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Ehsan Derayati, PhD, MBA, B.Eng

  • Interim Director, John Molson Executive MBA , Executive MBA
  • Director of the National Bank Initiative in Entrepreneurship & Family Business
  • Lecturer (ETA), Management

Research areas: Strategic Management Entrepreneurship, Disruption & Innovation Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Management Consulting Business Model Innovation International Business Policy

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Education

PhD (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
MBA (Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran) 

Teaching activities

EMBA 642    Crafting and Implementing a Winning Strategy 
MBA 650      Crafting and Implementing Successful Strategies
MSCA 654    Seminar in Consulting: Managing a Consulting Firm 
COMM 401   Strategy & Competition 
 

Publications

Publications:

Seifzadeh, P., Derayati, E., & Radnejad, A. B. (2020). Multinational enterprises and strategic actions in emerging economy contexts: From conformity to institutional entrepreneurship. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences/Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration.

Derayati, E., Molz, R., & Edwards, G. (2019). A Scale of Relative Institutional Challenge During MNC Global Expansion. In Emerging Economic Models for Global Sustainability and Social Development (pp. 98-124). IGI Global.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & PROCEEDINGS:

Derayati, Ehsan, Gwyneth Edwards, and Rick Molz. "The Influence of Relative Institutional Challenge on Ownership Structure." the Academy of Management annual meeting, Chicago, USA, 2018 

Seifzadeh, Pouya, and Ehsan Derayati. "Multinational Enterprises as Institutional Entrepreneurs: The Case of Emerging Economy Contexts." The Academy of Management annual meeting, Chicago, USA, 2018 

Derayati, Ehsan. “The effects of institutional setting on nourishing deep-tech start-ups: A qualitative approach to Canadian Deep-Tech Start-up ecosystem." European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Conference, Tallinn, Estonia, July 2018 

Derayati, Ehsan & Gwyneth Edwards, “The Impact of Relative Institutional Challenge on the Process of Firms’ Internationalization”, Academy of International Business (AIB) Conference, New-Orleans, USA, 2016 

Derayati, Ehsan, “Institutional Uncertainty and International Strategies of SMEs” 

European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS) Conference, Athens, Greece, 2015 (Accepted) 

Derayati, Ehsan, “SMEs: The Mountain Goats of International Business”, European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS) Conference, Rotterdam, 2014 (Accepted) 

Derayati, Ehsan & Pouya Seifzadeh, “Multinational Enterprises as Institutional Entrepreneurs: The Case of Emerging Economy Contexts”, The Academy of Management annual meeting, Florida, USA, 2013 

Derayati, Ehsan & Pouya Seifzadeh . “Multinational Enterprises and Institutional Entrepreneurship activities in emerging economies”, European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS) Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 2012 


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