Kernaghan Webb

Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University

Professor Webb's research expertise includes Law, Corporate Social Responsibility, Customer Satisfaction/Consumer Protection, Innovative Rule-making and Implementation Approaches, Regulation of the Voluntary Sector. Professor Webb's research and action has focused on the role of innovative non-coercive instruments (codes, standards, certification, voluntary approaches) in support of conventional regulatory approaches (at the national and international level), and the regulation of the voluntary sector.

Webb is a co-investigator in the SSHRC-supported Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN). As part of the CBERN initiative, he is developing a pilot collaborative case study project to be carried out by the Institute of the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility at the Ted Rogers School of Management. He is also conducting research concerning the application of certification of environmental management systems to both business and non-business organizations. His work on the constitutionality of regulatory offences has been cited and followed by the Supreme Court of Canada. Webb is a special advisor to the United Nations Global Compact on the ISO 26000 Social Responsibility standard, chair of ISO standards concerning voluntary codes and dispute resolution, and is an advisor on revisions to the Ethics Code of the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy/Imagine.