People

The research group ‘Organizations and Social Change’ (OSC) at its core is located at the Department of Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMB). Some founding members now work at other institutions but are still affiliated with the group. The OSC group specializes in research around issues at the intersection of business and society, such as sustainability, workforce diversity, economic development, global governance, and social enterprises.

Current faculty members of the research group are listed below (in alphabetical order).

• Alessia Contu, Full Professor of Management at UMB
• Edward J. Carberry, Associate Professor of Management at UMB
• Theodore DeWitt, Assistant Professor of Management at UMB
• Silvia Dorado-Banacloche, Associate Professor of Management at UMB
• Pacey C. Foster, Associate Professor of Management at UMB
• Janice Goldman, Lecturer in Management at UMB
• Nardia Haigh, Associate Professor of Management at UMB
• Marc Lavine, Associate Professor of Management at UMB
• David Levy, Full Professor of Management at UMB
• Benyamin B. Lichtenstein, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management at UMB
• Stephan Manning, Professor of Strategy and Innovation at U Sussex
• Banu Özkazanç-Pan, Professor of Practice at Brown U
• Jared Poole, Assistant Professor of Management at UMB
• Suhaib Riaz, Associate Professor at U Ottawa
• Maureen A. Scully, Full Professor of Management at UMB
• Vesela Veleva, Lecturer in Management at UMB

In addition, the OSC research group has a group of dedicated PhD students who work with faculty members on a variety of OSC-related topics. Student profiles can be explored here.

For more information on the OSC research group and the affiliated OSC PhD program please click here:  https://www.umb.edu/academics/cm/business_administration_phd/osc