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Jean-Louis Schaan

Professor, General Management

  • Donald F. Hunter Professor of International Business

Education

  • Dipl. ESCP, Paris
  • MBA, Ottawa
  • PhD, UWO

Contact Information

Profile

Jean-Louis Schaan is a professor of Strategic Management and International Business. Prior to joining Ivey, he was Director of the University of Ottawa's Executive MBA Program. Professor Schaan has had a 20-year career at the University of Ottawa as a professor and as an administrator. He has taught in all academic programs, has managed the School's Management section and run the bilingual International MBA Program. Professor Schaan started his academic career at the School of Business at Queen's University in Kingston.

Professor Schaan holds a Ph.D. in strategic management from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from the School of Management at the University of Ottawa. He has won teaching awards at both Ivey and the University of Ottawa.

Jean-Louis focuses his research on strategic alliances and project management. In collaboration with Micheál Kelly he has conducted studies about the management and implementation in strategic alliances in the high technology sector. With Christian Navarre he has studied approaches to project management from a CEO's perspective. The research investigated how managers form portfolios of projects and tailor management approaches to specific configurations of project profiles.

Over the years, Jean-Louis has done consulting work with public and private sector organizations in Canada and Europe and taught in Executive programs in North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa.

Jean-Louis is a member of the Board of Directors of Perle Auto Europe, a member of the Advisory Board of Lixar IT Inc., an Associate with Bisson Varona and Associates Incubator Company Inc., and a member of the Board of la Fondation RGA-Michel Cloutier. He also served on the Board of Directors of Morrison Lamothe Inc., Davidson Industries Inc., the Executive of the Canadian Club of Ottawa and the Advisory Board of Atlas Medical Resources.

Teaching

  • International Management, HBA, MBA, EMBA
  • Strategic Management, IEP

Selected Publications

  • Tanganelli, D., Schaan, J-L., 2011, "Ownership Strategy in SMEs' International Joint Ventures", Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, October, 24(4): 551 - 566.
  • Wang, H., Schaan, J-L., 2008, "How Much Distance Do We Need?: Revisiting the 'National Cultural Distance Paradox'", Management International Review, 48(3): 263 - 277.
  • Schaan, J-L., Kelly, M.J., 2006, Cases in Alliance Management: Building Successful Alliances, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Schaan J.-L. and Beamish P.W., 2004, "Phil Chan (A)", in International Business: an Asia-Pacific Perspective, edited by Paul Beamish and Andrew Delios, Prentice Hall, pp. 561-567.
  • Kelly, M., Schaan, J.-L. and Joncas, H., 2002, "Managing Alliance Relationships: Key Challenges in the Early Stages of Collaboration", R&D Management, Vol. 32 (1), January, pp. 11-22.
  • Kelly, M., Schaan, J.-L. and Joncas, H., 2000,"Collaboration between Technology Entrepreneurs and Large Corporations: Key Design and Management Issues", Journal of Small Business Strategy, Vol. 11 (2), Fall/Winter, pp. 60-76.
    Guild, P.D. and Schaan, J.-L., 1998
  • "Northern Telecom Japan Inc.", Canadian Companies in Japan, H.A. Conway and V.J. Jones, editors. ISBN 1-55238--03-3, pp. 85-110.

Expertise

  • Joint Ventures and Alliances
  • Strategic Management
  • International Business
 

Research Links

  • Research Publications
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