Publications Database
Welcome to the new Schulich Peer-Reviewed Publication Database!
The database is currently in beta-testing and will be updated with more features as time goes on. In the meantime, stakeholders are free to explore our faculty’s numerous works. The left-hand panel affords the ability to search by the following:
- Faculty Member’s Name;
- Area of Expertise;
- Whether the Publication is Open-Access (free for public download);
- Journal Name; and
- Date Range.
At present, the database covers publications from 2012 to 2020, but will extend further back in the future. In addition to listing publications, the database includes two types of impact metrics: Altmetrics and Plum. The database will be updated annually with most recent publications from our faculty.
If you have any questions or input, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Search Results
Shiu-Yik Au, Ming Dong, and Xinyao Zhou (2024). "AboutSections Does Social Interaction Spread Fear Among Institutional Investors? Evidence from Coronavirus Disease 2019", Management Science, 70(4), 2406-2426.
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We study how social connectedness affected mutual fund manager trading behavior in the first half of 2020. In the first quarter during which the COVID outbreak occurred, fund managers located in or socially connected to COVID hotspots sold more stock holdings compared to a control group of unconnected managers. The economic impact of social connectedness on stock holdings was comparable to that of COVID hotspots and was elevated among “epicenter” stocks most susceptible to the pandemic shock. In the second quarter, social interaction had an overall negative effect on fund performance, but this effect depended on manager skill; unskilled managers who were connected to the hotspots underperformed, while skillful managers suffered no deleterious effect. Our evidence suggests that social connections can intensify salience bias for all but the most skilled institutional investors, and policy makers should be wary of the destabilizing role of social networks during market downturns.Vitor Lima and Russell Belk (2023). "Biohacking COVID-19: Sharing Is Not Always Caring", Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 42(4), 326-342.
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This netnographic study investigates how and why people engage with citizen science initiatives and share insights from them in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, this research focuses on biohacking, a form of citizen science in which individuals conduct innovative but controversial self-experiments. In a context of ideological, behavioral, and emotional tensions, biohackers seek to do what they consider to be “the right thing” for themselves and others. Some biohackers believed that governmental “solutions” for the pandemic were not “correct” or “the best” and shared scientifically unproven protocols to develop, for example, homemade vaccines. However, in many cases, biohackers may unintentionally create harm while intending to do good by sharing such “solutions.” In this vein, this research shows that sharing is not always caring, as biohacking related to COVID-19 exemplifies. Although sharing is a form of prosocial behavior, it has different motivations that may invert its epistemic prosocial orientation to an antisocial one. This orientation results in new challenges, as well as strengthening old challenges, for policy makers facing public crises, such as pandemics. The prescriptions for policy makers offered in this article aim to help reduce such an impact on governmental efforts to tackle collective crises.Cesare Amatulli, Alessandro M. Peluso, Andrea Sestino, Gianluigi Guido, Russell Belk (2023). "The Influence of a Lockdown on Consumption: An Explorative Study on Generation Z’s Consumers", Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 73, 103358.
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The health crisis due to the recent pandemic influenced our lives and, consequently, our consumption. Despite prior investigations on exogenous crises and their effects on consumption, no studies to date have examined consumers' coping strategies to health crises that require social distancing and, more particularly, responses to such crises by focusing on Generation Z. The present study fills this gap by exploring how consumption evolved during a lockdown as a consequence of these consumers' attempts to cope with the crisis. Through a qualitative approach based on grounded theory and projective techniques, findings shed light on new meanings of resilience and nostalgia, which seem to characterize Generation Z's consumers' desires during a lockdown. Importantly, we introduce the concept of responsible hedonic consumption, which stems from Generation Z consumers' desire to search for experiences that are pleasant but also compatible with personal and societal wellbeing.Maxwell Poole, Ethan Pancer, Matthew Philp, Theodore J. Noseworthy (2023). "COVID-19 and the decline of active social media engagement", European Journal of Marketing, 58 (2), 548-571.
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Daniel G. Neely , Gregory D. Saxton , Paul A. Wong (2023). "Nonprofit Organizations’ Financial Obligations and the Paycheck Protection Program", Management Science, 69(7), 4353-4361.
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We examine nonprofit organizations’ involvement in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The PPP provided participants with forgivable loans to pay employee salaries, increasing participants’ financial flexibility during the pandemic. We examine the associations between nonprofits’ prepandemic financial obligations (e.g., long-term debt and donor-restricted net assets) and PPP participation and participants’ loan characteristics. First, we find nonprofit organizations participated at a lower rate than other small business industries and that nonprofits with greater financial obligations were more likely to participate in the program. Second, we find financial obligations were positively associated with the loan amount received as a percentage of total payroll costs. Last, although approximately 11% of nonprofits failed to obtain loan forgiveness, we find nonprofits with restricted net assets were more likely to have their loans forgiven. Our results suggest nonprofits with greater debt and donor obligations used the PPP to increase their financial flexibility.Winny Shen, Janice Lam, Christianne T. Varty, Anja Krstic, Ivona Hideg (2023). "Diversity Climate Affords Unequal Protection Against Incivility Among Asian Workers: The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Racial Mega-Threat", Applied Psychology: An International Review, 73(1), 34–56.
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Despite longstanding recognition that organisations are open systems that are affected by the broader environments in which they are situated, scholars have rarely examined how such macrosocietal conditions may influence processes and experiences within the workplace. Integrating research on selective incivility and mega-threats, we conceptualise the COVID-19 pandemic as a racial mega-threat and examine how this context may challenge organisations' efforts to promote diversity and inclusion. Specifically, we predict that the protective benefits of diversity climate against incivility, an insidious form of modern discrimination incited by the COVID-19 pandemic, will be weaker for workers of Chinese descent compared to workers from other Asian subgroups, leading to more downstream negative outcomes for this group of workers (i.e., higher turnover intentions, poorer job performance and greater emotional exhaustion). This reflects the fact that workplaces are not impervious to the rising xenophobia toward China and Chinese people, who were particularly blamed and stigmatised for the emergence of this virus, as evident in North American society in early 2020. We found support for our predictions in a three-wave, time-separated study of Asian workers (N = 248) in the US and Canada during the first wave of the pandemic.Winny Shen, Tanja Hentschel, Ivona Hideg (2023). "Leading Through the Uncertainty of COVID-19: The Joint Influence of Leader Emotions and Gender on Abusive and Family-Supportive Supervisory Behaviors", Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 00, 1-19.
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As COVID-19 was a highly novel virus in 2019, it brought risks that are difficult to quantify and rampant uncertainty to the fore. We focus on how leaders navigate such an uncertain context. Drawing upon appraisal theories of emotions, we first argue that under the context of high uncertainty, leaders experience emotions relating to their perceptions of (un)controllability: anxiety and hope. We predict that these have differential behavioural consequences; leaders' anxiety about the pandemic relates to abusive supervision, whereas leaders' hope relates to family-supportive supervision. Integrating research on gender roles, we theorize that counter to common stereotypes, men's leadership would be more affected by their emotions. At the same time, women would provide leadership behaviours needed by their followers irrespective of their emotions; namely, refraining from abusive and providing family-supportive supervision. Our hypotheses were supported using a sample of 137 leader-follower dyads in the early phases of the pandemic. Our research has significant implications for appraisal theories of emotions by demonstrating that the behaviours of women, compared to men, may be less affected by their emotions. These findings present a significant departure from previous literature by revealing an important boundary condition of appraisal theories of emotions.Mawani, A. and Fan, H. (2023). "Covid-19 Wage Subsidy Disclosure and Firms’ Contemporaneous Dividend Payouts", Canadian Tax Journal , 17(3), 667-99.
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The Canada emergency wage subsidy (CEWS) was designed as a bailout for employees who had been sidelined from employment during COVID-19. However, the eligibility rules for the wage subsidy suggest that it was not restricted to jobs that would otherwise have been lost. CEWS recipients also did not have to demonstrate the need for cash, so the cash received from the subsidy, based on a decline in monthly revenue, could be used for other purposes if annual revenues did not end up declining. This article examines characteristics of publicly listed firms that voluntarily disclosed the wage subsidy they received and whether such disclosure was associated with increases in contemporaneous dividend payouts. The authors hypothesize and show that firms may have been reluctant to disclose their CEWS if they increased their dividend payouts in the same year. This finding is moderated by firms’ cash holdings, reported losses, lower accounting earnings (compared to the prior year), and the extent to which firms managed their accounting earnings. The results hold under endogeneity tests using a two-stage least-square regression.Rungtusanatham, M. J., & Johnston, D. A. (2023). "Get Ready for the Next Supply Disruption", Sloan Management Review, 64(2), 60-65.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for companies to improve their supply chain resilience. A poll conducted by the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics found that only 16% of organizations had an emergency response center in place, which is crucial for mitigating disruptions in the flow of goods. To address this, companies need to develop capabilities to manage supply disruptions, including the ability to anticipate, diagnose, detect, activate resources, protect against, and track threats. These capabilities, known as the ADDAPT framework, help companies understand the causes and effects of disruptions and enable them to respond and prevent future disruptions. Here, Rungtusanatham and Johnston provide insights from Loblaw, Canada's largest supermarket chain, as a case study and outline actions companies can take to develop these capabilities. By mastering the ADDAPT framework, companies can better manage supply disruptions and minimize their impact on critical relationships.Ordonez-Ponce, E., Dordi, T., Talbot, D., & Weber, O. (2022). "Canadian Banks and their Responses to COVID-19 – Stakeholder-Oriented Crisis Management", Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment.