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Dusya Vera

Professor, Strategy & General Management

Executive Director, Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership
Ian O. Ihnatowycz Chair in Leadership

Dusya Vera

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Dusya Vera is a Professor of Strategy and the Executive Director of the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership. She obtained her doctoral degree at Ivey in 2002.

Dusya's expertise is in the areas of strategic leadership, leader character, improvisation, and organizational learning. She has published in top academic publications such as the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, The Leadership Quarterly, Organization Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Management Learning, among others. She also enjoys writing practitioner-oriented articles, which have been published in journals such as Organizational Dynamics and Business Horizons.

She is currently an Associate Editor of Academy of Management Discoveries, and an editorial board member of the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Journal of Business Research, and Management Learning. She is a member of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society.

Throughout her career, Dusya is an award-winning teacher, teaching courses at the undergraduate, masters, doctoral, and executive level in the areas of strategic management, strategic leadership, leader character, and ethical leadership, among others. She has extensive experience in Executive Development. She has also received multiple awards in the areas of research and service.

Prior to returning to the Ivey Business School in 2022, she was on the faculty of the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston in the Department of Management & Leadership for 20 years.

Teaching

  • Cross-Enterprise Leadership
  • Transformational Leadership

Programs Taught

  • MBA
  • HBA

Education

  • BS, Engineering, Polytechnic University, Ecuador
  • Certificate, MIS, Martin Luther Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
  • MBA, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  • PhD, Western University, Canada

Recent Refereed Articles

  • Crossan, M. M.; Nguyen, B.; Vera, D. V.; Sturm, R. E.; Pardo, A. R., 2024, "Leader Character in Engineering Projects: A Case Study of Character Activation, Contagion, and Embeddedness", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, January 71: 7088 - 7100.
  • Crossan, M. M.; Nguyen, B.; Sturm, R. E.; Vera, D. V.; Ruiz Pardo, A.; Maurer, C. C., 2023, "Organizational learning through character-based judgment", Management Learning, November 54(5)
  • Vera, D. V.; Crossan, M. M., 2023, "Character-enabled improvisation and the new normal: A paradox perspective", Management Learning, February 54(1): 77 - 98.
  • Miller, C.; Chiu, S. S-C.; Wesley II, C. L.; Vera, D. V.; Avery, D. R., 2022, "Cognitive Diversity at The Strategic Apex: A review and critique of four decades of research", Academy of Management Annals, June 16(2): 806 - 852.
  • Vera, D. V.; Bonardi, J-P.; Hitt, M. A.; Withers, M. C., 2022, "Extending the boundaries of strategic leadership research", The Leadership Quarterly, June 33(3)
  • Maldonado, T.; Vera, D. V.; Spangler, W. D., 2022, "Unpacking humility: Leader humility, leader personality, and why they matter", Business Horizons, March 65(2): 125 - 137.
  • Tabesh, P.; Vera, D. V., 2020, "Top managers' improvisational decision-making in crisis: a paradox perspective", Management Decision, November 58(1): 2235 - 2256.
  • Evans, K.; Salaiz, A.; Pathak, S.; Vera, D. V., 2020, "Community Influential Directors and Corporate Social Performance", Business & Society, October 61(1): 225 - 263.
  • Vera, D. V.; Samba, C.; Kong, T.; Maldonado, T., 2020, "Resilience as thriving: The role of positive leadership practices", Organizational Dynamics, August 50(2)
  • Salaiz, A.; Evans, K.; Pathak, S.; Vera, D. V., 2020, "The impact of corporate social responsibility and irresponsibility on firm performance: New insights to an old question", Organizational Dynamics, April 49(2): 100698 - 100698.
  • Sturm, R. E.; Vera, D. V.; Crossan, M. M., 2017, "The Entanglement of Leader Character and Leader Competence and its Impact on Performance", Leadership Quarterly, June 28(3): 349 - 366.
  • Krylova, K. O.; Vera, D. V.; Crossan, M. M., 2016, "Knowledge Transfer in Knowledge-Intensive Organizations: The Crucial Role of Improvisation in Transferring And Protecting Knowledge", Journal of Knowledge Management, October 20(5): 1045 - 1064.
  • Vera, D. V.; Crossan, M. M.; Rerup, C.; Werner, S., 2014, "Thinking Before Acting’ or Acting Before Thinking’: Antecedents of Individual Action Propensity in Work Situations", Journal of Management Studies, December 51(4): 603 - 633.
  • Jansen, J.; Vera, D. V.; Crossan, M. M., 2009, "Strategic Leadership for Exploration and Exploitation: The Moderating Role of Environmental Dynamism", Leadership Quarterly, February 20(1): 5 - 18.
  • Crossan, M. M.; Vera, D. V.; Nanjad, L., 2008, "Transcendent Leadership: Strategic Leadership in Dynamic Environments", Leadership Quarterly, October 19(5): 569 - 581.

For more publications please see our Research Database

Experience

  • University of Houston, USA 2002-2022
  • Instituto de Desarrollo Empresarial (IDE), Ecuador
  • Polytechnic University (ESPOL), Ecuador
  • Guayaquil Stock Exchange, Ecuador
  • Pacific Bank, Ecuador
  • Consulcoti, Ecuador

Research/Course Development

  • Strategic Leadership
  • Leader Character
  • Organizational Learning
  • Improvisation
  • Strategic Management
  • Global Leadership

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