Andrew J Hoffman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3610469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew J Hoffman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffman |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMAN A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5430-0004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bringing Business Academics Back to Their Senses: Reorienting Research and Teaching for an Unsustainable World
Climate change is now a focal issue within business school research and education. While laudable, the focus is both inadequate and, at times, misguided. Research and courses on climate change focus primarily on human and economic systems with limited attention to the natural systems in which they are embedded and which are becoming inhospitable to human and other life forms. A growing recognition of the Anthropocene era raises questions about th…
Jennifer Burns. Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
(Un)Sustainability and Organization Studies: Towards a Radical Engagement
In this essay, we trace the evolution of the field of sustainability in management and organization studies and narrate its epistemological twists and turns. Concerned by the current trajectory that tends to diminish a focus on political concerns, we propose a new research agenda, an ecological case for business, that transforms our paradigmatic orientation in four shifts: (1) altering our epistemological lenses from managerial to critical perspe…
Three Paradoxes of Climate Truth for the Anthropocene Social Scientist
Climate change has been one of the most contested truths for the past two decades. Many social scientists within the academy and this volume have spent years discerning the nature of this truth and articulating its importance for business, organizations, and society. Yet these same scholars face a triple paradox in their work on this important issue. In this essay, we examine those paradoxes—(1) The Paradox of Eliminating the Main Driver, (2) The…
Management as a Calling: Leading Business, Serving Society
A Cultural Schism
Bridging the Cultural Schism
How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate
Rather thanpointers to improve the dialogue about this pressing issue in hopes of finding common ground. attributing fault lines in the climate debate to rival scientific theories, this brief argues that the public is split by opposing cultural views through which science is interpreted. After considering how the media, social norms, and psychological factors cause us to accept or reject climate change, Andrew J. Hoffman provides
Select but diverse countries are reducing both climate vulnerability and CO2 emissions
Mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adaptation to climate risk are two essential ingredients of climate change policy. Both are needed and co-benefits may exist. Yet, mitigation and adaptation are not usually pursued together. Part of remedying this shortcoming is understanding the relationship between GHG emissions and climate vulnerability reduction and recognizing when and where they trend together. Here, we compare changes in fos…
Resilient by design: The case for increasing resilience of buildings and their linked food-energy-water systems
The resilience of buildings and food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) to natural or manmade disruptions are closely linked. The resilience of a building goes beyond the safety of its structural elements and must include the resilience of its supporting systems and the services they supply. The resilience of FEWS, in turn, can increase through design elements of a building that affect generation and storage of FEW resources. In this commentary, I…
Organizational Fields: Past, Present and Future
Finding Purpose: Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling
Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Finding Purpose aims to challenge our understanding of how humanity interacts with planet Earth, and our role within this. This book is an invitation: would you like to participate in one of the most important projects of imagination, perhaps the greatest ever, in human history? Distilling and refining over 20 pieces from a lifetime of work in academia and trade, across speeches, blogs, editorials and essays…
Bill McKibben’s Influence on U.S. Climate Change Discourse: Shifting Field-Level Debates Through Radical Flank Effects
This article examines the influence of radical flank actors in shifting field-level debates by increasing the legitimacy of preexisting but peripheral issues. Using network text analysis, we apply this conceptual model to the climate change debate in the United States and the efforts of Bill McKibben and 350.org to pressure major universities to “divest” their fossil fuel assets. What we find is that, as these new actors and issue entered the deb…
The risks of hydraulic fracturing and the responsibilities of engineers
One third of U.S. natural gas is extracted by injecting fluid at high pressure into shale formations, a process associated with a number of possible hazards and risks that have become the subject of intense public controversy. We develop a three-part schema to make sense of risks of hydraulic fracturing and the responsibilities of engineers: the lab, the field, and the forum. In the lab, researchers seek to answer basic questions about, for examp…
Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment: Research in (and on) the Anthropocene
This review article summarizes the main tenets of institutional theory as they apply to the topic of the Anthropocene in the domain of organization and the natural environment. But our review is distinctive for two reasons: First, it is focused on providing avenues researching the Anthropocene Era. Second, while based on the trajectory of current, accumulated theory and research, our review is forward-looking in its orientation and thus aimed at …
The New Heretics: Hybrid Organizations and the Challenges They Present to Corporate Sustainability
Corporate sustainability has become mainstream; reaching into all areas of business management. Yet despite this progress, large-scale social and ecological issues continue to worsen. In this article, we examine how corporate sustainability has been enacted as a concept that supports the dominant beliefs of strategic management rather than challenging them to shift business beyond the unsustainable status quo. Against this backdrop, we consider h…
Industrial Ecology as a Source of Competitive Advantage
The Oxford handbook of business and the natural environment
This handbook discusses the main issues, research, and theory on business and the natural environment, and how they impact on different business functions and disciplines.
Exceptional boards: Environmental experience and positive deviance from institutional norms
This paper explores the phenomenon of positive organizational deviance from institutional norms by establishing practices that protect or enhance the natural environment. Seeking to explain why some organizations practice positive environmental deviance while others do not, we locate our inquiry on the board of directors—the organizational body that interprets external issues and guides organizational response. We find a strong correlation betwee…
Talking Past Each Other? Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate
This article analyzes the extent to which two institutional logics around climate change—the climate change “convinced” and the climate change “skeptical” logics—are truly competing or talking past each other in a way that can be described as a logic schism. Drawing on the concept of framing from social movement theory, it uses qualitative field observations from the largest climate deniers conference in the United States and a data set of almost…
Overcoming the Social and Psychological Barriers to Green Building
The green building movement has overcome formidable, technical, and economic hurdles in recent years, yet adoption of green building practices within the design and construction field remains low. Major corporations now offer products and services at a scale that is bringing costs down to competitive levels, but environmental sustainability in building design and delivery remains at the early stages of the adoption s-curve. This article argues th…
Sustainability, Faith, and the Market
Although sustainability is a growing concern of business today, there has been little progress toward a sustainable future. This is because the idea of sustainability in academic and policy debates is too small and too beholden to the assumptions that have created today's environmental and development crises. Consequently, calls for reform have neither the vision nor the authority to sustain the relationships of self, society, and environment tha…
Getting Right with Nature: Anthropocentrism, Ecocentrism, and Theocentrism
The past century has witnessed unprecedented economic growth and prosperity along with unprecedented depredations upon nature. To resolve these developments, there is debate between two moral postures. One takes a human-centered, or anthropocentric, view of our relationship to nature to emphasize the value of securing the resources needed for further development. The other takes an environment-centered, or ecocentric, view of our relationship to …
Linking Social Systems Analysis To The Industrial Ecology Framework
In theory, industrial ecology is a powerful analytical tool that challenges us to think beyond a mechanistic, fragmented view of environmental problems (and solutions). Indeed, it provokes thinking about the holistic industrial system. Presently, however, the field tends to focus primarily on technical processes and quantitative, material-oriented analysis. This article invites a discussion about expanding industrial ecology's models by consideri…
Cognitive and Institutional Barriers to New Forms of Cooperation on Environmental Protection: Insights from Project XL and Habitat Conservation Plans
Many perceive the predominantly command-and-control structure of regulatory policy to be overly restrictive and inefficient in achieving America's emerging environmental goals. In response, the U.S. government has introduced several voluntary programs to develop innovative, beyond-compliance environmental management solutions through the collaboration between government agencies and regulated entities. Yet, these programs have not gained widespre…
The Institutional Framing of Policy Debates: Economics Versus the Environment
By framing the economics versus environment debate as a mixed-motive situation, opportunities become visible that allow greater benefits to all interests in the debate. Yet, social, cultural, and institutional arrangements frame how these interests see these opportunities, creating a barrier to mixed-motive analyses. In this article, the authors use an institutional perspective to analyze how the economics versue environment debate emerges from i…
Exceptional boards: Environmental experience and positive deviance from institutional norms
This paper explores the phenomenon of positive organizational deviance from institutional norms by establishing practices that protect or enhance the natural environment. Seeking to explain why some organizations practice positive environmental deviance while others do not, we locate our inquiry on the board of directors—the organizational body that interprets external issues and guides organizational response. We find a strong correlation betwee…
A Mixed-Motive Perspective on the Economics Versus Environment Debate
The debate over the relationship between economic development and environmental protection has polarized into the opposing perspectives of win-lose (distributive bargaining) or win-win (integrative bargaining) outcomes, reminiscent of the debate that occurred within the negotiations field 15 years ago. The authors argue that such polarization is unnecessary and inaccurate. Conflict between economics and the environment is neither purely win-win n…
Trends in corporate environmentalism: The chemical and petroleum industries, 1960–1993
Through a content analysis of trade journal articles, it was found that attention paid to environmental issues in both the chemical and oil industries had paralleled trends in public concern observed by Dunlap (1991): (1) a dramatic rise in the late 1960s and a peak in the early 1970s, (2) a dramatic decline in the mid‐1970s, (3) a resurgence around 1982, and (4) a dramatic increase in 1988. In the chemical industry, attention reached unprecedent…
Cognitive and Institutional Barriers to New Forms of Cooperation on Environmental Protection: Insights from Project XL and Habitat Conservation Plans
Many perceive the predominantly command-and-control structure of regulatory policy to be overly restrictive and inefficient in achieving America's emerging environmental goals. In response, the U.S. government has introduced several voluntary programs to develop innovative, beyond-compliance environmental management solutions through the collaboration between government agencies and regulated entities. Yet, these programs have not gained widespre…
An Uneasy Rebirth at Love Canal
Mark Twain and Homosexuality
Cette investigation biographique reevalue le passe homosexuel de Twain et tente de mesurer son impact dans le sous-texte de l'oeuvre (Huckleberry Finn, The prince and the Pauper)
Trends in corporate environmentalism: The chemical and petroleum industries, 1960–1993
Through a content analysis of trade journal articles, it was found that attention paid to environmental issues in both the chemical and oil industries had paralleled trends in public concern observed by Dunlap (1991): (1) a dramatic rise in the late 1960s and a peak in the early 1970s, (2) a dramatic decline in the mid‐1970s, (3) a resurgence around 1982, and (4) a dramatic increase in 1988. In the chemical industry, attention reached unprecedent…
Institutional Evolution and Change: Environmentalism and the u.s. Chemical Industry.
This paper empirically measures changes in the constituency of an organizational field centered around the issue of corporate environmentalism from 1960 to 1993, and correlates those changes with the evolving institutions adopted by the US chemical industry to interpret the issue.Four stages are identified, each representing a different field membership, interaction pattern and set of dominant institutions.The beginning of each stage is marked by…
A Mixed-Motive Perspective on the Economics Versus Environment Debate
The debate over the relationship between economic development and environmental protection has polarized into the opposing perspectives of win-lose (distributive bargaining) or win-win (integrative bargaining) outcomes, reminiscent of the debate that occurred within the negotiations field 15 years ago. The authors argue that such polarization is unnecessary and inaccurate. Conflict between economics and the environment is neither purely win-win n…
The Institutional Framing of Policy Debates: Economics Versus the Environment
By framing the economics versus environment debate as a mixed-motive situation, opportunities become visible that allow greater benefits to all interests in the debate. Yet, social, cultural, and institutional arrangements frame how these interests see these opportunities, creating a barrier to mixed-motive analyses. In this article, the authors use an institutional perspective to analyze how the economics versue environment debate emerges from i…
Not All Events Are Attended Equally: Toward a Middle-Range Theory of Industry Attention to External Events
This paper builds on prior theory and research on attention and identity to examine whether and how industries publicly attend to external events. Events are critical triggers of institutional transformation and industry evolution. However, they must first become the focus of public attention to have this effect. We draw on a paired case comparison of media coverage of eight nonroutine events affecting the natural environment and the U.S. chemica…
Linking Organizational and Field-Level Analyses: The Diffusion of Corporate Environmental Practice
This article examines the diffusion of corporate environmental practice in the context of field-level dynamics. It builds a conceptual model that makes links among (a) the complex constituency of the institutional field driving environmental concerns, (b) the multiple cultural frames that emerge from that constituency, and (c) the corresponding structural and cultural routines that become enacted within firms. It offers contributions for research…
Cognitive and Institutional Barriers to New Forms of Cooperation on Environmental Protection: Insights from Project XL and Habitat Conservation Plans
Many perceive the predominantly command-and-control structure of regulatory policy to be overly restrictive and inefficient in achieving America's emerging environmental goals. In response, the U.S. government has introduced several voluntary programs to develop innovative, beyond-compliance environmental management solutions through the collaboration between government agencies and regulated entities. Yet, these programs have not gained widespre…
Linking Social Systems Analysis To The Industrial Ecology Framework
In theory, industrial ecology is a powerful analytical tool that challenges us to think beyond a mechanistic, fragmented view of environmental problems (and solutions). Indeed, it provokes thinking about the holistic industrial system. Presently, however, the field tends to focus primarily on technical processes and quantitative, material-oriented analysis. This article invites a discussion about expanding industrial ecology's models by consideri…
Getting Right with Nature: Anthropocentrism, Ecocentrism, and Theocentrism
The past century has witnessed unprecedented economic growth and prosperity along with unprecedented depredations upon nature. To resolve these developments, there is debate between two moral postures. One takes a human-centered, or anthropocentric, view of our relationship to nature to emphasize the value of securing the resources needed for further development. The other takes an environment-centered, or ecocentric, view of our relationship to …
Overcoming the Social and Psychological Barriers to Green Building
The green building movement has overcome formidable, technical, and economic hurdles in recent years, yet adoption of green building practices within the design and construction field remains low. Major corporations now offer products and services at a scale that is bringing costs down to competitive levels, but environmental sustainability in building design and delivery remains at the early stages of the adoption s-curve. This article argues th…
Sustainability, Faith, and the Market
Although sustainability is a growing concern of business today, there has been little progress toward a sustainable future. This is because the idea of sustainability in academic and policy debates is too small and too beholden to the assumptions that have created today's environmental and development crises. Consequently, calls for reform have neither the vision nor the authority to sustain the relationships of self, society, and environment tha…
Talking Past Each Other? Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate
This article analyzes the extent to which two institutional logics around climate change—the climate change “convinced” and the climate change “skeptical” logics—are truly competing or talking past each other in a way that can be described as a logic schism. Drawing on the concept of framing from social movement theory, it uses qualitative field observations from the largest climate deniers conference in the United States and a data set of almost…
The Oxford handbook of business and the natural environment
This handbook discusses the main issues, research, and theory on business and the natural environment, and how they impact on different business functions and disciplines.
Exceptional boards: Environmental experience and positive deviance from institutional norms
This paper explores the phenomenon of positive organizational deviance from institutional norms by establishing practices that protect or enhance the natural environment. Seeking to explain why some organizations practice positive environmental deviance while others do not, we locate our inquiry on the board of directors—the organizational body that interprets external issues and guides organizational response. We find a strong correlation betwee…
The New Heretics: Hybrid Organizations and the Challenges They Present to Corporate Sustainability
Corporate sustainability has become mainstream; reaching into all areas of business management. Yet despite this progress, large-scale social and ecological issues continue to worsen. In this article, we examine how corporate sustainability has been enacted as a concept that supports the dominant beliefs of strategic management rather than challenging them to shift business beyond the unsustainable status quo. Against this backdrop, we consider h…
Industrial Ecology as a Source of Competitive Advantage
Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment: Research in (and on) the Anthropocene
This review article summarizes the main tenets of institutional theory as they apply to the topic of the Anthropocene in the domain of organization and the natural environment. But our review is distinctive for two reasons: First, it is focused on providing avenues researching the Anthropocene Era. Second, while based on the trajectory of current, accumulated theory and research, our review is forward-looking in its orientation and thus aimed at …
Organizational Fields: Past, Present and Future
Finding Purpose: Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling
Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Finding Purpose aims to challenge our understanding of how humanity interacts with planet Earth, and our role within this. This book is an invitation: would you like to participate in one of the most important projects of imagination, perhaps the greatest ever, in human history? Distilling and refining over 20 pieces from a lifetime of work in academia and trade, across speeches, blogs, editorials and essays…
Bill McKibben’s Influence on U.S. Climate Change Discourse: Shifting Field-Level Debates Through Radical Flank Effects
This article examines the influence of radical flank actors in shifting field-level debates by increasing the legitimacy of preexisting but peripheral issues. Using network text analysis, we apply this conceptual model to the climate change debate in the United States and the efforts of Bill McKibben and 350.org to pressure major universities to “divest” their fossil fuel assets. What we find is that, as these new actors and issue entered the deb…
The risks of hydraulic fracturing and the responsibilities of engineers
One third of U.S. natural gas is extracted by injecting fluid at high pressure into shale formations, a process associated with a number of possible hazards and risks that have become the subject of intense public controversy. We develop a three-part schema to make sense of risks of hydraulic fracturing and the responsibilities of engineers: the lab, the field, and the forum. In the lab, researchers seek to answer basic questions about, for examp…
Resilient by design: The case for increasing resilience of buildings and their linked food-energy-water systems
The resilience of buildings and food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) to natural or manmade disruptions are closely linked. The resilience of a building goes beyond the safety of its structural elements and must include the resilience of its supporting systems and the services they supply. The resilience of FEWS, in turn, can increase through design elements of a building that affect generation and storage of FEW resources. In this commentary, I…
Select but diverse countries are reducing both climate vulnerability and CO2 emissions
Mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adaptation to climate risk are two essential ingredients of climate change policy. Both are needed and co-benefits may exist. Yet, mitigation and adaptation are not usually pursued together. Part of remedying this shortcoming is understanding the relationship between GHG emissions and climate vulnerability reduction and recognizing when and where they trend together. Here, we compare changes in fos…
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Economics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Business (10 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (10 works) · Environmental Sustainability in Business (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Public relations (8 works)