Dirk Matten
Prof. Matten holds the Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and is a Full Professor at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada. He is also the founding director of Schulich’s Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business and was instrumental in making his school one of the world’s top ranked institutions in sustainable business research and education. He has a PhD (Dr. rerum politicarum, summa cum laude) and the habilitation (Dr. habil.) from Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany.
Prof. Matten has published over 30 books and edited volumes as well as more than 100 journal articles and book chapters which are cited widely and received numerous international awards. He has a somewhat global focus in his approach, having taught and done research at academic institutions in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. In 2018/19 he held the prestigious Gourlay Visiting Professor of Ethics in Business at Trinity College of the University of Melbourne.
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D. Matten, Fascism as a management philosophy, Philosophy of Management, Vol. 25 (2026), online first: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-025-00355-1
S. Buchanan, C. Zietsma, D. Matten, Settlement constellations and the dynamics of fields formed around social and environmental issues, Organization Science, Vol. 34 (2023), No 2, 700-721
A. Crane, D. Matten, COVID-19 and the future of CSR research, Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 58 (2021), No 1, 280-284
D. Matten, J. Moon, The Meaning and Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility, Academy of Management Review, Vol. 45 (2020), No 1, 7-28
M. Flyverbom, R. Deibert, D. Matten, Governance of Digital Technologies, Big Data, and the Internet: New Roles and Responsibilities for Business, Business & Society, Vol. 58 (2019), No 1, 3-19.
D. Matten, J. Moon,“Implicit” and “Explicit” CSR – A conceptual framework for a comparative understanding of corporate social responsibility, Academy of Management Review, Vol. 33 (2008), No 2, 404-424 [Winner of the ‘Paper of the Decade’ Award 2018 of Academy of Management Review ]
M. Geppert, D. Matten, Institutional Influences on Manufacturing Organization in Multinational Corporations: The ‘Cherrypicking’ Approach, in: Organization Studies, Vol 27 (2006), No 4, 491-515
D. Matten, A. Crane, Corporate Citizenship: Toward An Extended Theoretical Conceptualization, in: Academy of Management Review, Vol 30 (2005), No 1, 166-179