Associate Dean for Global
Initiatives
Professor of Management
Dr. Linda M. Sama is the Associate Dean for Global Initiatives and
a
Professor of Management in the Tobin College of Business. She
earned her Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the City University
of New York in 1998, a Masters in Philosophy at Baruch (CUNY) in
1996, and an MBA in International Finance from McGill University in
1983. Her doctoral dissertation addressing the twin impact of
governance mechanisms and strategic slack on corporate social
response strategies earned her the 1999 Lasdon Dissertation
Award. She also received the Abraham Briloff Award for Best
Paper in Business Ethics at the City University of New York in
1998, and the Dean’s Award for Best Paper in 2000 at the 7th Annual
International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, sponsored by
St. John’s University.
Dr. Sama made a transition to academe after a lengthy career in
industry, where she acted as Director of Market Planning and
Logistics for a major international subsidiary of Transamerica
Corporation. She teaches primarily in the areas of
International Business, Strategic Management and Business Ethics,
and has taught at Baruch College, the University of Texas at El
Paso (UTEP), and Pace University prior to coming to St. Johns in
the fall of 2007. At UTEP, she was designated as the Skov
International Business Ethics Scholar from 1999-2001, and she
served as Director of the Center for International Business
Development at Pace’s Lubin School of Business from
2003-2007.
She has published over 40 articles, proceedings papers and book
chapters that address issues of corporate social responsibility,
business and the natural environment, integrative social contracts
theory, and global business ethics dilemmas in the new
economy. Her research appears in journals such as The
Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics Quarterly, Business and
Society Review, The Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, and the
International Journal of Value-Based Management. She has also
published research for the U.S. Department of Transportation
related to the effects of NAFTA on U.S.-Mexico border
logistics.
Dr. Sama consults to industry on Strategic Planning, Global
Leadership and Business Ethics topics and has offered related
seminars and training sessions. She has also been an invited
speaker at a number of international conferences on business
ethics, including one hosted by the famed Wharton School. She
serves on the Board of Governors of the World Trade Council of
Westchester, and the Board of Trustees of Good Counsel Academy
Elementary School. Dr. Sama’s avocation is choral singing and
she has graced the stage of Carnegie Hall on over 20 occasions as a
member of New York City’s St. Cecilia Chorus, where she has also
serves as a Board Member and Chair of the Development
Committee.
For more information, contact samal@stjohns.edu.