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DAVID L. LEVY
Professor and Chair
Department of Management and Marketing
David.Levy@umb.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
1991-Present Professor,
Courses taught: Strategy, International Business, Business and Society, Multinationals and Global Political Economy
1998-1999 Harvard University,
Faculty
Research Fellow,
EDUCATION
1987-1992 Harvard
Business School,
Doctor of Business Administration
Thesis Title: The Costs of Coordinating International Production
1980-1982:
M.B.A
1976-1979: University
of
B.Sc. Management Science, 1st Class Honours Degree.
PUBLICATIONS:
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or transmissions.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Levy, David L., Halina S. Brown, and Martin De Jong
(forthcoming, 2009). The Contested Politics of Corporate Governance: The Case of the Global Reporting Initiative. Business and Society. Download.
Kolk, Ans, David L. Levy, and
Levy, David L. (2008) “Political Contestation in
Global Production Networks”, Academy of
Management Review, Vol. 33, No. 4.
Download.
Jones, Charles A.
and David L. Levy (2007) “North American Business Strategies Towards Climate
Change”, European Management Journal,
Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 428-440. Download pdf file.
Levy, David L.
and
Levy, David L. and
Levy, David L. (2005) “Offshoring in the New Global Political Economy”, Journal of Management Studies Vol. 42, No. 3. Download.
Levy, David L. and Aseem Prakesh (2003) “Bargains Old and New: Multinationals in International Governance”, Business and Politics Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 131-151. Download.
(reprinted
in Thomas Clarke and Marie Dela Rama, eds., 2006, Corporate Governance and
Globalization.
(reprinted in
Levy, David L. and Daniel Egan (2003) “A Neo-Gramscian Approach to Corporate Political Strategy: Conflict and Accommodation in the Climate Change Negotiations”, Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 803-30. Download.
Levy, David L. and Peter Newell (2002) “Business
Strategy and International Environmental Governance: Toward a
Neo-Gramscian Synthesis” Global
Environmental Politics. Vol. 2,
No. 4, pp. 84-101. Download
.
Levy, David L. and Ans Kolk (2002) “Strategic Responses to Global Climate Change: Conflicting Pressures on Multinationals in the Oil Industry” Business and Politics. Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 275-300. Download.
(reprinted in Andrew Crane and Dirk
Matten, eds., 2007, Corporate Social
Responsibility, Vol. 3.
Kolk, Ans and David L. Levy (October 2001) “Winds of Change: Corporate Strategy, Climate Change and Oil Multinationals, European Management Journal, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 501-509. Download.
Levy,
David L. and Peter Newell (2000) “Oceans apart? Business responses to the
environment in Europe and North America ”, Environment, Vol. 42, No. 9 (November)
pp. 8-20. Download.
Levy, David L. and Daniel Egan (1998). "Capital Contests: National and Transnational Channels of Corporate Influence on the Climate Change Negotiations", Politics and Society, Vol. 26, No. 3 (September), pp. 335-359. Download.
Levy, David L. (1997). "Environmental Management as Political Sustainability", Organization and Environment, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 126-147. Download pdf file.
Levy, David L. (1997).
"Business and International Environmental Treaties".
Levy, David L. (1997). "Lean Production in an International Supply Chain", Sloan Management Review, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Winter), pp. 94-102 Download.
Reprinted
in: Smart Globalization: Designing Global Strategies, Creating Global
Networks." Editors: Anil K. Gupta and Eleanor Westney.
Levy, David L. (1995) "The Environmental Practices and Performance of TNCs", Transnational Corporations, Vol. 4, No. 1 (April), pp. 44-68 Download.
Levy, David L. (1995) "International Sourcing and Supply Chain Stability", Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 343-360 Download.
Reprinted in Global Supply Chain Management, Vol. 2, Masaaki Kotabe and Michael J. Mol (eds.), Edward Elgar (2006).
Levy, David L. (1994), "Chaos Theory and Strategy: Theory, Application, and Managerial Implications", Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 15 (Summer), pp. 167-178. Download.
Reprinted
in Complexity and Organization (2006).
Edited by Robert MacIntosh, Donald Maclean, Ralph Stacey and Douglas Griffin.
Levy, David L. with John D. Dunning (1993), "International Production and Sourcing: Trends and Issues", Science, Technology, and Industry Review, No. 13 (December), pp. 14-59 Download.
Reprinted in Global Supply Chain Management, Vol. 1, Masaaki Kotabe and Michael J. Mol (eds.), Edward Elgar (2006).
BOOKS
Levy, David L. and Peter J. Newell, Editors,
(2005) Business in International Environmental
Governance: A Political Economy Approach.
Begg, Kathryn, Frans van der Woerd, and David
L. Levy, Editors, (forthcoming, 2004) Corporate
Responses to Climate Change.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Levy, David L. (2005) “Hegemony
in the Global Factory: Power, Ideology, and Value in Global Production
Networks”. In K. Mark Weaver (Ed.), Best Paper Proceedings of the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
(CD), ISSN 1543-8643.
(Received CMS Best Paper
Award) Download
6-page proceedings.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Levy, David L. and Rami
Kaplan (2008) "Corporate Social Responsibility and Theories of Global
Governance: Strategic Contestation in Global Issue Arenas". In A. Crane,
A. McWilliams, D. Matten, J. Moon, and D. Siegel (Eds.),
Levy, David L. and Peter
J. Newell (2006) “Multinationals in Global Governance”, in Sushil Vachani, ed.,
Transformations in Global Governance: Implications for
Multinationals and Other Stakeholders (
Newell,
Peter J. and David L. Levy (2006) “The Political Economy of the Firm in Global
Environmental Governance” in May, Chris (Ed.) Global Corporate Power
(IPE Yearbook, Vol. 15). (
Kolk,
Ans and David L. Levy (2004) “Multinationals and Global Climate Change: Issues
for the Automotive and Oil Industries” in Sarianna Lundan (ed.),
Multinationals, environment and global competition, Research in Global
Strategic Management, Vol. 9, Oxford, UK. JAI an imprint of Elsevier Science.
Levy,
David L., Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott, (2003) “Critical approaches to
strategic management.” in Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott (eds.) Studying Management Critically (Newbury Park, Cal.: Sage)
Levy,
David L. and
Egan, Daniel and Levy, David L. (2000) “International
Environmental Politics and the Internationalization of the State: The Cases of
MAI and Climate Change”, in Dimitris Stevis and Valerie Ansetto, eds., The International Political Economy of the
Environment. Vol. 12 of the International Political Economy Yearbook (
Levy, David L. (2000) "Applications and
Limitations of Complexity Theory in Organization Theory and Strategy", in
Jack Rabin, Gerald J. Miller, and W. Bartley Hildreth (editors), Handbook of Strategic Management, Second
Edition (
Levy, David L. and Egan, Daniel (2000) "Corporate
Political Action in the Global Polity: National and Transnational Strategies in
the Climate Change Negotiations" in Richard Higgott,
Non-Refereed
Articles, Reports, Book Reviews, and Working Papers
Levy, David L. and Charles A. Jones (2006) “
www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/CI_OccPaper_ClimateChange.pdf
Reprinted in The Encyclopedia of Earth: http://www.eoearth.org/article/Business_strategies_and_climate_change%2C_United_States
Levy,
David L. (2005) “The Passion, Prescience, and Politics of The End of
Nature.” Organization and Environment, Vol. 18, No. 2 pp. 177-182.
Download.
Levy, David L. and
Van der Woerd, Frans; Kathy de Wit; Ans Kolk; David L. Levy and Pier Vellinga (2000) “Diverging Business Strategies towards Climate Change: A USA-Europe Comparison for Four Sectors of Industry”, a project of the Dutch National Research Programme on Global Air Pollution and Climate Change. ISBN: 90 5851 0336
PRESENTATIONS
– Selected, Refereed
Aug. 2008
July 2008 European Group on Organization Studies,
May 2008 Third International Colloquium on
Corporate Political Activity,
April 2008 International Studies Association,
Corporate Compromises in Greenhouse Gas
Governance. Session on: Political Economy and
Climate Change: Limits to
Aug. 2007
Jul. 2007 Critical Management Studies
Conference,
May 2007 Human Dimensions of Global Environmental
Change, Institute for Environmental Studies, Free University of
Jan. 2007 Research in Corporate Social Responsibility: An
Exploratory Workshop.
Aug. 2006 American Sociological Association,
Aug. 2006 American
Sociological Association,
Aug. 2005
March 2004 International Studies
Association,
Recent
Invited Presentations
July 2008 ESRC
Research Seminar Series ‘Changing Cultures of Competitiveness’.
Apr. 2008 CERES
Conference,
Apr.
2008 Sloan Industry Studies Workshop:
Nov. 2007 Management
Engineers, Forum on Climate Change and
Business,
Nov. 2007 MIT, Dept. of Urban Studies, Society, Business and the Environment Seminar. Title: Stakeholder Strategies and Power Dynamics in Contested Environmental Arenas.
Oct. 2007
Oct. 2007
Sept. 2007 Delegates
to the United Nations of the European Union and Alliance of Small Island States,
Workshop on Climate Change, SUNY Stony Brook. Title: Business Strategies
and Climate Change: Recent Trends in
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS:
2007-9
2006:
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Research,
2005
Best Paper Award from the Critical Management Studies Division of the
2005 Awarded grant from NESCAUM (North East States for Coordinated Air Use Management) to study business and economic impact of regional carbon trading system.
2001 Awarded
grant from Mass. Technology Collaborative/Renewable Energy Trust Fund, through
campus STEP program, to research public role in stimulating region’s renewable
energy industry. $200,000
2000:
Awarded $20,000 from Dutch Environmental Ministry to prepare analysis of
industry responses to climate change in the auto and oil sectors in the
1998: One-year Research Fellowship,
1999: Summer. Visiting Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1998: Awarded $30,000 from the Consortium on Environmental Challenges, MIT, to research corporate strategic responses to the emerging greenhouse gas regime
Membership of Professional Governance Bodies, Editorial and Advisory Boards
Member of editorial boards of Organization, Organization and Environment,
and Critical Perspectives on International Business.
September 2002 till present: Member, International Advisory Board of the New Zealand Centre for Business and Sustainable Development
Guest editor of Organization and Environment, 2005, Vol.
18, No. 2, special issue on 15th anniversary of publication of Bill
McKibben’s The End of Nature.
Occasional reviewer for National Science Foundation, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal
of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Human
Relations, Organization, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management
Review, Organization Science, California Management Review, Global
Environmental Politics, Business and Politics, Review of International
Political Economy, Transnational Corporations, International Business
Review, Regulation and Governance, Social Forces, Business and Society.