Professorat i Investigació
Directori
Grabs, Janina
Professora adjunta, Departament de Societat, Política i Sostenibilitat a
Esade
Professora contractada doctora URL
Investigador, IIS - Instituto de Innovación Social
Investigador, GRIIS - Grupo de investigación en Innovación Social
Formació acadèmica
- Ph D in Political Science. University of Münster
- M Sc in agricultural and Food Economics. University of Bonn
- M Sc in Business and Economics. Swedish University of agricultural Sciences
- Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. McGill University
Biografia
Janina Grabs és professora adjunta d'Empresa i Societat al Departament de Societat,
Política i Sostenibilitat d'ESADE Business School, Barcelona. Va rebre el seu doctorat
en Ciències Polítiques per la Universitat de Münster, Alemanya, i anteriorment va
ser investigadora postdoctoral a l'ETH Zurich i investigadora visitant a la Universitat
de Yale. El seu treball se centra en la governança privada de la sostenibilitat a
les cadenes de valor globals, amb un enfocament especial en productes bàsics agrícoles
tropicals com el cafè i l'oli de palma. El seu treball sobre l'efectivitat de la governança
de la sostenibilitat privada en el sector del cafè ha estat àmpliament reconegut,
entre d'altres, amb el premi Oran R. Young d'ESG, el premi Virginia M. Walsh dissertació
d'APSA i el premi Giandomenico Majone de l'ECPR, i es publica al llibre 'Selling Sustainability
Short? The Private Governance of Labor and the Environment in the Coffee Sector' 2020,
Cambridge University Press, que va rebre l'AoM 2021 ONE Book Award així com el Lynton
Keith Caldwell Book Award d'APSA. A més, ha publicat en revistes principals revisades
per parells, com ara Regulation & Governance, Business Strategy and the Environment,
New Political Economy, Journal of Economic Geography, Ecological Economics, i Journal
of Environmental Management.La Janina també és investigadora del projecte Earth System
Governance, és l'editora de revisions de llibres del Earth System Governance Journal,
forma part del Comitè de Difusió de la Environmental Studies Section de la International
Studies Association i forma part del Comitè de Direcció del ECPR Standing Group on
Regulatory Governance.
Publicacions destacades
- Chandra, A., Garrett, R. D., Carlson, K. M., Heilmayr, R., Stigler, M., Benedict, J. J. & Grabs, J. (2024). How well does the implementation of corporate zero-deforestation commitments in Indonesia align with aims to halt deforestation and include smallholders?. Environmental Research Letters, 19 (4), 044054. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad33d1.
- Grabs, J., Carodenuto, S. L., Jespersen, K., Adams, M. A., Camacho, M. A., Celi, G., Chandra, A., Dufour, J., zu Ermgassen, E. K., Garrett, R. D., Lyons-White, J., McLeish, M., Niehues, I., Silverman, S. & Stone, E. (2024). The role of midstream actors in advancing the sustainability of agri-food supply chains. Nature Sustainability. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01296-9.
- Bennett, E. A. & Grabs, J. (2024). How can sustainable business models distribute value more equitably in global value chains? Introducing "value chain profit sharing" as an emerging alternative to fair trade, direct trade, or solidarity trade. Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12666.
- Grabs, J. & Garrett, R. D. (2023). Goal-Based Private Sustainability Governance and Its Paradoxes in the Indonesian Palm Oil Sector. Journal of Business Ethics, 188 (3), pp. 467-507. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05377-1.
- Grabs, J. (2023). Business accountability in the Anthropocene. Environmental Policy and Governance, 33 (6), pp. 615-630. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2081.
- Grabs, J. (2023). A theory of credible cross-temporal corporate commitments as goal-based private sustainability governance. Business Strategy and the Environment. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3423.
- Garrett, R. D., Grabs, J., Cammelli, F., Gollnow, F. & Levy, S. A. (2022). Should payments for environmental services be used to implement zero-deforestation supply chain policies? The case of soy in the Brazilian Cerrado. World Development, 152, 105814. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105814.
- Cammelli, F., Levy, S. A., Grabs, J., Valentim, J. F. & Garrett, R. D. (2022). Effectiveness-equity tradeoffs in enforcing exclusionary supply chain policies: Lessons from the Amazonian cattle sector. Journal of Cleaner Production, 332, 130031. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.130031.
- Dietz, T. & Grabs, J. (2022). Additionality and Implementation Gaps in Voluntary Sustainability Standards. New Political Economy, 27 (2), pp. 203-224. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2021.1881473.
- Grabs, J., Auld, G. & Cashore, B. (2021). Private regulation, public policy, and the perils of adverse ontological selection. Regulation and Governance, 15 (4), pp. 1183-1208. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12354.
- Grabs, J., Cammelli, F., Levy, S. A. & Garrett, R. D. (2021). Designing effective and equitable zero-deforestation supply chain policies. Global Environmental Change, 70, 102357. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102357.
- Grabs, J. (2021). Signaling Southern sustainability: When do actors use private or public regulatory authority to market tropical commodities?. Journal of Environmental Management, 285, 112053. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112053.
- Dietz, T., Grabs, J. & Chong, A. E. (2021). Mainstreamed voluntary sustainability standards and their effectiveness: Evidence from the Honduran coffee sector. Regulation and Governance, 15 (2), pp. 333-355. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12239.
- Grabs, J. & Carodenuto, S. L. (2021). Traders as sustainability governance actors in global food supply chains: A research agenda. Business Strategy and the Environment, 30 (2), pp. 1314-1332. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2686.
- Dietz, T., Estrella Chong, A., Grabs, J. & Kilian, B. (2020). How Effective is Multiple Certification in Improving the Economic Conditions of Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in Colombia's Coffee Belt. Journal of Development Studies, 56 (6), pp. 1141-1160. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2019.1632433.
- Grabs, J. (2020). Selling sustainability short?: The private governance of labor and the environment in the coffee sector. Cambridge University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108875325.
- Grabs, J. (2020). Assessing the institutionalization of private sustainability governance in a changing coffee sector. Regulation and Governance, 14 (2), pp. 362-387. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12212.
- Grabs, J. & Ponte, S. (2019). The evolution of power in the global coffee value chain and production network. Journal of Economic Geography, 19 (4), pp. 803-828. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbz008.
- Dietz, T., Auffenberg, J., Chong, A. E., Grabs, J. & Kilian, B. (2018). Indicators to compare and assess the institutional strength of voluntary sustainability standards in the global coffee industry. Data in Brief, 19, pp. 570-585. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.05.048.
- Dietz, T., Auffenberg, J., Estrella Chong, A., Grabs, J. & Kilian, B. (2018). The Voluntary Coffee Standard Index VOCSI. Developing a Composite Index to Assess and Compare the Strength of Mainstream Voluntary Sustainability Standards in the Global Coffee Industry. Ecological Economics, 150, pp. 72-87. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.03.026.
- Dietz, T., Estrella Chong, A., Font Gilabert, P. & Grabs, J. (2018). Women's empowerment in rural Honduras and its determinants: insights from coffee communities in Ocotepeque and Copan. Development in Practice, 28 (1), pp. 33-50. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2018.1402862.
- Font Gilabert, P. & Grabs, J. (2018). Women's empowerment in rural Honduras and its determinants: Insights from coffee communities in Ocotepeque and Copan.
- Grabs, J., Langen, N., Maschkowski, G. & Schäpke, N. (2016, October). Understanding role models for change: a multilevel analysis of success factors of grassroots initiatives for sustainable consumption. Journal of Cleaner Production, 134, pp. 98-111. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.10.061.
- Calderón Hernández, D. & Grabs, J. (2016). Understanding coffee certification dynamics: A spatial analysis of voluntary sustainability standard proliferation. Default journal, 3.
- Grabs, J., Kilian, B., Hernández, D. C. & Dietz, T. (2016). Understanding coffee certification dynamics: A spatial analysis of voluntary sustainability standard proliferation. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 19 (3), pp. 31-56.
- Grabs, J. (2015). The rebound effects of switching to vegetarianism. A microeconomic analysis of Swedish consumption behavior. Ecological Economics, 116, pp. 270-279. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.04.030.