Publications Database
Welcome to the new Schulich Peer-Reviewed Publication Database!
The database is currently in beta-testing and will be updated with more features as time goes on. In the meantime, stakeholders are free to explore our faculty’s numerous works. The left-hand panel affords the ability to search by the following:
- Faculty Member’s Name;
- Area of Expertise;
- Whether the Publication is Open-Access (free for public download);
- Journal Name; and
- Date Range.
At present, the database covers publications from 2012 to 2020, but will extend further back in the future. In addition to listing publications, the database includes two types of impact metrics: Altmetrics and Plum. The database will be updated annually with most recent publications from our faculty.
If you have any questions or input, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Search Results
Charles McMillan (2024). "Docility, Collaborative Learning, and Continuous Innovation: A Case study of Celebrity Chefs", Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Behaviour.
Abstract
In adaptive organizations, there are strong cultural norms of social interaction that foster two-way communications and listening skills and give take advice giving, to enhance knowledge transfer among teams and individuals. Such norms use docility mechanisms, a social construct that empowers knowledge diffusion in both explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge based on experience, training, and cultivation of craft skills. Adaptive organizations combine both explicit knowledge and routines to assure optimal output, and a social culture to seek innovative measures where high docility and social interaction are central adaptive mechanisms. This paper explores the role of celebrity chefs who, as purveyors of haute cuisine in food culture, achieve global reputations by their training, expertise and knowledge of food habits, and cultivating junior chefs using docility mechanisms and high social interaction. Through TV competitions and cooking programs, they serve as examples of docility and social learning, requiring non-hierarchical collaboration to transfer knowledge between those who want to learn and those who want to teach.Charles McMillan (2018). "Organizational Identity, Organizational Strategy and Habits of Attention: A Case Study of Toyota", Journal of Business Strategy.
Abstract
This chapter links organizational identity as a cohesive attribute to corporate strategy and a competitive advantage, using Toyota as a case study. The evolution of Toyota from a domestic producer, and exporter, and now a global firm using a novel form of lean production follows innovative tools of human resources, supply chain collaboration, a network identity to link domestic operations to overseas investments, and unparalleled commercial investments in technologies that make the firm moving from a sustainable competitive position to one of unassailable advantage in the global auto sector. The chapter traces the strategic moves to strength Toyota’s identity at all levels, including in its overseas operations, to build a global ecosystem model of collaboration.McMillan, C.J. (2016). "Old Wine in New Bottles: Docility, Attention Scarcity and Knowledge Management", Journal of Knowledge Management, 20(6), 1353-1372.