Faculty Profile

Annika Rieger is an environmental sociologist whose research bridges climate change, corporate behavior, and political economy, with a focus on quantitative and computational methods to analyze organizational and societal responses to environmental challenges.

Integrates advanced quantitative and computational approaches to reveal how macro-level political and economic structures shape corporate environmental outcomes; recognized for methodological rigor, interdisciplinary perspective, and contributions to understanding climate change through the lens of organizational and institutional analysis.

Focused research areas include Multi-level analyses of corporate environmental behavior; the impact of national and institutional contexts on corporate emissions; political economy approaches to organizations and climate change; ecologically unequal exchange; pathways to corporate carbon pollution; dematerialization and ICT impacts.