Associate Professor of Corporate Sustainability & Public Policy
Ph.D. Public Policy
Analysis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Research Grants
2008-2009
Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America: Assessing the Linkages between Environmental Sustainability and Competitiveness in Select North American Sectors
2008
Provost's Summer Research Funding for Tenured and Tenure-track Faculty, George Mason University: Environmental Regulations, Green Offsets & Firms’ Financial Performance
2007-2008
IBM Center for the Business of Government: What the Federal Government Can do to Encourage Green Production. Click here
2002-2005
Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD): Environmental
Policy Tools and Firm-level Management Practices: An international Survey. Click here
2002-2004
National Science Foundation: Materials Use - Science, Engineering &
Society: Industrial Solvents & Working Fluids - Industrial Ecology
of Organic Materials
Other
Significant Projects
2002-2005
Voluntary Environmental Programs (VEP) Survey: Download final report--
The Design and Rigor of U.S. Voluntary Environmental Programs: Results from the VEP Survey. Click here
1997-2002
National Database on Environmental Management
Systems (NDEMS): National
Database of Environmental Management Systems. Click here
Publications
Most
papers may be downloaded using Adobe Acrobat.
Darnall,
Nicole, Irene Henriques & Perry Sadorsky. 2010. Adopting proactive environmental practices: the influence of stakeholders and firm size. Journal of Management Studies, forthcoming. Click here
Darnall,
Nicole, Matthew Potoski & Aseem Prakash. 2010. Sponsorship matters: assessing business participation in government- and industry-sponsored voluntary environmental programs. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, forthcoming. Click here
Darnall,
Nicole. 2009. Environmental regulations, green production offsets and organizations' financial performance. Public Administration Review: 69(3), 418-434. Click here ..See press release - Corporations Can Profit from Being Environmentally Friendly, New George Mason Study Shows, July 15, 2008. Click here
Darnall,
Nicole, Inshik Seol & Joseph Sarkis. 2009. Perceived stakeholder influences and organizations' use of environmental audits. Accounting, Organizations and Society: 34(2), 170-187. Click here ..Distinguished Paper Award - Decision Sciences Institute.
Darnall,
Nicole & Stephen Sides. 2009. Do voluntary environmental programs improve performance? Rivera J. & de Leon P. (eds.). Voluntary Environmental Programs: A Policy Perspective. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, in association with Policy Studies Organization. forthcoming Click here
Lin, Haiying, Nicole Darnall. 2009. Strategic alliances for environmental protection. Cordiero J., Sarkis J. & Vasquez D. (eds.) Collaborative Innovation for Sustainability. New York: Springer. forthcoming. Click here
Darnall,
Nicole, Irene Henriques & Perry Sadorsky. 2008. Do environmental management systems improve business performance in the international setting? Journal of International Management: 14(4), 364-376. Click here ..Selected as a Best Paper - Academy of Management, Organizations and the Natural Environment Division.
Darnall,
Nicole. 2008. Creating a green brand for competitive distinction. Asian Business & Management: 7(4), 445-466. Click here
Darnall,
Nicole. 2008. What the Federal Government Can Do to Encourage Green Production. Washington, DC: IBM Center for the Business of Government, Presidential Transition Series. Click here
Darnall, Nicole. 2008. What the federal government can do to encourage green production. The Business of Government, Fall/Winter, 86-89. Click here
Darnall, Nicole. 2008. Addressing global environmental challanges: using information as a novel "local" policy approach. Global Studies Reivew: 4(3), 1-3. Click here
Darnall,
Nicole & Stephen Sides. 2008. Assessing the performance of voluntary environmental programs: does certification matter? Policy Studies Journal: 36(1), 95-117. Click here ..See press release - Corporate Voluntary Environmental Programs Don't Perform as Well as Expected, New Study Shows, March 6, 2008. Click here
Darnall,
Nicole, G. Jason Jolley & Robert Handfield. 2008. Environmental management systems and green supply chain management: Complements for sustainability? Business Strategy and the Environment: 17(1), 30-45. Click here
Darnall,
Nicole, G. Jason Jolley & Bjarne Ytterhus. 2007. Understanding the relationship between a facility's environmental and financial performance. N. Johnstone (ed.) Environmental Policy and Corporate Behaviour, Northhampton, MA:
Edward Elgar Publishing in association with Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), pp. 213-259. Click here
Darnall,
Nicole. 2006. Why
firms mandate ISO 14001. Business & Society: 45(3), 354-381. Click here
Darnall,
Nicole & Daniel Edwards, Jr. 2006. Predicting
the costs of environmental management system adoption: The role of capabilities,
resources & ownership structure. Strategic Management
Journal: 27(2), 301-320. Click here
Darnall,
Nicole & JoAnn Carmin. 2005. Greener and cleaner? The signaling accuracy of US voluntary environmental
programs. Policy Sciences: 38(2-3),71-90. Click here ..See press release - Professors Propose Framework for Greener, Cleaner Environment, Dec. 4, 2003. Click here
Darnall,
Nicole, Irene Henriques & Perry Sadorsky. 2005. An International
Comparison of the of the Factors affecting Environmental Strategy and
Performance. M. Rowan (ed.) Best Paper
Proceedings: Sixty-third Meeting of the Academy of Management. Washington, DC: Academy of Management, pp. B1-B6. Click here
Darnall, Nicole & G. Jason Jolley. 2004. Involving
the public: When are surveys and stakeholder interviews most effective? Review of Policy Research: 21(4), 581-594. Click here
Carmin,
JoAnn, Nicole Darnall, & Joao Mil-Homens. 2003. Stakeholder
involvement in the design of US voluntary environmental programs: Does
sponsorship matter? Policy Studies Journal: 31(4),
527-543. Click here
Darnall,
Nicole. 2003. Why
firms certify to ISO 14001: An institutional and resource-based view. D. Nagao (ed.) Best Paper Proceedings: Sixty-first Meeting of the Academy of Management Conference. Seattle: Academy of Management, pp. A1-A6. Click here .Best Paper Award- Academy of Management, Organizations and the Natural Environment Division.
Darnall,
Nicole. 2003. Motivations
for participating in a voluntary environmental initiative: The multi-state
working group and EPA's EMS pilot program, in Sanjay Sharma
and Mark Starik (eds.) Research in Corporate sustainability: The Evolving Theory and Practice of Organizations in the Natural Environment, Boston: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 123-154. Click here
Darnall,
Nicole, Deborah Rigling Gallagher & Richard N.L. Andrews. 2001. ISO 14001: greening
management systems, in J. Sarkis (ed.) Greener
Manufacturing and Operations. Sheffield:
Greenleaf Publishing, pp. 178-190. Click here
Andrews, Richard N.L, Nicole Darnall, Deborah Rigling Gallagher, Suellen
T. Keiner, Eric Feldman, Matthew Mitchell, Deborah Amaral & Jessica
Jacoby, J. 2001. Environmental management systems: History, theory and implementation research, in C. Coglianese & J. Nash (eds.), Regulation
from the Inside: Can Environmental Management Systems Achieve Policy
Goals? Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, pp. 31-62. Click here
Darnall, Nicole, Deborah Rigling Gallagher, Richard N.L. Andrews, &
Deborah Amaral. 2000. Environmental
management systems: Opportunities for improved environmental and business
strategy, Environmental Quality Management: 9(3),
1-9. Click here
Davies,
Terry (J. Clarence), Jan Mazurek, Kieran McCarthy, & Nicole Darnall.
1997. Voluntary incentives are no shortcut for pollution abatement. Resources 127, 16. Click here
Davies,
Terry (J. Clarence), Jan Mazurek, Kieran McCarthy, & Nicole Darnall.
1996. Industry
Incentives for Environmental Improvement: Evaluation of US Federal Initiatives. Washington DC: Resources for the Future, Center for Risk Management. Click here
Davies,
Terry (J. Clarence) & Nicole Darnall.
1996. Getting the city on the hill to shine, Resources 125, 10-13. Click here
Davies,
Terry (J. Clarence) & Nicole Darnall. 1996. Environmental
Priorities for the District of Columbia: A Report to the Summit Fund. Washington DC: Resources for the Future, Center for Risk Management,
Discussion Paper 97-04. Click here
Darnall, Nicole, Gerald Nehman, John W. Priest, Joseph Sarkis. 1994. A review of environmentally conscious manufaturing theory and practices, International Journal of Environmentally Conscious Design & Manufacturing: 3(4),
49-57. Click here
