Deborah E. De Lange

Deborah E. de Lange is a professor of international business in Canada. After many years in industry, Dr. de Lange obtained her PhD at the University of Toronto and published her PhD dissertation as a book entitled, Power and Influence: The Embeddedness of Nations. She has a second book, Research Companion to Green International Management, and a third focused on reforming corporate governance and that develops a new approach to the theory of the firm called, Cliques and Capitalism: A Modern Networked Theory of the Firm. Her research interests include sustainability, the circular economy, climate change, clean technology, foreign direct investment, diplomacy, international organizations, responsible corporate governance and reform, networks and embeddedness, complexity, and institutional theories. She has taught research methods, sustainable transportation, globalization, sustainable strategy, global management studies, high-technology strategy, sustainable international business, economics, and entrepreneurship at graduate and undergraduate levels. She has worked across industries in a variety of roles and has mentored entrepreneurs at the early start-up stage.