Beedie School of Business News

How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of March 27, 2009 Keep reading…

Date: May 19th, 2009, 5pm
Location: Room 1200, Segal Graduate School of Business, SFU, 500 Granville Street Keep reading…

The 2008 award has been given to Dr. David C. Thomas, Professor of International Management, for his book Cross-Cultural Management: Essential Concepts, 2nd Edition. This continues Dr. Thomas’ work on cultural intelligence in the areas of international business and management. Keep reading…

Associate Professor Gervase Bushe has recently received project funding through SSHRC’s Research Development Initiatives (RDI), which supports ground-breaking high-risk research initiatives. This is the first time that a member of our faculty has applied for and received funding through this program. The specific objectives of the RDI are to help researchers: Keep reading…

Two third-year commerce students from Simon Fraser University, Andy Leung and Raymond Zhang, took first place in the 2nd Annual Western CA (Chartered Accountant) Case Competition, held March 6 and 7 in Calgary, Alberta. Keep reading…

Assistant Professor Andrew von Nordenflycht‘s article co-authored with Greg J. Bamber, Jody Hoffer Gittell, and Thomas A. Kochan titled “Contrasting Employment Relations Strategies in European Airlines” is forthcoming in the Journal of Industrial Relations. Keep reading…

My research interest in the how firms address social issues led me recently to engaged in a research project to investigate the relationship between the level of firms’ acknowledgment of outside entities– broadly referred to as stakeholders, and including various groups such as shareholders, employees, customers, communities, NGOs, governments – and firms’ likelihood of long-term survival. Keep reading…

In the strategy literature, corporate governance is an “important factor affecting the firm’s performance and long-term survival” (Filatotchev, Toms & Wright, 2006: 257). Research on board size and independence – posited to help firms reduce managers’ self-interested behavior, and manage transaction costs and resource dependencies (Boone et al., 2007; Filatotchev et al., 2006; Lynall, Golden & Hillman, 2003) – has focused on the showing that positive effect of these variable on firm performance (Forbes & Milliken, 1999; Huse, 2000; Johnson, Daily & Ellstrand, 1996). Keep reading…

I am a religious follower of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. His succinct and insightful summaries of important topics enable ordinary people like me to get at issues which seem otherwise purposely complicated to keep us in the dark. In watching the recent media-created “feud” between Jon Stewart and CNBC’s Jim Cramer I was able to articulate my frustration with the stock market in the current financial crisis. Keep reading…

An SFU Business undergraduate team is among 16 finalists in L’Oréal EStrat, the world’s biggest online business simulation competition. Keep reading…