Ke Cao

Assistant Professor of Strategic Management

Research / Areas of Expertise

Corporate Sustainability
Entrepreneurship Phenomena
Organization Theory
Political Economy
Research Methodology
Strategic Management

I forwent my many years of student life, became an academic, and joined the faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University in July 2020. Among other degrees and diplomas, I earned my Ph.D. at the University of Alberta in Strategic Management & Organization and a Master of Environmental Management at Yale University. From 2009 to 2015, I worked with The Forest Trust (now Earthworm Foundation), American Friends Service Committee, Heinrich Böll Foundation, and Global Environmental Institute in managerial and consultancy roles, following a student internship stint at World Resources Institute's Washington, D.C. headquarters in 2008. I have lived, studied, and worked in Cambodia, Canada, China, Laos, and the United States.

In my line of academic work spanning teaching, research, peer review, supervision of student research, university service, scholarly community service, and public engagement, I have engaged in broader humanities and sciences scholarship in Strategic Management, International Business, Entrepreneurship, Organization and Management Theory, Business and Society, Research Methodology, Sciences and Society, China Studies, International Affairs, Political Sciences, History, Philosophy, Religion Studies, Operational Sciences, Finance, Law, and others. My research portfolio centers on societal impact-oriented innovations in business practice and management theory.

My scholarship on Certified B Corporations and Benefit Corporations (commonly known as B Corps), presented at a set of frontline entrepreneurship, management, B Corps research outlets and in public discourse, has added to scholarly and public understanding and can be considered trailblazing and internationally leading.
In a separate line of research, armed with hubris, I have been trying to break new ground in enhancing the capacity and salience of management theory, a higher calling and a tall order primarily undertaken by eminently established and retired academic colleagues. The first salvo, titled Advancing Management Scholarship Internationally through Theoretical Emancipation, has been published in the European Journal of Management Studies. The full text can be accessed here. The paper shall be of interest and use to researchers in management and other sciences and humanities academic disciplines who pursue vigorous scholarship for the world.
Last, motivated by the dearth of quality China-themed scholarship, I have been building a research pipeline in this area.

Formal brief biography:

Ke Cao, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Lazaridis School of Business & Economics. He studies and teaches contemporary administrative sciences and has received awards and honours from the University of Alberta, Wilfrid Laurier University, Yale University, Lazaridis Institute, China Scholarship Council, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada, Responsible Research in Business & Management (RRBM) network, Academy of Management, International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR), and Academy of International Business. He is a student of many subjects, teaches to help people become intelligent, and researches to shape the future. He is a good guy. Through his academic work, he fights for your freedom. Somebody has to do it. He does this with relish.

Here are the slides for a brief introduction about myself and my academic portfolio at the January 2023 Lazaridis Business Faculty Council.

My research program centers on advancing contemporary administrative sciences and modernizing management theory. To this end, I pursue scholarship that is more contextual, integrative, robust, and responsive to societal needs. My broad research interests include: How do organizations work? How can businesses contribute to societal welfare? How can management scholarship help build a better society?

In other words, sitting on the well-decorated business school floor of the academic ivory tower, I work to alleviate and prevent human suffering through my scholarship as a champagne socialist (referencing Canadian rock band Arkells).

Below are some ongoing projects. It takes time to generate, develop, and formulate good academic ideas, stylish and not too stylized. I am energized by the inquiry and optimistic about the output in the coming years and decades before I am enlisted into global academic aristocracy and retire at old age, like His Majesty King Charles of Canada, who plays a ceremonial but crucial role, remotely, multitasking, in the function of three branches of the government, in addition to answering daily prayers and acknowledging pledges of allegiance across Canada and around the world in political settings and working as the Supreme Governor of the Church of England on the religious front, and Their Excellencies the Honourable Presidents of the United States Trump and Biden, who both are credited as liberators of the freedom-yearning American people and leaders of the free world. In April 2022, I predicted a regime-change bravado and an epic 2024 comeback win for President Trump, a generational political leader. The forecast was reaffirmed multiple times in writing and teaching. The deep state, the military-industrial complex, and the swamp have the money and power. President Trump has the people.

In their baby talk propaganda, the cultural Marxists, decrying everything they could not comprehend as polarization, claimed, very unfairly, that the American people were deplorable and did not know about democracy and freedom. To brainwash the American people, the cultural Marxists insisted President Trump was their oppressor, not their savior who loves nothing more than the American flag. They worked hard to teach and tell the American people to hate President Trump. "It's all Trump's fault!" "Hello. I would like to talk to Trump's manager!" They painted President Trump as a fraudulent moron who would cheat the American people out of their last penny, not American people's smart, sweet darling who would take the money to the American people from their government and, even better, from some alien governments. As an American, how can you not like this guy? Simply because of their hatred of President Trump, some misguided American cultural Marxists were eager to move to Canada or Britain. Dear American cultural Marxists, you were born as free citizens in the greatest republic and wanted to die as subjects of His Majesty King Charles III and his heir? Is it not sad? You will, very solemnly, quote, "swear (or affirm) that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles the Third, King of Canada, His Heirs and Successors?" Did your great President George Washington, other American founders and patriots cross the Delaware River for nothing? Did all those years of Pledge of Allegiance to The American Flag, hands on your hearts, mean nothing? I guess your high priest Marx would also turn in his grave? What would you do if President Trump decided to run for the Monarchy of the Commonwealth? If you are tired of listening to Lee Greenwood's beautiful song God Bless the U.S.A, can you take a listen of his lesser-known but equally beautiful song America? As an alien, I was moved by the lyrics and melody. "... From every mountainside, let freedom ring." I translated this into a beautiful Chinese couplet: 群山洒遍新天地，美国人民唱自由。

The American cultural Marxists also announced via various cultural Marxist fake news outlets that President Trump would nuke the world in a mad King style, but could not distort the reality that President Trump is a big orange peace dove hovering over America and around the globe. In a heroic saga American style wow, more than 77 million American people, heartened by President Trump's love for America and the American people, very strongly and beautifully led by President Trump, a revolutionary in the same vein as Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, and George Washington, democratically and freely sent those cultural Marxists packing to their woke fantasyland and have the last laugh fair and square. When American freedom was in jeopardy, President Trump came to the rescue! President Trump is the only U.S. president who solemnly hangs the Declaration of Independence documentation, the birth certificate of the greatest republic in human history, on the wall in the Oval Office at the White House. Among President Trump's other amazing and dazzling achievements, he has gifted the American people the well-deserved and long overdue April 2, 2025, Liberation Day. In the spirit of the great American virtues of fairness and justice, like American patriots, American cultural Marxists also receive checks and jobs made possible only thanks to President Trump! And President Trump has accomplished all those things simply by thinking, talking, and signing a few signatures on papers with a non-autopen. Except those royalist and cultural Marxist Canadians, who don't want to be a proud American with President Trump in charge? Despite being misunderstood and slandered by many, President Trump's intention to Make America Great Again is pure. His heart is strong as steel, clear as glass. His mind is in a state of clarity, his footsteps steady.

Millions of millions of millions of millions of people agree that President Trump is a genius. I am one of those smart people. The cultural Marxists don't want you to know this, but the most genius part of President Trump is that he has the wisdom and courage to let the American people know that cultural Marxism is at the root of America's problems. President Trump brilliantly pointed out that when American cultural Marxists Woke This Woke That, Save Here Save There, Bomb Here Bomb There, Race This Race That, Public This Public That, Aid Here Aid There, Government This Government That, Censor This Censor That, DEI This DEI That, Environment Here Environment There, Social Justice This Social Justice That, ESG This ESG That, Global This Global That, Tax This Tax That, they were destroying the fabric of the Great Country of The United States of America.

Anyone who knows an ounce of history understands that President Trump is telling the truth when he says that the American cultural Marxists hate America (e.g., Black Panther Party, Weather Underground, Assata Shakur, Fred Hampton). America has quite a few haters, near and afar. They hate America for different reasons. But mostly, they hate America for its democracy and freedom. Among the various types of bad guys, it is fair to say that domestic American cultural Marxists pose a pretty modest but real danger to America. This or that liberalism, this or that conservatism, this or that Democrat, this or that Republican, sometimes loud, sometimes quiet, all contribute to the impressively unique and successful American enterprise. Frankly, Bernie, AOC etc. are American patriots who only occasionally cosplay as cultural Marxists when they are in the mood. They are like some American academics trained in sociology, political science, and other subjects who occasionally fancy chatting about capitalism, etc., with slim, superficial ideas, and pretend to be the cool guys. To Save America, and to Make America Great Again, President Trump is very smart and honest in giving a hard time to timid but potentially very dangerous American cultural Marxist radical lunatics who have been emboldened by Obama-Clinton-Biden's tiny but sneaky and damaging cultural Marxist push to reform America. Nowadays, no sane person would want America to fall or fail because America has so many nukes, and as President Trump once graciously said, only a small number of Americans were bad guys. History tells us that once a country with many nukes falls, it is replaced by another country with many nukes, and the transition and transformation process can be hugely costly for hundreds of millions of people.

Marxism has proved to be a 利器 /sharp weapon, shaping history across time and space. Different countries have different historical paths and societal realities. I have no problem with China doing Communism (note: Many wonderful and lovely experts are saying China is doing capitalism and even imperialism) and Canada doing royalty worship (note: Many wonderful and lovely experts are saying Canada is doing Socialism and even Communism). If you have a problem with any of the matters, it's highly likely that your opinion doesn't matter at all, and nobody probably cares about what you think. Even the freedom fighters from America have substantially lost interest in those matters. Early pioneer Robert McNamara later repented and even reconciled with Fidel Castro. Frank Wisner committed suicide. J. Edgar Hoover has a federal building named in his honour to this day.

It is challenging to change the hearts and minds of both genuinely intelligent and genuinely unlearned individuals. For instance, no matter how brilliant the folks at The Monarchist League of Canada are, it will still be super challenging for the American people to worship His Majesty King Charles. To most people in America, only Jesus, whose humble birth, brief life, heroic work, and tragic death on Earth are dedicated to serving the people and revolutionizing society, toward equity, justice, good conscience, and shared prosperity for all, at great personal sacrifice, and who punishes injustice, oppression, and bad guys, is the King. And the American people believe that all men and women are born equal, as the great Constitution of the United States of America has cancelled all Kings and Queens since 1789. To the Americans, That King, Your brilliant Canadian King is certainly not The King. Some literate anti-Crown Americans may even say your golden crown-wearing King is a false idol. And, Marxism for America? Even funnier. Lol. President Trump and the American people are entirely justified in saying HELL, NO, Over My Dead Body!!! Nowadays, being on reasonably good terms with the Viet Cong and the Chinese Communist Party, still a bit tough on the Cubans and occasionally on their Canadian comrades, America no longer bothers fighting the commies overseas with religious fervour and all the mighty American money, ingenuity, and manpower. And anti-American domestic Marxism, including its sneaky cultural Marxism form, soundedly quashed and bleached decades before by American patriots John Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and colleagues, shall not try to mess with America again! America is America. America has become a great country nobody has ever seen before because of the American ideals, culture, and tradition, because of the smart and hard-working American people, and because of its victory over your cultural Marxist lunacy! America shall never become a Communist country! Heaven forbid!

From the media to academia, America must be de-Marxistized. President Trump has brilliantly put American taxpayers-funded academic elites in a bind, who are obsessed with DEI ESG (frankly, quite mundane, mostly harmless, more or less useless, better than none stuff, but still have some tiny tiny cultural Marxist elements) but also fear the hammer of justice and the sword of freedom wielded by President Trump in the name of Heaven, the American Flag, and the American People. Fancy private universities in the US receive federal funding but also have substantial tax-exempt endowments. History tells us that cultural Marxist wokeness, if unchecked, can evolve into cultural Marxist-themed protests, breaking American jails, waging armed struggle against America, and even triggering a civil war. All of President Trump's tireless work can be viewed through the lens of bravely hammering the last stake into the heart of 21st-century American cultural Marxism to rid America of the long-lasting shadow of cultural Marxism, once and for all. The overarching goal of President Trump's 革命工作/revolutionary work is to 救民于水火之中（Save people from flood and fire; quoting 孟子/Mencius). For better or worse, there is not much difference between modern-day American cultural Marxists and President Trump's MAGA supporters. The cultural Marxists seldom drive trucks; if they do, they proudly drive made-in-America electronic ones. The American cultural Marxists, no longer spelling America with three k or saying things like "Hi, Bro, I am from America with three k" in daily conversations (They call it Amerikka with two k in Finnish; President Trump shall consider doing something to the Finnish, frankly.), are different as they believe and declare that President Trump is un-American or anti-American, and they are entirely wrong. All the bizarre and laughable Trump This Trump That claims those cultural Marxist weirdos made up about President Trump boomeranged to themselves. Woops. The American people, not flawless, but overall genuine and righteous, do not like being fooled by this crazily ssstttuuuppppiiiiddd cultural Marxism!

In Canada, cultural Marxist propaganda in French, Spanish, Chinese and other globalist languages has brainwashed some free-spirited Canadians into King-hating robots, like those big government-loving soulless folks in Animal Farm. The Canadian elites and media have whipped up the public anger and fear against His Majesty King Charles, putting the Canadian Civilization in danger. The hatred and anger toward His Majesty King Charles from both experts and the public are somewhat childish. This type of mental colonization could be more effective than guns and artillery. This may sound harsh, but the truth is that the cultural Marxist deep state manipulation has been kind of out of control and has successfully infantilized some American people and their Canadian cousins. Those who ask what is the point of having a King shall give their heads a good shake and eat some biscuits with royal warrants. The emancipation from the yoke of cultural Marxism is unfinished. The struggle is ongoing. The people will carry the revolution through to the end.

I foresaw President Trump's trade sparring with America's associates (denoting Walmart business lingo here) but was surprised by his sudden, eager, zealous, and mostly groundless tariff provocation with Canada. Even more astonishing was President Trump's public taunting of Canadian sovereignty, aka His Majesty King Charles' remaining body politic in North America. Why does a good guy have to be subject to something that is supposed to be for a bad guy only? They wanted to do bad things to us because they didn't like our democracy? Why is a good guy tough on another good guy? And even tougher on us than on the bad guys? Did they forget how much love we have for them? Why isn't King Charles putting on his finest costume and saying something? We were just praised for being tough with "coercive and unfair economic practices," correct? Why did President Trump strongly ask for people in Canada to pay American bills and even for Canada to become a US state? If being tough on America is too challenging or has limited effect, can we be tough on any of America's lap dogs instead? Can we settle this with a hockey-themed brawl with the Yankees? Is it a good or bad idea to put Canadian flags on cars? Can we send His Majesty's Royal Canadian Mounted Police to arrest the simpleton in the White House? Is it time to mobilize His Majesty's Loyal Canadian Resistance Force/HMLCRF (Force loyale de la Résistance canadienne de Sa Majesté/FLRCM)? What happened? Ce qui s'est passé? Qué pasó?

Regarding the phenomenon, the change indicates a very salient, serious, and strategic shift toward the America First agenda, a signature masterpiece of President Trump, 革命之鹰/eagle of the revolution, 文化马克思主义的掘墓人/gravedigger of cultural Marxism, and 美国人民的革命导师/revolutionary teacher of the American people. Even the Canada geese yield the way to President Trump! Canada, unfortunately, has been categorized as one of the bad guys of various stripes (e.g., rich & good-looking & salmon, rich & bad-looking, poor & bad-looking, mafia & love Trump & pizza, third world & love Trump & tango, third world & hate Trump, rich & dumb, poor & dumb, cultural Marxist & weak, cultural Marxist & tough, drug cartel & crime, cultural Marxist & rich & maple trees, you name it) in the Globalist part of the world that has very unfairly and ungratefully taken advantage of the American people for so long. That's also why President Trump has defunded globalist communist organizations such as the UN, WTO, and WHO so promptly to affirm American sovereignty and put America, and only America, First! At a deeper level, one underappreciated factor in President Trump's thinking about Canada may be his obsession with the Trudeau-Castro conspiracy, which he has talked about openly and written about in his new book Save America. He often gifted the book to world leaders. There are many nasty slanders about the very colorful, expensive, and remarkable book. The New York Magazine article "The High and Lows From Trump’s Lazy New Coffee-Table Book" at least showcases its style and gist. As a fellow writer, I can see that President Trump did not use ghostwriters in this book and meant everything he said. Some people saw President Trump's sometimes acerbic language as bad taste. It is my view that humiliating dumb and hypocritical politicians who ruined the lives of millions of people should become fashionable. It is a service for public good. Meanwhile, those people have no much shame after all.

Before the Trump era, the American cultural Marxists sang the propaganda song "Without the Communist Party, There Would be No New China." With President Trump's win, the American patriots can finally sing "Without Trump, There Would be No New America/没有特朗普，就没有新美国." In my opinion, starting from President Trump's second term, America will be run by smart and uncorrupt people for at least 24 years before American cultural Marxists, who have alienated the American people spectacularly with their shaky moral high ground and clumsy effort to copycat President Trump, can, or even would like to try to, mobilize some semblance of resistance, assuming the disillusioned cultural Marxists have not shyly joined the Trump Train en masse already. Very importantly, President Trump's intellectual guidance is crucial to help the American people cut through the woke World Economic Forum America Last globalist agenda, cultural Marxist ESG, EDI bullshit, the restriction of freedom and censorship of free speech by the government, the endless warmongering lunacy, the Green New Scam, especially the electronic car, paper straws, and windmill madness, and other kinds of silly but powerful lies told and retold to the American people. Finally, the American people learn to think twice before parroting cultural Marxist deep state disinformation and misinformation crap and relaying to their Canadian cousins.

Having studied and worked for many years in many places on many subjects, I teach and do research for a living. Even I initially believed the Hunter Biden laptop from hell story was not real because his father is a good guy who always repeated, "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I meant it. Thank you. I meant it. I meant it. Thank you" for one hundred times. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, President Trump, for your MAGA research and teaching. Otherwise, millions of millions of millions of millions of people would still believe the bad guys are good guys. President Trump, America and the world are in debt to you for laying bare the truth about the defamed good guys like you and the real bad guys in America against great odds and with great sacrifices. “这一去, 枪如林, 弹如雨 (On the path are, myriad guns, and raining bullets; I hope my English translation here can convey the original literary and elegancy in the Chinese expression in a revolutionary song)." "为人民，求解放，重返前方 (For the People, Toward Liberation, Back to the Frontline; Here is also my translation of lyrics from another Chinese revolutionary song; the two sets of lyrics I picked pair really well for President Trump.)."Likewise, President Trump is the only US president in modern history willing to face the dark chapters of the great republic and let the American people know facts and records hidden and redacted for decades by their government toward giving closure to President Kennedy and the American people. President Trump has been attacked more than anybody in the history of America. "Alphonse Capone — the great Alphonse Capone, legendary Scarface — was attacked only a tiny fraction of what Trump was attacked." So true. America was back when President Trump rose again on the podium with a bleeding ear and a raised fist. America was back when President Trump, with a Bible in Hand, calmed the passionate American patriots, "We have the greatest country in the world. Keep it nice and safe." America was back when President Trump, in words and deeds, put America and the American people first and was always open with the people. And the best part is that President Trump is just getting started.

President Trump, whenever I listen to Dvořák's American Quartet, I think about you and your great achievement. Thanks to President Trump, the American people can finally unapologetically pursue their beautiful American dreams again without any crazy distractions, on an equal footing under God, based on nothing other than hard work and personal responsibility. So true. Trump Junior and/or Musk will likely become POTUS in the 2040s and continue building a cultural Maxism-free paradise on Earth for the American people. The brainwashing of the American people finally ends. Putting their lovely cultural Marxist red star tinfoil hats away, American people look out for each other in handling Trump Derangement Syndrome and the Woke Mind Virus. Well-washed American brains begin to heal. Freedom and peace are on the horizon. America will never be dragged into cultural Marxist stupidity again.

I feel fortunate to have witnessed in my lifetime the two rounds of visionary, strategic, bracing, and pivotal shock therapy President Trump has prescribed and administered with commitment, creativity, and élan for America, the greatest country on earth after Canada that was once on the precipice of becoming a weird neoliberal cultural Marxist banana republic keen on keeping its citizens illiterate, uninformed, hooked on lousy, garbage, and fake news, crackpot ideas about Republicanism, and superficial, funny understanding of the magnanimous Crown. The ramifications are historically colossal and globally far-reaching. Among other initiatives, President Trump's idea of the External Revenue Service is policy-making in its finest, most imaginative, and most brilliant form. I am inclined to believe that America can ultimately eliminate ALL taxes on Americans and sustain itself on money paid by alien countries through tariffs, Freedom Guarantee Fee, Free Market Administration Fee, Victim of Globalism Repatriation Fee, and Trade Balance Adjustment Fee, etc.

I am a free thinker. I like the Crown and also the American flag. It is monarchism or barbarism. America is the only civilized republic. If the USA is transformed into a wacko cultural Marxist dystopia one day, I will stop attending academic conferences there save the great states of Florida and Texas in the winter. The literal meaning of the USA's Chinese name 美国 (Mei Guo) is "Beautiful Country." It is ironic that President Trump is often vilified as a Hollywood-type villain as he and his good-looking, wonderful, lovely, All-America entourage work hard to make America beautiful again and build a more radiant, equitable, and just new society and life for the great country in the final round of liberation battle for the American people and their eternal freedom and glory, as promised in the American Constitution by their Founding Fathers.

During the struggle, Wharton (our peer business school with more expensive tuition and heavier homework, btw)-educated President Trump gave it all, left behind his comfortable life, suffered years of online censorship and banishment, had his beautiful mug shot taken and his beautiful home searched by the FBI Hollywood style, survived two attempts on his life, and was jeered and heckled all along by cultural Marxism-poisoned Radical Left Lunatics home and abroad who don't know better. I wondered what kind of teachers and education those people got in school. Starting from the former US Secretary of State who was conferred an honorary degree by the very prestigious Yale University in 2009, some of President Trump's smug opponents even insistently encouraged the American people to listen to President Trump's speeches themselves, and unsurprisingly, as a result, the American people started to see things clearly amid the mist of obfuscation, enlightened by President Trump's plain, powerful, and jovial tutelage. As Goethe said, there is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Cultural Marxism made people lose their minds in a comical way, giving them the intoxicated illusion of being maybe a little bit hypocritical but overall sane and good guys on the right side of history who were, of course, smarter than that orange blabber and going to win bigly. The internet says that in 2024, in the United States, "54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level." Laugh as you may, but President Trump is highly erudite and lettered. Can you imagine any other US president quoting Lenin at a mass rally? I was very impressed. President Trump's esprit de finesse stands in stark contrast to the American cultural Marxists' crass agitpop. As an educator, I appreciate that when announcing his official appointments to the American people, President Trump highlighted the impressive education credentials of those appointees. This may explain why My Pillow Guy of the great state of Minnesota has not gotten any position yet. The Minnesota Star Tribune reported in April 2025 that My Pillow Guy could run for Minnesota governor. Great news. Hallelujah. In case the governor run doesn't work out, for his strong business record, MAGA loyalty, and sense of common sense that particularly resonates with the American people, My Pillow Guy could be a good candidate to supervise the construction of MAGA-themed monuments, promote cultural Marxism-free free-thinking education, run a House Un-American Activities Committee, or relaunch Trump University, if for nothing other than make the American lunatic radical left lose their mind (again and again...). American cultural Marxists put a statue of Lenin in Seattle and dismantled statues of some controversial American figures all over America. British cultural Marxists put a statue of Marx in His Majesty King Charles' home city. Chinese, Canadian, and Spanish cultural Marxists put statues of Bethune in China, Canada, and Spain. There is no reason American patriots do not pitch in for President Trump's statues.

Americans are proud of their critical thinking and two-sided discussions, etc., but in practice, it is all cultural Marxism baby talk gimmick brainwashing fake stuff that has damned America and Americans for decades. Okay, students, you have two essay topic options. Whether Trump (or King Charles) is a bad guy or a very bad guy. It is reported that immediately after President Trump's election win, some American educators offered students time off to absorb the associated shock and trauma. Dear American cultural Marxists, this was weird as it could be possibly weird even by the American or American cultural Marxism standard. My Pillow Guy could start his work in his home state, Minnesota, where a dangerous combination of Stanford cultural Marxist economics professor, Islamist, and Communist CHYYNA (I like President Trump's way of saying the word)-inspired cultural Marxism is still brazen. I could not think of any Minnesota stuff I could boycott other than the made-in-China 3M products. The Kingdom of Canada has almost everything the state of Minnesota has.

The notion of cultural Marxism may sound very funny to those who have a literacy below a 6th-grade level, but it should be taken seriously. In troubled times, it led people to pick up arms and disown their kings, especially foreign kings. In peaceful times, it corrupted people's minds and ruined civilization. The recent worrying trend of unusually low literacy rates and high healthcare costs in the USA, an unprecedentedly rich and powerful country with vassal states on all continents and a vibrant, prosperous, long-lasting civilization with a rich historical lineage from Ancient Rome, can be attributed to the growing influence of cultural Marxism in recent decades after the Reagan Golden Age. In the previous American Golden Age, a man could support his whole family with hard and honest work without spending much money and time on education, and his wife could stay home caring for their children and cooking authentic traditional American food. Men did not need to work in the kitchen unless they were chefs by profession or their wives were too tough. Finding a wife used to be not difficult. The kids were taught the American Constitution and the Pledge of Allegiance, not cultural Marxism critical race theory EDI sustainability hundreds of gender climate change government regulation decolonization World Health Organization World Economic Forum globalist crap and revisionist anti-America history about John Brown, Fred Hampton, and the Founding Fathers etc. The guy occasionally was called upon to handle the bad guys overseas, kick their asses, and save the world Hollywood style. People were sincere in their religion and serious about football. The beautiful, glorious old days are gone; fortunately, President Trump will bring new, beautiful days. On principle, I don't buy made-in-America cultural Marxist Ben & Jerry's ice cream or made-in-China cultural Marxist fancy socks. I first studied cultural Marxism many years ago against my free will in high school in Communist China, and I knew the cultural Marxism agenda when I saw it!

Later, I had a come-to-His-Majesty-The-King moment in Canada and finally became a free thinker. It was a sweltering summer afternoon when I ran intervals at the Iron Horse Trail (I translated it as 铁马径 and like it). A polite, genial biker wearing a T-shirt with a Canadian flag and a F%*k Trudeau flag caught up with me. Hello, Bro, have you heard about Jesus? Yes, of course. Have you heard about King Charles, then? No, not yet. That's the beginning of my path as a monarchist. Even before my initial classroom cultural Marxism study, I learned, in my Chinese language class in middle school, about a Canadian cultural Marxist, Dr. (real doctor) Norman Bethune, aka 白求恩 or Bai Qiu En, who was sent by the Communist Party of Canada and the Communist Party USA to China and died at work there. Bethune was originally from the great, beautiful province of Ontario and was undisputedly known as the most famous Canadian ever among the Chinese people. Isabel Crook, aka 伊莎白·柯鲁克 or Yi Sha Bai·Ke Lu Ke, is a lesser-known but widely celebrated Canadian cultural Marxist in China. Both were honoured moderately in Canada as well. Crook was aged 107. Bethune died at 49. Chinese cultural Marxists Israel Epstein and Shafick Hatem were 90 and 78, respectively. South African cultural Marxist Nelson Mandela was 95. Indian cultural Marxists Dwarkanath Kotnis and Bhagat Singh died at 32 and 23, respectively. Japanese cultural Marxist Ozaki Hotsumi lived 43 years. American cultural Marxist Chairman Fred Hampton was killed by the government at 21, and the current American 20-something are just happily busy sending their data to China via Tiktok and to the US government via Instagram. I aspire to live into a three-digit life before going to Heaven, happily playing golf, dancing, and singing all day.

I am one of the very few of His Majesty's Loyal Socialist Professors / HMLSP (Professeures et professeurs socialistes loyaux de Sa Majesté / PPSLM), propagandized by Fidel Castro and his Canadian comrades. I bank with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Royal Bank of Canada, shop at groceries run by Empire Company Limited, and take vacations to the Republic of Cuba from Kitchener/Waterloo or Toronto. I live near Queen Street and work near King Street. Laurier's renowned St. Patrick's Day Street Party is a big deal, regularly covered by Canadian national news, where usually a couple of students from Guelph, the birthplace of the Communist Party of Canada, would talk to journalists about why they would drive to Waterloo to have some fun. During St. Patrick's day, I stay at home, cook Fish and Chips, and reflect on the quiet dignity of the Crown, to the tune of the song Joe Mcdonnell. I cheer for the Gaels when they compete with the Golden Hawks, and the Gaels are not even good sports teams.

As a runner, I pray that Kitchener-Waterloo would organize His Majesty's Royal Races like Her Majesty's Royal Races hosted by Hamilton, Ontario, in 2023, 2024, and 2025. I initially thought Hamilton was a cultural Marxist city because it is a stronghold for the neoliberal cultural Marxist party and labor unions. Having spent five years in Alberta, the Texas of Canada, as a non-monarchist, and another few years in Ontario, as a monarchist, it appears to me that Ontario has a much stronger royalist ethos than Alberta. I suspect that royalists would be, unfortunately, quite likely to be perceived as weirdos throughout Alberta, in cultural Marxism-leaning big cities and Texas-conservatism-leaning rural small towns, where folks would grab their shotguns and hockey sticks upon sighting red coats and Crown tax collectors. When in Québec, I say Hello Mate and refuse to say Bonjour. My favourite NHL team is in Montréal because of the team's name and location. My mind tranquility is disturbed every time I hear or see the Guill, Guil... sort of names. Those savages! Vive le roi! I pay taxes to the Crown and not to any government. Some Chinese friends who have remained in or fled Communist China and American friends who have remained in or fled Trump Land were in awe. They could only imagine this style of royal life in comic books.

Likewise, the King's homegrown English subjects were often amazed to find a sizeable number of francophone fellow subjects of the Crown in Québec who made brilliant pledges of allegiance in English and French to His Majesty King Charles III and his heirs on official occasions. There is immense joy in being a Royal Family super fan. Swearing-in ceremonies of francophone ministers in Canada are my favourite. I was so happy watching those stuff that I would be happy to pay money to do so. Those scenes were almost as spitting-your-tea type of funny as seeing some American cultural Marxists, before AND after their spectacular ruin, gloating about their moral and intelligent superiority over President Trump and the American people. A not untypical American thing. Fascinating and mysterious. In Canada, people, save some politicians and experts, are mostly Crown and G7 proud quietly.

Facing realities and not being self-delusional are undervalued traits for business people and politicians. Any G7 leader ridiculously humiliated by Trump should shut up and get lost after deliberating the potentially best exit arrangements for the interests of the country so the people would not be the farcical cultural Marxism-induced collateral damage. Whatever you think about him, President Trump is willing to face realities and intends to work towards improving the welfare of the American people beyond his own interests within the same propriety bounds of his predecessors, who actually did many more, much worse, morally horrifying deeds than Trump. A lot of people say that, according to the Bible and other books, a lot of US presidents would eventually end up in hell. In the world of the Divine, there are consequences for killing innocent people. "The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth," as proclaimed by an American Radical Left Lunatic a long, long time ago, whose "soul goes marching on," as per Paul Robeson, who sang American songs but also the national anthem of Communist China. Robeson also sang the Ballad of Ho Chi Minh (which might inspire the Ballad of Hugo Chavez, a Canadian song with royally weird lyrics), who kicked French and American asses. He did not sing songs for the Taliban, who also kicked American asses in a puzzling way nobody has ever seen before. Canadians and their Cuban comrades are experienced in kicking American asses as well. With President Trump, American people can feel secure and proud again without worrying about asses being kicked.

By contrast, President Trump even goes out of his way to make sincere and regular holiday wishes for the Radical Left Lunatics. President Trump has been very open about his contempt for those lunatics who he deemed dishonest, pernicious, and detrimental to the people (e.g., Pelosi and Trudeau). Mostly, he just said the Radical Left Lunatics were "not great." President Trump even befriended some lunatics. "AMLO is a socialist, but that's okay. I like him a lot." President Trump is the biggest victim of fake news in American history. Yet, as the President of the United States of America, he engages with fake news directly and transparently in a way nobody has ever seen before because he knows that some misfortunate American people are still into fake news outlets and love to see American journalists singlehandedly rescuing prisoners with only a camera, a pen, and sheer American bravery around the world Hollywood style. In the higher education setting, President Trump is serious about uprooting the un-American cultural Marxist wokeness by issuing a very strong Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-based Opportunity executive order. While the order is guaranteed to drive profound, systematic changes, it still emphasizes protecting individual faculties' First Amendment rights to say crazy woke things in the classroom, like the US's non-monarchical so-called democratic political elections may not be merit-based except those won by President Trump. In other words, President Trump even protects the freedom of speech of American cultural Marxist faculties lawfully before removing them lawfully. I was moved and impressed.

People, including some American patriots and their Canadian fans, often have the misconception that Communist China is bad but is merit-based (merit in terms of some key performance metrics without taking into account personal circumstances). In fact, in Communist China, there are various preferential or affirmative policies and initiatives based on ethnicity, gender, religion, political party affiliation, income, wealth, veteran status, age, family background, health condition, and even birthplace provinces in the name of cultural Marxist Equity and Justice. Having spent many years in Communist China and found freedom for about one decade in the Kingdom of Canada, I don't recall having had any preferential treatment in either China or Canada. LGBTQ is another big controversial topic in America. In Communist China, there is widespread apathy as no substantial religious or political contention is associated with the topic. The transgender entertainment celebrity 金星 / Jin Xing, a former People's Liberation Army dancer and a current Hilary Clinton-type liberal, is popular. Regarding political control, being a Clinton-type liberal is not a big deal that the Chinese Communist Party, government, and people care about unless the person wants to make a big deal about it. The same goes for Chinese freedom fighters or freedom seekers of the Trump stripe. Chinese netizens of all political leanings have been very fond of President Trump. The most popular and very lovely nickname they gave President Trump is 懂王 (King of Knowing it All) because President Trump knows everything and is right about everything. Frankly, President Biden's nickname is less well-known than and not as popular as President Trump's. You may take a guess. The correct answer is 睡王 (King of Sleep).

As a monarchist and a big fan of His Majesty King Charles, I mind my own business and resist the urge to spread the good news about him whenever I am in China. There are two apparent reasons. One is that being a monarchist is quite likely to be perceived as an idiot there. Even the children who like Disney movies would likely laugh at you. The other is that any political leaning other than cultural Marxism is suppressed and censored. That being said, being openly religious in society and at the workplace is very common and entirely fine as long as you are not a Chinese cultural Marxist cadre. Other people are not judgemental. Only Chinese cultural Marxist cadres are busted and disciplined for "engaging in superstition activities," and those cases were numerous. Per Marx, religion is the opium of people. Per Goethe, religion is the poetry of life. Non-cultural Marxist ordinary people do whatever they want without any issue as long as they have no interest in overthrowing the Chinese cultural Marxists. My impression is that in the circle of wealthy business people in China, generally speaking, your friends think you aren't cool enough if you are unreligious. There is no palpable antipathy towards religion or even the Royalties within the populace. Being a fan of His Majesty King Charles and the Royal Family can be considered urbane. People were impressed when I occasionally casually dropped the names of Charles, William, Kate, etc., as if they were my buddies. That being said, as globalization deepens, people may need to talk about minor European Royalties to impress their friends one day. People say many Royalties lite are His Majesty King Charles' distant cousins. Overthrowing or being perceived as overthrowing the Chinese cultural Marxists can be dangerous and difficult because in Communist China, only cultural Marxists are allowed to have guns, and they have more nukes than even His Majesty King Charles' home country. Most people in China are actually either apathetic or ignorant about cultural Marxism. It looks like the American people are more interested in overthrowing the Canadian monarchy than the Chinese people. Dear President Trump, I hope you let His Majesty King Charles live.

President Trump, a flawed but religious man, has been saved by his Savior to save America and the world from calamities, silencing weapons and propaganda and ushering in freedom and peace. President Trump is the most deserving POTUS for a Nobel Peace Prize, perhaps a dozen, to fully acknowledge his underappreciated work in resolving several very tricky and devastating armed conflicts, seeking new global nuclear disarmament consensus, and charting a new type of American exceptionalism that prioritizes the welfare of American people and traditional American values such as freedom and democracy (Well, President Trump and a lot of cultural Marxists such as Marx, Lenin, and Mao have called out the inherent fakeness or, imperfection if we want to use a nicer word, of related non-monarchical, non-feudal, non-cultural Marxist political systems) while parting company with the very costly America First militaristic interventionism and non-monarchical, non-feudal, non-cultural Marxist ideological propaganda. Dear American cultural Marxists, the truth can hurt and sting. President Trump will go to Heaven, happily playing golf, dancing, and singing all day. It is in the Bible. His minor sins, such as being super rich, will be forgiven because he is also super generous. Not adequately heeding the warning of the Divine, President Trump is vain. But he is also incredibly earnest. In his mortal life, President Trump looks at the American cultural Marxists with pity but prays for them behind the scenes.

Many people didn't know that in True North, English Enlightenment philosopher Hobbes and Cuban Communist dictator Castro had their fair share of purchases. Relatedly, bilingual, multicultural Monarchism and socialized public education and healthcare coexist in harmony. Interestingly, most Canadian cultural Marxists have become neoliberal, except the subversive Québec solidaire (QS), who are reminiscent of the anti-Crown Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) rebels exiled by Pierre Trudeau to Cuba, a long-time, quote, "State Sponsor of Terrorism." QS looks like a modern version of FLQ without guns in their hands and university professors among their ranks. By contrast, Bloc Québécois federal representatives always look like the most smug and dumb (SAD) bunch at parliament discussions. Once a decent political force, Canadian neoliberals have become a big-tent mixture of everything from Castro to the King, and to standing ovation muppets and beyond. People say Canadian neoliberals look up to American neoliberals like a 7-year-old looks up to a 12-year-old. Fortunately, there are still some sensible people in Canada who adore His Majesty King Charles wholeheartedly, are not shamed of singing God Save the King in Canadian parliament, and work hard to repeal the cultural Marxist carbon tax espoused by the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada CPC(M-L)/Parti marxiste-léniniste du Canada PCC(M-L) that was implemented in neither Communist China nor Communist Cuba.

In the US and Canada, universities are run like a Cuban commune. Even students have their union. People still struggle to profess their love openly for President Trump in American Universities. The beautiful MAGA hat is mostly still The Scarlet Letter. Canadian universities, sadly, remain a hotbed of rebellion and opposition to the Crown rule. There are so many hippies, commies, and hippie commies who wear Fidel Castro-themed fancy socks that, as a socialist, I am considered a conservative. When they sang The Internationale, I sang O Canada. When they sang O Canada, I sang God Save the King. When they sang God Save the King, I sang God Bless the USA. In the face of President Trump's acquisition offer for Canada, cultural Marxist faculties talked about building a nuke for the country and promoting public education on guerrilla warfare in the FLQ, Castro, and Che Guevara fashion. I simply bought more Canadian dollar-denoted China ETF (Ticker XCH) because the Chinese economy and currency are guarded by nukes. Funded mainly by taxpayers, faculties toil like hell and write papers that only their goodhearted pen pals care to read. They also spend a lot of time talking bad about President Trump, and sometimes President Biden, at faculty lounges. Unlike many, I greatly admire both Presidents Trump and Biden. Both are good guys. Bless President Trump and the Republican Party. Bless the wonderful President Biden, the self-claimed "pretty damn good" guy and PM Trudeau's spiritual guru in Rules-Based International Order, and the lovely Democrat Party as well. It looks like my prayer has been answered as more and more former American cultural Marxists have realized their stupidity and moved to the MAGA camp, the club of freedom, justice, intelligence, light, prosperity, peace, glory, and fun, sort of exclusive to good, smart guys.

President Trump, a good guy, a great guy, a smart guy, a tough guy, savior of the American people, America's Freedom Tsar, is more talented in theatrics, North America-style. Yet, everything he did, he did for the American people. He can be obnoxious. He can occasionally exaggerate things. He can be impatient with knucklehead experts and columnists. He may not always meet Laurier's Stay Golden standard. He may dislike Canada, China, Cuba, Monarchy, Socialism, and Monarchistic Socialism. But he is not my enemy. He is people-centred, fair-minded, committed to service and justice, passionate about democracy and peace, working for the American people while President Biden is sleeping, giving free lessons to His Majesty King Charles' cultural Marxist monarchist baby politicians in Canada, uprooting Critical Race Theory from American kindergardens all the way to university campuses and burning it to ashes, offering gracious audience to Kings and Queens, capable of colonizing His Majesty King Charles and his heir and their subjects for at least 700 years, good at business, governance, book writing, policy innovation, show hosting, exposing the lies of cultural Marxists, draining the swamp, ending the war on beautiful clean coal, working at McDonald's, defeating cultural Marxist impeachment twice, driving a garbage truck, studying at the the Wharton school, keeping the American people safe and smart from cultural Marxists, making American cultural Marxists rethinking their plan to "immigrate" to Canada, keeping the American people safe and smart from the Crown rule, giving nicknames to American cultural Marxists, making perfect phone calls, breaking out of jail after being locked up by cultural Marxists, driving the Chinese Communists away from the Panama Canal, restoring the freedom to use plastic straws to the American people, providing lots of jobs and cash to the American people, saving money for the American people, strengthening the connection between the American people and God, improving education in America, making American English the official language of the land, keeping American culture and tradition safe from the invasion of globalist langagues, leading a historically unprecedented form of government with maximum transparency, efficiency, and accountability, performance art, crypto, living in cultural Marxists' heads rent-free, meme coin, dancing, dodging bullets, escaping assassinations, fighting government censorship, disinfecting the deep state under the sun, digital art, tariff, and golf, can think outside the box, values education and learning, loathes war-mongers, and cares about the poor, the unfortunate, the oppressed, the colonized, and the brainwashed.

Above all, President Trump is the most honest and straight-talking American politician who is real and true to the American people in modern history. He brought the American people together in a wow resounding victory with a small budget and a big heart. The oligarchies, the homeless, the slum dwellers, the republicans, the monarchists, tax collectors, private prison business owners, and other average common sense American people all looovvveee this guy. At the same time, some of his opponents lectured the American people in ways as if the American people were 3 years old. It is admirable that Biden and Harris still managed to sign big-money speaking and publishing contracts with Creative Artists Agency Hollywood style. When the cultural Marxists were in power in America, some taxes collected from the American people were even used to cook Trump-hating propaganda for the American people to consume via ostensibly private, independent media. That is precisely how the media works in Communist China, but they at least do not hide the state's ownership and monopoly of the media. Furthermore, billions of people and historical records and data can testify that the amount of Trump-hating propaganda is at least 10,000,000 times more in America than in China or any other country in the past.

It is no exaggeration that in the most dangerous moment, America, the one and only America, was only a couple of months away from communist rule and full-scale communism. Just unbelievable. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." The cultural Marxists did not use the slogan explicitly because they knew the American people were smart and would not fall for this bullshit. However, they did everything they could sneakily, using this principle as their Northern Star. Not many innocent American people were aware of the grave danger before being rescued by President Trump, who stood tall, stood alone, stood America's ground, with God's help, with tens of millions of American people behind him, against the onslaught of cultural Marxists. To be or not be Born in the U.S.A (referencing Bruce Springsteen) is God's will. Being an American is a privilege, 100%. America has always been the envy of the world. Like many aliens, I have a soft spot for America, "the land of the free, the home of the brave." It is puzzling why the American cultural Marxists despise their own people, exploit America, and use America as an experiment field and launch pad to pursue their misguided and unpopular globalist agenda. The American cultural Marxists feel noble and good about their domestic and foreign agendas. However, simply feeling good is neither the goal nor the work approach. Frankly, President Trump is right that American cultural Marxists are ridiculous and corrupt to the core.

Like the People's King and the People's Presidents, and following the path of freedom and liberation they paved, I stand on the people's side of the barricades to the end against all baddies in Paris, Lexington & Mar-a-Lago, Derry, Shapreville, Oka or elsewhere when the banner of revolution is flying. The ideal scenario is that I will be on some fancy magazine's 80-Under-80 in the second half of the century before being knighted as a prestigious His Majesty's Royal Professor / HMRP (Professeur Royal de Sa Majesté / PRM) by his heir if not by King Charles himself.

At one point, anxiously anticipating the explosion of imperial wars and the ensuing revolutions in Europe, Frederick Engels practiced horsemanship and marksmanship like crazy (Frankly, it is unbelievable that a Frederick Street has been named after this guy in Kitchener, where Die Linke may count 10% of the population as supporters). Karl Marx, a tough guy, a bad guy who President Trump and the American people have been particularly and rightfully tough on, said that was stupid, and he could sacrifice his neck in a better manner. Engels, a bourgeois intellectual, eventually didn't die on the battlefield. However, his drill didn't get wasted, as he often complained that he looked dreadfully young. On a much better footing, I can serve the people with ease no matter what happens next. I can teach Chinese, cultural Marxism, or cultural Marxism in Chinese if Communist China invades and occupies Canada. I can teach golf, MAGA, anti-cultural Marxism, and the American Constitution and its beautiful amendments (the most important first and second ones still not instituted in Canada yet) if Canada becomes the 51st state of the US. I can teach the cooking of Fish & Chips and Monarchism if the British Empire welcomes Canada back. Finally, I can teach the cooking of Poutine and Monarchistic Socialism/Socialisme monarchique in Canadian or Chinese if His Majesty's Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian Air Force rout the People's Liberation Army and free China from cultural Marxism. Anyone who works in arts and sciences, however hard the work is, should feel blessed as our work is allegedly the primary type of work in communism or in Heaven.

On China-related research.
On the B Corp movement.
On management theory.
On management education.
On sustainability-related issues in the palm oil industry.
On Chinese multinational businesses. With Pál Nyiri, VU Amsterdam. (Tried a grant application with the European Research Council in 2022. Expect to restart working on this once I get other work done)
Espahbod, Shervin (former doctoral student) & Ke Cao. Preparing a journal paper submission in the area of transportation and sustainability.

Member of International Expert Panels, Slovak Research and Development Agency, since 2024
Member of Adjudication Committee, Insight Grants competition, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada, 2024-2025
Institutional Explore Grants, SSHRC Canada, $6,500, Sole Investigator, on revitalizing business and management theory and education, for 2024-2025
Faculty Host, Mitacs Globalink Research Internship program, 2023-2024, 2024-2025
Outstanding Reviewer Award in the 2023 Emerald Literati Awards, selected by the editorial team of European Journal of Management Studies, 2023
Best Reviewer Award, IACMR Biennial Conference, 2023
Best Reviewer Award, Management and Organization Review, 2022
Best Reviewer Award, International Management Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2022
Travel Assistance Funding, $3,000, Business Department, Lazaridis School of Business & Economics, for 2022-2023
Insight Grants, SSHRC Canada, $31,571, Sole Investigator, on voluntary sustainability certifications of products & businesses, for 2022-2025
Member of Editorial Board, Management and Organization Review, 2022-2025
Member of Editorial Board, European Journal of Management Studies, 2022-2024
Research Seed Grant, Lazaridis Institute, Sole Investigator, $5,494 for 16 months on culture in technology firms, 2021 Spring Competition
Best Doctoral Dissertation Award Finalist, Organizations and the Natural Environment Division, Academy of Management, 2021
Responsible Research in Management Award Finalist, International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) & the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM); Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer provided dedicated remarks about the paper during the award ceremony, 2019-2020
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, China Scholarship Council, 2018-2019
Best Poster Award, Alberta School of Business Ph.D. Research Conference, 2017
Ziegler Endowment Scholarship, University of Alberta, 2017
G.R.A. Rice Graduate Scholarship in Business, University of Alberta, 2016-2017
Attended a Barclays Premier League Trophy Tour, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2015
Standard First Aid & CPR Certificate (valid for three years), 2015
Received an Alberta School of Business PhD program admission offer quite early in the application season without any interview or prior contact and with a 2-week response deadline (People say it was called an exploding offer). Among three reference letter writers, only one has a PhD and is a professor (simply because I could not find other suitable academic letter writers). 2015
Attended a working lunch over Yunnan food with an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in Beijing, China, 2012
Attended an alumni dinner reception over Southwestern Chinese food in Beijing, China, in 2012 hosted by a dignitary knighted in the U.K. in 2004
Beinecke FES Scholarship, Yale University, 2007-2009
Cameron Speth Fellowship, Yale University, 2008
Champion of Mid-Autumn Texas Hold'em Tournament, Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale, 2008
Member of Nanjing Citizen Soccer Team, admitted after winning a citywide soccer skill and knowledge contest; played a match representing the city with a Chinese celebrity team that included Wen Lirong, a silver medalist from the 1996 Olympics, and Huang Jianxiang, a famed sports commentator, 2005
First in the family who completed high school, attended college, went to graduate school, travelled abroad, worked overseas, obtained a Ph.D., and became an academic.
Many, many battlefield wins on Mechabellum.
In the same academic meeting rooms with famous business book authors a few times. Upon hearing this, people from the general public were quite impressed.
Running Race Finisher (Medal Winner by default):

2025

April, Marathon, Mississauga. Official chip time was off as I ran extra distance to be back on course after taking a wrong turn at an intersection around 28k, and my brain and legs went on strike afterwards (sorry to all of them; kudos to my heart). Plus, I didn't taper adequately before this race. I should have been able to run a marathon around this time in about 3 hours and 28 minutes to 33 minutes.
March, 30 km, Around the Bay Road Race, Hamilton.
March, Chilly Half Marathon, Burlington. 1 Hour 38 minutes 34 seconds.

2024

October, Marathon, Toronto. 3 hours 47 minutes 56 seconds (Personal Best).
August, 25 km, Stone Cairn Trail Race, Niagara.
May, Marathon, Ottawa.
February, 8 miles, Re-Fridgee-Eighter, Waterloo.

2023

October, Marathon, Toronto.
May, Half Marathon, Ottawa.

2019

August, 10 km, Edmonton.

My medals are as impressive as a royal's. People say they are beautiful, wow. I like beautiful medals. Thank you. Only runners know how hard it is to improve by a few minutes at competitive level in long-distance running. One tip is that before the race starts, I wholeheartedly pray to a broad set of divine figures I am aware of. The prayers did work. I am working toward becoming a sub-three-hour marathoner, hopefully in 2025 in Toronto or other places in Canada. I also hope that, by virtue of the divine power, I will be reincarnated as a professional runner or academic on Earth after spending some time in Heaven. After that, I will be back to Heaven. I may or may not pursue another round of reincarnation then.

Unlicensed, without formal education but qualified to teach the theory and practice of long-distance running for beginners as an academic subject. I have coached myself to the intermediate level for amateur athletes for about two years. Contrary to popular belief, running is a very injury-prone and technical athletic activity. To thoroughly enjoy running races, whenever physically and mentally feasible, close to the finish line, like a pro, I try to showcase a supercharged sprint (e.g., like Sifan Hassan) and raise my arms stylishly (e.g., like Eliud Kipchoge). President Trump's iconic fist-raising after an assassination attempt is the all-time best, though. President Trump went to beautiful war for the American people, while the elites fed the American people beautiful lies and falsehoods. President Trump is like a tireless and smart walking Wikipedia, dispensing truth and common sense to the American people. He has restored free speech and independent and uncensored media in America. He has lifted restrictions by the governments and elites on free thinking. President Trump has made America a free country again, where the American people can freely and proudly express their love for the American civilization, a very modest and reasonable demand that was subtly but powerfully suppressed by the cultural Marxists, who tried to brainwash the American people that they are rootless people with amorphous identity and oblivious to the issue of dignity in a glorious but cruel country. For people elsewhere, history, languages, tradition, culture, including Crowns and religions, are their roots. Americans seem to believe in everything and nothing. In his futile and laughable effort to reform America with cultural Marxism, President Biden was more ardent to proclaim that he is a proud Irish American than an American, while President Trump always and always tells the American people that he is a proud, and perhaps the proudest, American. There was no one like Trump before Trump. There is no one like Trump in the age of Trump. There will be no one like Trump after Trump. So true. Why hasn't a Hollywood movie about this real American freedom fighter who put his own life on the line for the American people been made yet? Not only does President Trump love freedom, but he also fights for the freedom of other people. President Trump's wise words and honourable actions have inspired and humbled me as a scholar, educator, and person. Let us remember his example, follow his path, and try to be like him.
Potential races to run in the future: Doha (having never been to the Middle East & interests piqued by the book A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani); Pyongyang (having never been there & intrigued by American Friends Service Committee's DPRK program, President Trump's peacebuilding work with DPRK, Michael Spavor's venture, Bruce Cumings' book The Korea War: A History, and Pablo Picasso's painting Massacre in Korea); La Habana (to compare road race vibes between Ottawa and Havana after reading the book Three Nights in Havana by Robert Wright; the cheers and standing ovations on the streets of Ottawa were invigorating and heartening); Dublin (having never been there & interested in the Irish history after reading Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA by Richard English and the SSHRC-sponsored book Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America by Reg Whitaker, Gregory S. Kealey <Order of Canada; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada>, & Andrew Parnaby; In particularly bad times in Canada, or if they were not demographically typical Canadian academics, those folks would have been pilloried by wonderful and lovely Canadian journalists and columnists, Their Majesty's MPs, and their fellow academics who love American freedom and the Canadian Crown. Even being locked up by the Crown is possible. The Canadian Crown has apologized for locking up a diverse group of people, including but not limited to Indigenous Peoples here, the Ukrainians, the Italians, the Germans, and the Japanese. I was unaware of any apology made to Francophone Canadians who were unjustifiably locked up during the so-called October Crisis. I will be spared and may even be hired as a royal camp guard if the Crown would like to lock up the Chinese in Canada, because I am a big fan of His Majesty King Charles. Likewise, I will be entirely fine when the lockup occurs in MAGA territory because I am also a big fan of President Trump. I believe in President Trump and like this guy!); Chicago (fast course; one of the World Marathon Majors; the city's history is sort of based, reminding me of Gerald Horne's books.); Paris (having never been there & impressed by some characters' deeds in Paris described in Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra Vogel and in Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper). Importantly, per my reading, all those books and authors are cultural Marxism-free.
I have taught myself to be a decent beginner golfer capable of delivering a solid and stylish swing on the driving range. By the way, as another matter of fact, President Trump is a "pretty damn good" (quoting President Biden) golfer. I hope people can accept the truth, no matter how unpalatable it may be. Before my golf practice, I sometimes do the Trump Dance for warm-up and luck, to the tune of God Bless the U.S.A., to good effect. In China, golf is an expensive bougie sport. A large number of golf-loving business owners and government officials（e.g., 尹家绪 /Yin Jiaxu, former Party Secretary and Chairman of Norinco; 胡问鸣/Hu Wenming, former Party Secretary and Chairman of China State Shipbuilding Corporation) have ended up in prison for golf-related bribery and corruption. Their beautiful golf membership cards and clubs were confiscated and auctioned, their social credit scores being reduced to zero. According to some wonderful and lovely China experts, including both Chinese and foreign ones, those former golfers' scores could be further penalized to around negative 250 if they stay on any green grass for too long, and meanwhile, could be bumped up if they choose to do some extra socially beneficial activities like hand-pushing trains. Even after getting out of cultural Marxist prison and regaining their freedom, those former cultural Marxist weapon-making bosses and golfers may be unable to afford to play golf again. I thank His Majesty the King for the joy of playing golf in the Region of Waterloo at a very affordable, petite bourgeoisie-friendly price tag. Sports is a dangerous endeavour in China overall. Former Kunming mayor 刘佳晨/Liu Jiachen was once celebrated as the fastest mayor with a 3-hour 38-minute marathon record in his early 50s in December 2024（This guy was even faster than the much younger me then. But I run faster than him in 2025 and it will remain so in the foreseeable future.). It was reported in January 2025 that this guy had been locked up (!), or, as some wonderful and lovely China experts may say, purged. Let us pray that this poor former cultural Marxist runner can have some freedom to run in a cultural Marxist jail. Kunming/昆明, a very beautiful and livable city, has also set a very impressive record, with 4 successive mayors from 2007 to 2025, and 4 successive Party Secretaries from 2003 to 2015, all being locked up one by one. I feel royally proud of the fact that I know cultural Marxism better than most cultural Marxist Chinese officials, and I stay out of prison with my superior royal morality while still being active in sports.

1. Academic Review & Editing

On a range of theoretical themes, research settings, and methods, I have reviewed manuscripts for the Academy of Management Discoveries (a total of 5), Academy of Management Review (3), Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2), Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility (5), Business Strategy and the Environment (2), Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management (2), Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (2), European Financial Management (3), European Journal of Management Studies (3), European Journal of Women's Studies (1), Journal of Business Ethics (7), Journal of Business Research (1), Journal of Business Venturing (5), Journal of Management (6), Journal of Management Studies (5), Management and Organization Review (9), Organization Studies (1), Organization & Environment (6), Review of Managerial Science (1), Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (1), and Strategic Organization (8).

I review research grant applications for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada. For SSHRC, I reviewed one project in 2022 as an external. Later, I was asked to serve as a member of an adjudication committee responsible for circa 80 applications in 2024-25 for SSHRC Insights Grant in the area of business studies. Each committee member was tasked to read circa 16-17 applications particularly closely as a designated Reader. In 2021 and 2022, I reviewed book projects for Springer Nature (1; in Law) and the University of Toronto Press (2; in Business).

2. Public Engagement

Panelist, Institutional Leadership and Policy Innovations for Purpose-driven Business: The Case of “B Corps" Paper Development Workshop. Academy of Management Meeting, Chicago. August, 2024. See Slide Deck.
Panel Speaker, "Strategic Planning and Risk Management: Critical Updates for Corporate Counsel" Professional Development Program, hosted and sponsored by Ontario Bar Association and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, for in-house corporate counsel audience. June 2022, Toronto. See Slide Deck.
Speaker, about "Research on B Corps: State of the Art" at "First B Academics Event in Spain," organized by EADA Business School, B Lab Spain, and B Academics, for researchers, teachers, and practitioners interested in Certified B Corporations & Benefit Corporations (both commonly known as B Corps). March 2021, Virtual. See Slide Deck.

3. Faculty Roles

Strategic Management Area Tenure-track Faculty Hiring Committee Member, 2025-2026
Adjudication Committee Member for the Strategic Management Area for the Lazaridis Research Excellence Award competition, 2025
Faculty Platform Party or Marshal, Convocation, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, three sessions, Fall 2022; two sessions, Spring 2024; three sessions, Fall 2024
Running to serve on Vice-President: Student Affairs Search Committee, Laurier, 2024 Fall. I am thankful for the collegial trust and the opportunity to take a stand and make a presence. Though I wasn't elected, it wasn't bad either. I like the experience.
Running to serve on Associate Vice-President: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Search Committee, Laurier, 2023 Summer. I am thankful for the collegial trust and the opportunity to take a stand and make a presence. Though I wasn't elected, it wasn't bad either. I like the experience.
Judge, World of Opportunities (WOO) Student Event, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Winter 2024
Semi-final Judge, The Integrated Case Exercise (ICE), Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, four times, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Winter 2022, and Winter 2023
Member of Doctoral Advisory & Examining Committee, Primary Supervisor of One Essay in the Dissertation "Market Information, Human Behaviour, and Policy: Dissecting the Trucking Freight Spot Markets in Three Essays", Shervin Espahbod, Operations and Decision Sciences, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, 2021-23. Defended in August, completed in October 2023. Placed as an Assistant Professor of Management Science at Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton University, Canada. Other faculty members: Drs. Shirley Chen (Laurier, Marketing), Stanko Dimitrov (University of Waterloo, Management Sciences), Patricia Goff (Laurier, Political Science; Chair), Michael Haughton (Laurier, Operations and Decision Sciences; Advisor), William Morrison (Laurier, Economics), and Victor Shi (Laurier, Operations and Decision Sciences).
Offered Paid Work Opportunities to Lazaridis (former) Undergraduates: Asad Ali (research & teaching assistance, 2021-22); Maria Yousof (research & teaching assistance, 2021-23)
Offered Paid Work Opportunities to Lazaridis (former) Ph.D. Students: Shervin Espahbod (2023, research with SSHRC grant; 2020, teaching assistance, in operations and decision sciences); Sarah Harcourt (2022, teaching assistance, in marketing); Sakshi Korde (2020, teaching assistance, in marketing)
Supervision of Visiting Research Undergraduate Student: 2024 Summer, LI Yaqi, in International Affairs and International Relations, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, under the auspices of Mitacs Globalink Research Internship program. Received offer of 2025 program admission (some came with generous scholarships even for the Master's programs): M.A. in International Relations, Johns Hopkins University; M.A. in International Affairs, George Washington University; Map Your Future for M.A. in Law and Diplomacy beginning 2027, Tufts University; M.A. in International Affairs, American University; Master of Chinese Economic and Political Affairs Program, University of California, San Diego; Master in International Affairs Program, National University of Singapore; Master in International Relations Program, the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University (Full Scholarship; eventual choice). 2025 Summer, JING Yan, in English and Japanese, Nanjing Normal University & WONG Yu, Cole, in Humanities and Digital Technologies, The University of Hong Kong.
Supervision of Visiting Research Graduate Student: 2022 Fall, WANG Manling, in International Trade, Nanjing University, China, under the auspices of Laurier-Nanjing University student exchange program. Accepted an offer of 2023 Finance Ph.D. program admission from HEC Montréal.
Reviewed 4 article submissions for LazSoc Business and Economics Review in 2023
Faculty Affiliate, The Co-operators Center for Business and Sustainability, Wilfrid Laurier University, since 2021
Faculty Advisor, Providing Resources for Information Systems Management (PRISM, student-run program), Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, 2021-22
Submitted recommendation letters and forms for about 65 students

4. Work and Membership in Academia

Facilitator/Mentor, Systems and Sustainability: Certified B Corporations and Benefit Corporations as a Useful Research Context Seminar at the 2023 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Boston.
Facilitator for one Junior Scholars Group, Breakout Group Sessions, Responsible Research Academic Summit 2021. The Responsible Research in Business & Management (RRBM) initiative is a scholarly tour de force. It is cross-disciplinary and involves multiple participation opportunities such as doctoral scholarship, research training, and paper awards. RRBM pushes the boundaries of research at business schools worldwide. To fellow academics who take seriously scholarly responsibility and intellectual honesty, please consider contributing to and learning from RRBM.
Member of Collaborative Action Groups (CAGs) & Task Groups, The HIBAR (Highly Integrative Basic and Responsive) Research Alliance (HRA). I have become more involved since 2021 and primarily help with matters related to a). Facilitating HIBAR Research Across Disciplines, b). Cross-Organizational Cooperation, and c). Building Awareness and Understanding of HIBAR Research. The HRA is open to any interested individual or organization. See how you can become involved at https:www.hibar-research.org/become-involved
Member of Research Committee, The Global B Corp Academic Community (B Academics), 2022. Chair of Research Committee and Board Member, B Academics, 2021.
Co-organizer, Welcome Reception for PhD student participants, sponsored by Organization Studies, Alberta Institutions Conference, 2018

I have been a member of the following scholarly communities initially for academic interests and connections. Meanwhile, at least I felt I did something good by paying membership fees to AIB, IACMR, ASAC, etc, which I hope could mobilize some reasonably salient healthy competition against AOM, formerly known as the American Academy of Management, the monopoly guy in the business of academic ideas for a very long time, from at least President Richard M. Nixon to President Donald J. Trump. McDonald's, KFC, Burger King, Popeyes, Wendy's, and Dunkin's Donuts are all good. But too much of that good stuff is bad for Americans and non-Americans. Not everyone is like President Trump, who has "good genes," loves McDonald's and Coke, and is very smart.

Frankly, President Trump is my favourite US president, not so closely followed by President George H. W. Bush. I enjoy watching President Trump's always delightful and sparkling speeches, especially those at his legendary rallies, very, very much. I particularly like his trademark dance move, relaying the story of "Laptop from Hell," denouncing President Biden's autopen presidency, self-comparison to Al Capone, praising President Biden's ability to fall asleep on a beach in short time and in front of chaotic media cameras, and polling the audience about their preference regarding "Sleepy Joe" or "Crooked Joe." This guy is simply fantastic! My favourite channel to watch Trump events is Right Side Broadcasting Network, or RSBN, where the anchors' accompanying commentary is enlightening, poised, measured, soothing, and fun. Additionally, you can find discount codes there for My Pillow Guy's products. Fox News, Newsmax, and One America News Network (OANN) all love and have faith in President Trump and MAGA, but they are often too agitated and jittery. I was kind of like, "you are on the winning side. Bro/Sis. Why so angry? Can you chill like President Trump, who even laughed out his assassinations?" I don't watch fake news outlets, whether private or public. I stay away from people who are fond of watching the Clinton News Network, also known as CNN.

Presidents Trump and Bush both hold prestigious academic degrees, deeply love America and the American people, and are incredibly down-to-earth. There is something particularly special about President Trump. He is funny like hell (Some of his dumb cultural Marxist baby talking opponents may not even want to acknowledge this). He is sincere. He is intellectual. He is a freedom fighter. He has liberated the American people. He has nipped the cultural Marxist counter-revolution in America in the bud. He is smart as hell. E.g., when fake news reported fishy, unsavoury polls about him, President Trump immediately pointed out, in plain and accessible language, to the American people that the pollsters had unfairly talked with too many Democrats. He is an adult standing among many baby politicians (e.g., Joe Biden, royal subject Justin Trudeau, Annalena Baerbock, a kind of interesting German Green Party politician, royal subject Keir Starmer, a fake aristocrat who heads His Majesty King Charles' "Labor" Party lol, and his football team size of royal subject predecessors). Like the Great Country of the United States of America, President Trump isn't perfect, but he is certainly not the bogeyman of the day his dwindling haters depicted and cried about for years. As a brilliant thinker, writer, and speaker, President Trump is like the goofy version of Benjamin Franklin. Frankly, if President Trump were an academic, many people in academia would have quit their jobs en masse in despair because President Trump would figure everything out. Too bad that President Trump was too busy, so he closed Trump University. It is no coincidence that President Trump has graduated from Wharton, published more than a dozen best-selling business books, had an uncle who was the longest-serving faculty member at MIT, and has become the American people's most brilliant, most beloved, and most cherished President. President Trump is America's Got Talent at the most marvellous level. He is a smart bad ass with a good heart America and even the world has never seen before. President Trump is the best in the business! So true.

Academy of Management (AOM), since 2015
Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS), since 2017
Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) Network, since 2018
Global B Corp Academic Community (B Academics), since 2020
Chinese Management Scholars Community (CMSC), since 2020
Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), since 2021
International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR), since 2021
International Humanistic Management Association (IHMA), since 2021
Academy of International Business (AIB), since 2022

I was on the 2019-20 management faculty job market. The following information may be of use to prospective and fellow academics in pursuing a career in this space:

Invited on-campus interviews: Management Area, University College Dublin (declined after accepting an offer); Management Area, University of Rhode Island; Management Department, New Mexico State University; Policy Area (renamed Strategic Management Area later), Wilfrid Laurier University; Leading People and Organizations Area, Fordham University.

Early-stage interviews not on-campus: Deakin University; Portland State University; University of New Hampshire; University of Arkansas; University of Memphis; University of Manitoba; Boise State University; Kansas State University; University of Texas at San Antonio.

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T: 548.889.4450

F: 519.884.0201

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Languages spoken: English, Français de base, Basic Persian, Basic Cantonese, Standard Mandarin Chinese, Southwest Shandong Dialect of Chinese, Very Limited Arabic, Español, German, Gaeilge, Khmer & Lao.

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