Professor Stephen Pavelin
+44 (0) 1225 384974
BA, MSc, PhD
Job Title:
Professor in Business and Society
Subject Group:
Business, Society and Business Economics
Key Research Interests:
Corporate social responsibility, Corporate reputation, stakeholder management, business economics
Research Interests
Stephen Pavelin is the Director of the Centre for Business, Organisations and Society. His research agenda focuses upon the business and society field, and more specifically upon a broad range of research questions pertaining to the business case for corporate social responsibility. Of particular interest are the effects of firms’ social performance on corporate reputation and financial performance. He is a member of the editorial board of Business and Society and his work is published in leading management journals, such as the Journal of Management Studies, the British Journal of Management, the European Management Journal, the Journal of Business Research, the Journal of Business Ethics, theInternational Journal of Industrial Organisation, Research Policy, Financial Management, and the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.
Publications
Refereed journal papers
Hillenbrand C, Money K & Pavelin S (2012) Stakeholder-defined Corporate Responsibility for a pre-credit-crunch financial service company.Journal of Business Ethics.105(3):337-356. DOI:10.1007/s10551-011-0969-8
Oikonomou I, Brooks C & Pavelin S (2011) The impact of corporate social performance on financial risk and utility: A longitudinal analysis.Financial Management. 41(2):483-515. DOI:10.1111/j.1755-053X.2012.01190.x
Pavelin S, Perkmann M & King ZME (2011) Engaging excellence? Effects of faculty quality on university engagement with industry. Research Policy. 40(4): 539-552. DOI:10.1016/j.respol.2011.01.007
Brammer SJ, Brooks C & Pavelin S (2009) The stock performance of America’s 100 best corporate citizens. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. 49(3): 1065-1080. DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2009.04.001
Brammer SJ, Pavelin S & Porter LA (2009) Corporate charitable giving, multinational companies and countries of concern. Journal of Management Studies. 46(4):575-96. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2008.00827.x
Pavelin S, Brammer SJ & Millington A (2009) Corporate reputation and women on the board. British Journal of Management. 20(1):17-29. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2008.00600.x
Leahy D & Pavelin S (2008) Playing away to win at home. Journal of Economics and Business 60(5): 455-468. DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconbus.2007.08.001
Pavelin S & Porter LA (2008) The corporate social performance content of innovation in the UK. Journal of Business Ethics. 80(4):711-725. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-007-9464-7
Pavelin S & Brammer SJ (2008) The quality of corporate environmental disclosure Business Strategy and the Environment 17(2): 120-136. DOI: 10.1002/bse.506
► older publications
Brammer SJ, Millington A & Pavelin S (2007) Gender and ethnic diversity among UK corporate boards. Corporate Governance: An International Review. 15(2):393-403. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2007.00569.x
Brammer SJ & Pavelin S (2006) Corporate reputation and social performance: The importance of it. Journal of Management Studies. 43(3):435-455. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2006.00597.x
Brammer SJ, Pavelin S & Porter LA (2006) Corporate social performance and geographical diversifications.Journal of Business Research.59(9):1025-1034. DOI:10.1016/j.jbusres.2006.04.001
Brammer SJ, Brooks C & Pavelin S (2006) Corporate Social performance and stock returns: UK evidence from disaggregate measures. Financial Management. 35(3):97-116. DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-053X.2006.tb00149.x
Brammer SJ & Pavelin S (2006) Voluntary environmental disclosures by large UK companies. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.33(7):1168-1188. DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5957.2006.00598.x
Brammer SJ, Millington AI & Pavelin S (2006) Is philanthropy strategic? The management of charitable giving in large UK companies. Business Ethics: A European Review 15(3):234-245. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8608.2006.00446.x
Brammer SJ & Pavelin S (2005) Corporate reputation and an insurance motivation for social investment.Journal of Corporate Citizenship 20:39-51
Barry F & Pavelin S(2005) The single market and the geographical diversification of leading firms in the EU. Economic and Social Review.36(1):1-17
Brammer SJ & Pavelin S (2005) Corporate community contributions in the United Kingdom and the United States . Journal of Business Ethics.56(1):15-26. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-004-3236-4
Brammer SJ & Pavelin S (2004) Building a good reputation. European Management Journal. 22(6):704-713.
Leahy D & Pavelin S (2004) Divide and rule: Geographical diversification and the multinational firm. Open Economics Review. 15(4):363-374.
Brammer SJ & Pavelin S. (2004) Voluntary social disclosures by large UK companies.Business Ethics: A European Review. 13(2-3):86-89.
Leahy D & Pavelin S. (2003) Follow-my-leader FDI and tacit collusion. International Journal of Industrial Organisation. 21(3):439-453.
