Teaching (recent courses)

• SOSC 4043 6.0 Corporate Governance and Business Law in Comparative Perspective

• SOSC 2330 6.0 Economics of Law, Policy and Organization

• SOSC 2340 6.0 Foundations of Business and Society
  

Research and Scholarship (selected writings)

Books

• Birch, K.,Wellen, R., Hossein, C, Peacock, M., Salazar, A. McMurtry, J, Scott, S. (2017) Business and Society: A Critical Introduction, London: Zed Books.
  
• R. Wellen. Dilemmas in Liberal Democratic Thought since Max Weber. (1996) New York: Peter Lang.
  

Edited Volumes

• D. Reed and R. Wellen. Social Science @ 50: A Half-Century of Critical Interdiciplinary Teaching and Research at York University. (2013) Toronto: Department of Social Science, York University.

• P. Axelrod, R.Trilokekar, T. Shanahan and R. Wellen (eds.). Making Policy in Turbulent Times: Challenges and Prospects for Higher Education. (2013)  Montreal: McGill Queen’s University Press
  

• Special Issue of the Journal of Academic Ethics (2004) (with Darryl Reed) entitled “Universities and Corporate Responsibility,” v. 4, n. 1.
  

Journal Articles

• R. Wellen. (2013) “Open Access, Megajournals and MOOCs: On the Political Economy of Academic Unbundling.” SAGE Open. 3(4).

• R. Wellen, P. Axelrod, R. Desai-Trilokekar, T. Shanahan. (2012)  "The Making of a Policy Regime: Canada's Student Finance System since 1994." Canadian Journal of Higher Education
  

• P. Axelrod, R. Desai-Trilokekar, T. Shanahan, R. Wellen. (2011) "People, Processes and Policy-Making in Canadian Postsecondary Education: 1990-2000 (abstract)." Higher Education Policy 24 (2).

• R. Wellen. (2005) “The University Student in a Reflexive Society: The Problem of the Student Consumer.” in   Higher Education Perspectives Vol. 2, No. 1
  

• R. Wellen. (2004). The Tuition Dilemma and the Politics of Mass Higher Education,”  The Canadian Journal of Higher Education 34 (1). pp. 47-81.

• R. Wellen. (2004). “Taking on Commercial Scholarly Journals: Reflections on the Open Access Movement,” Journal of Academic Ethics 2 (1). pp. 101-118.

• R. Wellen. (2001). “The Politics of Intellectual Integrity,” Max Weber Studies 2.1, pp. 81-101.

Book Chapters

• Theresa Shanahan, Paul Axelrod, Roopa Desai-Trilokekar and Richard Wellen. (2016) "Policy-making in higher education: Is a 'theory of everything' possible?" Researching Higher Education: International Perspectives on Theory, Policy and Practice. J.M. Case and J. Huisman (eds.). Routledge
• R. Trilokekar, T. Shanahan, P. Axelrod and R. Wellen.  Making Postsecondary Education Policy: Toward a Conceptual Framework . in Making Policy in Turbulent Times: Challenges and Prospects for Higher Education. (2013)  Paul Axelrod, Roopa Desai Trilokekar, Theresa Shanahan and Richard Wellen (eds.). Montreal: McGill Queen’s University Press

• P. Axelrod, T. Shanahan, R. Wellen and R. Desai-Trilokekar,.(2012) The Politics of Policy-Making in Postsecondary Education in Cnada and the province of Ontario: Implications for Governance, in H.G Scheutze, W. Bruneau and G. Grosjean, University Governance and Reform: Policy, Fads, and Experience in International Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan.
  

Other writings (reviews and reports)

• R. Wellen. "MOOCs and Academic Outsourcing." (2013) 21st Century Scholar. Pullias Center of Higher Education. University of Southern California.

• R. Wellen. "Participants in 2013 Worldviews Conference Debate MOOCs and Higher Education 'Disruption'." (2013) Report to York University Faculty Association (YUFA)

• R. Wellen. "Chronicles of Faculty Idealism, Disenchantment and Resistance"-  Academic Matters: OCUFA's Journal of Higher Education, Review Essays. 2011[Review of Academic Callings, Janice Newson and Claire Polster, eds.]

• R. Wellen. "Grappling with Academic Capitalism in Canadian Universities-  Academic Matters: OCUFA's Journal of Higher Education, Review Essays. 2009 [Review of The Exchange University, Adrienne S. Chan and Donald Fisher, eds.]

• R. Wellen. “Open Access Scholarly Publishing and the Problem of Networks and Intermediaries in the Academic Commons.”– 5^th Frankfurt ScientificSymposium (entitled: Is there any Progress in Alternative Publishing? Problems of the Scholarly Information Economy). Frankfurt,Germany, October 2005.

• R. Wellen. “Framing the Tuition Question Differently” – OCUFA Conference: Ensuring Quality and Affordability in Ontario Universities: The Path Best Taken, January 21, 2005

Last updated: November 6, 2013