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
- Hannigan, T.R., McCarthy, I. and Spicer, A. 2024. Beware of botshit: how to manage the epistemic risks of generative chatbots. Business Horizons, 67(5): 471-486.
- Pozner, J.E. and Hannigan, T.R. 2023. How relational publics become a scandal audience: values and the creation of scandal. Organization Theory, 4(3).
- Hannigan, T.R. 2023. Relational publics: studying organizational possibilities. Organization Studies, 44(11): 1899-1902.
- Gamache, D., Devers, C., Klein, F. and Hannigan, T.R. 2023. 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. and Jennings, P.D. 2022. 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. and Jennings, P.D. 2020. 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. and Phillips, N. 2020. 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. and Jennings, P.D. 2019. Topic Modeling in Management Research: Rendering New Theory from Textual Data. Academy of Management Annals, 13(2): 586-632.
- Hannigan, T.R., Seidel, V.P. and Yakis-Douglas, B. 2018. Product innovation rumors as forms of open innovation. Research Policy, 47(5): 953–964.
Books
- Steele, C., Hannigan, T.R., Toubiana, M., Glaser, V. and 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. and Ren, Y. The New Structuralism. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2024.
- Glaser, V.L., Hannigan, T.R. and Jennings, P.D. Topic Modeling. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
- Jennings, P.D., Hannigan, T.R. and 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. and Jennings, P.D. Mapping the multiverse: A cultural cartographic approach to realizing entrepreneurial possibilities. In Lockwood, C. and Soublière, J.-F.. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2022.
- Glaser, V.L., Valadao, R. and Hannigan, T.R. Algorithms and Routine Dynamics. In Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Steele, C. and 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. and Gehman, J.. Macrofoundations: Exploring the institutionally situated nature of activity . UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2020.
- Steele, C., Hannigan, T.R., Toubiana, M., Glaser, V. and Gehman, J. Macrofoundations: Exploring the Institutionally Situated Nature of Activity. In Steele, C.W.J., Hannigan, T.R., Glaser, V., Toubiana, M. and Gehman, J.. Macrofoundations: Exploring the institutionally situated nature of activity. UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2020.
- Hannigan, T.R. and 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. and Gehman, J.. Macrofoundations: Exploring the institutionally situated nature of activity. UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2020.
Other Scholarly Contributions
- (Book review) 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 | * | ** | Role | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-2026 | SSHRC Insight Grant | The Emerging Blockchain Entrepreneurship Field | R | C | PI | $ 269,169 |
| 2022 | Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta | Xerox Canada Faculty Fellowship | R | I | PI | $ 15,000 |
| 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 | University of Alberta, Endowment Fund for the Future | IDeaS workshop | S | I | PI | $ 10,000 |
| 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 |
| 2017 | University of Alberta, Endowment Fund for the Future | Reputation, Role-Conflict, and Scandal: The Impact of Ethical Breaches on Individual Reputations | R | I | PI | $ 4,500 |
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
