Research

Lifting the resource curse: Transparency of multinational enterprises

Sep 12, 2014

Countries blessed with abundant petroleum resources are often burdened by weak government and economic performance – a phenomenon known as the resource curse – and experts see the need for greater transparency. Recent regulatory initiatives call for increased multinational enterprise (MNE) transparency. Yet about 75 per cent of the world’s oil reserves are controlled by state-owned enterprises (SOEs), many of which are not subject to the transparency requirements that come with being listed on a […]

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Lost in translation: Language and reverse knowledge transfer in multinational corporations

Sep 12, 2014

One of the pleasures of travel is listening to the sound of exotic languages in foreign places. But for a multinational corporation (MNC) setting up shop overseas, linguistic differences can bring a host of problems that have the potential to seriously impact performance.

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Understanding Sovereign Wealth Funds Essential, researchers say

Sep 12, 2014

Consider the economic potential – and political power – that $5.5-trillion of the global economy can generate. It exists, quietly, and the western banking system can attest to it. During the 2008 financial crisis, the world’s faltering economy was recapitalized by $40-billion in less than four months.

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Increased profits from tax havens don’t nurture R&D in multinational enterprises

Sep 12, 2014

It’s an almost-unfathomable figure: US$21 trillion to US $32 trillion – nearly half of the globe’s annual GDP of $72 trillion – that is estimated by the Tax Justice Network to have been secretly squirrelled away by multinational enterprises (MNEs) in tax havens. That’s money that should, but isn’t, going into the tax coffers of nations like Canada.

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How tax policy and corruption impact businesses

Sep 12, 2014

Corruption impacts the business environment of a country with surprisingly varying outcomes, depending on the efficiency of the tax policy administration and regulatory environment, new research reveals.

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Affirmative Action elicits bias in pro equality Caucasians: study

Jul 25, 2014

New research from Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business indicates that bias towards the effects of Affirmative Action (AA) exists in not only people opposed to it, but also in those who strongly endorse equality.

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NBC News: Even One Woman on the Board Makes a Difference

Jul 22, 2014

The following article about Beedie School of Business professor Judy Zaichkowsy’s research was published by NBC News on July 21, 2014.

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Beedie Prof. Nilesh Saraf awarded prestigious research paper honour

Jul 21, 2014

A research paper by Beedie School of Business Associate Professor Nilesh Saraf has been recognized as one of the best and most highly cited research papers published in management journals in the last 15 years.

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The effect of counterparty credit risk on American options

Jul 14, 2014

New research from the Beedie School of Business suggests that long-established practice used by financial institutions for over two decades is in fact inaccurate – and could have major repercussions for the way banks value assets.

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Globe and Mail: Beedie study shows mixed-sex boards are better governed

Jul 3, 2014

The following article was published in the Globe and Mail on July 2, 2014.

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