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Accelerating Social Innovation highlights faculty research and industry impact from SFU Business
June 7th, 2010
The Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University has produced Accelerating Social Innovation, an externally-focused booklet that provides research and analysis from SFU Business researchers – in the realm of sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and business ethics.
Produced as part of SFU Business’ sponsorship of the Business in Vancouver Colour Series (Green edition: Sustainability), [...]
Redefining Profitability highlights research and analysis from SFU Business
May 13th, 2010
The Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University has produced Redefining Profitability, an externally-focused booklet that provides research and industry impact highlights from SFU Business researchers.
Produced as part of SFU Business’ sponsorship of the Business in Vancouver Colour Series (Black edition: Profitablity), Redefining Profitability offers insights into a number of globally relevant finance and [...]
The Social Media Release as a Corporate Communications Tools for Bloggers
January 13th, 2010
Over the past 20 years organizations have been exposed to more new communications tools and technologies than they have in the previous half-century. This has challenged both managers and scholars to keep abreast of these changes, and to better understand their relevance to effective corporate communications.
SFU’s Leyland Pitt and Michael Parent, working with colleagues Pierre [...]
Make It Warm and Sociable and It Will Sell
April 7th, 2009
Why do some Web sites appeal more to the online consumer than others? Do women respond differently to e-commerce Web sites and online shopping than men?
With a spotlight on gender differences and e-commerce, we already know men and women process information differently. For instance, men are selective processors, relying on highly available and salient cues.
The Measure of Responsibility
March 3rd, 2009
by John Peloza
Corporate social responsibility has become commonplace in business plans. Studies regularly report that consumers would switch to support a socially responsible business over one that is not responsible.
Lawyers Incorporated?
January 29th, 2009
by Andrew von Nordenflycht
In 2007, Australia’s Slater & Gordon became the world’s first publicly-traded law firm. This begs the question of why no law firms have been public corporations before now — as well as whether this development is a good thing.
Don’t Follow the Herd
December 16th, 2008
by Peter Tingling
Making the right decisions has long been the hallmark of superior performance — and never more important than now. Indeed, good decision making is as equally relevant to developing a solution for the current economic crisis as it is to the NHL draft.
Managers Want Tribes, Not Teams
November 28th, 2008
by Gervase R. Bushe
In the past 20 years “teamwork” has become so cliché in organizations that every group is now a “team.”
Consultants and managers are constantly looking for improved “teamwork.” I sometimes get called in to work with senior “management teams” after previous attempts have failed to create any more teamwork.
Layoffs: Deciding Who Stays and Who Goes
November 26th, 2008
by Peter Tingling
The litany of corporate downsizing announcements reflects the first response for many managers to negative conditions — batten down the hatches and cut staff in large numbers.
Do the Math on Social Responsibility
November 19th, 2008
by John Peloza
CSR advocates should not shy away from financial metrics
Corporate social responsibilities (CSR) is divided into two camps. One is typified by people with expertise in environmental management, community relations or perhaps the non-profit sector.
Biculturalism Pays Big Dividends
November 11th, 2008
by David C. Thomas
Management research has typically assumed that individuals have only one cultural profile
Ali is an immigrant from Iran who works at a Vancouver bank. Tarvinder, who grew up in Punjab, is a lab technician in a Toronto medical lab. And Jim, whose parents emigrated from Hong Kong, is a middle manager for a [...]
Stretching The Luxury Brand
October 28th, 2008
by Leyland Pitt And Michael Parent
Why do so many luxury brand extensions fail?
Chateau Margaux, the famous Bordeaux first growth, is up there with the very best.
Want to Be “CEO of Me? New Book Tells How
April 7th, 2008
Feeling victimized by your over-committed work and family schedules? SFU Business associate professor Brenda Lautsch has a remedy.