Mike Valente

Mike’s research examines the interaction between business strategy and society. He is interested in the typology of organizational responses to social, ecological, and economic issues and the key drivers that explain variations in responses to sustainability. In light of the increasing complexity of organizational environments, Mike’s more recent stream of work has looked at how organizations respond to complex problems like poverty, obesity and the financial crisis. Mike’s research is propelling him into a more critical perspective where he seeks to examine how companies, in their pursuit of strategic value appropriation, exploit the many irrational decisions of consumers and extract value from society. Mike sits on the editorial board of Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business & Society. Mike also consults for companies in the area of strategy and sustainability and is a board director.

Research Interests

• Business and Sustainability
• Complexity Theory
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Organizational Change
• Organizational Strategy
• Organizational Theory
• Qualitative Methods
• Social Innovation
• Strategic Management
• Strategy Implementation
• Sustainability Management

Recent Publications

• Oliver, C. and Valente, M. (2018), "Meta-Organization Formation and Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa", Organization Science, 29(4), 678-701.

• Valente, M. (2015), "Business Sustainability Embeddedness as a Strategic Imperative", Business & Society, 54(1), 126-142.

• Deutsch, Y. and Valente, M. (2013), "Compensating Outside Directors with Stock: The Impact on Non-Primary Stakeholders", Journal of Business Ethics, 116(1), 67-85.

• Deutsch, Y. and Valente, M. (2013), "The Trouble with Stock Compensation", Sloan Management Review, 54(4), 19-20.

• Deutsch, Y. and Valente, M. (2013), "Compensating Outside Directors With Stock: The Impact on Non-primary Stakeholders", Journal of Business Ethics, 116(1), 67-85.

• Deutsch, Y. and Valente, M. (2013), "The Trouble with Stock Compensation", Sloan Management Review, 54(4), 19-20.

• Lepoutre, J.M.W.N. and Valente, M. (2012), "Fools Breaking Out: The Role of Symbolic and Material Immunity in Explaining Institutional Nonconformity", Academy of Management Journal, 55(2), 285-313.

• Valente, M. (2012), "Indigenous Resource and Institutional Capital: The Role of Local Context in Embedding sustainable Development", Business & Society, 51(3), 409-449.

• Valente, M. (2012), "Theorizing Firm Adoption of Sustaincentrism", Organization Studies, 33(4), 563-591.

Honours

• 2016 2nd Place Seymour Schulich Award for Teaching Excellence at the Graduate Level

• 2012 Research Merit Award, Richard Ivey School of Business

• 2011 Ivey HBA Teaching Award: Recipient of the David Burgoyne Award for Dedication In and Out of the Classroom

• 2011 Nominated for Green Award, University of Western Ontario

• 2011 USC Teaching Honour Roll for Excellence in Teaching Business, University of Western Ontario.

• 2009 Service Award: Office of the Vice-President Academic and Provost Single Year Award for bringing into focus the issue of business and sustainability at the Faculty of Business, University of Victoria.

• 2009 Best Paper Award. Indigenous Resource and Institutional Capital: Understanding its Role in Private Sector Sustainable Development. International Academy of African Business Development (IAABD), Kampala.

• 2009 Excellence in Service Award, University of Victoria Business.

• 2009 Recipient of the University of Victoria Business Award for Teaching Excellence

• 2009 Faculty of the Year Award: Commerce Students Society, University of Victoria Business

• 2008 Service Award: Office of the Vice-President Academic and Provost Single Year Award for bringing into focus the issue of business and sustainability at the Faculty of Business, University of Victoria.

• 2007 Finalist for the Social Issues in Management Dissertation Award, Academy of Management, Philadelphia.

• 2007 Governor Generals Academic Gold Medal Award Recipient, Canada.

• 2007 Nominated for the William H. Newman Award for an outstanding single- authored paper from a dissertation. Academy of Management, Philadelphia.

• 2007 Nominated for the 2007 York University Doctoral Dissertation Award.

• 2007 Best Paper Award International Academy of African Business Development (London, 2007)

• 2006 First Place Seymour Schulich Award for Teaching Excellence

• 2006 Chosen as 1 of 9 PhD students to attend the Swiss Master Class in Corporate Social Responsibility at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland

• 2004 Best Student Paper Award Strategy Division, ASAC

• 2002 Robert Breadner Entrepreneurial Fund Scholarship: $2,000

• 2002 Selected to represent Wilfrid Laurier at the 2002 Concordia M.B.A. Case Competition, Montreal, Quebec

• 2001 Selected to represent Laurentian University at the 2001 Excalibur Case Competition, University of Montreal. (Placed 2nd)

• 2000 Senator Rheale Belise Award, Laurentian University: $3,700

Courses Taught

• Business and Sustainability
  
• Responsible Business Leadership
  
• Strategic Management
  
• Organization Studies