Albert James
Associate Professor; Chair, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & International Business Department
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Email: Albert.James@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-4589
Fax: 902-494-1107
Mailing Address:
- Family business
- Entrepreneurship
- Indigenous entrepreneurship
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Education
- BA/BSc (Windsor)
- MBA (Alberta)
- PhD (Alberta)
Research Interests
My research is motivated by my non-academic work experiences. My research crosses two streams, Family Business and Business Families and, second, Indigenous Peoples and Entrepreneurship. In my research I want to understand success factors for both business activities and the families or people who engage in business.
Selected Publications
- Bifurcated HR practices in family firms: Insights from the normative-adaptive approach to stepfamilies. Jennings, J.E., Dempsey, D., James, A.E. Human Resource Management Review 28(1), 68-82听 (2018)
- Is it better to govern managers via agency or stewardship? Examining asymmetries by family versus nonfamily affiliation. James, A.E., Jennings, J.E., Devereaux Jennings, P. Family Business Review 30(3)听 (2017)
- When family members are also business owners: Implications of business ownership for family theory and research. Jennings, J.E., Breitkreuz, R.S., James, A.E. Family Relations 62(3), 472-489 (2013)
- Theories from family science: A review and roadmap for family business research. Jennings, J.E., Breitkreuz, R.S., James, A.E. Invited chapter in Melin, L., Nordqvist, M., Sharma, P. (Eds.), Handbook of Family Business. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage (2013)
- Worlds apart? Re-bridging the distance between family science and family business research. James, A.E., Jennings, J.E., Breitkreuz, R.S. Family Business Review 25(1), 89-110 (2012)
Selected Awards and Honours
- 2017听 SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant: Indigenous entrepreneurship.
- 2016听 KPMG Family Enterprise Research Grant (with B. Sundararajan, B. Foster) $10,000
- 2012听 J Gordin Kaplan Graduate Student Award
- 2009听 FERC鈥揊EUSA Doctoral Fellowship
Current Teaching
- COMM 3308/BUSI 6006 - Managing the Family Enterprise
- COMM 3307 & MGMT 3907 - New Venture Creation