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Sanjay Sharma

 

Sanjay Sharma

Canada Research Chair in Organizational Sustainability
Professor & Director- CMA Centre for Responsible Organizations

Wilfred Laurier University
 
Sanjay's research looks at the linkages between sustainability strategies and firm performance via the development and deployment of organizational capabilities, the opportunity framing of environmental issues in organizations to spur managerial creativity and innovation, and stakeholder influences on individual sustainability practices, especially in Third World development contexts.    

Address:
School of Business & Economics
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5


Phone: 519.884.0710 ext.2089


Fax: 519.884.0201


E-mail: ssharma@wlu.ca

Other Activities/Appointments:
He has co-edited five books on research in corporate sustainability and edits two annual book series of research on sustainability. As the Chair of the Organizations and the Natural Environment Group in the Academy of Management, he has worked to establish corporate sustainability as a field of scholarship. Before pursuing an academic career, Sanjay was a senior general manager with multinational corporations in four continents for 16 years.
Research Interests:
  • Corporate Environmental Strategy
  • Corporate Sustainability
  • Competitive Strategy
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Organizational Innovation
Recent Publications/Working Papers:
 
Hart, S.L. & Sharma, S. 2004. "Engaging fringe stakeholders for competitive imagination." Academy of Management Executive, 18(1):7-18.

Sharma, S., H. Vredenburg, & F. Westley. 1994. "Strategic bridging: A role for the multinational corporation in Third World Development", Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, vol. 30(4): December 1994, pp. 458-476. 
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