Dror Etzion

Dror Etzion is an associate professor of strategy and organization at the Desautels Faculty of Management, and an associate member of the Bieler School of Environment. He is currently a Senior Editor at Organization Studies.

Dror joined McGill in 2008, after completing his Ph.D. studies at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Previously, Dror worked for 5 years in the Israeli software industry, and also spent a year at The Natural Step, an international non-profit research and consultancy organization focused on sustainable development.

Dror's current research program focuses on “grand challenges”: the unyielding, intractable problems that characterize the Anthropocene. His work suggests that managing for sustainability through local, open, emergent initiatives increases the recruitment of diverse stakeholders, fosters creativity, and yields impactful outcomes. In other work he is examining business approaches to managing the energy-water nexus. Dror actively co-leads a McGill wide interdisciplinary research theme on Sustainability Transitions with Jaye Ellis (Law) and Catherine Potvin (Biology).

His research has been published in Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Nature Sustainability, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Strategic Management Journal and other outlets. These articles are available on the McGill eScholarship portal and on Google Scholar.

Research areas:

• Financial Institutions
• Organizational Theory
• Performance Measurement
• Social Innovation
• Strategic Management
• Sustainable Development

Degree(s):

• PhD, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain
• MSc, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
• BSc, Ben-Gurion University, Israel