Andrew Hoffman

Andrew J. Hoffman (born 1961) is a scholar of environmental issues and sustainable enterprise. He is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS). His research uses a sociological perspective to understand the cultural and institutional aspects of environmental issues for organizations. In particular, he focuses on the processes by which environmental issues both emerge and evolve as social, political and managerial issues. He has written extensively about: the evolving nature of field level pressures related to environmental issues; the corporate responses that have emerged as a result of those pressures, particularly around the issue of climate change; the interconnected networks among non-governmental organizations and corporations and how those networks influence change processes within cultural and institutional systems; the social and psychological barriers to these change processes; and the underlying cultural values that are engaged when these barriers are overcome. His Ph.D. was conferred by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He is an expert in environmental pollution and has published thirteen books and over one-hundred articles and book chapters.

The Aspen Institute selected Professor Hoffman to receive their Faculty Pioneer Award in 2016. He was the Grand Prize winner of the 2009 Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula for the course: Green Construction & Design. And he was selected for the 2011 Aldo Leopold Fellowship, the 2011 and 2009 Aspen Environmental Fellowship, and the 1995 Klegerman Award. His work has been covered in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, Scientific American, Time, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, and National Public Radio. His book From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism was selected as winner of the 2001 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science. His book Builder's Apprentice was selected as the winner of the 2011 Connecticut Book Award. His article "Climate science as culture war," won the 2013 Maggie Prize.

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