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Moren Levesque

Professor & CPA Ontario Chair in International Entrepreneurship
York University
Operations Management & Information Systems
Participates in 6 items

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".

Sessions in which Moren Levesque participates

Saturday 17 May, 2025

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
Doctoral consortiumDC

Learn from top researchers, instructors, and industry liaisons about innovation, entrepreneurship, startups, non-academic career opportunities, research career in industry, etc. 

Sunday 18 May, 2025

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM | 1 hour 15 minutes
Divisional speakerentrepreneurship family businessENTinformation systemsIStechnology innovation managementTIMVIRTUALHYBRIDhybrid session

Chair/Président: Anand Bhardwaj (McGill University) AI and Entrepreneurship Research: A Call for Prospecting and Establishing the Scholarly AI Frontiers to Prevent a ‘Market for Lemons’Entrepreneurship has entered a new era shaped by AI, demanding accelerated scholarly advances to keep pace with thi...

3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 30 minutes
Coffee Chat
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 30 minutes
Coffee Chat

Monday 19 May, 2025

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Sessions in which Moren Levesque attends

Saturday 17 May, 2025

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
Conference wideCJAS

Special issue editors will share their vision and ideas about this special issue featured in the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences. The core of this special issue is to move the conversation to strength-based studies. The Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences is listed in the Web of Science and is also part of the Academic Journal Guide 2024.Presenters: Fernando Angulo-Ruiz; Leo-Paul Dana; Emily Salmon; and Robert And...

3:45 PM
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM | 15 minutes
5:30 PM
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM | 2 hours

Please join us for an evening social including food and beverages to welcome you to ASAC 2025!  Thank you to our sponsors:  University of Regina, Hill | Levene Schools of BusinessMount Royal University, Faculty of Business, Communications Studies and Aviation 

Sponsored by:

Sunday 18 May, 2025

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM | 1 hour 15 minutes
TIMtechnology innovation management

Chair/Président: Anand Bhardwaj (McGill University)Discussant/Discutant: Nasrin Sultana (HEC Montreal) Digital Equity and Entrepreneurial Formation in a Global ContextAuthor(s)/Auteur(s): Shahrima Hossain (University of Ottawa) & Ajax Persaud (University of Ottawa)Macroeconomic AI Adoption Outcomes and its Implications on Entrepreneurship – A Quantitative InvestigationAuthor(s)/Auteur(s): Noman Arshed (S...

9:45 AM
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM | 15 minutes
11:15 AM
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | 15 minutes
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
Divisional speakerOSSTRstrategyorganizational studiesHYBRIDhybrid sessionVIRTUAL

Charlene Zietsma is a highly accomplished and renowned Canadian organizational researcher. She is the Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at SEAS and at the Ross School of Business. She previously held appointments at Pennsylvania State University, York University (Toronto), Western University and the University of Victoria. She is an International Research Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation and earned her doctorate at the University of British Columbia...

12:45 PM
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
Conference wide

All attendees are invited for this sit down hot lunch indigenous buffet, sponsored by the Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, during which we will announce the award recipients for this year's conference.     

Sponsored by: