Previous Carol-Ann Tetrault Sirsly Award Recipients

Luciara Nardon – 2023

Luciara Nardon is a Professor of International Business at the Sprott School of Business. Her interest in multicultural work environments is multi-faceted, including strategies to facilitate successful intercultural situations, the experiences of different kinds of migrant workers and students, and the ways technology can support individuals adjusting to a new cultural environment. Luciara uses innovative qualitative methods to support globally mobile individuals and identify solutions to unique challenges faced by these individuals.

Alan Cai – 2022

Alan Cai is a Professor in Supply Chain Management at the Sprott School of Business. Alan’s research interests include three main streams: 1) supply chain management, 2) quality management, and 3) environmental management. His research focuses on the relationships between business partners in the supply chain process and the social influences that are embedded into supply chain decision-making. This research will contribute to better understanding how to develop, maintain, and grow supplier interactions.

Mika Westerlund – 2021

Mika Westerlund, D.Sc. Econ, is an Associate Professor at the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University. Previously a technology entrepreneur, he is teaching and educating aspiring entrepreneurs in Carleton’s Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program. Mika is an innovation researcher interested in emerging technologies, practices and phenomena that may have major social, economic, ecological or other types of implications on our current and future societies. His current research interests include open and user innovation, the Internet of Things, social big data analytics, AI & autonomous systems, business strategy, SME, and management models in high-tech and service-intensive industries, among others. He has published widely in both the academic and practitioner literatures in the areas of technology and innovation management, entrepreneurship, and industrial marketing.

Linda Duxbury – 2020

Linda Duxbury has published widely in both the academic and practitioner literatures in the area of work-family conflict, change management, supportive work environments, employee wellbeing, role overload, telework, the use and impact of office technology, managing the new workforce and supportive management.