Research
Minimizing IT Project Risk: Skill Archetypes of Successful IT Project Managers
Mar 27, 2008
May 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 »More...
Does Strong Governance Mean Good Governance?
Mar 27, 2008
The 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 »More...
Are Firms with Bad Strategies More Prone to Accounting Scandals?
Mar 16, 2008
Enron, 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.More...
CORPORATE SOCIAL PERFORMANCE IN EMERGING MARKETS: EXTRINSIC VERSUS INTRINSIC DRIVERS
Mar 11, 2008
March 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 »More...
McMaster World Congress
Jan 16, 2008
January 16 – 18, 2008 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada This prestigious 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.caMore...
Managing for the Long Run
Nov 14, 2007
In 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 »More...
Multilevel Pressures on Firms to Engage in Social Change
Aug 15, 2007
Since 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 »More...
Faculty Kudos
Jul 1, 2007
SFU’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:More...
SFU Business Researchers Score
Jul 1, 2007
SFU 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.More...
R&D, EXPORT ORIENTATION AND GROWTH OF NEWLY LISTED FIRMS FIRMS: EUROPEAN EVIDENCE
Jun 14, 2007
June 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 »More...