Dr Cyrlene CLAASEN

Basic or Discovery Scholarship

• Hudson, S., Gonzalez, H., Claasen, C. (2019) Legitimacy, particularism and employee commitment and justice. Journal of Business Ethics, Vol 157, N°3, pp. 589-603
• Contreras-Pacheco, O., Claasen, C.  (2018) Mired in deception: escalating an environmental disaster in Colombia. Journal of Business Strategy, Vol. 39, Issue 2, pp.39-46
• Descubes, I., McNamara, T., Claasen, C. (2018) E-marketing communications of trophy hunting providers in Namibia: evidence of ethics and fairness in an apparently unethical and unfair industry?. Current Issues in Tourism, Volume 21, 2018 – Issue 12, pp. 1349-1354
• Contreras-Pacheco, O., Claasen, C. (2017) Fuzzy reporting as a way for a company to greenwash: perspectives from the Colombian reality. Business Perspectives, Problems and Perspectives in Management, Volume 15, Issue 2, September 2017, pp. 525-535
• Claasen, C., & Roloff, J. (2012) The Link between Responsibility and Legitimacy: The case of De Beers in Namibia. Journal of Business Ethics, 2012, 107:379-398

Basic or Discovery Scholarship

• Contreras-Pacheco, Orlando E. and Cyrlene Claasen, « Decoupled CSR in Crisis Communication: A Latin-American Perspective. » (in press) International CSR Communication Conference – CSRCOM 2017 (Vienna, Austria) (2017)
• Contreras-Pacheco, Orlando E. , Cyrlene Claasen, and Rohit Nishant, « Knowledge Sharing among Engineers: An Empirical Examination. » (in press) The 1st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society (Santa Clara, CA). (2017)
• Contreras-Pacheco, Orlando E. and Cyrlene Claasen, « Drummond Vs. Colombia: ¿Hasta qué punto? » Memorias LI Asamblea Anual CLADEA 2016 – La Innovación en las Escuelas de Negocio, Medellín, Colombia (2017)
• Hudson, Sarah , Helena Gonzalez-Gomez, and Cyrlene Claasen, « Legitimacy, organizational nepotism and employee affective commitment. » (in press) EGOS Colloquium (2016)
• Claasen, Cyrlene and Orlando Pacheco, « Stakeholders’ Expectations – Riches and Rags in the Namibian Diamond Mining Industry. » 2nd EMES-Polanyi International Seminar, May 19-20, 2016, Paris (2016)
• Claasen, Cyrlene , Irena Descubes, and Tom Mcnamara, « Ethical Discourse in a contentious industry: Trophy hunting in Namibia. » 32nd EGOS Colloquium Organizing in the Shadow of Power (2016)
• Claasen, Cyrlene , « The Link between Cognitive Legitimacy and the Social Licence to Operate. » (in press) Impact Assessment: The Next Generation, 33rd Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (2013)
• Roloff, Julia , Cyrlene Claasen, and George Archeampong, « The challenge of measuring the social licence to operate: comparing narrations and scales collected from African mining stakeholders. » Impact Assessment: The Next Generation, 33rd Annual
• Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (2013)
• Claasen, Cyrlene and Julia Roloff, « Public-Private Partnerships in the African Extractive Industry: Venues for Empowerment or Embezzlement? » 29th EGOS Colloquium on the topic (2013)
• Claasen, Cyrlene and J. Roloff, « The link between Responsibility and Legitimacy, The Case of de beers in Namibia. » EABIS Colloquium,October 26-28,Fontainebleau,France (2011)
• Claasen, Cyrlene , « Public Private Joint Ventures in the Mining Industry – The Case of Namdeb. » ESC Rennes Centre for Responsible Business in cooperation with EBEN and the European SPES Forum (2010)
• Claasen, Cyrlene and J. Roloff, « The concept of corporate political responsibility. » EABIS Colloquium in the topic (2009)
• Claasen, Cyrlene , « The Synthesis of Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility and National Development Goals under the Joint Venture between De Beers and the Government of Namibia. » International Society for Business,Economics and Ethics Conference, Cape Town,South Africa ,July 14-18 (2008)
• Claasen, Cyrlene and J. Roloff, « Stakeholder Dialogue of Puma,Banz,Germany,November 4-6. » Germany,November 4-6 (2007)

Basic or Discovery Scholarship

• Claasen, Cyrlene , « Political and Economic Complexities in African Mining Public Private Joint Ventures. » Sustainable Development in Africa through Management Theory, Research and Practice (2014): (Invited)
• Claasen, Cyrlene , David Weir, and Julia Roloff, « Corporate and Societal Challenges to the legitimacy of public private joint ventures. » (in press) Critical Management Studies – New Perspectives on International Development: The Role of the Extractive Industries (2013): (Invited)
• Roloff, Julia and Cyrlene Claasen, « Measuring the social licence to operate: Exploring validity and reliability by triangulating qualitative and qualitative data. » EBEN France (2013): (Invited)
• Claasen, Cyrlene , David Weir, and Julia Roloff, « Corporate and Societal Challenges to the legitimacy of public private joint ventures. » Critical Management Studies – New Perspectives on International Development: The Role of the Extractive Industries (2013): (Invited)
• Claasen, Cyrlene , « The Link between Cognitive Legitimacy and the Social Licence to Operate. » Impact Assessment: The Next Generation, 33rd Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (2013): (Invited)
• Claasen, Cyrlene , « Managing Organisational Legitimacy of Public Private Joint Ventures – A Case Study. » International Days of Statistics and Economics, Prague (2011): (Invited)
• Roloff, Julia and Cyrlene Claasen, « Public Private Joint Ventures in the Diamond Mining Industry: Development at the Expense of the Environment? » Partnerstwo Publiczno-Prywatne Jako Instrument Rozwoju Zrownowazonego, Wydawnictwo, Educator (2009): (Invited)

Case

• McNamara, T ., Descubes, I., Claasen, C. (2019) Case Study 5: Private Prisons in the United States: a case of profit at any cost?. In : Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager (ed.). Business Cases in Ethical Focus. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019, 320 p.  pp. 52-60. ISBN 9781554813742
• Claasen, C., McNamara, T. (2019) Case Study 8: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In : Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager (ed.). Business Cases in Ethical Focus. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019, 320 p. pp. 81-88.  ISBN 9781554813742
• Claasen, C., McNamara, T., Descubes, I. (2019) Case Study 9:  Dakota Access Pipeline. In : Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager (ed.). Business Cases in Ethical Focus. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019, 320 p.  pp. 89-96. ISBN 9781554813742
• Descubes, I., McNamara, T., Claasen , C. (2019) Case Study 27: Misplaced Incentives: Large-Scale Fraud at Wells Fargo. In : Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager (ed.). Business Cases in Ethical Focus. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019, 320 p.  pp. 234-242. ISBN 9781554813742
• McNamara, T., Claasen , C., Descubes, I. (2019) Case Study 31: Democracy in Business: The Mondragon Workers Cooperative . In : Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager (ed.). Business Cases in Ethical Focus. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019, 320 p. pp. 262-269. ISBN 9781554813742
• Hudson, S., Claasen, C.(2017) Nepotism and Cronyism – a Cultural Phenomenon? In : Aßländer, Michael S., Hudson, Sarah (ed.). The Handbook of Business and Corruption: Cross-Sectoral Expériences. Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017. ISBN 9781786354464Books
• Claasen, C., McNamara, T. (2016) Case Study 43: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In : Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager and Anand Vaidya (dir.), Business in Ethical Focus: An Anthology, 2nd Ed. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd 2016, 750 p. ISBN 978-1554812516
• Claasen, C. (2016) Namibia. In: Visser, W. (ed.) The World Guide to Sustainable Entreprise. Volume 1: Africa and the Middle East. Routledge, Greenleaf Publishing Book, 2016, 246 p. pp.128-134. ISBN 978-1783534685
• Claasen, Cyrlene , Tom Mcnamara, and Irena Descubes, « Namdeb: DeBeers’ joint venture with the Namibian government. », The Case Centre. The case centre, 2016.
• Mcnamara, Tom , Irena Descubes, and Cyrlene Claasen, « Trophy Hunting in Namibia – Controversial but Sustainable? A case study of Hunters Namibia Safaris. », The Case Centre. EECH, 2016.
• Gonzalez, Helena and Cyrlene Claasen, « Colombian coffee: Trying to adapt to an ever changing global market. », Strategic Management – Global Edition. McGraw-Hill, 2014.
• Claasen, Cyrlene and Helena Gonzalez, « Is Ethiopia the new land of opportunity? Not for those who are faint of heart. », Strategic Management – Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess. Mc Graw-Hill, 2014.
• Gonzalez, Helena and Cyrlene Claasen, « Got milk? The Russia – Lithuania trade row over dairy products. », Strategic Management – Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess. McGraw – Hill Publishers, 2014.
• Claasen, Cyrlene and Helena Gonzalez, « India has trouble defending the rupee. », Strategic Management – Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess. McGraw – Hill Publishers, 2014.
• Claasen, Cyrlene and Helena Gonzalez, « Africa Currency Union – Africa’s Version of the Euro. », Strategic Management – Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess. McGraw – Hill Publishers, 2014.
• Gonzalez, Helena and Cyrlene Claasen, « How Nissan protects itself from currency swings. », Strategic Management – Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess. McGraw – Hill Publishers, 2014.
• Claasen, Cyrlene and Helena Gonzalez, « The Rise of Bangladesh’s Textile Trade. », Strategic Management – Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess. McGraw – Hill Publishers, 2014.
• Claasen, C. and T. McNamara, « Learning From Mistakes: ‘The story of how Showrooming’ almost destroyed ‘Best Buy. », Strategic Management – Global Edition, 7th ed. by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers. Mc Graw-Hill, 2014.
• Claasen, C. and H. Gonzalez, « Strategy Spotlight 6.4 Medtronic: From medical devices to services. », Strategic Management – Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers. McGraw-Hill, 2014.
• Claasen, C. and H. Gonzalez, « Learning from mistakes: Organizational Structure: Is Siemens too big to manage? », Strategic Management – Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers. McGraw – Hill, 2014.
• McNamara, T. and C. Claasen, « Strategy Spotlight 8.5: From $0 to $10 Billion. Young Chinese tech upstart. », Strategic Management – Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers. McGraw – Hill, 2014.
• Gonzalez, H. and C. Claasen, « Spotlight 12.7: Too much innovation? How LEGO’s innovative culture almost destroyed the company. », Strategic Management – Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers. Mc Graw-Hill, 2014.
• Gonzalez, Helena and Cyrlene Claasen, « You want to speak to the Boss? Sorry, there is none – Corporate structure at Valve Software. », Strategic Management – Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers. McGraw-Hill., 2014.
• Mcnamara, Tom and Cyrlene Claasen, « From 0 to $10 Billion. Young Chinese tech upstart. », Strategic Management – Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess. McGraw-Hill., 2013.

Chapter

• Claasen, Cyrlene and Tom Mcnamara, « The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. », Business in Ethical Focus – An Anthology. Broadview Press, 2017.
• Hudson, Sarah and Cyrlene Claasen, « Nepotism and Cronyism – a Cultural Phenomenon? », The Handbook of Business and Corruption: Cross-Sectoral Experiences. Emerald, 2017.
• Claasen, Cyrlene , « Responsible business and social entrepreneurship in Namibia. », The world guide to CSR: A country-by-country analysis of corporate sustainability and responsibility. Greenleaf Publishing, 2015.
• Claasen, Cyrlene and Julia Roloff, « Public-Private Joint Ventures in the Diamond Mining Industry ; Development at the Expense of the Environment? », Partnerstwo Publiczo-Prywatne Jako, Instrument Rozwuju Zrownowazonego. Urbaniec, Maria, Stec, Piotr & Dolata, Stanislaw (eds), 2009.

International

• Contreras Pacheco, Orlando and Cyrlene Claasen. Decoupling crisis communication from reality: Latin America cases. In: EURAM, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2019
• Claasen, Cyrlene. Social exclusion, responsibility and corporate legitimacy. In: EGOS, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, July 2019
• Gomez Gonzalez, Helena V , Sarah Hudson, and Cyrlene Claasen, « When is using social ties detrimental to employee commitment? A three-country comparison. »  In: EURAM, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2018
• Claasen, Cyrlene (2013, July). Public-Private Partnerships in the African Extractive Industry: Venues for Empowerment or Embezzlement?   29th EGOS Colloquium on the topic, Montreal, Canada-Quebec.
• Claasen, Cyrlene (2013, May). Limits of using Perceptions of the Operator to Measure the Social License to Operate.   Impact Assessment: The Next Generation, 33rd Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Calgary, Canada-Alberta.
• Claasen, Cyrlene (2013, May). The Link between Cognitive Legitimacy and the Social Licence to Operate.   Impact Assessment: The Next Generation, 33rd Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Calgary, Canada-Alberta.
• Claasen, Cyrlene (2011). Managing Organisational Legitimacy of Public Private Joint Ventures – A Case Study.   International Days of Economics and Statistics, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Claasen, Cyrlene (2011). The Link between Responsibility and Legitimacy. The Case of De Beers in Namibia.   EABIS Colloquium,October 26-28,Fontainebleau,France, Fontainebleau, France.
• Claasen, Cyrlene (2009). 2009 Corporate Social Responsibility and Legitimacy of Namdeb – 50/50 Joint Venture between the Government of Namibia and De Beers.   European Business Ethics Network, Athens, Greece.
• Claasen, Cyrlene (2009). Political Responsibility in Public-Private Joint Ventures.   Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
• Claasen, Cyrlene (2009). The Concept of Corporate Political Responsibility.   EABIS Colloquium in the topic, Barcelona, Spain.
• Claasen, Cyrlene (2009). Public Private Joint Ventures in the Mining Industry: The Case of Namdeb.   The Centre for Responsible Business (CRB), ESC-Rennes International Symposium on, Rennes, France.
• Claasen, Cyrlene (2008). Is there a synthesis of strategic corporate social responsibility and national development strategies under joint ventures? The Case of Namibia.   International Society for Business,Economics and Ethics Conference, Cape Town,South Africa ,July 14-18, Cape Town, South Africa.

International

• Claasen, Cyrlene (2012). External Stakeholder Issues and the Legitimacy of Multinationals in the Developing Country Context: The Case of De Beers in Namibia. CSR Conference, ZHAW School of Management and Law. Winterthur, Switzerland., Winterthur, Switzerland.