Moren Levesque

Moren Lévesque is Professor and the CPA Ontario Chair in International Entrepreneurship as well as the Co-Director of Entrepreneurial Studies at York University Schulich School of Business. She is also Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland’s Business School. Moren holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of British Columbia and M.Sc., B.Sc. in Mathematics from Université Laval. She has been on the faculty at Université Laval, Carnegie Mellon University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Humboldt Universität, Case Western Reserve University, and the University of Waterloo as a Canada Research Chair in Innovation & Technical Entrepreneurship. 

Her research applies the methodologies of analytical and quantitative disciplines to the study of decision making in new business formation. She is interested in market entry decisions, funding decisions, and firm growth decisions, and the impact of time on these entrepreneurial decisions. Her work appears in Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Operations Management, Long Range Planning, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Organization Science, Production and Operations Management, Research Policy, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Strategic Management Journal, among other research outlets. 

She has served the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division as a member of its Research Committee and its Midwest Regional Liaison, as well as Chair of its Membership Committee. She has also served for a 5-year term as an officer for the Institute for Operations Research & Management Science (INFORMS) Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES), and as a TIMES Honorary Chair. Moren currently also serves as Editor for Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, and she served from 2010 to 2020 as Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management, and from 2013 to 2017 as Department Editor for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. In 2021, she was awarded the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division’s Dedication to Entrepreneurship Award for innovative and impactful contributions to entrepreneurship scholarship.

Moren is currently co-editing two special issues for Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice: "Entrepreneurship Ex Machina: Transformative Artificial Intelligence for Theory and Practice" and "Mapping the Landscape of Hybrid Entrepreneurship and
Understanding its Implications for Entrepreneurship Research".