Biography
Steve Kennedy is Associate Professor researching business sustainability at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
His current research approaches how systems and resilience thinking can help organizations innovate to tackle grand societal challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Beyond this, he also undertakes qualitative and conceptual research on sustainability accounting and reporting, circular economy business models and responsible managment education. His research has featured in peer-reviewed scientific journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management, Strategic Organization, Long Range Planning, Business & Society, and Business Strategy & the Environment.
Dr Kennedy is the Scientific Director of the Centre for Eco-Transformation. He is a member of the Organizations & Natural Environment division of the Academy of Management and the Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment (GRONEN).
He is the former Academic Director of the MSc Global Business & Sustainability (2015-2021) and is an active member of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) network. He teaches across multiple levels of education from Executive Education to Bachelors including MSc courses Climate Change Strategy Role-Play and Business Sustainability & Social-Ecological Systems.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- skennedy@rsm.nl
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Work
- Steve Kennedy, Sylvia Grewatsch, Lara Liboni & Luciana Oranges Cezarino (2025) - Teaching a Systems Approach to Address the Sustainability Management Disconnect - Business and Society - doi: 10.1177/00076503251324569 - [link]
- Amanda Williams, John N. Parker, Steve Kennedy & Gail Whiteman (2024) - A Process Study of Evolving Paradoxes and Cross-Sector Goals: A Partnership to Accelerate Global Sustainability - Journal of Management - doi: 10.1177/01492063241278803 - [link]
- Steve Kennedy, Martin Fuchs, Wouter van Ingen & Dirk Schoenmaker (2023) - A resilience approach to corporate biodiversity impact measurement - Business Strategy and the Environment, 32 (5), 2567-2582 - doi: 10.1002/bse.3140 - [link]
- Steve Kennedy & Martina K. Linnenluecke (2022) - Circular economy and resilience: A research agenda - Business Strategy and the Environment, 31 (6), 2754-2765 - doi: 10.1002/bse.3004 - [link]
- Sylvia Grewatsch, Steve Kennedy & Pratima Bansal (2021) - Tackling wicked problems in strategic management with systems thinking - Strategic Organization - doi: 10.1177/14761270211038635 - [link]
- Amanda Williams, G Whiteman & Steve Kennedy (2021) - Cross-Scale Systemic Resilience: Implications for Organization Studies - Business and Society, 60 (1), 95-124 - doi: 10.1177/0007650319825870 - [link]
- Steve Kennedy & N Bocken (2020) - Innovating business models for sustainability: An essential practice for responsible managers
- Michelle Van Koert, Deborah Sherwood & Steve Kennedy (2019) - Interface: Creating a Climate Fit for Life through Carpet Tiles - [link]
- M Van Koert, D Sherwood & Steve Kennedy (2019) - Interface: Creating a Climate Fit for Life with Carpet Tiles - [link]
- Amanda Williams, Steve Kennedy, F Philipp & G Whiteman (2017) - Systems Thinking: A Review of Sustainability Management Research - Journal of Cleaner Production, 148, 866-881 - doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.02.002 - [link]
- Bas Koene & Steve Kennedy (21 February 2023) - RSM business teaching cases are global best-sellers
- Steve Kennedy (12 February 2021) - COVID-19 Was Preventable, Now We Must Tackle Future Challenges Systematically – Here’s How
- Marta Szymanowska, Rob van Tulder, Rene de Koster, Erik van Raaij, Dirk Schoenmaker, Steef van de Velde, Steve Kennedy, Gabriele Jacobs, Yashar Ghiassi-Farrokhfal, Ferdinand Jaspers, Michaéla Schippers & Frank Wijen (11 June 2019) - New online course: Driving Business Towards The SDGs
- Steve Kennedy (10 May 2019) - Future business leaders head for UN climate negotiations simulation
- Rob van Tulder, Dirk Schoenmaker, Steve Kennedy & Dirk van Dierendonck (15 February 2019) - New online course on business-driven sustainable landscape restoration
Erasmus Commodities and Trade Centre
- Start date approval
- October 2022
- End date approval
- October 2025
- Place
- NETHERLANDS
- Description
- Executive Education Teaching
RSM BV
- Start date approval
- October 2022
- End date approval
- October 2025
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- Executive Education Teaching
The UK Green Building Council
- Start date approval
- June 2023
- End date approval
- June 2026
- Place
- LONDON, WC1E 7BT
MOSS Consultants & Capital
- Start date approval
- September 2023
- End date approval
- September 2026
- Place
- NUENEN
- Description
- Volunteering for a Social Enterprise in free time.
2030 HUB Caribbean foundation
- Start date approval
- November 2023
- End date approval
- November 2026
- Place
- DE RUYTERKADE 55, WILLEM
- Description
- Teaching business sustainability
The Erasmus Center for Innovation Management
- Start date approval
- October 2024
- End date approval
- October 2027
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- Teaching on Executive Education programmes
The Erasmus Centre for Energy Transition
- Start date approval
- October 2024
- End date approval
- October 2027
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- Teaching on Executive Education programmes
Climate change
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IM10FE
Climate change
- Year Level
- master, master, master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IM14FE
Business Sustainability & SES
- Year Level
- master, IM/CEMS, Exchange, ERIM
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM01GBS
