Dev Jennings
Contact
Professor, Alberta School of Business - Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management
- dj1@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 289-7919
- Address
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4-30A Business Building
11203 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2R6
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Organization Theory Sustainability Interpretive Data Science Research Methods
About
I am an organization theorist by training and in my orientation, one with an interest in institutions, technology, entrepreneurship and the natural environment. I have spent most of my academic life in the interdisciplinary spaces among business, sociology and the natural sciences.
Research
Research Interests
Currently, my main pursuits are work on entrepreneurship and technology, much of it with the Interpretive Data Science (IDeaS) group and around organizations and the natural environment, some of which is with the FES (Future Energy Systems) group. Please see my CV for further details.
Teaching
Teaching Experience
- SEM 420/688 - Strategic Decision Making with Data Analytics (undergrad/MBA)
- SMO 441 - Business Strategy (undergraduate)
- SMO 502/SEM 502 - Strategy and Organization
- SMO 641 - Capstone Business Strategy
- SMO 706 - Ph.D. Quant Methods
- SMO 686/ SEM 601 - Innovation and Sustainability - Clean Technology
- SMO 704 - Ph.D. Strategy
- SMO 704 - Ph.D. Quantitative Research Methods I (Panel Models, Event History, Network Analysis, Topic Modeling)
- SMO 706 - Ph.D. Quantitative Research Methods II (Advances in Topic Modeling, Network Analysis, and QCA, co-taught with Tim Hannigan and Vern Glaser)
In the past, I have taught courses in research methods, organizational behavior, organization theory, and human resources management. Much of that teaching was done at the University of British Columbia, partly with the UBC MBA Core Team. At UBC, I also taught in the UBC - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Program and the former UBC - Hong Kong Program.
Courses
SEM 601 - Innovation and Sustainability: The Cleantech Revolution
The clean technology and renewables course is a course designed to fit with three areas of graduate study: technology development and transfer, strategy, and sustainability. In this course, we will begin with an examination renewable energy industries (solar, water, wind, etc.) and clean technologies focused on waste and recycling. Clean and green strategies will be identified and discussed, using specific examples from our international clean technology research and database. At the end of the course, students will present either a project with a local clean technology company project or a case analysis of a key clean technology company of interest.