Dror Etzion
Desautels Scholar
PhD, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain
MSc, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
BSc, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Dror Etzion is an associate professor of strategy and organizations at the Desautels Faculty of Management, and an associate member of the McGill School of the Environment. He is currently the Director of the Centre for Strategy Studies in Organizations, a Senior Editor at Organization Studies, and the VP Finance at the McGill Association of University Teachers.
Dror joined McGill in 2008, after completing his Ph.D. studies at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Previously, Dror worked for 5 years in the Israeli software industry, and also spent a year at The Natural Step, an international non-profit research and consultancy organization focused on sustainable development.
Dror's current research program focuses on “grand challenges”: the unyielding, intractable problems that characterize the Anthropocene. His work suggests that managing for sustainability through local, open, emergent initiatives increases the recruitment of diverse stakeholders, fosters creativity, and yields impactful outcomes. In other work he is examining business approaches to managing the energy-water nexus. Dror actively co-leads a McGill wide interdisciplinary research theme on Sustainability Transitions with Jaye Ellis (Law) and Catherine Potvin (Biology).
His research has been published in Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Nature Sustainability, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Strategic Management Journal and other outlets. These articles are available on the McGill eScholarship portal and on Google Scholar.
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Papers in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Etzion, D. (Forthcoming). Radical resource productivity as an inspiration for business model innovation: The case of Foodchain. Journal of Business Models.
Etzion, D. 2020. Corporate engagement with the natural environment. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Etzion, D., Kypraios, E., & Forgues, B. 2019. Employing finance in pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals: The promise and perils of catastrophe bonds. Academy of Management Discoveries. 5(4): 530–554.
Avidan, M., Etzion, D., & Gehman, J. 2019. Opaque transparency: How material affordances shape intermediary work. Regulation & Governance. 13(2): 197-219.
Etzion, D. & Gehman, J. 2019. Going public: Debating matters of concern as an imperative for management scholars. Academy of Management Review, 44(2): 480-492.
Etzion, D. 2018. Management for sustainability. Nature Sustainability, 1: 744–749.
Mintzberg, H., Etzion, D. & Mantere, S. 2018. Worldly strategy for the global climate. Stanford Social Innovation Review, 16(4): 42-47.
Schuler, D., Rasche, A., Etzion, D. & Newton, L. 2017. Corporate sustainability management and environmental ethics. Business Ethics Quarterly, 27(2): 213-237.
Etzion, D., Gehman, J., Ferraro, F. & Avidan, M. 2017. Unleashing sustainability transformations through robust action. Journal of Cleaner Production, 170: 167-178.
Etzion, D. & Aragon-Correa, J. 2016. Big data, management, and sustainability: Strategic opportunities ahead. Organization & Environment, 29(2): 147-155.
Ferraro, F., Etzion, D. & Gehman, J. 2015. Tackling grand challenges pragmatically: Robust action revisited. Organization Studies 36(3), 363-390.
Etzion, D., & Pe’er, A. 2014. Mixed signals: A dynamic analysis of warranty provision in the automotive industry, 1960- 2008. Strategic Management Journal, 35: 1605-1625.
Etzion D. Diffusion as classification. 2014. Organization Science, 25(2): 420-437.
Delmas, M., Etzion, D., & Nairn-Birch, N. 2013. Triangulating environmental performance: What do corporate social responsibility ratings really capture? Academy of Management Perspectives, 27(3): 255-267.
Gehman, J., Mastroianni, D., Grant, A., & Etzion, D. 2012. An analysis of unconventional gas well reporting under Pennsylvania's Act 13 of 2012. Environmental Practice, 14(4): 262-277.
Etzion, D. & Ferraro, F. 2010. The role of analogy in the institutionalization of sustainability reporting. Organization Science, 21(5): 1092–1107.
Etzion, D. & Davis, GF. 2008. Revolving doors? A network analysis of corporate officers and U.S. government officials. Journal of Management Inquiry, 17(3): 157-161.
Martí, I., Etzion, D. & Leca, B. 2008. Theoretical approaches for studying corporations, democracy and the public good. Journal of Management Inquiry, 17(3): 148-151.
Etzion, D. 2007. Research on organizations and the natural environment, 1992-Present: a Review. Journal of Management, 33(4): 637-664.
Books and Edited Volumes
Chapters in Books
Etzion, D. & Struben, J. (2011). Better Place: Shifting paradigms in the automotive industry. Case Studies in Social Entrepreneurship – The oikos Collection volume 4. 2014. Greenleaf Publishing.Awards
2018: Ideas Worth Teaching Award. Aspen Institute, Business and Society Program. (ACCT 401: Sustainability & Environmental Accounting).
2017: Winner, bi-annual Roland Calori Prize for best article published in Organization Studies ("Tackling grand challenges pragmatically: Robust action revisited").
2014: 1st Prize, oikos Case Writing Competition (Social Entrepreneurship Track) “Communauto: A big idea for a big market” (w. Raymond Paquin, James Povitz and Ben Gruber).
2014: Finalist, Giarratani Rising Star Award, Industry Studies Association.
2013: Academy of Management’s Organization and Natural Environment (ONE) Emerging Scholar Award.
2011: 1st Prize, oikos Case Writing Competition (Social Entrepreneurship Track) “Better Place: Shifting Paradigms in the Automotive Industry” (w. Jeroen Struben).
2009: Academy of Management’s “Organization and Natural Environment (ONE)” Best Doctoral Dissertation Award.
2009: Finalist, EDAMBA (European Doctoral Programmes Association in Management and Business Administration) Doctoral Thesis Competition.
2007: Aspen Institute, Business and Society Program, US Dissertation Proposal Award.
1993-4: Ben Gurion University, Rector’s list
Fellowships
2019 - 2021: Desautels Faculty Fellow.
2013 - 2015: Faculty Fellow, Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management, McGill University.
2007: Booz Allen Hamilton/Strategic Management Society Fellowship.
2004-8: IESE Business School, University of Navarra Ph.D. Fellowship.
Grants
2018 - 19: Evaluating sustainable strategy: Methods for querying and assessing corporate responses to sustainability surveys (w. CDP). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
2015: "From Availability to Accessibility: Effectively Using Information Disclosure to Govern Energy Production" (w. Joel Gehman and Duncan Kenyon). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
2015 - 18: "An Impactful Multidimensional Partnership for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Social Innovators' Integration Lab" (w. PI Emma Vaast, et. al.). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
2015 - 19: "An Exploration Of Organizational Response Variation To Institutional Complexity In Fracking" Social Sciences and Humanities Research Counci Insight Grant (w. Joel Gehman and Michael Lounsbury).
2013- 15: "Predatory Selection: An Analysis of Cultural Vulnerability and Opportunity Exploration in Unconventional Gas Well Drilling" Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant (w. Joel Gehman)
2009- 13: “An Industry Level View of Environmental Performance.” Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Standard Research Grant
2009: McGill School of Environment Seed Grant for New Research Initiatives, Corporations, Ecosystems and Democracy (with Gregory Mikkelson)
