Dirk Matten
Visiting Professor of Business, Organizations and Society
Affiliation: Visiting
Education: Diplom-Kaufman (MA) University of Essen, Germany; Dr. rer.pol. (PhD) Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany; Dr. habil. (PhD) Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany
Research Areas: Business ethics, corporate responsibility, sustainability, global goverance
Professor Matten is a Visiting Professor of Business, Organizations and Society for the academic year 2024-2025. He holds an MA in Business and Economics from the University of Essen, Germany. His PhD and Habilitation are from Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany. His research interests are in Business Ethics, Corporate Responsibility, Sustainability, and Global governance.
Matten holds the Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and is a Full Professor of Sustainability at the Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto, Canada. Previously, he held the Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics (tenured full professor) in the School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He has taught, done research, and held positions at academic institutions in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Turkey, and the USA. In 2018/19 he held the prestigious Gourlay Visiting Professor of Ethics in Business at Trinity College of the University of Melbourne. His 2008 paper on ‘Implicit and Explicit CSR’ (with J. Moon) has won the “Academy of Management Review Paper of the Decade” Award. He also received the Max Weber Award for Business Ethics from the Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft, Berlin, for his textbook Business Ethics (with A. Crane, OUP, now in its 5th edition).