Christopher Marquis
There are 5 articles for this faculty member.
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Christopher Marquis is an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School.
The Globalization of Corporate Environmental Disclosure: Accountability or Greenwashing?
| Authors: | Christopher Marquis and Michael W. Toffel |
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| Published: | August 19, 2011 |
| Paper Release Date: | May 2011 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
Between 2005 and 2008, the world saw a dramatic increase in corporate environmental reporting. Yet this transition toward greater transparency and accountability has occurred unevenly across countries and industries. Findings by professors Christopher Marquis and Michael W. Toffel provide the first systematic evidence of how the global environmental movement affects corporations' environmental management practices. Firms' use of symbolic compliance strategies, for instance, is affected by specific corporate characteristics and by institutional context. This study contributes to a larger body of research on the effects of global social movements and environmental reporting.
Who Is Governing Whom? Senior Managers, Governance and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.S. Firms
| Authors: | Christopher Marquis and Matthew Lee |
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| Published: | July 29, 2011 |
| Paper Release Date: | May 2011 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
Analyzing several Fortune 500 firms over the period of 10 years, Christopher Marquis and Matthew Lee discuss the factors that influence corporate philanthropy, using the subject to theorize about and test how structural features of organizations help senior leaders to shape firm strategy.
Published in 2009
The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry
| Authors: | Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang |
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| Published: | April 1, 2009 |
| Paper Release Date: | August 2008 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
The effects of public policy on organizations and economic activities have been widely observed. This line of research has contributed to organizational theory by showing the importance of state action for constructing economic systems, as well as firm structures and strategies. But there are a number of reasons why this perspective may in fact overemphasize the importance of public policy. This working paper, forthcoming as an article in the Academy of Management Journal, more fully investigates the contingent nature of the effects of policy on organizations, with the orienting premise that policy is just one of the external conditions that organizations face, and policy effects are more or less powerful to the extent that they are interactive with other elements of the environment. Specifically, the authors focus on how policy that regulated bank branching and other environmental factors affected—independently as well as interactively—the emergence and growth of large-scale firms in U.S. commercial banking from 1896 to 1978.
Published in 2007
Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Influence of Local Communities on Organizations
| Authors: | Christopher Marquis and Julie Battilana |
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| Published: | December 13, 2007 |
| Paper Release Date: | November 2007 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
It is a paradox that in a globalizing and "boundaryless" economy, factors associated with local communities—such as interpersonal networks, laws, and tax rates, among others—remain important for understanding organizational behavior. As Marquis and Battilana argue, communities influence organizational behavior not only as local markets and resource environments, but also through a number of institutional pressures. Focusing on communities as institutional environments provides fresh theoretical insights into organizational behavior, in addition to offering a more unified perspective to the diverse set of research that is emerging on local communities.
Published in 2005
The Geography of Corporate Giving
| Q&A with: | Christopher Marquis |
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| Published: | November 21, 2005 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Where a company is headquartered influences the types of social programs it supports, such as housing assistance, disease research, and the arts, according to new research by professor Christopher Marquis and his coauthors. Is social spending too confined by geography?
