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Published Work

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BUSINESS & SOCIETY (NON-MARKET STRATEGY).

Avant, D., Finn, D., & Olsen, T. D. (2023). Can CSR strategy mediate conflict over extraction? Evidence from two mines in Peru. World Development, 170, 106323.


Olsen, T. D., & Bernal-Bermúdez, L. (2022). Uncovering Economic Complicity: Explaining State-Led Human Rights Abuses in the Corporate Context. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-20.


Olsen, Tricia D., Kathleen Rehbein, Michelle Westermann-Behaylo and Annie Snelson-Powell. 2021 "Human Rights in the Oil and Gas Industry: When Are Policies and Practices Enough to Prevent Abuse?" Business & Society.

Seaborn, Paul, Jason Howell, and Tricia D. Olsen. 2020. “The Effect of Ownership Structure on Firm Responsibility: Evidence from Dual-Class Share Companies.” Business & Society.


Olsen, Tricia D. 2017. “Political Stakeholder Theory: The State, Legitimacy, and the Ethics of Microfinance in Emerging Economies.” Business Ethics Quarterly. 


Olsen, Tricia D. 2017. “Rethinking Collective Action: The Co-Evolution of the State and Institutional Entrepreneurs in Emerging Economies.”                  


Dougherty, Michael and Tricia D. Olsen. 2014. "'They Have Good Devices': Trust, Mining and the Microsociology of Environmental Decision-Making," Journal of Cleaner Production 84: 183-192. 


Dougherty, Michael and Tricia D. Olsen. 2014. “Taking Terrain Literally: Grounding Local Adaptation to Corporate Social Responsibility in the Extractive Industries.” Journal of Business Ethics 119(3): 423-434.


Olsen, Tricia D. and Aseema Sinha. 2013. “Linkage Politics and the Persistence of National Policy Autonomy in Emerging Powers: Patents, Profits, and Patients in the context of TRIPS Compliance.” Business & Politics 15(3): 323-356.


POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT.

Finkel, Evgeny, Scott Gehlbach, and Tricia D. Olsen. 2015. “Imperfect Institutional Change: Peasant Disturbances Before and After Russia’s Emancipation Reform of 1861.” Comparative Political Studies 48(8): 984-1019.


Olsen, Tricia D., Andrew Reiter and Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm. 2011. “Taking Stock: Market Effects and Transitional Justice.” The Journal of Human Rights 10(4): 521-543.


Olsen, Tricia D. 2010. “New Actors in Microfinance Lending: The Role of Regulation and Competition in Latin America.” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 9(3-4): 500-19.


TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE.

Olsen, Tricia D., Leigh A. Payne and Andrew G. Reiter. 2010. Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy. Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press. 

Reviewed in: International Journal of Transitional Justice, Cambridge Law Journal, George Washington International Law Review, International Journal of Law in Context, Prisma Jurdico [Brazil], Choice

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Dancy, Geoff, Bridget Marchesi, Tricia D. Olsen, Leigh A. Payne, Andrew G. Reiter and Kathryn Sikkink. 2019 “Behind Bars and Bargains: How Justice Policies Change Human Rights Practices in New Democracies.” International Studies Quarterly.


Lessa, Francesca, Olsen, Tricia D., Leigh A. Payne, Gabriel Pereira, and Andrew Reiter. 2014. “Trials and Amnesties in Latin America: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives.” International Journal of Transitional Justice 8(1): 75-98.


Lessa, Francesca, Tricia D. Olsen, Leigh A. Payne, Andrew G. Reiter, Gabriel Pereira. 2014. “Persistent or Eroding Impunity? The Divergent Effects of Legal Challenges to Amnesty Laws for Past Human Rights Violations.” Israel Law Review.


Olsen, Tricia D., Andrew Reiter and Leigh A. Payne, 2012. “Transitional Justice and Civil War: Exploring New Pathways, Challenging Old Guideposts.” Transitional Justice Review 1(1): 137-169.


Olsen, Tricia D., Leigh A. Payne and Andrew G. Reiter. 2011. “Transitional Justice in Latin America.” International Studies Review 13(3): 558-64.


Olsen, Tricia D., Leigh A. Payne and Andrew G. Reiter. 2010. “At What Cost? A Political Economy Approach to Transitional Justice.” Taiwan Journal of Democracy 6(1): 165-84.


Olsen, Tricia D., Leigh A. Payne and Andrew G. Reiter. 2010. “The Justice Balance: When Transitional Justice Improves Human Rights and Democracy.” Human Rights Quarterly 32(4): 980-1005.


Olsen, Tricia D., Leigh A. Payne and Andrew G. Reiter. 2010. “Transitional Justice in the World, 1970-2007: Insights from a New Dataset.” Journal of Peace Research 47(6): 803-809. 5.


Olsen, Tricia D., Leigh A. Payne, Andrew G. Reiter, and Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm. 2010. “When Truth Commissions Improve Human Rights.” International Journal of Transitional Justice 4(3): 457-476.


Olsen, Tricia D., Leigh A. Payne and Andrew G. Reiter. 2010. “Equilibrando Julgamentos e Anistias na América Latina: Perspectivas Comparativa e Teórica.” (Balancing Trials and Amnesty in Latin America: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives) Revista Anistia Política e Justiça de Transição (Journal of Political Amnesty and Transitional Justice) 2: 152-75. [Brazil]

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