Discipline
Sustainability
Supervisor
- Tima Bansal
Stephanie is a PhD student of Sustainability at the Ivey Business School. Stephanie's interest lies in the concepts of pathfinding and systems thinking, focusing on the fluid and emergent nature of becoming. She seeks to understand how organizations and communities can navigate complex and evolving systems by fostering adaptive approaches that go beyond traditional planning, embracing continuous flow, and dynamic adjustment to achieve sustainable outcomes across multiple levels. Her goal is to build pragmatic theories and reimagine how we can create sustainable futures rooted in possibilities rather than probabilities. She believes that it is no longer sufficient to simply observe the past and present; that it’s crucial for us to actively envision and construct the futures we aspire to live in.
Education
- MBA, INCAE Business School, 2021
- Master in Strategy and International Management, University of St. Gallen, 2021
- Bachelor of Arts in Economics, University of St. Gallen and Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2019
Research Interests
- Systems thinking
- Process philosophy
- Sustainability
- Futures
Publications
- Palmié, M., Rüegger, S., Holzer, M., & Oghazi, P. (2023). The “golden” voice of “green” employees: The effect of private environmental orientation on suggestions for improvement in firms’ economic value creation. Journal of Business Research, 156, 113492.
- Palmié, M., Rüegger, S., & Parida, V. (2023). Microfoundations in the strategic management of technology and innovation: Definitions, systematic literature review, integrative framework, and research agenda. Journal of Business Research, 154, 113351.
- Luis Cuenca, Stephanie Rüegger, and Urs Jäger. “Accounting as a mediating practice between values and contexts: a research agenda on impact investment” – Routledge Handbook of Green Finance, (publication in November 2023).
Awards and Honours
- Chisholm Scholarship, Ivey Business School
- High Honours from MBA in INCAE
Conferences
- Paper Development Workshop in Organization and Management Studies for Advanced PhD Students, Early Career Researchers (ECRs), and Junior Faculty in Latin America called “More voices better theories: strengthening research and collaboration among Latin American Scholars”
- Paper Development Workshop for the Special Issue in Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: 'The impact of accounting and accountability in identifying and mitigating social and environmental grand challenges'
Academic Experience
- Researcher, VIVA Idea and Catedra de Sostenibilidad at INCAE Business School
- Research in Sustainability and Innovation, ITEM, Switzerland
