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FACULTY RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Environmental Policy and Social Sciences

Dr. Nicole Darnall


Nicole Darnall, Associate Professor
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Public Policy

Research Focus: Corporate Sustainability and
Public Policy

Web Site: http://mason.gmu.edu/~ndarnall

Office/Building: DK 3020

Phone: 703-993-3819

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For more than decade, Dr. Darnall has been examining firms' sustainability responses to the regulatory and social setting. Her research investigates the reasons why companies supply sustainability strategies, whether these strategies improve the environment, and whether companies that improve the natural environmental also derive business value. More recently she has begun to assess consumers’ demand for corporate green strategy and how this demand might be influenced through public policy or business initiatives.

Darnall is a Collaborative Visiting Fellow with the Economic and Social Research Council and the Social Science Research Council, and an Erasmus Mundus International Scholar. She was awarded the Academy of Management, Organizations and Natural Environment Division's Emerging Scholar Award for research excellence, and its Best Paper Award. Dr. Darnall’s scholarship has also received the Decision Science Institute's Distinguished Paper Award. She sits on the Editorial Review Boards of Journal of Business Ethics and Business & Society.

Dr. Darnall's scholarship has appeared in leading journals including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Journal of Management Studies, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Policy Sciences, and Policy Studies Journal. Her research has been cited in several prominent media outlets, such as The Washington Post, The Economic Times, USA Today, The Times of India, and The Associated Press. Additionally, her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (in Paris), the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America, the Economic and Social Research Council/Social Science Research Council, the European Commission, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Before joining Mason in August 2005, Dr. Darnall was Assistant Professor of Public Administration at North Carolina State University. Prior to Dr. Darnall’s academic career, she worked at Resources for the Future and was an economist for the U.S. Forest Service.