Contact Dr Enrico Fontana
Background
Enrico is a senior lecturer of sustainable business and part of the sustainability group at Cranfield School of Management. He is also an affiliated researcher at Mistra Centre for Sustainable Markets (Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden) and a visiting fellow at Sasin School of Management (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand). He is interested in social and environmental challenges in emerging markets, and especially on how to address them systematically.
Enrico holds a BA in Business Administration from Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), an MSc in International Management (CEMS) from University College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland), an MBA in Management and Finance from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and a PhD in Business Administration with a major in Sustainable Business from Stockholm School of Economics (Stockholm, Sweden). Before joining Cranfield, he completed his postdoctoral studies at University of Victoria (Victoria, BC, Canada) and worked as a lecturer with a focus on sustainable business at Sasin School of Management (Bangkok, Thailand). Enrico also worked as an Area Manager in the apparel industry in Italy and Japan for 6 years and has been collaborating with the United Nations University on the topic of sustainable textile manufacturing in Bangladesh.
Enrico has published numerous chapters and articles in academic journals, including Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, and Business Strategy and the Environment.
Current activities
Enrico's main research agenda is centred on the phenomena of corporate social responsibility, corporate sustainability and sustainable supply chains in emerging markets, especially in South and Southeast Asia. He is involved in two ongoing research projects: 1) implementing social responsibility and sustainability in emerging markets' supply chains and 2) building a more inclusive workplace.
As a qualitative researcher, Enrico truly believes in the power of ethnography to better understand how to solve social and environmental challenges, and spends considerable time on the context of inquiry. Much of the evidence in his research projects and articles includes the voices of the people (managers and workers) and the perspectives of organizations in emerging markets.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Fontana E, Atif M & Sarwar H. (2024). Pressures for sub‐supplier sustainability compliance: The importance of target markets in textile and garment supply chains. Business Strategy and the Environment
- Fontana E, Frandsen S & Morsing M. (2023). Saving the World? How CSR Practitioners Live Their Calling by Constructing Different Types of Purpose in Three Occupational Stages. Journal of Business Ethics, 185(4)
- Fontana E & Dawkins C. (2023). Contesting corporate responsibility in the Bangladesh garment industry: The local factory owner perspective. Human Relations
- Fontana E & Pisalyaput N. (2023). Understanding the importance of farmer–NGO collaboration for sustainability and business strategy: Evidence from the coffee supply chain. Business Strategy and the Environment, 32(6)
- Fontana E, Atif M & Heuer M. (2023). Implementing social sustainability through market pressures: an inter-organizational network analysis in the Pakistani apparel supply chain. International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 53(1)
- Fontana E & Atif M. (2023). Sub-suppliers’ Customer Share of Production and Sustainability Compliance in Apparel Supply Chains. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023(1)
- Fontana E, Frandsen S & Morsing M. (2023). Entrepreneurship as Emancipation? The Body Work and Journeys of the Hijra Entrepreneurs. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023(1)
- Fontana E & Siriwichai P. (2022). Understanding transgender persons' careers to advance sustainable development: The case of Trans for Career Thailand. Sustainable Development, 30(6)
- Fontana E, Shin H, Oka C & Gamble J. (2022). Tensions in the strategic integration of corporate sustainability through global standards: Evidence from Japan and South Korea. Business Strategy and the Environment, 31(3)
- Fontana E, Atif M & Gull AA. (2021). Corporate social responsibility decisions in apparel supply chains: The role of negative emotions in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 28(6)
- Fontana E, Heuer M & Koep L. (2021). Cross-sector collaboration and nonprofit boundary work for female workers in developing countries: evidence from Bangladesh. Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, 12(6)
- Fontana E, Öberg C & Poblete L. (2021). Nominated procurement and the indirect control of nominated sub-suppliers: Evidence from the Sri Lankan apparel supply chain. Journal of Business Research, 127
- Fontana E. (2020). Managing diversity through transgender inclusion in developing countries: A collaborative corporate social responsibility initiative from Bangladesh. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 27(6)
- Fontana E. (2020). When the main job tasks are perceived to be ‘irrelevant’ in the workplace: the internal uselessness of corporate social responsibility work in Japan. Culture and Organization, 26(5-6)
- Fontana E & Egels-Zandén N. (2019). Non Sibi, Sed Omnibus: Influence of Supplier Collective Behaviour on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Bangladeshi Apparel Supply Chain. Journal of Business Ethics, 159(4)
- Fontana E. (2019). Pioneering environmental innovation in developing countries: The case of executives' adoption of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. Journal of Cleaner Production, 236
- Fontana E. (2018). Corporate Social Responsibility as Stakeholder Engagement: Firm–NGO Collaboration in Sweden. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 25(4)
- Fontana E. (2017). Strategic CSR: a panacea for profit and altruism?. European Business Review, 29(3)
Books
- Fontana E. (2021). Social Sustainability from Upstream: Important Takeaways from DBL Group’s People Programmes in the Bangladeshi Apparel Supply Chain In Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume II. Springer International Publishing.
- Fontana E. (2021). Creating Inclusion for Transwomen at Work Through Corporate Social Responsibility: The Contributions of Bandhu in Bangladesh In Exploring Gender at Work. Springer International Publishing.
- Fontana E. (2018). Innovative sustainability in South Asian garment supply chains In Eco-friendly and Fair. Routledge.