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Frank Figge

Full Professor of Sustainability

Department : Sustainability
Campus : Paris

Frank Figge is Professor of Sustainability at ESCP’s Paris campus. His current primary research interests focus on Circular Economy, Paradox Management, and Sustainability Assessments and Evaluation. His research has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Ecological Economics, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Industrial Ecology.

He holds a PhD from the University of Basle (Switzerland). Before coming to France, he was a full Professor at Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland) and the University of St Andrews (Scotland), and a Reader at the University of Leeds (England). (…)

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Frank Figge is Professor of Sustainability at ESCP’s Paris campus. His current primary research interests focus on Circular Economy, Paradox Management, and Sustainability Assessments and Evaluation. His research has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Ecological Economics, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Industrial Ecology.

He holds a PhD from the University of Basle (Switzerland). Before coming to France, he was a full Professor at Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland) and the University of St Andrews (Scotland), and a Reader at the University of Leeds (England). Frank is also the Per and Eivor Wikström Guest Professor at Umeå University (Sweden).

More information can be found on his Google Scholar profile:
Google Scholar Profile

In his spare time, he helps take care of street dogs saved by a shelter, which he considers to be a brilliant laboratory for the art of management at the same time.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Article

2022

FIGGE, F., A. S. THORPE, S. MANZHYNSKI, M. GUTBERLET

The us in reUSe. Theorizing the how and why of the circular economy

BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 2022, vol. 31(6), pp. 2741-2753

Journal Article

2022

FIGGE, F., A. S. THORPE, S. MANZHYNSKI

Value Creation and the Circular Economy: A Tale of Three Externalities

JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY, 2022, vol. 26(5), pp. 1690-1700

Journal Article

2021

FIGGE, F., A. S. THORPE, S. MANZHYNSKI

Between you and I: A portfolio theory of the circular economy

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, 2021, vol. 190, pp. 107190

Journal Article

2021

FIGGE, F., T. HAHN

Business-and environment-related drivers of firms’ return on natural resources: A configurational approach

LONG RANGE PLANNING, 2021, vol. 54(4), pp. 1-19

Chapter

2021

FIGGE, F., L. PREUSS, J. PINKSE, T. HAHN

Travelled Roads and Novel Vistas: Taking Stock of Empirical Studies into Tensions in Business Sustainability

in The Routledge Companion to Corporate Social Responsibility., Thomas Maak, Nicola Pless, Marc Orlitzky, Sukhbir Sandhu Eds, Routledge, 2021

Journal Article

2021

FIGGE, F., A. S. THORPE, J. GOOD

Us before me: A group level approach to the circular economy

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, 2021, vol. 179, pp. 1-8

Journal Article

2021

FIGGE, F., R. CHENAVAZ, S. DIMITROV

When does eco-efficiency rebound or backfire? An analytical model

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, 2021, vol. 290(2), pp. 687-700

Journal Article

2020

FIGGE, F., S. MANZHYNSKI

Coopetition for sustainability: Between organizational benefit and societal good

BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 2020, vol. 29 (3), pp. 827-837

Journal Article

2019

FIGGE, F., J. PINKSE, T. HAHN

Supersized Tensions and Slim Responses? The Discursive Construction of Strategic Tensions Around Social Issues

ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT DISCOVERIES, 2019, vol. 5(3), pp. 314-340

Journal Article

2019

FIGGE, F., A. S. THORPE

The symbiotic rebound effect in the circular economy

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, 2019, vol. 163, pp. 61-69

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