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P. (Tima) Bansal

Professor, General Management

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Dr. Bansal is a professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business. She is also the Director of the Cross-Enterprise Leadership Centre on Building Sustainable Value, and the Executive Director for the Network for Business Sustainability. Both the Centre and the Network aim to strengthen the ties between research and practice. In 2008, she was awarded the Aspen's Institute title of Faculty Pioneer for Academic Leadership and the University Western Ontario's title of Faculty Scholar.

Before joining Ivey in June 1999, she received her doctorate from the University of Oxford and taught at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Her research interests are primarily in the areas of sustainable development and international business. Her research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and the Journal of International Business Studies, among others. She has co-edited four books, including three in the field of management, and one titled Business and the Natural Environment. Her research has also been cited in the popular press including The Wall Street Journal, The National Post, Globe and Mail and The Independent. As of July 1, 2010, she stepped into the role of Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal and has previously sat on six editorial boards. Since 1999, she has successfully raised over $5million in government grants.

Professor Bansal teaches at all levels of the business program, including undergraduates, MBAs, PhDs, and executives. She has taught courses in strategy, international business, and business sustainability. In 2002, she was the recipient of the teaching innovation fellowship. From 2008-2010, she directed Ivey's Management Development Program. During her time at Ivey, she has co-authored 23 teaching case studies.

Prior to Professor Bansal's academic career, she worked as an economist for the Government of Canada and Province of Alberta, and as a management consultant for Nicholls Applied Management.

Teaching

  • HBA, MBA, IMDP: Strategic Analysis and Action
  • HBA, MBA, MES: Individuals, Corporations and Society
  • HBA, MBA, EMBA: International Management

Selected Publications

  • Taiyuan Wang and Pratima Bansal (forthcoming). Social Responsibility in New Ventures: Profiting from a Long-Term Orientation. Strategic Management Journal.
  • Maurer, Cara, Pratima Bansal, and Mary Crossan (2011), Creating Economic Value through Social Values: Introducing a Culturally Informed Resource-Based View, Organization Science, 22(2): 432-448.
  • Bansal, Pratima and Brent McKnight (2009), Looking Forward, Pushing Back, and Peering Sideways: Analyzing the Sustainability of Industrial Symbiosis, Journal of Supply Chain Management, 45(4): 26-37.
  • Strike, Vanessa, Jijun Gao, and Pratima Bansal (2006), Being Good While Being Bad: Social Responsibility and the International Diversification of U.S. Firms, Journal of International Business Studies, 37(6): 850-862.
  • Bansal, Pratima, (2005), Evolving Sustainably: A Longitudinal Study of Corporate Sustainable Development, Strategic Management Journal, 26(3):197-218.
  • Bansal, Pratima and Iain Clelland, (2004), Talking Trash: Legitimacy, Impression Management and Unsystematic Risk in the context of the Natural Environment, Academy of Management Journal, 47(1): 93-103.
  • Bansal, Pratima, (2003), From Issues to Actions: The Importance of Individual Concerns and Organizational Values in Responding to Natural Environmental Issues, Organization Science, 14(5): 510-527.
  • Bansal, Pratima and Kendall Roth, (2000), "Why Companies Go Green: A Model of Ecological Responsiveness" Academy of Management Journal, 43(4): 717-736.

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