Carolyn Egri
Professor, Management and Organization Studies / Business and Society
William J.A. Rowe EMBA Alumni Professor
Email: egri@sfu.ca
Curriculum Vitae: View
Credentials
B.Comm., M.Sc., Ph.D. (University of British Columbia)Biography
Dr. Carolyn Egri is the William J.A. Rowe EMBA Alumni Professor, and professor of management and organization studies. Carolyn 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."
Carolyn makes leadership and environmental sustainability the focus of her teaching, both for the Beedie School of Business and for other organizations. She is a recipient of the David L. Bradford Outstanding Educator Award (Organizational Behavior Teaching Society for Management Educators) and TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching award.
A prolific researcher, 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 has been an Associate Editor for Business & Society and Academy of Management Learning & Education, and a chair of the Academy of Management's Organizations and the Natural Environment interest group. She has also been a director of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society and serves on a variety of academic journal editorial boards.
Research Interests
Corporate environmental and social responsibility, international management, organizational power and politics, leadership, management education, organizational change and development.Selected Publications
articles and reports
Pang, X., Egri, C., Lo, C. W. H., Lo, C. W. H., Liu, N., & Liu, N. (2024). Why do CSR ratings of firms diverge in China? The role of CSR information cues and non-CSR information. Asia Pacific Journal of Management. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-024-09959-z
Dabić, M., Egri, C. P., Potocan, V., & Nedelko, Z. (2023). The stimulus of European Union accession on the personal values formation process: a study of Croatia and Slovenia. Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja, 36(1). http://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2023.2167222
Dheer, R. J., Dheer, R. J. S., Egri, C. P., Treviño, L. J., & Trevino, L. J. (2021). A cross-cultural exploratory analysis of pandemic growth: The case of COVID-19. Journal of International Business Studies, 52(9), 1871-1892. http://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-021-00455-w
Treviño, L. J., Egri, C. P., Ralston, D. A., Naoumova, I., Furrer, O., Li, Y., Darder, F. L., Darder, F. L., & de la Garza Carranza, M. T. (2021). A multi-country, multi-sector replication challenge to the validity of the cultural tightness-looseness measure. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 38(2), 735-764. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-019-09682-0
Pellegrini, M. M., Ciappei, C., Marzi, G., Dabić, M., & Egri, C. P. (2021). A philosophical approach to entrepreneurship education: A model based on Kantian and Aristotelian thought. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 42(1-2), 203-231. http://doi.org/10.1504/IJESB.2021.112248
Dabic, M., Vlacic, E., Ramanathan, U., & Egri, C. P. (2020). Evolving Absorptive Capacity: The Mediating Role of Systematic Knowledge Management. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 67(3), 783-793. http://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2019.2893133
Treviño, L. J., Egri, C. P., Ralston, D. A., Naoumova, I., Li, Y., Darder, F. L., Darder, F. L., de la Garza Carranza, M. T., & Furrer, O. (2020). A Cross-Cultural Examination of Person-Organization Fit: Is P-O Fit Congruent with or Contingent on Societal Values? Management International Review, 60(2), 287-314. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-020-00411-0
Ralston, D. A., Egri, C. P., Naoumova, I., Treviño, L. J., Shimizu, K., & Li, Y. (2020). An empirical test of the trichotomy of values crossvergence theory. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 37(1), 65-90. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-018-9572-1
Ralston, D. A., Russell, C. J., & Egri, C. P. (2018). Business values dimensions: A cross-culturally developed measure of workforce values. International Business Review, 27(6), 1189-1199. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2018.04.009
Ralston, D. A., Wong, Y. Y., Egri, C. P., Lo, C. W., Li, Y., Dutton, X., & Yang, J. (2018). East vis-à-vis West: The evolution of work values within China regions. Thunderbird International Business Review, 60(4), 605-618. http://doi.org/10.1002/tie.21926
Ralston, D. A., Egri, C. P., Karam, C. M., Li, Y., & Fu, P. P. (2018). Changes in work values across the regions of China. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 35(1), 145-179. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-017-9519-y
Berg, N., Holtbrügge, D., Egri, C. P., Furrer, O., Sinding, K., & Dögl, C. (2018). Stakeholder pressures, CSR practices, and business outcomes in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. European Journal of International Management, 12(4), 472-500. http://doi.org/10.1504/EJIM.2018.092846
Ni, N., Egri, C., Lo, C., & Lin, C. Y. Y. (2015). Patterns of Corporate Responsibility Practices for High Financial Performance: Evidence from Three Chinese Societies. Journal of Business Ethics, 126(2), 169-183. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1947-0
Ralston, D. A., Egri, C. P., Furrer, O., Kuo, M. H., Li, Y., Wangenheim, F., Dabic, M., Naoumova, I., Shimizu, K., de la Garza Carranza, M. T., Fu, P. P., Potocan, V. V., Pekerti, A., Lenartowicz, T., Srinivasan, N., Casado, T., Rossi, A. M., Szabo, E., Butt, A., ... Weber, M. (2014). Societal-Level Versus Individual-Level Predictions of Ethical Behavior: A 48-Society Study of Collectivism and Individualism. Journal of Business Ethics, 122(2), 283-306. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1744-9
Karam, C. M., Ralston, D. A., Egri, C. P., Butt, A., Srinivasan, N., Fu, P. P., Lee, C. H., Moon, Y. l., Li, Y., Ansari, M., Kuo, C., Hung, V. T., Pekerti, A., Hallinger, P., Fang, Y., Fang, Y., & Chia, H. B. (2013). Perceptions of the ethicality of favors at work in Asia: An 11-society assessment. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 30(2), 373-408. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-012-9335-3
Ralston, D. A., Egri, C. P., Reynaud, E., Srinivasan, N., Furrer, O., Brock, D., Alas, R., Wangenheim, F., Darder, F. L., Darder, F. L., Kuo, C., Potocan, V., Mockaitis, A. I., Szabo, E., Gutiérrez, J. R., Gutiérrez, J. R., Pekerti, A., Butt, A., Palmer, I., ... Wallace, A. (2011). A Twenty-First Century Assessment of Values Across the Global Workforce. Journal of Business Ethics, 104(1), 1-31. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-011-0835-8
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. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2007.09.003
Egri, C. P., & Ralston, D. A. (2004). Generation Cohorts and Personal Values: A Comparison of China and the United States. Organization Science, 15(2), 210-220. http://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1030.0048
Egri, C. P., Herman, S., & 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. http://doi.org/10.2307/1556356
books chapters and monographs
Javidan, M., Cotton, R., Egri, C., & Dorfman, P. (2024). GLOBE 2020 A large-scale multi-culture study of the relationship between societal culture, leadership, and trust. In Mockaitis, A. I., & Butler, C. (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Management. Edward Elgar Publishing (UK). http://doi.org/10.4337/9781803928180.ch06
Javidan, M., Javidan, M., Cotton, R., Cotton, R., Bullough, A., Bullough, A., Dorfman, P. W., Dorfman, P. W., Satish Kumar, M., Kumar, M. S., & Egri, C. P. (2024). Global leadership. Encyclopedia of International Strategic Management. Edward Elgar Publishing (UK). http://doi.org/10.4337/9781800884045.ch33
Billsberry, J., & Egri, C. (2017). Leadership development through videography. In Kempster, S., Edwards, G., & Turner, A. F. (Eds.), The field guide to leadership development: Creative methods for practice and design (pp. 133-148). Edward Elgar Publishing (UK). http://doi.org/10.4337/9781785369919.00017
Starik, M., Sharma, S., Egri, C. P., & Bunch, R. (2017). New Horizons in research on sustainable organisations: Emerging ideas, approaches and tools for practitioners and researchers. Greenleaf Publishing. http://doi.org/10.4324/9781351281089
Lo, C. W., Pang, R. X., Pang, R. X., Egri, C. P., & Li, P. H. (2017). University Social Responsibility: Conceptualization and an Assessment Framework. In Shek, D. T., & Hollister, R. M. (Eds.), University social responsibility and quality of life: Concepts and experiences in the global world (pp. 37-59). Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3877-8_4
Egri, C., & Pinfield, L. T. (1999). Organizations and the biosphere: Ecologies and environments. In Clegg, S. R., Hardy, C., & Nord, W. R. (Eds.), Managing Organizations: Current Issues (pp. 209-233). Sage Publications Ltd (UK). http://doi.org/10.4135/9781446218563.n11