Dr Joel Gehman

Joel Gehman is visiting professor at the School of Management and Governance and the Thaddeus A. Lindner and Sergius Gambal Professor of Business Ethics and professor of strategic management and public policy at the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB). Professor Gehman’s research investigates how businesses and other organizations can contribute to tackling grand challenges related to sustainable development through strategic practices, technological innovation, and institutional change. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and more than a dozen business school teaching cases, as well as the investigator, co-investigator, or recipient of more than $5 million in research funding. Professor Gehman’s past and current research examines these issues in a wide range of contexts, including B Corporations and benefit corporations; organizational values practices and codes of conduct; environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance; hydraulic fracturing and unconventional shale gas development; crowdfunding; natural and biodynamic wine; social entrepreneurship and innovation; and social license to operate, among others. In approaching these questions, Professor Gehman draws primarily on organization theory, together with insights from strategic management, and science and technology studies. His work also takes a process perspective, focusing on the emergence and evolution of organizational concerns over place and time.