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Max Ganzin CV

Max Ganzin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Strategy and Entrepreneurship
ganzin@uwindsor.ca
519-253-3000 ext. 4224
Office: OB438

Education 

  • Ph.D.  University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Strategic Management and Organization, 2019.
  • M.B.A.  Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 2011.
  • B.A.  Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 2009.

Employment Experience 

  • Assistant Professor, Odette School of Business, University of Windsor (July, 2018 - Present)
  • Lecturer, University of Alberta (September, 2014 - June, 2016), Edmonton, Alberta.
  • Founder, A&B LINGVO Translation Services (February, 2007 - August, 2007)
  • Manager, Gazfinace, LLC, Energy Infrastructure Distribution and Construction (August, 2006 - January, 2007)

INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Journal Articles 

  • Ganzin, M., Islam, G., & Suddaby, R. (2019).  Spirituality and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Magical Thinking in Future-Oriented Sensemaking.   Organization Studies, http://doi.org/10.1177/0170840618819035.
  • Suddaby, R., Ganzin, M., & Minkus, A. (2017).  Craft, magic and the re-enchantment of the world.   European Management Journal, 35 (3), 285-296, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2017.03.009.

Chapters, Cases, Readings, Supplements 

  • Gephart, R. P., & Ganzin, M. (2018). Risk Sensemaking. In R.P. Gephart, C.C. Miller, & K.S. Helgesson (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Risk, Crisis and Emergency Management. London UK: Routledge. 
  • Gephart, R. P., Helgesson, K. S., & Ganzin, M. (2018). Risk, Crisis and Emergency Management in Enterprises and Organizations. In R.P. Gephart, C.C. Miller, & K.S. Helgesson (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Risk, Crisis and Emergency Management. UK: Routledge. 
  • Suddaby, R., Ganzin, M., & Minkus, A. (2017). Craft, magic and the re-enchantment of the world. In Sabina Siebert (Ed.), Management Research: European Perspectives. London UK: Routledge. 
  • Ganzin, M., Gephart, R. P., & Suddaby, R. (2014). Narrative and the Construction of Myths in Organizations. In F. Cooren, E. Vaara, A. Langley and H. Tsoukas (Eds.), Language and Communication @ Work: Discourse, Narrativity and Organizing. UK: Oxford University Press. 

Presentations 

  • Ganzin, M. (2019, July). Craft-based firms: Resilience through authenticity.  European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Ganzin, M. (2019, June). Organizational magical realism.  European Academy of Management - EURAM conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Ganzin, M. (2019, June). Craft-based firms: Resilience through authenticity.  International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, 11th, Chania, Crete, Greece.
  • Ganzin, M. & Suddaby, R. (2018, July). Organizational magical realism: Routine magic.  European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, Tallinn, Estonia.
  • Ganzin, M. & Steele, C. W. (2017, August). Institutional and organizational myths: a process model of myth lifecycle.  Academy of Management 2017 conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Ganzin, M. & Suddaby, R. (2016). Organizational magical realism in young entrepreneurial firms. Invited presentation at Organization Studies Workshop, Mykonos, Greece.
  • Ganzin, M. & Suddaby, R. (2016, August). Organizational magical realism in young entrepreneurial firms.  Academy of Management (AoM) annual conference, Anaheim, California.
  • Ganzin, M., Hills, S., Suddaby, R., & Foster, W. (2016, July). Strategic deployment of history and myth in identity construction: a story of the global wine industry.  European Group and Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Naples, Italy.
  • Ganzin, M. & Suddaby, R. (2016, July). Lifecycle of organizational myths: a process model.  European Group and Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Naples, Italy.
  • Ganzin, M., Hills, S., Suddaby, R., & Foster, W. (2016, June). Strategic deployment of history and myth in identity construction: a story of the global wine industry.  Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) annual conference, Edmonton, Canada-Alberta.
  • Ganzin, M., Suddaby, R., & Reay, T. (2015, July). Organizational magical realism in young entrepreneurial firms.  European Group and Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Athens, Greece.
  • Ganzin, M., Hills, S., Suddaby, R., & Reay, T. (2015, June). Strategic deployment of history and myth in identity construction: a story of the global wine industry.  International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Seventh, Kos, Greece.
  • Ganzin, M., Suddaby, R., & Reay, T. (2015, June). Organizational magical realism in business biographies.  International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Seventh, Kos, Greece.
  • Ganzin, M. & Suddaby, R. (2014, July). History and myth: between linear and cyclical times.  European Group and Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
  • Ganzin, M. & Suddaby, R. (2014, June). Organizational magical realism: routine magic.  International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Sixth, Rhodes, Greece.
  • Ganzin, M. & Suddaby, R. (2013, July). Organizational myths as a type of communication that constitutes organizations.  European Group and Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Montreal, Canada-Quebec.
  • Gephart, R. P., Suddaby, R., Ganzin, M., & Topal, C. (2013, June). Building a 'bitumen bubble': Novel discourse, temporal sensemaking and institutional legitimation.  International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Fifth, Chania, Crete, Greece.
  • Gephart, R. P., Ganzin, M., & Suddaby, R. (2012, November). Deliberating cost: Deliberative practices in qualimetrics and the socio-economic approach to management.  Socio-Economic Approach to Management, 1st conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Ganzin, M., Suddaby, R., & Gephart, R. P. (2012, June). Business biographies and the rhetoric of rational myths.  International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Fourth, Kos, Greece.
  • Gephart, R. P., Topal, C., & Ganzin, M. (2012, June). Changing organizations and organizing change: an ethnomethodological approach.  International Conference and Doctoral Consortium on Organization Development and Change, Fourth international, Lyon, France.

Grants (Competitive; Funded only)

  • 2019-2022: Craft-based firms: Resilience through authenticity ($49,488), SSHRC Insight Development Grant.
  • 2019: Craft-based firms: Resilience through authenticity ($5,500), Odette School of Business Research and Innovation Fund (RIF) grant.