Dr. Mary Han

Dr. Mary Han

Overview

Mary Han

Mary Han

Dr. Han is Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. She also serves as the Director, Council of International Research and Teaching. She has edited two Handbooks on Asian Entrepreneurship and European business and entrepreneurship, authored or co-authored academic papers, teaching cases, and regularly presented at premier international management conferences. She has taught entrepreneurship, strategic management, family business and international business in US, UK, China, Hong Kong, and Canada at the undergraduate and MBA level. Mary has served as Chair in over 55 MBA thesis defense committees and Chair in both the International Business Division and the Entrepreneurship and Family Business Division at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC). Currently, she sits on the editorial board of the Strategic Management Journal.

Dr. Mary Han has extensive teaching and consulting experience in new venture startups and SMEs internationalization, specifically, international new ventures in emerging markets. Her rich international real estate investment and financing experience enabled and facilitated her teaching, research and consulting. She has advised multinational corporations from countries such as China, Dubai, India, Taiwan, USA, UK and Canada and taught executives from Tata and International China Concern amongst others.
Mary is frequently asked for her expert advice on strategic management, new venture creation and family business sustainability by media such as the Financial Post, the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star.

Research and Professional Contributions

  • Han, M. & Celly, N. (2008). Strategic Ambidexterity and Performance in International New Ventures. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences 25: 335-349
  • Han, M. & McKelvey, W. (2008).** Toward a social capital theory of technology-based new ventures as complex adaptive systems. International Journal of Accounting and information management,16(1):3-61
    **Note: Highly Commended Award Winner at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009
  • Han, M. (2008). Achieving superior international new venture (INV) performance: Exploiting short-term duration of ties. Journal of Enterprising Culture. 16(1): 1­18
  • Han, M. (2007). Achieving Superior Internationalization through Strategic Ambidexterity. Journal of Enterprising Culture, 15(1): 43-77.
  • Ratten, V., Dana, L., Han, M., & Welpe. I. (2007). Internationalization of SMEs: European Comparative Studies. International Journal for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 4(3): 361-379.
  • Han, M. (2006). Developing Social Capital to Achieve Superior Internationalization: A Conceptual Model. Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 4(2-3): 99-112.

Cases and teaching notes

  • Han, M., and Celly, N. 2015. Huawei in Canada: The road ahead. Accepted for publication, Asia Case Research Center (ACRC), the University of Hong Kong
  • Han, M. (2007). Geotech Telecom, Ivey Publishing
  • Case reprinted in
    • Han, M. (2007). GeoTech Telecom case published in Chapter 4: Recognizing a Firm’s Intellectual Assets: Moving beyond a Firm’s Tangible Resources. In Dess, G.G., Lumpkin, G.T. & Eisner, A.B., Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages, 3rd ed.; McGraw-Hill Irwin.

Books

  • Dana, L., Han, M., Ratten, V. and I. Welpe (2009) Handbook of Research on Asian Entrepreneurship, UK: Edward Elgar, ISBN 978 1 84720 608 4
  • Dana, L.P., Welpe, L.M., Han, M., & Ratten, V. (2008) Handbook of Research on European Business and Entrepreneurship: Towards a Theory of Internationalization. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

Conference presentations

Papers in refereed conferences

  • Kathuria, A., Celly, N., Han, M. & Andrade, M. (Dec, 2014) Succeeding in emerging markets: Towards Strategic Multidexterity. Presented at the Strategic Management Society-Sydney Conference.
  • Han, M. (August, 2012) Cognitive ambidexterity: Antecedent to Organizational ambidexterity. Paper presented at the Academy of Management annual meetings, Boston, USA
  • Celly, N. & Han, M. (June, 2011) SME Internationalization: Can SMEs Overcome Liabilities of Foreignness and Smallness through International and Product Diversification? Paper presented at the Academy of International Business Conference, Nagoya, Japan.
  • Subramanian V., Celly, N. & Han, M. (March 2011) Market-seeking Emerging Market
    • Strategies: The Role of Institutional Arbitrage and Industry Voids. Paper presented at the Re-Assessing Emerging Market Multinationals’ Evolving Competitive Advantage Conference, Cambridge UK,
  • Han, M. & Hitt, M. (Sept 12-15, 2010) Towards Social Cognitive Theory of Knowledge Management: A Multi-Level Analysis. Paper presented at the Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Meetings, Rome, Italy.
  • Han, M. (Sept 12-15, 2010) Cognitive Ambidexterity, Dynamic Capability and Firm Performance: Evidence from Messier Downty, Globalive and Lululemon Athletica. Paper presented at the Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Meetings, Rome, Italy.
  • Han, M. & Celly, N. (June 24-27, 2010) Professional CEO, independent directors, innovation and family controlled firms’ performance. Paper presented at the International Council of Small Business and Entrepreneurship world conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
  • Han, M. & McKelvey, W. (April 30-2 May, 2010) Building sustainable social entrepreneurship: A complexity theory model. Paper presented at the International Conference on Social Entrepreneurship, Systems Thinking, & Complexity, New York, USA
  • Han, M. & McKelvey, W. (Oct 12-14, 2008) Achieving via Adaptive Tension: Evidence from GE’s Performance in Emerging Economies. Paper presented at the Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Meetings, Cologne, Germany.
  • Han, M. & Carsrud, A. (August 3-8, 2008) “Managing Nonlinearity: Toward Entrepreneurial S-Curve Logic for the Entrepreneurial Process,” Paper presented at the 2008 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California
  • McKelvey, W. & Han, M. (April 24-26, 2008) Toward a Pareto-based Entrepreneurial Science: TNVs as CAS. Paper presented at the First International Conference on Social Entrepreneurship, Systems Thinking, and Complexity at Adelphi University, New York, New York
  • Han, M. & McKelvey, W. (Feb 6-10, 2008) Toward a social capital theory of technology-based new ventures as complex adaptive systems. Paper presented at the Organization Science Winter Conference, Squaw Creek Resort, Olympic Valley, CA.
  • Lin, H., Han, M. Hassay, D. (June 7-9, 2007) Foreignness and Newness as Ethnic Advantages: Evidence from Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Network Marketing Organizations. Paper presented at Babson Entrepreneurship Frontier conference, Madrid, Spain.
  • Han, M. (August 3-8, 2007). Toward a Social Capital Theory of Technology-Based New Ventures as Complex Adaptive Systems. Paper presented at the 2007 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Han, M. & Celly, N. (August 3-8, 2007). Pro-Profit, Pro-Growth, or Both? Strategic Ambidexterity and Performance in International New Ventures. Paper presented at the 2007 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Selected as Best Paper Proceedings).
  • Han, M. (August 3-8, 2007). The Entrepreneurial Advantage of Smallness, Foreignness, and Newness: New Theory and Evidence from the Chinese Immigrant Entrepreneur in the Canadian Real Estate Industry. Paper presented at symposium “Community Entrepreneurship in the International Context” at the 2007 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Han, M., Ratten, V., Welpe, I., Dana, L. (June 25-28, 2007) Internationalization of SMEs in the Diverse European Context: Evidence and Implications of a New Theory. Paper presented at the Academy of International Business conference, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  • Han, M. & McKelvey, W. (Sept 27-29, 2006). Redefining the Social Capital Basis of Technology-Based New Ventures: Lessons from Adaptation and Complexity Theories. Paper presented at the Technology-Transfer Society Annual Conference, Atlanta.
  • Han, M. (August 10-16, 2006). Managing Paradoxical Modes of Governance—Profit and Growth: Towards Aligned and Co-Evolved Structural, Strategic, and Cognitive Ambidexterity. Presented at the 2006 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta.
  • Han, M. (August 10-16, 2006). The Entrepreneurial S-Curve Logic: A Conceptual Model for Managing Entrepreneurial Process. Presented at the 2006 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta.
  • Han, M. (August 10-16, 2006). Developing Social Capital to Achieve Superior Internationalization: A Conceptual Model. Presented at the 2006 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta.
  • Han, M., Welpe, I., Ratten, V. & Dana, L.-P. (June 23-26, 2006). Internationalization of SMEs in Europe: A Comparative Study. Paper presented at the Academy of International Business Studies Meeting, Beijing, China.
  • Han, M. (June 23-26, 2006). Towards Strategic Ambidexterity: The Nexus of Pro-Profit and Pro-Growth Strategies for the Sustainable International Corporation. Paper presented at the Academy of International Business Studies Meeting, Beijing, China.