David L. Levy is Professor and Chair of the Department of Management and Marketing at UMass Boston. He teaches Business Strategy, International Business, Business and its Environment, and Busienss and Climate Change. He is active in developing the new College of Management Ph.D. Program and the departmental track in Organizations and Social Change, which is planned for launch in Fall 2012. He is Director of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness, whose mission is “to foster a transition to a clean, sustainable, and prosperous economy.” The center engages in collaborations among businesses, universities, and policymakers to advance research and education.
Articles
Approaching Business and the Environment with Complexity Theory (with Benyamin Lichtenstein), Management and Marketing Faculty Publication Series (2012)
The failure to establish an international agreement on climate change at Copenhagen in December 2009...
Corporate Perceptions of Climate Science: The Role of Corporate Environmental Scientists (with Sandra Rothenberg), Business and Society (2012)
Although there has been some growing recognition of the role of private actors in international...
Bargains Old and New: Multinational Corporations in Global Governance (with Aseem Prakash), Business and Politics (2011)
This paper outlines an approach for understanding the role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in global...
The politics of carbon disclosure as climate governance (with Janelle Knox-Hayes), Strategic Organization (2011)
The rapid growth in carbon disclosure in recent years represents a major success in the...
The Contested Politics of Corporate Governance: The Case of the Global Reporting Initiative (with Halina Szejnwald Brown and Martin de Jong), Business & Society (2010)
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has successfully become institutionalized as the preeminent global framework for...
Unpublished Papers
Massachusetts’ Clean Energy Cluster (with David Terkla), Economics Faculty Publication Series (2006)
The renewable energy industry in Massachusetts is identified through a “top-down” and “bottom-up” processes to...