Award-Winning Research

Research Centres + Groups

Research at SFU Beedie School of Business reflects our commitment to collaborative partnerships with the academic and business communities. Our faculty’s research contributes to knowledge creation in the areas of innovation, sustainability, and global awareness.

Research Centres

Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability

The Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability provides innovative, rigorous, and practically relevant research on corporate governance and corporate sustainability. The Centre helps companies to embed sustainability into their operations and to shift their governance structures to identify opportunities to better their business through environmental and social investments.

Centre for Global Workforce Strategy

The Centre for Global Workforce Strategy carries out multidisciplinary research on issues surrounding effective workforce management strategies on a global scale. The competition for skilled people is intense, and new attitudes toward work and careers present additional challenges about work-life balance, all which further complicate the strategic management of today’s workforce.

Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies

The Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies – a joint venture of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and Simon Fraser University – was named to recognize Jack Austin’s exceptional contribution to Canada-Asia relations. The goal of the Centre is to carry out research, outreach and training activities on business issues that are relevant to Canada’s interests in the Asia Pacific region.

RESEARCH GROUPS

GLOBE Project

The GLOBE Project is a world-renowned, large-scale international research project which focuses on societal culture and leadership and is conducted by over 200 researchers from 62 countries.

Charles Chang Institute for Entrepreneurship

The Charles Chang Institute for Entrepreneurship is the interdisciplinary home and academic hub for entrepreneurship and innovation at Simon Fraser University within the Beedie School of Business and in partnership with all SFU Faculties.

Radius

RADIUS is a social innovation hub based out of SFU Beedie School of Business and is located at the Charles Chang Innovation Centre in Vancouver. RADIUS builds programs to collaboratively develop, test, and accelerate innovative responses to tough social problems. Drawing on this leading-edge work, RADIUS also offers training, events and educational opportunities to build collective capacity to respond to the challenges of our time.