Amir Bahman Radnejad, PhD

Amir Bahman Radnejad, PhD

Assistant Professor

(585) 395-2052
aradnejad@brockport.edu
Office:  109B Hartwell Hall

Education

• PhD, Strategy and Global Management, University of Calgary
• MSc, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Manchester
• BSc, Chemical Engineering, University of Tehran

Teaching and Research Interests

• Strategy
• Entrepreneurship
• International Business
• Sustainable Development
• Sustainable Energy Development
• Innovation Strategies
• Sustainable Entrepreneurship
• Social Innovations and Energy Industry

Grants, Fellowships, and Honors

• Enbridge Corporate Sustainability Award, Canada, 2012 and 2015
• Robert A. Willson Doctoral Management Scholarship, University of Calgary, 2014
• UKERC grant, Carbon Management Canada (CMC), 2013
• Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economic Scholarship Award, 2012
• Faculty of Graduate Studies Scholarships, University of Calgary, 2012

Professional Activities

• Founder/CEO, 1388 Consulting, 2017-Present
• Business Development Director, Geometrics Energy Corporation, 2016-2017
• Co-Founder/Business Development Director, Sabz Consulting Group, 2013-2016
• Member of External Advisory Board, Center for Corporate Sustainability (CCS), Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, 2014-2016
• Energy Technology Analyst, Innovate Calgary, 2013-2015
• Data Analyst, Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy, University of Calgary, 2012

• Intellectual Contributions

  Publications

  • Radnejad, A. B., & Osiyevskyy, O. (In-Press) Navigating Imposed Innovation: A Decision-Making Framework, Journal of Business Horizon.

  • Osiyevskyy, O., Radnejad, A. B., & Sinha, K. (In-Press) Incumbent dynamic responses to disruptive business model innovations: rational, behavioral, and normative perspectives In T.K. Das (Ed), Entrepreneurship and Behavioral Strategy, Charlotte, NC, Information Age Publishing.

  • Radnejad, A. B., Nguyen, B., Cordeiro, J., Vredenburg, H. (In-Press) Meta-organizations: a solution to open innovation, IEEE Engineering Management Review.

  • Radnejad, A. B., Osiyevskyy, O., & Vredenburg, H. (2018). A great technology that failed: Barriers to radical process innovation. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018 (1), 10261.

  • Radnejad, A. B., Vredenburg, H., & Woiceshyn, J. (2017). Meta-organizing for open innovation under environmental and social pressures in the oil industry. Technovation, 66, 14-27.

  • Radnejad, A. B., & Vredenburg, H. (2017). Disruptive Technological Process Innovation Capability in a Process-oriented Industry.  Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017 (1), 11616.

  • Radnejad, A. B., & Vredenburg, H. (2016). The adoption of open innovation to address environmental challenges in a process-oriented industry. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016 (1), 11258.

  • Radnejad, A. B., & Vredenburg, H. (2015). Collaborative competitors in a fast changing technology environment: open innovation in environmental technology development in the oil and gas industry. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 19(1-2), 77-98.

  Conferences

  • Amir Bahman Radnejad, Oleksiy Osiyevskyy, Harrie Vredenburg, 2018, “A great Technology that failed: Barriers to radical process innovation”, Annual meeting of Academy of Management (AOM), Chicago, USA
  • Amir Bahman Radnejad and Harrie Vredenburg, 2017, "Disruptive Technological Process Innovation Capability in a Process-oriented Industry", Annual meeting of Academy of Management (AOM), Atlanta, USA
  • Amir Bahman Radnejad and Harrie Vredenburg, 2017, "Disruptive Technological Process Innovation Capability in a Process-oriented Industry", Annual meeting of Academy of Management (AOM), Atlanta, USA
  • Amir Bahman Radnejad and Harrie Vredenburg, 2016, "The adoption of open innovation to address environmental challenges in a process-oriented industry", Annual meeting of Academy of Management(AOM), California, USA
  • Amir Bahman Radnejad and Harrie Vredenburg, 2016, "How to apply the open innovation model in a process-oriented industry", Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), Edmonton, Canada
  • Amir Bahman Radnejad and Harrie Vredenburg, 2015, "Open innovation from TCE perspective", Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), Halifax, Canada

  Invited Talks/Guest Lecturing/Media

  • "How Canadians are working together to make the oil industry become environmentally friendly?", John's Hopkins University, 2017
  • “A Business Case for Iranian Nuclear Deal”, WKOK Radio, Pennsylvania, 2017
  • “Energy industry: renewables vs non-renewable”, WKOK Radio, Pennsylvania, 2017
  • “Immigrants and Entrepreneurship”, RED FM Radio, Alberta, 2015
  • “Energy Future”, CNBC, Toronto, 2014
  • "Open Innovation and Collaboration in the Oil Industry", University of Lethbridge, 2013
  • "Sustainable Energy Development", University of Tehran, 2011

Last Updated 4/19/22