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EDUCATION
Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2014 – 2019
M.A. International Affairs, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Canada, 2003 – 2005
Bachelor of Business Administration with high distinction (summa cum laude equivalent), Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, 1997 – 2001
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2022 – present
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University, 2019 – 2022
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
International Research Fellow , Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation, 2024 – present
Fellow, Impact, Value, and Sustainable Business Initiative, The Wharton School, 2022 – present
PUBLICATIONS
[1] Chung, B.†, Odziemkowska, K. and Piazza, A. “Threading the Needle of Corporate Activism: How Firms Frame their Stances on Polarizing Social Issues” Academy of Management Journal, 68(4):680-706. (lead article)
[2] Odziemkowska, K. and Zhu, Y.† “How Social Movements Catalyze Firm Innovation” Organization Science, 36(4): 1221–1241. (leadarticle)
[3] Odziemkowska, K. and McDonnell, M.-H. 2024 “Ripple Effects: How Collaborations Reduce Contention” Strategic Management Journal, 45(4): 775-806.
[4] Odziemkowska, K. 2022. “Frenemies: Overcoming Audiences’ Ideological Opposition to Firm–Activist Collaborations” Administrative Science Quarterly, 67(2): 469-514.
[5] McDonnell, M.-H., Odziemkowska, K., and Pontikes, E. 2021. “Bad Company: Shifts in Social Activists' Tactics and Resources after Industry Crises” Organization Science, 32(4): 1033-1055.
[6] Odziemkowska, K. and Dorobantu, S. 2021. “Contracting Beyond the Market” Organization Science, 32(3): 776-803.
[7] Odziemkowska, K. and Henisz, W. 2021. “Webs of Influence: Secondary Stakeholder Actions and Cross-National Corporate Social Performance” Organization Science, 32(1): 233-255.
[8] Dorobantu, S., and Odziemkowska, K. 2017. “Valuing Stakeholder Governance: Property Rights, Community Mobilization and Firm Value” Strategic Management Journal, 38(13): 2682-2703.
UNDER REVIEW & REVISION
[9] Odziemkowska, K., Hernandez, E., and Feldman, E. “Stakeholder Synergies in Mergers and Acquisitions” Revision requested, Strategic Management Journal.
[10] Odziemkowska, K. 2024. [Firms' Stakeholder-Specific Investments] Revision requested, Academy of Management Review.
[11] Odziemkowska, K. and Briscoe, F. 2025 “Contention, corporate activism, and collaboration: The blurring boundaries between firms and social movements” Revision requested, Academy of Management Annals.
[12] He, T., Odziemkowska, K. and Henisz, W. 2025 “The Social Production of Corporate Targets by the Anti-ESG Movement” under review at Administrative Science Quarterly.
WORKING PAPERS
[13] Odziemkowska, K, Kaul, A. and Luo, J. “Constraints on Reciprocity and the Case for Stakeholder Empowerment” Working Paper.
[14] Piyasinchai, B., Odziemkowska, K. and Grimes, M. 2025 “Balancing Breadth and Depth: Stakeholder Reactions to Firms’ Grand Challenge Strategies”
[15] Wang, Y.†, Odziemkowska, K. and Kale, P. “Failure to launch: When cooperative governance fails to diffuse in nonmarket contexts” Working Paper.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Odziemkowska, K. 2022. ‘Firm-NGO collaborations for sustainability: A comparative research agenda’, in George, G., Joshi, H., Haas, M., McGahan, A. and Tracy, P. (eds.), Handbook on the Business of Sustainability: The Organization, Implementation, and Practice of Sustainable Growth, Edward Elgar Publishing, Massachusetts, pp.100-117.
AWARDS & RESEARCH GRANTS
• Finalist for Responsible Research Paper Prize, Strategic Management Society, 2025
• Outstanding Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Review, 2025
• Best Social Evaluation Paper Award, Oxford Centre for Corporate Reputation, 2024
• Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award, Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability, 2024
• Best Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Journal, 2024
• Outstanding Reviewer Award, Organization Science, 2024
• Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management Strategic Management Division, 2024
• Roger Martin Excellence in Research Award, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2023
• Rotman Teaching Award, University of Toronto, 2023
• 2022 Responsible Research in Management Award Winner
• Research Excellence Award, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University, 2021
• William C. Frederick Social Issues in Management Doctoral Dissertation Award Finalist, 2021
• OMT Responsible Research Award, Academy of Management, 2020
• Runner-up for Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award, Academy of Management, 2020
• Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management OMT Division, 2020
• Outstanding Reviewer Award, Strategic Management Society’s Stakeholder Strategy Interest Group, 2020
• Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management Strategic Management Division, 2019
• Best Reviewer Award, Strategic Management Society’s Stakeholder Strategy Interest Group, 2019
• Honorable Mention, Organizations & Natural Environment Division Best Dissertation Award, 2019
• Best Conference Paper Honorable Mention, Strategic Management Society, 2018
• Strategy Research Foundation Dissertation Scholar, 2018-2019
• Best Conference Paper Nomination, Strategic Management Society, 2016 (2), 2017, 2018
• Outstanding Paper Award, Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability, 2017
• Best Proposal Award, Strategic Management Society’s Stakeholder Strategy Interest Group, 2017
• Outstanding Reviewer, Strategic Management Society’s Stakeholder Strategy Interest Group, 2017
• Wharton’s Mack Institute Research Fellowship, 2017
• Best Conference PhD Paper Prize, Strategic Management Society, 2016
• Best Proposal with a Student First Author Award, Strategic Management Society’s Stakeholder Strategy Interest Group, 2016
• Winkelman Fellowship, The Wharton School, 2016-2018
• Wharton Risk Center Russell Ackoff Doctoral Student Fellowship, 2016
• Wharton Social Impact Initiative Research Grant, 2015, 2017
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Award, 2015-2019
INVITED RESEARCH SEMINARS
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Management Department seminar, June 2026 (scheduled)
• Cornell University, Management & Organizations & ILR School seminar series, March 2025
• Pennsylvania State University, Management and Organizations Department Max D. Richards Distinguished Speaker Series, February 2025
• London Business School, Strategy & Entrepreneurship Seminar Series, September 2024
• Jagiellonian University, May 2024
• York University, Schulich School of Business Strategy Seminar, April 2024
• University of Alberta, October 2023
• Emory University, Goizueta Business School, September 2023
• Rotterdam School of Management, May 2023
• University of Amsterdam, May 2023
• Queen’s University, Smith School of Business Strategy Seminar, October 2022
• Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) Lugano, Faculty of Economics Seminar, May 2022
• Rotterdam School of Management, Strategy & Entrepreneurship Department Seminar, October 2021
• INSEAD, Strategy and Entrepreneurship Seminar, September 2021
• Washington University, Olin Business School, Strategy Area, October 2019
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Invited Panelist/Other Presentations
• DRUID Professional Development Workshop “Human Capital for a Sustainable Future” 2025
• “Foundations and Frontiers of Alliance Research”, online panel organized by the STR Division of the Academy of Management, May 2025
• “Rising Scholars Reflections on 25 Years of Strategy and the Business Environment”, Strategy and Business Environment Conference, Wharton, May 2025
• “Wading into Controversial Waters: Strategic Leaders and Sociopolitical Issues”, Strategic Management Society Annual Conference 2024
• “Finding a Job” and “Job Market Panel” STR Division Dissertation Consortium 2024, Academy of Management Annual Conference
• Global Scholars Panel, “Fostering Publications from Around the World in Leading Organization and Strategy Journals” Academy of Management Annual Conference PDW
• ASQ Virtual Research Discussion on Strategy, 2024
• Strategy Research Fund Dissertation Research Program Workshop, 2023
• “New Perspectives on Stakeholder Governance” Academy of Management Annual Conference PDW, 2022
• “Strategies for Nonprofits” Academy of Management Annual Conference PDW, 2022
• “New Perspectives on Stakeholder Governance” Academic Workshop, INSEAD, 2022
• “The Role of Corporations in Governing the Commons” Academy of Management Annual Conference PDW, 2021
Discussant
• Strategy and Business Environment Conference, Wharton, 2025
• Strategy Research Forum, 2025
• ARCS/Ivey PhD Sustainability Academy, University of Western Ontario, 2024
• “Social Activism and Corporations: New Vantages on the Role of Firms in Societal Change” Academy of Management Annual Conference Symposium, 2024
• Bocconi Workshop on Nonmarket Strategy, 2023, Milan, Italy
• “Corporate Sociopolitical Activism: Creating a Better World?” Academy of Management Annual Conference Symposium, 2022
• Strategy and Business Environment Conference, University of Texas Austin, 2022
• Stakeholder Strategy Paper Development Workshop, Virtual Toronto SMS Annual Conference, 2021
Paper Presentations (presentations by co-authors not listed)
“The Social Production of Corporate Targets by the anti-ESG movement”[12]
Strategy Research Forum, 2025
Rotman Strategic Management Brown Bag, 2025
Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship Sustainability Brown Bag, 2025
HEC Society & Organizations Research Days, 2024
“Constraints on Reciprocity and the Case for Stakeholder Empowerment” [13]
Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2024, Chicago
“How Social Movements Catalyze Firm Innovation” [2]
Strategic ManagementSociety Annual Conference, 2021, virtual
Academy of ManagementAnnual Conference, 2021, virtual
Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability Annual Conference, 2021, virtual
Strategy Science AnnualConference, 2021, virtual
“Threading the Needle of Corporate Activism: How Firms Frame their Stances on Polarizing Social Issues” [1]
Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability Annual Conference, UCLA, 2024
Academy of Management Annual Conference Symposium on Corporate Activism, 2024, Chicago
Sustainability & Organizations Institute Research Day, 2024, HEC Paris
Corporate Reputation Symposium, 2023, Oxford, U.K.
“Stakeholder Synergies in Acquisitions” [9]
Stakeholder Strategy Conference, 2024, HEC Paris
LBS Sumantra Ghoshal Strategy Conference, 2023, London, U.K.
Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, 2022, London, U.K.
Wharton Nonmarket Strategy Workshop, 2022, Philadelphia, PA
Rotman Strategy Brown Bag, 2022
Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship Sustainability Brown Bag, 2022
“Ripple Effects: How Collaborations Reduce Movement Contention” [3]
CCC Corporate Dynamics Junior Faculty Brownbag, 2021, virtual
NYU Stern Nonmarket Strategy Workshop, 2020, virtual
Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2018, Chicago, IL
Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability Annual Conference, 2018, Cambridge, MA
Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, 2017, Houston, TX
“From Stakeholder to Activist: Interests, Identity and Community Mobilization”
Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, 2020, virtual
“Frenemies: When Firms and Activists Collaborate” [4]
Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2020, Vancouver, BC, virtual
Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability Annual Conference, 2020, virtual
Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, 2018, Paris, France
Strategy and the Business Environment Annual Conference, 2018, Philadelphia, PA
Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation (CCC) Doctoral Conference, 2018, Berkeley, CA
“Bad Company: Shifts in Social Activists' Tactics and Support after Industry Scandals” [5]
Strategy and the Business Environment Annual Conference, 2020, Austin, TX
“Contracting Beyond the Market” [6]
Sumantra Ghoshal Conference on Managerially Relevant Research, 2020, London, UK (cancelled)
Strategy and the Business Environment Annual Conference, 2019, Palo Alto, CA
Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, 2018, Paris, France
Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability Annual Conference, 2018, Cambridge, MA
“Webs of Influence: National Stakeholder Fields and Corporate Social Performance” [7]
Mitsui Symposium on Comparative Corporate Governance and Globalization, University of Michigan, 2020, Ann Arbor, MI
EGOS 2017 Colloquium, Copenhagen, Denmark
Social Movements, Economic Innovation and Institutional Change Workshop 2016, Los Angeles, CA
Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, 2016, Berlin, Germany
Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2016, Anaheim, CA
Academy of International Business, 2016, New Orleans, LA
Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability Annual Conference, 2016, Boulder, CO
Strategy and the Business Environment Annual Conference, 2016, Rochester, NY
“Valuing Stakeholder Governance: Property Rights, Community Mobilization and Firm Value” [8]
American Political Science Association Conference, 2016, Philadelphia, PA
Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2016, Anaheim, CA
Academy of International Business, 2016, New Orleans, LA
Wharton-INSEAD Doctoral Consortium, 2015, Philadelphia, PA
TEACHING
Executive Education:
• Stakeholder Engagement (multiple programs) – Fall 2024, 2025
• Governance: Managing Stakeholders Risk (Rotman ESG Designation) – Fall 2023, 2024, 2025
• Indigenous Relationships (Rotman ESG Designation) – Winter 2024
Strategic Management (University of Toronto RSM 392 - undergraduate) – Winter 2023, 2024, 2025
• Instructor ratings for 2025 sections: 4.8/5.0, 4.6/5.0 and 4.8/5.0 (Rotman mean = 4.3)
• Instructor ratings for 2024 sections: 4.6/5.0, 4.6/5.0 and 4.7/5.0 (Rotman mean = 4.4)
• Instructor ratings for 2023 sections: 4.8/5.0, 4.6/5.0 and 4.5/5.0 (Rotman mean = 4.4)
Managing Stakeholder Risk (Rice University MGMT 663 - MBA) – Spring 2021, 2022
• Instructor ratings, on scale of 1 (outstanding) to 7 (very poor): 1.06 (Jones School mean = 1.77); 1.24 (2022 Jones School mean = 1.67)
Network Theory (Rice University BUSI 553 – PhD seminar) – Spring 2021
• Instructor ratings, on scale of 1 (outstanding) to 7 (very poor):1.00 (2021 Jones School mean = 1.77)
Strategic Management (Rice University BUSI 390) – Spring 2020, 2021, 2022
• Instructor ratings on scale of 1 (outstanding) to 5 (poor): 1.04and 1.18 (2020; Rice mean = 1.59); 1.23and 1.27 (2021; Rice mean = 1.61); 1.12 and 1.25 (2022; Rice mean = 1.60)
Introduction to Management (Wharton MGMT 101) – Fall 2016
• Instructor ratings for two recitation sections: 3.8/4.0 and 3.6/4.0 (course mean = 3.0)
StudentAdvising
· Amrita Saha, Committee Member, Doctoral Dissertation. University of Toronto, RotmanSchool of Management, Strategic Management Area (2022-present) “DevelopingEntrepreneurship in the Wake of Institutional Reform”
· Genevieve Gregorich, External Committee Member, Doctoral Dissertation. ColumbiaUniversity, Columbia Business School, Management (2025-present) “CorporateSociopolitical Activism and RetrActivism: Reputation Management in PolarizedEnvironments”
· Samuel Kim, Committee Member, Doctoral Dissertation. Washington University in St.Louis, Olin School of Business, Strategy and Entrepreneurship Area(2024-present) “Environmental, Social, and Governance as Firm Strategy”
· Emily Salmon, Committee Member, Doctoral Dissertation. University of Victoria, GustavsonSchool of Business (2022-2024) “Through the Looking Glass – Strategies inAchieving Stakeholder Performance”
· Ana Kurtanidze, Committee Member, Doctoral Dissertation. Università della Svizzeraitaliana (USI), Institute of Management and Organizazion (IMO) (2023-2024)“Firms’ Corporate Strategy Behavior and Stakeholder Relationships”
TEACHING CASES
Hemsworth, D., & Odziemkowska, K. 2006. The Region of Waterloo Water Services Division. Case ID: 040004-G. Waterloo, Canada: Laurier Institute.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editorial
Editorial Review Board, Academy of Management Review, 2025 –
Editorial Review Board, Administrative Science Quarterly, 2025 – 2027
Editorial Review Board, Academy of Management Journal, 2022 – 2025
Editorial Review Board, Strategic Management Journal, 2022 – 2025
Editorial Review Board, Organization Science, 2020 –
Ad-hoc reviewer for Management Science, Strategy Science, Journal of Management Studies, Organization & Environment, Business & Society, Journal of Business Venturing, California Management Review
Professional
Organizing Committee for the Strategy Research Forum Conference, 2026
Organizing Committee for the Strategy and Business Environment 25th Anniversary Conference,2025
Faculty Mentor, Oxford Corporate Reputation Symposium Doctoral Workshop, 2025
Faculty Mentor, Collective Impact Doctoral Workshop, 2025
Faculty Mentor, STR Division Dissertation Consortium 2024, Academy of Management
Co-organizer of 2023 Strategic Management Society Conference Extension “New Directions in Stakeholder Theory”
Co-organizer of the Virtual PhD seminar on Nonmarket Strategy, 2022-2023and 2023-2024
Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grants, 2023
Research Committee, OMT Division, Academy of Management, 2021 – 2023
William C. Frederick SIM Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee, 2022, 2023
Representative-at-Large (elected), Strategic Management Society’s Stakeholder Strategy Interest Group, 2021-2022
Co-organizer of 2021 SMS Panel “Imagining and Inspiring Breakthroughs at the Intersection of Cooperative and Stakeholder Strategy” Virtual Toronto SMS Annual Conference
Co-organizer of 2021 Stakeholder Strategy Panel & Paper Development Workshop, Virtual Toronto SMS Annual Conference
Co-organizer of 2021 Academy of Management Annual Conference Symposium “Corporate Social and Political Activism” with Steve Kofford and Haram Seo
Co-organizer of 2018 Academy of Management Annual Conference Symposium “Progressive Stakeholder Governance for the 21st Century” with Aaron Chatterji, Sinziana Dorobantu, Witold Henisz, Brayden King, and Anita McGahan
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Course coordinator for core strategy undergraduate course, 2024 –
Undergraduate Programs Committee, Rotman, 2023 – 2026
Teaching Stream Faculty Search Committee, Strategy Area, 2025
Ph.D. Admissions Committee, Strategy Area, 2025
Faculty Awards Committee, Rotman,2024
Junior Faculty Search Committee, Strategy Area, 2023 – 2024
Co-organizer of Strategy Area Seminars, 2022 – 2024
Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University
Ph.D. Admissions Committee, 2022
Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination coordinator, 2021 – 2022
Undergraduate Business Program Committee, 2019 – 2022
Co-organizer of Strategy Area Research Seminars, 2019 – 2022
Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
Wharton Society for the Advancement of Women in Business Academia PhD Mentor, 2016-2017
Co-organizer of 5th Annual Wharton-INSEAD Doctoral Consortium, 2016