FACULTY RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Environmental Policy and Social Sciences

Nicole Darnall, Assistant Professor
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Public Policy
MS Vanderbilt University, Policy Analysis & Program Evaluation
MS The University of Texas, Economics

Research Focus: Corporate Environmental Strategy and
Environmental Policy

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

Office/Building: DK 3020

Phone: 703-993-3819

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Dr. Darnall's research contributes to our understanding of management strategy and the policy sciences by advancing a nuanced conception of firms' responses to the regulatory and social setting. She specializes in corporate sustainability, environmental policy innovation, and the role of external stakeholders in the environmental governance of corporations and government. More specifically, her research investigates the reasons why companies adopt sustainability strategies, whether companies that adopt these strategies improve the environment, and whether companies that improve the natural environmental also derive business value. Her research has appeared (or is forthcoming) in Strategic Management Journal, Public Administration Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of International Management, Policy Sciences, Policy Studies Journal, Business & Society, Business Strategy and the Environment, Asian Business & Management, Review of Policy Research, Environmental Quality Management, in addition to other journals.

Dr. Darnall's scholarship has received the Academy of Management, Organizations and Natural Environment Division's Emerging Scholar Award and Best Paper Award, the Decision Science Institute's Distinguished Paper Award, The oikos Foundation's Sustainability Case Writing Competition Award (honorable mention), and The Case Association's Best First Case Award. Additionally, her research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (in Paris), the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the IBM Center for the Business of Government, and George Mason University.

She previously served as Assistant Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University. Prior to Dr. Darnall's academic career, she was an economist for the U.S. Forest Service and a researcher at Resources for the Future.