Toronto - Prof. András Tilcsik of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has been elected as a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada. Election to the RSC College is one of the highest honours bestowed on mid-career Canadian researchers and artists for remarkable contributions in the humanities, arts and sciences, as well as in Canadian public life.
“This is a outstanding honour for a colleague and researcher whose work on organizations is impactful in both the academic and practitioner communities,” said Prof. Joseph Milner, Interim Dean of the Rotman School.
Tilcsik holds the Canada Research Chair in Strategy, Organizations, and Society and the George E. Connell Chair in Organizations and Society. He is a professor of strategic management who studies organizations, occupations, and work. His research has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, the Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organization Science and has been recognized with numerous awards. His work has been referenced in World Bank and United Nations reports, OECD documents, U.S. Senate testimonies, the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Economist, and The Washington Post, among others. His book Meltdown (New York: Penguin Press), coauthored with Chris Clearfield, explores organizational factors that contribute to failure in modern systems. Meltdown received the National Business Book Award, the Academy of Management’s George R. Terry Book Award, and the Bracken Bower Prize, and was named a book of the year by the Financial Times.
Founded in 1882, the Royal Society of Canada is Canada’s senior national academy and exists to promote Canadian research and scholarly accomplishment in both of Canada’s official languages, to recognize academic and artistic excellence, and to advise governments, non-governmental organizations, and Canadians generally on matters of public interest.
The Rotman School of Management is part of the University of Toronto, a global centre of research and teaching excellence at the heart of Canada’s commercial capital. Rotman is a catalyst for transformative learning, insights and public engagement, bringing together diverse views and initiatives around a defining purpose: to create value for business and society. For more information, visit www.rotman.utoronto.ca
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