ASAC 2023 Programming

This symposium explores the role of Canada and Canadian researchers in historical research of business, management, and organizations. Since the historic turn, contributions to historical theory and practice in MOS by scholars based in Canadian business schools are plentiful. In the symposium, panelists will explore their own contributions to historical organization studies and question its Canadian character. Panelists will ponder on whether their research is impacted by nationhood and the Canadian context.

Organized by:
Nicholous Deal & Gabrielle Durepos (Mount Saint Vincent University)

Discussant:
Trish McLaren, Wilfrid Laurier University

Panelists:
Bill Foster, University of Alberta, focus: Rhetorical History
Roy Suddaby, University of Victoria, focus: Rhetorical History, and Nationhood
Diego Coraiola, University of Victoria, focus: Organizational Memory Work
Ellen Shaffner, Mount Saint Vincent University, focus: Intersectional History
Kristin Williams, Dalhousie University, focus: Ficto-Feminist Polemics
Shelley Price, University of Victoria, Focus: Indigenous Story-Nets

Coordinated by the Business History division

Systematic reviews (SRs) were formally developed in response to the ongoing expansion of research and the desire from stakeholders and consumers to systematically summarise the existing information. A systematic literature review (SLR) identifies, selects and critically appraises research in order to answer a clearly formulated question. In recent years, systematic reviews and meta-analyses become popular methods to summarize evidence and analyse data in the field of healthcare and management. The challenges of conducting large-scale randomised controlled trials can be overcome by these effective research methodologies. Meta-analysis also considers the advantages, the disadvantages, and the underlying assumptions of alternative quantitative and non-quantitative approaches to synthesizing the findings of health research. It is important to know if it makes sense to combine the results across different studies with respect to research question (broader vs narrow focus), differences amongst studies, populations/ interventions/ comparators/ outcomes, methodological differences and qualitative versus quantitative analysis.

Chair:
Jason Perepelkin (University of Saskatchewan)

Guest Speaker:
Housne Begum (Toronto Metropolitan University), Murtaza Haider

Coordinated by the Health Care Management division

This workshop will facilitate a multi-disciplinary multi-national discussion of sustainable Global Talent Management (GTM) that will drive new propositions and directions for future research. Our objective is to build knowledge about the challenges associated with sustainable global talent through an integrated focus on emerging, highly relevant GTM issues. We hope to develop new research partnerships that engage researchers from both Canada and other developing and developed countries.

Panelists:

Marcia Carvalho de Azevedo (Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo)
Deborah McPhee (Brock University)
Francine Schlosser (University of Windsor)
Vlad Vaiman (California Lutheran University)
Monika von Bonsdorff (Jyvaskylan yliopisto)

Coordinated by the Human Resources division

Investigating women entrepreneurship in Canada using a multilevel approach can provide a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by women entrepreneurs in Canada. Researchers can also gain a more complete and nuanced understanding of the complex and dynamic factors that shape women’s entrepreneurial experiences in the country. Government policies, cultural norms and stereotypes, media representation, and access to infrastructure can be examined at the societal level to understand women’s entrepreneurship. At the organizational level the role of financial institutions, business support organizations, and educational institutions can be investigated. At the individual level women entrepreneurs’ skills development and the work-life balance is examined. This information can shed light on the personal motivations and barriers that drive or hinder women’s entrepreneurial activities.

Facilitator:
Shannon Pestun

Presenters:
Wendy Cukier (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Tania Saba (Universite de Montreal)

Coordinated by the Entrepreneurship & Family Business division

The objective of this 75-minute online workshop is to provide a forum in which attendees of the 2023 Administrative Sciences Association of Canada conference can discuss and develop their management education-related projects with facilitators from the Journal of Management Education. The workshop will open with a brief presentation of the journal. Next, participants will move to breakout rooms to discuss their projects with a facilitator and fellow attendees. Interested participants must pre-register for the workshop by emailing the facilitators beforehand (maximum 15 participants). Participants are encouraged to attach a brief summary to the email of what they would like to discuss at the workshop. Based on these summaries, the facilitators will organize the breakout rooms. Importantly, while the summary may detail a current/ongoing project, it may also center on an idea for an upcoming management education-related research project or instructional innovation that participants aim to develop in the near future.

Presenters:

Melanie Robinson, Co-Editor, Journal of Management Education
Associate Professor, Department of Management, HEC Montreal

Jennifer S.A. Leigh, Co-Editor, Journal of Management Education
Professor of Management, Nazareth University

Coordinated by the Management Education division

Learn about the Doctoral Consortium program here.

Cases have been used in business administration education for decades arguably going back to the 1920’s and coming into full fruition in the 1950’s. Over the past seven decades, there has been a veritable explosion of case research, writing and teaching such that educators can pick from literally hundreds of cases for literally every functional area of business administration. While this is a positive development, it has inevitably meant that because of the passage of time, the plethora of case production, and the changing nature of business in the past seventy years, there is now a significant inventory of business cases which could, when considered in terms of the specifics of their scenarios, be seen as outdated and potentially irrelevant. However, when considered from the perspective of their theoretical value, may well be still relevant and highly effective. This symposium proposes to examine the phenomena of ‘old cases’ and to discuss and debate their relevance, effectiveness and role in contemporary business education.

Presenters:

John Walsh
Acting Associate Dean Academic, Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph

Michael Conlin
Chair, Tourism and Hospitality Group, Okanagan School of Business, Okanagan College

Coordinated by the Case division

This session will share the joys and obstacles in examining case writing with, about, and for Indigenous communities in Canada and elsewhere. Please join us in asking and addressing the rewards and challenges of Indigenous case research and writing.  With audience participation we hope to relay the realities associated with such fieldwork and ask for audience participation and questions. A dialogue will be opened and hopefully connections established to stay in touch and share solutions and encouragement.

Moderators:

Dr. Ronald Camp II, Dean, University of Northern British Columbia
Dr. Scott Ensign, Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University

Coordinated by the Case division

Business School faculty are increasingly encouraged to publish in high quality peer reviewed journals. With the rise in journals to consider, it can be challenging to select the correct outlet and navigate the peer review submission process. In this professional development workshop, Editors in Chief and Associate Editors from a broad range of journals will answer pre-developed questions and those from the audience to de-mystify the publication process.

Moderator: Gabrielle Durepos, Mount Saint Vincent University
Panelists: 
Michel Laroche, Concordia University, EIC, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences (JOINING VIRTUALLY)
Ash Prasad, Royal Roads University, Co-EIC, Management Learning
Trish McLaren, Wilfred Laurier University, Associate Editor, Management & Organizational History
Kristin Williams, Dalhousie University, Co-EIC, Culture & Organization
Diego Coraiola, University of Victoria, Associate Editor, Academy of Management Learning & Education (JOINING VIRTUALLY)
Amy Thurlow, Mount Saint Vincent University, Associate Editor, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management
Nick Deal, Mount Saint Vincent University, Associate Editor, Journal of Management History

What we say and how we conduct ourselves may not facilitate the desired sense of openness and inclusiveness in our classrooms, and we may further alienate students who already experience bias in their educational experiences. The goal of this workshop is meant to facilitate a healthy, introspective dialogue among the growing body of diverse faculty and staff, as well as acknowledging the increasing diversity among students, in our business education community. This experiential workshop focuses on the exhibition of microaggressions and how we may be sabotaging our efforts to maintain inclusive spaces. To further the goals of diversity, equity and inclusion in our institutions, this workshop encourages all attendees to think about the behaviors and words that we may engage in, and how they may inadvertently impact students’ feelings of belonging and acceptance; which in turn, may hinder their academic and professional development, and drive to succeed.

Presenter:
Waheeda Lillevik

Coordinated by the Gender & Diversity in Organizations division

The three prior iterations of this ASAC workshop discussed ways to indigenize and decolonize curriculum, research, and faculty; the first workshop included the role of decanal leadership in doing so. Past presenters came from a variety of schools and provided a large number of ideas, challenges, and solutions that participants could benefit from. However, we know that universities are large, complex entities. Therefore, we need to gain a better understanding of holistic and integrated wayfinding that creates pathways to changing policies, processes, practices, and cultures – in other words, how people work together. This year’s workshop focuses on how people at multiple levels of responsibility within three universities are finding ways to indigenize and decolonize business schools. The three universities are Athabasca, Thompson Rivers, and our hosts, Toronto Metropolitan. A representative from central administration at TMU will join deans, department chairs, program heads, and faculty members to describe how they work interdependently to find ways to change embedded culture and practice. Workshop participants will gain insights into how they can make change at their schools.

Presenter: 
David Deephouse, (University of Alberta), William Wei (Algoma University)

Panelists:
Jennifer Simpson, Special Advisor to the President, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonization, Toronto Metropolitan University
Daphne Taras, Dean, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
Lisa Watson, Dean, Faculty of Business, Athabasca University
Mike Henry, Dean, Ted Gagliardi School of Business and Economics, Thompson Rivers University

Coordinated by the Management Education division

Come for the short program of greetings from ASAC and our host Ted Rogers School of Management, stay for the nibbles, beverages and networking!

In its 94 Calls to Action published in 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada directed postsecondary institutions to “integrate Indigenous knowledge and teaching methods into classrooms” and to “develop students’ intercultural competence, empathy, and mutual respect.” including the business schools of Canada. In response, many Canadian universities, including the business schools of Canada rushed in the past years to “Indigenize” their curriculum offerings i.e., inserting Indigenous teachings, pedagogy, culture, language, and history into courses that have long been limited to a Eurocentric perspective. Implementing the relevant TRC Calls to Action for postsecondary institutions is a long journey. The purpose of this symposium is to facilitate an exploratory conversation on a) indigenization progress in Canadian business schools with a specific focus on professional designated programs such as the human resource management (HRM) and accounting. The panelists of this symposium will present on the issues of Indigenous allyship in Canadian business and decolonizing business classrooms, and indigenizing HRM and accounting programs/courses with an aim to achieve actionable recommendations.

Chair: William Wei, Dean and Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics, Algoma University

Mary Wabano- McKay, Vice-President, Nyaagaaniid- Anishinaabe Initiatives, Equity and Student Success, Algoma University

Panelists:
Deborah Hurst, Former Dean and Associate Professor of Faculty of Business, Athabasca University
Doretta Thompson, CPA Canada’s director of Corporate Citizenship and the national director of the CPA Martin Mentorship Program for Indigenous High School Students
Jody-Lynn Rebek, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics, Algoma University
Mahbubul Alam, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics, Algoma University

Coordinated by the Human Resources division

We wish to contribute a venue and an atmosphere that fosters collaborative co-learning by running a workshop focused on introducing Etuaptmumk Two-Eyed Seeing and embracing Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Indigeneity (JEDII) ways. We believe that creating this collaborative co-learning opportunity will allow for issues to be presented, discussed and debated that are critical to gender and diversity knowledge and practice. This includes postcolonial and decolonial feminisms, intersectionality scholarship and critical race theory, feminist disability scholarship, resistance and activism, to name a few areas. By hosting this workshop, we believe we would be contributing to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) calls to action and being responsive to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and their calls to justice.

Facilitators:
Stefanie Ruel, Assistant Professor, Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton University
Bishakha Mazumdar, Assistant Professor, Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton University

Convenors:
Stefanie Ruel, Mary Beth Doucette, Stephanie Gilbert, Bishakha Mazumdar, Tammy Bernasky, Mary Jane Morrison, Gauri Sood, and the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC).

Coordinated by the Gender & Diversity in Organizations division

This symposium panel will discuss the creation of artificial intelligent (AI) powered, virtual work-integrated learning (VWIL) simulations used as capstone in a Bachelor of Commerce capstone course and business communications, culture, and ethics courses. We will share our vision for the simulated VWIL experience, its learning theory, and the AI technology we use. We will demonstrate how we teach within it. The panel will also examine the impact on how this AI-powered VWIL experience has impacted learners and professional practitioners via findings from a learner feedback questionnaire and recorded testimonials.

Panelists

Robert Clapperton, Associate Professor, School of Professional Communications at Toronto Metropolitan University
Richard J. Dixon, Academic Coordinator, Faculty of Business at Athabasca University
Glen Farrelly, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business at Athabasca University
Deborah C. Hurst, Associate Professor, Work and Organization Studies, Faculty of Business at Athabasca University

Coordinated by the Management Education division

Grab some lunch and join us for the best paper awards presentations.

The information and communications technology (ICT) sector is Canada’s fastest growing sector. We are also seeing that roles and sectors that did not previously utilize high levels of ICT or digital skills now are, due to the accelerated digitization of organizations during the pandemic. In part one of this symposium, we will give an overview of jobs in the ICT sector, as well as digital skills and how they are needed in roles outside of the ICT sector. We will draw from our forthcoming work from our Bridging the Technology Skills Gap project funded by the Ontario Research Fund: Research Excellence (ORF-RE), Digital Skills and the Skills Gap: Perspectives, Skills Frameworks and Definitions. We will highlight how the need for digital skills has changed as a result of the pandemic, the digital skills gap, and the lack of diversity within ICT roles. In part two of this symposium, we present a proposed framework to digital skills, built from a literature review and consultations with experts working closely on the digitization of federal government services. We will also highlight several Diversity Institute initiatives aimed at addressing the lack of diversity within ICT roles and the digital skills gap, such as the 50-30 Challenge, The Advanced Digital and Professional Training (ADaPT) Program, and Women in Communications and Technology (WCT)’s Pathways to ICT and Digital Roles for Women project. Further, we will discuss strategies to close the digital skills gap on an individual level, and recommendations targeted as organizations for advancing diversity in ICT roles, including the use of the Diversity Assessment Tool (DAT). Our discussion of strategies for advancing diversity and inclusion will also come from our Bridging the Technology Skills Gap project. Overall, our symposium will address why digital skills are the way forward, and how to navigate this journey in the most effective and inclusive way.

Presenter:

Wendy Cukier
Magdalena Sabat

Coordinated by the Technology & Innovation Management division

The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution has resulted in post-secondary institutions having to re-think and address the way deep learning tools like ChatGPT (an example of an AI language model) will be utilized, handled, and addressed as a part of teaching and learning assessment in education. Institutions are now having to consider and address contemporary issues concerning academic integrity, curriculum development, teaching, and assessment of learning. This symposium aims to discuss the ethical implications of the use of AI from a student, faculty, and administrative perspective and highlight the advantages and challenges of navigating a changing technological environment.

Presenter: 
Kristene Coller, Faculty, School of Business, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

Panelists:
Rhonda Dever, Associate Teaching Professor, Bob Gagliardi School of Business and Economics, Thompson Rivers University
Sonja Johnston, Faculty, School of Business, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

Coordinated by the Management Education division

When concluding their Ph.D. studies, graduate students and young scholars must start thinking about the job search process and how to succeed in the academic job market. However, as CCA (2021) mentions in the report, “Ph.D. grads are increasingly confronted with the roadblocks on their entry into the academic labour market” (p. 8). Although thousands of new Ph.D. graduates hope to find a secure tenure-track position, many stay on the market for years (CCA, 2021). This PDW is designed for Ph.D. students or recent graduates from Human Resources, Management and Business schools who embark on the academic job search journey in the realities of an increasingly complex and challenging academic job market in Canada. We hope that this workshop will inform the attendees about the unique and diverse needs of the business schools and industrial/organizational psychology departments in Canada, inspire them to think about their academic identity and the image they portray as a job candidate early on in their academic experience, educate them about the critical elements of the application package, allow them to practice putting together a teaching and research statements and prepare for the job interview.

Facilitators:
Viktoriya Voloshyna, Ph.D., School of Human Resources Management, York University
Iryna Kalynychenko, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Human Resources Management, York University

Panelists:

Galina Boiarintseva, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Management, Niagara University, Vaughan, ON, Canada
Mirit Grabarski, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
Samantha Hancock, Ph.D. Candidate, Wilfrid Laurier University, Assistant Professor of Human Resources Management, Western University, London, ON, Canada

Coordinated by the Human Resources division

Join our hosts from the Ted Rogers School of Management for a mixer and networking.

Individual students usually hold a believe about their own intelligence and ability. A teacher also develops individual student level believes about their intelligence and ability. These beliefs have significant implications for students’ learning and achievement. Researchers have distinguished two categories of assumptions or believes concerning students’ intelligence. They might have a fixed mindset that regards intelligence as a fixed characteristic: some pupils are intelligent, and that’s that. A growth mindset, on the other hand, holds that intelligence may be developed through a variety of methods, such as effort and proper instructions. Studies demonstrate that having a growth mind-set is especially important for students who are labouring under a negative stereotype about their intelligence and abilities. Adopting a growth mind-set helps those students remain engaged and achieve well, even in the face of stereotypes. The proposed workshop is aimed at creating an awareness among the participants about the importance of creating a growth-mind set context in teaching and then, through various in-session activities, prepare the participants as how to inculcate a growth-mindset culture in their teaching courses/classes.

Presenter:
Mahbubul Alam, Faculty of business and Economics, Algoma University
Jody-Lynn Rebek, Faculty of business and Economics, Algoma University

Coordinated by the Management Education division

Learn about conference and divisional keynote speakers.

Grab some lunch and join us for the 2023 ASAC Annual General Meeting

Historically, academics find themselves writing for a small audience of other academics, replicating and reifying the quest for publications in ‘top tier’ journals as the gold standard of their research and knowledge dissemination. Yet, very often, this keeps their research and knowledge enclosed within a bubble, inaccessible and frankly unpalatable to a larger, public audience. 

In alignment with the conference theme, ‘Can we find our way?’, we must consider that collectively moving forward requires the collective sharing of knowledge. This includes pivoting academic writing and research into forms that are attractive, engaging, and consumable by the general public. This panel discussion will highlight the benefits, practices, and supports of publishing for a mainstream audience. It brings together a highly successful author in the tourism and sport field with an accomplished editorial direction from the publishing world to provide insight and guidance for academics who might wish to transition their valuable research into artifacts that can inform and impact the larger population. 

Moderator: Erik L. Lachance, Ph.D., B.H.K., m. LS., Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Instructor, Event Management Ph.D./ECR Editorial Board Chair, Brock University | Department of Sport Management

Panelist:
Dr. Norm O’Reilly, Dean of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Maine and a Professor of Sport Management & Marketing in the Maine Business School, University of Maine

LI: linkedin.com/in/norm-o-reilly-6bab246

Jennifer DiDomenico, Editorial Director, Social Sciences at University of Toronto Press

LI: linkedin.com/in/jennifer-didomenico-wong-5b18a53

Join presenters and organizers from conference sessions dealing with Indigenous themes for an open and roundtable-style discussion to create a space to reflect and discuss how we might move forward from here. 

A UN Global Impact initiative, Principles for Responsible Management Education’s (PRME) Impactful Five (i5) framework forms the basis for this practitioner workshop. The workshop introduces the, “Playbook”, a pilot of pedagogical approaches for holistic skillset development to help the next generation of business leaders address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Attendees will learn and practice evidence-based instructional strategies of ‘playful learning’ to integrate collaborative, social, meaningful, joyful, iterative, and actively engaging methods in their classrooms. 

Presenter: 
Christian Van Buskirk, MBA, 
Assistant Teaching Professor, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria

Coordinated by the Management Education division