Andy Hoffman

Professor of Management & Organizations
Professor of Environment and Sustainability
Holcim (US), Inc. Professor of Sustainable Enterprise

Education
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1995
MS Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1991
BS University of Massachusetts At Amherst 1983
Biography

Andrew (Andy) Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan; a position that holds joint appointments in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School for Environment & Sustainability.  Professor Hoffman's research uses organizational behavior models and theories to understand the cultural and institutional aspects of environmental issues for organizations.  He has published over 100 articles/book chapters, as well as 18 books, which have been translated into six languages. In this work, he focuses on the processes by which environmental issues both emerge and evolve as social, political and managerial issues, including: 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. He also writes about the role of academic scholars in public and political discourse.  Among his list of honors, he has been awarded the RRBM Best Book Award (2022), ONE Teaching Award (2020), Responsible Research in Management Award (2019), Distinguished Faculty Award for the Organizations & Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management (2018), Aspen Institute Ideas Worth Teaching Award (2018), Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award (2016), American Chemical Society National Award (2016), Strategic Organization Best Essay Award (2016), Organization & Environment Best Paper Award (2014), Maggie Award (2013), JMI Breaking the Frame Award (2012), Connecticut Book Award (2011), Aldo Leopold Fellowship (2011), Aspen Environmental Fellowship (2011 and 2009), Manos Page Prize (2009), Aspen Institute Rising Star Award (2003), Rachel Carson Book Prize (2001) and Klegerman Award (1995).  His work has been covered in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, Scientific American, Time, the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Atlantic and National Public Radio. He has served on numerous research committees for the National Academies of Science, the Johnson Foundation, the Climate Group, the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development and the Environmental Defense Fund. Prior to academics, Andy worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency (Region 1), Metcalf & Eddy Environmental Consultants, T&T Construction & Design and the Amoco Corporation. Andy serves on advisory boards for ecoAmerica, the Michigan League of Conservation Voters, the Widlife Habitat Council, the Center for Environmental Innovation and the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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Featured Books
Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability
Andrew Hoffman and John Ehrenfeld
Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability invites you into a conversation between a teacher, John R. Ehrenfeld, and his former student now professor, Andrew J. Hoffman, as they discuss how to create a sustainable world. Unlike virtually all other books about sustainability, this one goes beyond the typical stories that we tell ourselves about repairing the environmental damages of...
Academic Engagement in Public and Political Discourse
Andrew J. Hoffman, Kirsti Ashworth, Chase Dwelle, Peter Goldberg, Andrew Henderson, Louis Merlin, Yulia Muzyrya, Norma-Jean Simon, Veronica Taylor, Corinne Weisheit, and Sarah Wilson
What is the role of the academic scholar in public and political discussions on issues of social relevance, such as sustainability, health care, gun control, fiscal policy, and international affairs? How can we practice our craft to make it more relevant to the public at large? The answer is engagement, but there are a great many social, professional, and institutional obstacles to doing it. How...
Builder's Apprentice: A Memoir
Andrew Hoffman
In 1986, Andy Hoffman quit an engineering job, declined acceptances for graduate school at Harvard and Berkeley and accepted a carpenter's job in Nantucket. Unbeknownst to him, he had entered the world of high-end custom building. Within two years, he was supervising the construction of a 29,000 square-foot mansion on a 180-acre estate in Fairfield County Connecticut. This is a book about his...
Finding Purpose: Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling
Andrew J. Hoffman
Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Finding Purpose challenges our understanding of how humanity interacts with planet Earth, and our role within this. Collecting over 20 pieces from a lifetime of work in academia and trade, across speeches, blogs, editorials and essays, Hoffman directly addresses humanity's role in creating and adapting to climate change. The reader is encouraged to consider...
How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate
Andrew J. Hoffman
Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized. These conversations have become a rhetorical contest, one where opposing sides try to achieve victory through playing on fear, distrust, and intolerance. At its heart, this split no longer concerns carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, or climate modeling; rather, it is...
Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change
National Research Council
Climate change, driven by the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, poses serious, wide-ranging threats to human societies and natural ecosystems around the world. The largest overall source of greenhouse gas emissions is the burning of fossil fuels. The global atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the dominant greenhouse gas of concern, is increasing by roughly...
Corporate Sustainability, 2nd edition
Authors
Hoffman, A., and S. Roy
Published Date
2023
Authors
Hoffman, A., and S. Roy
Source
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Pages
484-505
Business, climate change and the Anthropocene
A. Kourula, A. Rasche, J. Moon, and M. Morsing
Handbook on the Business of Sustainability: The Organization, Implementation, and Practice of Sustainable Growth
Authors
Jennings, P.D., M. Cascadden and A. Hoffman
Published Date
2022
Authors
Jennings, P.D., M. Cascadden and A. Hoffman
Source
Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar
Pages
214-231
Sustainability science and corporate cleanup in community fields: The translation, resistance and integration process model
G. George, M. Haas, H. Joshi, A. McGahan, and P Tracey
Academic Flying and the Means of Communication
Authors
Poggioli, N. and A. Hoffman
Published Date
2021
Authors
Poggioli, N. and A. Hoffman
Source
New York, NY: Palgrave McMillan
Pages
237-268
Decarbonizing academia’s flyout culture
K. Bjørkdahl and A. Santiago Franco Duharte
Conversations About the Environment
Authors
Hoffman, A. and H. Burton
Published Date
2021
Authors
Hoffman, A. and H. Burton
Source
Canada: Ideas Roadshow, Open Agenda Publishing
Pages
181-320
Saving the World at Business School
H. Burton
Handbook on the Business of Sustainability: The Organization, Implementation, and Practice of Sustainable Growth
Authors
Jennings, P.D., M. Cascadden and A. Hoffman
Published Date
2021
Authors
Jennings, P.D., M. Cascadden and A. Hoffman
Source
Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar
Pages
214-231
Sustainability science and corporate cleanup in community fields: The translation, resistance and integration process model
G. George, M. Haas, H. Joshi, A. McGahan, and P Tracey
Intersezioni: Nuove Prospettive per Interpretare il Realle
Authors
Hoffman, A. and A. Prencipe
Published Date
2021
Authors
Hoffman, A. and A. Prencipe
Source
Rome, Italy: Luiss University Press
Pages
95-101
L’impatto sociale della ricera
A. Prencipe
Earth Ed: Rethinking Education on a Changing Planet
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Published Date
04/2017
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Source
Washington DC: Island Press
Pages
279-288
The evolving focus of business sustainability education
Erik Assadourian
Sage Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism
Authors
P. Devereaux Jennings and Andrew Hoffman
Published Date
2017
Authors
P. Devereaux Jennings and Andrew Hoffman
Source
London, UK: Sage Publications
Institutional theory and the natural environment: Building research through tensions and paradox
Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Kerstin Sahlin and Roy Suddaby
Sage Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism
Authors
Melissa Wooten and Andrew Hoffman
Published Date
2017
Authors
Melissa Wooten and Andrew Hoffman
Source
London, UK: Sage Publications
Organizational fields: Past, present and future
Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Kerstin Sahlin and Roy Suddaby
Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication
Authors
Andrew J. Hoffman
Published Date
11/2016
Authors
Andrew J. Hoffman
Source
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Communicating about climate change with corporate leaders and stakeholders
Matthew Nisbett
Corporate Stewardship: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness
Authors
Hoffman, A. and Ehrenfeld, J.
Published Date
2015
Authors
Hoffman, A. and Ehrenfeld, J.
Source
Greenleaf Publishing
Pages
228-246
The fourth wave: Business management and business education in the age of the Anthropocene
E. Lawler, S. Mohrman and J. O¿Toole
Business and the Environment: Critical Perspectives in Business and Management
Authors
Andrew Hoffman and Susse Georg
Published Date
2013
Authors
Andrew Hoffman and Susse Georg
Source
Routledge
Pages
1-58
A history of research on business and the natural environment: Conversations from the field
Andrew Hoffman and Susse Georg
Cross Currents: Cultures, Communities, Technologies
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Published Date
2013
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Source
New York, NY: Cengage Learning
Pages
323-325
Climate debate in word clouds: The conflicting discourse of climate change
K. Blair, R. Murphy and J. Almjeld
Research in the Sociology of Organizations: Institutional Logics in Action
Authors
Misutka, P., Coleman, C., Jennings, P. and Hoffman, A.
Published Date
10/2013
Authors
Misutka, P., Coleman, C., Jennings, P. and Hoffman, A.
Source
Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing
Pages
131-163
Processes for retrenching logics: The Alberta oil sands case, 2008-2011
Lounsbury, M. and Boxenbaum, E.
Exploring Positive Social Change and Organizations: Building and Theoretical and Research Foundation
Authors
Hoffman, A., K. Gullo and N. Haigh
Published Date
2012
Authors
Hoffman, A., K. Gullo and N. Haigh
Source
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
Pages
131-153
Hybrid organizations as agents of positive social change: Bridging the for-profit & non-profit divide
Karen Golden-Biddle and Jane Dutton
The Oxford Handbook on Business and the Natural Environment
Authors
Hoffman, A. and P. Bansal
Published Date
2012
Authors
Hoffman, A. and P. Bansal
Source
Oxford University Press
Pages
3-28
Retrospective, perspective and prospective: Introduction
Pratima Bansal and Andrew Hoffman
Case Studies in Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, The Oikos Collection Volume 2
Authors
Henn, R. and A. Hoffman
Published Date
2011
Authors
Henn, R. and A. Hoffman
Source
Greenleaf Press
Pages
370-416
LivingHomes
J. Hamschmidt & M. Pirson
Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship
Authors
Hoffman, A. and N. Haigh
Published Date
2011
Authors
Hoffman, A. and N. Haigh
Source
Oxford University Press
Pages
953-964
Positive deviance for a sustainable world: Linking sustainability and positive organizational scholarship
Kim Cameron and Gretchen Spreitzer
Good Cop Bad Cop: Environmental NGOs and their Strategies toward Business
Authors
Andrew Hoffman and S. Bertels
Published Date
2010
Authors
Andrew Hoffman and S. Bertels
Source
Resources for the Future Press
Pages
48-69
Who is part of the environmental movement? Assessing network linkages between NGOs and corporations
T. Lyon
Handbook of Workplace Spirituality and Organizational Performance
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Published Date
2010
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Source
M.E. Sharpe
Pages
155-170
Reconciling professional and personal value systems: The spiritually motivated manager as organizational entrepreneur
Robert A. Giacalone, Carole L. Jurkiewicz
Business schools are ignoring students’ changing aspirations. They must focus on management as a calling
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
2023
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
LSE Business Review
Climate change: Why business schools are failing
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
2023
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
I by IMD
Live teaching case: BP’s decision to adjust its climate change targets
Authors
Hoffman, A. and J. Davis
Published Date
03/2023
Authors
Hoffman, A. and J. Davis
Source
Financial Times
Reshaping business school with “management as a calling" (podcast)
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
2023
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
NPR Marketplace Morning Report
What's behind the climate culture wars? (podcast)
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
2023
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
Make Me Smart with Kai Ryssdal, NPR Marketplace
Business management doesn’t always have to be about capitalism – this course shows how it can also be a calling
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
2022
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
The Conversation
Climate change, sustainability and capital markets (podcast)
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
2022
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
Kickin’ it with Krish
Courageous leadership: Paul Polman’s insights for the next generation of business managers
Authors
Pontillo, J., C. Bravard and A. Hoffman
Published Date
2022
Authors
Pontillo, J., C. Bravard and A. Hoffman
Source
Management and Business Review
Educating the next generation of sustainable business leaders (podcast)
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
2022
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
Sustainability Decoded with Tim & Caitlin
Authors
Haley, U., C. Cooper, A. Hoffman, P. Tyrone, D. Greenberg and P. Hibbert
Published Date
2022
Authors
Haley, U., C. Cooper, A. Hoffman, P. Tyrone, D. Greenberg and P. Hibbert
Source
Academy of Management Learning & Education
Volume
21
Issue
3
Pages
343-349
Living with purpose (podcast)
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
2022
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
What's America's Purpose
Volume
xx
Issue
xx
Pages
xx
Necessarily global: How the pandemic forces us to think bigger (podcast)
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
2022
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
Ideas Roadshow
Volume
xx
Issue
xx
Pages
xx
Policies for adapting to the ‘new normal’ of the Anthropocene
Authors
Hoffman, A., P.D. Jennings and N. Poggioli
Published Date
2022
Authors
Hoffman, A., P.D. Jennings and N. Poggioli
Source
Behavioral Scientist
The insurance industry and climate change (podcast)
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
2022
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
SustainabiliME
Institutional policies for shifting Anthropocene society
Authors
Hoffman, A., P.D. Jennings and N. Poggioli
Published Date
2021
Authors
Hoffman, A., P.D. Jennings and N. Poggioli
Source
Behavioral Science and Policy
Volume
7
Issue
2
Pages
111-127
The engaged scholar
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
2021
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
EFMD Global Focus
Volume
3
Issue
15
Pages
33-37
Will future business leaders use their power differently?
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
2021
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
Innovation Forum
Volume
xx
Issue
xx
Pages
xx
Does a common mechanism engender common results?” Some ‘carry forwards’ for studies of the Paris Agreement,
Authors
Jennings, D., Hoffman, A. and Sharifian, M.
Published Date
02/2020
Authors
Jennings, D., Hoffman, A. and Sharifian, M.
Source
Academy of Management Discoveries
Volume
xx
Issue
xx
Pages
xx
Climate change and our emerging cultural shift
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
09/2019
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
Behavioral Scientist
Volume
xx
Issue
xx
Pages
xx
The activist CEO.” Review of Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
07/2019
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Volume
xx
Issue
xx
Pages
xx
Three paradoxes of climate truth for the Anthropocene social scientist
Authors
Jennings, P. and Hoffman, A.
Published Date
07/2019
Authors
Jennings, P. and Hoffman, A.
Source
Organization & Environment
Volume
xx
Issue
xx
Pages
xx
Developing an Effective Climate Change Strategy
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
03/2014
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
The Conference Board: Director Note
Volume
1
Issue
1
Pages
1-10
Climate science as culture war
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Published Date
2013
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Source
European Financial Review
Public Perceptions of High-Volume Hydraulic Fracking and Deep Shale Gas Development
Authors
Wolske, K. and Hoffman A.
Published Date
10/2013
Authors
Wolske, K. and Hoffman A.
Source
University of Michigan Integrated Assessment
Volume
1
Issue
1
Pages
1-60
The wrong-headed solutions of corporate sustainability
Authors
Andrew Hoffman and John Ehrenfeld
Published Date
4/2013
Authors
Andrew Hoffman and John Ehrenfeld
Source
Greenbiz
Climate science as culture war
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Published Date
2012
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Source
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Volume
10
Issue
4
Pages
30-37
Exceptional boards: Environmental experience and positive deviance from institutional norms
Authors
Andrew Hoffman and Judith Walls
Published Date
2012
Authors
Andrew Hoffman and Judith Walls
Source
Journal of Organizational Behavior
Volume
34
Issue
2
Pages
253-271
Hybrid organizations: The next chapter in sustainable business
Authors
Andrew Hoffman and N. Haigh
Published Date
2012
Authors
Andrew Hoffman and N. Haigh
Source
Organizational Dynamics
Volume
41
Issue
1
Pages
126-134
Talking past each other? Cultural framing of skeptical and convinced logics in the Climate Change Debate
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Published Date
2011
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Source
Organization & Environment
Volume
24
Issue
1
The BP oil spill as a cultural anomaly? Institutional context, conflict and change
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Published Date
2011
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Source
Journal of Management Inquiry
Volume
20
Issue
2
Pages
100-112
The culture and discourse of climate skepticism
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Published Date
2011
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Source
Strategic Organization
Volume
9
Issue
1
Pages
77-84
Review of "Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy" by D. Mazmanian and M. Kraft
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Published Date
2010
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Source
Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design
Volume
37
Issue
1
Pages
189-190
Review of "When Principles Pay: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line" by G. Heal
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Published Date
2010
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Source
Ecological Economics
Volume
69
Pages
1187-1188
For Whom We Play the Game: Advice to the Next Generation of Business Leaders from Paul Polman
Authors
Bravard, C., J. Pontillo and A. Hoffman
Published Date
2021
Authors
Bravard, C., J. Pontillo and A. Hoffman
Source
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan
Management as a Calling: Leading Business, Serving Society (in press)
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
03/2021
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press
9781503628779
The Engaged Scholar
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
2021
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press
9781503614819
The Engaged Scholar: Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
03/2021
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press
9781503614819
Business and the Natural Environment: A Research Overview
Authors
Andrew Hoffman and Susse Georg
Published Date
01/2018
Authors
Andrew Hoffman and Susse Georg
Source
Oxford, UK: Routledge
978-0815375821
Re-Engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era: An Institutional Approach
Authors
Hoffman, A. and Jennings, P.
Published Date
10/2018
Authors
Hoffman, A. and Jennings, P.
Source
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
978-1-108-72769-3
Examining Interdisciplinary Sustainability Institutes at Major Research Universities
Authors
Andrew Hoffman and Jessica Axson
Published Date
2017
Authors
Andrew Hoffman and Jessica Axson
Source
Woodlands TX: The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Finding Purpose: Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Published Date
2016
Authors
Hoffman, A.
Source
Greenleaf Publishing
978-1-78353-372-5
Academic Engagement in Public and Political Discourse
Authors
Hoffman, A., Ashworth, K., Dwelle, C., Goldberg, P., Henderson, A., Merlin, L., Muzyrya, Y. Simon, N., Taylor, V., Weisheit, C. and Wilson, S.
Published Date
2015
Authors
Hoffman, A., Ashworth, K., Dwelle, C., Goldberg, P., Henderson, A., Merlin, L., Muzyrya, Y. Simon, N., Taylor, V., Weisheit, C. and Wilson, S.
Source
Michigan Publishing
978-1-60785-365-7
Business and the Environment: Critical Perspectives in Business and Management
Authors
Georg, S. and A. Hoffman
Published Date
2013
Authors
Georg, S. and A. Hoffman
Source
Routledge
Constructing Green: The Social Structure of Sustainability
Authors
Henn, R. and A. Hoffman
Published Date
2013
Authors
Henn, R. and A. Hoffman
Source
MIT Press
The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Sustainability with John Ehrenfeld
Authors
Andrew Hoffman and John Ehrenfeld
Published Date
2013
Authors
Andrew Hoffman and John Ehrenfeld
Source
Stanford Business Books
The Oxford Handbook on Business and the Natural Environment
Authors
Bansal, P. and A. Hoffman
Published Date
2012
Authors
Bansal, P. and A. Hoffman
Source
Oxford University Press
Builder's Apprentice: A Memoir
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Published Date
2010
Authors
Andrew Hoffman
Source
Huron River Press
Contributions of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Towards Understanding Climate Change
Authors
National Research Council
Published Date
2010
Authors
National Research Council
Source
The National Academy of Sciences
Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change
Authors
National Research Council
Published Date
2010
Authors
National Research Council
Source
The National Academy of Sciences