Professor
Galligan Chair of Strategy
Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility
Fulton Hall 414A
Telephone: 617.552.0477
Email: waddock@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0003-1089-7686
System Transformation; Stewardship of the Future; Memes and Narratives; Intellectual Shamannism; Management Education; and Cross Sector Collaboration.
Sandra Waddock is Galligan Chair of Strategy, Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility, and Professor of Management at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Waddock teaches a University Capstone Course entitled "Leadership and Mindfulness." She has published more than 180 papers and book chapters and 16 books (as of 2023) on topics ranging from the catalyzing transformation, healing the world, intellectual shamanism, and corporate citizenship and responsibility, among others. Current research interests are system transformation, stewardship of the future, memes and narratives, intellectual shamanism, management education, and cross sector collaboration, among others.
Waddock has received numerous lifetime achievement awards including the PRME Pioneer Awards for leadership in 2017, the Lifetime Achievement CSR Award in 2016 from Humboldt-Universität Berlin, School of Business and Economics, 7th International Conference on Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility, and the 2015 Humanistic Management Leadership award, among others. Her book Intellectual Shamans received the 2018 Humanistic Management Association’s Best Book Award for pedagogy and policy, and The Difference Makers received the Social Issues in Management Best Book Award in 2011. Her book Catalyzing Transformation: Making System Change Happen (Business Expert Press, 2023) describes an innovative process for bringing about transformative change towards just, inclusive, and equitable societies in a flourishing natural world.
Waddock has been a visiting scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School (twice), the Darden Graduate School of Business at Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia), and the University of Pretoria South Africa Centre for Responsible Leadership, among others. She served as Distinguished Lecturer at Kansas State University and as co-Verizon professor at Bentley University, among others. At Boston College, she co-founded the former Leadership for Change Program and the Initiative for Responsible Investment (now at Harvard Kennedy School’s Hauser Center). She serves on editorial boards of numerous journals in the business in society arena, and has guest edited special issues for Business & Society, Organization & Environment, The Journal of Corporate Citizenship (and was editor of from 2002-2004), among others.
Her papers have appeared in Sustainability, Organization & Environment, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Academy of Management Executive, Strategic Management Journal, Business & Society, Management Learning, Humanistic Management Journal, Futures, Cadmus, Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, Journal of Awareness-Based System Change, Business and Society Review, and The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, among numerous other outlets. Her 1997 paper with Samuel B. Graves entitled "Quality of Management and Quality of Stakeholder Relations: Are They Synonymous?" was the recipient of the 1997 Moskowitz Prize given by the Social Investment Forum.
Waddock received her BA from Northeastern University, an MA degree in English Literature from Boston College, and both her MBA (1979) and DBA (1985) from Boston University. She has been appointed to a three-year term on the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Transformative Change Assessment (2022-2025), served for three years on the founding steward team of the Bounce Beyond Initiative (2020-2022), and as a member of the Global Assessment for a New Economics (GANE) team, among other appointments.
“Catalyzing Transformation: Making System Change Happen.” New York: Business Expert Press. 2023.
“Transforming towards Life-Centered Economics: How Business, Government, and Civil Society Can Build a Better World.” New York: Business Expert Press. 2020.
“Management and the Sustainability Paradox: Reconnecting the Human Chain.” (WithDavid Wasieleski, Sandra Waddock, and Paul Shrivastava.) Routledge: Abington-on-Thames. 2020. Finalist, SIM Best Book Award, 2021. Finalist nominee, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management, Best Book Awards, 2021.
“(Teaching) Managing Mindfully.” (With Lawrence J. Lad, and Judith A. Clair.) Online book, Global Jesuit Case Series. 2018.
“Healing the World: Today’s Shamans as Difference Makers.” Routledge. 2017.
“Intellectual Shamans: Management Academics Making a Difference.” Cambridge University Press. 2014.
“Building the Responsible Enterprise: Where Vision and Values Add Value.” (With Andreas Rasche.) Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. 2012.
“SEE Change: Making the Transition to a Sustainable Enterprise Economy.” (With Malcolm McIntosh.) Routledge. 2011.
“The Difference Makers: How Social and Institutional Entrepreneurs Built the Corporate Responsibility Movement.” Routledge. 2008. Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management, Best Book Award, 2011
“Imagining Transformation: Change Agent Narratives of Sustainable Futures.” (With Chris Riedy.) Futures, 142, 10310 (1-16). September, 2020.
“The Values Proposition of Wellbeing Economies’ Infrastructure Innovation.” (With Steve Waddell.) Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 10 (1), 23-46. September, 2022.
“How Transformation Catalysts Take Catalytic Action.” (With Ju Young Lee.) Sustainability, 13, 9813. September, 2021.
‘Wellbeing Economics Narratives for a Sustainable Future.’ Humanistic Management Journal, 6, 151-167. June, 2021.
“Reframing and Transforming Economics around Life.” Sustainability, 12, 7553. September, 2020.
“Invoking Indigenous Wisdom for Management Learning.” (With Edwina Pio.) Management Learning, 52 (3), 1-19. July 2021.
“Will Businesses and Business Schools Meet the Grand Challenges of the Era?” Sustainability, 12 (15), 6083. July 2020.
“Achieving Sustainability Requires Systemic Business Transformation.” Global Sustainability, 3 (12), 1-12. April, 2020.
“Thinking Transformational Change.” Journal of Change Management, 20 (2), 189-201. March, 2020.
“Transforming Business Purposes and Practices: The Need for a Systems Approach. From Research to Practice.” Rutgers Business Review, 5 (2), 194-202. 2020.
“Reimagining Management Academics: The Emerging Responsible Management Education Paradigm.” In Dirk C. Moosmayer, Oliver Laasch, Carole Parkes, and Kenneth G. Brown (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Responsible Management Learning and Education. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, 394-425.
“Transformation: How to Spur Radical Change.” (With Steve Waddell, Bruce Goldstein, Björn Ola-Linnér, Niko Schäpke, and Coleen Vogel.) In Alistair Scrutton (eds.) Our Future on Earth Report. Future Earth, 82-89. 2020.
“The Sustainability and Popularity Paradox of SIM Scholarship.” (With Jegoo Lee.) In James Weber and David M. Wasieleski (eds.) Bingley, UK: Emerald Insight, 4, 215-236. 2020.
“A Strategy to Support Transformation towards Sustainability Globally: The SDG Transformations Forum.” (With Steve Waddell.). In David Wasieleski and James Weber (Eds.) Business & Society 360. Bingley, UK: Emerald Insight, 4, 43-55. 2020.