Timothy Hannigan
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Biography
Timothy Hannigan is Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization and the Father Edgar Thivierge Chair in Canadian Business at the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management. His research examines the early moments of markets, fields, and ecosystems as a relational lens for studying emergence in both cultural and material terms. He has applied this lens to nascent product markets, entrepreneurial possibility formation, and the genesis of social evaluations. More specifically, he examines the interface of organizational imaginaries and how they materialize. His most recent work focuses on prefigurative organizing and governance with blockchain fields, as well as studying epistemic risks and using generative AI with integrity in organizations. In the Thivierge Chair in Canadian Business, he is building a research program around an interpretive view of technology and organizing, helping leaders to chart plausible – and desirable – futures that have the potential to materialize beyond projection and hype. This is grounded in the study of social processes, institutions, and technological affordances.
His research has been published in the top journals in the field including Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Studies, Research Policy, Organization Theory, and Business Horizons. He serves on the editorial review boards for Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Organization Studies.
Publications during the last 7 years
Papers in Refereed Journals
- Pak, Y., Hannigan, T.R., Jennings, P.D., Lounsbury, M. Scaling a Tech-Mediated Community: Prefigurate Enrolling atop Evolving Institutional Logics. Information and Organization, 36(1): 100608.
- Krlev, G., Hannigan, T.R., Spicer, A. What Makes a Good Review Article? Empirical Evidence from Management and Organization Research. Academy of Management Annals, 19(1): 376-403.
- Hannigan, T.R., McCarthy, I., Spicer, A. Beware of botshit: how to manage the epistemic risks of generative chatbots. Business Horizons, 67(5): 471-486.
- Pozner, J.E., Hannigan, T.R. How relational publics become a scandal audience: values and the creation of scandal. Organization Theory, 4(3).
- Hannigan, T.R. Relational publics: studying organizational possibilities. Organization Studies, 44(11): 1899-1902.
- Gamache, D., Devers, C., Klein, F., Hannigan, T.R. Shifting perspectives: How scrutiny shapes the relationship between CEO gender and acquisition activity. Strategic Management Journal, 44(12): 3012-3041.
- Hannigan, T.R., Briggs, A., Valadao, R., Seidel, M.D.L., Jennings, P.D. A new tool for policymakers: Mapping cultural possibilities in an emerging AI entrepreneurial ecosystem. Research Policy, 51(9): 104315.
- Hannigan, T.R., Wang, M.S., Steele, C.W.J., Seidel, M.D.L., Cervantes, E., Jennings, P.D. A community-based sociocultural network approach to controlling COVID-19 contagion: Seven suggestions for improving policy. Behavioral Science & Policy, 6(2).
- Seidel, V.P., Hannigan, T.R., Phillips, N. Rumor Communities, Social Media, and Forthcoming Innovations: The Shaping of Technological Frames in Product Market Evolution. Academy of Management Review, 45(2): 304–324.
- Hannigan, T.R., Haans, R.F.J., Vakili, K., Tchalian, H., Glaser, V.G., Wang, M., Kaplan, S., Jennings, P.D. Topic Modeling in Management Research: Rendering New Theory from Textual Data. Academy of Management Annals, 13(2): 586-632.
Books
- Harmon, D., Haack, P., Hannigan, T.R., Etchanchu, H. Beyond Microfoundations and Macrofoundations of Institutions: A Multi-level Theory of Institutions (Research in the Sociology of Organizations). UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2026, (Accepted).
- Steele, C., Hannigan, T.R., Toubiana, M., Glaser, V., Gehman, J. Macrofoundations: Exploring the Institutionally Situated Nature of Activity (Research in the Sociology of Organizations). UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2020.
Chapters in Books
- Hannigan, T.R., McCarthy, I., Baum, J. Reframing AI Governance: From Agentic Models to Organizational Epistemic Infrastructure. In Gibbs, J., Vaast, E. in Research Handbook on Artificial Intelligence and Organizational Transformation. 2025, (Accepted).
- Hannigan, T.R., Ren, Y. The New Structuralism. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2025.
- Valadao, R., Glaser, V.L., Hannigan, T.R. Assembling Frankensteins: How data scientists stitch provisional artifacts to render novel insights. In Research in the Sociology of Organizations. UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2024.
- Glaser, V.L., Hannigan, T.R., Jennings, P.D. Topic Modeling. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
- Jennings, P.D., Hannigan, T.R., Jennings, J.E. Introduction – “Reversing Entrepreneurship’s Arrow”: The Metaphor’s Model and Research Implications. In Entrepreneurialism and Society: Consequences and Meanings (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 82). UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2022.
- Hannigan, T.R., Pak, Y., Jennings, P.D. Mapping the multiverse: A cultural cartographic approach to realizing entrepreneurial possibilities. In Lockwood, C., Soublière, J.-F. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2022.
- Glaser, V.L., Valadao, R., Hannigan, T.R. Algorithms and Routine Dynamics. In Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Steele, C., Hannigan, T.R. Integrating and complicating the micro- and macro- ‘foundations’ of institutions: towards a more optometric institutionalism and an institutionalist optometry. In Steele, C.W.J., Hannigan, T.R., Glaser, V., Toubiana, M., Gehman, J. Macrofoundations: Exploring the institutionally situated nature of activity . UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2020.
- Steele, C., Hannigan, T.R., Toubiana, M., Glaser, V., Gehman, J. Macrofoundations: Exploring the Institutionally Situated Nature of Activity. In Steele, C.W.J., Hannigan, T.R., Glaser, V., Toubiana, M., Gehman, J. Macrofoundations: Exploring the institutionally situated nature of activity. UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2020.
- Hannigan, T.R., Casasnovas, G. New structuralism and field emergence: The co- constitution of meanings and actors in the early moments of social impact investing. In Steele, C.W.J., Hannigan, T.R., Glaser, V., Toubiana, M., Gehman, J. Macrofoundations: Exploring the institutionally situated nature of activity. UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2020.
Invited Contributions and/or Technical Reports
- Hannigan, T.R.. 2025. "How to best promote and grow private sector investment in research and development in Canada", Expert Witness.
- <em>(Book review)</em> Hannigan, T.R.. 2024. "Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett. Group Life: An Invitation to Local Sociology".
Funded Research during the last 7 years
| From-To | Source | Title | Purpose | Type | Role | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-2025 | Telfer School of Management Research Grants (SMRG) | IDeaS 2025 | S | I | PI | $5,000 |
| 2022-2026 | SSHRC Insight Grant | The Emerging Blockchain Entrepreneurship Field | R | C | PI | $269,169 |
| 2022-2022 | Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta | Xerox Canada Faculty Fellowship | R | I | PI | $15,000 |
| 2019-2019 | Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) | Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Management Research, with Vern Glaser | S | O | PI | $25,000 |
| 2019-2019 | University of Alberta, Endowment Fund for the Future | IDeaS workshop | S | I | PI | $10,000 |
| 2019-2019 | University of Alberta, Endowment Fund for the Future | EFF-SAS Grant | S | I | PI | $15,000 |
| 2018-2021 | SSHRC Insight Development Grant | The Cultural Holes of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems | R | C | PI | $58,581 |
LEGEND:
Purpose
C: Contract (R and D) | E: Equipment Grant | R: Research Grant | S: Support Award | P: Pedagogical Grant | O: Other, U: Unknown
Type
C: Granting Councils | G: Government | F: Foundations | I: UO Internal Funding | O: Other | U: Unknown
Role
PI = Principal Investigator | Co-I = Co-Investigator | Co-PI = Co-Principal Investigator
