Norma Rantisi, Concordia University

Research

work integration social enterprises precarious work neoliberalism labour market inequalities

Latest funding

'On the move': The Shifting Spatio-Temporalities and Logics of Flexibility for Platform Parcel Delivery Workers in Toronto and Montreal
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$108,974
In and against the neoliberal state: the precarious siting of work integration social enterprises - WISEs - as counter-movement in Ontario and Quebec
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$132,798
Geographies of markets
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$24,726

All 6 grants and awards

'On the move': The Shifting Spatio-Temporalities and Logics of Flexibility for Platform Parcel Delivery Workers in Toronto and Montreal

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Leslie, Deborah A.

$108,974

In and against the neoliberal state: the precarious siting of work integration social enterprises - WISEs - as counter-movement in Ontario and Quebec

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Rantisi, Norma M.

Keywords: work integration; social enterprises; precarious work; neoliberalism; labour market inequalities

$132,798

Geographies of markets

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Peck, Jamie A.

Keywords: markets; marketization; neoliberalism; economic geography; socioeconomics; Karl Polanyi

$24,726

Place-based dimensions of creativity: the case of the Cirque du Soleil

Co-investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Leslie, Deborah A.

Keywords: creativity; urban-economic development; cultural industries; circus

$87,937

Can industrial clusters learn from without: the global and local sources of innovation in the Montreal fur industry

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Rantisi, Norma M.

Keywords: regional innovation system; global commodity chain; economic development; industrial restructuring

$57,483

Social dynamics of economic performance: innovation and creativity in city-regions

Co-investigatorSSHRC2005Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program

Principal investigators: Wolfe, David A.

Keywords: innovations; creativity; city-regions; learning; associative governance; social diversity; social inclusion

$2,500,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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