Research
Redefining Profitability highlights research and analysis from SFU Business
May 13, 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 management issues – from banks in crisis, to Canada’s capital markets, to the relationship between profitability and the triple more »More...
SFU Business professor Tom Lawrence to receive USC’s Greif Research Impact Award
Apr 21, 2010
Tom Lawrence, associate professor in management and organization studies and the Weyerhaeuser Professor of Change Management at SFU Business, is the 2010 recipient of the Greif Research Impact Award. The Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California has selected Lawrence’s 2004 Academy of Management Journal article, entitled “Institutional entrepreneurship in emerging fields: HIV/AIDS treatment advocacy in Canada,” in recognition of its scholarly impact. Launched in 2007, the annual award recognizes an more »More...
Leyland Pitt and Michael Parent for the Financial Post: Ambush marketing hurt Adidas brand
Apr 20, 2010
When Wayne Gretzky lit the Olympic torch at this year’s Winter Games in Vancouver, organizers didn’t take any fashion chances. Canada’s hockey hero was adorned in gear from an Olympics official sponsor, the Hudson’s Bay Company. Organizers had reason to be diligent with the clothing showcased at the torch lighting — arguably the most impactful and symbolic moment of the Games. Because less than two years earlier, a Summer Olympics sponsor — Adidas — was more »More...
Rekha Krishnan Receives the 2009 Verity Award for “Overall Outstanding Paper in Management”
Apr 12, 2010
Rekha Krishnan, Assistant Professor of International Business at SFU Business, has been selected to receive the 2009 Verity Award for excellence in research in the management field. Her award-winning paper, co-authored with Alex Eapen, is entitled “Conform or Rebel: When Does Keeping to the Rules Enhance Firm Performance?” It was published in the June 2009 issue of Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences (CJAS). The Verity International Award for Overall Outstanding Paper in Management is given more »More...
SFU, UBC and UNBC Profs Honoured for Research-Based Community Contributions
Apr 8, 2010
An SFU professor who has devoted his career to helping others deal with thorny ethical dilemmas, a UBC professor who developed an innovative therapy to assist people with schizophrenia, and a UNBC professor who is a tireless educator, researcher, and advocate for improving health outcomes of Aboriginal peoples receive this year’s CUFA BC Distinguished Academics Awards. SFU’s Professor Mark N. Wexler received the Paz Buttedahl Career Achievement Award for his 30 years of applying his more »More...
SFU Beginnings, by Dennis Culver
Mar 5, 2010
The following article was written by SFU Business alumnus and supporter Dennis Culver, who passed away on February 10, 2010. We republish it here because it speaks to his love of writing and detail, and his special relationship with SFU Business. It also tells a unique and worthwhile story about Canada’s first EMBA program. — SFU Beginnings by Dennis Culver In 1967, Eleanor and I made our second trans-continental journey from our North Vancouver residence more »More...
Olympic sponsors risk loss to ambush marketers: SFU Business study
Feb 9, 2010
On the eve of Vancouver’s Winter Olympic Games, a new study from Simon Fraser University shows that the persistent effectiveness of ambush marketers leaves Olympic sponsors and those of other major sporting events particularly vulnerable – costing them not only their financial investment, but ultimately their customers. Professors Leyland Pitt and Michael Parent from SFU’s Segal Graduate School of Business examined data from the 2008 “Li Ning affair”, which saw Olympic sponsor Adidas ambushed by more »More...
SFU Business garners double exposure in Academy of Management Review
Feb 8, 2010
New research focused on human resources and organizational behaviour from SFU Business has been recognized with publication in the Academy of Management Review, one of the most prestigious journals in the management field. The occasion is significant in that two SFU Business professors – associate professor Mila Lazarova and assistant professor Andrew Von Nordenflycht, who are part of a vibrant cohort of new scholars – have published separate articles in the journal’s January edition. Lazarova more »More...
The Social Media Release as a Corporate Communications Tools for Bloggers
Jan 13, 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 Berthon (Bentley University), Peter Steyn (Lulea University of Technology), and Arthur Money (Leeds University consider one such new tool, more »More...
LSG’s Teck Business Education Program Wins Recognition for Learning Excellence
Dec 16, 2009
Canadian Council on Learning’s (CCL) Sharing the Flame project highlights some of Canada’s most promising practices in learning—giving these initiatives the visibility they deserve and helping others to learn from their success. The newest 2008 Sharing the Flame recognizes effective practices in four key areas: aboriginal learning, adult learning, health-related learning, work and learning. In the area of Work and Learning, which recognizes workplace learning programs that promote lifelong learning, facilitate career development and upgrade more »More...