Andrew Sarta
School of Administrative Studies
Assistant Professor
Email: andrew.sarta@yorku.ca
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Dr. Andrew Sarta is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at the School of Administrative Studies, York University. His research focuses on organizational adaptation and behavioural strategy within environments undergoing social or technological change and his research is published in leading journals including the Journal of Management. He seeks to understand the early stages of adaptation in traditional sectors such as financial services, where he studies the emergence of FinTech, and healthcare, where he studies innovation in organizational forms.
Andrew’s research has been featured in several management conferences including the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and the European Group for Organizational Studies where he has been acknowledged with two best paper awards. He holds an Honorary Research Fellowship at the UCL School of Management in the United Kingdom and previously held research fellowships in the Innovating Across Sectors Program at UCL and in the Digital Banking Lab at Western University’s Ivey Business School. He has also held visiting fellowships at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Dr. Sarta is also an award-winning innovation expert with over 10 years of strategic management experience in industry-leading, Fortune 500 organizations.
Degrees
PhD Strategy, Ivey Business School Western UniversityResearch Interests
- Ontario Research Fund—Research Excellence Round - 2025-2028
- SSHRC Insights Development Grant - 2023-2026
Current Research Projects
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Summary:
The “Financial Well-Being in the Workplace” project aims to uncover the ways in which employers influence financial well-being among their employees, which may in turn benefit employers. The project focuses on the behavior of firms toward their employees as they go through industry cycles. The particular focus is on the nature of changes to income, social security benefits, and retirement benefits offered to employees. How firms adapt to the needs of their employees’ financial well-being is an overlooked issue and can inform how specific firms might benefit from taking care of their most important resource.
- Month: May Year: 2025
End Date:
- Month: Jul Year: 2028
Funders:
Ontario Research Fund—Research Excellence Round
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Summary:
The primary goal of this research is to explore the age-old organizational concept of adaptation against the modern phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) as an augmentation tool. Organizations have a critically important role in implementing artificial intelligence into both their organizations and society. Much of the research today focuses on the development of artificial intelligence technologies and the functions that artificial intelligence technologies can perform (Heaven, 2019; von Krogh, 2018). Fewer studies explore the core objective of this proposal—understanding how some of our most cherished institutions in healthcare and financial services adapt to incorporate artificial intelligence into their organizational structures to remain relevant and beneficial for their end users. More specifically, using artificial intelligence to augment and improve services for end users is a viable yet challenging form of adaptation of importance to Canadian society.
- Month: Jun Year: 2023
End Date:
- Month: Jul Year: 2026
Funders:
SSHRC Insights Development Grant
Approach to Teaching
My pedagogical approach centers around high-engagement classroom environments where discussion, experimentation, risk-taking, and experiential education are emphasized. I specialize in the case-based method as a means to place students in real-life management situations.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2025 | AP/ADMS4900 3.0 | A | Management Policy Part I | LECT |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2026 | AP/ADMS4900 3.0 | M | Management Policy Part I | LECT |
| Winter 2026 | AP/ADMS4900 3.0 | P | Management Policy Part I | LECT |
| Winter 2026 | AP/ENTP2920 3.0 | M | Innovation and creativity | LECT |
Dr. Andrew Sarta is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at the School of Administrative Studies, York University. His research focuses on organizational adaptation and behavioural strategy within environments undergoing social or technological change and his research is published in leading journals including the Journal of Management. He seeks to understand the early stages of adaptation in traditional sectors such as financial services, where he studies the emergence of FinTech, and healthcare, where he studies innovation in organizational forms.
Andrew’s research has been featured in several management conferences including the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and the European Group for Organizational Studies where he has been acknowledged with two best paper awards. He holds an Honorary Research Fellowship at the UCL School of Management in the United Kingdom and previously held research fellowships in the Innovating Across Sectors Program at UCL and in the Digital Banking Lab at Western University’s Ivey Business School. He has also held visiting fellowships at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Dr. Sarta is also an award-winning innovation expert with over 10 years of strategic management experience in industry-leading, Fortune 500 organizations.
Degrees
PhD Strategy, Ivey Business School Western UniversityResearch Interests
Awards
- Ontario Research Fund—Research Excellence Round - 2025-2028
- SSHRC Insights Development Grant - 2023-2026
Current Research Projects
-
Summary:
The “Financial Well-Being in the Workplace” project aims to uncover the ways in which employers influence financial well-being among their employees, which may in turn benefit employers. The project focuses on the behavior of firms toward their employees as they go through industry cycles. The particular focus is on the nature of changes to income, social security benefits, and retirement benefits offered to employees. How firms adapt to the needs of their employees’ financial well-being is an overlooked issue and can inform how specific firms might benefit from taking care of their most important resource.
Project Type: FundedStart Date:
- Month: May Year: 2025
End Date:
- Month: Jul Year: 2028
Funders:
Ontario Research Fund—Research Excellence Round
-
Summary:
The primary goal of this research is to explore the age-old organizational concept of adaptation against the modern phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) as an augmentation tool. Organizations have a critically important role in implementing artificial intelligence into both their organizations and society. Much of the research today focuses on the development of artificial intelligence technologies and the functions that artificial intelligence technologies can perform (Heaven, 2019; von Krogh, 2018). Fewer studies explore the core objective of this proposal—understanding how some of our most cherished institutions in healthcare and financial services adapt to incorporate artificial intelligence into their organizational structures to remain relevant and beneficial for their end users. More specifically, using artificial intelligence to augment and improve services for end users is a viable yet challenging form of adaptation of importance to Canadian society.
Start Date:- Month: Jun Year: 2023
End Date:
- Month: Jul Year: 2026
Funders:
SSHRC Insights Development Grant
All Publications
Approach to Teaching
My pedagogical approach centers around high-engagement classroom environments where discussion, experimentation, risk-taking, and experiential education are emphasized. I specialize in the case-based method as a means to place students in real-life management situations.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2025 | AP/ADMS4900 3.0 | A | Management Policy Part I | LECT |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2026 | AP/ADMS4900 3.0 | M | Management Policy Part I | LECT |
| Winter 2026 | AP/ADMS4900 3.0 | P | Management Policy Part I | LECT |
| Winter 2026 | AP/ENTP2920 3.0 | M | Innovation and creativity | LECT |
