Natalie Slawinski

Biography

Natalie Slawinski is professor of sustainability and director of the Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation at the Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria. She earned her PhD from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on understanding sustainability, temporality and paradoxes in organizations, and has been published in such journals as Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal and Organization Studies. Her most recent research examines these themes in the context of social enterprise. Natalie serves as an advisor to Memorial University’s Centre for Social Enterprise and is a research fellow at the Cambridge University Judge Business School’s Centre for Social Innovation. She is also a member of the editorial review board at Organization & Environment.

Teaching

 Courses taught

• Business and Sustainability (PhD & BCom)
• Strategic Collaboration and Partnerships (MBA)

Publications

Selected publications

Slawinski, N., & Smith, W. K., Van der Byl, C. A. (2024) Leveraging the Dominant Pole: How champions of an industry-wide environmental alliance navigate coopetition paradoxes.  Journal of Management. In Press.

Rahman, S., Nguyen, M., Slawinski, N. (2024). Regenerating Place: Highlighting the role of ecological knowledge. Organization & Environment. doi.org/10.1177/10860266231220081

Albertsen, R., Ansari, S., Langley, A., Heucher, K, Krautzberger, M., Reinecke, P., Slawinski, N., & Vaara, E. (2023). Strategizing Together for a Better World: Institutional, Paradox and Practice Theories in Conversation. Journal of Management Inquiry. doi.org/10.1177/10564926231210238

Slawinski, N., Brito, B., Brenton, J., Smith, W. K. (2023) Rapid Problem Formulating for Societal Impact: Lessons From a Decade-Long Research Practice Partnership, Journal of Business Venturing Insights. doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2023.e00390 

Brenton, J. & Slawinski, N. (2023) Collaborating for community regeneration:  Facilitating partnerships in, through, and for place. Journal of Business Ethics. 184: 815-834. 

Slawinski, N., Winsor, B., Mazutis, D., Schouten, J. W., & Smith, W. K. (2021) Managing the Paradoxes of Place to Foster Regeneration. Organization & Environment, 34 (4): 595–618.  

Mazutis, D., Slawinski, N. & Palazzo, G. (2021) A time and place for sustainability: A spatiotemporal perspective of organizational sustainability frame development. Business & Society.  60 (7): 1849-1890.

Bowen, F., Bansal, P., & Slawinski, N. (2018) Scale matters: The scale of environmental issues in corporate collective actions. Strategic Management Journal. 39: 1411-1436.

Books

Slawinski, N., Lowery, B., Seto, A., Stoddart, M. & Vodden, K. (2023) Revitalizing PLACE through Social Enterprise. St. John’s NL: Memorial University Press. 

Awards & grants

Recognition & awards

• 2017-ongoing - Research Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation
• 2017-ongoing - Advisor, MUN Center for Social Enterprise
• 2020 - FBA Research Impact Award, Memorial University
• 2018 - RRBM Responsible Research in Management Award
  • Short on Time: Intertemporal Tensions in Business Sustainability, Organization Science
• 2017 - Business & Society Best Paper Award
  • Slawinski, N, Pinkse, J., Busch, T. & Banerjee, B. (2017). The role of short-termism and uncertainty avoidance in organizational inaction on climate change:  A multilevel framework. Business & Society. 56(2): 253–282.  

Grants

• PI, SSHRC Connection Grant “Community Resilience Workshop” (2023-24)
• PI, Ocean Frontier Institute - Canada First Research Excellence Fund “Building Resilient Coastal Communities through Social and Community Enterprise” (2020-25)