Céline Louche is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Waikato, specialising in interactions between business and society, covering topics such as corporate responsibility, sustainable development, and responsible finance.

Academic career[edit]

Louche completed a PhD titled Ethical investment: processes and mechanisms of institutionalisation in the Netherlands, 1990–2002 at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.^[1] Louche worked at Triodos Bank in The Netherlands, as a sustainability advisor, before entering academia.^[2][3] Louche was assistant professor of corporate responsibility at the Vlerick Business School in Belgium, and associate professor at the Audencia Nantes School of Management in France.^[4]

Louche joined the faculty of the School of Management and Marketing Operations at University of Waikato, rising to full professor.^[5] Louche researches topics like corporate responsibility, sustainable development, and responsible finance.^[5][2] Louche co-authored a book on dilemmas in responsible financing, which was published by Routledge in 2011 and reissued as an ebook in 2017.^[5][6]

Louche is on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including Business & Society, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, M@n@gement and Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, Organization & Environment.^[2][5] Louche was the jury chairwoman for the Forum pour l'Investissement Responsable (Sustainabile Investment Forum) PIR Awards in 2023.^[7] Louche has had visiting fellowships at Stanford University and University of California Berkeley.^[5]

Selected works[edit]

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• Nigel Roome; Céline Louche (27 July 2015). "Journeying Toward Business Models for Sustainability". Organization & Environment. 29 (1): 11–35. doi:10.1177/1086026615595084. ISSN 1086-0266. Wikidata Q60723728.
• Céline Louche; Daniel Arenas; Katinka C. van Cranenburgh (5 January 2012). "From Preaching to Investing: Attitudes of Religious Organisations Towards Responsible Investment". Journal of Business Ethics. 110 (3): 301–320. doi:10.1007/S10551-011-1155-8. ISSN 0167-4544. Wikidata Q60723745.
• Celine Louche; Timo Busch; Patricia Crifo; Alfred Marcus (12 February 2019). "Financial Markets and the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy: Challenging the Dominant Logics". Organization & Environment. 32 (1): 3–17. doi:10.1177/1086026619831516. ISSN 1086-0266. Wikidata Q126282653.
• Marc Orlitzky; Céline Louche; Jean-Pascal Gond; Wendy Chapple (22 August 2015). "Unpacking the Drivers of Corporate Social Performance: A Multilevel, Multistakeholder, and Multimethod Analysis". Journal of Business Ethics. 144 (1): 21–40. doi:10.1007/S10551-015-2822-Y. ISSN 0167-4544. Wikidata Q58170436.
• Lutgart Van den Berghe; Céline Louche (July 2005). "The Link Between Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility in Insurance". Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice. 30 (3): 425–442. doi:10.1057/PALGRAVE.GPP.2510034. ISSN 1018-5895. Wikidata Q60723763.
• Samuel O. Idowu; Céline Louche, eds. (2011), Theory and Practice of Corporate Social Responsibility, Springer Nature, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16461-3, Wikidata Q60723755
• Jennifer Goodman; Céline Louche; Katinka C. van Cranenburgh; Daniel Arenas (8 October 2013). "Social Shareholder Engagement: The Dynamics of Voice and Exit". Journal of Business Ethics. 125 (2): 193–210. doi:10.1007/S10551-013-1890-0. ISSN 0167-4544. Wikidata Q60723739.

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External links[edit]

• MOOC CSR & Value Creation, Iordanis Kalaitzoglou, André Sobczak and Céline Louche, May 2014, via YouTube