Brief Biography
Suhaib Riaz is an Associate Professor of Management (tenured) at University of Ottawa, Canada. Previously, he was Associate Professor (tenured) at University of Massachusetts, Boston. He holds a PhD from Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada. His research is focused on grand challenges of current and future global significance (inequality, financialization, socioeconomic crises), along with new organizing (e.g. involving social entrepreneurship, social innovation, multi-stakeholder initiatives, NGOs) to address such challenges in various global contexts. He has taught at undergraduate, MBA, executive-MBA, and PhD levels.
His research has been published in Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Human Relations, Journal of World Business, Organization, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Critical Perspectives on International Business, and The Leadership Quarterly, and as chapters in books published by Springer and Routledge. His work has also appeared in Harvard Business Review online, The Conversation, Ivey Business Journal, Academy of International Business Insights and has been republished or cited in Businessweek, Huffington Post, Forbes and several other prominent outlets. He has received multiple national and university level research grants. Dr. Riaz has been an invited speaker for showcase symposiums and panels at Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and European Group for Organizational Studies, and a keynote speaker at Boston Field Research Conference. He edited a special issue on economic inequality at Human Relations and currently serves as Section Editor for “Global Issues and Business Ethics” section at the Journal of Business Ethics and as Associate Editor at Organization - the critical journal of organization, theory and society.
A brief video based on his role at Journal of Business Ethics is available here.
Research Topics
I turned formal research attention to economic inequality around the time of Occupy Wall Street in 2011 when I had just moved to the US and was already investigating the global financial crisis of 2008, particularly studying the role of elites. Problematizing industry practices around consumer debt and organizational shareholder primacy / short-termism tied in to a developing agenda on the financialization-inequality nexus. In time, interests in multiple forms of inequality and dysfunctional socioeconomic systems culminated in a broader concern with societal grand challenges. Complementarily, my interests developed in organizing for social change to address such challenges through social innovation, social entrepreneurship, multi-stakeholder initiatives, NGOs, etc. Attention to power and language (rhetoric / discourse) along with an organization theory lens and a critical perspective are some consistent themes through several of my works.
Teaching Areas
Theoretical Foundations of Management, Strategic Management, International Business, Business and Society, Advanced Topics in Management
Education
Ph.D. in Business Administration (General Management)
Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University (University of Western Ontario)
MBA in International Business
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
B.Sc. in Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Technology, A.M.U.
Academic Experience
Associate Professor of Management (tenured), 2018-Present
Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada
Associate Professor of Management (tenured), 2017-2018
Assistant Professor of Management, 2011-2017
College of Management, University of Massachusetts - Boston
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, 2008-2011
Faculty of Business and Information Technology, Ontario Tech University
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Visiting Professor, 2007-2008
Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Lecturer, 2006
Asper Business School, University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Guest Lecturer (Selected)
Research Supervisor
Academic Service Roles
Section Editor (2017 onwards)
Associate Editor (2021 onwards)
Journal Editor, Special Issue
Full special issue with my editorial available at: http://hum.sagepub.com/content/68/7?etoc
Journal Reviewer
Research Funding and Grants Reviewer
Book Proposal Reviewer
Academic Mentor
Conferences and Workshops (Selected Service Roles)
Service to Institution (selected)
Professional Affiliations
Industry and Community
Suhaib Riaz is an Associate Professor of Management (tenured) at University of Ottawa, Canada. Previously, he was Associate Professor (tenured) at University of Massachusetts, Boston. He holds a PhD from Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada. His research is focused on grand challenges of current and future global significance (inequality, financialization, socioeconomic crises), along with new organizing (e.g. involving social entrepreneurship, social innovation, multi-stakeholder initiatives, NGOs) to address such challenges in various global contexts. He has taught at undergraduate, MBA, executive-MBA, and PhD levels.
His research has been published in Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Human Relations, Journal of World Business, Organization, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Critical Perspectives on International Business, and The Leadership Quarterly, and as chapters in books published by Springer and Routledge. His work has also appeared in Harvard Business Review online, The Conversation, Ivey Business Journal, Academy of International Business Insights and has been republished or cited in Businessweek, Huffington Post, Forbes and several other prominent outlets. He has received multiple national and university level research grants. Dr. Riaz has been an invited speaker for showcase symposiums and panels at Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and European Group for Organizational Studies, and a keynote speaker at Boston Field Research Conference. He edited a special issue on economic inequality at Human Relations and currently serves as Section Editor for “Global Issues and Business Ethics” section at the Journal of Business Ethics and as Associate Editor at Organization - the critical journal of organization, theory and society.
A brief video based on his role at Journal of Business Ethics is available here.
Research Topics
I turned formal research attention to economic inequality around the time of Occupy Wall Street in 2011 when I had just moved to the US and was already investigating the global financial crisis of 2008, particularly studying the role of elites. Problematizing industry practices around consumer debt and organizational shareholder primacy / short-termism tied in to a developing agenda on the financialization-inequality nexus. In time, interests in multiple forms of inequality and dysfunctional socioeconomic systems culminated in a broader concern with societal grand challenges. Complementarily, my interests developed in organizing for social change to address such challenges through social innovation, social entrepreneurship, multi-stakeholder initiatives, NGOs, etc. Attention to power and language (rhetoric / discourse) along with an organization theory lens and a critical perspective are some consistent themes through several of my works.
Teaching Areas
Theoretical Foundations of Management, Strategic Management, International Business, Business and Society, Advanced Topics in Management
Education
Ph.D. in Business Administration (General Management)
Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University (University of Western Ontario)
MBA in International Business
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
B.Sc. in Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Technology, A.M.U.
Academic Experience
Associate Professor of Management (tenured), 2018-Present
Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada
Associate Professor of Management (tenured), 2017-2018
Assistant Professor of Management, 2011-2017
College of Management, University of Massachusetts - Boston
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, 2008-2011
Faculty of Business and Information Technology, Ontario Tech University
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Visiting Professor, 2007-2008
Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Lecturer, 2006
Asper Business School, University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Guest Lecturer (Selected)
- Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- University of Massachusetts, Boston
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
- Ivey School of Business, Western University, London, Canada
Research Supervisor
- PhD Thesis, Supervisory Committee Member (multiple), University of Ottawa
- Postdoctoral work, University of Ottawa
Academic Service Roles
Section Editor (2017 onwards)
- Journal of Business Ethics, 'Global Issues and Business Ethics' section.
Associate Editor (2021 onwards)
- Organization - the critical journal of organization, theory and society.
Journal Editor, Special Issue
- Human Relations, "Economic Inequality and Management", special issue of Human Relations (published 2015)
Full special issue with my editorial available at: http://hum.sagepub.com/content/68/7?etoc
Journal Reviewer
- Top journals in management/organization studies
Research Funding and Grants Reviewer
- SSHRC, Canada
- MITACS - Industrial and Social Innovation partnerships, Canada
- Research Grants Council, Hong Kong
- Research Foundation – Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, FWO), Belgium
- Irish Research Council Laureate Awards, Ireland
- Banting Scholarships, Canada
Book Proposal Reviewer
- Routledge
Academic Mentor
- Academic Mentor for Junior Faculty Consortium, Organization and Management Theory division, Academy of Management, Chicago 2024
- Academic Mentor for new scholars in online global meetups organized by Organization and Management Theory division, Academy of Management, 2020 onwards
Conferences and Workshops (Selected Service Roles)
- Organizing Committee Member, 1st Organization Journal Virtual Conference "Organizing Critical Solidarities Amidst a Divisive World", 2024
- Panelist, Indigenous Research Peer Reviewing Panel, IARIMOS (International Academy of Research in Indigenous Management and Organization Studies), Ottawa 2024
- Panelist, Meet the Editors, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa 2024
- Facilitator, Professional Development Workshop on "Community-Based Organizing and Entrepreneurship to Address
Grand Challenges", Academy of Management, Boston 2023 - Moderator, Panel on "The Work of Centres and Community Engaged Scholarship in Building Partnerships" (Panelists: Matt Murphy, Israr Qureshi, Amy Rowsell, Natalie Slawinski), Community Resilience Workshop, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, 2023
- Co-Organizer, Panel Symposium on "Economic Inequality and Management: Empirical and Theoretical Developments a Decade after Occupy" (Panelists: John Amis, Matthew Bidwell, Adam Cobb, Carrie Leana; Discussant: Anne Tsui), Academy of Management, Seattle 2022
- Co-Organizer, Panel Symposium on "Academics Beyond Academia: Management Scholars on the Ground to Address Grand Challenges" (Panelists: Andrew Hoffman, Gail Whiteman, Charlotte Karam, Matthew Murphy), Academy of Management, online 2021
- Co-Organizer, Panel Symposium on "Taking on the Challenge: How Organization Theorists can address Grand Challenges" (Panelists: Gerard Davis, Johanna Mair, Joel Gehman, Charlene Zietsma. Discussant: Jennifer Howard-Grenville), Academy of Management, Boston 2019
- Discussant, Professional Development Workshop at Academy of Management, Chicago 2018
- Co-Organizer, Academy of International Business - Northeast, Frontier Conference: Bringing the Political Economy Back In, Boston 2015
- Moderator, Panel on "Challenges to International Business Research: Bringing the Political Economy Back In" featuring John Cantwell, Mona Makhija, Rajneesh Narula and Ravi Ramamurti at AIB-NE Frontier Conference, Boston 2015
- Chair, Paper session on Top Managers and Their Role in Corporations, Organization and Management Theory division, Academy of Management, Philadelphia 2014
- Chair, Paper session on Analyzing Hybrid Forms, Social Value Workshop at Boston University, Boston 2014
- Co-Organizer, Professional Development Workshop on "Occupy, Economic Inequality and Business: Setting the Agenda" (Panelists: Gerard Davis, Hugh Willmott, Paul Shrivastava and Ana Maria Peredo), Academy of Management (Co-sponsored by CMS, BPS, OMT), Boston 2012
- Discussant, Special Session: Remembering C.K. Prahalad, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Regina 2010
- Discussant, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Regina 2010
- Chair, Paper session on Subsidiary Control, Academy of Management, Chicago 2009
- Discussant, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Niagara Falls 2009
- Discussant, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Halifax 2008
- Chair and Discussant, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Banff 2006
- Reviewer, track on “Rethinking our dependent variable(s)” at Strategic Management Society, Berlin 2016
- Reviewer (multiple years) , Academy of Management: Organization and Management Theory, International Management, and Business Policy and Strategy Divisions
- Reviewer (multiple years), Academy of International Business
- Reviewer (multiple years), Administrative Sciences Association of Canada: International Business, Strategy, and Case Track Divisions
- Reviewer, Strategic Management Society special conference: “Emerging India: Strategic Innovation in a Flat World” (2008)
Service to Institution (selected)
- Section Coordinator (Interim), Management Section, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, 2022-2023
- PhD Field Leader, Strategy and Organization field, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, 2020-2022
- PhD Revision Committee, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, 2019-2020
- PhD Thesis Proposal Committee (multiple students), Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, 2020
- Chair, PhD Comprehensive Exams Committee for "Organizations and Social Change" track, University of Massachusetts-Boston, 2014-2016
- Member, PhD Curriculum Committee for "Organizations and Social Change" track, University of Massachusetts-Boston, 2013-2014
- Member, Graduate Programs Committee, University of Massachusetts-Boston, 2011-2013
- Member, Curriculum Committee, Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, 2010-11
Professional Affiliations
- Academy of Management
- European Group for Organizational Studies
- Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics
- Academy of International Business
- Administrative Sciences Association of Canada
- Strategic Management Society
Industry and Community
- Advisory Strategist and Board Member at multiple organizations
- Management positions in multiple organizations including consulting / information technology / international business (prior to academia)
