Expertise
Organizational authenticity, organizational identity, corporate sustainability and responsibility, stakeholder engagement, business ethics, humanistic management, qualitative methods.
Research Interests
Stakeholder perceptions of organizational authenticity within the global domains of sustainability and corporate responsibility; key dynamics among stakeholders, leadership, and organizations in strategic social issue contexts.
Education
- B.A. Middlebury College, Russian and East European Studies
- M.B.A. Simmons School of Management
- M.S. Boston College, Organization Studies
- Ph.D. Boston College, Management and Organization
Biosketch
Erica L. Steckler (Twitter: @EricaSteckler) is an Associate Professor of Management in the Robert J. Manning School of Business (MSB) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Management and Organization at Boston College. Her recent research focuses on stakeholder perceptions of organizational authenticity within the global domains of sustainability and corporate responsibility. Situated at the intersection of organizational theory, strategic management, and social innovation, this work builds on and extends theories of organizational identity, institutional theory, and social change. Overall, her research contributes to an understanding of key dynamics among organizations, leadership, and stakeholders in strategic social issue contexts.
The recipient of the 2015 Best Dissertation Award by the Academy of Management Social Issues in Management (SIM) Division, her work has been published in the Journal of Business of Ethics, Business and Society Review, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, and in edited volumes. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Academy of Management Review (AMR) and a Research Fellow at the W. Michael Hoffman Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University. Prior to joining the MSB Management Department, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Management and Organizational Development Group at Northeastern University and a Post-Doctoral Visiting Research Scholar at Bentley University's Hoffman Center.