Nicole Darnall
Arizona State University, School of Sustainability, Faculty Member
- Arizona State University, Global Institute of Sustainability, Department MemberArizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business, Department Memberadd
- Public Administration, Strategic Management, Sustainablity, Environmental Policy and Governance, Regulation And Governance, Environmental Sustainability, and 6 moreCorporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability (Organisational Strategy), Environmental Strategy, Corporate Environmentalism, Environmental Management Systems, and Public Policyedit
- Nicole Darnall is Foundation Professor of Management and Public Policy and Director and Co-founder of ASU’s Sustainab... moreNicole Darnall is Foundation Professor of Management and Public Policy and Director and Co-founder of ASU’s Sustainable Purchasing Research Initiative. She was previously Associate Dean of Faculty Success in ASU's College of Global Futures and Associate Dean of ASU's School of Sustainability. Her research assesses organizations' and individuals' sustainability and whether the absence of state coercion, combined with appropriate incentives, can encourage organizations and individuals to behave more sustainably. Her research investigates organizations and individuals sustainability decisions.
Professor Darnall is an elected Fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration, an Abe Fellow, an Economic and Social Research Council and Social Science Research Council Collaborative Visiting Fellow, an Erasmus Mundus International Scholar, and Spanish Ministry of Education International Fellow. She has received the Academy of Management's Organizations and Natural Environment Best Paper Award. Her research on business-government collaborations received the Academy of Management Public and Nonprofit Management’s Best Journal Article Award, and her scholarship on environmental audits received the Decision Science Institute's Distinguished Paper Award. She has served as a senior editor of Production and Operations Management and associate editor of Business & Society and Organization and Environment. She is on the Editorial Review Board of Cambridge University Press, Public Administration Review, Business & Society, Organization & Environment, and Business Strategy and the Environment. She is a founding member of the Group of Organizations and Natural Environment (GRONEN), a network of European and North American scholars focused on organization sustainability. Prior to her career in academia she worked as an economist for the U.S. Forest Service.edit
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While local governments often implement equivalent numbers of sustainability programs, they likely utilize different strategies to design them. We posit that some local governments pursue more of an exploration strategy, by experimenting... more
While local governments often implement equivalent numbers of sustainability programs, they likely utilize different strategies to design them. We posit that some local governments pursue more of an exploration strategy, by experimenting with a broad range of sustainability issues and policy instruments to address them, while others pursue a more exploitation strategy, by focusing on a limited range of sustainability issues and policy instruments. We assess these distinctions across 70 local governments and offer evidence that governments indeed vary in their sustainability strategies. Such variations have important implications for local governments’ ability to improve their sustainability conditions over time.
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abstract: Derived from the idea that the utilization of sustainable practices could improve small business practice, this honors thesis offers a full business assessment and recommendations for improvements of a local, family-owned coffee... more
abstract: Derived from the idea that the utilization of sustainable practices could improve small business practice, this honors thesis offers a full business assessment and recommendations for improvements of a local, family-owned coffee shop, Gold Bar. A thorough analysis of the shop's current business practices and research on unnecessary expenses and waste guides this assessment
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Produced by Grant Walters and Nicole Darnall, The Untold Stories of the Monon Bell: A Documentary follows the oldest college rivalry west of the Allegheny Mountains from the very beginning. From the first match-up between the Tigers and... more
Produced by Grant Walters and Nicole Darnall, The Untold Stories of the Monon Bell: A Documentary follows the oldest college rivalry west of the Allegheny Mountains from the very beginning. From the first match-up between the Tigers and the Little Giants until this year\u27s game, the history of this rivalry is truly unmatched. Follow as the tears and cheers from the past 122 years are documented by past players and coaches, sharing the memories of their time on field
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Information disclosure and certification programs typically rely on one of two modes of signaling to communicate information to stakeholders or consumers. In Spence style signaling, participation i...
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As the largest buyers in the economy, government have enormous purchasing power. Public procurement, therefore, can be leveraged for social outcomes, such as helping marginalized communities, and r...
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While green purchasing policies have the potential to signifi cantly reduce carbon impacts across the globe, most U.S. cities have either struggled to implement them or do not have one at all. Consequently, green purchasing policies have... more
While green purchasing policies have the potential to signifi cantly reduce carbon impacts across the globe, most U.S. cities have either struggled to implement them or do not have one at all. Consequently, green purchasing policies have not reached their potential to help local governments mitigate their environmental impacts. These are significant concerns that the United Nations Environmental Programme, the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC) and others suggest must be resolved if we are to move toward an environmentally sustainable economy. Researchers at the Arizona State University (ASU) Center for Organization Research and Design (CORD) have sought to address these issues with the assistance of a grant from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation. We conducted a national survey of finance, public works and environmental directors in a sample of U.S. local governments. The survey generated 616 individual responses from 459 cities of 25,000 residents or more. These cities were representative based on their population size, income and geographic dispersion by state. Our three broad objectives are to: • Determine the facilitators and the barriers to adoption and implementation of green purchasing policies in local governments. • Recommend actions for advancing green purchasing practices. • Encourage local governments that lack green purchasing policies to implement them within their jurisdictions.
Research Interests: Business, Climate Change, Sustainable Production and Consumption, Local Government, Social Science Research Network, and 9 moreSustainable Cities, Purchasing, Green and Sustainability Practices, Sustainable Public Procurement, Green Purchase Behavior, Vendor, Sustainable Procurement In Public and Private Sector, Sustainable Green Consumption, and Sustainable Procurement Practice
Research Interests: Business, Management, Marketing, Economics, International Business, and 10 moreStrategic Management, Institutional Theory, Competitive advantage, Business and Management, Environmental Scanning, United States, Resource Based View, Business performance, Survey data, and Environmental Management System
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This paper is based on our study (Darnall & Ytterhus 2005), which evaluates the link between facilities' environmental and financial performance and controls for endogeneity associated with improved environmental... more
This paper is based on our study (Darnall & Ytterhus 2005), which evaluates the link between facilities' environmental and financial performance and controls for endogeneity associated with improved environmental performance. These relationships were considered by relying on ...
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Research Interests: Business, Public Administration, Political Science, Corporate Sustainability, Environmental Management Systems, and 9 moreEnvironmental Governance, Firms' Environmental Performance, Environmental Resource Management, Environmental Scanning, Iso, Certification, Public Administration and Policy, Environmental Performance, and Environmental Management System
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Research Interests: Business, Management, Business Ethics, Economics, Econometrics, and 15 moreEnvironmental Economics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Theory, Environmental Management Systems, Applied Economics, Green Supply Chain Management, Business Management, Environmental Impact, Iso, Certification, Environmental Performance, Environmental Economics Management, Environmental Management System, Endogeneity, and ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
Research Interests: Business, Economics, Public Administration, Climate Change, Climate change policy, and 15 moreCorporate Governance, Political Science, Collaboration, Public Relations, Politics, Social Support, Business Sustainability, Collaborative Governance, Social Science Research Network, Business Government and Society, Scholarship, Public Policy Formation, Public Administration and Policy, Corporate Political Activity, and Public Policy
Research Interests: Business, Law, Disaster risk management, Political Science, Strategic Management, and 15 moreLocal Government, Disaster Management, Environmental Sustainability, Constituent Power, Local Governments, Disaster risk reduction, Natural Hazard and Disaster Risk Management, Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction, Disaster risk reduction and community resilience, Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, Strategic Sustainability Planning, Policy Disaster Risk Management Disaster Management, Environmental Setting, and Environmental Sustainability Index
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Environment, social, and governance (ESG) reporting guidelines are institutional rules that can enhance the credibility of firms' publicly disclosed information related to ESG. Reporting is often voluntary and global ESG reporting... more
Environment, social, and governance (ESG) reporting guidelines are institutional rules that can enhance the credibility of firms' publicly disclosed information related to ESG. Reporting is often voluntary and global ESG reporting guidelines typically rely on process‐focused third party verification. However, in developing its reporting guidelines, the Japanese government gave firms the unusual option of pursuing either process‐ or content‐focused verification. This paper draws on the unique Japanese setting to examine whether firms that use ESG reporting guidelines increase their quantity of disclosed sustainability information. Furthermore, it assesses whether, given the option, (1) firms tend to pursue process‐ or content‐focused verification, and (2) which type of verification leads to greater information disclosure. We show that firms that follow ESG guidelines disclose 39% more sustainability information compared to firms that publish sustainability reports but do not follow ESG reporting guidelines. Content‐focused verification leads to greater information disclosure than process‐focused verification in that firms publish 23% more text in their sustainability reports. Moreover, given the option, firms prefer to use content‐ over process‐focused verification. However, most global ESG reporting guidelines endorse process‐focused verification and this verification is less effective than content‐focused verification at encouraging firms' information disclosure. Our findings raise a timely and relevant question about the movement by global ESG standard developers to promote process‐ rather than content‐focused verification. They also suggest that firms that wish to create sustainability distinction by way of ESG reporting may benefit by advocating for more robust forms of verification.
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Abstract The field of environmentally conscious design and manufacturing has focused primarily on internal functions and activities within an organization. However, external enterprise practices and relationships are of equal concern and... more
Abstract The field of environmentally conscious design and manufacturing has focused primarily on internal functions and activities within an organization. However, external enterprise practices and relationships are of equal concern and often overlooked. External relationships serve as links in the development of a closed loop industrial ecosystem and are an integral part of supply chain management and environmental management strategy. This paper identifies emerging and potential research and development issues within ...
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Research Interests: Business, Public Administration, Procurement, Procurement Management, Social sustainability, and 12 morePublic Procurement, Social Science Research Network, Strategic Procurement, Purchasing, Public Administration and Policy, Public Administration and Management, Sustainable Procurement, Sustainable Public Procurement, Social Aspects of Sustainability, Sustainability, Sustainable Procurement In Public and Private Sector, and sustainable public purchasing
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Little is known about the complementary performance benefits associated with facilities’ combined use of both quality management systems (QMS) and environmental management systems (EMS), and how these performance benefits might differ... more
Little is known about the complementary performance benefits associated with facilities’ combined use of both quality management systems (QMS) and environmental management systems (EMS), and how these performance benefits might differ from those associated with facilities’ use of only one of these management systems (or neither). We suggest that complementarities arise because each management system fosters the development of internal capabilities that facilitates the adoption and routine operationalization of the other, while maintaining differentiated goals that enhance strategic value. We examine these relationships using a sample of 2,619 manufacturing facilities operating within six OECD countries, while controlling for self-selection issues. Our findings support the idea of complementarity in that facilities, that adopt both QMS and EMS, are associated with positive business performance more than facilities that adopt either QMS or an EMS on its own, or no management system.