 | EQUISMentoring Case Competitions – Royal Roads 2008Apr 24, 2009I believe mentoring in case competitions is one of the best ways for faculty to engage students and make memorable experiences during their academic careers. I have made many lasting friendships which continue years after the competitions are over and the students have left SFU. Time and time again, I hear from students that case competitions are the one chance for them to take all the stuff they get in class and apply it in more » Read More... |
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| EQUISTD Canada Trust Award Winners for 2008Apr 24, 2009Scott Powell and Stephen Spector have won this year’s TD Canada Trust distinguished teaching awards, given annually to two SFU Business instructors. The awards, worth $3000, are based on teaching-related activities such as course development and preparation of teaching materials and on nominees’ statements and student comments. Fun and games don’t normally spring to mind when considering SFU’s executive MBA program. But a playful approach to learning is big part of what earned adjunct program more » Read More... |
| EQUISSFU Business Teaching Honour Roll 2007-08Apr 24, 2009Congratulations for outstanding teaching performance. The Teaching Honour Roll is based on evaluation ratings distributed over different class size categories within three program level groups (pre-business, undergraduate and graduate). Those recognized as part of the 2007/2008 Teaching Honour Roll are in the top tier of instructors in the Faculty of Business Administration. Read More... |
 | EQUIS“Provides an authoritative guide to evidence-based social policy by some of the leading scholars in the field. For anyone who wants to know what works, what’s worthwhile, and what research would have the greatest payoff, this book has benefits far exceeding the cost.”—Philip Cook, ITT/Sanford Professor of Public Policy, Duke University Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – April 17Apr 20, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending April 17, 2009. Read More... |
 | EQUISCongratulations to six SFU Business faculty members, four of whom are new scholars, in their successful Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant applications. These are results for the Fall 2008 competition which funds three-year research projects and will be awarded in the Spring of 2009. Read More... |
| EQUISSFU Business assistant professor Stephanie Bertels has been named as a co-investigator in an 18-month study on regulatory compliance. As part of an experiment in creative sentencing, Suncor is funding an investigation into the antecedents of regulatory compliance and the creative sentencing process. The research study will housed at the International Resource Industries and Sustainability Centre (IRIS) at the University of Calgary and directed by Prof. Frances Bowen. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – April 9Apr 14, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending April 9, 2009 Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – April 3Apr 14, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending April 3, 2009. Read More... |
| EQUISDavid Hannah Paper on Confidentiality Selected for 2009 Academy of Management Best Paper ProceedingsApr 14, 2009Dr. David Hannah and PhD candidate Kirsten Pankratz have co-authored a paper that will be presented at the 2009 Academy of Management Meeting in Chicago, IL. The paper “Why Follow the Rules? An Empirical Examination of Employee Responses to Confidential Information Rules” has also been selected for publication in the Best Paper Proceedings for the 2009 meeting. Read More... |
| EQUISThe G20 and Global Approaches to the Regulation of Finance: Zeitgeist for the Times or Just Apparition of the MomentApr 09, 2009By Robert Adamson, Executive Director, CIBC Centre for Corporate Governance and Risk Management, Segal Graduate Business School, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver CANADA April 1, 2009 The winds of change are blowing in London as the G20 prepares to meet. Unfortunately no one knows when the winds will stop and who will be swept away. There are many views, however, on how and where to take cover. Many countries, particularly the European countries, are agitating for more » Read More... |
| EQUISMake It Warm and Sociable and It Will SellApr 07, 2009Why 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. Read More... |
| EQUISG20, NATO summit – Issues, Experts & IdeasApr 06, 2009Reviving the global economy World leaders meeting in London have agreed to inject $1 trillion into the world economy in an attempt to curb the global financial crisis. SFU business professor Robert Adamson specializes in corporate governance and risk management and has just returned from London. Read More... |
| EQUISRebecca Walberg, Financial Post Published: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Originally a qualification possessed by relatively few, the MBA has increasingly become a prerequisite for executive jobs. Despite the trend toward gender equity in many fields, the most senior corporate jobs in Canada are still disproportionately male. Women hold only 13% of board-level positions in FP 500 companies, while 40% of these businesses have no women on their boards. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – March 27Mar 27, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of March 27, 2009 Read More... |
| EQUISSFU Business Professor David C. Thomas Awarded Academy of HR Development Book of the Year 2008Mar 24, 2009The 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. Read More... |
| EQUISGervase Bushe Project on Family Businesses Awarded SSHRC Research Development Initiative FundingMar 19, 2009Associate 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: Read More... |
| EQUISAssistant 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. Read More... |
| EQUISMy 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. Read More... |
| EQUISIn 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 & more » Read More... |
| EQUISJon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer – Exposing the role of the stock tip in the current financial crisisMar 18, 2009I 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. Read More... |
| EQUIS“And you thought the passengers were mad. Airline employees are fed up, too-with pay cuts, increased workloads and management’s miserly ways, which leave workers to explain to often-enraged passengers why flying has become such a miserable experience.”–The New York Times, December 22, 2007 Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – March 5Mar 06, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of March 5, 2009 Read More... |
| EQUISThe Measure of ResponsibilityMar 03, 2009by 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. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – Feb. 26Feb 27, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of February 26, 2009 Read More... |
| EQUISPeter Klein Recognized for Outstanding Contribution as a Reviewer for Canadian Journal of Administrative SciencesFeb 26, 2009Professor of Finance, Peter Klein has been named as a reviewer that has gone above and beyond that which is expected of him by providing outstanding comments to authors of several manuscripts that he has reviewed for the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences (CJAS). Read More... |
| EQUISMichael Parent and Blaize Reich have had a paper accepted by the California Management Review. Read More... |
| AccountingSSHRC Small (Fall 2008 competition) ResultsFeb 24, 2009The results from the SSHRC Small Fall 2008 competition have been announced. Read More... |
| EQUISAssistant Professor John Peloza’s paper co-authored with Katherine White titled “Self-Benefit Versus Other-Benefit Marketing Appeals: Their Effectiveness in Generating Charitable Support” was recently accepted by the Journal of Marketing. Read More... |
| EQUISAssistant Professor Jing Li’s article titled, “Control, Collaboration, and Productivity in International Joint Ventures: Theory and Evidence” was recently accepted by the Strategic Management Journal. Read More... |
| EQUISAssociate Professor Stephanie Bertels’ article titled, “Leaders and Laggards: The Influence of Competing Logics on Corporate Environmental Action” was recently accepted by the Journal of Business Ethics. Read More... |
| EQUISDianne Cyr’s Paper Accepted by MIS QuarterlyFeb 16, 2009Associate Professor, Dianne Cyr, recently had her paper, “Exploring Human Images in Website Design Across Cultures: A Multi-Method Appraoch” accepted by MIS Quarterly after undergoing a two year review. Read More... |
| EQUISIan McCarthy Awarded Fulbright New Century ScholarFeb 12, 2009SFU Business is proud to announce Dr. Ian McCarthy as a Fulbright New Century Scholar (NCS) for the May 2009 to April 2010 term. Read More... |
| EQUISBusiness Professors Win 2008 Book of the Year AwardFeb 04, 2009Pearson Education, Canada’s largest educational publisher, has selected a textbook by SFU Business professors Andrew Gemino and Peter Tingling as the 2008 Canadian Book of the Year. Read More... |
| EQUISDianne Cyr Awarded Best Paper Award at ICIS 2008Feb 04, 2009Associate Professor Dianne Cyr won a Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) held December 14-17, 2008 in Paris. Read More... |
| EQUISLawyers Incorporated?Jan 29, 2009by 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. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – Jan. 23Jan 23, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of January 23, 2009 Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business Professors in the NewsJan 15, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of January 16, 2009 Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business Professors in the NewsDec 24, 2008How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of December 24, 2008 Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business Professors in the NewsDec 19, 2008How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of December 19, 2008 Read More... |
| EQUISTeaching Honour Roll RecipientsDec 18, 2008Dear Faculty members, As Chair of the Teaching Effectiveness Committee for the FBA, I’d like to offer my congratulations to the 2007/2008 members of the FBA Teaching Honour Roll, which recognizes instructors with evaluations in the top 10% of the Faculty. Read More... |
| EQUISDon’t Follow the HerdDec 16, 2008by 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. Read More... |
| EQUISMark Wexler and Robert Adamson Quoted in The Star.com About David Radler’s Release After 10 MonthsDec 16, 2008Ex-Hollinger executive served about a third of 29-month sentence Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business Professors in the NewsDec 12, 2008How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of December 12, 2008 Read More... |
| EQUISMaking Starbucks Recession ProofDec 09, 2008By Steven Kates I have an abiding love for the Starbucks brand. Somehow, my day does not seem right unless I start it off with a Venti coffee (half dark roast, half decaf )and spend a few hours sitting in a comfortable chair, doing my reading, preparation and grading for the classes I teach in buyer behaviour and services marketing. Read More... |
| EQUISManagers Want Tribes, Not TeamsNov 28, 2008by 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. Read More... |
| EQUISLayoffs: Deciding Who Stays and Who GoesNov 26, 2008by 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. Read More... |
| EQUISStretching Luxury BrandsNov 20, 2008By Michael Parent and Leyland Pitt Chateau Margaux, the famous Bordeaux first growth, is up there with the very best. Live like a Saint and die, said William Styron in the novel Sophie’s Choice, and “that must be what they make you to drink [sic] in paradise.” Read More... |
| EQUISDr. Reich’s paper, “Managing Knowledge and Learning in IT projects – A Conceptual Framework and Guidelines for Practice”, recognizes that highly uncertain projects require an approach that focuses on learning and effectively creates, integrates and transfers knowledge to develop unique solutions. Read More... |
| EQUISDo the Math on Social ResponsibilityNov 19, 2008by 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. Read More... |