Klaus Weber is an Professor of Management & Organizations, and currently serves faculty director for Sustainability and Social Impact at Kellogg. His research lies at the intersection of cultural sociology with the study of markets and formal organizations. He applies cultural and institutional analysis to understand the environmental movement’s impact on economic practices, economic globalization and ideas of corporate responsibility and sustainable development. He enjoys working with qualitative, quantitative and semiotic methodologies. His research has been published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, Organization Studies and the Academy of Management Journal, and has won best paper awards at the American Sociological Association’s Section on Culture and Administrative Science Quarterly. He co-edited a 2011 special issue in Organization Science on the Cultural Construction of Organizational Life (Vol.22(2)). He teaches graduate courses on sustainability, power in organizations, cultural theory, text analysis and research methods.
