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Dr. Goran Calic

Associate Professor / Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Headshot of Dr. Goran Calic, smiling.

Department / Academic Area

Faculty, Strategic Management

Designations

Director of the MBA Programs / Michael Lee-Chin & Family Professor in Strategic Business Studies

Biography

Goran Calic is the Entrepreneurship Leadership Chair and Associate Professor of Strategy at McMaster University, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. He holds a PhD in Strategy, with a minor in economics, and a Post Doc. in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience from Purdue. His work on organizational innovation was awarded the Max Henri Boisot Award. His research has been published in Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Small Business Economics, Nature: Scientific Reports, PLOS One, British Medical Journal: Open, Harvard Business Review, and other top journals. Previously Calic served as Director of McMaster’s MBA programs. During this time he implemented a redesign of the first year MBA curriculm. From 2025 to 2026, Calic held a Visiting Scholar appointment in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School.

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Journals

Personalizing Videos To Improve Fundraising: Evidence From Reward-based Crowdfunding

Jialiang Yang    Rene Arseneault    Goran Calic

Journal     2025

International Journal Of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research

Seeing The Whole: Configurational Cognition And New Venture Resource Mobilization

Goran Calic    François Neville    Santi Furnari    Cs richard Chan

Journal     2025

Strategic Management Journal

Creativity Research In Medicine And Nursing: A Scoping Review

Alex Thabane    Sarah Saleh    Sushmitha Pallapothu    Tyler Mckechnie    Phillip Staibano    Goran Calic

Journal     2025

Plos One

A Consensus Definition Of Creativity In Surgery: A Delphi Study Protocol

Alex Thabane    Tyler Mckechnie    Phillip Staibano    Vikram Arora    Goran Calic

Journal     2024

Plos One

Other

Social Acceptance Of Small Modular Reactors [abstract Only]

Anton Shevchenko    Goran Calic    Lee-chin family institute for strategic business studies Michael

2023

Social Acceptance Of Small Modular Reactors

Anton Shevchenko    Goran Calic    Lee-chin family institute for strategic business studies Michael

2023

On Why Women?owned Businesses Take More Time To Secure Microloans

Goran Calic    Moren Lévesque    Anton Shevchenko    Lee-chin family institute for strategic business studies Michael

2023

Seeing The Whole: Configurational Cognition And New Venture Resource Mobilization

Goran Calic    François Neville    Santi Furnari    Cs richard Chan    Lee-chin family institute for strategic business studies Michael

2023