
Mary Johnstone-Louis
Senior Research Fellow and Programme Director
- mary.johnstone-louis@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Saïd Business School
University of Oxford
Park End Street
Oxford
OX1 1HP
Profile
Mary Johnstone-Louis is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School where she is Programme Director ofThe Ownership Projectand Head Tutor for theOxford Leading Sustainable Corporations programme.
In addition, she supervises MBAs from our global cohort at bothGreen Templeton CollegeandSt Benet’s Halland developsresearch-based educational curriculum for family owners, Next Gens, and U/HNWIs on an ongoing basis. Dr Johnstone-Louis isa World Economic ForumGlobal Futures Council Fellow,a member of the Jury of theIMD-Pictet Sustainability in Family Business Award,Chair of the Board ofB Lab UK.
Dr Johnstone-Louis’ research exploreshow business is affecting our world, and how leaders build strategy around the public good.Her work with The Ownership Project at Oxford Saïd focuses on how ownership influences corporate impact, with an emphasis on family enterprises with annual revenues above $1 billion or $1 billion AUM. With the Project team, she is conducting a series of interviews with owners (70+ across 20+ countries to date) of global, multi-generational businesses (average revenue $10+ billion) on how they put purpose 'into practice' across their operations and family office activities. She has a longstanding research interest inwomen in business.
A regular speaker and panelist, Dr Johnstone-Louis has presented at leading academic venues including the Academy of Management and the European Group for Organisational Studies. Her written contributions have been featured in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Business Ethics Quarterly, and in the United Nations Global Compact’s Principles for Responsible Management Education series as well as viaOxford Answersand the British Academy.
Dr Johnstone-Louis hasheld fellowships from Green Templeton College and the United Kingdom’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and has been awarded a competitive grant from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship for her research. She holds an MPhil with distinction from St Antony's College (University of Oxford), a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania, and received her doctorate from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Publications
THE BOARD'S ROLE IN SUSTAINABILITY(opens in new window)
- Journal article
- HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
Business in times of crisis(opens in new window)
- Journal article
- Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Corporate social responsibility and women’s entrepreneurship: towards a more adequate theory of “work”(opens in new window)
- Journal article
- Business Ethics Quarterly
To impact the workplace, think beyond the workplace: Lessons about gender equality in industry from the international women’s coffee alliance (IWCA)(opens in new window)
- Chapter
- Overcoming Challenges to Gender Equality in the Workplace: Leadership and Innovation
Re-siting corporate responsibility: The making of south africa's avon entrepreneurs
- Chapter
- The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility