Jean Garner Stead

Jean Garner Stead is an American management academic, author and consultant. She is professor emerita of Management at East Tennessee State University.

Stead and her husband and colleague, Ed, are among the earliest pioneers in the field of management and sustainability, co-authoring the first book in the field in 1992 and developing the first course in the United States in 1990. Their book, ''Management for a Small Planet'' (1992) received the American Library Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award. In 2004, the Steads published ''Sustainable Strategic Management'', the first book in the field to expand the strategic management process to include sustainability. Their research primarily focused on sustainable strategic management, ethical behavior, and management and spirituality. They were the recipient of their alma mater's, Auburn University, Spirit of Sustainability Award in 2017 for their research in sustainability. In addition, their research on ethical behavior received a Citation Classic Award from the ''Journal of Business Ethics'' in 2012. Provided by Wikipedia