Tom Cooper

Faculty of Business Administration

Associate Professor - Strategic Management

Gardiner Centre

Facilitator and Instructor

CMC - Atlantic Institute

Certified Management Consultant

Lead researcher on

Business for Good - connecting social enterprise practice and theory Jan 2018 - Mar 2019

Where are the Benefits in "Benefit Agreements"? Sep 2014 - Mar 2016

Strategic Risk Management in Provincial and Municipal Governments Barriers and Key Success Factors Jan 2010

Critical Success Factors in the First Nations Fishery of Atlantic Canada: Mi'kmaw and Maliseet Perceptions Jan 2010

Teaching and Learning for Real-World Relevance - A Discourse on How Teachers Can Enable the Students to Learn, and Whether Business Schools Can Enable the Teachers to Teach Jan 2009

Sustainability Assessments and the Precautionary Principle: Examining the Voisey's Bay Mine and Mill Environmental Assessment Jan 2009

Risks and Opportunities for Aboriginal Financial Services Organizations Jan 2008

Business School Programming for Real-World Student Learning Needs a More Relevant Concept of Managing Jan 2008

Educating Players Instead of Teaching Spectators: Three Courses for Critical Thinking and Relevance in Undergraduate Business Programming Jan 2008

Issues in the Valuation of Privacy and Confidentiality Jan 2008

Cultivating Innovation and Entrepreneurship Jan 2008

Revisiting Nash's Model - Using Models in Teaching Business Ethics Jan 2008

Knowledge Process Outsourcing: A Lack of Strategic Risk? Jan 2008

Collaborator on

Exploring appropriate business models for establishment of water quality monitoring service in Newfoundland and Labrador Aug 2013 - Jul 2015

Active Research Interests

Strategic Risk Management and Strategic Planning

Aboriginal and Indigenous peoples business

Commercial fisheries organizations and management

Corporate responsibility, ethics, and sustainability in resource based industries

Past Research Interests

Critical success factors in the First Nations Fishery of Atlantic Canada

Strategic risk management in provincial and municipal governments

Aboriginal access to capital

Emerging Research Interests

Rural business organizations and strategies

Management consulting industry

Strategy, competition and innovation in municipalities and regional government organizations

Expertise

Strategy

Aboriginal Fisheries (Business)

Corporate Responsibility

Compliance and regulation

Management

Risk management

Business Ethics

Consulting and professional services