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James Darroch, PhD '90
Associate Professor of Policy; Director, Financial Services Program
Schulich School of Business


James L. Darroch is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and International Business, Schulich School of Business, York University. He holds an M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Strategic Management and International Business from York University and has taught at York since 1986. In 1997, he joined the working group for the Toronto International Centre for Financial Sector Supervision (Toronto Center). From 2002 to 2006 he was Program Director for the Risk Management Curriculum at the Bank of Montreal, and is currently Director of the Financial Services Program and Co-Director of the Hennick Centre He has twice been nominated for the School’s Teaching Excellence Award.

His research focuses upon strategic management with an emphasis on governance and enterprise risk management especially in financial services firms. Representative of his current research focus are: “The Limits of Strategic Rationality: Ethics, Risk Management, and Governance,” Journal of Business Ethics, forthcoming (with David Weitzner), “A Comprehensive Framework For Strategic CSR: Ethical Positioning and Strategic Activities,” (with David Weitzner), Best Paper Proceedings Academy of Management Chicago 2009,
“Why Moral Failures Precede Financial Crises,” Critical Perspectives on International Business 5:1/2 (2009) (with David Weitzner), “Entry Barriers and Evolutions of Banking Systems: Lessons from the 1980s Canadian Western Bank Failures,” Canadian Public Administration 50:2 (Summer 2007), pp. 141-166. (with Charles McMillan), “Globalization Restricted: The Canadian Financial System and Public Policy,” Ivey Business Journal, 71:3 January-February. (with Charles McMillan) and “From Partners in Nation Building to the Two Solitudes: An Analysis of Canadian Chartered Bank-Federal Government Relations” (with Gerry Kerr) in Tom Wesson, editor Canada and the New World Economic Order. Third Edition. Toronto: Captus Press, 288-308.








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