Dr. Christiane Bode

Biography

Christiane Bode is an Associate Professor in Management and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College London. Her research focuses on the micro-processes underlying corporate social engagement within firms. She explores broad questions that shape her research agenda, seeking to answer how employees acting as entrepreneurs drive corporate social engagement in firms. Bode analyzes how firms leverage employee preferences to create strategic links between engagement and firm performance. Recently, her work has begun to focus on non-market strategies, particularly in emerging markets, with an examination of how firms engage with newly implemented corporate social responsibility laws in India. Additionally, she has developed teaching cases that have received awards from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and the OIKOS foundation. Bode serves on the editorial review board of the Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science. Before joining Imperial, she was an Assistant Professor of Strategy at Bocconi University. Bode received her BA in Economics and Psychology from New York University (NYU), holds an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE), and earned her PhD in Strategy from INSEAD.

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