Sustainability at MIT Sloan

Faculty Research Spotlights

Richard Locke

• Production Goes Global, Standards Stay Local: Private Labor Regulation in the Global Electronics Industry
  MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2012-1 (Working Paper Series)
  Locke, Richard M., Greg Distelhorst, Timea Pal, Hiram M. Samel
• Complements or Substitutes? Private Codes, State Regulation and the Improvement of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains
  MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2012-2 (Working Paper Series)
  Locke, Richard M., Ben A. Rising, Timea Pal
• Looking in the Wrong Places?: Labor Standards and Upstream Business Practices in the Global Electronics. (Working Paper Series 2012).
  Locke, Richard M., Hiram M. Samel.

John Sterman

• Sustaining Sustainability: Creating a Systems Science in a Fragmented Academy and Polarized World.
  Sterman, J. (2012).
  In M. Weinstein and R.E. Turner (eds), Sustainability Science: The Emerging Paradigm and the Urban Environment. Springer. 21-58.
• Interactive Web-based Simulations for Strategy and Sustainability: The MIT Sloan LearningEdge Management Flight Simulators .
  Sterman, John (2012).
• Management Flight Simulators to Support Climate Negotiations.
  Sterman, John, Thomas Fiddaman, Travis Franck, Andrew Jones, Stephanie McCauley, Philip Rice, Elizabeth Sawin, Lori Siegel (Forthcoming). Environmental Modelling and Software.
• World Climate: A Role-Play Simulation of Global Climate Negotiations. (Working Paper)
  Sterman, J., Thomas Fiddaman, Travis Franck, Andrew Jones, Stephanie McCauley, Philip Rice, J. N. Rooney-Varga, Elizabeth Sawin, Lori Siegel (Under Review).
• Communicating Climate Change Risks in a Skeptical World.
  Sterman, J.D. (2011) Climatic Change.

Jason Jay

• Navigating paradox as a mechanism of change and innovation in hybrid organizations.
  Jay, Jason. Draft date April 2012; Forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal.

Matthew Amengual

• Changes in State Capacity to Respond to Labor Standard Violations: Enforcement in the Garment Workshops of Buenos Aires.
  Matthew Amengual. Under Review for: Towards the Fair Recovery: labour market regulation after the crisis. Edited by: Patrick Belser, Colin Fenwick, John Howe, Sangheon Lee, Malte Luebker and Deirdre McCann. Presented at the International Labor Organization: Regulating Decent Work 2011.
• Complementary Labor Regulation: The Uncoordinated Combination of State and Private Regulators in the Dominican Republic.
  Matthew Amengual. World Development Vol. 38 No. 3, pp. 405- 414, 2010.
• Virtue out of Necessity? Compliance, Commitment, and the Improvement of Labor Conditions in Global Supply Chains.
  Richard Locke, Matthew Amengual, and Akshay Mangla

Roberto Rigobon

• Rule of Law, Democracy, Openness, and Income: Estimating the Interrelationships (Working Paper)
  Roberto Rigobon and Dani Rodrik
  National Bureau of Economic Research

Chris Knittel

• Ethanol Production and Gasoline Prices: A Spurious Correlation, joint with Aaron Smith (UC Davis).
  In submission.
• Leveling the Playing Field for Natural Gas in Transportation. Paper written for the Brookings Institution, Hamilton Project.
• Cleaning the Bathwater with the Baby: The Health Co-Benefits of Carbon Pricing in Transportation, joint with Ryan Sandler (UC Davis).
• Some Inconvenient Truths About Climate Change Policy: The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies, joint with Stephen P. Holland (UNC), Jonathan E. Hughes (Colorado), and Nathan Parker (UC Davis--ITS). In submission.

Fiona Murray

• Do formal Intellectual Property Rights Hinder the Free Flow of Scientific Knowledge? An Empirical Test of the anti-Commons Hypothesis.
  F. Murray and S. Stern (2007). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 63:4, pp. 648-687.
• Does Patent Strategy Shape the Long-Run Supply of Public Knowledge: Evidence from Human Genetics.
  K. Huang and F. Murray (forthcoming). Academy of Management Journal. (Abridged version published in Academy of Management 2008 Best Paper Proceedings).

Tom Kochan

• Beyond Corporate Codes of Conduct: Work Organization and Labor Standards at Nike’s Suppliers with Richard Locke, Thomas Kochan, Fei Qin and Monica Romis. International Labour Review, Vol.146, No. 1-2, 2007, 21-40.
• Collective Bargaining in the Twenty-First Century: A Negotiation Institution at Risk, with Joel Cutcher Gershenfeld, Betty Barrett and John-Paul Ferguson Negotiation Journal. July, 2007, 249-65.

Karen Zheng

• The NGO's Dilemma: How to Influence Firms to Replace a Potentially Hazardous Substance Tim Kraft, Yanchong Zheng, Feryal Erhun. June 22, 2012. Under second round review at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Special Issue on the Environment.

For more information about MIT Sloan’s Sustainability Initiative, contact Jason Jay, Director of the Initiative for Sustainable Business & Society
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