RESEARCH & FACULTY
Charles H Bélanger
Charles H Bélanger
Full ProfessorCommerce and Administration
Management
613-741-7872
charles5@magma.ca
Sudbury Campus
Dr. Charles Bélanger is a senior business professor with substantial management/leadership experience as an executive as well as an international consultant. He holds a Ph.D. in Institutional Assessment with a specialty in organizational audit and analysis. He has served in the positions of President and Vice-President of an Ontario university, (founding) Director of Institutional Research in the second largest Canadian university, and Principal Partner of two international consulting companies. He has consulted extensively for world-wide financial institutions and agencies in areas dealing with health management, training of vocational and professional workers, and organizational audit.
With a passion for start-up and turn-around situations, Dr. Bélanger has received national and international awards for his pioneering work and his leadership/research activities. Besides serving on hospital, business body, school, sport association and club boards of directors, he is also a member of several editorial boards of scholarly journals, in addition to having served as Editor-in-chief of a peer-reviewed periodical. He has authored more than 100 publications and presented numerous conferences on all continents. In 2007, students voted him as the best teacher in his university. He has spent the last 20 years training business students and practicing entrepreneurship via international consultancies.
- Ph.D. (Florida State University)
- M.A. (University of Southern California)
- B.Ed. (Université de Sherbrooke)
- B.A. (Université Laval)
Dr. Bélanger’s research is mostly focused on tertiary education management and strategies with sub-topics encompassing branding, strategic planning, campus life, internationalization, and diversity. The graduate students he supervises have led him to apply his institutional assessment background to a range of other topics including social media, smart phone applications, aquaponic enterprises, immigration, and the stock market.
- Distinguished Membership Award – AIR (USA)
- Distinguished Membership Award – CSSHE (Canada)
- EAIR Silver Jubilee Award (Europe)
- Longden, B. and Bélanger, C.H. (2013). Universities: Public Good or Private Profit. The Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, vol. 35, pp. 1-22
- Wardley, L.J., Bélanger, C.H., & Leonard, V.M. (2013). Institutional Commitment of Mature Students: A Potential Brand Measurement? The Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, vol. 23 (1), pp. 90-112.
- Bélanger, C.H. and Wardley, L.J. (2013). Can Too Much Diversity Be a Threat to Identity? In P. Pohlenz (ed.), Diversität in der Wissenschaft. Berlin, Germany; UVW Verlag. (in print).
- Wardley, L.J. and Bélanger, C.H. (2013). Rites of Passage: Does Adaptation to University Mean Severing Prior Connections? Tertiary Education and Management, vol. 19 (1), pp. 32-51.
- Bélanger, C. H., McCartney, K., Leonard, V. M., Lebrasseur, R., Tu, Jianming (2013). Comparing Chinese and Canadian Accounting Students' Expectations and Experiences. The International Journal of Business and Management, vol. 8 (20), pp. TBA (in print)
