Acknowledgements

Origin Story

Dr. Jane Gravill has been an advocate for faculty support to develop, peer review, and publish business case studies. An identified need has been case studies with a focus on sustainability.  Conestoga College ITAL is a Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) signatory with goals to integrate the PRME principles & United Nations Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) in the Business School curriculum. The PRME initiative is led in the Business School by Dr. Rajul Singh and Laura Matheson from the Sustainable Business Management program. At this same time Gary Hallam, Vice President of International, Executive Dean of The School of Business & Culinary Arts, has a dream for Open Educational Resources (OER) to be integrated into the Business School programs. Kim Carter, Open Educational Resource Projects Consultant, advocates for OER and supports others in their pursuit for OER development. Dr. Michelle Grimes, Dean of the Business School and OER advocate, suggests that all these initiatives come together and the product of Dr. Grimes’ vision is this OER Business Case Study Collection. This collection will be a renewable resource with regular additional case studies added for years to come.

Thanks and Gratitude

Thanks to the leadership team in The Business School at Conestoga College ITAL, Gary Hallam, Vice President of International, Executive Dean of The School of Business & Culinary Arts, and Dr. Michelle Grimes, Dean of The Business School, for their ongoing support of innovative initiatives in The Business School that led to this Collection of Case Studies OER.

Thanks to Dr. Jane Gravill for advocacy and support for case study research, peer review publishing, and mentoring others in their development of case study writing skills.

Thanks to Kim Carter for mentorship, support, and guidance to publish this collection as OER.

Thanks to Holly Ashbourne, E-Learning Liaison at Conestoga College, Library Services for support with accessibility, copy editing, and mentoring other through the Pressbooks publishing platform.

Thanks to Era Ferizi, OER Project Support Co-Op student Fall 2021,  for providing the first line of copy edit and accessibility checks.

Case Study #1, The Race in the Cannabis Screening Device Industry: Will Guard-Ex Be a Winner?

We wish to thank the Guard-Ex team for sharing the story of their exceptional journey with us and allowing us to share it with others. We wish to thank the Journal of Applied Business and Economics for granting us permission to share this published case in a sustainable format with others. We are grateful for the opportunity to make this amazing success story available to all, including students and faculty. We wish to thank Dr. Jane Gravill for capturing this case in such an exciting way and for producing and upon request making available the teaching resources to approved faculty members.