Goran Calic

Dr. Goran Calic

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

Strategic Management

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BIO

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.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

December 2023

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

JOURNAL : SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS

CONTRIBUTORS: Goran Calic, Moren Lévesque, Anton Shevchenko
August 2023

Connecting Creativity And Innovation

JOURNAL : ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PROCEEDINGS

CONTRIBUTORS: Goran Calic, Pedro Faria, Christoph Grimpe, Olli-pekka Kauppila, Bernard a Nijstad, Pino g Audia, Markus Baer, Paola Criscuolo, Riitta Katila
September 2022

Is Maximising Creativity Good? The Importance Of Elaboration And Internal Confidence In Producing Creative Ideas

JOURNAL : KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH & PRACTICE

CONTRIBUTORS: Goran Calic, Elaine Mosakowski, Nick Bontis, Sebastien Helie
September 2020

How Multimedia Shape Crowdfunding Outcomes: The Overshadowing Effect Of Images And Videos On Text In Campaign Information

JOURNAL : JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH

CONTRIBUTORS: Jialiang Yang, Yaokuang Li, Goran Calic, Anton Shevchenko
January 2020

From Sustainability Constraints To Innovation

JOURNAL : SUSTAINABILITY ACCOUNTING MANAGEMENT AND POLICY JOURNAL

CONTRIBUTORS: Goran Calic, Anton Shevchenko, Maryam Ghasemaghaei, Nick Bontis, Zeynep ozmen Tokcan
August 2019

Distracting Creativity: Cognitive Load And The Upward Bias Of Creativity Evaluations

JOURNAL : ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PROCEEDINGS

CONTRIBUTORS: Goran Calic, Nour El shamy, Isaac Kinley, Scott Watter, Khaled s Hassanein
August 2018

Structured For Innovation: How Structural Antecedents Affect Team-level Innovation Success

JOURNAL : ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PROCEEDINGS

CONTRIBUTORS: Goran Calic, David Schoorman, Kinshuk Sharma
2017

The Sustainability Advantage: The Positive Effect Of A Sustainability Orientation On Online Funding Success

JOURNAL : RUTGERS BUSINESS REVIEW

CONTRIBUTORS: Goran Calic
January 2016

Linking Cognition To Organizational Problems: Micro And Macro Approaches To Decision Making

JOURNAL : ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PROCEEDINGS

CONTRIBUTORS: Goran Calic, Anparasan Mahalingam, Simone Tang, Raegan j Tennant
September 2013

Cultures As Learning Laboratories: What Makes Some More Effective Than Others?

JOURNAL : ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT LEARNING AND EDUCATION

CONTRIBUTORS: Elaine Mosakowski, Goran Calic, P christopher Earley

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

December 2022

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

CONTRIBUTORS: Andy Wu, Goran Calic
October 2022

The Challenges Of Transforming Twitter

CONTRIBUTORS: Andy Wu, Goran Calic
October 2022

4 Types Of Innovators Every Organization Needs

CONTRIBUTORS: Andy Wu, Goran Calic, Min Basadur
2022

Does Elon Musk Have A Strategy?

CONTRIBUTORS: Andy Wu, Goran Calic
2018

Crowdfunding

CONTRIBUTORS: Goran Calic, Barney Warf
December 2016

A Theory Of Individual Differences In Creative Responses To Paradoxical Situations

CONFERENCE : CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE PSYCHOLOGIE EXPERIMENTALE

CONTRIBUTORS: Goran Calic, Sebastien Helie
2016

A Cultural Perspective On Organizational Citizenship Behavior

CONTRIBUTORS: Pc Earley, Goran Calic, Pm Podsakoff, Sb Mackenzie, Np Podsakoff