Mark Starik

• Ph.D. University of Georgia (U.S.A.), 1991
• Contributing Faculty - Ph.D. and DPA Programs at Walden University

This essay centers on the personal sustainability behaviors of faculty as related to research, teaching, and service, as well as those behaviors that go far beyond these typical faculty responsibilities. We argue that faculty personal engagement with sustainability can lend credibility to this topic as faculty can set a good example for students, c...

This chapter forwards a justification, an explanation, and numerous examples related to an emerging integrated sustainability management theory and its connections to other management theories and key related concepts including systems and immersion. An integrated approach to sustainability solutions presents several implications for educators, res...

Attached is a call for papers for a special issue of the Journal of Management Education that I am co-editing on "Advances in Sustainability in Management Education." I'll also be attaching a list of extended topics acceptable for the issue. The submission due date is September 1, 2019, with a projected publication date of the second half of 2020....

Existing research shows that leadership behaviours can influence the proenvironment beliefs of employees and their green behaviours. However, the mechanisms that nurture the proenvironment attitudes of employees remain unclear. By juxtaposing Taoist philosophy and Aldo Leopold's land ethic, this paper explores how the former can theoretically advan...

If we created a wish list for our "perfect" management and sustainability textbook it would include a text that is: inspirational and engaging so that our students actually read it; up-to-date because sustainability is evolving as we are teaching it; holistic in its coverage of sustainability (social/cultural, environmental and economic); as well a...

Over the last decade, increasing research into sustainable business models has produced a number of prototypes that address various dimensions and levels of sustainability. What exists is a patchwork of certification and disconnected frameworks that are less than systematic and comprehensive. This article addresses this lack of integrated, holistic...

Businesses have many opportunities to foster sustainable peace. To illustrate the possibilities and limits of businesses reducing violence, we describe the case of ABN AMRO in Brazil and its social program in Novo Lino, one of the poorest municipalities in the country characterized by high levels of violence toward children. With ABN AMRO's support...

Several decades have passed since business academics and practitioners acknowledged that environmental and socio-economic sustainability were critically important business values and features. In the past ten years, increasing research into sustainable business models has produced a number of prototypes that address various dimensions and levels of...

The continuing evolution and increasing salience of the concept and practice of sustainability among individuals, organizations, and societies worldwide appears to warrant the development of conceptual approaches to theories of sustainability management for application to management research, education, and practice. While other management theories...

This article investigates the economic and non-economic factors that influence the willingness of building professionals to adopt green office building technology. We developed a model that analyzes the impact of four variables on the intention to adopt green building technology, as measured by the adoption of LEED and ENERGY STAR certifications. A...

Purpose – As a well-recognized qualitative research method, storytelling can help to explain the multilevel and dynamic perspectives in management studies. The authors purposefully chose sustainability stories in the Western context, leadership stories in the Eastern context, and entrepreneurship stories in the West-meets-East context to highlight...

This chapter examines the recent global financial crisis at a multilevel, multisystems approach, focusing on natural environment-related inputs, processes, and outputs. It explicates other systems-oriented phenomena at each level to provide a holistic systems framework for understanding the financial crisis and its connections to sustainability. It...

Strategic environmental sustainability management is and can be practiced in a wide variety of economic sectors worldwide, but many such sectors have yet to be recognized for doing so. This paper identifies three global economic sectors --- the direct selling, sports, and military sectors --- as exhibiting “environmentally-hidden” profiles, and dis...

This conceptual paper seeks to advance neo-institutional work that has traditionally portrayed environmental and social protection policies as constraints followed by businesses. Drawing from the policy sciences literature, we propose that in the United States, businesses tend to show increasing resistance as the protective policy process moves fro...

In recent years our understanding of corporate sustainability has moved from exploitation to exploration, from corporate environmental management to sustainable entrepreneurship, and from efficiency to innovation. Yet current sustainability trends indicate the need for radical innovation via entrepreneurial start-ups or new ventures within existing...

'Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic is an inspired collection of papers by a distinguished group of scholars who have been thinking about these issues for many years. The editors have done an outstanding job of framing and focusing the discussion on a group of issues that will matter most as all businesses engage their sustainability chall...

This manuscript contributes to the organizations and natural environment literature by combining the policy process model with neo-institutional theory to develop a framework of propositions predicting business political environmental management strategies. This framework advances neo-institutional work that has traditionally portrayed government r...

This conceptual paper seeks to advance neo-institutional work that has tradi- tionally portrayed environmental and social protection policies as constraints followed by businesses. Drawing from the policy sciences literature, we propose that in the United States, businesses tend to show increasing resistance as the protective policy process moves f...

This article describes the current state of the Russian natural environment, the historical development of Russian environmental values and strategies, and several factors, including the role of environmental non-governmental organizations, in the implementation of those environmental values and strategies.

This article furthers the argument for a stakeholder theory that integrates into managerial decision-making the relationship between business organizations and the natural environment. The authors review the literature on stakeholder theory and the debate over whom or what should count as a stakeholder. The authors also critique and expand the stak...

The role of stakeholders is integral to corporate sustainability as society increasingly demands that corporations play a role in achieving environmental objectives in addition to building shareholder wealth. In the first book to gather cutting-edge research on the interactions between stakeholders and organizations within the context of corporate...

Universities and colleges, as societal educational institutions, have relatively recently attempted to begin to upgrade their multiple relationships with their natural environments, as have other institutions. However, “greening” initiatives of higher education institutions appear to have received far less attention in various bodies of academic li...

During the last several decades, numerous policies and programs intended to advance environmental goals have been formulated in the US by governmental bodies and implemented by businesses and nongovernmental organizations. This article forwards a multi-sectoral perspective that business and nonprofit organizations have also been significantly invol...

An increasing amount of high-quality research has been conducted in the past decade on the topic of managing organizations in the natural environment. We trace this evolution using path and challenge metaphors, indicating our belief that this research, including the nine articles in this special research forum, exhibits an increasing comprehensiven...

Environmental management is becoming increasingly accepted as a key feature of business strategy. However, academic and practitioner publications on the subject develop few guides as to which processes to follow to integrate environmental concerns and strategy. A three-step strategic management process is proposed which incorporates concern for the...

This article explores the concept of ecological sustainability and applies it to organizations by utilizing a systems framework and multiple levels of analysis. The implications for ecological sustainability of dyadic relationships between the organization and entities at the individual, organizational, political-economic, social-cultural, and ecol...

This book reflects a melding of several streams of research. Nearly two decades ago, researchers at Clark University's Center for Technology, Environment, and Development (CENTED) engaged the problem of classifying, comparing, and managing technological hazards. This early work kindled an interest in the ethical and value issues attendant in societ...

Most definitions of the concept of stakeholder include only human entities. This paper advances the argument that the non-human natural environment can be integrated into the stakeholder management concept. This argument includes the observations that the natural environment is finally becoming recognized as a vital component of the business enviro...

As an increasing number of businesses around the world develop environmental policies and programs international business academics can play a vital role in helping to advance business natural environment values and practices in their countries, professions, schools, classrooms, and communities. This article identifies six potential avenues for aca...

In this study, utility consumer-related stakeholders included state utility regulators and both publicly and privately funded consumer groups. Utility performance included reputation (self- and stakeholder evaluation) and financial (rate-request-allowance percentages, and financial statement) measures. The methodology employed to test part of Freem...

The increasing importance of information in global manufacturing organizations has been marked by a similar increasing trend in manufacturing organizations sharing information strategically within their respective value chains. Contributing factors, salient effects, and several propositions related to these linkages are identified and examined usin...