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Sandra Waddock

Sandra Waddock

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
59
Citations
28266
World Ranking
569
National Ranking
251

Overview

Sandra Waddock is affiliated with Boston College in the United States and is active in the field of social sciences, with 26 publications across several subfields. These include sociology and political science, management science and operations research, organizational behavior and human resource management, management, monitoring, policy and law, and business and international management.

Their research spans multiple key topics, with a primary focus on complex systems and decision making, innovation, sustainability, and human-machine systems. Other notable areas include sustainable development and environmental policy, management and organizational studies, innovation and socioeconomic development, global energy and sustainability research, as well as climate change communication and perception.

Waddock has contributed to both journals and books, publishing notably in venues such as the Academy of Management Proceedings, Humanistic Management Journal, Sustainability, Business and Society Review, and the Journal of Management for Global Sustainability.

  • Academy of Management Proceedings (14 publications)
  • Humanistic Management Journal (4 publications)
  • Sustainability (3 publications)
  • Business and Society Review (3 publications)
  • Journal of Management for Global Sustainability (3 publications)

Among recent papers, the following represent key contributions:

  • "Achieving sustainability requires systemic business transformation," 2020, Global Sustainability
  • "Imagining transformation: Change agent narratives of sustainable futures," 2022, Futures
  • "Natural Sciences, Management Theory, and System Transformation for Sustainability," 2020, Business & Society
  • "Invoking indigenous wisdom for management learning," 2020, Management Learning
  • "Reframing and Transforming Economics around Life," 2020, Sustainability

Collaboration is part of Waddock's research practice, with frequent co-authors including Andreas Rasche, Chris Laszlo, Steve Waddell, Joan Marques, and Chris Riedy.

  • Andreas Rasche (12 collaborations)
  • Chris Laszlo (8 collaborations)
  • Steve Waddell (5 collaborations)
  • Joan Marques (4 collaborations)
  • Chris Riedy (2 collaborations)

Their book publications include titles released by Stanford University Press eBooks and Emerald Publishing Limited.

  • Building the Responsible Enterprise, 2020, Stanford University Press eBooks
  • Sustainability, 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited

Best Publications

  • The corporate social performance-financial performance link

    Sandra A. Waddock;Samuel B. Graves

  • Corporate responsibility and financial performance: the role of intangible resources

    Jordi Surroca;Josep A. Tribó;Sandra Waddock

  • Institutional Owners and Corporate Social Performance

    Samuel B. Graves;Sandra A. Waddock

  • Parallel universes: Companies, academics, and the progress of corporate citizenship

    Sandra A. Waddock

  • Responsibility: The new business imperative

    Sandra A. Waddock;Charles Bodwell;Samuel B. Graves

  • Building a New Institutional Infrastructure for Corporate Responsibility

    Sandra Waddock

  • Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking: Theory, Responsibility and Engagement

    Jörg Andriof;Jörg Andriof;Sandra Waddock;Bryan Husted;Sandra Sutherland Rahman

  • Social Entrepreneurs and Catalytic Change.

    Sandra A. Waddock;James E. Post

  • Leading Corporate Citizens: Vision, Values, Value Added

    Sandra A. Waddock

  • Accountability in a Global Economy: The Emergence of International Accountability Standards

    Dirk Ulrich Gilbert;Andreas Rasche;Sandra Waddock

  • Understanding Social Partnerships: An Evolutionary Model of Partnership Organizations

    Sandra A. Waddock

  • Quality of Management and Quality of Stakeholder Relations Are They Synonymous

    Sandra A. Waddock;Samuel B. Graves

  • Understanding Shareholder Activism: Which Corporations are Targeted?

    Kathleen Rehbein;Sandra Waddock;Samuel B. Graves

  • A Typology of Social Partnership Organizations

    Sandra A. Waddock

  • Institutional ownership and control: implications for long-term corporate strategy

    Samuel B. Graves;Sandra A. Waddock

  • Relationships: The real challenge of corporate global citizenship

    Sandra A. Waddock;Neil Smith

  • Unfolding Stakeholder Engagement

    Jörg Andriof;Sandra Waddock

  • The Multiple Bottom Lines of Corporate Citizenship: Social Investing, Reputation, and Responsibility Audits

    Sandra Waddock

  • Myths and Realities of Social Investing

    Sandra A. Waddock

  • Creating Corporate Accountability: Foundational Principles to Make Corporate Citizenship Real

    Sandra A. Waddock

  • The United Nations Global Compact Retrospect and Prospect

    Andreas Rasche;Sandra Waddock;Malcolm McIntosh

  • The complexity of wicked problems in large scale change

    Sandra Waddock;Greta M. Meszoely;Steve Waddell;Domenico Dentoni

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Shrivastava
Paul Shrivastava Pennsylvania State University
Andreas Rasche
Andreas Rasche Copenhagen Business School
James Weber
James Weber Duquesne University
Bryan W. Husted
Bryan W. Husted Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Thomas Donaldson
Thomas Donaldson University of Pennsylvania
James P. Walsh
James P. Walsh University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert E. Quinn
Robert E. Quinn University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Andrew J. Hoffman
Andrew J. Hoffman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nancy J. Adler
Nancy J. Adler McGill University
Karen O'Brien
Karen O'Brien University of Oslo

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