Grâce à la générosité d’Alexander et d’Andrew Green, la Fondation a eu le plaisir de lancer la bourse Mary-Jean Mitchell Green-Fondation Pierre Elliott Trudeau, qui a été remise à Kylie Heales.
Kylie Heales est professeure adjointe d’entrepreneuriat à l’École de commerce agricole de l’Université de Miami, où elle s’intéresse aux relations entre les normes, les institutions et l’entrepreneuriat, en portant son attention sur les défis de croissance pour les entrepreneurs marginalisés dans le monde. Ses recherches actuelles explorent la façon dont le genre, la religion et les normes communautaires façonnent le succès entrepreneurial dans divers contextes : de la Tunisie à Haïti en passant par des entreprises familiales séculaires.
Riche d’une décennie d’expérience pratique, Kylie Heales propose des améliorations opérationnelles pour les organismes sans but lucratif, les entreprises en démarrage ou les géants du classement Fortune 500. Elle est cofondatrice d’une entreprise de technologie financière, qui a donné aux entrepreneurs du Kenya et de la Zambie les moyens d’accroître leur impact.
À l’École de commerce agricole, l’enseignement de Kylie Heales est profondément enraciné dans la recherche et l’expérience concrète afin de développer la prochaine génération d’entrepreneurs. Ses cours sont des laboratoires vivants où la recherche se joint à la productivité, ce qui permet aux étudiants de se familiariser avec le paysage commercial dynamique actuel.
Kylie Heales détient un doctorat de l’École de commerce de l’Alberta (Université de l’Alberta), un M.B.A de l’École de commerce Fuqua (Université Duke) ainsi qu’une maîtrise en ressources humaines et un baccalauréat en économie de l’Université du Queensland.
Free and Unmerited: The Unappreciated Organizing Power of Grace
2025
Grace, an unconditional and voluntary gift in the presence of unmet expectations, is often associated with theology yet pervades everyday life. Despite its ubiquity, management scholarship is quiet on understanding how grace shapes organizational relationships and outcomes. This article positions grace as a promising construct for management scholarship across entrepreneurship, strategic decision-making, organizational relationships, and institutional dynamics. I begin by articulating the three constitutive conditions of grace: social construction requiring undeserving recipients and unobligated givers, presence of unmet expectations, and absence of obligation by the giver. Next, I demonstrate how grace operates through institutional, exchange, and relational organizing processes that enable temporary norm deviations, transcend traditional exchange logics, and redistribute power to facilitate relationship renegotiation. Finally, I propose promising research directions that illuminate how actors navigate tensions between accountability and flexibility. This research agenda has potential to enhance the interactions and relationships between people, organizations and institutions.
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Navigating Intersectional Inequalities: Resource Assemblage for Firm Profits
2025
This study examines the interplay between social inequalities and resource configurations in necessity entrepreneurship, focusing on firm profitability in Haiti. Employing qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), the research identifies equifinal patterns of inequalities and resources associated with firm profits sufficient to alleviate poverty. The study contributes to theory on entrepreneurial resources by highlighting that resources are not always compensatory. It also reveals how gender, family responsibilities, and religious affiliations affect resource combinations and firm profits. Finally, the findings challenge prevailing narratives about necessity entrepreneurship showing that some entrepreneurs can establish profitable, long-term ventures despite significant constraints, thus contributing knowledge to the assumptions of embedded agency, homogeneity, and firm performance of necessity entrepreneurs.
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Hybridizing Sustainability Metric Applications with Local Stakeholder Inputs: A life cycle assessment with a co-design demonstration
2023
Sustainability standards have been criticized as being complex and overlapping, with unclear metrics and messy timelines—all of which have led to sustainability shortfalls. As part of the special issue on addressing sustainability metric shortcomings, we develop a hybridizing protocol for sustainability standards that elicits community stakeholder ideological predispositions, preferences, ratings, and heuristics and injects them into a prioritized, vetted metric in order to reduce immediate and longer-range life cycle impacts of corporate operations in the local ecosystem. We demonstrate our method using a quasi-field experiment, conducted by expert intermediary facilitators, in which community members co-design oil sands wetland reclamation and their choices are integrated into life cycle assessments (LCAs) of wetland designs and remediation products. Hybridizing LCA with local co-design not only generates an effective wetland-material choice, but reduces life cycle impacts and increases the likelihood of community acceptance.
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How Institutional Logics Influence Growth: A Field Experiment with Tunisian Women Entrepreneurs
2023
Entrepreneurial training programmes promoting women’s entrepreneurship in low- and middle-income countries command significant global attention and concomitant resources. Despite this broad investment, many ventures in these contexts fail to grow. Prior research suggests that institutionalized patterns of behaviors, in part dictated by institutional logics, may cause this lack of growth. In the context of Tunisian female entrepreneurship, this research explores the effects of community and market logics on entrepreneurial growth outcomes. Using a field experiment, we demonstrate that institutional logics affect the growth aspirations of entrepreneurs through individual empowerment and emotional energy. This research has theoretical implications for institutional logics, entrepreneurial growth, and emotions literatures. Firstly, institutional logics affect entrepreneurial growth outcomes. Secondly, logics are processed by individuals through both cognitive (empowerment) and social (emotions) constructs and we contribute to knowledge of the integrated macro to micro psychological and social processes of institutional logics. Finally, cultural differences explain why logics do not have the expected effects we think they may in the promotion of Western neoliberal entrepreneurial training programs.
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