Business School

Dr Cristyn Meath

Senior Lecturer in Sustainability
School of Business
Room 621- Desk 3, Sir Llew Edwards Building (14), St. Lucia Campus
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Researcher biography

Dr Cristyn Meath is the Hub Director, Sustainable Infrastructure Research Hub at the University of Queensland, a Senior Lecturer at The University of Queensland Business School where she teaches Decision Making & Reporting for Sustainability in the Masters of Business, and Co-Founder of the Infrastructure CoLab.

Cristyn's research investigates how to increase the adoption of sustainable products and practices in industries by improving understanding of the way individual employees, organisations, governments and consumers make decisions related to sustainability. Cristyn has spent a number of years investigating sustainable materials adoption in infrastructure and also co-designing solutions with industry and government to support the transition towards decarbonisation and circular economy. Other sustainability challenges examined in her research include climate change, the energy transition, natural capital decline, circular economy and economic inequality focusing on change enablers such as decision making, corporate reporting, emerging technology, and new collaboration models supporting industry-led sustainability transitions.

Prior to commencing at UQ Business School Cristyn worked with numerous businesses to improve their sustainability, advising business sustainability consultants, and delivering guest lecturers on the topic.

https://aibe.uq.edu.au/profile/839/cristyn-meath

Publications

Journal Articles (10)
Conference Papers (9)
Generic Document (1)
Thesis (1)
Research Reports (3)

Journal Articles

Meath, Cristyn, Newey, Lance and Griffiths, Andrew (2024). ““I have to put my citizens hat on”: operational and societal mindsets to provide a new perspective on organisational decision making for sustainability. Business Strategy and the Environment, 33 (7), 6652-6670. doi: 10.1002/BSE.3836
McAvoy, Sue, Meath, Cristyn, Toth-Peter, Agnes, Jagdish, Ninad and Karlovsek, Jurij (2024). A systems thinking approach to reimagining innovation models: The example of clean hydrogen. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. doi: 10.1002/sres.3016
Gonzalez-Arcos, Claudia, Meath, Cristyn, Leszczyc, Peter Popkowski, Haruvy, Ernan and An, Jake (2023). Fostering sustainable investments through micro-investing platforms. Scientific Reports, 13 (1) 21194, 21194. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-48452-3
Karlovsek, Jurij, Meath, Cristyn, Miles-Mwangangi, Lawrence, MacDonald, Charles and Brockmann, Alfredo (2023). Implementing circular economy principles in infrastructure procurement to support circular supply chains. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 1-14. doi: 10.1108/ecam-09-2022-0908
Meath, Cristyn, Karlovšek, Jurij, Navarrete, Claudia, Eales, Michael and Hastings, Patrick (2022). Co-designing a multi-level platform for industry level transition to circular economy principles: a case study of the infrastructure CoLab. Journal of Cleaner Production, 347 131080, 131080. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.131080
Wade, Belinda, Meath, Cristyn and Griffiths, Andrew (2022). Capabilities for circularity: Overcoming challenges to turn waste into a resource. Business Strategy and the Environment, 31 (6), 2658-2681. doi: 10.1002/bse.2998
Bidmon, Christina, Meath, Cristyn and Bohnsack, René (2020) Organizing a virtual conference changed the way we think about academic exchange. Nature, . doi:10.1038/d41586-020-01896-3
Schrobback, Peggy and Meath, Cristyn (2020). Corporate sustainability governance: insight from the Australian and New Zealand port industry. Journal of Cleaner Production, 255 120280, 120280. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120280
Meath, Cristyn, Linnenluecke, Martina and Griffiths, Andrew (2016). Barriers and motivators to the adoption of energy savings measures for SMEs: the case of the ClimateSmart Business Cluster Program. Journal of Cleaner Production, 112, 3597-3604. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.08.085
Linnenluecke, Martina, Meath. Cristyn, Rekker, Saphira, Sidhu, Baljit and Smith, Tom (2015). Divestment from fossil fuel companies: confluence between policy and strategic viewpoints. Australian Journal of Management, 40 (3), 478-487. doi: 10.1177/0312896215569794

Conference Papers

Gonzalez-Arcos, Claudia, Meath, Cristyn, Popkowski Leszczyc, Peter T. L., Haruvy, Ernan, Ann, Jake and Gain, Alexandria (2022). Empowering investors: sustainable consumption through micro-investment platforms: an abstract. 2021 AMS Virtual Annual Conference and World Marketing Congress, Virual, 1-4 June 2021. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-95346-1_183
Gonzalez-Arcos, Claudia, Meath, Cristyn, Popkowski Leszczyc, Peter, Haruvy, Ernan, Ann, Jake and Gain, Alexandria (2021). Empowering investors through (sustainable) digital investment platforms. ANZMAC 2021, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 29 November - 1 December 2021.
Meath, Cristyn, Gonzalez, Claudia, Navarrete Rojas, Claudia Milena, Nazar, Samira and Griffiths, Andrew (2020). I’m sustainable too! Evidence of isomorphic behaviour following implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.. European Group for Organization Studies, Hamburg, Germany, 2-4 July 2020.
Nazar, Samira, Meath, Cristyn and Griffiths, Andrew (2018). Achieving legitimacy through organizational values discourse in annual reports – a comparative analysis. European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Tallinn, Estonia, 5-7 July 2018.
Meath, Cristyn (2016). The search for an evolution of values, systems and organizations: evidence of de-coupling organizational value from natural capital consumption. Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment Network, Hamburg, Germany, 23-25 May 2016.
Meath, Cristyn (2016). Enabling organizational innovation in response to severe natural capital decline: strategic decision making, context setting and understanding power and dependence. European Group for Organizational Studies, Naples, Italy, 7-9 July 2016.
Meath, Cristyn and Linnenluecke, Martina (2015). Risk management strategies leading to reduced resilience capabilities of organizations. European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS), Athens, Greece, 2-4 July 2015.
Meath, Cristyn (2013). Decline in natural capital – understanding the cost of business dependence and what will be required to remain competitive. 15th Annual Research Students' Colloquium, Brisbane, Australia, 19 July 2013. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensand, UQ Business School.
Meaht, Cristyn, Linnenluecke, Martina and Griffiths, Andrew (2013). Barriers and Motivators to the adoption of energy savings measures for SMEs. Academy of Management 2013 Annual Meeting, Orlando , Florida, United States, 9 - 13 August 2013. Briarcliff Manor, NY United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2013.14448abstract

Generic Document

Meath, Cristyn (2020). Resource Efficiency in a Circular Economy. Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia.

Thesis

Meath, Cristyn (2019). Organisational vulnerability to natural capital decline: Investigating the influence of the enacted environment of decision makers through a cognitive processing model. PhD Thesis, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.285

Research Reports

Wade, Belinda, Humphrey, Jacquelyn, Hopkinson, Peter, Hu, Shihu, Meath, Cristyn, Phelan, Anna and Turner, Cameron (2020). Circular economy and the water sector of South East Queensland. Brisbane, QLD Australia: UQ Business School, University of Queensland.
Wade, Belinda, MacKenzie, Ian, Agnew, Scott and Meath, Cristyn (2018). Australia’s evolving energy future: preparing business through systems modelling, organisational capabilities and stable energy policy. AIBE Industry Research Series Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Meath, Cristyn (2018). The future of corporate reporting. AIBE Industry Research Series University of Queensland: Australian Institute for Business and Economics.