Associate Professor

Blair Winsor

Areas of Expertise

Entrepreneurship, Small Business

Personal Profile

Dr. Blair Winsor joined the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial University in August 2013, having taught entrepreneurship, innovation management and small business management-related topics at Edinburgh Napier University in the United Kingdom (U.K.) for the previous 11 years. Over the last 30 years, Dr. Winsor has been an entrepreneur, lawyer, angel investor, board member and consultant in the U.K., the United States and Canada.

Blair completed his doctorate at the University of Warwick’s Business School. In addition, he has a bachelor of arts in political science from Memorial, a bachelor of laws from the University of Ottawa, and a master of business administration (MBA) from Luigi Bocconi Commercial University in Italy. He also has a diploma in French from the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi and a post-graduate certificate in teaching and learning in higher education from Edinburgh Napier University.

Teaching

Dr. Winsor teaches the following courses:

• BUSI 2600: Entrepreneurial Thinking and Behaviour
• BUSI 3005: Business Law
• BUSI 3630: Venture Creation
• BUSI 4605: Small Business Consulting

Research Highlights

Dr. Winsor’s research in entrepreneurship can be divided into two main areas:

1. Entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship in Newfoundland and Labrador (selected work),

• Winsor, B., Schouten, J. & Thapa, P. (2025). Social Organization Identity: The Benefits of Ambiguity, Social Enterprise Journal, forthcoming.
  
  
• Mason, C., Bartlett, J., & Winsor, B. (2024). Failure’s virtues: the seeding of an emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem in a peripheral region. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 37(3-4): 375-391.
  
  
• Slawinski, N., Winsor, B., Mazutis, D., Schouten, J. W., Smith, W. K. (2021). Managing the Paradoxes of Place to Foster Regeneration. Organization & Environment, 34(4) 595–618.
  
  
• Walsh, J. & Winsor, B. (2019). Socio-cultural Barriers to Developing a Regional Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 13(3): 263-282.

2. entrepreneurship teaching and learning (selected work):

• Winsor, B., Smith, J. & Lam, J. (2018). Common Ground Co-working: Building a Sustainable Coworking Social Enterprise. Case Research Journal, 38(3): 13. 
  
  
• Walsh, J., Winsor, B. & Lam, J. (2017). Holson Forest Products Ltd.: The Challenge of International Markets. International Journal of Case Studies in Management, 15.
  
  
• Winsor, B. & Hanlon, D. (2016). An Opportunity Assessment Framework for Introductory Courses in Entrepreneurship. Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, 19(20): 24-38.

Dr. Winsor has also done work on temporality and risk.