Faculty Profile

Carolyn Egri

Professor
B.Comm., M.Sc., Ph.D. (British Columbia)

Burnaby Phone: 778-782-3456
Segal Phone: 778-782-7721
Burnaby Office: WMC 4321
Segal Office: Segal 3530

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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 15 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."

A TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching award recipient, Carolyn 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.

A prolific researcher with numerous research grants, she has been examining corporate environmental social responsibility practices as well as cross-cultural differences in managerial values and influence tactics around the world. Carolyn devotes much of her time to service in her academic community; she is a former chair of the Academy of Management's Organizations and the Natural Environment interest group and has been chair 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

Corporate environmental and social responsibility, international management, organizational power and politics, leadership, management education, organizational change and development.

Selected Publications

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.

Reynaud, E., Egri, C.P., Ralston, D.A., Starkus, A., Dabic, M., Wangenheim, F., Dalgic, T., Castro, F.B., Potocan, V.V., Kavoossi, M., Molteni, M., Girson, I., Elenkov, D., Pla-Barber, J., Maignan, I., Weber, M., & Wallace, A. (2007). The difference in values between managers in the European Union founding countries and managers in the new member countries: Social orientation or market orientation. European Management Journal, 25(2): 132-145.

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.

Ralston, D.A., Pounder, J., Lo, C., Egri, C.P., & Stauffer, J. (2006). Are work values changing?  A longitudinal study of China, Hong Kong, and the U.S. Management and Organization Review, 2(1): 67-94.

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.

Ralston, D.A., Hallinger, P., Egri, C.P., Wangenheim, F., & Naothinsuhk, S. (2005). The effects of culture and life stage on workplace strategies of upward influence:  A comparison of Thailand and the United States. Journal of World Business, 40: 321-337.

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