Rate My Professor Max Ganzin

Max Ganzin is a Lecturer in the Department of Management at Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University. He earned his PhD in Strategic Management and Organization from the University of Alberta in 2019, with a dissertation entitled 'Entrepreneurs’ Prospective Sensemaking: Path of a Magical Realist.' He previously obtained an MBA in 2011 and a BA in 2009 from Brigham Young University. Prior to his appointment at Macquarie University, Ganzin served as an Assistant Professor of Strategy at the Odette School of Business, University of Windsor. His research focuses on entrepreneurship, particularly the ways entrepreneurs cope with risk and uncertainty, project positive futures, and whether entrepreneurial opportunities are discovered or created. Other key interests include sensemaking, institutional work, institutional myths, and rhetorical history.

Ganzin's publications include 'Craft and strategic entrepreneurship: Exploring and exploiting materiality, authenticity, and tradition in craft-based ventures' (Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2024), 'Unlocking circular start-ups: A model of barriers' (Business Strategy and the Environment, 2024), 'Bending reality to your will: entrepreneurship through the lens of magical realism' (Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2025), 'Institutional and organisational myths: A process model of myth lifecycle' (Australian Journal of Management, 2025), 'Poetic organizing: Ontology of practice, and sensemaking in craft-based firms' (2021), and 'Craft, magic and the re-enchantment of the world' (2017). He has received awards such as the Best Poster Presentation Award (2013), European Group of Organization Studies Travel Grant (2013), Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research Travel Award (2015), Graduate Student Teaching Award (2018), and Western Academy of Management stipend (2018). Ganzin served as guest editor for a special issue of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal in 2022. He teaches units including MGMT2094 – Strategic Creativity and Innovation and MGMT3017 – Managing Change in Organisations. His scholarship has been cited more than 500 times, influencing discussions in organizational theory, entrepreneurship, and craft studies.