Telfer Established Researcher Award 2025 — Timothy Hannigan
The Telfer School of Management is thrilled to present the 2025 Established Researcher Award to Professor Timothy Hannigan, a leading scholar in Strategy and Organization. His cutting-edge research is transforming how we understand the rise of markets and fields, the evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems, and the shaping of institutions.
The Established Researcher Award recognizes outstanding professors who have achieved national or international acclaim for their impactful research and have brought visibility to Telfer. It celebrates those with top-tier publications, a strong history of funding success, and a record of training the next generation of scholars.
Professor Hannigan holds the Father Edgar Thivierge Chair in Canadian Business, which supports high-impact research at the intersection of technology and organizing with national and global relevance. Since joining Telfer in 2024, Hannigan has brought a fresh perspective to emerging technologies and organizational change.
He explores how big ideas, like AI, blockchain, and chatbots, can move beyond the hype to become practical tools that shape business strategies, policies, and public trust. His research helps leaders navigate uncertainty and make smarter decisions in a fast-moving world.
Hannigan is recognized as a thought-leader and community builder for co-founding the Interpretive Data Science (IDeaS) initiative. This global network brings together scholars from diverse disciplines to explore computational methods and digital transformation through an organizational lens. Telfer hosted the most recent IDeaS workshop on Interpretive Data Science, backed by the SMRG Research Event fund.
Hannigan’s research appears in top journals like the Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, and Research Policy, all on the FT50 list. His widely cited work is award-winning, including the 2025 Business Horizons Best Paper Award, the 2025 Wetherbe Award, and the 2023 Schulze Publication Award. He contributed to The Globe and Mail, The Conversation, and Canadian HR Reporter, and advised Statistics Canada on entrepreneurship, sharing ideas that shape news stories and government decisions.
Hannigan brings research training to life for graduate students and early-career researchers, often extending his support to scholars beyond his formal supervisory role. Through initiatives like IDeaS, the Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis, and the Academy of Management, he’s mentoring and mobilizing a new generation of researchers, equipping them with the creative, rigorous, and socially conscious approaches needed to tackle the complex challenges organizations face today.
The Telfer School of Management is proud to count Professor Hannigan among its faculty and to recognize his remarkable achievements with this well-deserved award. Congratulations, Professor Hannigan!