Innovations in Cross-Campus + Cross-Disciplinary Models An excerpt from the Executive Summary Andrew P. Hoffman, Erb Faculty Member THIS IS A STUDY OF THE DISTINCTIVE characteristics, activities, challenges and opportunities of a specific type of sustainability...
Erb Faculty Member, Andy Hoffman in the Journal of Change Management Abstract Universities are facing a crisis of relevance. While there are multiple reasons for this to be happening, one that deserves particular attention is the extent to which academic scholars do...
Erb Faculty Member, Andy Hoffman's response to this paper: In their paper "How to save a leaky ship" John Lyneis and John Sterman ask the simple question "Why are win-win opportunities so often left on the table?" Their answer lies in an analysis of the organizational...
Turning rhetoric into reality in pursuit of the triple-bottom-line - Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai published in Risk Analysis an International Journal Many business cases, and business school classes, are overflowing with high-sounding and aspirational rhetoric...
The promise of asymmetric interventions for addressing risks to environmental systems. Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai published in Environment Systems & Decisions Recent studies suggest that people the world over are becoming increasingly concerned about the...
The role of "culture" in the climate change debate isn't all it's cracked up to be. Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai published in Nature Climate Change There's an emerging body of research suggesting that how much people know about climate change is unrelated to how...
Abstract Corporate claims about environmental performance have increased rapidly in recent years, as has the incidence of greenwash, that is, communication that misleads people into forming overly positive beliefs about an organization’s environmental practices or...
By: Andrew J. Hoffman, in Corporate Stewardship: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness, (Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing): 228-248 (with John Ehrenfeld) (2015) ABSTRACT: Sustainability has become mainstream in both management practice and management research....
Professor Tom Lyon, Erb's Associate Director of Research shares research findings on corporate 'brownwashing' in a radio interview with WEMU. Read more about the interview (pdf) or listen to the recording here.
Eun-Hee Kim, Thomas P. Lyon Abstract Corporate greenwashing has accelerated in recent years, bringing in its wake growing skepticism about corporate green claims. Although a theory of the drivers and deterrents of greenwashing has begun to emerge, it is static in...