ecology and Society
  • Our Future in the Anthropocene Biosphere: Global sustainability and resilient societies, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Anticipating the global redistribution of people and property, 2024, One Earth

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Westley include Marten Scheffer, Carl Folke, Stephen R. Carpenter, F. Stuart Chapin, and Stephen Polasky.

Westley's works have appeared in various publication venues such as AMBIO, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ecology and Society, SSRN Electronic Journal, and One Earth, reflecting a diverse publication record across notable journals.

Best Publications

  • VISIONARY LEADERSHIP AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

    Frances Westley;Henry Mintzberg

  • Organizational Learning: Affirming an Oxymoron

    Karl E. Weick;Frances Westley

  • Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

    Frances Westley;Per Olsson;Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Thomas Homer-Dixon;Thomas Homer-Dixon

  • Cycles of organizational change

    Henry Mintzberg;Frances Westley

  • Middle managers and strategy: Microdynamics of inclusion

    Frances R. Westley

  • Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed

    Brenda Zimmerman;Michael Patton;Frances Westley

  • Reconnecting to the Biosphere

    Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Åsa Jansson;Åsa Jansson;Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Per Olsson

  • Making a Difference Strategies for Scaling Social Innovation for Greater Impact

    Frances Westley;J. W. McConnell

  • A Theory of Transformative Agency in Linked Social-Ecological Systems

    Frances R. Westley;Ola Tjornbo;Lisen Schultz;Per Olsson

  • Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere.

    Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Stephen Polasky;Johan Rockström;Victor Galaz

  • Surrogates for Resilience of Social–Ecological Systems

    Stephen R. Carpenter;Frances Westley;Monica G. Turner

  • Surmountable Chasms: Networks and Social Innovation for Resilient Systems

    Michele-Lee Moore;Frances Westley

  • Navigating the Back Loop: Fostering Social Innovation and Transformation in Ecosystem Management

    Reinette Biggs;Frances R. Westley;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • Strategic Bridging: The Collaboration between Environmentalists and Business in the Marketing of Green Products

    Frances Westley;Harrie Vredenburg

  • Why systems of people and nature are not just social and ecological systems

    F. Westley;S. R. Carpenter;W. A. Brock;C. S. Holling

  • Learning through evaluation: A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments

    Christopher Luederitz;Niko Schapke;Arnim Wiek;Arnim Wiek;Daniel J. Lang

  • Five Configurations for Scaling Up Social Innovation: Case Examples of Nonprofit Organizations From Canada

    Frances Westley;Nino Antadze;Darcy J. Riddell;Kirsten Robinson

  • Some surprising things about collaboration—Knowing how people connect makes it work better

    Henry Mintzberg;Jan Jorgensen;Deborah Dougherty;Frances Westley

  • Socioeconomic Mechanisms Preventing Optimum Use of Ecosystem Services: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Analysis

    Marten Scheffer;William Brock;Frances Westley

  • Interorganizational Collaboration and the Preservation of Global Biodiversity

    Frances Westley;Harrie Vredenburg

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor Galaz
Victor Galaz Stockholm University
Stephen Polasky
Stephen Polasky University of Minnesota
Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Beatrice Crona
Beatrice Crona Stockholm University
Néstor Mazzeo
Néstor Mazzeo University of the Republic
Måns Nilsson
Måns Nilsson Stockholm Environment Institute
Derk Loorbach
Derk Loorbach Erasmus University Rotterdam
Eric F. Lambin
Eric F. Lambin Stanford University
Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily Stanford University
Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom Indiana University

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