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Dr Melodie Cartel

Dr Melodie Cartel

Senior Lecturer
Business School
School of Management and Governance

Mélodie Cartel is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Business School. Her research lies at the intersection between spaces, places, and institutions. Specifically, she investigates how spaces and places affect important institutional and organizational outcomes such as sustainability, social inclusion, and innovation. Her work has been published in Organization Studies, Organization & Environment, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
E-mail
m.cartel@unsw.edu.au
  • Book Chapters | 2019
    Cartel M; Boxenbaum E, 2019, 'Materiality in Institutional Analysis: A Bricolage Approach', in De Vaujany F-X; Adrot A; Boxenbaum E; Leca B (ed.), Materiality in Institutional Analysis: Spaces, Embodiment and Technology in Management and Organization, Palgrave macmillan, Cham: Switzerland, pp. 37 - 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97472-9_2
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Cartel M; Boxenbaum E; Aggeri F; Caneill J-Y, 2017, 'Policymaking as collective bricolage: the role of the electricity sector in the making of the European carbon market', in Garsten C; Sörbom A (ed.), Power, Policy and Profit: Corporate Engagement in Politics and Governance, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 64 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781784711214.00009
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Garsten C; Sörbom A; Cartel M; Boxenbaum E; Aggeri F; Caneill J-Y, 2017, 'Chapter 3: Policymaking as collective bricolage: the role of the electricity sector in the making of the European carbon market', in Power, Policy and Profit, Edward Elgar Publishing, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781784711214.00009
  • Journal articles | 2026
    Cartel M; Grant D; Nyberg D, 2026, 'Media Review: Home and Climate Risk', ORGANIZATION STUDIES, 47, pp. 1131 - 1134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01708406251390169
    Journal articles | 2026
    Farchi T; Fernandez PD; Cartel M; Weisz N, 2026, 'When the Kitchen Stopped Being a Battlefield: Building an Inclusive and Safe Workspace in Alamesa', Academy of Management Proceedings, 2026, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2026.89bp
    Journal articles | 2026
    Tuladhar AS; Cartel M; Ozdemir SZ, 2026, 'Maintaining Places of Entrepreneurship: The Case of Asan Bazar', Academy of Management Proceedings, 2026, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2026.19878abstract
    Journal articles | 2025
    Xu SM; Feuls M; Boehm S; Cartel M; Dentoni D; Slawinski N; Brandtner C, 2025, 'Place-Based Organizing with Nature: The What, How, and Why of Place in Organization-Nature Relations', Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2025.13216symposium
    Journal articles | 2024
    Dacin MT; Zilber TB; Cartel M; Kibler E, 2024, 'Navigating Place: Extending perspectives on place in organization studies', Organization Studies, 45, pp. 1191 - 1212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01708406241252944
    Journal articles | 2024
    Fohim E; Cartel M; Kella C, 2024, 'Making Sustainable Places Through Spaces: Role Identity Expansion and Imagination in a Swiss Urban Planning Committee', Organization and Environment, 37, pp. 408 - 439, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10860266241233600
    Journal articles | 2023
    Shinkle GA; Sharma A; Sharry P; Tobias J; Cartel M; Vergiawan D, 2023, 'Business model idea screening: Advancing toward the Bullseye', Organizational Dynamics, 52, pp. 100995, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2023.100995
    Journal articles | 2022
    Cartel M; Kibler E; Dacin MT, 2022, 'Unpacking “Sense of Place” and “Place-making” in Organization Studies: A Toolkit for Place-sensitive Research', Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 58, pp. 350 - 363, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00218863221090305
    Journal articles | 2022
    Vernay AL; Cartel M; Pinkse J, 2022, 'Mainstreaming Business Models for Sustainability in Mature Industries: Leveraging Alternative Institutional Logics for Optimal Distinctiveness', Organization and Environment, 35, pp. 414 - 445, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10860266221079406
    Journal articles | 2020
    Gibassier D; Michelon G; Cartel M, 2020, 'The future of carbon accounting research: “we’ve pissed mother nature off, big time”', Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal, 11, pp. 477 - 485, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/SAMPJ-02-2020-0028
    Journal articles | 2019
    Cartel M; Boxenbaum E; Aggeri F, 2019, 'Just for fun! How experimental spaces stimulate innovation in institutionalized fields', Organization Studies, 40, pp. 65 - 92, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840617736937
    Journal articles | 2018
    Cartel M; Colombero S; Boxenbaum E, 2018, 'Towards a Multimodal Model of Theorization Processes', Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 54A, pp. 153 - 182, https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/S0733-558X2017000054A006
    Journal articles | 2017
    Aggeri F; Cartel M, 2017, 'Le changement climatique et les entreprises: Enjeux, espaces d'action, régulations internationales', Entreprises Et Histoire, 86, pp. 6 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/eh.086.0006
    Journal articles | 2017
    Baron R; Caneill JY; Dahan A; Poivet R; Pottier A; Aggeri F; Cartel M; Belinga R, 2017, 'Débat les entreprises face au changement climatique', Entreprises Et Histoire, 86, pp. 140 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/eh.086.0140
    Journal articles | 2017
    Cartel M; Aggeri F; Caneill JY, 2017, 'L'histoire méconnue du Marché Européen du carbone: Archéologie du secteur électrique', Entreprises Et Histoire, 86, pp. 54 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/eh.086.0054
    Journal articles | 2006
    Smale M; Zambrano P; Cartel M, 2006, 'Bales and balance: A review of the methods used to assess the economic impact of Bt cotton on farmers in developing economies', Agbioforum, 9, pp. 195 - 212
  • Preprints | 2026
    Shinkle GA; Sharma A; Jackson C; Cartel M; Hodgkinson GP, 2026, Minimum Viable Policies: Where, When, and How to Use Them, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7026238
    Conference Papers | 2024
    Traeger C; Cartel M; Mair J; Lounsbury M; Reinecke J; Seelos C; Chan-Serafin S, 2024, 'Doing Impactful Research in Organization and Management Theory: Taking Stock and Retooling', in Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2024.10625symposium
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Cartel M; Boxenbaum E; Colombero S, 2022, 'Place and Status Recategorization', in Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2022.11898abstract
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Dacin T; Zilber TB; Zietsma CE; Cartel M; Furnari S; Raffaelli RL; Roulet TJ, 2020, 'Situated Institutions: Exploring Place and Space in Institutional Dynamics', in Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management, pp. 12080 - 12080, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2020.12080symposium
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Cartel MA; Boxenbaum E; Franck A, 2016, 'Experimental spaces and institutional innovation: distancing work and anchoring work', in Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management, pp. 15111 - 15111, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2016.15111abstract
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Kokshagina O; Boxenbaum E; Cartel MA, 2015, 'A Process of Collective Bricolage: Crafting Highly Diffusable Innovations in High Uncertainty', in Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management, pp. 13410 - 13410, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2015.13410abstract
    Conference Papers | 2014
    Cartel MA; Boxenbaum E, 2014, 'Toward a Foundation of Material Approaches in Neo-Institutional Theory: A Bricolage Approach', in Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management, pp. 15154 - 15154, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2014.15154abstract
    Conference Papers | 2012
    Aggeri F; Cartel MA, 2012, 'Institutionalising Divergent Carbon Management Frameworks: The Role of Experimental Devices', in Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management, pp. 13847 - 13847, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2012.13847abstract

2017-2019. CI for the “Low Carbon Business Models” research stream in the project “Carbon Accounting and Strategy”, funded by ADEME (French Environmental Protection Agency) for 155,370.00 AUD, in collaboration with Toulouse Business School, Greoble Ecole de de Management, Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, ECO2 Initiatives, Bureau d’Etudes Techniques ECIC, Association Bilan Carbone.

  • 2026 Academy of Management Best International Paper Award, OMT division, nominee
  • 2026 Organization Studies Best Reviewer Award
  • 2024 Academy of Management Best Symposium Award, OMT division, runner up
  • 2022 UNSW Business School Values in Action Award
  • 2020 School of Management Teaching Award (Commended for Teaching Excellence)
  • 2020 Academy of Management ABCD Award for outstanding reviewer, OMT division
  • 2019 Academy of Management ABCD Award for outstanding reviewer, OMT division

My Research Supervision

Since 2024. Arahat Sundar Tuladhar

Since 2022. Vergiawan Dwiardi