Michael O. Wood

Associate Professor – Teaching Stream, Associate Dean of Work-Integrated Learning and Co-Director of the Sustainability & Financial Management program
Michael O. Wood

Contact Information
michael.wood@uwaterloo.ca
EV3 4261

Dr. Michael O. Wood is an Associate Professor – Teaching Stream in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development at the University of Waterloo. He holds a Ph.D. in Strategy and Sustainability from the Ivey Business School. His research explores organizational responses to sustainability challenges across sectors, including insurance, mining, water risk and the Blue Economy, carbon management, waste management, and global security and climate change. 

Dr. Wood also serves as Associate Dean, Work-Integrated Learning and is co-PI on the Global Futures Fund 1.0 project, creating Canada’s largest integrated capstone ecosystem. He is an award-winning educator, recognized with the Faculty Teaching Award and multiple Outstanding Performance Awards for excellence in teaching and service.

Courses Taught 

Selected Publications

  • Appiah, A., Segger, M.-C. C., ElAlfy, A., Wood, M., & Weber, O. (2025). Corporate Involvement in the Sustainable Development Goals: The Case of Banks in Sub‐Saharan Africa. Sustainable Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.70385
  • Topcu, B., Kirkpatrick, S. I., Wood, M.O., & Dias, G. M. (2025). Life cycle climate impacts of eating patterns of Canadian provinces: Focus on meat and protein intake. Journal of Cleaner Production, 525, 146520.
  • Battikh J.Y., Wood M.O., Kitchen V., & Feltmate B. (2025), Big tech and natural hazards: disaster response patterns of Fortune Global 500 ICT MNCs in developing countries. Society and Business Review, Vol. 20 No. 4 pp. 742–780, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/SBR-05-2024-0171
  • Zhang, M., Wood, M.O., Wilson, J., Wu, T. (2025). The impacts of China's ETS on firm competitiveness: Evidence from the power and heat production sector. Global Finance Journal, 64, Article 101067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101067
  • Sandhu, G., Weber, O., Wood, M. O., Rus, H. A., & Thistlethwaite, J. (2024). Developing a transdisciplinary tool for water risk management and decision-support in Ontario, Canada. Environmental Research Communications, 6(7), 075014. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ad5b3f
  • Yang, Yi., Habib, Komal, Wood, M.O. (2023). Establishing best practices for E-commerce transport packaging waste management in Canada: A systematic review. Journal of Cleaner Production, 429(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.139377
  • Battikh, J.Y., Bodolica, V., & Wood, M. O. (2022). Disasters triggered by natural hazards and terrorism: A bibliometric network analysis into the intellectual structure of a cross-disciplinary research field. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 77. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.uwaterloo.ca/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103045
  • Young, S.B, Fernandes, S., & Wood, M.O. (2019). Jumping the chain: How downstream manufacturers engage with deep suppliers of conflict minerals. Resources, 8(1), 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/resources8010026  
  • Thistlethwaite, J., & Wood, M.O. (2018). Insurance and climate change risk management: Rescaling to look beyond the horizon. British Journal of Management, 29: 279-298. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12302
  • Bansal, P., Kim, A., & Wood, M.O. (2018). Hidden in plain sight: Scale and its effect on organizational attention to issues. Academy Management Review, 43(2): 217-241. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2014.0238.  

Degrees

  • Ph.D – Strategy and Sustainability, Ivey Business School, Western University
  • M.A. - Environmental Studies in Sustainability Management, Western University
  • B.A. - Science, University of Guelph