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

Nisha Paul Kulangara, Markus Biehl and Edmund L. Prater (2022). "Environmentally sustainable development initiatives in upstream strategic outsourcing relationships: Examining the role of innovative capabilities", Business Strategy and the Environment, 31(7), 3014– 3027.

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Abstract Research on the potential impact of environmental sustainable development initiatives such as environmental collaboration with the supplier (ECS) on environmental and manufacturing performance is inconclusive. Specifically, it has overlooked the intermediary role that dynamic capabilities play in the relationship between ECS and performance. This explains why previous research, while correct in theory, found conflicting statistical results between environmental collaboration upstream and various performance outcomes. This study examines the following questions: What is the impact of environmental collaboration on manufacturing and environmental performance in outsourcing relationships? Do capabilities mediate the relationship between environmental collaboration and performance? Further, we propose that one particular mediating factor—innovative capabilities (ICs)—can influence the strength of this relationship and thus explain why previous research found conflicting statistical results. This paper uses structural equation modeling to analyze survey data from 247 North American manufacturers that outsourced their manufacturing. IC fully mediates the relationship between ECS and manufacturing performance and partially mediates the relationship between environmental collaboration and environmental performance. These findings enrich existing knowledge as it views ECS through the lens of resource-based theory. Further, we shed light on the crucial role of IC in firms that choose to outsource critical capabilities. From a managerial perspective, the empirical results will inform outsourcing managers making strategic and tactical decisions to achieve desired environmental and manufacturing outcomes.

Song, Y. H., Skarlicki, D.P., Shao, R. and Park, J. (2021). "Reducing Customer-Directed Deviant Behavior: The Role of Psychological Detachment and Supervisory Unfairness", Journal of Management, 47(8), 2008-2036.

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Abstract Conservation of resources (COR) theory proposes that mistreatment by customers (termed “customer mistreatment”) can deplete employees’ resources, lessen their ability to regulate their behaviors, and result in them engaging in customer-directed deviant behavior. However, COR has been criticized for its lack of precision regarding how this process unfolds. Integrating the person-situation interactionist perspective with COR theory, the present paper aims to provide a deeper understanding of COR theory by explicating how individual characteristics and work context—namely, psychological detachment and supervisory unfairness—can combine to attenuate/exacerbate the relationship between customer mistreatment and employees’ customer-directed deviant behavior. Using a multilevel field study with 1,092 daily-based surveys among 157 Korean call-center representatives, our results show that frontline employees’ emotional exhaustion mediates the relationship between customer mistreatment and customer-directed deviant behavior that occurs on the next working day. When faced with customer mistreatment, employees with lower (vs. higher) psychological detachment were more likely to be emotionally exhausted and engage in customer-directed deviant behavior on the next working day. Moreover, their emotional exhaustion predicted customer-directed deviant behavior more so when their supervisors treated them unfairly (vs. fairly). Taken together, the results show that the mediating effect of emotional exhaustion was strongest among employees with low (vs. high) psychological detachment and who reported more (vs. less) supervisory unfairness. Theoretical, methodological, and practical implications as well as directions for future research are discussed.

Li, S., Madhok, A. and Wassmer, U. (2017). "Resource Ambidexterity Through Alliance Portfolios and Firm Performance", Strategic Management Journal, 38(2), 384-394.

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Abstract Building upon resource-based and ambidexterity research, we address the following questions: (a) What are the performance consequences of balancing revenue growth and cost reduction at the alliance portfolio level, and (b) how is that balance-performance relationship conditioned by strategic attributes of alliance portfolio configuration? Our hypotheses are tested with data on firms from the global airline industry over the period 1994 to 2008. We find that the balance between product market extending and efficiency improving partner resources accessed through alliance portfolios helps improve firm performance. Our results also show that the balance will be less beneficial for firms when they access a broad resource scope per partner in the alliance portfolio.

Chan, Y.E. and Oppong-Tawiah, D. (2017). "The Influence of IT and Knowledge Capabilities on the Survival of University IT Startups", International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship, 3(2), 150-172.

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Abstract Despite continuing interest in the role of university incubators in fostering IT entrepreneurship, empirical evidence on the link between incubation and IT startup survival has been mixed. This paper offers a fresh, unifying perspective by examining how university startups' IT-enabled agility relates to their survival. We use the resource-based view, dynamic capabilities and new product development (NPD) literatures to create a conceptual framework of the impact of startup firms' knowledge assets, technology capabilities, agility and innovation on their survival. Our framework suggests that startups' survival rates increase when they use dynamic IT knowledge capabilities to pursue innovations with emerging technology capabilities in rapidly evolving IT markets. Implications for university incubator research, policy and management are discussed.

Park, J., Shao, R., Skarlicki, D.P. and Song, Y.H. (in press). "Reducing Customer-Directed Deviant Behavior: The Role of Psychological Detachment and Supervisory Unfairness", Journal of Management.

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