 | EQUISIf recent events in the financial system are indications of inadequate corporate governance and risk management, do we know how and why the system failed? And perhaps most importantly, do we know what can be done to fix it? Read More... |
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 | EQUISWhat About Consumer Responsibility?Jul 03, 2008Along with the recent sales figures from the automotive makers, we hear lots about how consumers are choosing more fuel-efficient vehicles and abandoning the larger car, SUV and truck markets. Proponents of a corporate social responsibility point to Toyota surpassing GM in worldwide auto sales (and the imminent naming to the top spot in American auto sales) as a testament to the “green” strategies of the firm. Isn’t Toyota such as wonderful friend of the more » Read More... |
| EQUISIn companies across Canada there are two camps when it comes to the social and environmental responsibilities of the firm. In the one camp there are zealots for sustainability. These individuals often advocate sustainability investments as essential to the firm’s long-term survival. They often have expertise in environmental management, community relations, with some even joining the organization from the nonprofit sector. Unfortunately, these advocates can be completely lacking in experience with financial management. Many students more » Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsThe BC Innovation Council has awarded 10 graduate business students from Simon Fraser University with BC MBA Access to Commercialization Scholarships (valued at up to $15,000). Read More... |
| EQUISFollowing a significant number of high profile takeovers of longstanding Canadian corporate personalities and growing concerns about ongoing ‘hollowing out’ of the Canadian economy, the government commissioned a panel to review its competition and foreign direct investment policies. The Competition Policy Review Panel has recently released its results. The Report and its recommendations focus on three areas: liberalizing foreign investment rules, streamlining the competition regulation regime, and promoting a globally competitive business environment.With this focus, more » Read More... |
| EQUISBlaize Horner Reich with “Best Paper of 2007”Jun 25, 2008Professor Blaize Reich’s paper in the Project Management Journal titled “Managing knowledge and Learning in IT projects: a conceptual framework and guidelines for practice” has been selected as the best paper of 2007. Read More... |
 | EQUISOn 3 June 2008 General Motors announced that it would close four of its truck plants and move away from building SUVs. On 23 June it amended this to 7 plants. The move was said to be in order to adjust cost structures in line with GM’s energy-efficient competitors in Japan and, from a public relations perspective, looked responsive to mounting concerns over global warming. The market welcomed the news by briefly halting the share more » Read More... |
| EQUISThe Bell Tolls: And It’s UnanimousJun 20, 2008The Supreme Court of Canada released its decision today and sided with BCE, its shareholders and directors. In a unanimous decision (7-0), the Court overturned the decision of the Quebec Court of Appeal which had overturned the decision of the lower court and its approval of the BCE plan of arrangement for a leveraged buyout. Though the reasons for the decision will not come for a couple of weeks, the BCE shareholders are happy, the more » Read More... |
| EQUISGovernance and Risk Management in Global Capital Markets: A New Problem or A Very Old One that Won’t Go Away?Jun 13, 2008As the capital markets stumble, burdened by their own apparent excessive risk appetite, there are many questions to ask. The first and most obvious question is how did this happen. Does the fault lie with inadequate regulation of the banking industry, inadequate internal monitoring and risk modeling among those who create and market risky financial instruments, the inherent flaws and risks in capitalism where high levels of risk are acceptable in the quest for high more » Read More... |
| EQUIS2007 Douglas McGregor AwardMay 31, 2008A paper by Gervase Bushe (and co-author Graeme Coetzer) has been selected as the 2007 Douglas McGregor Award winner in the Journal of Applied Behavior Science. Read More... |
| EQUISMay 20, 2008 Faculty and Doctoral Seminal Dr Rosa Chun, Manchester Business School Rosa Chun is Professor of Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility at Manchester Business School in England. There, she founded the MSc in Corporate Communications and Reputation Management. She has published extensively on the topics of virtue ethics and corporate reputation in leading journals including Harvard Business Review, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Ethics, and Corporate Reputation more » Read More... |
| EQUISIT governance is a complex beast. We take you through some of the legislation, standards and best practices By Danny Bradbury You run a bank and you are in a quandary. A new technology is emerging that will change the way customers interact with you; in the ’70s it may have been ATM cards, now perhaps it’s contactless payments, but in any case all the banks want to be first on the scene with this more » Read More... |
| EQUISBC HRMA Article by Rick ColbourneMay 09, 2008The British Columbia Human Resources Management Association featured an article titled “Strategies for Learning and Leading into the Future” by Rick Colbourne, Executive Director of the Learning Strategies Group. Read More... |
| EQUISCarolyn Egri has been invited by Premier Gordon Campbell to present in the Symposium on Sustainability and the Environment in the B.C.-Canada Pavilion in Beijing, May 25-28, 2008. Read More... |
| EQUISLow Cultural IQ Could Hijack Your CareerApr 07, 2008By Diane Luckow A new web-based tool for assessing an individual’s cultural competence could help corporations and government agencies predict whether or not an employee will be effective on an overseas assignment or a good leader or participant on a multicultural work team. Read More... |
| EQUISResearch ReportApr 07, 2008Presentation by the Director of Research, Dave Thomas, on the research accomplishments of faculty over the past year. Click here to download. Read More... |
| Management and Organizational StudiesYou Can’t Please EveryoneApr 07, 2008A new 24-country study examining how businesses manage their relationships with stakeholders is underway and the Canadian results are soon to be published. Read More... |
| EQUISResearch Culture Facilitates SuccessApr 07, 2008This year, SFU Business professors achieved a 75 per cent success rate in attracting funding for their research from the Social Sciences and Research Council (SSHRC). The comparable national success rate is 33 per cent. Read More... |
| EQUISNew Perspectives in Project ManagementApr 07, 2008Project managers who are wondering Does Size Really Matter? or Do Women Perform Better than Men? can find the answers at PMPerspectives.org – a new website featuring short, interesting articles about the latest research in project management. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsWant to Be “CEO of Me? New Book Tells HowApr 07, 2008Feeling victimized by your over-committed work and family schedules? SFU Business associate professor Brenda Lautsch has a remedy. Read More... |
| EQUISSFU Business Professors Win Ascendant Scholar AwardsApr 07, 2008David Hannah and Chris Zatzick, assistant professors of management and organization studies at SFU Business, are two of four recipients of the 2008 Ascendant Scholar awards from the Western Academy of Management, a regional division of the National Academy of Management. Read More... |
| EQUISCertification by CEOs and CFOs as to the accuracy of their firms’ financial statements is required by the Canadian Securities Administrator (CSA). As a result, the Risk Management and Governance (RMG) Board of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) has put together a series of guides to help CEOs and CFOs fulfill their responsibilities regarding the signing of certificates. Certification consists of two steps: disclosure controls, and internal controls over financial reporting. Such controls more » Read More... |
| EQUISMay 27, 2008 Faculty and Doctoral Seminal Dr Felix Tan, AUT University, New Zealand Felix Tan is Professor of Information Systems, Director of Research Management and Head of the University Research Office at AUT University, New Zealand. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Information Management. Dr Tan is internationally known for his work in the global IT field, focusing on the areas of electronic commerce, global information management, business-IT alignment, and more » Read More... |
| EQUISDoes Strong Governance Mean Good Governance?Mar 27, 2008The importance of corporate governance is accepted. It reduces conflicts between owners and the custodians of their money, management. It limits managers from using the firm to serve their own ends, and prevents controlling owners from unduly taking over the firm. Good governance implies better monitoring, which is understood to improve financial performance. After the recent spate of high-profile governance failures, these principles have driven an increase in compliance regulation through vehicles like Sarbanes-Oxley and more » Read More... |
| EQUISEnron, WorldCom, Parmalat, Tyco. Over the past five years these names have become synonymous with financial manipulation for the purposes of personal gain. The blame for the recent explosion of accounting scandals has been placed on moral decay in corporations; and a lack of oversight by boards, auditors, investment analysts, regulators, and the media. However, this analysis ignores the importance of the conditions which enabled these scandals to occur in the first place. Read More... |
 | EQUISOn March 12, 2008, the CIBC Centre for Corporate Governance and Risk Management, in collaboration with the Shareholders Association for Research and Education, hosted a breakfast for 150 at SFU’s Segal Graduate School of Business, to hear representatives from three organizations speak about the UN-initiated Principles of Responsible Investing (PRI). The speaker panel consisted of Donald McDonald, a trustee with British Telecom Pension Plan; David Russell, Co-head of Responsible Investing for the Universities Superannuation Scheme more » Read More... |
| EQUISMarch 11, 2008 Faculty and Doctoral Seminar Dr. Alan Muller, University of Amsterdam Business School SFU’s CIBC Centre for Corporate Governance and Risk Management was host to Alan Muller from the University of Amsterdam. Alan presented to SFU faculty members and post-graduate students the findings of research that he and Ans Kolk conducted on corporate social performance (CSP) among auto parts suppliers in Mexico. Their research looked at the drivers of CSP among 121 foreign-owned more » Read More... |
| EQUISAdam Cotterall Nominated as “Rising Star” by BC HRMAFeb 28, 2008Adam Cotterall, Associate Director at the Learning Strategies Group, was nominated as a finalist for the annual British Columbia Human Resources Management Association (BC HRMA) “Rising Star Award”. Please join us in congratulating Adam. More information Read More... |
| EQUISMcMaster World CongressJan 16, 2008January 16 – 18, 2008 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada This presitigious event focused on bringing academic researchers, business practitioners and management students together to discuss: Intellectual Capital & Innovation Corporate Governance Strategic Business Valuation Mission Driven Organization http://worldcongress.mcmaster.ca Read More... |
| EQUISXBRL International ConferenceDec 03, 2007December 3 – 6, 2007 Vancouver, Canada XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is an XML-based, royalty-free, open standard for business reporting. XBRL was developed by XBRL International, a not-for-profit consortium of over 400 leading companies and organisations around the world. Read More... |
| Corporate ConnectionsEIASM 4TH WORKSHOP ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCENov 15, 2007BRUSSELS, NOVEMBER 15-16, 2007 The first workshop, which took place November 4-5, 2004 in Brussels with participants from 21 countries dealt mainly with the challenges of corporate governance in the context of social, political and economic environments prevailing in different parts of the world. The second workshop took place November 24-25, 2005 with participants from 23 countries addressed international aspects of corporate governance. The third workshop with participants from 26 countries addressed recent developments in more » Read More... |
| EQUISManaging for the Long RunNov 14, 2007In November 2007, SFU’s CIBC Centre for Corporate Governance and CMA Centre for Change Management hosted Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller in public, faculty, and doctoral seminars on their recently published book, Managing for the Long Run. Danny and Isabelle presented the findings of their research into a distinct set of Fortune 1000 companies with revenues over $1 billion, that had been leaders, either nationally or internationally, for more than 20 years (the average more » Read More... |
| EQUISMANAGING FOR THE LONG RUNNov 02, 2007November 2, 2007 Faculty, Doctoral and Public Seminars Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller SFU’s CIBC Centre for Corporate Governance and CMA Centre for Change Management hosted Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller in public, faculty, and doctoral seminars on their recently published book, Managing for the Long Run. Danny and Isabelle presented the findings of their research into a distinct set of Fortune 1000 companies with revenues over $1 billion, that had been leaders, more » Read More... |
| EQUISSince academic research has broadly shown that CSR impacts positively on firm financial performance, attention has now turned to understanding why organizations engage in CSR. Aguilera and colleagues put forward that firms are pressured to fulfill societal goals broader than pure profit generation as a result of their being embedded in social and national systems. Hence, firms are exposed to internal and external pressures including regulation, business practices, and employee attitudes that push them to more » Read More... |
| EQUISFaculty KudosJul 01, 2007SFU’s new tagline “Thinking of the World” is reinforced by what the world thinks of our faculty. Here’s what some of them are up to: Read More... |
| EQUISSFU Business Researchers ScoreJul 01, 2007SFU Business researchers scored well in the 2007 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) competition, receiving funding for six out of eight grant requests, plus an Initiative for the New Economy (INE) grant. Read More... |
| EQUISJune 26 – 28, 2007 The Second International Conference was held at the Newman Vertical Campus of Baruch College in New York City. Some of the topic areas developed included: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND CORPORATE REPUTATION CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS, ISSUE ADVERTISING MANAGING FOR RESULTS BUSINESS ETHICS AND CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE – PEOPLE, PLANT, AND PROFIT CORPORATE GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM NGOS AS CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS CASE STUDIES – LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE FAITH-BASED VALUES AND ETHICAL more » Read More... |
| EQUISJune 14th, 2007 Doctoral Seminar Dr Igor Filatotchev from Cass Business School, City University, London Igor Filatotchev is currently a professor of International Strategic Management at Cass Business School, City University, London, having held various academic positions at King’s College, London; Bradford Univeristy of Management; Nottingham University Business School; and Birbeck college (University of London). Dr Filatotchev’s seminar on the strategic choices of newly listed European firms touched on the areas of Corporate Governance, Strategy, Organizational Theory more » Read More... |
| EQUISAN ORGANIZATIONAL APPROACH TO COMPARATIVE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: COSTS, CONTINGENCIES, AND COMPLEMENTARITIESJun 12, 2007June 12th, 2007 Dr Igor Filatotchev from Cass Business School, City University, London In this seminar, Dr Filatotchev developed an organizational approach to corporate governance. He discussed how most corporate governance research focuses on a universal link between corporate governance practices and performance outcomes, but neglects the important role played by organizational and environmental context. He proposed that by approaching corporate governance from an “open systems” perspective, the effectiveness of governance in diverse environments can be analyzed. more » Read More... |
| EQUISIN THE NEWSMar 30, 2007How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of March 30, 2007 Read More... |
| EQUISVISION. COMMITMENT. FOCUSMar 08, 2007March 8th, 2007 Dr Michael Raynor Deloitte’s Michael E. Raynor, author of The Strategy Paradox, gave key insights into why business strategies with the greatest possibility of success also have the greatest possibility of failure. Michael previously appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list after he co-wrote the award-winning Innovator’s Solution. To view the video of Michael’s talk, click here. Read More... |
| EQUISResearch KudosMar 01, 2007Professor Lindsay Meredith has won an Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence for his article “A diagrammatical template for business market demand estimation” which appeared in the Industrial Marketing Management May 2006 (Vol 35, No 4). Read More... |
| EQUISSFU Business researchers are breaking new ground on a wide range of topics from influence of trust in international strategic alliances to consumer demand for professional sports teams. Read More... |
| EQUISSFU Business research projects have garnered almost $500,000 in research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Read More... |
| EQUISCanadian directors of TSX-listed companies say they face a high risk of potential lawsuits from shareholders and institutional investors around issues related to financial accounting disclosure and fraud. Read More... |
| EQUISSeptember 26th, 2006 “The New Focus for Global Investors: Responsible Investment and Active Share Ownership”, Colin Melvin, Director of Corporate Governance for Hermes Pensions Management and CEO of Hermes Equity Ownership Inc. Announcement (PDF) | Presentation (Powerpoint) Read More... |
| EQUISThe report reviews analyst research of 22 global financial service firms and concludes that the mismanagement of environmental, social and governance issues can present a financial threat to company and investor value. The report argues that analysts are increasingly documenting and quantifying potential material impacts of ESG issues on profitability and equity pricing. The report highlights three key findings: 1) ESG issues are material as there is robust evidence that ESG issues affect shareholder value more » Read More... |
| EQUISWhen Does Trust Matter to Alliance Performance?Mar 01, 2006“In strategic alliances, trust can be a double-edged sword,” says SFU Business assistant professor Rekha Krishnan. “It can have both performance-enhancing potential and performance-hampering potential.” Read More... |
| EQUISNews Centres of ResearchNov 01, 2005The new CMA Centre for Strategic Change and Performance Management hosted a one-day workshop on process-based management. Read More... |