Visiting Scholars

Lazaridis Visiting Research Chairs include:

• Dr Holger Patzelt, Professor, Technical University of Munich and Lazaridis Institute Senior Research Fellow. Dr. Patzelt is Professor of Business Administration and Entrepreneurship at the TUM School of Management and a Senior Research Fellow at the Lazaridis Institute. He conducts research on business ventures, strategic entrepreneurship and startup failure, with a focus on psychological aspects such as cognition and decision-making by entrepreneurs. He holds a PhD in molecular biology and a PhD in business administration and previously served as Associate Director at the Max Planck Institute of Economics. In addition to visiting the Lazaridis Institute, Holger has conducted research at ETH Zurich and at the Leeds Business School, University of Colorado.
• Dr. Charlene Zietsma, Professor and Research Fellow, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, USA. Charlene Zietsma is a Professor and the John & Becky Surma Dean's Research Fellow, Management and Organization at the Smeal College of Business. Charlene's research focuses on contexts involving significant, large-scale change. She studies institutional work, institutional change processes, social and sustainable entrepreneurship and social emotions usually in the context of social and ecological issues and social movements. Her work has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and other prominent journals.  She is a Field Editor for Journal of Business Venturing. 

• Dr. Moren Levesque 
  Moren is Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems as well as CPA Ontario Chair in International Entrepreneurship at York University Schulich School of Business. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Lazaridis Institute. 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

Lazaridis Visiting Professors include:

• John van Reenen, Ronald Coase Chair in Economics, The London School of Economics 
• Dr. Kristof Coussement, Professor of Business Analytics at IÉSEG School of Management, France.
• Dr. Daniel F. Spulbur, Elinor Hobbs Professor of International Business, Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA.

Lazaridis Institute Senior Research Fellow:

• Dr. Nir Vulkan, Associate Professor of Economics, Said Business School Oxford University, UK.

Lazaridis Institute research partners:

• Andrew Karolyi: Harold Bierman, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University, USA.
• Charlene Zietsma: Associate Professor of Management and Organization, Smeal School of Business, Penn State University, USA.

Lazaridis Visiting Chairs include:

• Charles Dhanaraj (H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest Professor of Strategy, Fox School of Business, Temple University, USA)
• Mark Freel (RBC Financial Group Professor in the Commercialization of Innovation, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada)
• Moren Lévesque (Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems, CPA Ontario Chair in International Entrepreneurship, York University, Canada)
• Jeff McMullen (Dan M Coleman Chair of Management and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA)
• Holger Patzelt (Chair, TUM Entrepreneurship Research Institute, Technical University of Munich, Germany)
• Christian Schwens (Endowed Chair for Interdisciplinary Management Science, University of Cologne, Germany)
• Nir Vulkan (Associate Professor of Business Economics, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK)
• Caroline Wiertz (Professor of Marketing and Associate Dean for Entrepreneurship, Cass Business School, City University of London, UK)
• Johan Wiklund (Al Berg Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, USA)

Lazaridis Visiting Professors include:

• Victor Seidel (Associate Professor, Babson College, Boston, USA)

Visiting Junior Scholars and Doctoral Students include:

• Tamara Galkina (Assistant Professor, University of Vaasa, Finland)
• Jonathan Van Mumford (Post Doctoral Scholar, University of Turku, Finland)
• Biljana Rudic (Doctoral Candidate, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

Lazaridis Visiting Chairs include:

• Constantin Blome (Professor of Operations Management, University of Sussex, UK)
• Mark Freel (RBC Financial Group Professor in the Commercialization of Innovation, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada)
• Marc Gruber (Vice President for Innovation, Chair of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Moren Lévesque (Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems, CPA Ontario Chair in International Entrepreneurship, York University, Canada)
• Holger Patzelt (Chair, TUM Entrepreneurship Research Institute, Technical University of Munich, Germany)
• Dean Shepherd (Ray and Milann Siegfried Professor of Entrepreneurship, Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame University, USA)
• Shaker Zahra (Robert E Buuck Chair of Entrepreneurship, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA)

Lazaridis Visiting Professors include:

• Mariano (Pitosh) Heyden (Associate Professor of Management, Monash University, Australia)
• Alexander Whalley (Associate Professor, Economics, University of Calgary, Canada)

Visiting Junior Scholars and Doctoral Students include:

• Christine Friederici (Doctoral Student, University of Düsseldorf, Germany)

Past visiting scholars to the Lazaridis Institute have included:

• Constantin Blome (Professor of Operations Management, University of Sussex, UK)
• Tomas Hult (Byington Endowed Chair, Professor of Marketing, Michigan State University, USA)
• Nir Vulkan (Associate Professor of Business Economics, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)

Past visiting scholars to the Lazaridis Institute have included:

• Valterri Kaartemo (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Turku, Finland)
• Achim Walter (Chair, Institute for Innovation Research, Christian Albrechts University, Germany)