Scholars
Annika Rieger
Singapore Management University
Based in
Singapore
Asia
Annika Rieger is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University. Her current projects utilize quantitative and computational methods to investigate how transnational corporations contribute and respond to climate change, as well as how national governments and civil society might mitigate corporate environmental impacts.

Focus areas of expertise
Greenwashing Climate policy and politics Climate Justice Fossil fuelsPublications
Articles
Ladegaard, Isak, and Annika Rieger. 2024. “How ‘Ceremonial Openness’ Prevents Organizational Change: An Analysis of Corporate Earnings Calls in the Oil and Gas Industry, 2007–2020.” Social Problems. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spae045
Rieger, Annika. 2024. “Are Corporations Responding to Civil Society Pressure? A Multi-level Analysis of the Effect of Institutional Factors on Corporate Emissions.” Sociology of Development. https://doi.org/10.1525/sod.2023.0047
Jorgenson, Andrew, Hassan El Tinay, Jared Fitzgerald, Xiaorui Huang, Jennifer Givens, Taekyeong Goh, Orla Kelly, Annika Rieger, and Ryan Thombs. “Anthropogenic Drivers.” 2024. Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society, 2nd ed., edited by Steven R. Brechin and Seungyun Lee. London: Routledge Press.
Rieger, Annika. 2024. “What Have Corporations Got to Do with It? A Political Economy Approach to Organizations and Climate Change.” Economic Sociology. Perspectives and Conversations. 26(1):24-29. https://econsoc.mpifg.de/49703/econ_soc_26-1.pdf
Jorgenson, Andrew, Robert Clark, Jeffery Kentor, and Annika Rieger. “Networks, Stocks, and Climate Change: A New Approach to the Study of Foreign Investment and the Environment.” 2022. Energy Research & Social Science. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2021.102461
Rieger, Annika. 2021. “Does ICT Result in Dematerialization? The case of Europe, 2005-2017.” Environmental Sociology 7(1): 64-75. doi:0.1080/23251042.2020.1824289
Rieger, Annika, and Juliet B. Schor. 2021. “Consumption.” In Handbook of Environmental Sociology, edited by Beth Caniglia, Andrew K. Jorgenson, Stephanie Marlin, Lori Peek, David Pellow, and Xiaorui Huang. New York: Springer Press.
Greenfield, Emily, Sara Moorman, and Annika Rieger. 2020. “Life Course Pathways from Childhood Socioeconomic Status to Later Life Cognition: Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study.” The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 76(6): 1206-1217. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbaa062
Rieger, Annika, and Joerg Rieger. 2019. “Working with Environmental Economists.” in T&T Clark Companion on Christian Theology and Climate Change, edited by Ernst M. Conradie and Hilda P. Koster. London: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury Press.
Rieger, Annika. 2019. “Doing Business and Increasing Emissions? An Exploratory Analysis of the Impact of Business Regulation on Carbon Dioxide Emissions.” Human Ecology Review 25(1): 69-85. doi:10.22459/HER.25.01.2019.04