Linda Dyer, PhD

Linda Dyer studies the organizational impact of demographic diversity, specifically in age, gender, and ethnicity. A second stream of research focuses on interpersonal relationships among the owner-managers of small firms and their employees, and owner-managers' interactions with professional business advisors. A current project explores age stereotypes and how they might affect the self-efficacy of mid-career and late-career employees. Her methodological approach is largely qualitative, focused on interviews, content analysis and thematic analysis, and draws on base theories of individual cognition, cognitive biases, learning and the interplay between emotions and cognition.

She has published articles in journals such as the Journal of Managerial Psychology, the Journal of Small Business Management, the International Journal of Small Business, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, as well as chapters in various books.

Education

PhD (Carnegie-Mellon University)

Courses

• Research Methodology (MSc, MBA, undergraduate)
  
• Contemporary Business Thinking (undergraduate)
• Pedagogy (PhD)
  

Selected Scholarly Publications

Dyer, L. & Ross, C.A. (2022). "Montreal Community Contact: What will happen after me?" Ivey case publication, June.

Ntalianis, G. & Dyer, L. (2021). Balanced psychological contracts in the small business: The five-factor model at work. Personality and Individual Differences, 178.

Hernandez, J. & Dyer, L. (2018). Job opportunities for the unskilled immigrant. Proceedings of the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Halifax.

Ntalianis, F., Dyer, L. & Vandenberghe, C. (2015). Owner-Employee Relations in Small Firms. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 30, 4, 832-846.

Mitchell, J., Gagné, M., Beaudry, A. & Dyer, L. (2012). The role of perceived organizational support, distributive justice and motivation in reactions to new information technology. Computers in Human Behavior, 28, 2, 729–738.

Dyer, L. & Ross, C. (2007). Advising the small business client. International Journal of Small Business, 25, 2, 130-151.

Dyer, L. & Ross, C. (2000). Ethnic enterprises and their clientele, Journal of Small Business Management, 38, 48-66.

Fiske, S. & Dyer, L. (1985). Structure and development of social schemata: Evidence from positive and negative transfer effects. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48, 839-852.

Books

Dyer, L. (2019). Critical thinking for business students, Third edition, Captus Press.

Dyer, C.V. & Dyer, L. (2011). History of Industrial Education and Training in Trinidad and Tobago, Second Edition, Print Masters, Caripichaima.

Book Chapters

Ruel, S., Dyer, L. & Mills, A. (2020). The Canadian Alouette women: Reclaiming their space. Historical Organization Studies, Maclean, M., Clegg, S., Suddaby, & Harvey, C. (eds.), Routledge.

Morin, D., Thomas, J., Dyer, L., Boutchkova, M. & Barrington, J., (2009). The “Clicker” project: A scholarly approach to technology integration, Advances in Business Education & Training: Real Learning Opportunities in Business School and Beyond, Daly, P. & Gijbels, D. (editors), Springer, 96-107.

Dyer, L. & Ross, C. (2007). Ethnic business owners and their advisors: The effects of common ethnicity. In the Handbook of Research on Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship edited by Leo-Paul Dana, pp. 117-131, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Argote,L., Seabright, M. & Dyer, L. (1993). Individual versus group use of base-rate and individuating information. In Drozda-Senkowska, E., Collective Rationality. (Reprint of 1986 OBHDP article).

Dyer, L. & Devine, I. (1988). Tokenism and academic culture, chapter in S. Rose& L. Larwood (eds). Women’s Careers: Pathways and Pitfalls, Praeger Publishing.

Selected Conference Presentations

Sookhai, S. & Dyer, L. (2024). "Successors' choice of university discipline: Does it affect the family business?" Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Calgary.

Reda, B. & Dyer, L. (2024). "Family bonds and innovation in family firms: Through the eyes of a child," Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Calgary.

Leithman, G. & Dyer, L. (2018). "What really motivates older workers?" Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Toronto.

Wallace, T. & Dyer, L. (2017). "Clients' behaviour during the audit engagement and auditors' risk perceptions." Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Montreal.

Dyer, L. (2016). “Choosing to work for a small firm—does a CSR brand matter?” Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Guelph.

Dyer, L. & Leithman, G. (2016). “Succession planning in SMEs: Implicit motives and tacit knowledge transfer,” Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Guelph.

Dyer, L., Ntalianis, F. & Donia, M. (2015). “Motives of non-family employees in the small family business,” FERC, Vermont

Dyer,L. (2012). Recruitment strategies and the small firm: An experimental investigation of employer branding. Proceedings of Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, St John’s, Newfoundland. 

Dyer, L. & Donia, M. (2011). Applicant Attraction to the Socially-Responsible Small Business, Proceedings of the International Council for Small Business, Stockholm.

Packalen, K. & Dyer, L. (2011). Finding the right one: Forming successful advisor relationships in small firms. Proceedings of the International Council for Small Business, Stockholm.