Wendy Stubbs
Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Master of Corporate Environmental & Sustainability Management (CESM) program
Organisations are increasingly recognising that their policies and practices contribute to social and environmental degradation and, as a result, they have started to adopt some elements of sustainability into their business practices. 
Research interests
- Corporate social and environmental sustainability
- corporate social responsibility
- sustainable business models
- systems approach to sustainability (collaborative networks)
Sustainability is emerging as a key issue for organisations in the 21st century. Organisations are increasingly recognising that their policies and practices contribute to social and environmental degradation and, as a result, they have started to adopt some elements of sustainability into their business practices. Nevertheless, significant doubts have been raised as to whether the current activity by organisations is enough to arrest, and reverse, the ecological and social degradation caused by business activity. An increasing number of scholars argue that sustainability and the dominant social paradigm (the neoclassical economic growth model) are fundamentally incompatible. The traditional management paradigm, which underpins business-as-usual, is based on the neoclassical model and was developed for the industrial society. As such, it is inherently limited in its ability to effectively address ecological and social degradation. My research focuses on developing new models of business where sustainability is intrinsic to the model.
My Teaching:
- GES2460 Environmental Policy and Management
- ENV437E Corporate Sustainability Management.
- ENV441E Sustainability Measurement
- MBA5080 Corporate Sustainability: The Business Case (Master of Business Administration, BusEco)
- GYM5480/5490 GES PG Research Project
- GYM5460/5470 MCESM Internship Project
Recent publications and conference papers
Books
Stubbs, W. (forthcoming 2009) Doing Business Differently: Getting the social, economic & environmental mix right. Byron Bay NSW: Peppinot Press.
Book chapters
Stubbs, W., & Lockhart, E. (forthcoming 2009) The Sustainability Business Case: Educating MBAs in Sustainability. In C. Wankel, & J. A. F. Stoner (Eds.), Management Education for Global Sustainability, Research in Management Education and Development. Charlotte, NC: IAP Publishers.
Refereed Journal Articles
Stubbs, W., & Cocklin, C. (2008) Conceptualizing a ‘sustainability business model’. Organization & Environment, 21(2): 103-127.
Stubbs, W., & Cocklin, C. (2008) An ecological modernist interpretation of sustainability: The case of Interface Inc. Business Strategy and the Environment, 17(8): 512-523.
Stubbs, W., & Cocklin, C. (2008) Teaching Sustainability to Business Students: Shifting Mindsets. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher education, 9(3): 206-221.
Stubbs, W. (2006) Is it time for a new business model: Envisioning a 'human development' model that promotes global justice and global prosperity. Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics, 8: 110-121.
Refereed Conference Papers
Stubbs, W. (2008) Re-visioning Corporate Sustainability: Development of a Systems-based Sustainable Business Model, Peer-reviewed paper presented at The Academy of Management Annual Meeting: The Questions We Ask, August 8-13. Anaheim, California.
Stubbs, W. (2007) Conceptualizing a business model that promotes 'doing well by doing good'. Peer-reviewed paper presented at The Academy of Management Annual Meeting: Doing Well By Doing Good, August 3-8, Philadelphia, USA.
Stubbs, W. (2005) Can organisations be sustainable in a neoclassical world? A study of one organisation's experience. Peer-reviewed paper presented at The Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 5-10, Honolulu, Hawaii USA.
Stubbs, W. (2004) Towards a Business Model of Sustainability: A Case Study of Human and Ecological Sustainability Initiatives at a Manufacturing Company. In Strong, K. (Ed.) Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the International Association for Business and Society, March 4-7, Jackson Hole, USA.
Stubbs, W. (2004) Is it time for a new business model? From a wealth maximisation model towards a human development model. Peer-reviewed paper presented at Third International Society of Business, Economics and Ethics (ISBEE) World Congress, July 14-17, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
Stubbs, W. (2003) Development of a Business Model Based on the Values and Principles of CSR and Sustainability: An Alternative to the Economic Business Model. In Lewellyn, P. & Welcomer, S. A. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the International Association for Business and Society, June 26-49, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Education
PhD Monash University (2006)
MBA Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, USA (1994)
B.App.Sci (Computing Science) (1st class honours) UTS (1984)
Room No: S123, Menzies Building
Telephone No: +61-3-9905 2915
E-mail: wendy.stubbs@arts.monash.edu.au