Kevin McDermott

• Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) - Accounting, Audit and Information Technology
  
• Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) - International Business Management
  

• PhD in Management, Organizational Leadership, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
  
• Masters of Business Administration (MBA), Concentration in Entrepreneurship, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON
• Honours BA, Information Systems and Human Behaviour (Computer Science and Psychology), University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
  

• BUS71000 - Business Process Integration
  
• BUS74040 - Change Management
  
• COMP72370 - Information Management
  
• HRM72105 - Human Resources Management
  
• INFO72010 - Business Analytics and Data Visualization
  
• MGMT3075 - Leadership and Team Building
  

• Automated data extraction, use of blockchain technology in supply chains
  
• Pedagogical business case writing
  
• Leadership, social enterprise, resource mobilization, cross sector social partnerships, crowd funding
  

• 10+ years in the high-tech sector, working in software development, strategic partnerships, contract negotiation and business analytics.
  
• Leadership roles in board governance in Ontario Primary Care, and Mental Health and Addictions agencies.
  
• Entrepreneurial activities in Canada, UK and the USA, including website development and content creation, search engine optimization (SEO), online ad targeting, SaaS web applications.

PhD dissertation:

• McDermott, K. (2016) The Role of Leadership in the Formation of Cross-Sector Social Partnerships: Mobilizing Leadership in Collaborative Social Enterprise
  

Teaching cases published in peer-reviewed journals:

• McDermott, K. (2023). Is online hiring in the high-tech sector better? Open Access Teaching Case Journal, 1(1).
  
• McDermott, K. (2021). Allied Systems: Data Governance Challenges and the Opioid Crisis (Teaching Case), The Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases, 10.
  
• McDermott, K., Colbert, B. & Kurucz, E., (2019). Sustainability Colab: Scaling local impact. In SAGE Business Cases. 2019.
  

Whitepapers and industry association publications:

• McDermott, K. (2022) Usage of Blockchain in Canadian Supply Chains, in conjunction with the Magna Centre for Supply Chain Excellence and the Canadian Institute of Traffic and Transportation (CITT), https://www.citt.ca/blockchain-report.html

Articles published in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings:

• McDermott, K., Gravill, J., Carter, K. & Yegul, F. (2022) Conestoga OER Teaching Case Journal: Creating a peer-reviewed, openly licensed, and accessible teaching case journal at Conestoga College, Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association (OTESSA) Annual Conference Proceedings
  
• McDermott, K., Kurucz, E. C., & Colbert, B. A. (2018). Social Entrepreneurial Opportunity and Active Stakeholder Participation: Resource Mobilization in Enterprising Conveners of Cross-Sector Social Partnerships, Journal of Cleaner Production
  
• McDermott, K., Kurucz, E. C., & Colbert, B. A. (2017). Collaborative Civil Society Organizations and Sustainable Cities: The Role of “Mobilizing Leadership” in Building the Integral Commons, Organization & Environment
  

Conference presentations:

• Popham, J. & McDermott, K., (2023) Opportunistic Framing of Neutralizations: COVID-19 and Intellectual Property Piracy, Western Society of Criminology, Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, Feb 2-5, 2023
  
• McDermott, K., Gravill, J., Carter, K. & Yegul, F. (2022) Conestoga OER Teaching Case Journal: Creating a peer-reviewed, openly licensed, and accessible teaching case journal at Conestoga College, Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association (OTESSA) Annual Conference, Virtual, May, 2022
• Popham, J. & McDermott, K., (2021) Opportunistic Framing of Neutralizations: COVID-19 and Intellectual Property Piracy, American Society of Criminology (ASC), Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, Nov 2021
• McDermott, K., (2021). Desire2Learn (D2L): Online Hiring – Is it Better? (Teaching Case), Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Annual Conference, June 2021 (virtual)
• McDermott, K., (2019). Allied Systems: Organizational Data Governance Challenges in the Opiod Crisis (Teaching Case), North American Case Research Association (NACRA) Annual Conference, Tempe, AZ, Oct 11–12
  
• McDermott, K., (2019). Resource Mobilization in Prosocial Startups: An examination of entrepreneurial access to probono professional services and crowdfunding, International Association of Business and Society (IABS), San Diego, CA, March 21-24
• McDermott, K., (2018). The Prosocial Crowdfunding Advantage: Assessing the efficacy of B Corps' Kickstarter.com campaigns, Global B Academic Roundtable 2018, New Orleans, LA, Sept 24
  
• McClaren, P., Masakure, O., McDermott, K., & McMurray, J. (2018). Fostering Canadian Innovation Resources (Symposium), Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), Toronto, ON, May 26-29
  
• McDermott, K., Colbert, B. & Kurucz, E. (2017). Sustainability CoLab: Scaling Local Impact (Teaching Case), North American Case Research Association (NACRA) Conference, Chicago, IL, Oct 19-21
• McDermott, K., & Levy, M. (2017). Non-profit Social Enterprise Crowd Funding Campaigns are More Successful than Most: A quantitative analysis of 5200 Kickstarter.com campaigns, International Association for Business and Society Conference (IABS), Amsterdam, NE, June 28 - July 1
  
• McDermott, K., (2016). Mobilizing Resources in Social Enterprise, International Association for Business and Society Conference (IABS), Park City, Utah. June 17–19
• McDermott, K., (2016). When Social Entrepreneurial Opportunity Exists to Convene CSSPs. Cross-Sector Social Interaction Symposium, Toronto, ON, April 17-19
• McDermott, K., Kurucz, E. C., Colbert, B. A., (2015). Governance through Multi-Sector Collaboration: The Role of Leadership & Organizational Design. Academy of Management, Vancouver, Aug 7-10
• McDermott, K., Kurucz, E. C., Colbert, B. A., (2014). Leadership in the Formation Stages of Cross-Sector Social Partnerships: Leadership of convening organizations for providing social value. Cross-Sector Social Interaction Symposium, Boston, MA, May 28-29
• Kurucz, E. C., Lipton, M., McDermott, K., (2014). Integrating Sustainability into Learning Outcomes and Pedagogy. Teaching and Learning Innovations Conference, Guelph, ON, April 30
• Colbert, Barry A., Kurucz, E. C., and McDermott, K. (2013). Motivating multi-sector collaboration. International Association for Business and Society (IABS) Annual Meeting, Portland, June 20-23.
• McDermott, K., (2012). Complexity Leadership and Implicit Leadership Theories: Do followers see complexity leadership as bad leadership? International Leadership Association (ILA) Conference, Denver, CO, Oct. 24-27.
• McDermott, K., (2012). A Pragmatic Approach to Defining Leadership. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), St. John's, NL, June 9-12.
• McDermott, K., (2011). Leadership and a Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility. Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, New Orleans, LA, May 18-20.
• McDermott, K., (2011). Engaging Expectant Stakeholders: A complexity theory approach to engaging stakeholders in complex organizational stakeholder environments. International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston, MA, June 26-30.

Kevin is an enthusiastic post-secondary instructor, e-learning specialist, researcher and entrepreneur. Kevin's scholarly interests include writing pedagogical case studies for peer-reviewed publications. Empirical research involves automated data extraction and analytics techniques examining resource mobilization including crowdfunding campaigns in entrepreneurial and social entrepreneurial ventures.

Trained in adult education and facilitation, Kevin has instructed courses in business and technology, leadership, HR, entrepreneurship, business strategy, sustainability, among other topics at several post-secondary institutions to undergraduate and post-graduate students. He has also coached students involved in business case competitions.