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Professor Steffen Boehm
Professor
Sustainable Futures
University of Exeter
Science and Engineering Research Support Facility (SERSF)
Penryn Campus
Penryn TR10 9FE
Steffen Boehm is a Professor in Organisation & Sustainability at the University of Exeter Business School. He completed a BA in Business Administration at Lancaster, a MA in Organisation Studies at Warwick, and a PhD entitled ‘The Political Event: Impossibilities of Repositioning Organisation Theory’, also at Warwick. Prior to joining Exeter in January 2016, he was Professor of Management & Sustainability and Founding Director of the Essex Sustainability Institute (ESI) at the University of Essex.
Professor Boehm has held various Visiting and Guest Professor positions over the past 25 years, including at Dauphine University (Paris), Uppsala University and at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, both in Uppsala, Sweden; University of St Andrews (Scotland), University of Innsbruck (Austria), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), and Federal University of Rio Grande du Sul (Brazil).
Professor Boehm was a co-founder of the open-access journals ephemera: theory & politics in organization as well as Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements. He is also co-founder and co-editor of the open-access publishing press MayFlyBooks. He has published seven books: Repositioning Organization Theory (Palgrave), Against Automobility (Blackwell), Upsetting the Offset: The Political Economy of Carbon Markets (Mayfly), The Atmosphere Business (Mayfly), and Ecocultures: Blueprints for Sustainable Communities (Routledge), Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis (Open Book Publishers), Climate activism: How communities take renewable energy actions across business and society (Cambridge). He has published in, and is reviewer for, leading academic journals, including: Organization Studies, Organization, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Perspectives, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Regulation & Governance, Business Ethics Quarterly, Energy Research & Social Science, Global Environmental Policy, Climate Policy, Work, Employment & Society, Culture and Organization, Human Relations, Management & Organizational History, Environment and Planning A, D & E, Antipode, Urban Studies, Marketing Theory, Macromarketing, Environmental Sociology, Sociology, New Political Economy, and others.
Professor Boehm also publishes short articles aimed at the wider public. He has written over 30 articles in The Conversation, reaching over 300,000 readers worldwide. He’s also published in The Guardian, the Ecologist, CounterPunch, and other publications aimed at the general reader, engaging in contemporary events.
From 2018 until 2022 he was the Co-PI of the influential Tevi programme in Cornwall.
Interests:
- Political economies and ecologies of management, organisation and sustainability
- Business and governance of climate change and carbon markets
- Sustainability of, and circular economy approaches to, food systems
- Environmental activism inside and outside organisations and corporations
- Relations between business, governments and civil society
- Circular economy and doughnut economics approaches
- Emotional and psycho-social approaches to understanding organisations and societies
Qualifications:
- PhD (University of Warwick)
- MA Organisation Studies (University of Warwick)
- BA(Hons) Business Administration (University of Lancaster)