Ke Cao

My research program centers on advancing contemporary administrative sciences and modernizing management theory. To this end, I pursue scholarship that is more contextual, integrative, robust, and responsive to societal needs. My broad research interests include: How do organizations work? How can businesses contribute to societal welfare? How can management scholarship help build a better society?  

In other words, sitting on the well-decorated business school floor of the academic ivory tower, I work to alleviate and prevent human suffering through my scholarship as a champagne socialist (referencing Canadian rock band Arkells).

Below are some ongoing projects. It takes time to generate, develop, and formulate good academic ideas, stylish and not too stylized. I am energized by the inquiry and optimistic about the output in the coming years and decades before I retire at old age, like His Majesty King Charles of Canada, who plays a ceremonial but crucial role, remotely, multitasking, in the function of three branches of the government, in addition to answering daily prayers and acknowledging pledges of allegiance across Canada, and Their Excellencies the Honourable Presidents of the United States Trump and Biden, who both are credited as liberators of the freedom-yearning American people and leaders of the free world. In April 2022, I predicted a regime-change bravado and an epic 2024 comeback win for President Trump, a generational political leader. The forecast was reaffirmed multiple times in writing and teaching. The deep state, the military-industrial complex, and the swamp have the money and power. President Trump has the people.

In their baby talk propaganda, the cultural Marxists, decrying everything they could not comprehend as polarization, claimed, very unfairly, that the American people were deplorable and did not know about democracy and freedom. To brainwash the American people, the cultural Marxists insisted President Trump was their oppressor, not their savior who loves nothing more than the American flag. Yet, more than 77 million American people, very strongly and beautifully led by President Trump, a revolutionary in the same vein as Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, and George Washington, democratically and freely sent those cultural Marxists packing to their woke fantasyland and have the last laugh fair and square. In Canada, cultural Marxist propaganda in French, Spanish, Chinese and other globalist languages has brainwashed some free-spirited Canadians into King-hating robots, like those big government-loving soulless folks in Animal Farm. This type of mental colonization could be more effective than guns and artillery. Those who ask what is the point of having a King shall give their heads a good shake and eat some biscuits with royal warrants. The emancipation from the yoke of cultural Marxism is unfinished. The struggle is ongoing. The people will carry the revolution through to the end. 

I foresaw President Trump's trade sparring with America's associates (denoting Walmart business lingo here) but was surprised by his sudden, eager, zealous, and mostly groundless tariff provocation with Canada. Even more astonishing was President Trump's public taunting of Canadian sovereignty, aka His Majesty King Charles' remaining body politic in North America. Why does a good guy have to be subject to something that is supposed to be for a bad guy only? Why is a good guy tough on another good guy? What happened? One underappreciated factor in President Trump's thinking about Canada may be his obsession with the Trudeau-Castro conspiracy, which he has talked about openly and written about in his new book Save America. He often gifted the book to world leaders. There are many nasty slanders about the very colorful, expensive, and remarkable book. The New York Magazine article "The High and Lows From Trump’s Lazy New Coffee-Table Book" at least showcases its style and gist. As a fellow writer, I can see that President Trump did not use ghostwriters in this book and meant everything he said. Some people saw President Trump's sometimes acerbic language as bad taste. It is my view that humiliating dumb and hypocritical politicians who ruined the lives of millions of people should become fashionable. It is a service for public good. Meanwhile, those people have no much shame after all.

In my opinion, starting from President Trump's second term, America will be run by smart and uncorrupt people for at least 24 years before American cultural Marxists, who have alienated the American people spectacularly with their shaky moral high ground and clumsy effort to copycat President Trump, can, or even would like to try to, mobilize some semblance of resistance, assuming the disillusioned cultural Marxists have not shyly joined the Trump Train en masse already. Trump Junior and/or Musk will likely become POTUS in the 2040s and continue building a cultural Maxism-free paradise on Earth for the American people. The brainwashing of the American people finally ends. Putting their lovely cultural Marxist red star tinfoil hats away, American people look out for each other in handling Trump Derangement Syndrome and the woke mind virus. Well-washed American brains begin to heal. Freedom and peace are on the horizon. America will never be dragged into cultural Marxist stupidity again. 

I feel fortunate to have witnessed in my lifetime the two rounds of visionary, strategic, bracing, and pivotal shock therapy President Trump has prescribed and administered with commitment, creativity, and élan for America, the greatest country on earth after Canada that was once on the precipice of becoming a weird neoliberal cultural Marxist banana republic keen on keeping its citizens illiterate, uninformed, hooked on lousy, garbage, and fake news, crackpot ideas about Republicanism, and superficial, funny understanding of the magnanimous Crown. The ramifications are historically colossal and globally far-reaching.

I am a free thinker. I like the Crown and also the American flag. It is monarchism or barbarism. America is the only civilized republic. If the USA is transformed into a wacko cultural Marxist dystopia one day, I will stop attending academic conferences there save the great states of Florida and Texas in the winter. The literal meaning of the USA's Chinese name 美国 (Mei Guo) is "Beautiful Country." It is ironic that President Trump is often vilified as a Hollywood-type villain as he and his good-looking, wonderful, lovely, All-America entourage work hard to make America beautiful again and build a more radiant, equitable, and just new society and life for the great country in the final round of liberation battle for the American people and their eternal freedom and glory, as promised in the American Constitution by their Founding Fathers.

During the struggle, Wharton (our peer business school with more expensive tuition and heavier homework, btw)-educated President Trump gave it all, left behind his comfortable life, suffered years of online censorship and banishment, had his beautiful mug shot taken and his beautiful home searched by the FBI Hollywood style, survived two attempts on his life, and was jeered and heckled all along by cultural Marxism-poisoned Radical Left Lunatics home and abroad who don't know better. I wondered what kind of teachers and education those people got in school. Starting from the former US Secretary of State who was conferred an honorary degree by the very prestigious Yale University in 2009, some of President Trump's smug opponents even insistently encouraged the American people to listen to President Trump's speeches themselves, and unsurprisingly, as a result, the American people started to see things clearly amid the mist of obfuscation, enlightened by President Trump's plain, powerful, and jovial tutelage. As Goethe said, there is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Cultural Marxism made people lose their minds in a comical way, giving them the intoxicated illusion of being maybe a little bit hypocritical but overall sane and good guys on the right side of history who were, of course, smarter than that orange blabber and going to win bigly. The internet says that in 2024, in the United States, "54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level." Laugh as you may, but President Trump is highly erudite and lettered. Can you imagine any other US president quoting Lenin at a mass rally? I was very impressed. President Trump's esprit de finesse stands in stark contrast to the American cultural Marxists' crass agitpop. As an educator, I appreciate that when announcing his official appointments to the American people, President Trump highlighted the impressive education credentials of those appointees. This may explain why My Pillow Guy of the great state of Minnesota has not gotten any position yet. For his strong business record, MAGA loyalty, and sense of common sense that particularly resonates with the American people, he could be a good candidate to supervise the construction of MAGA-themed monuments, promote cultural Marxism-free free-thinking education, run a House Un-American Activities Committee, or relaunch Trump University. American cultural Marxists put a statute of Lenin in Seattle and dismantled statues of some controversial American figures all over America. British cultural Marxists put a statue of Marx in His Majesty King Charles' home city. Chinese, Canadian, and Spanish cultural Marxists put statutes of Bethune in China, Canada, and Spain. There is no reason American patriots do not pitch in for President Trump's statues. 

Americans are proud of their critical thinking and two-sided discussions, etc., but in practice, it is all cultural Marxism baby talk gimmick brainwashing stuff that has damned America and Americans for decades. Okay, students, you have two essay topic options. Whether Trump (or King Charles) is a bad guy or a very bad guy. It is reported that immediately after President Trump's election win, some American educators offered students time off to absorb the associated shock and trauma. Dear American cultural Marxists, this was weird as it could be possibly weird even by the American or American cultural Marxism standard. My Pillow Guy could start his work in his home state, Minnesota, where a dangerous combination of Stanford cultural Marxist economics professor, Islamist, and Communist China-inspired cultural Marxism is still brazen. I could not think of any Minnesota stuff I could boycott other than the made-in-China 3M products. The Kingdom of Canada has almost everything the state of Minnesota has.

The notion of cultural Marxism may sound very funny to those who have a literary below a 6th-grade level, but it should be taken seriously. In troubled times, it led people to pick up arms and disown their kings, especially foreign kings. In peaceful times, it corrupted people's minds and ruined civilization. On principle, I don't buy made-in-America cultural Marxist Ben & Jerry's ice cream or made-in-China cultural Marxist fancy socks. I first studied cultural Marxism many years ago against my free will in high school in Communist China, and I knew the cultural Marxism agenda when I saw it!

Later, I had a come-to-His-Majesty-The-King moment in Canada and finally became a free thinker. Even before my initial classroom cultural Marxism study, I learned about a former Canadian cultural Marxist, Dr. (real doctor) Norman Bethune, aka 白求恩 or Bai Qiu En, who was originally from the great province of Ontario and undisputedly known as the most famous Canadian ever among the Chinese people, in my Chinese language class in middle school. Isabel Crook, aka 伊莎白·柯鲁克 or Yi Sha Bai·Ke Lu Ke, is a lesser-known but widely celebrated Canadian cultural Marxist in China. Both were honoured moderately in Canada as well. Crook was aged 107. Bethune died at 49. I aspire to live into a three-digit life before going to Heaven, happily playing golf, dancing, and singing all day. 

I am one of the very few of His Majesty's Loyal Socialist Professors / HMLSP (Professeures et professeurs socialistes loyaux de Sa Majesté / PPSLM), propagandized by Fidel Castro and his Canadian comrades. I bank with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Royal Bank of Canada, shop at groceries run by Empire Company Limited, and take vacations to the Republic of Cuba from Kitchener/Waterloo or Toronto. I live near the Queen Street and work near the King Street. During Laurier's renowned St. Patrick's Day Street Party, I stay at home, cook Fish and Chips, and reflect on the quiet dignity of the Crown, to the tune of the song Joe Mcdonnell. I cheer for the Gaels when they compete with the Golden Hawks, and the Gaels are not even good sports teams. I say Hello Mate and refuse to say Boujour when in Québec. Some Chinese friends who have remained in or fled Communist China and American friends who have remained in or fled Trump Land were in awe.

Likewise, the King's homegrown English subjects were often amazed to find a sizeable number of francophone fellow subjects of the Crown in Québec who made brilliant pledges of allegiance in English and French to His Majesty King Charles III and his heirs on official occasions. There is immense joy in being a Royal Family super fan. Swearing-in ceremonies of francophone ministers in Canada are my favourite. I was so happy watching those stuff that I would be happy to pay money to do so. Those scenes were almost as spitting-your-tea type of funny as seeing some American cultural Marxists, before AND after their spectacular ruin, gloating about their moral and intelligent superiority over President Trump and the American people. A not untypical American thing. Fascinating and mysterious. In Canada, people, save some politicians and experts, are mostly Crown and G7 proud quietly.

Facing realities and not being self-delusional are undervalued traits for business people and politicians. Any G7 leader ridiculously humiliated by Trump should shut up and get lost after deliberating the potentially best exit arrangements for the interests of the country so the people would not be the farcical cultural Marxism-induced collateral damage. Whatever you think about him, President Trump is willing to face realities and intends to work towards improving the welfare of the American people beyond his own interests within the same propriety bounds of his predecessors, who actually did many more, much worse, morally horrifying deeds than Trump. A lot of people say that, according to the Bible and other books, a lot of US presidents would eventually end up in hell. In the world of the Divine, there are consequences for killing innocent people. "The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth," as proclaimed by an American Radical Left Lunatic a long, long time ago, whose "soul goes marching on," as per Paul Robeson, who sang American songs but also the national anthem of Communist China. Robeson also sang the Ballad of Ho Chi Minh (which might inspire the Ballad of Hugo Chavez, a Canadian song with royally weird lyrics), who kicked French and American asses. He did not sing songs for the Taliban, who also kicked American asses in a puzzling way nobody has ever seen before. Canadians are experienced in kicking American asses as well. With President Trump, American people can feel secure and proud again without worrying about asses being kicked.

By contrast, President Trump even goes out of his way to make sincere and regular holiday wishes for the Radical Left Lunatics. President Trump, a flawed but religious man, has been saved by his Savior to save America and the world from calamities, silencing weapons and propaganda and ushering in freedom and peace. With zero irony, I say President Trump is the most deserving POTUS for a Nobel Peace Prize, perhaps two, to fully acknowledge his underappreciated work. Dear American cultural Marxists, the truth can hurt and sting. President Trump will go to Heaven, happily playing golf, dancing, and singing all day. It is in the Bible. His minor sins, such as being super rich, will be forgiven because he is also super generous. In his mortal life, President Trump looks at the American cultural Marxists with pity but prays for them behind the scenes. 

Many people didn't know that in True North, English Enlightenment philosopher Hobbes and Cuban Communist dictator Castro had their fair share of purchases. Relatedly, bilingual, multicultural Monarchism and socialized public education and healthcare coexist in harmony. Interestingly, most Canadian cultural Marxists have become neoliberal, except the subversive Québec solidaire (QS), who are reminiscent of the anti-Crown Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) rebels exiled by Pierre Trudeau to Cuba, a long-time, quote, "State Sponsor of Terrorism." QS looks like a modern version of FLQ without guns in their hands and university professors among their ranks. By contrast, Bloc Québécois federal representatives always look like the most smug and dumb (SAD) bunch at parliament discussions. Once a decent political force, Canadian neoliberals have become a big-tent mixture of everything from Castro to the King, and to standing ovation muppets and beyond. People say Canadian neoliberals look up to American neoliberals like a 7-year-old looks up to a 12-year-old. Fortunately, there are still some sensible people in Canada who work hard to repeal the cultural Marxist carbon tax espoused by the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada CPC(M-L)/Parti marxiste-léniniste du Canada PCC(M-L) that was not even implemented in Communist China.

In the US and Canada, universities are run like a Cuban commune. Even students have their union. There are so many hippies, commies, and hippie commies who wear Fidel Castro-themed fancy socks that, as a socialist, I am considered a conservative. Funded mainly by taxpayers, faculties toil like hell and write papers that only their goodhearted pen pals care to read. They also spend a lot of time talking bad about President Trump, and sometimes President Biden, at faculty lounges. Unlike many, I greatly admire both Presidents Trump and Biden. Both are good guys.

President Trump is more talented in theatrics, North America-style. Yet, everything he did, he did for the American people. He can be obnoxious. He can occasionally exaggerate things. He can be impatient with knucklehead experts and columnists. He may not always meet Laurier's Stay Golden standard. He may dislike Canada, China, Cuba, Monarchy, Socialism, and Monarchistic Socialism. But he is not my enemy. He is people-centred, fair-minded, committed to service and justice, passionate about democracy and peace, good at business, governance, book writing, show hosting, performance art, crypto, living in cultural Marxists' heads rent-free, dancing, digital art, tariff, and golf, can think outside the box, values education and learning, loathes war-mongers, and cares about the poor, the unfortunate, the oppressed, the colonized, and the brainwashed. Above all, he is the most honest and straight-talking American politician who is real and true to the American people in modern history. He brought the American people together in a wow resounding victory with a small budget and a big heart. The oligarchies, the homeless, the slum dwellers, the republicans, the monarchists, tax collectors, private prison business owners, and other average common sense American people all looovvveee this guy. At the same time, some of his opponents lectured the American people in ways as if the American people were 3 years old. 

Like the People's King and the People's Presidents, and following the path of freedom and liberation they paved, I stand on the people's side of the barricades to the end against all baddies in Paris, Lexington & Mar-a-Lago, Derry, Oka or elsewhere when the banner of revolution is flying. The ideal scenario is that I will be on some fancy magazine's 80-Under-80 in the second half of the century before being knighted as a prestigious His Majesty's Royal Professor / HMRP (Professeur Royal de Sa Majesté / PRM) by his heir if not by King Charles himself. 

At one point, anxiously anticipating the explosion of imperial wars and the ensuing revolutions in Europe, Frederick Engels practiced horsemanship and marksmanship like crazy (Frankly, it is unbelievable that a Frederick Street has been named after this guy in Kitchener). Karl Marx, a tough guy, a bad guy who President Trump and the American people have been particularly and rightfully tough on, said that was stupid, and he could sacrifice his neck in a better manner. On a much better footing, I can serve the people with ease no matter what happens next. I can teach Chinese, cultural Marxism, or cultural Marxism in Chinese if Communist China invades and occupies Canada. I can teach golf, MAGA, anti-cultural Marxism, and the American Constitution and its beautiful amendments (the most important first and second ones still not instituted in Canada yet) if Canada becomes the 51st state of the US. I can teach the cooking of Fish & Chips and Monarchism if the British Empire welcomes Canada back. Finally, I can teach the cooking of Poutine and Monarchistic Socialism/Socialisme monarchique in Canadian or Chinese if His Majesty's Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian Air Force rout the People's Liberation Army and free China from cultural Marxism. 

• Cao, Ke, Li Tong & Yongzhi Du. On management theory. 
• Cao, Ke. On China-related research. 
• Cao, Ke. On the B Corp movement. 
• Cao, Ke. On management theory. 
• Cao, Ke. On management education. 
• Cao, Ke. On sustainability-related issues in the palm oil industry. 
• On Chinese multinational businesses. With Pál Nyiri, VU Amsterdam. (Tried a grant application once and may try again)
• Espahbod, Shervin (former doctoral student) & Ke Cao. Preparing a journal paper submission in the area of transportation and sustainability.

• Member of International Expert Panels, Slovak Research and Development Agency, since 2024
• Member of Adjudication Committee, Insight Grants competition, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada, 2024-2025
• Institutional Explore Grants, SSHRC Canada, $6,500, Sole Investigator, on revitalizing business and management theory and education, for 2024-2025
• Faculty Host, Mitacs Globalink Research Internship program, 2023-2024, 2024-2025
• Outstanding Reviewer Award in the 2023 Emerald Literati Awards, selected by the editorial team of European Journal of Management Studies, 2023
• Best Reviewer Award, IACMR Biennial Conference, 2023
• Best Reviewer Award, Management and Organization Review, 2022
• Best Reviewer Award, International Management Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2022
• Travel Assistance Funding, $3,000, Business Department, Lazaridis School of Business & Economics, for 2022-2023
• Insight Grants, SSHRC Canada, $31,571, Sole Investigator, on voluntary sustainability certifications of products & businesses, for 2022-2025 
• Member of Editorial Board, Management and Organization Review, 2022-2025
• Member of Editorial Board, European Journal of Management Studies, 2022-2024
• Research Seed Grant, Lazaridis Institute, Sole Investigator, $5,494 for 16 months on culture in technology firms, 2021 Spring Competition
• Best Doctoral Dissertation Award Finalist, Organizations and the Natural Environment Division, Academy of Management, 2021
• Responsible Research in Management Award Finalist, International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) & the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM), 2019-2020
• Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, China Scholarship Council, 2018-2019
• Best Poster Award, Alberta School of Business Ph.D. Research Conference, 2017
• Ziegler Endowment Scholarship, University of Alberta, 2017
• G.R.A. Rice Graduate Scholarship in Business, University of Alberta, 2016-2017
• Attended a Barclays Premier League Trophy Tour, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2015
• Standard First Aid & CPR Certificate (valid for three years), 2015
• Attended a working lunch over Yunnan food with an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in Beijing, China, 2012
• Attended an alumni dinner reception over Southwestern Chinese food in Beijing, China, in 2012 hosted by a dignitary knighted in the U.K. in 2004
• Beinecke FES Scholarship, Yale University, 2007-2009
• Cameron Speth Fellowship, Yale University, 2008
• Champion of Mid-Autumn Texas Hold'em Tournament, Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale, 2008
• Member of Nanjing Citizen Soccer Team, admitted after winning a citywide soccer skill and knowledge contest; played a match representing the city with a Chinese celebrity team that included Wen Lirong, a silver medalist from the 1996 Olympics, and Huang Jianxiang, a famed sports commentator, 2005
• First in the family who completed high school, attended college, went to graduate school, travelled abroad, worked overseas, obtained a Ph.D., and became an academic.
• Running Race Finisher (Medal Winner by default):

2024

>October, Marathon, Toronto. 3 hours 48 minutes (Personal Best).

>August, 25km, Stone Cairn Trail Race, Niagara.

>May, Marathon, Ottawa.

>February, 8 miles, Re-Fridgee-Eighter, Waterloo.

2023

>October, Marathon, Toronto.

>May, Half Marathon, Ottawa.

2019

>August, 10k, Edmonton.

My medals are as impressive as a royal's. People say they are beautiful wow. I like beautiful medals. Thank you. Working toward becoming a sub-three-hours marathoner in 2025 at Mississauga, Toronto, or other places in Canada.

• Unlicensed, without formal education but qualified to teach the theory and practice of long-distance running for beginners as an academic subject. I have coached myself to the intermediate level for amateur athletes for about two years. Contrary to popular belief, running is a very injury-prone and technical athletic activity. To thoroughly enjoy running races, whenever physically and mentally feasible, close to the finish line, like a pro, I try to showcase a supercharged sprint (e.g., like Sifan Hassan) and raise my arms stylishly (e.g., like Eliud Kipchoge).
• Potential races to run in the future: Dubai & Doha (having never been to the Middle East & interests piqued by the book A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani); Pyongyang (having never been there & intrigued by American Friends Service Committee's DPRK program, President Trump's peacebuilding work with DPRK, Michael Spavor's venture, Bruce Cumings' book The Korea War: A History, and Pablo Picasso's painting Massacre in Korea); La Habana (to compare road race vibes between Ottawa and Havana after reading the book Three Nights in Havana by Robert Wright; the cheers and standing ovations on the streets of Ottawa were invigorating and heartening); Dublin (having never been there & interested in the Irish history after reading Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA by Richard English and the SSHRC-sponsored book Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America by Reg Whitaker, Gregory S. Kealey <Order of Canada>, & Andrew Parnaby); Chicago (fast course; one of the World Marathon Majors; the city's history is sort of based, reminding me of Gerald Horne's books.); Paris (having never been there & impressed by some characters' deeds in Paris described in Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra Vogel and in Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper). Importantly, per my reading, all those books and authors are cultural Marxism-free.
• I have taught myself to be a decent beginner golfer capable of delivering a solid and stylish swing on the driving range. By the way, as another matter of fact, President Trump is a "pretty damn good" (quoting President Biden) golfer. I hope people can accept the truth, no matter how unpalatable it may be. Before my golf practice, I sometimes do Trump Dance for warm-up and luck, to good effect. In China, golf is an expensive bougie sport. A large number of golf-loving business owners and government officials have ended up in prison for golf-related bribery and corruption. Their beautiful golf membership cards and clubs were confiscated and auctioned, their social credit scores being reduced to zero. According to some wonderful and lovely China experts, including both Chinese and foreign ones, those former golfers' scores could be further penalized to around negative 250 if they stay on any green grass for too long, and meanwhile, could be bumped up if they choose to do some extra socially beneficial activities like hand-pushing trains. I thank His Majesty the King for the joy of playing golf in the Region of Waterloo. 

• No intention to recruit Ph.D. students. Open to providing supporting roles in supervising doctoral dissertations. Open to hosting visiting students who are externally funded, have solid academic credentials, and work towards a research-intensive academic career. 
• No need to hire research assistants right now.
• Students who request reference letters shall be prepared to provide a written summary of specific, informative nice things, which can be effusive but must be accurate and real,  you want me to say on your behalf.

I regard research as a privilege as well as a responsibility and endeavor to conduct impactful research that contributes to both theory and practice. I hope to write more public-facing scholarly work once I wrap up some research projects. So far, on this front, I have published lots of tweets at @kcvgd. The handle is a shorthand for "KC Vagabond." The Twitter banner photo was taken in 2010 at a conservation area in Bolikhamxay province, Lao People's Democratic Republic.

Here are my best-known refereed academic writings (* denotes equal authorship). 

Cao, K. & Gehman, J*. 2021. Certified B Corporations and Benefit Corporations. Oxford Bibliographies in Management. Edited by Ricky W. Griffin. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199846740-0203

• Focuses on scholarship in Management. Also covers representative works in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Law, Marketing, Sociology, and Political Science.
• Look out for an updated version in the future at www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846740/obo-9780199846740-0203.xml

Gehman, J., Grimes, M., & Cao, K. 2019. Why we care about Certified B Corporations: From valuing growth to certifying values. Academy of Management Discoveries, 5(1): 97-101

• Includes a brief, high-level literature review that shows the contours of scholarship on B Corps as of 2018. 

Cao, K., Gehman, J., & Grimes, M*. 2018. Standing out and fitting in: Charting the emergence of Certified B Corporations by industry and region. In Andrew C. Corbett & Jerome A. Katz (Eds.), Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth: Vol. 19. Hybrid ventures (1-38)

• Referenced in "Choosing Plan B: Danone Rethinks the Idea of the Firm." 2018, August 11. The Economist, 414(9101)

Grimes, M., Gehman, J., & Cao, K*. 2018. Positively deviant: Identity work through B Corporation certification. Journal of Business Venturing, 33(2): 130-148

• In 2022, representing the "Gender and Sustainability" theme, selected to be on the Top 20 Reading Lists, as part of the 20th-anniversary celebration of Women in the Academy of International Business (WAIB)
• 2020 Responsible Research in Management Award Finalist
• "Conditional Acceptance" for publishing at the Journal of Business Venturing after the initial submission.

Lazaridis School of Business and Economics

• BU 481 Business Policy 1: Strategic Management (undergraduate strategy capstone course): Spring 2024 (three sections); Fall 2022 (three sections, in-person, masked up); Spring 2022 (two sections, in-person, masked up); Fall 2020 (three sections, virtual). 
• Next teaching assignments: Entrepreneurship (MBA) and International Business (undergraduate) in Spring 2025.
• Most course evaluation items for Fall 2022 are 7 out of 7. All course evaluation items for Spring 2022 are 6 or 7 out of 7. Slightly lower for Fall 2020. 
• Our undergraduate education program is competitive with those offered by the most prominent schools in Canada, the United States, & elsewhere. Our graduate program has been getting stronger. People say we are the Harvard Business School in Waterloo.

Alberta School of Business

• SMO 441 Strategy & Innovation (undergraduate strategy capstone course): Winter 2018 & Fall 2018, a total of two sections; Instructor with Full Responsibility; Developed a new course syllabus. 
• SMO 641 Business Strategy (MBA strategy capstone course): Winter 2016, Guest Lecturer for the Public/Nonprofit Strategy session.

1. Academic Review & Editing

On a range of theoretical themes, research settings, and methods, I have reviewed manuscripts for the Academy of Management Discoveries (a total of 5), Academy of Management Review (2), Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2), Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility (5), Business Strategy and the Environment (2), Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management (2), Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (2), European Financial Management (3), European Journal of Management Studies (3), European Journal of Women's Studies (1), Journal of Business Ethics (7), Journal of Business Research (1), Journal of Business Venturing (5), Journal of Management (6), Journal of Management Studies (5), Management and Organization Review (8), Organization Studies (1), Organization & Environment (6), Review of Managerial Science (1), Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (1), and Strategic Organization (8).

I review research grant applications for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada. For SSHRC, I reviewed one project in 2022 as an external and expect to read about 16-17 application files as an adjudication committee member in 2024-25 in the area of business studies. In 2021 and 2022, I reviewed book projects for Springer Nature (1; in Law) and the University of Toronto Press (2; in Business). 

2. Public Engagement

• Panelist, Institutional Leadership and Policy Innovations for Purpose-driven Business: The Case of “B Corps" Paper Development Workshop. Academy of Management Meeting, Chicago. August, 2024. See Slide Deck.
• Panel Speaker, "Strategic Planning and Risk Management: Critical Updates for Corporate Counsel" Professional Development Program, hosted and sponsored by Ontario Bar Association and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, for in-house corporate counsel audience. June 2022, Toronto. See Slide Deck. 
• Speaker, about "Research on B Corps: State of the Art" at "First B Academics Event in Spain," organized by EADA Business School, B Lab Spain, and B Academics, for researchers, teachers, and practitioners interested in Certified B Corporations & Benefit Corporations (both commonly known as B Corps). March 2021, Virtual. See Slide Deck.

3.  Faculty Roles

• Faculty Platform Party or Marshal, Convocation, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, three sessions, Fall 2022; two sessions, Spring 2024; three sessions, Fall 2024
• Running to serve on Vice-President: Student Affairs Search Committee, Laurier, 2024 Fall. I am thankful for the collegial trust and the opportunity to take a stand and make a presence. Though I wasn't elected, it wasn't bad either. I like the experience.
• Running to serve on Associate Vice-President: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Search Committee, Laurier, 2023 Summer. I am thankful for the collegial trust and the opportunity to take a stand and make a presence. Though I wasn't elected, it wasn't bad either. I like the experience.
• Judge, World of Opportunities (WOO) Student Event, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Winter 2024
• Semi-final Judge, The Integrated Case Exercise (ICE), Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, four times, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Winter 2022, and Winter 2023
• Member of Doctoral Advisory & Examining Committee, Primary Supervisor of One Essay in the Dissertation "Market Information, Human Behaviour, and Policy: Dissecting the Trucking Freight Spot Markets in Three Essays", Shervin Espahbod, Operations and Decision Sciences, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, 2021-23. Defended in August, completed in October 2023. Placed as an Assistant Professor of Management Science at Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton University, Canada. Other faculty members: Drs. Shirley Chen (Laurier, Marketing), Stanko Dimitrov (University of Waterloo, Management Sciences), Patricia Goff (Laurier, Political Science; Chair), Michael Haughton (Laurier, Operations and Decision Sciences; Advisor), William Morrison (Laurier, Economics), and Victor Shi (Laurier, Operations and Decision Sciences).
• Offered Paid Work Opportunities to Lazaridis (former) Undergraduates: Asad Ali (research & teaching assistance, 2021-22); Maria Yousof (research & teaching assistance, 2021-23)
• Offered Paid Work Opportunities to Lazaridis (former) Ph.D. Students: Shervin Espahbod (2023, research with SSHRC grant; 2020, teaching assistance, in operations and decision sciences); Sarah Harcourt (2022, teaching assistance, in marketing); Sakshi Korde (2020, teaching assistance, in marketing)
• Supervision of Visiting Research Undergraduate Student: 2024 Summer, Yaqi Li, in International Affairs and International Relations, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, under the auspices of Mitacs Globalink Research Internship program. Received offer of 2025 program admission (application is ongoing; list is incomplete): M.A. in International Relations, Johns Hopkins University; M.A. in International Affairs, George Washington University.
• Supervision of Visiting Research Graduate Student: 2022 Fall, Manling Wang, in International Trade, Nanjing University, China, under the auspices of Laurier-Nanjing University student exchange program. Accepted an offer of 2023 Finance Ph.D. program admission from HEC Montréal.
• Reviewed 4 article submissions for LazSoc Business and Economics Review in 2023
• Faculty Affiliate, The Co-operators Center for Business and Sustainability, Wilfrid Laurier University, since 2021
• Faculty Advisor, Providing Resources for Information Systems Management (PRISM, student-run program), Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, 2021-22
• Submitted recommendation letters and forms for about 60 students

4. Work and Membership in Academia

• Facilitator/Mentor, Systems and Sustainability: Certified B Corporations and Benefit Corporations as a Useful Research Context Seminar at the 2023 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Boston.
• Facilitator for one Junior Scholars Group, Breakout Group Sessions, Responsible Research Academic Summit 2021. The Responsible Research in Business & Management (RRBM) initiative is a scholarly tour de force. It is cross-disciplinary and involves multiple participation opportunities such as doctoral scholarship, research training, and paper awards. RRBM pushes the boundaries of research at business schools worldwide. To fellow academics who take seriously scholarly responsibility and intellectual honesty, please consider contributing to and learning from RRBM.
• Member of Collaborative Action Groups (CAGs) & Task Groups, The HIBAR (Highly Integrative Basic and Responsive) Research Alliance (HRA). I have become more involved since 2021 and primarily help with matters related to a). Facilitating HIBAR Research Across Disciplines, b). Cross-Organizational Cooperation, and c). Building Awareness and Understanding of HIBAR Research. The HRA is open to any interested individual or organization. See how you can become involved at https:www.hibar-research.org/become-involved
• Member of Research Committee, The Global B Corp Academic Community (B Academics), 2022. Chair of Research Committee and Board Member, B Academics, 2021. 
• Co-organizer, Welcome Reception for PhD student participants, sponsored by Organization Studies, Alberta Institutions Conference, 2018

 I have been a member of the following academic communities:

• Academy of Management (AOM), since 2015
• Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS), since 2017
• Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) Network, since 2018
• Global B Corp Academic Community (B Academics), since 2020
• Chinese Management Scholars Community (CMSC), since 2020
• Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), since 2021
• International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR), since 2021
• International Humanistic Management Association (IHMA), since 2021
• Academy of International Business, since 2022

I was on the 2019-20 management faculty job market. The following information may be of use to prospective and fellow academics in pursuing a career in this space:

Invited on-campus interviews: Management Area, University College Dublin (declined after accepting an offer); Management Area, University of Rhode Island; Management Department, New Mexico State University; Policy Area (renamed Strategic Management Area later), Wilfrid Laurier University; Leading People and Organizations Area, Fordham University.

Early-stage interviews not on-campus: Deakin University; Portland State University; University of New Hampshire; University of Arkansas; University of Memphis; University of Manitoba; Boise State University; Kansas State University; University of Texas at San Antonio.