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How can organizations work to foster a more sustainable world? How do they navigate increasingly complex and interconnected demands to do so? As an organizational scholar researching the sustainability of complex collaborative systems, my research program considers these questions across multiple contexts and levels of analysis, integrating insights from organizational theory, economic sociology, and nonmarket strategy. I leverage a combination of empirical approaches ranging from regression- and network-based analyses of large archival datasets to survey methods.
My work seeks to advance organizational scholarship’s theoretical and empirical engagement with grand challenges, considering cross-level and cross-sector mechanisms by which social structures and institutions shape collective outcomes and behaviors. To this end, current projects examine how interactions between firms and states shape the global green energy transition; how collaborative networked systems can withstand and recover from major shocks and disruptions; how firms navigate the shifting landscape for sustainability disclosures; and how archetypes surrounding climate migration affect support for climate migrants.
PUBLICATIONS / BOOK CHAPTERS
Gainsburg, Izzy, Roy, Sukanya, and Lee Cunningham, Julia. An Examination of How Six Reasons for Valuing Nature are Endorsed and Associated with Pro-environmental Behavior Across 12 Countries. Scientific Reports 13, 8484 (2023).
Hoffman, Andrew, and Roy, Sukanya. “Business, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene”. In Corporate Sustainability, 2nd edition, eds. Andreas Rasche, Jeremy Moon, Mette Morsing, and Arno Kourula, Cambridge University Press, 2023.
​Roy, Sukanya, and Hoffman, Andrew. “From Denial to Disinformation and Delay: Evolving Forms and Frames of Climate Denial”. Proposal accepted in Science Denial: What It Is and Its Impact on People, Organizations, and Institutions, eds. Elena Bruni and Lianne Lefsrud, Oxford University Press.
WORKING PAPERS / WORK IN PROGRESS
Sytch, Maxim; Roy, Sukanya; and Zhelyazkov, Pavel. [Theory paper on interorganizational networks - under review ].
Roy, Sukanya; Sytch, Maxim; and Uribe, Jose. More Power to Whom? Contestation and Influence in Investor-State Disputes.
Roy, Sukanya, and Soderstrom, Sara. Going Above and Beyond? Examining Firms’ Sustainability Disclosures.
Roy, Sukanya; Lee Cunningham, Julia; Raimi, Kaitlin; Geiger, Nathaniel; and Sarge, Melanie. Lay Theories of Climate Migration.
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