Faculty Profile

Carolyn Egri

William J.A. Rowe EMBA Alumni Professor & Area Coordinator, Management and Organization Studies
B.Comm., M.Sc., Ph.D. (British Columbia)

Burnaby Phone: 778-782-3456
Burnaby Office: WMC 4321
Segal Office: WEB

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Biography

Dr. Carolyn Egri, professor of management and organization studies, is a pioneer in research related to corporate environmental and social responsibility - she has been publishing on this topic for more than 20 years, long before it became trendy. "It's meaningful work," she says. "Since it's a relatively new field, it's very exciting - there's the opportunity to develop new standards and ideas."

Dr. Egri makes leadership and environmental sustainability the focus of her teaching, both for the Beedie School of Business and for other organizations, including the International Finance Corporation in Washington, DC, a member of the World Bank Group. Recognition of her teaching include the 2012 David L. Bradford Outstanding Educator Award from the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society for Management Educators, and the 2004 TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Award from the SFU Beedie School of Business.

A prolific researcher with numerous research grants, she has been examining corporate environmental and social responsibility practices as well as cross-cultural differences in managerial values and influence tactics around the world. Her research has been published in top tier journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, and the Strategic Management Journal. Dr. Egri devotes much of her time to service in her academic community; she is an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Learning & Education journal, and has been chair of the Academy of Management's Organizations and the Natural Environment interest group and of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's Research Development Initiatives adjudication committee. She has also been a director of the Organizational Behaviour Teaching Society and serves on a variety of academic journal editorial boards.

Specialization and Research Interests

Sustainability and corporate social responsibility, international management, organizational power and politics, leadership, management education, organizational change and development.

Selected Publications

Richards, M., Egri, C.P., Ralston, D.A., Naoumova, I., Casado, T., Wangenheim, F., Thanh, H.V., Pekerti, A., & Schroll-Machl, S. 2012. How can we better understand current and future workforce values in the global business environment? Thunderbird International Business Review, 54(5): 609-623.

Taylor, S., Osland, J., & Egri, C.P. 2012. Introduction to HRM’s role in sustainability: Systems, strategies, and practices. Human Resource Management, 51(6): 789-798.

Ralston, D.A., Egri, C.P., Riddle, L., Butt, A., Dalgic, T. & Brock, D.M. 2012. Managerial values in the Greater Middle East: Similarities and differences across seven countries. International Business Review, 21: 480-492.

Egri, C.P., Khilji, S.E., Ralston, D.A., Palmer, I., Girson, I., Milton, L., Richards, M., Ramburuth, P., & Mockaitis, A. (2012). Do Anglo countries still form a values cluster? Evidence of the complexity of value change. Journal of World Business, 47(2): 267-276.

Ralston, D.A., Egri, C.P., Reynaud, E., Srinivasan, N., Furrer, O., Brock, D., Alas, R., Wangenheim, F., Darder, F.L., Mellahi, K., Kuo, C., Potocan, V., Mockaitis, A.I., Szabo, E., Gutiérrez, J.R., Pekerti, A., Butt, A., Palmer, I., Naoumova, I., Lenartowicz, T., Starkus, A., Thanh, H.V., Dalgic, T., Molteni, M., de la Garza Carranza, M.T., Maignan, I., Castro, F.B., Moon, Y-L., Terpstra-Tong, J., Dabic, M., Li, Y., Danis, W., Kangasniemi, M., Ansari, M., Riddle, L., Milton, L., Hallinger, P., Elenkov, D., Girson, I., Gelbuda, M., Ramburuth, P., Casado, T., Rossi, A.M., Richards, M., Van Deusen, C., Fu, P.P., Wan, P.M.K., Tang, M., Lee, C-H., Chia, H-B., Fan, Y., & Wallace, A.(2011). A 21st century assessment of values across the global workforce. Journal of Business Ethics, 104: 1-31.

Furrer, O., Egri, C.P., Ralston, D.A., Danis, W., Reynaud, E., Naoumova, I., Molteni, M., Starkus, A., Darder, F.L., Dabic, M., & Furrer-Perrinjaquet, A. (2010). Attitudes toward corporate responsibilities in Western Europe and in Central and East Europe. Management International Review, 50(3): 379-398.

Ralston, D.A., Egri, C.P., Carranza, M.T.G., Ramburuth, P., Terpstra-Tong, J., Pekerti, A., Grison, I., Herrig, H., Dabic, M., Tan, M., Wan, P., Hallinger, P., Palmer, I., Elenkov, D., Furrer, O., Potocan, V.V., Wangenheim, F., Maignan, I., Perrewé, P., Rossi, A.M., Lenartowicz, T., May, R., Ledgerwood, D., Weber, M., Jesuino, J.C., Fu P.P., Naoumova, I., Casado, T., Riddle, L., Richards, M., Butt, A., Danis, W., Castro, F.B., Gutiérrez, J.R., Milton, L., Ansari, M., Brock, D., Srinvasan, N., Starkus, A., Dalgic, T., Thanh, H.V., Moon, Y-L., Chia, H.B., Kuo, C., Molteni, M., Kangasniemi, M., & Wallace, A. (2009). Ethical preferences for influencing superiors: A 41-society study. Journal of International Business Studies, 40: 1022-1045.

Egri, C.P., & Ralston, D.A. (2008). Corporate responsibility: A review of international management research from 1998 to 2007. Journal of International Management, 14(4): 319-339

Chia, H-B., Egri, C.P., Ralston, D.A., Fu, P-P., Kuo, M.C., Lee, C-H., Li, Y., & Moon, Y-L. (2007). The dragon and the four tigers: Values differences, similarities, and consensus. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 24(3): 305-320.

Ralston, D.A., Terpstra-Tong, J. Terpstra, R.H., Wang, X., & Egri, C.P. (2006). Today's state-owned enterprises of China: Are they dying dinosaurs or dynamic dynamos? Strategic Management Journal, 27(9): 825-843.

Starik, M., Sharma, S., Egri, C.P., & Bunch, R. (Eds.) (July 2005). New Horizons in Research on Sustainable Organizations: Emerging Ideas, Approaches, and Tools for Practitioners and Researchers, Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing.

Egri, C.P., & Ralston, D.A. (2004). Generation Cohorts and Personal Values: A Comparison of China and the U.S. Organization Science, 15(2): 210-220.

Egri, C.P., & Rogers, K.S. (2003). Teaching about the natural environment in management education: New directions and approaches. Journal of Management Education, 27(2): 139-143.

Egri, C.P., & Herman, S. (2000). Leadership in the North American environmental sector: Values, leadership styles and contexts of environmental leaders and their organizations. Academy of Management Journal, 43(4): 571-604.