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Michael Rouse

Assistant Professor, General Management

Education

  • BA, Hons - Calgary
  • DMS, Calgary
  • MA, Calgary
  • PhD, Calgary

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Profile

Michael is assistant professor, strategy and organization, at the Richard Ivey School of Business. He previously taught MSc., executive and corporate MBA programs at Leeds University Business School in the United Kingdom and undergraduate, CIMA, ACCA, MBA and DBA programs at De Montfort University, UK. He has taught on the HBA (honours business administration) and Executive MBA programs here at Ivey, and he currently teaches strategic analysis and action on Ivey's MBA program. He also teaches HBA and MBA electives in Biotechnology/ pharmaceutical Strategy and an elective in Global Strategy at Ivey.

Michael brings a wealth of international experience, having taught business courses and management development seminars internationally in the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa.

Michael was in business for 25 years before moving to academia and completing his PhD at the University of Calgary in 2000. His expertise is strategy, specializing in organizational learning and knowledge translation for competitive advantage in global business and health contexts. His current research explores the linkage between organizational learning and performance in the international health sector including biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical instruments and devices manufacturing.

His work has been published in high impact business journals including the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Public Health Policy, Management Learning and the Journal of World Business. He has served as guest editor of two journals and has co-authored three books. He also sits on two private sector boards.

Michael's research combined with his international and practical experience in business provides integrative insights for designing and executing domestic and global strategies.

Selected Publications

  • Lencucha, Raphael, Ronald Labonte, Michael J. Rouse 2010. "Beyond Idealism and Realism: Canadian NGO/Government Relations during the negotiation of the FCTC." Journal of Public Health Policy, 31(1): 74-87.
  • Elliott, Carole, Michael J. Rouse, and Dusya Vera. 2008. "Learning Fusion: Introduction to the Dedicated Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities Issue." Management Learning, Vol. 39: 371-374.
  • Ainuddin, R. Azimah, Paul Beamish, John S. Hulland and Michael J. Rouse. 2007. "Resource attributes and firm performance in international joint ventures." Journal of World Business 42(1): 47-50.
  • Daellenbach, Urs and Michael J. Rouse. 2007. "Methods and the resource-based view of the firm ten years after: Some suggestions for future resource-based view research," in David J. Ketchen and Donald D. Bergh, Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, Vol. 4.
  • Rouse, Michael J. 2004. "Knowledge Translation and Risk Management," Risk Management: An International Journal, 6(2): 9-15.
  • Rouse, Michael J. and Urs Daellenbach. 2002. "More Thinking on Research Methods for the Resource-Based Perspective." Strategic Management Journal, 23(10): 963-969.
  • Herbane, B., and Michael J. Rouse. 2000. Strategic Management: An Active Learning Approach, Volumes 1 & 2. Blackwell Business, Oxford.
  • Rouse, Michael J. and Urs Daellenbach. (1999). "Rethinking Research Methods for the Resource-Based View: Isolating Sources of Sustainable Competitive Advantage." Strategic Management Journal, 20: 487-494.

Research/Course Development

  • Designing and Executing Strategy
  • Biotech/Pharma Strategy
  • Organizational Learning and Performance
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Global Strategy

Experience

  • Leeds University Business School, Leeds, United Kingdom (2002 − 2004)
  • Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom (1996 − 2002)
  • Executive MBA teaching and management development Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa
  • External examiner: Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; University of Liverpool Management School, Liverpool, United Kingdom, City Liberal Arts College, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Business Experience: Retail Management, Mining, Food industries
  • Active consultant for business and public sector organizations such as Pfizer (Indonesia); Connex (Vivendi) United Kingdom; Development Bank of Southern Africa, South Africa; Lincoln Local Authority, United Kingdom; Cabinet Office, Government of the United Kingdom

Expertise

  • Strategic Analysis and Action for Competitive Advantage
  • Organizational Learning and Knowledge Translation
  • Strategic Stakeholder Management
  • Organizational Culture
  • Global Strategy and International Business
 

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