个人简介

Lianne Lefsrud received her Ph.D. in Strategic Management and Organization, interdisciplinary M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering and Sociology, and B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Alberta. Most recently, she was a Dow Sustainability Postdoctoral Fellow with the Erb Institute, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. She also spent several years with APEGA regulating engineering/geoscience and worked for a railroad, an oil and gas company, and environmental consultancies. Her teaching interests include ENGG 404 Engineering Safety and Risk Management – Core competencies and ENGG 406 Engineering Safety and Risk Management- Methodologies and tools.

研究领域

risk management, risk acceptability / tolerability, decision-making for technological developments, computational methods

Technology has brought extraordinary health, safety, and economic stability to our lives. However, technological risks that were once considered acceptable - such as drilling offshore, pipelining petroleum, or chlorinating drinking water – have become increasingly criticized on moral and emotional bases, actively opposed by those who do not seem directly affected, and rejected by regulators for political reasons. The objective of her research is to develop methods of determining risk acceptability that can capture its dynamicism, interactiveness, expanding scrutiny, and geographical differentiation.

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Gehman, J., Lefsrud, L.M, Lounsbury, M. Lu, C. (Forthcoming). Perspectives on Energy and Environment Risks: With Implications for Canadian Energy Development. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology. Accepted 1 September 2015. 19 pages. Lefsrud, L.M. & Vaara, E. 2015. What Is Fair and How Do We Know? Penn Program on Regulation, Regblog. July 20, 2015. Practitioners’ version of our paper ‘Framing Fairness’. Available at: http://www.regblog.org/2015/07/20/lefsrud-vaara-fairness/ Lefsrud, L.M., Graves, H. & Phillips, N. 2015. Analyzing Visual Rhetoric in Organizational Research, In Innovative Qualitative Methods Handbook. Kim Elsbach & Rod Kramer (Eds.). Routledge. [Peer reviewed] Lefsrud, L.M. & Jennings, P.D. 2015. Being Entrepreneurial in your Storytelling: An Institutional Tale, In Small Business in the 21st Century, Scott L. Newbert (Ed.). Santa Barbara: Praeger. [Peer reviewed]. Lefsrud, L.M. 2014. When Worlds Collide: The intersection of meaning-making between hearings and media for Alberta’s oil sands, University of Alberta. My dissertation is an extended case study from 1960 to 2010 of the Alberta oil sands, using network analysis to visualize evolving vocabularies and rhetorical analysis of contestations of meaning. Actors shift discussion from technical, economic meanings to morally transcendent values. Even those excluded from the regulatory process, such as aboriginal communities and ENGOs, are able to leverage themselves and their criticisms into hearings, and the hearings into the media, making these hearings field reflecting (rather than configuring) events. Besides the logical argumentation and normative credibility, emotional appeals are fundamental for creating resonance across audiences. Lefsrud, L.M., Luchkow, R. & Wilson, M. 2014. Enhancing the Common Language for Risk Management and Performance Measures. Report for the Alberta Department of Energy, Policy and Regulatory Alignment Branch and Policy Management Office. Government of Alberta, May 2014. Lefsrud, L.M., Graves, H. & Phillips, N. Dirty oil, ethical oil: Categorical illegitimacy and the struggle over the Alberta oil sands Academy of Management Proceedings. Lefsrud, L.M. & Meyer, R.E. 2012. Science or Science Fiction? Professionals’ Discursive Construction of Climate Change. Organization Studies. Special Issue: Climate Change and the Emergence of New Organizational Landscapes, 33: 1477-1506. [Peer reviewed]. Lefsrud, L.M. & Meyer, R.E. 2012. Science or Science Fiction? Experts’ Discursive Construction of Climate Change. Best of Academy of Management. [Peer reviewed] Lefsrud, L.M. & Suddaby, R. 2012. After the Gold Rush: The Role of Professionals in the Emergence and Configuration of Organizational Fields. The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in Professional Services, edited by Markus Reihlen & Andreas Werr. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. [Peer reviewed]. Lefsrud, L.M. & Suddaby, R. 2010. Oil & Water: Stakeholders’ Framing of Resources in Alberta’s Oil Sands. Proceedings of the Annual Conference for the International Association for Business and Society, Banff, March 25-28, 2010. [Peer reviewed] Suddaby, R. & Lefsrud, L.M. 2009. Case Method Research in Old and New Institutionalism. Sage Encyclopaedia of Case Study Research, Elden Wiebe, Gabrielle Durepos, & Albert J. Mills (Eds.). London: Sage. [Peer reviewed] Zeiss, C. & Lefsrud, L.M. 2001. Analytical Framework for Waste Facility Siting. Waste Management and Planning (Managing the Environment for Sustainable Development Series, Number 5), edited by J.C. Powell, R.K. Turner, and I. Bateman. North Hampton: Edward Elgar Publishers. Zeiss, C. & Lefsrud, L.M. 1996. Making or Breaking Waste Facility Siting Successes with a Siting Framework. Environmental Management, 20(1): 53-64. 8 Web of Science citations. Zeiss, C. & Lefsrud, L.M. 1995. Analytical Framework for Waste Facility Siting. Journal of Urban Planning and Development, American Society of Civil Engineers 121(4): 115-145. 25 Google citations, 13 Web of Science citations. Zeiss, C. & Lefsrud, L.M. 1995. Developing Host Community Siting Packages for Waste Facilities. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 12: 157-178. 8 Google citations. Zeiss, C. & Lefsrud, L.M. 1995. Property Value Effects and Property Value Protection Programs for Waste Facilities in Host Communities, prepared for the Siting Task Force on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management. Zeiss, C. & Lefsrud, L.M. 1995. Waste Facility Siting Framework: Development and Validation, prepared for Office of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Negotiator. Zeiss, C. & Lefsrud, L.M. 1994. Review Report of Host Community Incentives Packages for the Siting Task Force on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management, prepared for Health and Welfare Canada. Zeiss, C. & Lefsrud, L.M. 1994. Class Assessment Method and Framework for Nursing Stations in Northern Communities, prepared for Health and Welfare Canada.