Kent Walker Bio

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Kent Walker, Ph.D.
Professor, Strategy and Entrepreneurship
kentwalk@uwindsor.ca
519-253-3000 ext. 3109
Office: OB 432

Education 

  • Ph.D.  University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Management, 2010.
  • M.S.  University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Management, 2006.
  • B.A.  University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Psychology, 2000.

Research 

  • Organization and the Natural Environment (ONE)
  • Strategic Management
  • Corporate Environmental Performance
  • Corporate Reputation

Selected Publications  

  • Laplume, A.;Harrison, J., Zhang, Z., Yu, X. & Walker, K. (2021).  Evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between stakeholder management performance variation and firm performance.  Business Ethics Quarterly, http://doi.org/10.1017/beq.2021.19. [August]
  • Walker, K.; Yu, X. & Zhang, Z. (2020). All for one or all for three: Empirical evidence of paradox theory in the triple-bottom-line. Journal of Cleaner Production, 275, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122881.
  • Laplume, A.; Walker, K., Zhang, Z. & Yu, X. (2020). Incumbent stakeholder management performance and new entry.  Journal of Business Ethics, http://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04629-8.
  • Dyck, B., Walker, K., & Caza, A. (2019).  Antecedents of sustainable organizing: A look at the relationship between organizational culture and the triple bottom line.   Journal of Cleaner Production, 231 (2019), 1235-1247, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.05.287.
  • Walker, K., Ni, N., & Zhang, Z. (2017).  The mirror effect: Corporate social responsibility, corporate social irresponsibility and firm performance in coordinated market economies and liberal market economies.   British Journal of Management, 30 (1), 151-168, http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12271.
  • Walker, K., Dyck, B., Zhang, Z., & Starke, F. (2017).  The use of Praxis in the classroom to facilitate student transformation.   Journal of Business Ethics, http://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3630-3.
  • Walker, K., Zhou, Z., & Yu, B. (2016).  The angel-halo effect: How increases in corporate social responsibility and irresponsibility relate to firm performance.   European Business Review, 28 (6), 706-722, http://doi.org/10.1108/EBR-11-2015-0139.
  • Walker, K., & Donally, R. (2015).  Rivest Farms: Farming approaches and the 'Four Ps'.   Ivey Business Journal (Online): improving the practice of management.
  • Walker, K., Schlosser, F., & Deephouse, D. (2014).  Organizational ingenuity and the paradox of embedded agency: The case of the emerging Ontario solar energy industry.   Organization Studies, 35 (4), 613-634, http://doi.org/10.1177/0170840613517599.
  • Walker, K., & Laplume, A. (2014).  Sustainability fellowships: The potential for collective stakeholder influence.   European Business Review, 26 (2), 149-168, http://doi.org/10.1108/EBR-09-2013-0119.
  • Walker, K., & Dyck, B. (2014).  The primary importance of corporate social responsibility and ethicality in corporate reputation: An empirical study.   Business and Society Review, 119 (1), 147-174, http://doi.org/10.1111/basr.12028.

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