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Research Round-upApril 2015 – June 2015

In ThIs EdITIon:

A copy can be downloaded from our website: http://haskayne.ucalgary.ca/research/activities/research-roundup

Submit contributions to fwilkins@ucalgary.ca

Faculty NewsNew Academic Hires, effective July 1, 2015

Ray Patterson, Professor, Business Technology Management Area: Ray comes to us from the University of Alberta, where he successfully led several initiatives, including building innovative and cross-disciplinary programs of teaching and research. Ray has a PhD from Ohio State, and was at the University of Texas at Dallas before moving to Edmonton in 2002 as a Canada Research Chair in Management Information Systems. Ray has 25 peer-reviewed articles, and holds the designation of CPA (US). He conducts research in the fields of health care, information systems, operations management and service science.

Osman Alp, Associate Professor, Operations and Supply Chain Management: Osman comes from TED University in Turkey, although he is not new to Canada, having twice been a visiting scholar at the University of Alberta. Osman’s PhD is from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey. He was recruited as the founding chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering of TED University, and taught in the Executive MBA program at Alberta. He has 14 peer-reviewed articles, and his main research interests include inventory theory, supply chain management, distribution logistics, and logistics of hazardous materials.

Faculty News y New Academic Hires y Appointments y Awards and Honours y Area News y Transitions y Distinguished Visiting

Professors y Research Funding y FT 45 Publications y Books y Book Chapters y Peer-reviewed articles by

Area y Conference Hosting y Conference Proceedings y Conference Presentations y Presentations (non peer-

reviewed) y Globe & Mail Leadership

Lab y Haskayne Hour

presentations y In the Media y Professional Articles

Graduate Student News y Awards y Conference presentations y Moving On y Building News y Dissertation Defence y Candidacy

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Ali Reza Sabouri, Assistant Professor, Operations and Supply Chain Management: Ali comes to us from the Rotman School at the University of Toronto, where he is a postdoctoral fellow. Having completed his PhD at the Sauder School at UBC, Ali’s research is in the fields of Health Care Operations Management, Stochastic Optimization, and Approximate Dynamic Programming.

Lev Timoshenko, Assistant Professor, Accounting: Lev comes to us from the University of Waterloo, where he is just completing his PhD. His dissertation is entitled, “Can elicitation methods increase the precision of auditors’ fair value impairment estimates? A study of current auditing process and possible improvements.”

Appointments

Greg Morrow, PhD, has been appointed as the first holder of the Parker Professorship in Metropolitan Growth and Change. The Parker Professorship is a unique position, fully funded by the Oak Foundation, focused on addressing current and pressing community environment and social issues related to metropolitan growth and change. As such, the position sits at the cross-roads of urban design and planning, and real estate development. Hence, it is a joint position co-located in the Haskayne School of Business and the Faculty of Environmental Design. The Parker Professor will teach one course for each of business and environmental design, and will provide research and community outreach opportunities in conjunction with the activities of the Westman Centre for Real Estate Studies. The position is for a five-year term.

Dr. Morrow has a PhD in Urban Planning & Development from UCLA, a Master’s in City Planning from MIT, and a Bachelor of Architecture from McGill. While in California, he also was active in the real estate development industry as Principal of Morrow Olson Development. He has also held several positions with architecture firms, include Moshe Safdie & Associates.

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Giovani da Silveira has been invited to be a member of the SSHRC Insight Grant Selection Committee

Robert Elliott has been invited to be a member of the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships Selection Committee

Robert has also been appointed Professor Emeritus of Finance.

Alain Verbeke will chair the SSHRC Partnership Development grants committee in 2015-2016.

Peter Bowal has been elected Articles Editor for the Journal of Law, Business and Ethics.

Peter was also recently appointed by the provincial cabinet to the quasi-judicial board that deals with municipal annexations, subdivisions and commercial property tax assessments. He achieved the highest grade in the province for qualifying examinations and certification for this work.

Peggy Hedges has been confirmed by the Provost as Haskayne’s first Teaching Professor.

Cynthia Simmons has been appointed Professor Emerita of Accounting.

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Jaydeep Balakrishnan was a Visiting Scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in March - April of 2015.

Awards and Honours

Robert Elliott was an invited speaker at the Australia-New Zealand Applied Probability Workshop 2015, Vine Inn and Resort, Barossa, South Australia, Apr. 7-10, 2015.

Piers Steel received the Best Conference Paper Award at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Apr. 23-25, 2015.Field JG, Munc AH, Bosco FA, Uggerslev KL, Steel P. (2015). Effect Size Benchmarks for Common I-O Topics around the Globe.

David Lertzman:2015 March 7: Invited Speaker, Amnesty International Annual Conference, “Indigenous Rights and Business Ethics”, University of Calgary.

2015 March 7: Invited Speaker, Canadian Institute of Resources Law Symposium on Environment in the Courtroom: Evidentiary Issues in Environmental Prosecutions and Hearings, “Challenges for Traditional Knowledge in the Courts: Impressions from the Northern Gateway Joint Review”, Faculty of Law University of Calgary.

2015 May 26: Invited Panelist, 15th Biennial Global Conference, International Association for the Study of the Commons, “Creating Shared Space in the Boreal Forest? Factors for Effective-Ethical Indigenous Corporate Collaboration,” Edmonton, Alberta.

On March 2, 2015, the University of Calgary announced the launch of the Engineering Solutions for Health: Biomedical Engineering Research Strategy. This strategy is the culmination of two years of hard work that incorporated the strengths, the leadership, and the ideas of our campus community. The Healthcare Operational Excellence (HOPE) Laboratory is featured in the Biomedical Engineering Research Strategy document as part of the Optimized Health Care System Performance “critical emerging research theme”. Sherry Weaver and Diane Bischak from OSCM are among a group of university researchers who worked hard for operations management and engineering to be included within this research theme.

Biomedical Engineering Research Strategy

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TransitionsJuly 1 brought changes to Haskayne’s Area Chairs and Research Directors. Thanks to those who are stepping down from service, to those who are stepping into service, and of course, to those who are continuing service!

Accounting and Business Technology Management

Area ChairOutgoing: Hussein Warsame (going on sabbatical)Incoming: Abu Rahaman

Research DirectorContinuing:Mark Anderson

Area News

The Management Information Systems (MGIS) Area has officially been renamed to the Business Technology Management (BTMA) Area. In addition, the Business Technology Management concentration name, recently adopted by Faculty Council, has been approved by the University.

Area Name Change

Finance and Operations

Area ChairOutgoing: Michael RobinsonIncoming: Alfred Lehar (returning from sabbatical)

Research DirectorOutgoing: Michael RobinsonIncoming: Diane Bischak (returning from sabbatical)

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Marketing and Entrepreneurship

Area ChairOutgoing: Marc Boivin (going on sabbatical)Incoming: Lynne Ricker

Research DirectorOutgoing: James AgarwalIncoming: Mehdi Mourali

Strategy and Organizations

Area ChairOutgoing: Teri Bryant (retiring)Incoming: Sandy Hershcovis

Research DirectorContinuing: Alain Verbeke

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Haskayne’s Distinguished Visiting Professors

Dr. Rajiv BankerFox School of Business, Temple UniversityVisit: August 2015 (second visit)HSB Host: Mark Anderson, ACCTResearch Interests: interdisciplinary research in management, from analytical modelling to statistical analysis of emerging business questions.

Dr. Cathy MaritanWhitman School of Management, Syracuse UniversitySenior Editor: Journal of ManagementEditorial Board: Strategic Management JournalVisit: June 2015HSB Host: Olga Petricevic, SGMAResearch Interests: strategic management, strategy process, strategic investment decisions, organizational capabilities, operations strategy

Research Funding

External Funding

Chad Saunders, co-PI , with C Anglin (Civil Engineering) and MD Ungrin (Veterinary Medicine)NSERC Idea to Innovation (i2i) grant “Development and validation of synthetic bone and soft tissue analogues for surgical training” $125,000; April 20, 2015- April 19, 2016

Mohammad KeyhaniSSHRC Insight Development Grant“The Performance and Exit Tradeoffs of Startups”$49,410

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Internal Funding

Marco BijvankURGC Seed Grant“3D Printing: The Next Supply Chain Revolution”$7,500

Chris Morin and Olga PetricevicHunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Strategic Research Grant“Institutional Logics and Frameswitching Ability: A model”$4,000James Meurs and Olga Petricevic Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Strategic Research Grant“The Role of Stress in the Entrepreneurship Process”$4,000

Liena KanoHunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Strategic Research Grant“Internationalization of Family Firms”$4,000

Robert Malach and Sandra MalachHunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Faculty Advancement FundTo present a paper on crowd funding at UC Berkeley’s Third Annual Academic Symposium on Crowd Funding, September 2015$3,000

Jaana WoiceshynHunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Faculty Advancement FundPresented paper “Implementation challenges: Integrated versus fragmented innovations in health care” at the Shaping the Frontiers of Innovation Management conference in Budapest, June 2015$3,000

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Research Publications

Articles in Financial Times 45 Journals

Chang YK, Oh WY, Park JH, Jang MG. (in press). Exploring the Relationship Between Board Characteristics and CSR: Empirical Evidence from Korea. Journal of Business Ethics.

Zhang D, Cheng Z, Mohammad HAQH, Nault BR. (in press). Research Commentary—Information Technology Substitution Revisited. Information Systems Research. doi: 10.1287/isre.2015.0570

Balakrishnan J, Malhotra A, Falkenberg L. (2015 June). Multi-Level Corporate Responsibility: A Comparison of Gandhi’s Trusteeship with Stakeholder and Stewardship Frameworks. Journal of Business Ethics. doi: 10.1007/s10551-015-2687-0

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Books

Longenecker J, Donlevy LB, Champion T, Petty JW, Palich LE, Hoy F. (2015 Feb.) Small Business Management: Launching and growing new ventures, Sixth Canadian Edition. Toronto, CA: Nelson Education Ltd. Leo Donlevy is the principal Canadian author along with Terri Champion of Niagara College. This book is used in over 40 colleges and universities in Canada.

Book Chapters

Balakrishnan J, Zhu T and Wallis P. (in press). High Speed Rail in Canada: Feasibility Studies, Influential Factors and International Comparisons. In Selladurai R, Daniels Lee P, VandeWerken G (Eds.), Emerging Challenges and Opportunities for High Speed Rail Development on Business and Society. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Peloza J, Falkenberg L. (2009). The role of collaboration in achieving corporate social responsibility objectives. California Management Review., 51(3), 95-113. This article was reprinted in 2013, in Crane A, Matten D, Spence L (Eds.), Corporate Social Responsibility: Readings and Cases in a Global Context. New York, USA: Routledge.

Osiyevskyy O, Zargarzadeh MA. (2015). Business Model Design and Innovation in the Process of Expansion and Growth of Global Enterprises. In Camillo, A. (Ed.), Global Enterprise Management: A New Perspective on Challenges and Future Development, Palgrave MacMillan. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2534479

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Peer-reviewed Articles

Accounting

Everett J, Neu D, Rahaman AS, Maharaj G. (in press). Praxis, Doxa and research methods: Reconsidering critical accounting. Critical Perspectives on Accounting. doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2015.04.004

Lakra A, Jones V, Humphry B, Parker C. (2015). Global Business Brigades: Global Development Through Small Business Consulting in Rural Panama. International Journal of Case Method Research and Application, XXVII(1).

Nazari JA, Herremans I, Warsame HA. (2015 June). Sustainability reporting: external motivators and internal facilitators. Corporate Governance, 15(3), 375-390. doi: 10.1108/CG-01-2014-0003

Business and the Environment

Ingelson A. (in press). Strategic Planning for Energy Development in Canada. Journal of Energy and Environmental Law. Radnejad AB, Vredenburg H. (2015). Collaborative competitors in a fast-changing technology environment: open innovation in environmental technology development in the oil and gas industry. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 19(1/2), 77-98. doi: 10.1504/IJEIM.2015.068424

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Keyhani M, Levesque M. (in press). The Equilibrating and Disequilibrating Effects of Entrepreneurship: Revisiting the Central Premises. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Finance

Elliott RJ, Chan L, Siu TK. (2015). A Dupire equation for a regime-switching model. International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 18(4). doi: 10.1142/S0219024915500235

Elliott RJ. (in press). Non-Gaussian GARCH option pricing models and their diffusion limits. European Journal of Operational Research. Ni Y-H, Elliott R, Li X. (2015 July). Discrete-time mean-field Stochastic linear–quadratic optimal control problems, II: Infinite horizon case. Automatica, 57, 65-77. doi: 10.1016/j.automatica.2015.04.002

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Human Resources and Organizational Dynamics

McCaughey D, Turner N, Kim J, DelliFraine JL, McGhan GE. (2015 Oct). Examining workplace hazard perceptions & employee outcomes in the long-term care industry. Safety Science, 78, 190-197. doi: 10.1016/j.ssci.2015.04.013

Steel P, Kammeyer -Mueller J. (in press). The world is going to hell, the young no longer respect their elders and other tricks of the mind. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice.

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Fazlollahtabar H, Saidi-Mehrabad M, Balakrishnan J. (in press). Mathematical optimization for earliness/tardiness minimization in a multiple automated guided vehicle manufacturing system via integrated heuristic algorithms. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. doi: 10.1016/j.robot.2015.05.002

Hendijani R, Bischak D. (in press). The Effect of Social Relationships on the Rates of Referral to Specialists. International Journal of Operations & Production Management.

Strategy and Global Management

Backman CA, Verbeke A, Schulz RA. (in press). The Drivers of Corporate Climate Change Strategies and Public Policy: A New Resource-Based View Perspective. Business & Society. doi: 10.1177/0007650315578450

Osiyevskyy O, Mayer M, Zargarzadeh MA. (in press). Exploring the Impact of an External Crisis on R&D Expenditures of Innovative New Ventures. Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, 26(3), 1-36. SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2600992

Osiyevskyy O, Mayer M, Zargarzadeh MA. (2015). To spend or not to spend on innovation? Exploring the impact of an external crisis on R&D expenditures of innovative new ventures. Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, 26(3), 1-36. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2600992

Sessional Instructor

Adams K, Debrah YA, Williams K, Mmieh F. (in press). Why on Earth Should Foreign Banks Invest in Africa’s Financial Services Sector? Evidence from Financial Multinationals in Ghana. Thunderbird International Business Review. doi: 10.1002/tie.21691

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Conference ProceedingsMalhotra NK, Ulgado FM, Agarwal J, Baalbaki IB. (2015). International Services Marketing: A Comparative Evaluation of the Dimensions of Service Quality between Developed and Developing Countries. In Sirgy MJ, Bahn KD, Erem T (Eds), Proceedings of the 1993 World Marketing Congress. Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science, p. 105. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-17323-8_26

Menezes MBC, da Silveira GJC, Guimaraes R. (2015 May 20-22). Social Network Influence on Demand and its Impact on Forecast Accuracy. In Toth BG and Kovacs K (Eds), Proceedings of the XXII European Working Group on Locational Analysis Meeting, pp. 79-80. doi: http://www.math.bme.hu/ewgla2015/EWGLA2015.pdf#page=89

Woiceshyn J, Blades K, Pendharkar S. (2015 June 14-17). Implementation challenges: Integrated versus fragmented innovations in health care. In Proceedings of The XXVI ISPIM Conference – Shaping the Frontiers of Innovation Management, Budapest, Hungary. Available at: http://conference.ispim.org/files/budapest_proceedings/documents/683125443_Paper.pdf

Conference Presentations

Althouse N, Hedges P. (2015). Plan Before You Play: An Activity For Teaching The Managerial Process. Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, May 12-13, 2015.

Althouse N, Woiceshyn J, Hedges P. (2015). Setting the Stage for Effective Student Group Work: A Group Forming Exercise. International Conference on Learning and Administration in Higher Education, Nashville, TN, May 20-22, 2015.

Conference HostingAnderson M. Conference on Convergence of Financial and Managerial Accounting ResearchJune 15-17, 2015Banff, Alberta

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Bijvank M. (2015). Base-stock Policy in a Two-echelon Inventory System with Lost Sales. POMS Annual Conference, Washington, DC, May 8-11, 2015.

Bijvank M. (2015). Replenishment Policies for Two-Echelon Inventory Systems with Lost Sales. CORS/INFORMS International Conference, Montreal, QC, June 14-17, 2015.

Bijvank M. (2015). Wait Time Announcements at Hospital Emergency Departments. MSOM Conference, Toronto, ON, Jun. 29-30, 2015.

David A. (2015). Exploration Activity, Long Run Decisions, and the Risk Premium in Energy Futures. Society of Financial Studies Cavalcade Conference, Georgia Tech University, May 17-20, 2015.

Chang YK, Oh WY, Park JH, Jang MG, Park SY. (2015). The effect of board characteristics on CSR: Empirical evidence from Korea. European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference, Warsaw, Poland, Jun. 17-20, 2015.

Oh WY, Park SY. (2015). The effect of top management team incentive pay on corporate social responsibility. European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM), 30th Workshop on Strategic Human Resource Management, Brussels, Belgium, Apr. 9-10, 2015.

Verbeke A, Hillemann J, Oh WY. (2015). Regional integration and information dynamics as determinants of EMNE internationalization patterns. Reading-UNCTAD International Business Conference, Reading, UK, Jun. 13-14, 2015.

Woiceshyn J. (2015). Countering bounded rationality: Cognitive integration as microfoundation of strategic decision making. Frontiers of Cognition, a special conference of the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of the Academy of Management, University of Roskilde, Roskilde, Denmark, Jun. 25-27, 2015.

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Presentations - Non-peer-reviewed

On April 8th 2015, Alex David presented his paper ``Exploration Activity, Long Run Decisions, and the Risk Premium in Energy Futures’’ at the Bendheim Centre of Finance at Princeton University.http://www.princeton.edu/bcf/newsevents/events/seminar/

On March 31, Allan Ingelson made the invited presentation “Hydraulic Fracturing – Emerging Issues in North America” at the Instituto De Energia E Ambiente, Universidade De Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, to a group of energy economists and managers.

Jaydeep Balakrishnan Research PresentationsTitle: The Dynamic Plant Layout Problem. - Zaragoza Logistics Center (part of the MIT Scale Network), Zaragoza, Spain, February 2015 - National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, India, March 2015

Globe and Mail Leadership Lab Articles

Dick D.Top down, bottom up, front line: Why you need different perspectivesJune 3, 2015

Bowal P.Make sure your business lawyer is working for youJune 4, 2015

Hershcovis M and Weinhardt J.Women in Leadership: Walking the gender tightropeJune 1, 2015

Weinhardt J.Don’t let your brain get warped by moneyJune 15, 2015

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In the Media

Loren Falkenberg was interviewed in the article by Barbara Balfour, “Hotels offer women more than fluffy bathrobes”The Globe and Mail, April 29, 2015http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/life-business-travel/hotels-offer-more-than-just-fluffy-bathrobes-to-attract-women/article24141321/?page=all

Bowal P.A Few Words for Mr. Prentice on Fixed Election Dates,National Post, March 19, 2015, http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/03/18/peter-bowal-a-few-words-for-mr-prentice-on-fixed-election-dates/

There’s no recovering costs of Prentice’s byelection Calgary Herald, July 8, 2015 http://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/bowal-theres-no-recovering-costs-for-prentice-byelection

Steel P.Hosted an episode of National Geographic’s Brain Games

Bob Schulz was interviewed in the article “Alberta’s new greenhouse gas rules may prove costly, says energy industry” CBC News, June 26, 2015 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-s-new-greenhouse-gas-rules-may-prove-costly-says-energy-industry-1.3128532

Haskayne Hour Presentations

Weinhardt J. and van Wielingen M.The Dark Side of LeadershipJune 2, 2015

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Bowal P, Moore S. (2015 Jan 5). The Duty of Unions to Fairly Represent Their Members. LawNow, 39(3). http://www.lawnow.org/duty-unions-fairly-represent-members

Bowal P, Layton J. (2015 Jan 5). Famous Cases . . . Dragons’ Den Liability Releases. LawNow, 39(3). http://www.lawnow.org/marc-ribeiro-v-dragons-den

Bowal P, Melville L. (2015 Mar 9). The Law of Mandatory Retirement in Canada. LawNow, 39(4). http://www.lawnow.org/mandatory-retirement-not-so-fast

Bowal P, Brunet A. (2015 Mar 8). Wedding Law: By the Authority Vested in Me . . .. LawNow, 39(4). http://www.lawnow.org/wedding-law-authority-vested

Bowal P, Tang C. (2015 Mar 9). When Free Trade is Not Free . . . the Abitibi Case. LawNow, 39(4). http://www.lawnow.org/when-free-trade-is-not-free-the-abitibi-case

Bowal P, Saini P. (2015 May 7). Extradition and the Death Penalty: US v. Burns. LawNow, 39(5). http://www.lawnow.org/whatever-happened-us-v-burns-extradition-death-penalty

Bowal P, Moore S. (2015 May 7). The Law of Quitting Your Job. LawNow, 39(5). http://www.lawnow.org/quitting-and-giving-notice-employees

Bowal P, Bowal J. (2015). Small Claims Court in Alberta. LawNow, 39(6). (in press)

Finch D, O’Reilly N, Deephouse D, Strong M, Falkenberg L, Foster WM. (2015). The Effect of Scholars’ Institutional Biography on their Choices of Knowledge Transfer Channels: An Analysis of Canadian Business School Faculty. Business School Research Network, Mount Royal University Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Coleman J, Kasumu AS, Liendo J, Li V, Jordaan SM. (2015 May). Calibrating Liquefied Natural Gas Export Life Cycle Assessment:Accounting for Legal Boundaries and Post-Export Markets. Canadian Institute of Resources Law Occasional Paper #49.

Professional Articles

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Graduate Student News

Awards

Mahdi Ebrahimi KahouPhD Program, supervised by Alfred LeharEyes High International Doctoral Scholarship$12,000, effective Sept. 1, 2015

Seyed Abbas Hosseini AmereeiMBA-Thesis Program, supervised by Mohammad KeyhaniQueen Elizabeth Scholarship$10,800, effective May 2015

Awards to new PhD students, effective Sept. 1, 2015 Sina RahimiPhD Program, supervised by Alex DavidMarion Janet & Ian Stormont Forbes Graduate Scholarship $9,500, effective Sept. 1, 2015

Nga NguyenPhD Program, supervised by Ari PandesMarion Janet & Ian Stormont Forbes Graduate Scholarship $9,500, effective Sept. 1, 2015

Shuai YangPhD Program, supervised by Pablo Moran and Michael RobinsonAIMCo Graduate Scholarship$10,000, effective Sept. 1, 2015

Ritesh KumarPhD Program, supervised by Alex DavidAIMCo Graduate Scholarship$10,000, effective Sept. 1, 2015

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Conference Presentations

Jimmy Yu presented a paper ,“Obfuscation or conservatism” at the European Accounting Association Annual Congress annual congress, Apr. 28-30, 2015, Glasgow, UK.

Nadharatch (Patrick) Ounlert presented paper, “Is Accounting for (wo)men?” at the Alternative Accounts Conference (doctoral session), Apr. 16-18, 2015, Ottawa, ON.

Nadharatch (Patrick) Ounlert presented paper, “Collusion in Capital Budgeting Process” at the European Accounting Association Annual Congress (parallel session), Apr. 28-30, 2015, Glasgow, UK.

The Brent Ritchie Doctoral Student Research Laboratory has been established on the 4th floor of Scurfield Hall, offering nine computers for PhD students to work on.

Building News

Xiaoyu (Kelly) Liu has taken up the position of Post-doctoral Fellow with the Centre for Corporate SustainabilityJune 2015 - June 2017Kelly completed her PhD at the Haskayne School of Business under the supervision of Harrie Vredenburg.

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Dissertation Defence

Oliver Okafor, PhD candidate in Accounting, successfully defended his dissertation, “Effects of IFRS on Accounting Quality and Tax Aggressiveness: Evidence from Canadian Mandatory Adoption” on May 14, 2015. Oliver is supervised by Dr. Hussein Warsame.

Amin Zargarzadeh, PhD candidate in Strategy and Organizations, successfully defended his dissertation, “Essays on Entrepreneurial Challenges in the Global Economy” on June 26, 2015. Amin is supervised by Dr. Alain Verbeke.

Candidacy

Madelynn Matthews, PhD candidate in the Human Resources and Organizational Dynamics Area, passed her candidacy exam on May 22, 2015. Madelynn is supervised by Dr. Loren Falkenberg.

Hadi Fariborzi, PhD candidate in the Strategy and Global Management Area, passed his candidacy exam on May 28, 2015. Hadi is supervised by Dr. Alain Verbeke.

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Contacts

Associate Dean (Research)Dr. Loren Falkenberg403-220-7172loren.falkenberg@haskayne.ucalgary.ca

Executive Assistant to Associate Dean (Research)Sandra Trudeau403-220-2513sandra.trudeau@haskayne.ucalgary.ca

PhD Program DirectorDr. Jaana Woiceshyn403-220-7705jaana.woiceshyn@haskayne.ucalgary.ca

Graduate Program OfficerLesley DiMarzo403-220-6073lesley.dimarzo@haskayne.ucalgary.ca

Research Development ManagerFay Wilkinson403-220-4352fay.wilkinson@haskayne.ucalgary.ca