Dr Dan Tisch

PhD, MBA and BSc

Lecturer

In: Management and International Business » Faculty of Business and Economics

Biography

Dan joined the Department of Management and International Business at The University of Auckland in 2007. Prior to this, Dan held positions at Auckland University of Technology, Massey University and Bénédict International, Switzerland. Dan has worked as an ecologist and consultant in the forest industry in Canada over a period of 10 years.

Special Interests:

Business and the natural environment

Climate change

Interactive simulations and Team Based Learning (TBL)

Research | Current

Dan's research focuses on organisations and the natural environment with focus on climate change. Dan is co-convener of the Resilience and Sustainability Collaborative Group in the Department of Management and International Business. Currently the group is comprised of 12 academics and doctoral students who meet regularly to discuss research content and processes to advance our individual research agendas.

Teaching | Current

2020 INTBUS 202 Foundations of Strategy

2019 BUSMGT 741 International Business Environment

2018 INTBUS 202 Foundations of Strategy

2017 INTBUS 202 Foundations of Strategy

2016 MAORIDEV 738 Strategic Planning

Postgraduate supervision

Dan is supervising PhD and masters students whose work is positioned in theories at the intersection of strategic management and the natural environment. These focus on the Resource-Based View, Sensemaking, Strategy-as-Practice, Dynamic Capabilities, Earth Systems and Ecological Materiality and include theories of Sustainability.

Distinctions/Honours

2020 Finalist (1 of 3) for the Carolyn Dexter award for Best International Paper at the Academy of Management Conference titled: "The multifaceted nature of organisational coping: The case of climate change". Selected by Committee: Jamie Gloor, University of Exeter & University of Zurich (Chair); as well as Mariano (Pitosh) Heyden, Monash University; Emilio Marti, Erasmus University; Minna Paunova, Copenhagen Business School; and Ovul Sezer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. https://aom.org/membership/awards-and-recognition/annual-meeting-program-awards/2020-annual-meeting-program-awards
2012 - 2015 Matthew S. Abel Charitable Trust PhD Scholarship: to support research in problems, in this case climate change, that are directly relevant to New Zealand businesses: "Ecological sensemaking in pasture based production systems: Evidence from New Zealand dairy farmer responses to extreme weather"
2009 "Master Professor", The Business Strategy Game Simulation (www.bsg-online.com) awarded "to professors, instructors, and simulation facilitators whose students deliver superior performance in the simulation exercise"

Responsibilities

2019 Co-convenor for the Resilience and Sustainability Collaborative Group in the Department of Management and International Business

2019 Seminar Series Coordinator for Management and International Business Department

2019 Social and Environmental Community of Practice Group for the Faculty of Business and Economics

2016-2018 Research Committee for Management and International Business Department

2018-2019 Future of Work Task Force for Management and International Business Department

2016 - 2018 and 2010 Career’s Day Coordinator for Management and International Business Department

Areas of expertise

Sensemaking theory

Climate change adaptation and resilience

Simulations for teaching

Agribusiness in New Zealand

Committees/Professional groups/Services

2019-2020 Co-convenor for Resilience and Sustainability Collaborative Group in the Department of Management and International Business
2010, 2016-2019 Careers Day Coordinator for International Business, Management and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Majors in the Faculty of Business and Economics
2010-2011 Chair, Student Staff Consultative Committee for the Deparment of Management and International Business
2008 Member, Undergraduate Committee for the Department of Management and International Business

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Tisch, D. G., & Whiteman, G. (2020). Ecological Sensemaking and the Attention-based View for Farmers: What They Know. In G. Atinc (Ed.) Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020 (1). Vancouver, Canada (Virtual). 10.5465/AMBPP.2020.15217abstract
Tisch, D. G., & Galbreath, J. (2020). The Multifaceted Nature of Organisational Coping: The Case of Climate Change. In G. Atinc (Ed.) Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020 (1). Vancouver, Canada (Virtual). 10.5465/AMBPP.2020.15235abstract
Galbreath, J., Tisch, D., Quaddus, M., & Rabbanee, F. (2020). The impact of climate change on firm adaptation: the case of the wine industry. International Journal of Wine Business Research, 32 (3), 373-389. 10.1108/IJWBR-07-2019-0045
Tisch, D., & Hamilton-Hart, N. (2019). An affective explanation of climate beliefs: Evidence from dairy farmers in New Zealand. Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 25 (1), 115-132. Related URL.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/50046
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Natasha Hamilton-Hart
Rataul, P., Tisch, D. G., & Zamborsky, P. (2018). Netflix: Dynamic capabilities for global success. London, UK.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/39605
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Peter Zamborsky
Tisch, D. (2017). If you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em: Social emulation strategy not more climate models for climate change adaptation in the agricultural sector. Paper presented at Sub-theme 33: Organizational Struggles over the Natural Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark. 6 July - 8 July 2017. (pp. 29).