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Stephanie Rüegger

Discipline

Sustainability

Supervisor

  • Tima Bansal
  • Diane-Laure Arjaliès

Stephanie is a Sustainability PhD at the Ivey Business School. Her research interests lie in exploring the intersection of business and sustainable development, with a particular focus on developing countries. Her goal is to build theories based on the region, for the region, and reimagine how we can create sustainable futures rooted in possibilities rather than probabilities. She believes that it is no longer sufficient to simply observe the past and present; and that it’s crucial for us to actively envision and construct the futures we aspire to live in.

Education

  • MBA, INCAE Business School, 2021
  • Master in Strategy and International Management, University of St. Gallen, 2021
  • Bachelor of Arts in Economics, University of St. Gallen and Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2019

Research Interests

  • Sustainable Futures
  • Social networks
  • Sustainability and responsible business practices
  • Social and environmental accounting
  • Critical perspectives on accounting

Publications

  • Palmié, M., Rüegger, S., Holzer, M., & Oghazi, P. (2023). The “golden” voice of “green” employees: The effect of private environmental orientation on suggestions for improvement in firms’ economic value creation. Journal of Business Research, 156, 113492.
  • Palmié, M., Rüegger, S., & Parida, V. (2023). Microfoundations in the strategic management of technology and innovation: Definitions, systematic literature review, integrative framework, and research agenda. Journal of Business Research, 154, 113351.
  • Luis Cuenca, Stephanie Rüegger, and Urs Jäger. “Accounting as a mediating practice between values and contexts: a research agenda on impact investment” – Routledge Handbook of Green Finance, (publication in November 2023).
  • Urs Jäger, and Stephanie Rüegger. “Economic factors matter: How social entrepreneurs become accepted into the social entrepreneurship sector” – in revision after paper development workshop in LATAM by AMJs.
  • Luis Cuenca, Stephanie Rüegger, Silke Bucher and Urs Jäger. “Bringing ecosystem thinking to the organizational level: the case of a business school in Central America.” – participating in special issue workshop Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal.

Awards and Honours

  • High Honours from MBA in INCAE

Conferences

  • Paper Development Workshop in Organization and Management Studies for Advanced PhD Students, Early Career Researchers (ECRs), and Junior Faculty in Latin America called “More voices better theories: strengthening research and collaboration among Latin American Scholars”
  • Paper Development Workshop for the Special Issue in Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: 'The impact of accounting and accountability in identifying and mitigating social and environmental grand challenges'

Academic Experience

  • Researcher, VIVA Idea and Catedra de Sostenibilidad at INCAE Business School
  • Research in Sustainability and Innovation, ITEM, Switzerland

PhD

(anticipated completion 2029)

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Stephanie Rüegger

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