Lucrezia Nava

Lucrezia Nava

Asst Professor

Zicklin School of Business

Department: N. P. Loomba Dept of Mgt

Areas of expertise: ORGANIZATIONS AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT (Environmental sustainability, net-zero strategies, environmental standards, sustainable organizational practices, climate change risk and response, response to natural disasters) ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR & THEORY (Organizational learning, practice theory, sensemaking, framing) BEHAVIORAL STRATEGY (Risk perception, strategic decision-making under uncertainty, stakeholder engagement) RESEARCH SETTINGS: Japan, Brazil, Europe. Agricultural producers in tropical countries, carbon dioxide removal stakeholders (companies in the energy and agroforestry sector, environmental NGOs, policymakers), organizations affected by natural disasters and extreme weather events RESEARCH METHODS: Quantitative (OLS, SEM, PLSSEM – Stata, MPlus, Lisrel, SPSS), qualitative (Content and Thematic Analysis, Inductive Coding – NVIVO), text analyses and machine learning, mixed-methods, expert elicitation, experiments

Email Address: lucrezia.nava@baruch.cuny.edu

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Lucrezia Nava is an Assistant Professor of Management and Sustainability at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, The City University of New York. She holds a PhD in Management from Esade Business School, Barcelona, in the Department of Society, Politics, and Sustainability. In her research, she investigates how organizational members interpret and respond to natural environmental stimuli, such as climate change or natural disasters. Her papers have been published in Journal of Management Studies, Business Ethics Quarterly, and others and received awards at conferences such as the Strategic Management Society annual conference (2019). Her work has been featured in media outlets such as the Financial Times. She is the co-founder of the Sustainability PhD Community and an elected member of the Academy of Management Organizations and the Natural Environment Division Communication Team. 

Before joining Baruch College, Lucrezia was an Assistant Professor at Bayes Business School, City University of London and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School (and Hughes Hall College), where she studied the perceptions of organizations and other stakeholders on climate change mitigation strategies, and in particular on negative emissions technologies and practices. She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Management and International Management from Bocconi University in Milan and a CEMS Master’s degree in International Management.

Education

Ph.D., Management, Esade Business School Barcelona Spain

M.Phil., Management Research, Esade Business School Barcelona Spain

M.Sc., International Management, Bocconi University Milan Italy

M.Sc., International Management, CEMS MIM Global

B.B.A., Management, Bocconi University Milan Italy

SemesterCourse PrefixCourse NumberCourse Name
Spring 2024MGT3800Management and Society
Spring 2024MGT3800Management and Society

Journal Articles

Nava, L., & Tampe, M. (2023). The Challenge of Implementing Voluntary Sustainability Standards: A Dynamic Framework on the Tension between Adherence and Adaptation. Business Ethics Quarterly,

(2022). Rise from Ashes: A Dynamic Framework of Organizational Learning and Resilience in Disaster Response. Business and Society Review,

Lucie, B., Nava, L., Carmine, S., Malou, O., & Poggioli, N. (2022). Imagining a New Place for Sustainability Management: An Early-Career Call for Action. Journal of Management Studies,

Honor / AwardOrganization SponsorDate ReceivedDescription
Best Reviewer Award 2022 and 2020ONE Division Academy of Management2022-08-04
Best PhD Thesis Award NominationRamon Llull2021-07-01Nominated for Best PhD Dissertation 2021
Honorable Mention Award Recipient / Best Methods Paper Finalist / Best PhD Paper NominationStrategic Management Society2020-10-08Paper: The Grasshopper and the Ant: Why some Vulnerable Organizations Adapt to Climate Change and Others Do Not
Emerging Scholar AwardSociety for Business Ethics2019-08-01