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FACULTY
MEMBERS
The following faculty have undertaken research
that is relevant to the Entrepreneurship
Cross-Enterprise Leadership Centre:
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Dr. Simon C. Parker
Director
Simon Parker is an Associate Professor
of Entrepreneurship at the Richard Ivey
School of Business, and Director of the Entrepreneurship
Cross-Enterprise Centre. He is a
Research Professor at the Max Planck
Institute in Jena, Germany; a Research
Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour, IZA, in Bonn, Germany; and a
Fellow of the Amsterdam Center for
Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands.
Professor Parker is an Associate Editor
of the journal Small Business
Economics, a Co-editor of the
Journal of Economics & Management
Strategy, and is a member of the
editorial boards of the
International Small Business Journal
and
Foundations & Trends in Entrepreneurship.
He has published over 50 peer-reviewed
articles in economics, entrepreneurship
and management journals and has edited
several books on the Economics of
Entrepreneurship. His book, The
Economics of Self-employment and
Entrepreneurship, was published by
Cambridge University Press in 2004; an
updated version entitled The Economics
of Entrepreneurship will appear in 2009.
He is regularly invited as a keynote
speaker at international conferences and
workshops.
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Dr. Oana Branzei
Assistant Professor, Strategy
Oana
Branzei is the David G. Burgoyne Faculty
Fellow. Her research interests include
internal and external sources of
competitive advantage, the role of
heterogeneous networks in capability
recognition and development and the
dynamics of value creation and
appropriation in emerging institutional
fields. Her current major research
initiative, in collaboration with
academics and executives in North
America, Africa and Asia, explores the
creation and appropriation of economic,
social and environmental value, the
contribution of grassroots
microenterprise to poverty alleviation
and post-conflict stabilization, and the
diffusion of pro-poor, for profit
institutions. Branzei’s ongoing projects
in Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda
are unfolding in collaboration with the
International Labour Organization,
United Nations Development Programme,
World Bank and Care Enterprise Partners.
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Dr. Craig Dunbar
Associate Professor
Craig Dunbar is Associate Dean, Faculty
Development and Research, and holds the ING
DIRECT Fellow in Finance. Dr. Dunbar's research
focuses on investment banking, corporate finance
and financial contract choice. His work has been
published in the Journal of Financial Economics,
the Journal of Financial Intermediation, the
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis,
the Journal of Business, the Journal of
Corporate Finance and the Financial Analyst
Journal. Dr. Dunbar has reviewed articles for
The Journal of Financial Economics, The Journal
of Corporate Finance, The Journal of Financial
and Quantitative Analysis, The Journal of
Banking and Finance, The Journal of Financial
Intermediation and Financial Management.
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Dr.
Adam Fremeth
Assistant
Professor
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Adam Fremeth joined the Business
Economics and Public Policy
group at Ivey in July 2009 after
completing his Ph.D. in
Strategic Management and
Organization
at the University of Minnesota.
He holds an HBA from Ivey and an
M.A. in International Affairs
from Carleton University.
Professor Fremeth's research
focuses on the intersection of
firm strategy and public policy
making. He is
primarily concerned with
how firms both shape and respond
to public policy. In particular,
his work has helped to better
understand how competitive
interaction among firms in
regulated settings can influence
a firm's environmental
performance. Ongoing research
projects focus on the
development of the renewable
energy sector in the North
America, the value of
asymmetrical information in
regulatory rulings in the
electric utility sector, and the
liberalization of financial
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Dr. C.A. (Chris) Higgins
Professor
Chris Higgins holds the MBA '93 Faculty Fellow.
Higgins' research focuses on the impact of
technology on individuals, including such areas
as champions of technological innovation,
alternative work arrangements and, most
recently, work and family issues and their
impact on individuals and
organizations. Together
with Linda Duxbury of Carleton University, he
has conducted two national studies (1990, 2000)
concerned with work and family issues.
Higgins and Duxbury have also conducted in-house
surveys of 25+ companies. In total they
have collected data from over 100,000 Canadians.
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Dr. J.M. (Jane) Howell
Professor
Jane Howell is a Professor of Organizational
Behaviour at the Richard Ivey School of Business
and holds of the J. Allyn Taylor & Arthur H.
Mingay Chair in Leadership. Professor Howell’s
research interests are primarily in the areas of
leadership, followership, teams, and champions
of innovation. She has published widely on these
topics and has received international awards for
her work. Dr. Howell is currently involved in
multi-year study on leading during crisis and
adversity. Another research program examines the
impact of champions and their teams on
accelerating new product development. Dr. Howell
has served on the editorial board of The
Leadership Quarterly since 1993, and is a
reviewer for several journals in Organizational
Behaviour.
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Dr. Darren Meister
Associate Professor
Darren Meister is the Faculty Director of the
HBA and MSc Programs and an Associate Professor
of Information Systems at the Richard Ivey
School of Business. His interests focus on the
role of technology in enhancing organizational
effectiveness, specifically as it concern
innovation processes. He investigates this
question primarily within three settings;
technology adoption, knowledge management and
interorganizational systems. His Research work
is conducted within companies in close
cooperation with practitioners.
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Dr. Rob Mitchell
Associate Professor
J. Robert (Rob) Mitchell, Ph. D. came to Ivey
from the University of Oklahoma where he taught
in the areas of entrepreneurship and strategy.
Prior to this, Rob completed his doctoral
studies in entrepreneurship (with a minor in
strategic management) at the Kelley School of
Business in Bloomington, Indiana. Rob's research
interests bridge entrepreneurship and strategic
management in that he studies how cognitive,
environmental, and behavioural factors led to
the creation of new value. Prior to pursuing his
Ph.D. at Indiana University, Professor Mitchell
worked in a technology startup in Salt Lake
City, Utah and was involved in emerging
enterprise consulting in Victoria, British
Columbia.
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Dr. Eric A. Morse
Associate Professor
Eric Morse is Associate Dean - Programs and the
JR Shaw Professor in Entrepreneurship and
Family-Owned Business. Professor Morse is also
Founder and Academic Director for the Ivey and
KPMG Enterprise's
Quantum Shift Executive Program for
Exceptional Entrepreneurs. Morse's research
focuses on entrepreneurial cognition,
entrepreneurial strategy, and family business,
and has been published in the Academy of
Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory &
Practice, the Journal of Business
Venturing, the Journal of Management,
and the Sloan Management Review.
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Dr. Derrick
Neufeld
Associate Professor
Derrick
Neufeld is an associate professor of
Information Systems
at the Richard Ivey School of Business. He has a
B.Comm (Honours) degree in Marketing from the
Asper School of Business,
the
CMA
designation, and a Ph.D. in Business
Administration from the University of Western
Ontario.
Professor
Neufeld's research examines how
technology-enabled "virtualization" impacts
individuals and organizations. He has studied
the effects and effectiveness of such topics as
e-mail (communicating at a distance);
telecommuting (working at a distance); open
source software development (team-working at a
distance); remote leadership (managing at a
distance); and cybercrime (breaking the law at a
distance).
Professor Neufeld enjoys a variety of
recreational pursuits including golf, squash,
woodworking, and cooking. He is an aspiring
gourmet chocolatier.
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Dr. Claus Rerup
Assistant Professor
Claus Rerup is an Assistant Professor of
Organizational Behaviour at the Richard Ivey
School of Business. Professor Rerup's research
focuses on developing a micro-foundation of
organizational adaptation with an emphasis on
organizational attention, learning,
sense-making, and mindfulness.
He emphasizes
the importance of coordinating cognition and
action across people, departments, levels, and
time. His work is
multi-disciplinary and draws on scholarship in
organizational studies, psychology, strategy,
sociology, and entrepreneurship.
Claus' primary
research approach is to develop new theory using
qualitative, ethnographic and longitudinal
methods. He studies
employees and managers in their work context
over a period of years through participant
observation, interviews, surveys, and archival
research. These methods, allow
Claus to achieve a
high degree of immersion in a particular context
and develop a detailed understanding of
organizing processes.
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Dr. Michael Rouse
Assistant Professor
Michael Rouse is Assistant Professor, Strategy
and Organization at the Richard Ivey School of
Business. He is an appointed member of the
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Knowledge Translation and Exchange peer review
committee, and sits on The University of Western
Ontario Health Research Council. Professor
Rouse's expertise is resource-based strategy
specializing in organizational learning and
knowledge translation for competitive advantage.
His current research explores the linkage
between organizational learning and performance
in the health sector including biotechnology,
pharmaceutical, medical instruments and devices
manufacturing and health services. His work has
been published in business journals such as
Strategic Management Journal, Journal of World
Business, Human Organization, Risk Management
and the American Journal of Occupational
Therapy. He has served as guest editor of
two journals and has written two books.
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Dr. Stewart Thornhill
Associate Professor
Stewart Thornhill is
Associate Professor of Strategic Management and
Entrepreneurship, ERA Fellow in
Entrepreneurship, and Executive Director of the
Pierre L. Morrissette Institute for
Entrepreneurship at the Richard Ivey School
of Business. Dr. Thornhill's research interests
include strategic execution, leadership,
competitive strategy, innovation, and corporate
entrepreneurship. His published work has
appeared in several top management journals and
he currently serves on the editorial boards of
the Journal of Business Venturing and the
International Entrepreneurship and Management
Journal.
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Dr. R.E. (Rod) White
Associate Professor
Rod White is an Associate Professor of General
Management at the Richard Ivey School of
Business. Professor White's
research interests include the functioning of
top management teams, questions of business
strategy-organization and the strategic
management of foreign-owned subsidiaries.
Currently, he is exploring how groups of
managers in an organizational setting learn, or
fail to learn, and how this process contributes
to organizational excellence and strategic
renewal. He served a director of Sandvik Canada,
Inc and on the editorial board of the Strategic
Management Journal.
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