Brent McKnight

Dr. Brent McKnight

Associate Professor / Director, Integrated Business and Humanities

Strategic Management

BIO

Dr. McKnight studies how firms and organizations address complex societal problems. Currently this interest has led to him to undertake research in the areas of responsible investing at the retail advisory, the role of firms in community resilience and adaptation to climate change induced natural disasters, and how non-profits and firms can improve integration outcomes for refugee newcomers. He is also studying non-profit and main-street retailer responses to COVID . Throughout his work, Dr. McKnight is driven by a fascination both with how firms bounce back from substantial adversity and in the increasingly important role that firms play in building community-level resilience across a range of shocks and disturbances. In Dr. McKnight’s research, resilience plays an important role in conceptualizing a firm’s pursuit of sustainability; resilience taps into the essence of what it is to be sustainable over long timelines.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

August 2020

Bringing Values Into Retail Investments: The Role Of Work Identification In Responsible Investing

JOURNAL : ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PROCEEDINGS

CONTRIBUTORS: Anjali Chawla, Brent Mcknight, Kevin jason Veenstra
June 2019

The Role Of Firms In Resilient Systems: A Multi?level Framework

JOURNAL : CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES / REVUE CANADIENNE DES SCIENCES DE L ADMINISTRATION

CONTRIBUTORS: Brent Mcknight
April 2019

Patterns Of Firm Responses To Different Types Of Natural Disasters

JOURNAL : BUSINESS & SOCIETY

CONTRIBUTORS: Brent Mcknight, Martina k Linnenluecke
July 2018

Finding The Threshold: A Configurational Approach To Optimal Distinctiveness

JOURNAL : JOURNAL OF BUSINESS VENTURING

CONTRIBUTORS: Brent Mcknight, Charlene Zietsma
March 2017

Community Resilience To Natural Disasters: The Role Of Disaster Entrepreneurship

JOURNAL : JOURNAL OF ENTERPRISING COMMUNITIES PEOPLE AND PLACES IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

CONTRIBUTORS: Martina k Linnenluecke, Brent Mcknight
December 2016

Environmental Finance: A Research Agenda For Interdisciplinary Finance Research

JOURNAL : ECONOMIC MODELLING

CONTRIBUTORS: Martina k Linnenluecke, Tom Smith, Brent Mcknight
September 2016

How Firm Responses To Natural Disasters Strengthen Community Resilience

JOURNAL : ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT

CONTRIBUTORS: Brent Mcknight, Martina k Linnenluecke
January 2015

Firm Engagement In Community Resilience To Natural Disasters

JOURNAL : ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PROCEEDINGS

CONTRIBUTORS: Brent Mcknight, Martina k Linnenluecke
January 2014

The Role Of Disaster Entrepreneurship In Building Community Resilience

JOURNAL : ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PROCEEDINGS

CONTRIBUTORS: Martina k Linnenluecke, Brent Mcknight
January 2013

The Development Of Dynamic Capabilities In Environments Of Persistent Disturbances

JOURNAL : ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PROCEEDINGS

CONTRIBUTORS: Brent Mcknight, Pratima Bansal
August 2008

How Risk Mediates The Csp-cfp Relationship.

JOURNAL : ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PROCEEDINGS

CONTRIBUTORS: Jeff Frooman, Charlene Zietsma, Brent Mcknight

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

July 2009

Building The Iron Cage: Institutional Creation Work In The Context Of Competing Proto-institutions

CONTRIBUTORS: Brent Mcknight