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Anita M. McGahan

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Published papers and research reports: 

  1. “Pankaj Ghemawat’s Commitment and the New Stakeholder Theory,” Anita M. McGahan (June 2022), Strategy Science 7:2, 148-151, available at https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2022.0161
  2. “Structural Advocacy Organizations and Intersectional Outcomes: Effects of Women’s Police Stations on Female Homicides,” Paulo Arvate, Sandro Cabral, Anita M. McGahan, and Paulo Reis (May/June, 2022), Public Administration Review 82:3, pp. 503-521, available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/puar.13478
  3. “Socially Irresponsible Employment in Emerging-Market Manufacturers,” Gregory Distelhorst and Anita M. McGahan, Organization Science (December 17, 2021), https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/orsc.2021.1526, available at https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/orsc.2021.1526
  4. “Sustainability and global value chains in Africa: Introduction to the Special Issue,” Joerg S. Hofstetter, Anita M. McGahan, Brian S. Silverman, Baniyelme D. Zoogah (2022). Africa Journal of Management 8:1, 1-14, DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2021.2018220
  5. “The State of the Union in the Field of Strategic Management:  Great Theories.  Imperative Problems.”  Anita M. McGahan.  2022.  Strategic Management Review 3: 1, pp 25-34, available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/111.00000042
  6. “Eliminating Malaria in Conflict Zones: Public Health Strategies Developed in the Sri Lanka Civil War,” Abrar Ahmed, Kara Grace Hounsell, Talha Sadiq, Mariam Naguib, Kirstyn Koswin, Chetha Dharmawansa, Thavachchelvi Rasan, and Anita M. McGahan, British Management Journal (December 27, 2021), e007453, doi:10.1136/ bmjgh-2021-007453, available at https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/12/e007453.full?ijkey=YkPgrEzHp9YzSJb&keytype=ref
  7. “Integrating Insights from the Resource-Based View of the Firm into the New Stakeholder Theory,” Anita M. McGahan, Journal of Management 47:7 (September, 2021), pp. 1734-1756, available at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0149206320987282
  8. “There is no planet B:  Stakeholder governance that aligns incentives to preserve the Amazon rainforest,” Anita M. McGahan and Leandro Pongeluppe in (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighty-First Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (August 2021), available at https://journals.aom.org/doi/epdf/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.49
  9. “Structural advocacy organizations and intersectional outcomes:  Effects of women police stations on female homicides,” Paulo Arvate, Sandro Cabral, Anita M. McGahan, and Paulo Reis in (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighty-First Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (August 2021)
  10. “Purpose in the For-Profit Firm: A Review and Framework for Management Research,” Gerard George, Martine R. Haas, Anita M. McGahan, Simon J.D. Schillebeeckx, Paul Tracey, Journal of Management (April, 2021), available at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01492063211006450
  11. “Managerial strategies to overcome vaccine deployment challenges among the hardest to reach: Lessons from polio elimination in India,” Alejandra Bellatin, Azana Hyder, Sampreeth Rao, Peter Zhang, Anita M. McGahan, British Management Journal (2021) 6:4, pp. 1-5, available at https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/4/e005125.full and doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005125 
  12. “Which COVID policies are most effective? A Bayesian analysis of COVID-19 by jurisdiction,” Phebo D. Wibbens, Wesley Wu-Yi Koo, Anita M. McGahan, PLOS ONE (December 29, 2020), available at https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0244177
  13. “Tackling societal challenges with open innovation,” Anita M. McGahan, Marcel Bogers, Henry Chesbrough, and Marcus Holgersson,” California Management Review (November, 2020), pp. 1-13 available at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0008125620973713
  14. “COVID-19 underscores the need for mechanisms to coordinate. Global and collective agendas rather than nationalist concerns must dominate,” Aldo Musacchio, Anita M. McGahan, Sergio G. Lazzarini, Joseph Wong, Policy Options (July 6, 2020), available at https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/july-2020/global-health-coodination-necessary-in-a-pandemic/
  15. “The Show Must Go On: Innovation and Inclusive Growth in the Arts During and After COVID,” Shauna Brail, Nathalie Des Rosiers, Anita M. McGahan, Policy Options (June 29, 2020), available at https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/june-2020/for-the-arts-the-show-must-go-on-after-covid-19/
  16. “How Contact Tracing Could Change the Economics of Innovation,” Anita M. McGahan, Policy Options (June 25, 2020), available at https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/june-2020/how-contact-tracing-by-employers-could-change-the-economics-of-innovation/
  17. “Problems of Fact, Method, Theory, and Concepts in Tsoukas (2018),” Anita M. McGahan, Journal of Business Ethics (April 2020) 163(1), pp. 23-35, available at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-020-04462-z
  18. “Immigration and Impassioned Management Scholarship,” Anita M. McGahan, Journal of Management Inquiry (2020) 29:1, pp. 111-114 available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492619877617
  19. “Where Does an Organization’s Responsibility End?: Identifying the Boundaries on Stakeholder Claims,” Anita M McGahan, Academy of Management Discoveries (January 2020), 6:1, pp. 8-11, available at https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amd.2018.0218
  20. George, G., Haas, M. R., Joshi, H., McGahan, A. M., & Tracey, P., eds (2022).  Handbook on the Business of Sustainability:  The Organization, Implementation, and Practice of Sustainable Growth, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
  21. “Opening Innovation to Address Grand Challenges,” Gabriel Cavalli and Anita M. McGahan.  In Henry Chesbrough, Agnieszka Radziwon, Wim Vanhaverbeke, Joel West, eds.  Open Innovation Handbook (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023).
  22. Michael Lenox and Rebecca Duff: The Decarbonization Imperative: Transforming the Global Economy by 2050. Reviewed by Anita M. McGahan. Administrative Science Quarterly (May 2022), available at doi:10.1177/00018392221100645
  23. “A Unique Diversity: Understanding the sustainability and global integration of African businesses,” Joerg Hofstetter, Anita McGahan, Baniyelme Zoogah, Brian Silverman, OECD Forum, available at https://www.oecd-forum.org/posts/a-unique-diversity-understanding-the-sustainability-and-global-integration-of-african-businesses (May 9, 2022)
  24. “Introduction to the business of sustainability:  An organizing framework for theory, practice, and impact.”  Chapter 1 in George, G., Haas, M. R., Joshi, H., McGahan, A. M., & Tracey, P., eds (2022).  Handbook on the Business of Sustainability:  The Organization, Implementation, and Practice of Sustainable Growth, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom available at https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781839105333/9781839105333.xml .
  25. WOIConversations Podcast – Episode 1:  Open Innovation and Grand Challenges at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTpckNbtCAM&feature=youtu.be (September 24, 2021)
  26. “To overcome vaccine hesitancy, governments need to show citizens what’s in it for them,” Anita M. McGahan and Peter Zhang, Rotman Insights Hub (August, 2021), available at https://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/insightshub/healthcare-life-sciences/overcoming-vaccines
  27. “Thought Leader Interview:  Anita M. McGahan,” Rotman Magazine (Spring, 2021)
  28. “Intersectional Governance,” Peter Klein and Anita M. McGahan in The Intersector: How the Public, Nonprofit, and Private Sectors Can Address America's Challenges. Eds Daniel P. Gitterman and Neil Britto (Brookings Institution, June 8, 2021)
  29. “No Going Back: The Sustainable Development Goals after COVID,” Anita M. McGahan and Jason Sukhram, Rotman Magazine (Fall 2020), available at https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/ROT420-PDF-ENG
  30. “Global Governance of Healthcare Should Learn From Global Governance of the Financial System,” Anita M. McGahan, Financial Times (May 14, 2020), at https://on.ft.com/2YZd2E9
  31. Anita M. McGahan, “Preparing for the new world” and “Reopening the economy will mean a new normal for workers and those responsible for them,” Toronto Star (May 2, 2020), available at https://www.thestar.com/business/2020/05/06/reopening-the-economy-will-mean-a-new-normal-for-workers-and-those-responsible-for-them.html

COVID Media Mentions, Op-eds, and Talks:

  1. Shauna Brail, Stephan Heblich, and Anita M. McGahan (March 10, 2021), “The Innovation Imperative: How the pandemic has changed the urban environment where innovation thrives. City workers are likely to continue to work from home at least part-time, which has implications for innovation,” The Financial Post, https://financialpost.com/technology/the-innovation-imperative-how-the-pandemic-has-changed-the-urban-environment-where-innovation-thrives
  2. “Recent study discovers five policies that were highly effective to combat the coronavirus,” The Economic Times: India Times (January 10, 2021), https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/healthcare/recent-study-discovers-five-policies-that-were-highly-effective-to-combat-the-coronavirus/significant-social-costs/slideshow/80195995.cms
  3. Korin Miller, “Study Shows Which COVID-19 Policies are Most Effective,” VeryWell (January 7, 2021), https://www.verywellhealth.com/most-effective-covid-19-safety-policies-5094599
  4. “Researchers Analyze the Most Effective COVID-19 Control Policies,” SciTechDirect (January 3, 2021), https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-analyze-the-most-effective-covid-19-control-policies/
  5. Devon Peacock, “Morning Show,” Global News Radio 980 CFPL in London (January 4, 2021), 7:48-7:58
  6. “New study analyzes most effective COVID control policies” (December 30, 2020), ANI, a wire service from India. Republished in Hindustan Times, Bangalore Mirror, Businessworld, Yahoo News India and Zee News. Articles on the study also appeared on news sites in Poland on December including Niezalezna and Dziennik.
  7. “COVID-19: Study finds most localities do not have enough compliance to stop spread” (December 29, 2020), at https://medicalresearch.com/author-interviews/covid-19-study-finds-most-localities-do-not-have-enough-compliance-to-stop-spread/56336/
  8. “What are the most effective COVID policies?,” Dr. Liji Thomas (December 4, 2020), https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201203/What-are-the-most-effective-COVID-policies.aspx
  9. Global TV interview, 8:04-8:09am (November 5, 2020) at https://globalnews.ca/video/7444297/its-been-months-since-the-covid-19-pandemic-started-how-have-our-behaviours-changed
  10. “Canadians Have Accomplished a Lot. Now We Need to Do More.” Toronto Star (November 5, 2020) at https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/11/07/in-the-battle-against-covid-canadians-have-accomplished-a-lot-and-we-need-to-do-more.html
  11.  “The Current,” CBC (October 29, 2020), 8:51-8:58 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/remaking-a-living-surviving-the-covid-19-economy-a-special-edition-of-the-current-1.5781493/from-business-to-public-space-how-covid-19-could-alter-our-economy-for-good-1.5782217 covered at:
    1. CBC.ca (October 29, 2020), ‘From Business to Public Spaces’ at https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/remaking-a-living-surviving-the-covid-19-economy-a-special-edition-of-the-current-1.5781493/from-business-to-public-space-how-covid-19-could-alter-our-economy-for-good-1.5782217
    2. CBC.ca (October 29, 2020), ‘How COVID is Fast-Tracking Changes in Some Industries’ at https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/remaking-a-living-surviving-the-covid-19-economy-a-special-edition-of-the-current-1.5781493
  12. Global Network News, 640 Toronto (October 28, 2020), 9:20-9:27 at https://omny.fm/shows/kelly-cutrara/training-judges-could-have-downfalls-hows-our-dist?t=11m44s
  13. “Canadians' interactions with each other significantly reduced: cellphone data study,” The Canadian Press, by Liam Casey (October 27, 2020), at https://ca.news.yahoo.com/canadians-interactions-other-significantly-reduced-192848360.html
    1. Reproduced at CBC Online (October 28, 2020) at https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-ont-mobility-1.5779204
    2. Reproduced at the National Post (October 28, 2020) at https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/canadians-interactions-with-each-other-significantly-reduced-cellphone-data-study
    3. Reproduced at CP News 24 (October 28, 2020) at https://www.cp24.com/news/canadians-interactions-with-each-other-significantly-reduced-cellphone-data-study-1.5163182
    4. Reproduced at Toronto City News (October 28, 2020) at https://toronto.citynews.ca/2020/10/27/canadians-interactions-with-each-other-significantly-reduced-cellphone-data-study-2/
    5. Reproduced in print versions (October 28, 2020) of Cornwall Standard-Freeholder, Kingston Whig-Standard, Victoria Times-Colonist, Stratford Beacon-Herald, Brantford Expositor
    6. Additional reproductions (October 28, 2020) in online outlets of The Toronto Star, 680 News (Toronto), News 570 (Kitchener), Yahoo News Canada
  14. “Cities After COVID,” Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy,” Munk School of Global9Affairs & Public Policy panel (June 16, 2020) with Marcia Young, Shauna Brail, Richard Florida, and Nathalie Des Rossiers at https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/29588/
  15. Devon Peacock, “Morning Show,” Global News Radio 980 CFPL in London (June 16, 2020), 8:35-8:45
  16. “U.K. may have 19,000 new deaths this month,”Bloomberg News (May 18, 2020), with Phebo Wibbens and Wesley Koo at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-17/u-s-cases-slow-disney-begins-opening-in-florida-virus-update?srnd=premium-europe
  17. “Ontario’s Reopening,” Bloomberg BNN live (May 15, 2020), 1:20pm-1:27pm, at https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/video/reopening-workplaces-the-balancing-of-medical-and-economic-outcomes~1959882
  18. Devon Peacock, “Morning Show,” Global News Radio 980 CFPL in London (May 15, 2020), 8:18-8:30

  19. “We need a Financial Stability Board for health,” Financial Times (May 14, 2020), Anita McGahan at https://on.ft.com/2YZd2E9

  20. Marthe Fourcade, “France may face 5,000 more virus deaths this month, researchers say,” Bloomberg Global News at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-13/france-seen-facing-5-000-more-deaths-in-may-as-lockdown-eases and also on the main page of Quint, Bloomberg’s Indian sub at https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/france-seen-facing-5-000-more-deaths-in-may-as-lockdown-eases

  21. “The Current,” CBC (May 13, 2020), interview by Matt Galloway, 9:05-9:28 EDT at https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-may-13-2020-1.5567504
  22. “The World After COVID,” Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy,” Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy panel (May 11, 2020) with Jennifer Pagliaro, Shauna Brail, Tara Vinodrai, and Shiri Breznitz at https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/29588/
  23. “Economies Slowly Reopening Across Canada,” CBC National News (May 9, 2020), running week of May 11-15, 2020
  24. “COVID-19 and the World’s Grand Challenges,” Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy panel (May 8, 2020) with Anna Maria Tremonti, Joe Wong, Karlee Silver at https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/29587/
  25. “The Current,” CBC (May 4, 2020)
  26. Devon Peacock, “Morning Show,” Global News Radio 980 CFPL in London (May 6, 2020), 7:48-8:01
  27. Anita M. McGahan, “Preparing for the new world” and “Reopening the economy will mean a new normal for workers and those responsible for them,” Toronto Star (May 2, 2020), available at https://www.thestar.com/business/2020/05/06/reopening-the-economy-will-mean-a-new-normal-for-workers-and-those-responsible-for-them.html
  28. Devon Peacock, “Morning Show,” Global News Radio 980 CFPL in London (May 1, 2020), 8:07-8:24am
  29. CTV News with Bev Thompson, Interview on Reopening the Economy (April 29, 2020), available at: https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1948947
  30. Rosa Saba “Quebec announces that it will open retail, construction and manufacturing starting next week,” Toronto Star (April 28, 2020), available at https://www.thestar.com/business/2020/04/28/quebec-announces-plans-to-reopen-retail-construction-and-manufacturing-businesses.html
  31. George-Cosh, David, “From fashionable masks to VR concerts: What the post-COVID world might look like,” BNN Bloomberg (April 24, 2020), available at https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/from-fashionable-masks-to-vr-concerts-what-the-post-covid-world-might-look-like-1.1426560
  32. Joe Hall, “As Ontario gears up to reopen, we asked experts which businesses will open first - you won't like the answer,” Toronto Star (April 23, 2020), available at: https://www.thestar.com/business/2020/04/23/as-ontario-gears-up-to-reopen-we-asked-experts-which-businesses-will-open-first-you-wont-like-the-answer.html . The article also appeared at Toronto.com, Mississauga.com, The Peterborough Examiner, Brampton Guardian, Guelph Mercury, DurhamRegion.com, Inside Halton, Simcoe.com, Niagara Falls Review, St. Catharines Standard, Welland Tribune, The Record, The Hamilton Spectator, YorkRegion.com and Ming Pao.
  33. Jonathan Juha, “Coronavirus: London ranks third-highest in Ontario in safety-related work refusals,” The London Free Press (April 23, 2020), available at https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/coronavirus-london-ranks-third-highest-in-ontario-in-safety-related-work-refusals/
  34. Steve Paikin, “What will workplaces look like in a brave new post-pandemic world?,” TVO (April 20, 2020) available at https://www.tvo.org/article/what-will-workplaces-look-like-in-a-brave-new-post-pandemic-world
  35. “Rotman Experts on What to Expect When the Economy Reopens” (April 17, 2020) available at https://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/FacultyAndResearch/Research/NewThinking/Rotman_experts_what_to_expect_when_economy_reopens
  36. Massey Dialogues, “A New Strategy for Global Health” (April 15, 2020) available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKrbpYxNldY