Raymond Dart

Ray has always had a curiosity which spans ideas, organizations and disciplines, and feels his undergraduate degree from Trent University – where he studied biology, philosophy, anthropology and environmental studies – was a perfect foundation for his lifelong interest in the organizational side of social and community development. His master’s degree was in Environmental Studies, and his doctoral degree was in Organizational Behaviour at the Schulich School of Business at York University. His thesis research focused on entrepreneurship and commercialization in nonprofit sector organizations.

Ray’s current research interests are diverse, and broadly centre on ‘social enterprise’, ‘social entrepreneurship’ and other organizational settings of social change environmental organizations and the environmental sector logic models, effectiveness and strategy in nonprofit organizations community development.

At Trent, Prof. Dart teaches courses on ‘Contemporary Issues in Management and Organization’, entrepreneurship, market and managerial research, new venture planning and design. His favourite pedagogy is field-based research (‘getting students learning in settings relevant to what they are studying).