Research Focus 

A spotlight on research at the Alberta School of Business

Featured Research

Folio Mentions

• Noah Castelo (MBEL): Service bots turn off customers even when they work as well as humans, study shows
• Jennifer Jennings (SEM): New study counters ‘confidence gap’ stereotype for women entrepreneurs.
• Ilbin Lee (ABA): New research could help firefighters improve their plan of attack.
• Runjing Lu (FIN): When winners are losers: why symbolic rewards may backfire.

Celebrating Faculty Achievements 

Three-Year Research Faculty Fellowships

• Christopher Steele (SEM), Eric Geddes Professor of Business
• Yonghua Ji (ABA), Alex Hamilton Professor of Business
• Kyle Murray (MBEL), CN Western Economic Research Fellowship

One-Year Research Faculty Fellowships

• Noah Castelo (MBEL), The Edmonton Journal Fellowship
• Katie Lafreniere (MBEL), Hugh E. Pearson Fellowship
• Ke Wang (ABA), Canadian Utilities Faculty Fellowship

Insight Grant Recipients 

Congratulations to Ian Gellatly (Applicant, SEM) and Andrew Luchak (Co-Applicant, SEM) on being awarded an Insight Grant for his project Re-thinking EDI: Relational Coordination and the Implications for Management Practices. These researchers will explore factors that contribute to employees’ feelings of safety and confidence to work effectively within demographically diverse groups, how to foster appreciation and connection between diverse individuals, and how managers can facilitate genuine work relationships, respect and trust among members.

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Research Excellence

Source: Stanford University and Elsevier -  October 2023 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators

Latest Publications

Our business researchers are publishing in top management journals known for their excellence. The following are the newest current-year and forthcoming publications organized by department:

Accounting & Business Analytics

• Bayani, L., Rostami, B., Rousseau, M., & Adulyasak, Y. (Forthcoming). A dual bounding framework through cost splitting for binary quadratic optimization. INFORMS Journal on Computing.
• Lee, I. (Forthcoming). Is Separately Modeling Subpopulations Beneficial for Sequential Decision-Making? Operations Research.
• Liao, Q., Srinidhi, B., & Wang, K. (Forthcoming). Do Family Firms Issue More Readable Annual Reports? Evidence From the United States. Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance.
• Narayanamoorthy, G., Page, J., & Song, B., (2023). Insurance Rate Regulation, Management of the Loss Reserve and Pricing. The Accounting Review, 98(6), 407–434.

Finance

• Iliev, P. & Roth, L. (2023). Director Expertise and Corporate Sustainability. Review of Finance, 27(6), 2085–2123. 
• Mikhed, S., Raina, S., Scholnick, B., &  Zhang, M. (Forthcoming). Debtor Income Manipulation in Consumer Credit Contracts. Journal of Financial Economics.

Marketing, Business Economics & Law

• Bergner, A.S., Hildebrand, C., & Häubl, G. (2023). Machine Talk: How Verbal Embodiment in Conversational AI Shapes Consumer–Brand Relationships. Journal of Consumer Research, 50(4),742–764.
•  Castelo, N. (Forthcoming). Perceived corruption reduces algorithm aversion. Journal of Consumer Psychology. 
• Castelo, N., Boegershausen, J., Hildebrand, C., & Henkel, A.P. (2023). Understanding and Improving Consumer Reactions to Service Bots. Journal of Consumer Research, 50(4), 848–863.
• Fatum, R., Hattori, T., & Yamamoto, Y. (2023). Reserves and risk: Evidence from China. Journal of International Money and Finance, 134.
• Jiang, H., Messinger, P.R., Liu, Y., Lu, Z., Yang, S., & Li, G. (Forthcoming). Divergent Versus Relevant Ads: How Creative Ads Affect Purchase Intention for New Products. Journal of Marketing Research.
• Krause, F., Görgen, J., de Bellis, E., Franke, N., Burghartz, P., Klanner, I., & Häubl, G. (2023). One-of-a-kind products: Leveraging strict uniqueness in mass customization. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 40(4), 823-840.
• Packard, G., Moore, S.G., & Berger, J. (2023). Consumer insights from text analysis. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 33(4), 615-620.
• Yan, L., Keh, H.T., & Murray, K.B. (2023). Feeling the values: How pride and awe differentially enhance consumers' sustainable behavioral intentions. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.
• Yan, L., & Murray, K.B. (2023). The motivational dynamics of arousal and values in promoting sustainable behavior: A cognitive energetics perspective. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 40(3), 679-699.

Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Management

• Gamache, D.L., Devers, C.E., Klein, F.B., & Hannigan, T. (2023). Shifting perspectives: How scrutiny shapes the relationship between CEO gender and acquisition activity. Strategic Management Journal, 44(12), 3012-3041.
• Glaser, V.L., Omidvar, O., & Safavi, M. (2023). Predictive models can lose the plot. Here's how to keep them on track. MIT Sloan Management Review, 64(4), 19-25.
• Hannigan, T.R. (2023). Relational Publics: Studying organizational possibilities. Organization Studies, 44(11), 1899-1902.
• Ocampo, A.C.G., Chen, Y., Restubog, S.L.D., Wang, L., & Decoste, A. (2023). A cross-lagged longitudinal investigation of the relationship between stigma and job effectiveness among employees with HIV. Journal of Applied Psychology, 108(6), 889–904.
• Siegel, D., Bogers, M.L.A.M., Jennings, P.D., & Xue, L. (2023). Technology transfer from national/federal labs and public research institutes: Managerial and policy implications. Research Policy, 52(1).
• Slade Shantz, A., Zietsma, C., Kistruck, G.M., & Barin Cruz, L. (2024). Exploring the relative efficacy of ‘within-logic contrasting’ and ‘cross-logic analogizing’ framing tactics for adopting new entrepreneurial practices in contexts of poverty. Journal of Business Venturing, 39(1).
• Weber, L., Slade Shantz, A., Kistruck, G.M., & Lount, R.B. (2023). Give Peace a Chance? How Regulatory Foci Influence Organizational Conflict Events in Intractable Conflict Environments. Journal of Management.