Assistant Professor, Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability at
Esade
Contracted Doctoral Professor URL
Investigador, IIS - Instituto de Innovación Social
Investigador, GRIIS - Grupo de investigación en Innovación Social
Biography
Janina Grabs is an Assistant Professor of Business and Society at the Department of
Society, Politics and Sustainability at ESADE Business School, Barcelona. She received
her PhD in Political Science from the University of Münster, Germany, and previously
was a post-doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich and visiting researcher at Yale University.
Her work focuses on the private governance of sustainability in global value chains,
with a special focus on tropical agricultural commodities such as coffee and palm
oil. Her work on the effectiveness of private sustainability governance in the coffee
sector has been widely recognized, inter alia with ESG's Oran R. Young Prize, APSA's
Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award, and ECPR's Giandomenico Majone Prize, and is
published in the book 'Selling Sustainability Short? The Private Governance of Labor
and the Environment in the Coffee Sector' 2020, Cambridge University Press, which
received the AoM 2021 ONE Book Award as well as APSA's Lynton Keith Caldwell Book
Award. She has further published in leading peer-reviewed journals including Regulation
& Governance, Business Strategy and the Environment, New Political Economy, the
Journal of Economic Geography, Ecological Economics, and the Journal of Environmental
Management.Janina is also a research fellow of the Earth System Governance project,
is the Earth System Governance Journal's Book Review Editor, serves on the Outreach
Committee of the International Studies Association's Environmental Studies Section,
and sits on the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance's Steering Committee.
Contact details
Tel: +34 932 806 162
Ext. 5339
Fax: +34 932 048 105