Thomas Lawrence Biography

The Weyerhaeuser Professor of Change Management at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada is Thomas B. Lawrence ([1]). He earned his Ph.D. in organizational analysis from the University of Alberta in 1993, and from that time until 2002, he served as a professor at the University of Victoria. In addition, Professor Lawrence has held visiting appointments at the Universities of St. Andrews, Chulalongkorn, McGill, Royal Roads, and British Columbia. His studies concentrate on the institutions, transformation, and power dynamics in organizations and organizational sectors. The Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, and the Journal of Management are just a few of the prestigious academic publications in which it has been published. He is a co-editor of the just-released Second Edition of the Sage Handbook of Organization Studies. In 2001, he received the Ascendant Scholar Award from the Western Academy of Management, and in 2005, SFU Business presented him with the Research Excellence Award. He now sits on the editorial boards of Strategic Organization, Journal of Management Inquiry, and Academy of Management Perspectives. Graham Dover is a second-year Ph.D. candidate in the SFU Business department of Management and Organization Studies. As a CMA Centre Scholar, Graham works on two major research projects in collaboration with Tom Lawrence, the director of the center. The first is a recently funded study of "connector organizations'" function in promoting innovation in public settings. The William and Ada Isabelle Steel Fund at Simon Fraser University has provided the majority of the funding for this project, which focuses on the role of Vancouver's connector groups in the launch of the nation's first supervised injection facility for intravenous drug users. The second project is a research program that focuses on the analysis of change processes in the field of drug addiction in Vancouver and throughout Canada. This program was previously mentioned in reference to Masoud Shadnam's Centre activities. In this endeavor, "controlled injection facilities" for intravenous drug users are being disseminated and may be disseminated from Vancouver to other Canadian cities.

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