Biodiversity is rarely addressed in corporate environmental governance. Yet, biodiversity in ecosystems represents the variety of all life on Earth that supports vital functions like pollination, water purification, nutrient cycling, and climate regulation. Since nature has a distant and indirect impact on corporations, we consider how and when corporate leaders attend to biodiversity. In this project, we consider how individual-level behavioral aspects of managers affect the way in which biodiversity is perceived and governed.

Fiona Stappmanns

Organizational leaders have to respond to multiple and potentially competing stakeholder demands as they navigate the constantly evolving nature of such demands in corporate sustainability. Yet, decision makers differ in how they interpret and respond to such paradoxical tensions in corporate sustainability. This project aims to understand decision makers’ choice of strategic behaviors in response to these tensions, as well as the impact of their choices on firms’ sustainability performance.

Dr. Eunice Ng

Agricultural commodities like palm oil have complex supply chains and represent a major driver of deforestation in the tropics. Firms, investors, insurance companies, and organizational stakeholders increasingly demand more transparency in the governance of such supply chains. A lack of appropriate governance carries operational, reputational and regulatory risk for agri-commodity companies and their buyers. This project aims to identify where deforestation risk is introduced along the supply chain in order to intervene and mitigate deforestation risk.

Prof. Dr. Judith Walls