Dirk Matten

Dirk Matten is a Professor at the Schulich School of Business, where he holds the Hewlett Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility and is the Associate Dean of Research, a role he previously served from 2014 to 2018. He is also the founding director of Schulich’s Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business. He has a doctoral degree and the habilitation from Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf in Germany. In 2019/20 he was the Gourlay Visiting Professor of Ethics in Business at Trinity College of the University of Melbourne. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of London, the University of Nottingham, Copenhagen Business School and at Sabancı University in Istanbul. He has taught and done research at academic institutions in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Turkey, and the USA.

He has published 29 books and edited volumes as well as more than 90 journal articles and book chapters, which have won numerous prestigious awards. In August 2018, his paper with Jeremy Moon on ‘Implicit and Explicit CSR received the highly prestigious “Academy of Management Review Paper of the Decade Award”. In the same year he was also ranked #44 in the ‘Top 100 Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Leader’ ranking (next to CEOs and CSR leaders of Unilever, Google, Apple etc. He is the only academic scholar on the list). In 2019 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from his school as well as the York Research Leader Award.

Honours

• 2019 York Research Leader Award, York University, Toronto, Canada
• 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada
• 2018 Winner of the “Paper of the Decade” Award from the Journal ‘Academy of Management Review’, Chicago, 2018
• 2018 Ranked in the “Top 100 Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Leader” award list of Assent Compliance
• 2017 Emerald Citations of Excellence Award (for ‘Contesting the value of “Creating Shared Value”’ paper)
• 2017 Insight Grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SHHRC), $87,000 for a project on ‘Openacity’
• 2016 Schulich School of Business ranked No 1 globally in Green MBA ranking by Corporate Knights Magazine, Toronto (for a third year in a row)
• 2011 Schulich School of Business ranked No 2 globally in the Beyond Grey Pinstripes Report for ‘integrating issues of social and environmental stewardship into curricula and research’ by The Aspen Institute, New York City
• 2010 Ranked as the 6th most cited German management professor, http://www.wiwi.uni-muenster.de/io/forschen/downloads/DP-IO_01_2010.html.
• 2010 Ranked among the ‘Top 100 CSR Leaders’ globally in an independent poll by the think tank ‘CSR International’ (www.csrinternational.org)
• 2010 ‘A to Z of CSR’ ranked as ‘Noteworthy Title’ by the Reference and User Services Association (www.asa.org)
• 2008 Most cited paper published in Academy of Management Review
• 2006 Max Weber-Award for Business Ethics (Category Textbook) [Max Weber-Lehrbuch-Preis für Wirtschaftsethik] from the ‘Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft’, Cologne, for Crane & Matten ‘Business Ethics’
• 2006 Nomination for Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award, Academy of Management Conference, Atlanta
• 2006 Honorary Chair in Business Ethics [Leerstoel Jeff Van Gerwen s.J.], University of Antwerp, Belgium
• 2005 Textbook Award of the Association of University Professors of Management, Germany [Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.] for Crane & Matten ‘Business Ethics’
• 2005 Appointment as academic member of the ‘World Corporate Ethics Council’ (others include Samuel Huntington and Jeremy Rifkin, see www.cca-institute.org)
• 2003 Best paper at the 16th European Business Ethics Network Conference, Inclusion in the Best Paper Special Issue of the Journal of Business Ethics
• 2002 Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award, Academy of Management Conference, Denver
• 2002 Best paper at the 15th European Business Ethics Network Conference, Inclusion in the Best Paper Special Issue of the Journal of Business Ethics
• 2002 Best Paper Award of the International Management Division, Academy of Management Conference
• 2002 Best Paper Award of the International Management Division, Academy of Management Conference
• 2001 Finalist for the Best Paper Award at the 63. Meeting of the German Association of University Professors in Management, Freiburg, Germany