Dr. Elden Wiebe
Associate Professor of Management
Office: N143
Phone: 780-465-3500 x8072
Email: elden.wiebe@kingsu.ca
Education
PhD, University of Alberta, 2005
MCS, Regent College, 1988
BA, Trinity Western University, 1984
Biography/Professional History
Most recently Elden has taught strategic management and organization theory at both the undergraduate and MBA levels at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax. Elden also has 7.5 years experience in church ministry.
Research Interests
My major research interests pertain to time in relation to organizations and organizational change. This includes
• The temporal construction of organizational change
• The temporal embeddedness of organizations
• The temporal nature of narratives and its methodological implications
I also have a growing research interest in spirituality in the context of the workplace. This includes
• Critiquing the notion of spirituality in the workplace from the perspective of religious faith and practice
• The impact of an explicit faith practice on an organization’s strategy, design, activities, and identity/reputation
My methodological interests are focused on qualitative methods, and in particular, narrative analysis.
Publications
Wiebe, E., Suddaby, R. & Foster, W. M. 2012. The Momentum of Organizational Change. In Steve Maguire and Majken Schultz (Eds.) Constructing Identity In and Around Organizations. Series: Perspectives in Process Organization Studies. Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 235-260.
Dyck, B. and Wiebe, E. 2012. Salvation, Theology, and Organizational Practices across the Centuries. Organization. Forthcoming.
Driscoll, C., Wiebe, E. and Dyck, B. 2011. Nature is Prior to Us: Applying Catholic Social Thought and Anabaptist-Mennonite Theology to the Ethics of Stakeholder Prioritization for the Natural Environment. Journal of Religion and Business Ethics, forthcoming.
Foster, W. M., Suddaby, R., Minkus, A., and Wiebe, E. 2011. History as social memory assets: The example of Tim Hortons. Management and Organizational History, 6 (1): 101-120.
Foster, W. M. and Wiebe, E. 2010. Praxis makes perfect: Recovering the ethical promise of critical management studies. Journal of Business Ethics. 94: 271-283.
Wiebe, E. 2010. Temporal sensemaking: Managers’ use of time to frame organizational change. In Tor Hernes and Sally Maitlis (Eds.) Process, Sensemaking, and Organizing. Perspectives in Process Organization Studies, Vol. 1. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 213-241.
Mills, A. J., Durepos, G. and Wiebe, E. (Eds.). 2010. Encyclopedia of Case Study Research, 2 Volumes. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publishing.
Wiebe, E. 2010. Analysis of visual data. In Mills, A.J., Durepos, G., and Wiebe, E. (Eds). Encyclopedia of Case Study Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publishing.
Driscoll, C. and Wiebe, E. 2007. Technical spirituality at work: Jacques Ellul on workplace spirituality. Journal of Management Inquiry, 16 (4): 333-348.
Casebeer, A., Reay, T., Golden-Biddle, K., Pablo, A., Wiebe, E., and Hinings, C.R. 2006. Experiences of Regionalization: Assessing multiple stakeholder perspectives across time. Healthcare Quarterly, 9 (2): 32-43.
Golden-Biddle, K., Wiebe, E., and Locke, K. 2006. Using qualitative methodology to advance theorizing on organizational change. In R. Lunes, A. Langley and I. Stensaker (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Change and Learning: 413-425. Bergen, Norway: Fagbokforlaget Press.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Driscoll, C. and Wiebe, E. 2007. Technical spirituality at work: Jacques Ellul on workplace spirituality. In G. T. Solomon (Ed.), Best Paper Proceedings of the 67th annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Wiebe, E. 2007. Narrative analysis: Seeing time beyond chronology. In Henri Savall, Marc Bonnet, Veronique Zardet, and Michel Peron (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Research Methods (Lyon, France, March 26-28), Vol. 2: 1039-1049.
Wiebe, E. 2001. The Problem of Embeddedness. In Alex Z. Kondra (Ed.), Proceedings of the Organizational Theory Division, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Vol. 22, No. 22): 84-94. (This paper won the Best Student Paper Award in the Organizational Theory Division of ASAC.)
Wiebe, E and Beliveau, M. 2008 Sobeys Inc.: Food First. (Case) Proceedings of the Atlantic Schools of Business, St. John’s, NL, Oct 18, 2008.
Recent Refereed Conference Presentations
Wiebe, E., Suddaby, R., and Foster, W. The temporal-relational nature of objects. Paper presented at the 3rd Process Organization Studies Conference, Corfu, Greece, June 16-18, 2011
Driscoll, C., Wiebe, E. and Bruce, B. 2010. Nature is Prior to Us:
Applying Catholic Social Thought to the Conceptual Consideration of
Stakeholder Prioritization for the Natural Environment. Paper presented
at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Montreal QC, Aug., 2010.
Dyck, B. and Wiebe, E. 2010. Salvation, theology, and organization theory. Paper presented at the Critical Management Studies Organization Workshop, Montreal, QC August 2010.
Wiebe, E., Suddaby, R. & Foster, W. 2010. The Momentum of Organizational Change. Paper presented at the 2nd annual Process Organization Studies symposium, Rhodes, Greece, June 11-13, 2010.
Foster, W. M., Suddaby, R. S., and Wiebe, E. 2009. Organizational history and tradition: Can it be the source of a sustained competitive advantage. Paper presented at the 25th EGOS Colloquium (Sub-theme 43: Historical perspectives in organization studies), Barcelona, Spain, July
Wiebe, E. 2009. Temporal agency: Using time to frame organizational change. Paper presented at the First International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Pissouri, Cyprus, June.
Wiebe, E. (with W. Foster and R. Suddaby) 2008. Temporal agency: Using time as a symbolic resource. In Exploring Unconventional Organizational Resources. Symposium presented to the Organization Theory Division, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada Conference, Halifax, NS.
Driscoll, C. and Wiebe, E. 2007. Technical spirituality at work: Jacques Ellul on workplace spirituality. Paper presented at the Management, Spirituality, and Religion interest group, Academy of Management National Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Wiebe, E. 2007. Narrative analysis: Seeing time beyond chronology. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Research Methods, Lyon, France, March 26-28.
Courses Taught
BUSI 200 - Introduction to BusinessBUSI 339 - Organizational Behavior and Management
BUSI 343 - Managing Public, Non-Profit and Voluntary Organizations
BUSI 461 - Opportunities and Issues in Globalization
BUSI 471 - Business Strategy
BUSI 489 - Internship Preparation
BUSI 490 - Internship Placement
BUSI 496 - Senior Business Project
BUSI 499 - Directed Studies in Business
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