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Dr. Goran Calic

Associate Professor / Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership

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Department / Academic Area

Faculty, Strategic Management

Email

calicg@mcmaster.ca

Phone

DSB: 23967

Designations

Director of the MBA Programs / Michael Lee-Chin & Family Professor in Strategic Business Studies

Biography

Goran Calic is the Entrepreneurship Leadership Chair and Associate Professor of Strategy at McMaster University, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. He holds a PhD in Strategy, with a minor in economics, and a Post Doc. in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience from Purdue. His work on organizational innovation was awarded the Max Henri Boisot Award. His research has been published in Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Small Business Economics, Nature: Scientific Reports, PLOS One, British Medical Journal: Open, Harvard Business Review, and other top journals. Previously Calic served as Director of McMaster’s MBA programs. During this time he implemented a redesign of the first year MBA curriculm. From 2024 to 2025, Calic held a Visiting Scholar appointment in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School.

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Links

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Goran Calic  
The Clinic  
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Publications

Journals

A Consensus Definition Of Creativity In Surgery: A Focus Group And Modified Delphi Study

Alex Thabane    Tyler Mckechnie    Phillip Staibano    Goran Calic    Vikram Arora    Margaret e Webb

Journal     2025

Creativity Research Journal

Personalizing Videos To Improve Fundraising: Evidence From Reward-based Crowdfunding

Jialiang Yang    Rene Arseneault    Goran Calic

Journal     2025

International Journal Of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research

Seeing The Whole: Configurational Cognition And New Venture Resource Mobilization

Goran Calic    François Neville    Santi Furnari    Cs richard Chan

Journal     2025

Strategic Management Journal

Creativity Research In Medicine And Nursing: A Scoping Review

Alex Thabane    Sarah Saleh    Sushmitha Pallapothu    Tyler Mckechnie    Phillip Staibano    Goran Calic

Journal     2025

Plos One

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Other

Social Acceptance Of Small Modular Reactors [abstract Only]

Anton Shevchenko    Goran Calic    Lee-chin family institute for strategic business studies Michael

2023

Social Acceptance Of Small Modular Reactors

Anton Shevchenko    Goran Calic    Lee-chin family institute for strategic business studies Michael

2023

On Why Women?owned Businesses Take More Time To Secure Microloans

Goran Calic    Moren Lévesque    Anton Shevchenko    Lee-chin family institute for strategic business studies Michael

2023

Seeing The Whole: Configurational Cognition And New Venture Resource Mobilization

Goran Calic    François Neville    Santi Furnari    Cs richard Chan    Lee-chin family institute for strategic business studies Michael

2023

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