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Kelly Thomson
School of Administrative Studies
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Associate Professor
Office: Atkinson College, 214
Phone: 416)736-2100 Ext: 20126
Email: thomsonk@yorku.ca
Dr. Kelly Thomson completed her PhD at the Schulich School of Business at York University. Her research crosses multiple empirical contexts but focuses on processes of organizing and change using post-structuralist approaches.
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Dr. Kelly Thomson completed her PhD at the Schulich School of Business at York University. Her research crosses multiple empirical contexts but focuses on processes of organizing and change using post-structuralist approaches. Her two current projects both focus on professionals negotiating change: the first uses a practice lens to analyse a multi-site organizational change initiative in healthcare and the second examines career trajectories of accounting professionals migrating to Canada.
Degrees
PhD, Schulich/York UniversityMBA, Schulich/York University
MA, University of Manitoba
BA, McGill University
Appointments
Faculty of HealthResearch Interests
Management
, Immigration, Health Care Organization, Organizing and Change, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion,
Management
- Received Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2001, 2002. - 2002
- Received Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2001, 2002. - 2001
Current Research Projects
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International students as "ideal" immigrants: Ontario Employers' perspective
See more
Role:
Co-Investigator
Funders:
OHCRIF
Funders:
OHCRIF
Make More: A Community-University Research Alliance for Facilitating Professional Success of Internationally Educated Professionals in Business
See more
Role:
Principal Investigator
Funders:
Great West Life Assurance Co.
Funders:
Great West Life Assurance Co.
In Search of Relevance: Facilitating Dialogue between Research and Practice
See more
Role:
Principal Investigator
Collaborator: Martha Rogers and Gervan Fearon
Funders:
SSHRC Public Outreach Program, Special Call for Management, Business and Finance
Collaborator: Martha Rogers and Gervan Fearon
Funders:
SSHRC Public Outreach Program, Special Call for Management, Business and Finance
See more
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
Wheeler, David and Thomson, Kelly (2006). Sustainability, Social Capital and the Canadian ICT Sector. In Toner, Glen (ed.) Sustainable Production: Building Canadian Capacity, Vancouver: UBC Press.
2006
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
Coffey, M., Thomson, K., Li, S. A., Bismilla, Z., Starmer, A. J., O'Toole, J. K., ... & Hepps, J. H. (2017) . "Resident experiences with implementation of the I-PASS handoff bundle". Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 9(3), 313-320.
2017
Chuang, Y. T. and Thomson, K. (2017) "Maneuvering Multimarket Competition: The Effects Of Multimarket Contact And Strategic Alliances On Performance Of Single-Market Firms", Strategic Organization, 15(3), 390 - 409.
2017
Thomson, K., & Jones, J. (2017) . "Precarious Professionals: (in) Secure Identities and Moral Agency in Neocolonial Context". Journal of Business Ethics, 146(4) 747-770.
2017
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2016) "Colonials in Camouflage: Metonymy, mimicry and the reproduction of the colonial order in the age of diversity". Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 35 (March) 58–75.
2016
Chuang, Y. T., Dahlin, K. B., Thomson, K., Lai, Y. C., & Yang, C. C. (2015) . "Multimarket Contact, Strategic Alliances, and Firm Performance". Journal of Management, 0149206315615399.
2015
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2015). "Being and Becoming a Professional Accountant in Canada: Mimicry and Menace in the Transitions of Migrant Accountants". Critical Perspectives on International Business, 11(2) pp. 156-172
2015
Coffey, Maitreya; Thomson, Kelly, Tallett, Susan and Matlow, Anne. (2010) . Pediatric Residents’ Decision-making Around Disclosing Adverse Events: The Importance of Social Context. Academic Medicine, 85:10, pp. 1619-1625.
2010
Matlow, A. G., Wright, J.G., Zimmerman, B., Thomson, K., Valente, M. (2006) How Can the Principles of Complexity Science Be Applied to the Coordination of Care for Complex Pediatric Patients? Quality and Safety in Health Care, 15:85-88.
2006
Conference Papers
Publication
Year
Thomson, K. (2018) "Slow Motion Revolution or Assimilation? Theorizing Entryism as a Mechanism for Destabilizing Regimes of Inequality", Accepted for Oral presentation and invited to submit to special monograph issue of Current Sociology: "Disappearing Organization? Reshaping the Sociology of Organizations". International Sociological Association Conference, Toronto.
2018
Thomson, K (2018) "Professional Insecurities: Examining the Relationship between Identity Safety, Moral Agency and Patient Safety", Accepted for Oral presentation International Sociological Association Conference, Toronto.
2018
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2018) "Dreaming Canadas: How Colonial Structures Interpellate the Identity Work and Transition Decisions of Migrant Accountants Migrating from the Margins to the Centre", accepted for presentation at the Alternative Accounts Conference 2018, Montreal.
2018
Thomson, Kelly and Coffey, Maitreya (2018) "Losing the Battle and Winning the War? How change leader receptivity and responsiveness to resistance affect change targets’ engagement", Accepted for Oral Presentation at 11th International Organizational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference: Coordinating Care Across Boundaries and Borders, May 2018, Montreal.
2018
Thomson, Kelly, Coffey, Maitreya, Matlow, Anne (2017) "In the presence of power: Social context and disclosure of adverse events by medical residents in focus groups", 23rd Annual Qualitative Health Research Conference, Québec City.
2017
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2017). "You Belong Here? How professionals in “strange bodies” negotiate position in the “global” accounting profession", Mini-conference, Fellow Travelers on Different Roads: The intersections of Economic Sociology and Organizations, Occupations and Work, McGill University
2017
Thomson, Kelly and Coffey, Maitreya (2017) "When The Spirit Is Willing But The Flesh is Weak: How embodied ontological insecurity impedes and facilitates organizational change", presented at EGOS, Stream 68: Dynamics of Practices, Knowledge and Work in Healthcare Organizations, Copenhagen.
2017
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2017), "The Canadian Dream: How colonial structures interpellate the identity work and transition decisions of migrants in strange bodies". Critical Management Studies, Foreign Worker Stream, Liverpool.
2017
Thomson, Kelly, (2017) "Negotiating “Fit”: Connections between employer mindsets/ practices and labour market success of newcomers", Metropolis Conference, Montreal.
2017
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2016) "Fracking the Glacier: From mimicry to hybridization of the identity of professional accountant in the Canadian field", presented Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim California
2016
Thomson, Kelly and Coffey, Maitreya (2016) "When The Spirit Is Willing But The Flesh is Weak: How embodied ontological insecurity impedes and facilitates organizational change", presented at Eighth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, June, 2016 Corfu
2016
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2016) "Best and Brightest? How the presence of professionals in “strange bodies” disrupts meritocracy in the Canadian accounting profession", presented at Eighth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, June, 2016, Corfu
2016
Jones, J. and Thomson, K. (2016) "Pay it Forward: The Moral Project of Recognizing International Accountants in the Canadian Accounting Profession", presented at the Alternative Accounts Conference 2016, Ottawa
2016
Trilokekar, Roopa Desai, Kelly Thomson & Amira El-Masri. (2016) . "International students as “Ideal” Immigrants". National Metropolis Conference, Toronto, March 3-5
2016
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2015) "Extraction of Rents from Inequality: Sahibs, ghosts and convertibility of cultural capital in the “global” accounting profession", presented at AIB US-NE 2015 Frontier Conference, Bringing the Political Economy Back In. Boston, USA
2015
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2015) "Welcome to the Jungle: How “hosts” from the colonial centre interpellate the identity work and transition decisions of migrants in strange bodies", EGOS Sub-Theme 37: International Migration, Work and Organizations, Athens
2015
Thomson, Kelly and Coffey, Maitreya (2015) "I Pass on IPASS”: Ontological Insecurity, professional identity and patterns of adoption of a divergent change by medical residents EGOS: Sub-theme 55: Re-examining the Organization of Healthcare: Institutional, Technological and Clinical Challenges, Athens
2015
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne. (2014) "Marginalization of Migrant Accountants in Canada: Implications for Professional Independence and Ethics". 21st International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference, Dublin
2014
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne. (2014) "Creating Dependent Professionals: Global Mobility, Precariousness and Implications for Ethical Conduct", Professional Service Firms and Public Policy Conference, Washington
2014
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne.( 2014) "Fracking the Glacier: From mimicry to iterative? hybridization of the identity of professional accountant in the Canadian field", EGOS, Rotterdam
2014
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2014) "Doing our Imperialism Quietly: The reproduction of colonial inequality in the accounting profession in the twenty first century metropolis". Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference, Toronto
2014
Thomson, Kelly and Coffey, Maitreya (2014) "Losing the Battle and Winning the War: Contingent compliance and resistance to divergent organizational change", Paper Development Workshop on Organizational and Institutional Change, Edinburgh
2014
Thomson, Kelly; Coffey, Maitreya; Bismilla, Zia; Spector, Nancy; and Mahant, Sanjay. (2014) Social Impediments to Implementation of Structured Handoff in a Professional Context: A Qualitative Study of I-PASS ImplementationPAS/ASPR Joint Meeting, Vancouver
2014
Maitreya Coffey, Kelly Thomson, Amy Starmer, and Christopher Landrigan, (2014) "I-PASS Handoff: A Qualitative Study of Resident Experience", PAS/ASPR Joint Meeting, Vancouver
2014
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2013) Colonials in Camouflage: Metonymy, mimicry and the reproduction of the colonial order in the age of diversity, Best Paper, Equality, Diversity and Accounting Track, 6th Equality, Diversity and Inclusion International Conference, Athens
2013
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne, (2013) "Colonials in Camouflage: The reproduction of colonial inequality in the accounting profession in the age of diversity", International Conference on Inequality, Institutions and Organizations, Vancouver
2013
Jones, Joanne Thomson, Kelly. (2013) "A View from Within: Auditor Oversight Boards’ Inspections of Canadian Audit Firms", ASAC, Calgary
2013
Jones, Joanne Thomson, Kelly and McKenna, Steve (2013) "Plus Ca Change…: Sense-making and patterns of mimicry and resistance in the transitions of migrant accounting professionals in Canada". The 8th International Conference in Critical Management Studies, Extending the limits of neo-liberal capitalism, Stream 3: 3. Beyond Otherness: Reconfiguring multiple criticalities from the periphery, Manchester, UK
2013
Thomson, Kelly. 2011. “From Pirates to Princes: Exchanging regulatory recognition for the public interest in the creation of the Canadian cable industry.” 6th Organizational Studies Workshop, Paris
2011
Coffey, M., Thomson, K., Tallett, S. and Matlow, A. 2009. "Knowledge and Attitudes of Pediatric Residents Towards Disclosure of Adverse Events", Patient Safety Institute, June, 2009. Honourable Mention.
2009
Thomson, Kelly. 2008. "Habitus, Symbolic Violence and Opportunity Constitution in the Canadian Cable Industry”, presented at Cornell-McGill Conference on Entrepreneurship and Institutions, McGill University, June, 2008
2008
Kelly Thomson, Brenda Zimmerman and Anne Matlow. 2008. “Talking About a Revolution: How destructuration in the social structure of health care affects professionals and patients”, presented at 24th EGOS Amsterdam
2008
Thomson, Kelly, 2008. “Habitus, Symbolic Violence and Opportunity Constitution in the Canadian Cable Industry.” Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division, Best Paper Proceedings of the 2008 Conference, Anaheim.
2008
Thomson, Kelly, 2007. "Giddens and Structuration Theory: Challenges and Opportunities", Symposium at the Academy of Management Review.
2007
Thomson, Kelly, 2007. "What Gives You the Right? Symbolic Violence and the Structuration of Opportunity in the Canadian Cable Industry," presented at Cornell-McGill Conference on Institutions and Entrepreneurship.
2007
Anne Matlow, James Wright, Brenda Zimmerman, Kelly Thomson, Michael Valente, Kim Streitenberger, Polly Stevens, Ronald Laxer. "Can the principles of complexity science be applied to improve the coordination of care (CoC) for COMPLEX pediatric patients?" A Pilot Study, poster accepted at Canadian Association of Pediatric Health Centres conference in October, 2006, Vancouver, British Columbia.
2006
Matlow, A., Wright, J., Zimmerman, B., Thomson, K., Valente, M., Streitenberger, K., Stevens, P. and Laxer, R., 2006. "Can the principles of complexity science be applied to improve the coordination of care for complex pediatric patients?" A Pilot Study. Poster accepted at 8th Annual NPSF Patient Safety Congress, San Francisco, California.
2006
Thomson, Kelly and Valente, Mike. 2006. "Donor, Scapegoat or Change Agent? The structuration of business sustainability and the role of the firm as an agent of social change." Virtual presentation at the UN Global Forum on Business as an Agent of World Benefit: Management Knowledge Leading Positive Change, October 22-25, 2006.
2006
Thomson, Kelly; Valente, Mike and Zimmerman, Brenda, 2005. "Competing Discourses and Destructuration in Health Care: Implications for Coordination and Quality of Patient Care", Submitted to ASAC, 2005.
2005
Thomson, K. 2003. “Capital and Social Capital: an Integrative theoretical framework”, presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, OMT Division, Seattle.
2003
Thomson, K. 2003. “The Social Constitution of Social Capital and Network Structure”, presented at ASAC, OMT Division, Halifax.
2003
Thomson, K., 2002. “Cognition and Collective Action in Industries”, Paper presented at ASAC Conference, BPS Division, Winnipeg.
2002
Chuang, Y.T., Hennessy, D., Thomson, K., & Madriz, R., 2000. “Diversity and similarity in New York City newspapers, 1801-1988”, Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Toronto.
2000
Thomson, K., 2000. “Social Capital: A facilitator of collective action”, accepted for presentation at ASAC Conference, Montreal.
2000
Conference Proceedings
Publication
Year
Chuang, Y.T., Hennessy, D., Thomson, K., & Madriz, R., 2000, “The rise and fall of organizational diversity”. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Organizational Theory Division, Proceedings, 21(6): 40-49.
2000
Research Reports
Publication
Year
Roopa Desai-Trilokekar, Kelly Thomson, & Amira El Masri (2016) "International Students as “Ideal Immigrants”: Ontario Employers’ Perspective", A report to the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities, funded through the Ontario Human Capital Research and Innovation Fund
2016
Approach to Teaching
My teaching encourages students to learn by doing and to expand the range of ways of looking at different phenomena.
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2025 | AP/ADMS3120 3.0 | A | Gender Issues in Management | BLEN |
| Summer 2025 | AP/ADMS4010 3.0 | A | Organization and Administrative Theory | BLEN |
Dr. Kelly Thomson completed her PhD at the Schulich School of Business at York University. Her research crosses multiple empirical contexts but focuses on processes of organizing and change using post-structuralist approaches.
Dr. Kelly Thomson completed her PhD at the Schulich School of Business at York University. Her research crosses multiple empirical contexts but focuses on processes of organizing and change using post-structuralist approaches. Her two current projects both focus on professionals negotiating change: the first uses a practice lens to analyse a multi-site organizational change initiative in healthcare and the second examines career trajectories of accounting professionals migrating to Canada.
Degrees
PhD, Schulich/York UniversityMBA, Schulich/York University
MA, University of Manitoba
BA, McGill University
Appointments
Faculty of HealthResearch Interests
Management
, Immigration, Health Care Organization, Organizing and Change, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion,
Management
Awards
- Received Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2001, 2002. - 2002
- Received Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2001, 2002. - 2001
Current Research Projects
thomsonk
International students as "ideal" immigrants: Ontario Employers' perspective
-
Project Type:
Funded
Role: Co-Investigator
Funders:
OHCRIF
Make More: A Community-University Research Alliance for Facilitating Professional Success of Internationally Educated Professionals in Business
-
Project Type:
Funded
Role: Principal Investigator
Funders:
Great West Life Assurance Co.
In Search of Relevance: Facilitating Dialogue between Research and Practice
-
Project Type:
Funded
Role: Principal Investigator
Collaborator: Martha Rogers and Gervan Fearon
Funders:
SSHRC Public Outreach Program, Special Call for Management, Business and Finance
All Publications
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
Wheeler, David and Thomson, Kelly (2006). Sustainability, Social Capital and the Canadian ICT Sector. In Toner, Glen (ed.) Sustainable Production: Building Canadian Capacity, Vancouver: UBC Press.
2006
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
Coffey, M., Thomson, K., Li, S. A., Bismilla, Z., Starmer, A. J., O'Toole, J. K., ... & Hepps, J. H. (2017) . "Resident experiences with implementation of the I-PASS handoff bundle". Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 9(3), 313-320.
2017
Chuang, Y. T. and Thomson, K. (2017) "Maneuvering Multimarket Competition: The Effects Of Multimarket Contact And Strategic Alliances On Performance Of Single-Market Firms", Strategic Organization, 15(3), 390 - 409.
2017
Thomson, K., & Jones, J. (2017) . "Precarious Professionals: (in) Secure Identities and Moral Agency in Neocolonial Context". Journal of Business Ethics, 146(4) 747-770.
2017
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2016) "Colonials in Camouflage: Metonymy, mimicry and the reproduction of the colonial order in the age of diversity". Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 35 (March) 58–75.
2016
Chuang, Y. T., Dahlin, K. B., Thomson, K., Lai, Y. C., & Yang, C. C. (2015) . "Multimarket Contact, Strategic Alliances, and Firm Performance". Journal of Management, 0149206315615399.
2015
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2015). "Being and Becoming a Professional Accountant in Canada: Mimicry and Menace in the Transitions of Migrant Accountants". Critical Perspectives on International Business, 11(2) pp. 156-172
2015
Coffey, Maitreya; Thomson, Kelly, Tallett, Susan and Matlow, Anne. (2010) . Pediatric Residents’ Decision-making Around Disclosing Adverse Events: The Importance of Social Context. Academic Medicine, 85:10, pp. 1619-1625.
2010
Matlow, A. G., Wright, J.G., Zimmerman, B., Thomson, K., Valente, M. (2006) How Can the Principles of Complexity Science Be Applied to the Coordination of Care for Complex Pediatric Patients? Quality and Safety in Health Care, 15:85-88.
2006
Conference Papers
Publication
Year
Thomson, K. (2018) "Slow Motion Revolution or Assimilation? Theorizing Entryism as a Mechanism for Destabilizing Regimes of Inequality", Accepted for Oral presentation and invited to submit to special monograph issue of Current Sociology: "Disappearing Organization? Reshaping the Sociology of Organizations". International Sociological Association Conference, Toronto.
2018
Thomson, K (2018) "Professional Insecurities: Examining the Relationship between Identity Safety, Moral Agency and Patient Safety", Accepted for Oral presentation International Sociological Association Conference, Toronto.
2018
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2018) "Dreaming Canadas: How Colonial Structures Interpellate the Identity Work and Transition Decisions of Migrant Accountants Migrating from the Margins to the Centre", accepted for presentation at the Alternative Accounts Conference 2018, Montreal.
2018
Thomson, Kelly and Coffey, Maitreya (2018) "Losing the Battle and Winning the War? How change leader receptivity and responsiveness to resistance affect change targets’ engagement", Accepted for Oral Presentation at 11th International Organizational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference: Coordinating Care Across Boundaries and Borders, May 2018, Montreal.
2018
Thomson, Kelly, Coffey, Maitreya, Matlow, Anne (2017) "In the presence of power: Social context and disclosure of adverse events by medical residents in focus groups", 23rd Annual Qualitative Health Research Conference, Québec City.
2017
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2017). "You Belong Here? How professionals in “strange bodies” negotiate position in the “global” accounting profession", Mini-conference, Fellow Travelers on Different Roads: The intersections of Economic Sociology and Organizations, Occupations and Work, McGill University
2017
Thomson, Kelly and Coffey, Maitreya (2017) "When The Spirit Is Willing But The Flesh is Weak: How embodied ontological insecurity impedes and facilitates organizational change", presented at EGOS, Stream 68: Dynamics of Practices, Knowledge and Work in Healthcare Organizations, Copenhagen.
2017
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2017), "The Canadian Dream: How colonial structures interpellate the identity work and transition decisions of migrants in strange bodies". Critical Management Studies, Foreign Worker Stream, Liverpool.
2017
Thomson, Kelly, (2017) "Negotiating “Fit”: Connections between employer mindsets/ practices and labour market success of newcomers", Metropolis Conference, Montreal.
2017
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2016) "Fracking the Glacier: From mimicry to hybridization of the identity of professional accountant in the Canadian field", presented Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim California
2016
Thomson, Kelly and Coffey, Maitreya (2016) "When The Spirit Is Willing But The Flesh is Weak: How embodied ontological insecurity impedes and facilitates organizational change", presented at Eighth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, June, 2016 Corfu
2016
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2016) "Best and Brightest? How the presence of professionals in “strange bodies” disrupts meritocracy in the Canadian accounting profession", presented at Eighth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, June, 2016, Corfu
2016
Jones, J. and Thomson, K. (2016) "Pay it Forward: The Moral Project of Recognizing International Accountants in the Canadian Accounting Profession", presented at the Alternative Accounts Conference 2016, Ottawa
2016
Trilokekar, Roopa Desai, Kelly Thomson & Amira El-Masri. (2016) . "International students as “Ideal” Immigrants". National Metropolis Conference, Toronto, March 3-5
2016
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2015) "Extraction of Rents from Inequality: Sahibs, ghosts and convertibility of cultural capital in the “global” accounting profession", presented at AIB US-NE 2015 Frontier Conference, Bringing the Political Economy Back In. Boston, USA
2015
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2015) "Welcome to the Jungle: How “hosts” from the colonial centre interpellate the identity work and transition decisions of migrants in strange bodies", EGOS Sub-Theme 37: International Migration, Work and Organizations, Athens
2015
Thomson, Kelly and Coffey, Maitreya (2015) "I Pass on IPASS”: Ontological Insecurity, professional identity and patterns of adoption of a divergent change by medical residents EGOS: Sub-theme 55: Re-examining the Organization of Healthcare: Institutional, Technological and Clinical Challenges, Athens
2015
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne. (2014) "Marginalization of Migrant Accountants in Canada: Implications for Professional Independence and Ethics". 21st International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference, Dublin
2014
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne. (2014) "Creating Dependent Professionals: Global Mobility, Precariousness and Implications for Ethical Conduct", Professional Service Firms and Public Policy Conference, Washington
2014
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne.( 2014) "Fracking the Glacier: From mimicry to iterative? hybridization of the identity of professional accountant in the Canadian field", EGOS, Rotterdam
2014
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2014) "Doing our Imperialism Quietly: The reproduction of colonial inequality in the accounting profession in the twenty first century metropolis". Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference, Toronto
2014
Thomson, Kelly and Coffey, Maitreya (2014) "Losing the Battle and Winning the War: Contingent compliance and resistance to divergent organizational change", Paper Development Workshop on Organizational and Institutional Change, Edinburgh
2014
Thomson, Kelly; Coffey, Maitreya; Bismilla, Zia; Spector, Nancy; and Mahant, Sanjay. (2014) Social Impediments to Implementation of Structured Handoff in a Professional Context: A Qualitative Study of I-PASS ImplementationPAS/ASPR Joint Meeting, Vancouver
2014
Maitreya Coffey, Kelly Thomson, Amy Starmer, and Christopher Landrigan, (2014) "I-PASS Handoff: A Qualitative Study of Resident Experience", PAS/ASPR Joint Meeting, Vancouver
2014
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne (2013) Colonials in Camouflage: Metonymy, mimicry and the reproduction of the colonial order in the age of diversity, Best Paper, Equality, Diversity and Accounting Track, 6th Equality, Diversity and Inclusion International Conference, Athens
2013
Thomson, Kelly and Jones, Joanne, (2013) "Colonials in Camouflage: The reproduction of colonial inequality in the accounting profession in the age of diversity", International Conference on Inequality, Institutions and Organizations, Vancouver
2013
Jones, Joanne Thomson, Kelly. (2013) "A View from Within: Auditor Oversight Boards’ Inspections of Canadian Audit Firms", ASAC, Calgary
2013
Jones, Joanne Thomson, Kelly and McKenna, Steve (2013) "Plus Ca Change…: Sense-making and patterns of mimicry and resistance in the transitions of migrant accounting professionals in Canada". The 8th International Conference in Critical Management Studies, Extending the limits of neo-liberal capitalism, Stream 3: 3. Beyond Otherness: Reconfiguring multiple criticalities from the periphery, Manchester, UK
2013
Thomson, Kelly. 2011. “From Pirates to Princes: Exchanging regulatory recognition for the public interest in the creation of the Canadian cable industry.” 6th Organizational Studies Workshop, Paris
2011
Coffey, M., Thomson, K., Tallett, S. and Matlow, A. 2009. "Knowledge and Attitudes of Pediatric Residents Towards Disclosure of Adverse Events", Patient Safety Institute, June, 2009. Honourable Mention.
2009
Thomson, Kelly. 2008. "Habitus, Symbolic Violence and Opportunity Constitution in the Canadian Cable Industry”, presented at Cornell-McGill Conference on Entrepreneurship and Institutions, McGill University, June, 2008
2008
Kelly Thomson, Brenda Zimmerman and Anne Matlow. 2008. “Talking About a Revolution: How destructuration in the social structure of health care affects professionals and patients”, presented at 24th EGOS Amsterdam
2008
Thomson, Kelly, 2008. “Habitus, Symbolic Violence and Opportunity Constitution in the Canadian Cable Industry.” Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division, Best Paper Proceedings of the 2008 Conference, Anaheim.
2008
Thomson, Kelly, 2007. "Giddens and Structuration Theory: Challenges and Opportunities", Symposium at the Academy of Management Review.
2007
Thomson, Kelly, 2007. "What Gives You the Right? Symbolic Violence and the Structuration of Opportunity in the Canadian Cable Industry," presented at Cornell-McGill Conference on Institutions and Entrepreneurship.
2007
Anne Matlow, James Wright, Brenda Zimmerman, Kelly Thomson, Michael Valente, Kim Streitenberger, Polly Stevens, Ronald Laxer. "Can the principles of complexity science be applied to improve the coordination of care (CoC) for COMPLEX pediatric patients?" A Pilot Study, poster accepted at Canadian Association of Pediatric Health Centres conference in October, 2006, Vancouver, British Columbia.
2006
Matlow, A., Wright, J., Zimmerman, B., Thomson, K., Valente, M., Streitenberger, K., Stevens, P. and Laxer, R., 2006. "Can the principles of complexity science be applied to improve the coordination of care for complex pediatric patients?" A Pilot Study. Poster accepted at 8th Annual NPSF Patient Safety Congress, San Francisco, California.
2006
Thomson, Kelly and Valente, Mike. 2006. "Donor, Scapegoat or Change Agent? The structuration of business sustainability and the role of the firm as an agent of social change." Virtual presentation at the UN Global Forum on Business as an Agent of World Benefit: Management Knowledge Leading Positive Change, October 22-25, 2006.
2006
Thomson, Kelly; Valente, Mike and Zimmerman, Brenda, 2005. "Competing Discourses and Destructuration in Health Care: Implications for Coordination and Quality of Patient Care", Submitted to ASAC, 2005.
2005
Thomson, K. 2003. “Capital and Social Capital: an Integrative theoretical framework”, presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, OMT Division, Seattle.
2003
Thomson, K. 2003. “The Social Constitution of Social Capital and Network Structure”, presented at ASAC, OMT Division, Halifax.
2003
Thomson, K., 2002. “Cognition and Collective Action in Industries”, Paper presented at ASAC Conference, BPS Division, Winnipeg.
2002
Chuang, Y.T., Hennessy, D., Thomson, K., & Madriz, R., 2000. “Diversity and similarity in New York City newspapers, 1801-1988”, Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Toronto.
2000
Thomson, K., 2000. “Social Capital: A facilitator of collective action”, accepted for presentation at ASAC Conference, Montreal.
2000
Conference Proceedings
Publication
Year
Chuang, Y.T., Hennessy, D., Thomson, K., & Madriz, R., 2000, “The rise and fall of organizational diversity”. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Organizational Theory Division, Proceedings, 21(6): 40-49.
2000
Research Reports
Publication
Year
Roopa Desai-Trilokekar, Kelly Thomson, & Amira El Masri (2016) "International Students as “Ideal Immigrants”: Ontario Employers’ Perspective", A report to the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities, funded through the Ontario Human Capital Research and Innovation Fund
2016
Approach to Teaching
My teaching encourages students to learn by doing and to expand the range of ways of looking at different phenomena.
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2025 | AP/ADMS3120 3.0 | A | Gender Issues in Management | BLEN |
| Summer 2025 | AP/ADMS4010 3.0 | A | Organization and Administrative Theory | BLEN |
