 | Vern Glaser is an Associate Professor in the Strategic Management and Organization Department at the University of Alberta. He studies how organizations strategically change practices and culture using multiple methods, including ethnography, topic modeling and content analysis, and experiments. |
 | Richard Haans is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His most recent work applies topic modeling to study entrepreneurial positioning along cognitive dimensions in the creative industries. Richard has given several hands-on topic modeling workshops to both quantitatively and qualitatively focused audiences. |
 | Tim Hannigan is an Assistant Professor of Organization Theory and Entrepreneurship at the Alberta School of Business. He studies culture and cognition with innovation, networks, and organizational wrongdoing. Tim has applied topic modeling and natural language processing methods in studies of hidden semantic structures in text to track representations over time. |
 | Dev Jennings is the Director of the Canadian Centre for CSR and a Professor of Strategy and Organization. He is an Associate Editor at ASQ, and a former associate editor at AMR, JBV, and co-editor of Strategic Organization. He used a wide array of quantitative and qualitative methods in his co-authored research over the years, and teaches methods at the University of Alberta. |
 | Mark Kennedy is Associate Professor and Director, Imperial Business Analytics, at Imperial College London. His research focuses on the emergence of new markets and industries and the more basic building blocks of organising—categories, identities, forms, strategies, practices, reputation criteria and so on. Within this broad topic, he pays particular attention to meaning construction processes, often by using text-mining techniques to extract and analyze patterns of association among actors, ideas and objects as they appear in conventional and new social media. |
 | Marc-David Seidel is RBC Financial Group Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director, W. Maurice Young Centre for Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital Research, at the Sauder School of Business of the University of British Columbia. His research includes topics such as distributed trust technologies (such as blockchain), innovation and entrepreneurship, and social networks. |
 | Chris Steele is an Assistant Professor of Organization Theory and Entrepreneurship at the Alberta School of Business. His research revolves around three overarching topics: the production and consumption of knowledge, the emergence and maintenance of identity, and the production of order, meaning, and innovation in everyday life. |
 | Hovig Tchalian is Assistant Professor of Practice at the Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate University. He studies processes of change, stability and innovation in categories and institutions across domains such as the Electric Vehicle industry and corporate governance discourse. He uses mixed methods to analyze texts and language, combining qualitative coding with computational analysis, including topic modeling. |
 | Rodrigo Valadao is a PhD Candidate in the Strategic Management and Organization Department at the University of Alberta. He studies the professionalization of data scientists, rendering processes with topic modeling, AI ecosystems, and the contours of digital society. |
 | Milo Wang is a PhD Candidate in the Strategic Management and Organization Department at the University of Alberta. His research examines the process by which highly contested businesses become destigmatized, legitimated, and institutionalized. His work centers on the market transition in China, but also includes empirical contexts such as the emergence of gene therapy and the rise of craft brewing to the coronavirus pandemic. |
