Two professors from the Centre of Excellence for Sustainability honored in Boston

04/09/2023
Lutz Preuss and Natalia Yakovleva, professors at the Centre of Excellence for Sustainability, receive an award for their paper at the Journal of World Business reception held during the Academy of Management's annual conference in Boston in 2023.

KEDGE professors Lutz Preuss and Natalia Yakovleva receive ‘Journal of World Business 2022 Best Phenomenon-Based Paper’ Award

Lutz Preuss and Natalia Yakovleva, received the award during the 2023 annual conference of the Academy of Management for their paper: “When social movements fill institutional voids: triggers, processes and consequences for multinational enterprises”. 

The article was published in the international academic Journal of World Business.

Nominations and winners are selected by the journal's editorial board, which comprises over 200 people from 26 countries.

When social movements fill institutional voids: triggers, processes and consequences for multinational enterprises

Our research builds on existing literature examining institutional voids in emerging economies. Using data from two cases of mining FDI in Argentina, we conceptualize the triggers, processes and consequences of informal institution-building by a social movement. We found the cases to exhibit different ‘community sustainability orientations’, enabling two contrasting strategies, ‘bargaining’ and ‘gatekeeping’, to address the existing institutional void. This led to the development of new formal institutions – regulated CSR for the former and legal ban on mining operations for the latter case. Our study thus offers insights into the processes through which institutional entrepreneurship by social movements influences MNEs. 

Source: sciencedirect.com

In addition, this article was nominated for "Journal of World Business in 2022 Best Paper”.

Finally, Natalia Yakovleva received the Journal of World Business in 2022 Best Reviewer Award.

These awards confirm the excellence and quality of research at KEDGE.

Academy of Management 2023

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