Research Focus
A spotlight on research at the Alberta School of Business
In the News
Sara Mahabadi's (SEM) latest article, In the Midst of Hiring: Pathways of Anticipated and Accidental Job Evolution During Hiring, has been featured in The Conversation, Delve, a McGill publication, and Folio. Sara's research has also attracted the attention of the mainstream media, and she participated in TV interviews in the Global News and the Calgary CityNews.
Hyeik Kim's (FIN) article, Privatizing Infrastructure: Evidence from Airports, has been featured in the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Digest. NBER is one of the world's leading association in Economic research. Hyeik's research has also been in Folio, one of the University of Alberta's publications.
Kyle Murray and Sarah Moore - Brands that evoke the warm fuzzies hit the mark with lonely consumers.
Recognition
Research Excellence
Congratulations to Randall Morck (FIN), who was ranked number one scientist in Economics and Finance in Canada. Research.com released its newest ranking in February 2023. Royston Greenwood, Michael Lounsbury, C. R. (Bob) Hinings, and David Cooper are also ranked among the top 50 Business and Management scholars nationally.
Life Achievement
Kudos to Karim Jamal who received the 2023 CPA Alberta Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition, he was recently inducted into the Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame.
Celebrating Our New Endowed Chairs and Faculty Fellowships
New Endowed Chair Appointments
Barry Scholnick (MBEL), Foote Chair in International Business
Michael Lounsbury (SEM), A.F. (Chip) Collins Chair
Three-Year Research Faculty Fellowships
Rasmus Fatum (MBEL), Francis Winspear Professor of Business
Ian Gellatly (SEM), Alex Hamilton Professor of Business
Runjuan Liu (MBEL), Eric Geddes Professor of Business
Michael Lounsbury (SEM), Roger S. Smith Professor of Business
One-Year Research Faculty Fellowships
Sanjay Banerjee (ABA), Canadian Utilities Faculty Fellow
Adelina Barbalau (FIN), Hugh E. Pearson Fellow
Ivor Cribben (ABA), Xerox Canada Faculty Fellow
Bora Kolfal (ABA), NOVA Management of Technology Endowment Fellow
Runjing Lu (FIN), The Edmonton Journal Fellow
Angelique Slade Shantz (SEM), G.R.A. Rice Faculty Fellow
Céline's Library Tip
Have you created an ORCID yet? ORCID stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID and is a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from other researchers and supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities. ORCID addresses common issues for researchers such as disambiguation, credit and attribution, management of privacy and identity, reduction of administrative burden, etc. Our Library has made various investments in both time and money over the years to ORCID; from teaching students, faculty, and staff about the benefits of ORCID to recently launching an ORCID Support Contest. More information about ORCID and how to sign up for a profile can be found on the Library's ORCID webpage. Please never hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. You can find me at crg@ualberta.ca .
Research Events
Coffee with Trish
The Research Office would like to thank all who attended our two Coffee with Trish: We're talking research events in Winter 2023. They were opportunities to learn, reflect, discuss and talk with each other. Special thanks to our speakers, Runjing Lu (FIN), Mehrnaz Behrooz (OIS PhD student), Gerald Häubl (MBEL), Jennifer Jennings (SEM), Rodrigo Cardenas (FIN PhD candidate) Jack Stecher (ABA) for leading the discussions with great presentations.
Business PhD Research Conference 2022
On November 18, 2022, our School's Annual PhD Research Conference was held in various rooms on the 4th floor of the Business Building. PhD students and faculty engaged in research discussions throughout the day. Twenty-nine students shared their research with posters and ten students gave Three Minute Thesis (3MT)-style presentations of their research projects. Four students gave 15-minute oral presentations and answered questions from the audience. Faculty members were engaged in lunch sessions by specialization, and joined in the discussions during the posters and presentations. The student-led organizing committee used innovative QR codes to gather feedback on all the presentations.
Research Output
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
Sun, C., Ji, Y., Geng, X. (Forthcoming) Which Enemy to Dance with? A New Role of Software Piracy in Influencing Anti-piracy Strategies. Information Systems Research.
Rostami, B., Errico, F., & Lodi, A. (2023). A convex reformulation and an outer approximation for a class of quadratic binary programming. Operations Research, 71(20, 471-486.
Langberg, N., Rothenberg, N. (Forthcoming) Audit Quality and Investment Efficiency with Endogenous Analyst Information. The Accounting Review.
Chuang, Y.T., Zargoush, M., Ghazalbash, S., Samiedaluie, S., Kuluski, K., & Guilcher, S. (2023). From Prediction to Decision: Optimizing Long-Term Care Placements Among Older Delayed Discharge Patients. Production & Operations Management, 32(4), 1041-1058.
Finance
Morck, R., Yeung, B., & Zhang, L. (Forthcoming). Idiosyncrasy as a leading indicator. Journal of Financial and Qualitative Analysis.
Roth, L., Dyck, A., Lins, K., Towner, M., & Wagner, H. (2023). Renewable Governance: Good for the Environment? Journal of Accounting Research, 61(1), 279-327.
Marketing, Business Economics & Law
Fatum, R., Hara, N., & Yamamoto, Y. (Forthcoming). Negative Interest Rate Policy and the Influence of Macroeconomic News on Yields. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Management
Hancock, A., Gellatly, I.R., Walsh, M.M., Arnold, K.A., & Connelly, C.E. (2023). Good, Bad, and Ugly Leadership Patterns: Implications for Work-Related and Context-Free Outcomes. Journal of Management, 49(2), 640-676.
Lindebaum, D., Moser, C., Ashraf, M., & Glaser, V.L. (Forthcoming). Reading the Technological Society to Understand the Mechanization of Values and Its Ontological Consequences. Academy of Management Review.
Omidvar, O., Safavi, M., & Glaser, V. L. (2023). Algorithmic Routines and Dynamic Inertia: How Organizations Avoid Adapting to Changes in the Environment. Journal of Management Studies 60(2), 313-345.
Jennings, J.E., Rahman, Z., & Dempsey, D. (2023). Challenging What We Think We Know: Theory and Evidence for Questioning Common Beliefs About the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurial Confidence. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 47(2), 369–397.
Wright, A. L., Irving, G., Zafar, A., & Reay, T. (Forthcoming). The Role of Space and Place in Organisational and Institutional Change: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Journal of Management Studies.
PhD Student Publications
Crace, L. & Gehman, J. (2023). What Really Explains ESG Performance? Disentangling the Asymmetrical Drivers of the Triple Bottom Line. Organization & Environment, 36(1), 150–178.
Orazi, D. C., Mah, K., Derksen, T. & Murray, K. B.. (2023). Consumer escapism: Scale development, validation, and physiological associations. Journal of Business Research, 160, 113805.
Karabulut, F., Moore, S. G., & Messinger, P.R. (2023). Choosing Backgrounds for Success: The Role of Videoconference Backgrounds in Self-Presentation. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 8(2), 153-164.
Ozdemir, O., Kolfal, B., Messinger, P. R., & Rizvi, S. (Forthcoming). Human or virtual: How influencer type shapes brand attitudes. Computers in Human Behavior.
Jia, J., Yuan, S., Wei, L. Q., & Tang, G. (2023). When firms adopt sustainable human resource management: A fuzzy‐set analysis. Human Resource Management, 62(3), 283-305.
