Jim Dewald

Jim is an Associate Professor in the Strategy and Global Management Area. He has a B.Sc. (Civil Engineering) and an MBA from the University of Alberta, and a PhD from the University of Calgary. Prior to entering academe, Jim was active in the Calgary business community, including positions as President & CEO of Walker Newby & Partners Inc. (engineering consulting), President & CEO of Hopewell Residential Communities Inc., and President & CEO of Stone Creek Resorts Inc.

To take full advantage of the combination of business experience and academic achievements, Jim focuses his teaching on MBA, EMBA, and Executive Education programs, including the Directors Education Program. Jim is recognized as a business leader who can provide an effective bridge between strategy theory and on-the-ground practice.

Although new to academic research, Jim has two books, two book chapters, and several articles to his credit, including publications in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and the Journal of Management Studies. He has received research awards from the United States Association of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, the Real Property Association of Canada, the Alberta Real Estate Foundation, and the University of Calgary. In addition, he was awarded the MBA Society’s Outstanding Teaching and Learning Award for the 2007/2008 academic year. 

Jim is a Trustee at Boardwalk REIT (TSX: BEI.UN), a Director of Alberta Global Forum, and a Director of the Real Estate Development Institute. For the past 30 years he has been on many boards and committees, including the Board of Governors for SAIT (Deputy Chair), the Board of Directors of Calgary Housing Company (Vice-Chair), HomeCo (Chair), Prairie Cache Resources Ltd. (ASE listed), and the Urban Development Institute (Chair). He has also appointed to many civic and provincial committees, including imagineCALGARY Steering Committee, Go-Plan Citizens Coordinating Committee, Sustainable Suburbs Roundtable, Calgary Regional Planning Committee, and the Bow Valley Public Advisory Committee. 

Prior to receiving his PhD in 2006, Jim was active in the Calgary business community, including being CEO of two major real estate development companies, CEO of a leading local engineering consulting practice, and President of a tech-based international real estate brokerage company. He was recognized as Calgary Citizen of the Year, and is an Honourary Member of the Appraisal Institute of Canada.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
(2010) Casebeer, A., Reay, T., Dewald, J., & Pablo, A., “Knowing Through Doing: Unleashing Latent Dynamic Capabilities in a Public Sector Context”, book chapter in From Knowing to Doing: Connecting Knowledge and Performance in Public Services by K. Walshe, G. Harvey, E. Spencer, C. Skelcher & P. Jas (Ed.) Cambridge University Press.

(2010) Dewald, J., & Bowen, F., “Storm Clouds and Silver Linings: Responding to Disruptive Innovations through Cognitive Resilience.” Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice, 34(1): 197-218.

(2007) Pablo, A., Reay, T., Dewald, J., & Casebeer, A. “Identifying, enabling, and managing dynamic capabilities” Journal of Management Studies, 44(5): 687-708.

(2007) Dewald, J., Hall, J., Chrisman, J., & Kellermanns, F. “The governance paradox: Preferences of small vulnerable firms in the homebuilding industry” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 31(2): 279-297.

(2005) Verbeke, A., Dewald, J. “Managerial responses to borderless risk”. Transnational Corporations and Economic Development: From Internationalisation to Globalisation (ed. L. Cuyvers, F. deBeule) book chapter
CONFERENCES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

(2008) Dewald, J., Hall, J., & Pablo, A., “Incumbent Responses to Disruptive Innovations: Why Strategic Decision-Makers Pursue Adoption”, Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Business Policy and Strategy Division), Anaheim, California.

(2008) Dewald, J., & Bowen, F., “Resist or Adapt: The Case of Real Estate Brokers Facing Disruptive Business-Model Innovations”, Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Entrepreneurship Division), Anaheim, California.

(2006) Dewald, J. “Adapting to disruptive change: The influence of threat framing and cognitive beliefs on strategic decision-making”, presented at the ASAC Banff Conference.

(2004) Dewald, J., Hall, J. Chrisman, J. “Why do small firms choose quasi-integration?  The case of the homebuilding industry.” ICFAI Journal of Management Research 3(11): 66-73. 

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