Office of the Associate Dean | Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics

Office of the Associate Dean

The Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics is a diverse community of scholars who engage in wide-ranging research activities and generate insights that make a positive impact on the world.

Lang's pillar of "Research with Impact" is pluralistic, which implies:

  • Impact for a diversity of research stakeholders: Lang’s research is created with and communicated to a diverse and inclusive of stakeholders, including academic scholars, students, executives, consumers, policymakers, non-for-profits and society at large.  
  • Impact through a diversity of research focus: Lang research focuses on discovery, integration, application, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. No specific topic or mode of research is prioritized, but we strive for alignment with the University of Guelph’s strategic research priorities and its broader mission. 
  • Impact through a diversity of research outputs: In addition to traditional scholarly contributions, such as peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and conference presentations, Lang’s scholarly outputs take a variety of other forms such as policy papers, technical reports, expert testimonial, community-engaged scholarship and knowledge translation via traditional and social media. This promotes the accessibility of our work to a diverse and inclusive range of beneficiaries.
  • Equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility: Our research is guided by the principles of equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility for researchers, students, collaborators, industry and community partners, participants and end-users of our research.