Sandra Waddock, DBA
Professor - Operations, Information & Strategic Management Department
Sandra Waddock is Professor of Management in the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College, and Senior Research Fellow at BC Center for Corporate Community Relations. She is a co-founder of the Leadership for the Change Program at Boston College. In 2005 she was awarded the Faculty Pioneer Award for External Impact by the Aspen Institute and World Resources Institute, in 2004 she received the Sumner Marcus Award for Outstanding Service from the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management, and in 2002 the Keyes Distinguished Service Award from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.
Widely published, Dr. Waddock's current research interests are in the area of macro-system change, corporate responsibility, management education, and multi-sector collaboration. She is author of Leading
Corporate Citizens: Vision, Values, Value Added (McGraw-Hill, 2006, 2nd edition), co-editor of Learning to Talk: Corporate Citizenship and the Development of the UN Global Compact (with Malcolm McIntosh and Georg Kell), and the two-volume set Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking (with Jörg Andriof), andauthor of Not By Schools Alone: Sharing
Responsibility for America's Education Reform (Praeger, 1995), as well as more than 100 articles on corporate citizenship, responsibility management systems, corporate responsibility, and management education.
She guest edited Innovation, Reflection, and Active Learning
Strategies for Teaching Business and Society, a special issue of the research series Research in Corporate Social Performance and
Policy. She served as editor of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship from 2002-2004, Her papers on corporate citizenship and responsibility have appeared in The Academy of Management Journal, Academy
of Management Executive, Strategic Management Journal, and
Business & Society, and The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, among numerous others. Her 1997 paper with Samuel B. Graves entitled "Quality of Management and Quality of Stakeholder Relations: Are They Synonymous?" was the recipient of the 1997 Moskowitz Prize given by the Social Investment Forum.
A past division chair of the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management and past board member of the International Association of Business and Society, Dr. Waddock co-chaired the founding of Mentoring Committee and the Task Force on Service/Community-Based Learning, both for the Academy of Management. She was also a member of the Blue Ribbon Panel on the Role of the Academy in Management Education in the 21st Century and is served on the Academy Council for its first three years.
Dr. Waddock received her BA from Northeastern University, an MA degree from Boston College, and the MBA (1979) and DBA (1985) from Boston University. She teaches strategic management, social issues in management, and the leadership workshop in the Management Practice sequence of the MBA Program at Boston College. She co-coordinates the Organizational Level Module in the Leadership for the Change Program. Her consulting clients have included the International Labour Organization, The Conference Board, the National Alliance of Business, and Pitney Bowes, among others. For five years she worked with the US. Consortium for Faculty Development in Central and Eastern Europe to help build management education in the emerging economies of central and Eastern Europe.
During the 2006-2007 academic year she is Visiting Scholar at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She was also a visiting professor at Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, in 2000.
Her research focuses on corporate citizenship, responsibility management, corporate responsibility, multi-sector collaboration, and management education. Her teaching interests focus on corporate citizenship, corporate responsibility, business in society, strategic management, and leadership.
Some Books she has authored include:
Leading Corporate Citizens: Vision, Values, Value Added. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002. Second edition, 2006
Managing Corporate Responsibility: Using the Total Responsibility
Management (TRM) Framework. Sandra Waddock and Charles Bodwell with Cases by Jennifer Leigh. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf, in press.
Learning to Talk: Corporate Citizenship and the Development of
the UN Global Compact. Edited by Malcolm McIntosh, Sandra Waddock, and Georg Kell. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf, 2004.
Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking 2: Relations, Communication,
Reporting and Performance (Volume 2). Editors: Jörg Andriof, Sandra Waddock, Bryan Husted, Sandra Rahman. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf, 2003.
Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking: Theory, Responsibility and Engagement. (Volume 1) Editors: Jörg Andriof, Sandra Waddock, Bryan Husted, Sandra Rahman. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf, 2002.
Selected Articles (recent as of 2006) are:
Leadership Integrity in a Fractured Knowledge World, Academy
of Management Learning and Education, in press.
Forging a Path for Ethics and Business in Society: An Interview with Journal Editors. Academy of Management Learning & Education, in press.
The Shifting Agenda of Corporate Citizenship. Sandra Waddock and Florian Wettstein. Forum Technik Theologie Naturwissenschaften, December 2005, 40-52.
The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Corporate Stakeholder Practices. Sandra Waddock and Samuel B. Graves. Journal of
Corporate Citizenship, in press.
Carroll School of Management
Fulton Hall 354C
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
waddock@bc.edu
phone: 617-552-0477
