UMass Boston

Area of Expertise

Organizational Theory, International Business, International Political Economy, Business and Climate Change, Global Value Chains

Degrees

DBA, Harvard Business School

MBA, Recanati Business School, Tel Aviv University, Israel

BSC, Manchester University (UMIST), England

Professional Publications & Contributions
  • Wissman-Weber, N. and D. L. Levy (2018). Climate Adaptation in the Anthropocene: Constructing and Contesting Urban Risk Regimes. Organization, 25(4): 491-516
  • Levy, D., Reinecke, J. and Manning (2016). The Political Dynamics of Sustainable Coffee: Contested Value Regimes and the Transformation of Sustainability. Journal of Management Studies, 53(3):364-401
  • Levy, David L. and Andre Spicer (2013). Contested Imaginaries and the Cultural Political Economy of Climate Change. Organization, 20(5): 659–678.
  • Rothenberg, Sandra, and David L. Levy (2012) Corporate Perceptions of Climate Science: The Role of Corporate Environmental Scientists. Business and Society, 51(1): 31-61.
  • Levy, David L., Halina S. Brown, and Martin De Jong (2010). The Contested Politics of Corporate Governance: The Case of the Global Reporting Initiative. Business and Society Vol. 49. No. 1: 88-115
  • Levy, David L. (2008) “Political Contestation in Global Production Networks”, Academy of Management Review, 33(4): 943-962.
  • Levy, David L. and Maureen Scully (2007) “The Institutional Entrepreneur as Modern Prince: The Strategic Face of Power in Contested Fields”, Organization Studies 28(7): 971-991.

Additional Information

Director of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness

External websites

Courses Taught

Strategy, Business and Society, International Business, Multinationals and the Global Political Economy, Organization Theory

Research Interests

Business responses to climate change, Corporate political strategy, Development of renewable energy industry, Multinational corporations and global governance

Professional Activities

Member of Academy of Management

Member of editorial boards of Organization, Organization and Environment, Critical Perspectives on International Business.

Honors

2011 Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award [read news story]
2007-09 College of Management Leadership Fellow
2005 Best Paper Award from the CMS Division of the AoM
2005 Grant from NESCAUM to study business impact of RGGI
2005 Dean’s Award for Distinguished Research
2001 Grant from Mass. Technology Collaborative, Renewable Energy Trust Fund
2000 Dean’s Award for Distinguished Research
1999 Visiting Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1998 Research Fellowship, Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard University