James Grant, PhD

Education

PhD (Guelph)

Research interests

The behaviour and ecology of competitive aggression Animals differ tremendously, both within and among species, in the amount of aggression used when competing for resources. The primary goal of our research is to determine how the distribution of resources in space and time influences the aggressiveness of animals. In laboratory and field experiments, we manipulate presentation of food or mates, while monitoring the aggressive behaviour of small groups of fish or birds. Our long-term goal is to develop general principles of competitive aggression that will help explain the diversity of foraging, mating and social systems observed in the wild.

We use stream-dwelling salmonids as a model system to investigate how territorial behaviour affects population regulation. Much of our work to date has involved following marked individuals in the wild as they feed, defend territories, and move through the environment. We relate the diversity in behaviour observed to measures of fitness, such as growth and mortality rate. Current work involves manipulations of food abundance to determine the quantitative relationships among habitat productivity, terrotory size and population density.

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EMBA 642    Crafting and Implementing a Winning Strategy 
MBA 650      Crafting and Implementing Successful Strategies
MSCA 654    Seminar in Consulting: Managing a Consulting Firm 
COMM 401   Strategy & Competition 
 

Publications:

Seifzadeh, P., Derayati, E., & Radnejad, A. B. (2020). Multinational enterprises and strategic actions in emerging economy contexts: From conformity to institutional entrepreneurship. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences/Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration.

Derayati, E., Molz, R., & Edwards, G. (2019). A Scale of Relative Institutional Challenge During MNC Global Expansion. In Emerging Economic Models for Global Sustainability and Social Development (pp. 98-124). IGI Global.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & PROCEEDINGS:

Derayati, Ehsan, Gwyneth Edwards, and Rick Molz. "The Influence of Relative Institutional Challenge on Ownership Structure." the Academy of Management annual meeting, Chicago, USA, 2018 

Seifzadeh, Pouya, and Ehsan Derayati. "Multinational Enterprises as Institutional Entrepreneurs: The Case of Emerging Economy Contexts." The Academy of Management annual meeting, Chicago, USA, 2018 

Derayati, Ehsan. “The effects of institutional setting on nourishing deep-tech start-ups: A qualitative approach to Canadian Deep-Tech Start-up ecosystem." European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Conference, Tallinn, Estonia, July 2018 

Derayati, Ehsan & Gwyneth Edwards, “The Impact of Relative Institutional Challenge on the Process of Firms’ Internationalization”, Academy of International Business (AIB) Conference, New-Orleans, USA, 2016 

Derayati, Ehsan, “Institutional Uncertainty and International Strategies of SMEs” 

European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS) Conference, Athens, Greece, 2015 (Accepted) 

Derayati, Ehsan, “SMEs: The Mountain Goats of International Business”, European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS) Conference, Rotterdam, 2014 (Accepted) 

Derayati, Ehsan & Pouya Seifzadeh, “Multinational Enterprises as Institutional Entrepreneurs: The Case of Emerging Economy Contexts”, The Academy of Management annual meeting, Florida, USA, 2013 

Derayati, Ehsan & Pouya Seifzadeh . “Multinational Enterprises and Institutional Entrepreneurship activities in emerging economies”, European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS) Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 2012