Marc-David Seidel

Research interests

• Distributed trust technologies (such as blockchain)
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Social networks and organizational decision making
• Community Form (C-Form) of organization
• Early life factors role in later life workplace outcomes
• Discrimination and networks in the employment relationship

Education

• Ph.D. Business Administration (Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations). University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Dissertation: Competitive realignment in the airline industry: A dynamic analysis of generalist and specialist organizations under different route network structures. Committee: Glenn Carroll (Chair), John Freeman, and Michael Hout (Sociology).
• M.S. Business Administration (Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations). University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business.
• M.B.A. Marketing and International Management Concentration. Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School of Management.
• B.A. Economics (Law & Society Concentration). Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences.

Companies

• RBC Financial Group Professor of Entrepreneurship UBC Sauder School of Business (2017)
• Associate Editor, Administrative Science Quarterly Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University (2016)
• W. Maurice Young Centre for Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital Research Director UBC Sauder School of Business (2015)
• Commerce Scholars Program Co-founder/Steering Committee UBC Sauder School of Business (2006)
• Associate Professor UBC Sauder School of Business (2006)
• Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division Executive Academy of Management (2014 — 2019)
• Professorship in Innovation UBC Sauder School of Business (2016 — 2017)
• Visiting Scholar University of Michigan Ross School of Business (2014 — 2014)
• Founder Airlines of the Web, Inc. (www.flyaow.com) (1994 — 2012)