My research focuses on how organizations and supply chains can become more sustainable. At the organizational level, I am interested in how organizations develop the capabilities to achieve and sustain improvements in supply chain sustainability performance. At the individual level, I examine how employees navigate trade-offs between economic, social, and environmental objectives in their everyday decision-making.
Manuscript under review at the Journal of Operations Management
This project examines how organizational Ethical Climate influences supplier selection decisions involving trade-offs between unit price and sustainability performance for three different sustainability performance metrics.
Manuscript in preparation (Target: Journal of Supply Chain Management)
This project explores how employees in public procurement settings engage in sensemaking to negotiate a shared understanding of sustainability and how these sensemaking processes shape the development of organizational capabilities for sustainable procurement.
Dissertation project · Research in Progress
This project draws on Construal Level Theory and Action Identification Theory to examine whether different ways of framing procurement responsibilities and consequences influence purchasing professionals' willingness to prioritize supplier sustainability performance over unit price.
Dissertation project · Research in Progress
This project examines how organizations communicate their responses to forced labour risks under Canada's Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act. Using text analysis of corporate disclosure reports, the study aims to identify patterns of disclosure strategies and how they change over time.