LCB Profile
Jennifer Howard-Grenville
Assistant Professor
Office phone: 541-346-3347
E-mail: jhg@uoregon.edu
Department: Management
Office: 474 Lillis
Degree History
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000
M.A., Oxford University, 1992
B.Sc.(Eng), Queen's University, 1990
Previous Academic Positions:
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Boston University School of Management
Research/Teaching Awards:
2008 Faculty Pioneer Award Finalist, The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Professional Leadership Positions:
Editorial Board, Organization Science
Areas of Expertise
Business and the natural environment
Processes of organizational change
Recent Publications
"Constructing the License to Operate: Internal Factors and their Influence on Corporate Environmental Decisions," Law & Policy, 30, 2008 (with J. Nash and C. Coglianese)
Corporate Culture and Environmental Practice: Making Change at a High-Tech Manufacturer. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007
Web Link
"Developing Issue Selling Effectiveness over Time: Issue Selling as Resourcing.," Organization Science, 2007
"Inside the ‘Black Box’: How Organizational Culture Informs Attention and Action on Environmental Issues," Organization & Environment, 15, 2006
"The Persistence of Flexible Organizational Routines: The Role of Agency and Organizational Context," Organization Science, 18, 2005
"The Importance of Cultural Framing to the Success of Social Initiatives in Business," Academy of Management Executive, 17, 2003 (with A. Hoffman)
General Research Areas:
Microprocesses of organizational and institutional change
Business and the natural environment
Technology and organizational change
Biography
Jennifer Howard-Grenville is an assistant professor of management at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business. She studies processes of organizational and institutional change and has explored the role of routines, issue selling, and culture in enabling and inhibiting change. She is particularly interested in how people change their organizations in response to environmental and social demands. Her work has been published in Organization Science, Organization & Environment, Law & Social Inquiry, California Management Review and several other journals. She is the author of Corporate Culture and Environmental Practice (Edward Elgar, 2007), which documents her in-depth study of a high-tech company, and coauthor or editor of two other books on industrial ecology. Howard-Grenville received her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her M.A. at Oxford University, and her B.Sc. at Queen’s University, Canada.
