How can organizations work to foster a more sustainable world? How do they navigate increasingly complex and interdependent demands to do so? My research program considers these questions across multiple contexts and levels of analysis, integrating insights from organizational theory, economic sociology, nonmarket strategy, and international business to study the sustainability of complex collaborative systems. I leverage a combination of empirical approaches, including regression- and network-based analyses of archival datasets, computational text analysis, and semi-structured interviews and fieldwork.
My work seeks to advance organizational and strategic management scholarship’s theoretical and empirical engagement with grand challenges, considering cross-level and cross-sector mechanisms by which social structures and institutions shape collective outcomes. To this end, current projects examine how interactions between firms and governments shape the global green energy transition; how collaborative networked systems can withstand and recover from major shocks and disruptions; and how firms navigate the evolving landscape for sustainability disclosures.
PUBLICATIONS / BOOK CHAPTERS
Roy, Sukanya, and Hoffman, Andrew. “From Denial to Disinformation and Delay: Evolving Forms and Frames of Climate Skepticism”. Forthcoming in Organized Science Denial, eds. Elena Bruni and Lianne Lefsrud, Oxford University Press, 2025.
Geiger, Nathaniel; Raimi, Kaitlin; Roy, Sukanya; and Lee Cunningham, Julia. “Reactions to Climate-driven Migration”. Forthcoming in Handbook of Environmental Psychology, ed. Iain Walker, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.
Gainsburg, Izzy, Roy, Sukanya, and Lee Cunningham, Julia. An Examination of How Six Reasons for Valuing Nature are Endorsed and Associated with Pro-environmental Behavior Across 12 Countries. Scientific Reports 13, 8484 (2023).
Hoffman, Andrew, and Roy, Sukanya. “Business, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene”. In Corporate Sustainability, 2nd edition, eds. Andreas Rasche, Jeremy Moon, Mette Morsing, and Arno Kourula, Cambridge University Press, 2023.
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WORKING PAPERS / WORK IN PROGRESS
Sytch, Maxim, Roy, Sukanya, and Zhelyazkov, Pavel. [Interorganizational Networks]. Second round revise and resubmit at Organization Science.
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Roy, Sukanya, Kim, Jin Hyung, and Siegel, Jordan. [Institutions and Emissions]. Under review at Management Science.
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Roy, Sukanya, Sytch, Maxim, and Uribe, Jose. Privatizing the Law? Contestation and Influence in Investor-State Disputes. Preparing for submission to Administrative Science Quarterly.
Roy, Sukanya. Investor-State Disputes and the Emissions Gap [job market paper]. Target journal: Strategic Management Journal.
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Roy, Sukanya, Soderstrom, Sara, Cobb, Adam, and Benton, Richard. Going Above and Beyond? Interfirm Convergence in Firms’ Sustainability Disclosures. Data analysis.
Roy, Sukanya. Polluters Without Borders? Jurisdiction Shopping in Maritime Emissions. Data collection.
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Roy, Sukanya. Law Firm Rechanneling and Status-Performance Tradeoffs. Data collection.
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