Charles H. Davis
Toronto, ON
Tel 416.979.5000 ext. 7145
Email c5davis@ryerson.ca
Dr. Charles H. Davis works in the area of innovation management and policy, with emphasis on ICTs and media. He holds the Edwards S. Rogers Sr. Chair in Media Management and Entrepreneurship and is a professor in the School of Radio and Television Arts at Ryerson University in Toronto, where he teaches courses in media management and political economy. His current research interests have to do with entrepreneurship and new firm formation in media industries, media-related innovation clusters in urban regions, work cultures and practices - especially in "creative" or cultural industries, and political economy of media industries. Dr. Davis holds a B.A. from Kalamazoo College (Michigan), an M.A. from the University of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. from the Université de Montréal. He is the author or co-author of approximately one hundred refereed papers or chapters. Before joining Ryerson, Dr. Davis held the NSERC-SSHRC-NB Power-Xerox Research Chair in the Management of Technological Change at the University of New Brunswick.
Selected recent publications
D. Arthurs, E. Cassidy, C.H. Davis, and D. Wolfe (2008). “Indicators in Support of Innovation Cluster Policy,” International Journal of Technology Management, in press.
C.H. Davis (2008). “Culture Change in Scanlon Firms,” pp. 171-190 in P. Davis and L. Spears, eds., Scanlon E.P.I.C. Leadership: Where the Best Ideas Come Together. East Lansing: Scanlon Leadership Network.
C.H. Davis, F. Vladica, and I. Berkowitz (2008). “Business Capabilities of Small Entrepreneurial Media Firms: Independent Production of Children’s Television in Canada,” Journal of Media Business Studies 5(1): 9-40.
Dewar, W. Li, and C.H. Davis (2007). “Photographic Images, Culture, and Perception in Tourism Advertising: a Study of Canadian and Chinese University Students using Q-Methodology,” Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing 22(2): 36-44.
C.H. Davis and F. Vladica (2007). “Value of Internet Technologies and e-Business Solutions to Microenterprises in Atlantic Canada,” pp. 125-156 in Stuart Barnes, ed., e-Commerce and V-Business. Butterworth-Heinemann, Amsterdam.
C.H. Davis and E. Sun (2006). “Business Development Capabilities in Information Technology SMEs in a Regional Economy,” Journal of Technology Transfer 31, 145-161.
C.H. Davis, J. McMaster, and J. Nowak (2005). “Realising the Development Potential of North-South Business Process Outsourcing: the Case of Fiji,” pp. 227-252 in R. Davidson et al., eds., Information Systems in Developing Countries: Theory and Practice, City University of Hong Kong Press.
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