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After an MA in Political Science, I completed my PhD at the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC) at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2013. I conducted post-doctoral studies at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (2013-2014), before joining the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (2014-2017). I am on the faculty of Wilfrid Laurier University since 2017.
Outside academia, I have worked as a CSR consultant and sustainability analyst.
My main research interests include corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. I study how activists, investors and other stakeholders interact with firms to shape policies in these areas at the corporate and institutional level. I also analyze how executives attempt to effectively manage and influence stakeholder expectations and attitudes towards their firms.
My current research projects focus on framing contests and impression management strategies that shareholder activists and boards of directors employ in their contentious interactions.
- 2020 – 2025 Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Corporate Governance (renewable once for an additional 5-year term); Value: $600,000
- 2020 - 2024 SSHRC Insight Grant, Principal (Sole) Investigator, Boards of Directors and Shareholder Activists: Impression Management, Framing Contests and Competition; Value: $164,776
- 2019 Merit Award, Wilfrid Laurier University
- 2013 - 2014: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation
- 2013: Prix de la Solidarité Confédérale for an excellent PhD thesis, U Lausanne
- 2013: Best International Paper Award, OMT Division, AOM
- 2013: Carolyn Dexter Award Nominee, OMT Division, AOM
- 2011: Best Reviewer Award, SIM Division, AOM
- 2008: Faculty Award for excellent undergraduate studies, U Lausanne
- Hafenbrädl, Sebastian, & Waeger, Daniel (2021). “The Business Case for CSR: A Trump Card Against Hypocrisy?”. Journal of Business Research, 129 (May), 838-848.
- Waeger, Daniel, & Mena, Sébatien. (2019) “Activists as Moral Entrepreneurs: The Institutionalization of Active Ownership in Switzerland.” The Contested Morallities of Markets (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 63), Emerald Publishing Limited, 167-185.
- Waeger, Daniel, & Weber, Klaus. (2019) “Organizations and Institutional Complexity: An Open Polity Perspective.” Academy of Management Review, 44(2), 336-359
- Weber, Klaus, & Waeger, Daniel. (2017) “Organizations as Polities: An Open Systems Perspective”. Academy of Management Annals, 11(2), 886-918.
- Hafenbrädl, Sebastian, & Waeger, Daniel*. (2017). Ideology and the Microfoundations of CSR: Why Executives Believe in the Business Case for CSR and how this Affects their CSR Engagements. Academy of Management Journal, 60(4), 1582-1606. *[both authors contributed equally].
- Hafenbrädl, Sebastian, Waeger, Daniel, Marewski Julian & Gigerenzer, Gerd. (2016). Applied Decision Making With Fast-and-Frugal Heuristics. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 5(2), 215-231.
- Mena, Sébastien, & Waeger, Daniel (2014). Activism for Corporate Responsibility: Conceptualizing Private Regulation Opportunity Structures. Journal of Management Studies, 51(7), 1091-1117.
BU 481: Strategic Management
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