Research

PhD candidate examines enacting values as a pathway to success for Indigenous entrepreneurs

Aug 12, 2024

Indigenous entrepreneurs often experience colonial dissonance—tension that arises from operating their business in a western marketplace based on competitive and capitalist values that are out of sync with their own as Indigenous Peoples. SFU Beedie PhD candidate and Indigenous (Michif) scholar, Jordyn Hrenyk, conducted research to better understand the role of values in Indigenous entrepreneurship, by engaging 40 Indigenous beadwork entrepreneurs from Nations across colonial states of Canada and the U.S. The business of beading […]

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Clean-tech membrane wins SFU science and tech venture pitch competition

Oct 13, 2016

A portable DUI-testing headset, a revolutionary clean tech membrane, and a home diagnostic for chemotherapy patients were just some of the pioneering ventures pitched to a panel of guest judges at SFU’s Invention to Innovation Venture Pitch competition.

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Prestigious doctoral scholarship benefits PhD students Stefanie Beninger and Karen Robson

Jun 15, 2015

As a leading research-focused school, the Beedie School of Business has a renowned PhD program. The program is so strong in fact, that it can currently boast two PhD students who are the recipients of a prestigious doctoral scholarship awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

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Knowledge problem? Go with the crowd

Dec 13, 2013

By John Prpic and Prashant Shukla, PhD students at the Beedie School of Business. Information technology applications are giving people more say in processes ranging from product development to government policy-making. As Metro Vancouver’s municipal bureaucrats and politicians wrestle over transportation priorities in the Lower Mainland, it’s clear that future projects – given their growing scope and cost – will require even greater consultation and public input than in years past. New bike lanes, bridges, […]

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Beedie open innovation research ranked tops on SSRN

Jun 11, 2013

Research from two Beedie School of Business PhD students has become a top paper on the subject of open innovation for 2013, with almost 500 downloads on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), a leading repository of business academic papers. The paper, “The Theory of Crowd Capital”, was authored by Beedie PhD students Prashant Shukla and John Prpić, and examines the increasing number of organizations using IT to engage dispersed populations of individuals for knowledge […]

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