Michael Lounsbury, PhD. MBA. BA
Pronouns: he/him
Contact
Professor and A.F. (Chip) Collins Chair; Academic Director of eHUB Entrepreneurship Centre; Chair/SEM, Alberta School of Business - Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management
- ml37@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-1684
- Address
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4-21 Business Building
11203 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2R6
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Organization Theory Emancipatory Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial Dynamics Technological Innovation and Commercialization Market Creation Economic Sociology Strategic Management Entrepreneurship Institutional Change Cultural Entrepreneurship
About
Michael Lounsbury is a professor and the A.F.(Chip) Collins Chair in the University of Alberta’s Alberta School of Business’ (ASB) Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management. He has held numerous positions at the U of A, including the ASB’s associate dean of research and was a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from 2014 to 2022. Currently, he is the chair of the ASB’s Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management, an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology, and the academic director of the eHUB Entrepreneurship Centre, a position in which he oversees curricular and co-curricular entrepreneurship initiatives. He is also the Co-PI and Research Director for the Canadian 2SLGBTQI+ Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub.
After receiving his bachelor of arts in economics (with honours) from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1988, he received an MBA and a PhD in sociology and organization behavior from Northwestern University in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He has also held numerous positions at postsecondary institutions across the world. He was a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics in 2010. At Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, he accepted an International Research Fellowship between 2014 and 2016, and was a visiting scholar in 2004. His other appointments include a part-time professorship at the Australian National University College of Business and Economics, which he’s held since 2023.
Lounsbury's research has a general focus on the relationship between entrepreneurship and institutional change, especially the cultural entrepreneurship involved in the creation of new industries and practices. He serves on a number of editorial boards and his work has been published in top tier peer-reviewed journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and Organization Studies. In addition, he is the series editor of Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Lounsbury is also the recipient of numerous awards and accolades. In 2018, he became an Elected Fellow of the Academic of Management (top one percent membership) and was named a highly cited researcher by the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science. And, in 2020, he received the J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research, the U of A’s most prestigious research award.
Research
Research Interests
Organization Theory, Entrepreneurial Dynamics, Technological Innovation and Commercialization, Market Creation, Economic Sociology, Strategic Management.
Professor Lounsbury's research has a general focus on the relationship between entrepreneurship and institutional change, especially the cultural entrepreneurship involved in the creation of new industries and practices. He serves on a number of editorial boards and his work has been published in top tier peer-reviewed journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and Organization Studies. In addition, he is the series editor of Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
Teaching
Teaching Interests
Organization Theory, Entrepreneurial Dynamics, Technological Innovation and Commercialization, Market Creation, Economic Sociology, Strategic Management.
Courses
SEM 701 - Seminar in Organization Theory
This course introduces students to the major schools of thought in organization and management theory. It considers the development of the field, major and foundational works in these schools of thought, and provides a cognitive map with which to evaluate contemporary research and debates. At the end of the course the student will have an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each major perspective. Prerequisite: Registration in Business PhD Program or written permission of instructor. Approval of the Business PhD Program Director is also required for non-PhD students. Not to be taken by students with credit in ORG A 701.
SEM 704 - Individual Research
Prerequisite: Registration in Business PhD Program or written permission of instructor. Approval of the Business PhD Program Director is also required for non-PhD students.
Featured Publications
Weiss, T., Lounsbury, M. & Bruton, G.
Organization Science. 2024 June; 10.1287/orsc.2023.17644
Michael Lounsbury and Joel Gehman
Elgar. 2024 June;
Lounsbury, M., C. Steele, M. Wang & M. Toubiana
Annual Review of Sociology. 2021 December; 47 10.1146/annurev-soc-090320-111734
Hedberg, Leanne & Lounsbury, Michael
Organization Science. 2021 December; 32 10.1287/orsc.2020.1395
Michael Lounsbury, Milo Shaoqing Wang
Organization Theory. 2020 January; 10.1177/2631787719891173
Cultural Entrepreneurship: A New Agenda for the Study of Entrepreneurial Processes and Possibilities
Michael Lounsbury and Mary Ann Glynn
Cambridge University Press. 2019 January;
Eric Yanfei Zhao, Masakazu Ishihara, P. Devereaux Jennings and Michael Lounsbury
Organization Science. 2018 June; 29 10.1287/orsc.2017.1194
Micelotta, Evelyn, Michael Lounsbury and Royston Greenwood.
Journal of Management. 2017 August; 43 10.1177/0149206317699522
Lee, B.H., Hiatt, S.R., Lounsbury M.
Organization Science. 2017 June; 28 10.1287/orsc.2017.1126
Strategic Management Journal. 2017 January; 10.1002/smj.2589
Lee, Min-Dong (Paul), Michael Lounsbury
Organization Science. 2015 January; 26
Lounsbury, Michael and Beckman, Christine
Journal of Management Studies. 2014 January; 52 (2):288-308
Paul Tracey, Nelson Phillips, and Michael Lounsbury
In Religion and Organizations. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. 2014 January; 41
Eric Yanfei Zhao, Masakazu Ishihara , and Michael Lounsbury
Organization Studies. 2013 January; 34 (12):1747-1776
Patricia H. Thornton, William Ocasio, and Michael Lounsbury
Administrative Science Quarterly. 2013 January; 58
Tyler Wry, Michael Lounsbury, and P. Devereaux Jennings
Academy of Management Journal. 2013 January; 57 (5):1309-1333
Tyler Wry, Michael Lounsbury, Mary Ann Glynn
Organization Science. 2011 January; 22 (2):449-463
Royston Greenwood, Mia Raynard, Farah Kodeih, Evelyn Micelotta, and Michael Lounsbury
Academy of Management Annals. 2011 January; 5
Michael Lounsbury, Paul M. Hirsch
Michael Lounsbury, Paul M. Hirsch (ed.) Markets on Trial: The Economic Sociology of the U.S. Financial Crisis: Part B (Research in the Sociology of Organizations). 2010 January; Volume 30 (Part B):5-26
Michael Lounsbury and Paul Hirsch (Eds.)
Administrative Science Quarterly. 2010 January; 57
Klaus Weber, Jerry Davis, and Michael Lounsbury
Academy of Management Journal. 2009 January; 52
Christopher Marquis, and Michael Lounsbury
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL. 2007 January; 50 (4):799-820
Michael Lounsbury, and Ellen T. Crumley
Organization Studies. 2007 January; 28 (7):993-1012
Michael Lounsbury
Academy of Management Journal. 2007 January; 50 (2):289-307
Paul M. Hirsch, and Michael Lounsbury
Academy of Management Review. 2006 January; 21 (3):872-884
Michael Lounsbury
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL. 2002 January; 45 (1):255-266
Michael Lounsbury
Administrative Science Quarterly. 2001 January; 46
Michael Lounsbury
Administrative Science Quarterly. 2001 January; 46 (1):29-56
Michael Lounsbury and Mary Ann Glynn
Strategic Management Journal. 2001 January; 22 (6-7):545-564
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