Stephane Tywoniak

Stephane Tywoniak is an Associate Professor of Complex Project Management at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. With over twenty years of academic experience, he has taught strategy, systems thinking, entrepreneurship, and project management. His leadership roles include serving as MBA Director at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and founding Academic Director of QUT's Executive Master in Complex Project Management.

Education:

• M.Sc. from Institut d'Études Politiques
• M.B.A. from Manchester Business School
• D.E.A. (Research Master) from Université Paris-X Nanterre/HEC School of Management
• Ph.D. from HEC School of Management

Research Focus: His work centers on strategic decision-making in complex projects, examining how organizations gain, maintain, or lose legitimacy. He investigates interactions between business and society through lenses of governance, systems theory, and institutional dynamics.

Publications: Recent articles explore project manager adaptability, complexity frameworks, and governance in megaprojects, consistently emphasizing practical applications of management theory.

Grants: Principal Investigator for SSHRC-funded research on 'Major Project Behavior' (2021-2023; $20,000).

Editorial Contributions: Associate Editor for Systems Research and Behavioral Science (project management) and Journal of Management and Organization (institutional theory).