General Management is an evolving and
dynamic field, drawing upon different disciplinary perspectives, such as
sociology, psychology, anthropology and economics. GM uses different
approaches, frameworks and models to examine how firms can remain
successful in a rapidly changing world characterized by increasing
globalization, heightened competitive pressures and complex social and
technological environments. In addition, researchers in GM examine the
impact of senior leaders (i.e., the general manager) on the firm and
firm performance.
The doctoral
program in General Management is designed for people planning an
academic career or research based career; we provide our graduates with
training that will lead to a successful career in university research
and teaching. Students take the full spectrum of PhD Foundation and Area
special field offerings. Courses offered by other non-business programs
such as economics, psychology, statistics and sociology may be taken to
augment the student’s knowledge of both methods and substantive areas.
Other aspects of the program are tailored to fit the student’s own
research, teaching and professional interests.
The
General Management group includes the following broad research areas:
Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, Global Environment of
Business and International Business. Strategic Management explores how
enterprises (whether private, public, not-for-profit) create, capture
and distribute value and how they organize for those visions and goals.
Entrepreneurship is the study of creative destruction that creates new
products and business models while eliminating others. It includes
researching those processes involved in discovering, evaluating, and
exploiting opportunities that go on to solidify themselves in the form
of new business ventures, as well as studying the entrepreneurs
themselves. GEOB explores how forces like technological change,
macroeconomic policies and global trading practices impact businesses
while International Business concerns how firms become and remain
international in scope. It involves both small and medium sized
organizations and larger Multi-national enterprises, with respect to
internationalization, and ongoing multinational management.
- Foundations of Management 9700 a/b
This course provides an understanding of the major philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of management practice within collective enterprises. - International Management 9703 a/b
This course examines the theoretical evaluation and scope of international management theory and research both as a distinct field of inquiry and as an interdisciplinary resources. Students explore the various underlying theories used to understand international business, including their assumptions and limitations, and examine some of the unique research methodology issues present in international studies. - Teaching Materials Development 9800 a/b
Students write a case and teaching note under faculty supervision to fulfill the program requirement. Students in General Management write a second case and teaching note to complete this requirement. - General Management I 9807 a/b
This seminar covers the major theoretical approaches to the field of general/strategic management. The main objective of the course is to familiarize students with the basic assumptions, concepts and theories underlying the field. It focuses on the conceptual underpinnings of strategy research and demonstrates that much of the field is open to interpretation and reinterpretation. - General Management II 9817 a/b
Students receive an in-depth appreciation of core strategy research from a theoretical perspective with methodological issues in strategy research also highlighted. The course is structured around strategy research streams. Each class focuses on a research stream and features a discussion of the theoretical and methodological issues in that stream. - Economics 2150/2151 Intermediate Microeconmic Theory I and II OR 2260/2261 Microeconomics I and II
PhD students who did not complete undergraduate/graduate courses in economics prior to admission are required to successfully complete two undergraduate courses in microeconomics. The requirement must be completed before the comprehensive exam.
Refereed Articles
Allard, G., Martinez, C.A., Williams, C., 2012, "Political instability, pro-business market reforms and their impacts on national systems of innovation", Research Policy, April, 41(3): 638 - 651.
Anderson, B., Eshima, Y., 2012, "The Influence of Firm Age and Intangible Resources on the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Growth among Japanese SMEs", Journal of Business Venturing, forthcoming.
Boeh, K., Beamish, P.W., 2012, "Travel Time and the Liability of Distance in Foreign Direct Investment: Location Choice & Entry Mode", Journal of International Business Studies, forthcoming.
Choi, C.B., Beamish, P.W., 2012, "Resource Complementarity and International Joint Venture Performance", Asia Pacific Journal of Management, forthcoming.
Chung, C.C., Beamish, P.W., 2012, "Multi-Party International Joint Ventures and Multiple Post-Formation Change Processes", Journal of World Business, forthcoming.
Chung, C.C., Lee, S-H., Beamish, P.W., Southam, C., Nam, D., 2012, "Pitting real options theory against risk diversification theory: International diversification and joint ownership control in economic crisis", Journal of World Business, forthcoming.
Ecker, B., van Triest, S.P., Williams, C., 2012, "Management Control and the Decentralization of R&D", Journal of Management, forthcoming.
Kistruck, G., Qureshi, I., Beamish, P.W., 2012, "Geographic and Product Diversification in Charitable Organizations", Journal of Management, forthcoming.
Kothari, A., Rudman, D., Dobbins, M., Rouse, M.J., Sibbald, S., Edwards, N., 2012, "The use of tacit and explicit knowledge in public health: A qualitative study", Implementation Science, forthcoming.
Lepoutre, J., Valente, M., 2012, "Fools Breaking Out: The Role of Symbolic and Material Immunity in Explaining Institutional Nonconformity", Academy of Management Journal, April, 55(2), forthcoming.
Lim, D., Celly, N., Morse, E.A., Rowe, W.G., 2012, "Rethinking the Effectiveness of Asset and Cost Retrenchment: The Contingency Effects of a Firm’s Rent Creation Mechanism", Strategic Management Journal, forthcoming.
Mitchell, J.R., Shepherd, D.A., 2012, "Capability development and decision incongruence in strategic opportunity pursuit", Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, forthcoming.
Parker, S.C., 2012, "The Costs of Entrepreneurship", International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, forthcoming.
Parker, S.C., Congregado, E., Golpe, A., 2012, "Testing for Hysteresis in Entrepreneurship in 23 Countries", Applied Economics Letters, 19(1): 61
Parker, S.C., Congregado, E., Golpe, A., 2012, "The Dynamics of entrepreneurship: Hysteresis, Business Cycles and Government Policy", Empirical Economics, forthcoming.
Parker, S.C., van Praag, M., 2012, "The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start?", Journal of Business Venturing, January, 27(1): 31 - 46.
Rowe, W.G., O'Brien, J., Rouse, M.J., Nixon, R.D., 2012, "Navy Stories: Behavior versus Professional Control", Journal of Management Inquiry, January, 21(1): 61 - 77.
Sibbald, S., Kothari, A., Rudman, D., Dobbins, M., Rouse, M.J., Edwards, N., Gore, D., 2012, "Partnerships in Public Health: Lessons from Knowledge Translation and Program Planning", Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, March, 44(1): 94 - 119.
Tang, J., Rowe, W.G., 2012, "The liability of closeness: Business relatedness and foreign subsidiary performance", Journal of World Business, forthcoming.
Valente, M., 2012, "Business sustainability emebeddedness as a strategic paradigm: A multilevel process framework", Business and Society, forthcoming.
Valente, M., 2012, "Indigenous resource and institutional capital: The role of local context in embedding sustainable development", Business and Society, forthcoming.
Valente, M., 2012, "Theorizing organizational adoption of sustaincentrism", Organization Studies, forthcoming.
Vergne, J-P., 2012, "Stigmatized Categories and Public Disapproval of Organizations: A Mixed Methods Study of the Global Arms Industry (1996–2007)", Academy of Management Journal, forthcoming.
Wang, T., Bansal, P., 2012, "Social Responsibility in New Ventures: Profiting from a Long-Term Orientation", Strategic Management Journal, forthcoming.
Williams, C., Martinez, C.R., Gastelaars, E., Galesloot, L., van de Kerke, D., 2012, "Dutch MNE foreign expansion into developed and developing economies", International Management, 16(1): 31 - 44.
Bapuji, H., Loree, D.W., Crossan, M.M., 2011, "Connecting External Knowledge Usage and Firm Performance: An Empirical Analysis", Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, forthcoming.
Boeh, K., Beamish, P.W., 2011, "Connecting Flights: The Time Sink That Kills Profits", Harvard Business Review, December: 706 - 706, forthcoming.
Branzei, O., Nakamura, M., Vertinsky, I., 2011, "Learning in Collaborative R&D: When Multinationality Matters", Asian Business and Management, March, 10(1): 9 - 36.
Choi, S.B., Lee, S.H., Williams, C., 2011, "Ownership and firm innovation in a transition economy: Evidence from China", Research Policy, April, 40(3): 441 - 452.
Crossan, M.M., Maurer, C.C., White, R.E., 2011, "Reflections on the 2009 AMR Decade Award: Do We Have a Theory of Organizational Learning?", Academy of Management Review, July, 36(3): 446 - 460.
Ecker, B., van Triest, S.P., Williams, C., 2011, "Management Control and the Decentralization of R&D", Journal of Management, forthcoming.
Kistruck, G., Qureshi, I., Beamish, P.W., 2011, "Geographic and Product Diversification in Charitable Organizations", Journal of Management, forthcoming.
Kothari, A., Rudman, D., Dobbins, M., Rouse, M.J., Sibbald, S., Edwards, N., 2011, "Partnerships in Public Health: Lessons from Knowledge Translation and Program Planning", Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, forthcoming.
Lepoutre, J., Valente, M., 2011, "Fools Breaking Out: The Role of Symbolic and Material Immunity in Explaining Institutional Nonconformity", Academy of Management Journal, forthcoming.
Lim, D., Celly, N., Morse, E.A., Rowe, W.G., 2011, "Rethinking the Effectiveness of Asset and Cost Retrenchment: The Contingency Effects of a Firm’s Rent Creation Mechanism", Strategic Management Journal, forthcoming.
Maurer, C.C., Bansal, P., Crossan, M.M., 2011, "Creating Economic Value Through Social Values: Introducing A Culturally Informed Resource-Based View", Organization Science, March/April, 22(2): 432 - 448.
Mitchell, J.R., Shepherd, D.A., Sharfman, M.P., 2011, "Erratic Strategic Decisions: When and Why Managers Are Inconsistent in Strategic Decision Making", Strategic Management Journal, July, 32(7): 683 - 704.
Parker, S.C., 2011, "Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?", Journal of Business Venturing, January, 26(1): 19 - 34.
Parker, S.C., Klapper, L., 2011, "Gender and the Business Environment for New Firm Creation", World Bank Research Observer, forthcoming.
Schotter, A., Beamish, P.W., 2011, "General Manager Staffing and Performance in Transition Economy Subsidiaries", International Studies of Management and Organization, 41(2): 57 - 89.
Schotter, A., Beamish, P.W., 2011, "Performance Effects of MNC-Headquarters-Subsidiary Conflict and the Role of Boundary Spanners: The Case of Headquarter Initiative Rejection", Journal of International Management, September, 17(3): 243 - 259.
Tang, J., Crossan, M.M., Rowe, W.G., 2011, "Dominant CEO, Deviant Strategy, and Extreme Performance: The Moderating Role of a Powerful Board", Journal of Management Studies, November, 48(7): 1479 - 1503.
Tanganelli, D., Schaan, J-L., 2011, "Ownership Strategy in SMEs’ International Joint Ventures", Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 24(4), forthcoming.
Tzeng, C-H, Beamish, P.W., Chen, S-F., 2011, "Institutions and entrepreneurship development: High-technology indigenous firms in China and Taiwan", Asia Pacific Journal of Management, September, 28(3): 453 - 481.
Vergne, J-P., 2011, "Towards a New Measure of Organizational Legitimacy: Method, Validation, and Illustration", Organizational Research Methods, July, 14(3): 484 - 502.
Williams, C., 2011, "Client-Vendor Knowledge Transfer in IS Offshore Outsourcing: Insights from a Survey of Indian Software Engineers", Information Systems Journal, July, 21(4): 335 - 356.
Williams, C., Ecker, B., 2011, "R&D Subsidiary Embedment: A Resource Dependence Perspective", Critical Perspectives on International Business, forthcoming.
Williams, C., Lee, S.H., 2011, "Entrepreneurial Contexts and Knowledge Coordination within the Multinational Corporation", Journal of World Business, April, 46(2): 253 - 264.
Williams, C., Lee, S.H., 2011, "Political Heterarchy and Dispersed Entrepreneurship in the MNC", Journal of Management Studies, September, 48(6): 1243 - 1268.
Non-Refereed Articles
Crossan, M.M., Gandz, J., Seijts, G.H., 2012, "Developing Leadership Character", Ivey Business Journal Online, January/February.
Martinez, C.A., Williams, C., 2012, "An extended view of institutional domains and implications for the multinational enterprise", Advances in International Management, forthcoming
Bansal, P., 2011, "Book Review: Business and Public Policy: Responses to Environmental and Social Protection Processes", Administrative Science Quarterly, September, 56(3): 474 - 476, forthcoming.
Bansal, P., 2011, "Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic: Crafting Long-Term Ecological and Societal Solutions - Book Review", Organization Studies, February, 32(2): 303 - 306.
Bansal, P., 2011, "Top Ten Reasons Why Businesses Aren't More Sustainable", Economist Intelligence Unit - Executive Briefing, March(23).
Bansal, P., Corley, K., 2011, "From the Editors: The Coming of Age for Qualitative Research: Embracing the Diversity of Qualitative Methods", Academy of Management Journal, April, 54(2): 233 - 237.
Beamish, P.W., 2011, "Thinking Locally, Managing Globally", China Daily, European Edition, August(12).
Kachra, A., 2011, "Chief Mentor: How to Train Leaders to Make Money", Wall Street Journal, The, July(27).
Kachra, A., 2011, "Faculty at Ivey School of Business Shares How It Engages with India", MBAUniverse.com, April(14).
Kachra, A., 2011, "Separating Yourself From the Pack in Front American or Canadian B-School Admissions Committees", Pagalguy.com, July(8).
Kachra, A., 2011, "What the Future Holds", Human Factor, The, April.
Mitchell, R.K., Randolph-Seng, B., Mitchell, J.R., 2011, "Socially situated cognition: Imagining new opportunities for entrepreneurship research", Academy of Management Review, October, 36(4): 774 - 776.
Seijts, G.H., Crossan, M.M., Billou, N., 2011, "Coping with Complexity", Forbes India, January(24).
Thornhill, S.J., 2011, "Deal or No Deal", Financial Post, February(1).
Thornhill, S.J., 2011, "Dialing Up A Growth Plan", National Post, December(6).
Thornhill, S.J., 2011, "Siding with the Enemy", Financial Post Magazine, November(1).
Valente, M., 2011, "Part of the Solution: Mike Valente Finds that Firms in the Developing World Are Well Positioned to Come up with Creative Ways to be Sustainable", Forbes India, April(4).
Williams, C., 2011, "A steep learning curve", British Computer Society, June.
Williams, C., 2011, "Building Babel", British Computer Society, September, V(6): 12 - 13.
