Pipiet Larasatie
Portrait of Pipiet Larasatarie outside
1650 Research Center Drive
- Ph.D. Oregon State University, USA
- M.S. University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- B.S. Bogor Agricultural/IPB University, Indonesia
Dr. Larasatie is an interdisciplinary scholar and social scientist researching forest sector competitiveness and sustainable business management of natural resources. Her current research includes engineered wood industry development and workforce development in the forest and wood product sector. Currently, she is a refereed journal editor of BioProducts Business, managed by Society of Wood Science and Technology. She is also the coordinator of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Research Group 5.10 Forest Products Marketing and Business Management. Recently, she won the IUFRO’s Outstanding Doctoral Research Award and was selected as the SWST’s Woman Ambassador.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Topically, Dr. Larasatie’s research addresses broad questions about the competitiveness of the forest sector and focuses specifically on the dynamics of industry business and marketing practices. Philosophically, her research goals center around inclusive and diverse academic points of view to increase forest sector competitiveness.
Her research program is based on the triple bottom line by a business writer, Elkington (1997), referring to the three pillars of sustainability: people, profit, and planet. Based on this framework, her research interests are including but not limited to:
- Workforce development (gender-based leadership, organizational change)
- Inclusive education (scholar productivity, science inequality)
- Innovative value chains (softwood, hardwood, mass timber)
CURRENT PROJECTS
- Building effective strategic narratives in forest products business
- Creating inclusive workplace in forest and wood products sector
- Near-peer mentoring to attract and recruit young rural Women and Minorities in Forestry STEM disciplines to diversify forest industry workforce