Angelique Slade Shantz

Angelique Slade Shantz is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta's Alberta School of Business, Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management. Her research focuses on entrepreneurship's role in addressing grand challenges, particularly poverty alleviation and resource scarcity contexts. She employs experimental and qualitative methods, often collaborating with organizations to study institutional, cultural, and cognitive barriers to entrepreneurial activities. Prior to academia, she worked in social entrepreneurship and economic development with First Nations communities in Canada and internationally.

Her education includes a BA from Arizona State University, an MBA from Duke University, and a PhD from York University. Research interests span necessity entrepreneurship, organizational growth/degrowth, and the intersection of entrepreneurship with societal challenges. Key publications include works on institutional logics, field experiments in Tunisia and Ghana, and the theoretical reconceptualization of necessity entrepreneurship.

Her articles analyze frameworks like 'within-logic contrasting' and 'cross-logic analogizing' for adopting innovations in poverty contexts, while others explore degrowth theory and the impact of crises like the pandemic on hesitant entrepreneurship. Methodologically, she advocates for abductive experimentation to tackle complex societal issues.

Shantz’s work bridges theory and practice, aiming to inform development policies and interventions. She collaborates across disciplines to address systemic barriers in entrepreneurial ecosystems, particularly in marginalized communities.