Dr. Goran Calic

Associate Professor / Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership / Michael Lee-Chin & Family Professor in Strategic Business Studies

Department / Academic Area

Faculty, Strategic Management

Available to Supervise PhD

Strategic Management

Designations

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

Biography

Dr. Goran Calic is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management, with membership in Information Systems, at McMaster University. He holds a PhD in Strategic Management and a Post Doc. in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience from Purdue University. Goran Calic’s research focuses on understanding why some individuals are more creative and some organizations are more innovative than others. His area of research is primarily concerned with early-stage entrepreneurship. His work on creativity in organizations was awarded the 2015 Max Henri Boisot Award from the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS). He has written in a variety of academic publications, such as the Journal of Management Studies, Nature Scientific Reports, Rutgers Business Review, the Academy of Management Learning & Education, and The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Citizenship Behavior. His work is funded by a number of interdisciplinary grants and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Prior to starting his academic career, Goran Calic worked for four years in Osnabrück, Germany at Georgsmarienhütte GmbH. During this time, he was involved in activities related to market research and organizational strategy.

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Journals

Investigation Of Divergent Thinking Among Surgeons And Surgeon Trainees In Canada (ideas): A Mixed-methods Study

Alex Thabane    Tyler Mckechnie    Vikram Arora    Goran Calic

Journal     2024

Bmj Open

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

Goran Calic    Moren Lévesque    Anton Shevchenko

Journal     2023

Small Business Economics

Connecting Creativity And Innovation

Goran Calic    Pedro Faria    Christoph Grimpe    Olli-pekka Kauppila    Bernard a Nijstad    Pino g Audia    Markus Baer    Paola Criscuolo    Riitta Katila

Journal     2023

Academy Of Management Proceedings

Other

Chapter 17 Organizational Development

Min Basadur    Tim Basadur    Goran Calic

2023

What Elon Musk Can Learn From Steve Jobs’s Return To Apple

Andy Wu    Goran Calic

2022

The Challenges Of Transforming Twitter

Andy Wu    Goran Calic

2022

4 Types Of Innovators Every Organization Needs

Andy Wu    Goran Calic    Min Basadur

2022