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Alana Pierce

PhD Candidate
HEC Montréal
Management, Strategy, Entrepreneurship
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Sessions in which Alana Pierce attends

Sunday 2 June, 2024

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:30
10:30 - 11:45 | 1 hour 15 minutes
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Presentation title: Legacies of Colonialism in Management Learning and EducationAbstract: Colonialism casts a long shadow over management thought. The development and diffusion of modern management practices and education have co-evolved with the expansion of colonial empires and bureaucracies. The legacies we inherited from colonial systems are not always easy to distinguish and are sometimes ambiguous in their effects. Recently, the narrative arc...

Dr. Diego Coraiola

Keynote speaker
10:30 - 11:45 | 1 hour 15 minutes

Chair/Président: Laura Ierfino Blachford (Trent University)Moderator/Modérateur: Johnny Boghossian (Université Laval), Alex Bitektine (JMSB - Concordia University) & Kai Lamertz (Athabasca University)  Resisting Mission Drift in Social Ventures: The Role of Female Board Representation in Microfinance OrganizationsAuthor(s)/Auteur(s): Fernando Angulo-Ruiz (MacEwan University), Mahinda Wijesiri (MacEwan Universi...

10:30 - 11:45 | 1 hour 15 minutes
entrepreneurship family businessENT

Feminist Entrepreneurs and Talent Management: Doing it their wayAuthor(s)/Auteur(s): Michele Bowring (University of Guelph), Davar Rezania (University of Guelph), Thomas Sasso (University of Guelph) & Jonathan Parkes (University of Guelph)  Balancing Motherhood and Entrepreneurship - Challenges and EnablersAuthor(s)/Auteur(s): Wendy Cukier (Toronto Metropolitan University), Saifur Rahman (Toronto Metropolitan University) & Vivian Leu...

13:00
13:00 - 14:15 | 1 hour 15 minutes
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Presentation title: Complex collaboration in Canadian healthcare: organizational and strategic leversAbstract: This keynote address will focus the issues that are hindering the complex collaboration needed to resolve stubborn organizational and societal challenges in Ca...

14:30
14:30 - 15:45 | 1 hour 15 minutes
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Social Entrepreneurship education through extracurricular activities as a career gateway into the social entrepreneurial ecosystemAuthor(s)/Auteur(s): RUBEN BURGA (University of Guelph), Daniella Perdigao (University of Guelph), Laura Fallowfield (University of Guelph) & Erin Doherty (University of Guelph) Social Entrepreneurship in Co-creating Wellbeing Knowledge within Ethnoculturally Diverse CommunitiesAuthor(s)/Auteur(s): Farshad Amini (M...

14:30 - 15:00 | 30 minutes
SpeakerNetworking

Book a one-on-one 30 min coffee chat with our guest speaker Samer Faraj  Meet at the conference registration desk

14:30 - 17:00 | 2 hours 30 minutes
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Chair/Présidente : Marie-Michelle GouinAuteurs : Pascale Caïdor (Université de Montréal), Sofiane Baba (Université de Sherbrooke), Marie-Laure Dioh (UQO), Marie-Luc Arpin (Université de Sherbrooke) Symposium : La culture comme catégorie d’analyse pour l’étude des organisatio...

14:30 - 15:45 | 1 hour 15 minutes
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Chair/Président: André Luis Godoi (HEC Montreal)  “I Can't Bring My Whole Self to Work:” Understanding (De)Coupling of the Menstrual Body in OrganizationsAuthor(s)/Auteur(s): Mikaila Ortynsky (University of Ottawa), Madeline Toubiana (University of Ottawa) & Jennifer Dimoff (University of Ottawa) Anger or Embarrassment? How Do Explicit and Implicit Workplace Aggression Influence Employee Outcomes

16:00
16:00 - 17:15 | 1 hour 15 minutes
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Towards an Inclusive Innovation Ecosystem in CanadaAuthor(s)/Auteur(s): Wendy Cukier (Toronto Metropolitan University), Tania Saba (Universite de Montreal), Suzanne Gagnon (University of Manitoba) & Tomke Augustin (University of Manitoba)Informed by a critical ecological model, and SSHRC partnership grant project, this workshop will examine barriers and enablers to an inclusive innovati...

Monday 3 June, 2024

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00 - 10:15 | 1 hour 15 minutes
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Presentation title: What “Local” Means Depends on Where (and Who) You Are: Organizational Theory Approaches to Studying Local Market CategoriesAbstract: Interest in “local” products has grown, despite (or perhaps in response to) an increasingly globalized world. At the same time, scholarly attention to local market categories has also increased.  Organizational theorists in particular, including those with interests in social responsibility, h...

10:30
10:30 - 11:45 | 1 hour 15 minutes
entrepreneurship family businessENT

Understanding effective spinout defiance Author(s)/Auteur(s): Sepideh Yeganegi (Wilfrid Laurier University), Andre Laplume (Ryerson University) & Bradley Bernard (Toronto Metropolitan University) Producing knowledge on entrepreneurial strategy: A communicative approachAuthor(s)/Auteur(s): Alana Pierce (HEC Montreal) Implementing Effectuation and Causation in Small and Medium Enterprises: A Multilevel Ana...

13:00
13:00 - 15:45 | 2 hours 45 minutes
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Finalists for the Abridged Pitch Competition have 180 seconds to pitch their work for a chance at a grand prize — $5,000 for five best paper finalists and $2,500 for three best student paper finalists.  This isn’t your typical academic presentation and finalists won’t be judged on the merits of their research—they've already won an award at the conference, we know they're good. Finalists will be judged based on their ability to tell a captivating story, capture the emo...

16:00
16:00 - 17:15 | 1 hour 15 minutes
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Chair/Président: Daniel Waeger (Wilfrid Laurier University)   BEST STUDENT PAPER - MEILLEURE COMMUNICATION ETUDIANTEHow Community Characteristics Influence Market Categories: Local Food in the Grocery Retail IndustryAuthor(s)/Auteur(s): Yoojin Lee (McGill University) Institutional Work and the Use of Emotional Language in Complex Institutional ContextsAuthor(s)/Auteur(s...

16:00 - 17:15 | 1 hour 15 minutes
entrepreneurship family businessConference wideENT

Preparing Grant ProposalsAuthor(s)/Auteur(s): Wendy Cukier (Toronto Metropolitan University)This workshop is designed to provide training to academic scholars and graduate students in preparing grant proposals. Securing research funding is becoming competitive, thus the ability to craft compelling and strategic grant proposals is critical for scholars and graduate students to implement and advance their res...