Schulich Research Day to showcase innovative management thinking

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• January 24, 2017

  Schulich Research Day to showcase innovative management thinking

  Celebrating innovation, research excellence and collaboration

  TORONTO, ON – Monday, January 23, 2017 – Real-world business research on 38 issues ranging from “Angel investors around the world” to “Mining on First Nations Territory” will be showcased at the third Schulich Research Day taking place on Thursday, January 26 at York University’s Schulich School of Business.

  Researchers will be presenting 38 investigative studies at Schulich (see complete list of topics below). The research work conducted by Schulich’s faculty members has been recognized externally through numerous awards, editorial review board appointments, and research grants. In 2015, Schulich faculty members were awarded $3 million in research funding. The School is home to 28 funded research chairs and professorships, and Schulich’s Centres of Excellence are a vital source of cutting-edge research.

  The Poster Gallery viewing, where researchers will be available to answer questions about their work, will be held in the CIBC Marketplace at Schulich from 12:30-2 p.m. on Thursday, January 26.  A panel discussion on “The Impact of Research in the Schulich School of Business: Making a Difference in the Real World?” will follow opening remarks by Dezsö J. Horváth, Dean and Tanna H. Schulich Chair in Strategic Management, at 2:15 p.m. in the Robert R. McEwen Auditorium. Moderator Matthias Kipping, Professor of Policy and Richard E. Waugh Chair in Business History, will lead the discussion withDetlev Zwick, Associate Professor of Marketing and Director of BBA/iBBA Program; Marcia Annisette, Associate Professor of Marketing and Executive Director of Student Services and International Relations; Mary Waller, Professor of Organization Studies and Director of Schulich Centre for Teaching Excellence; and Moren Lévesque, Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems, CPA Ontario Chair in International Entrepreneurship.

  The Dean’s Research Impact Awards, which include a $5,000 prize, will be presented at 3:30 p.m. The Lifetime Achievement Award will recognize a researcher’s achievement of true distinction in his or her research field, integrity and ability to inspire alumni, faculty, staff, students, and the research community. The Emerging Leader Award will recognize a researcher’s remarkable professional and research accomplishments and demonstrated commitment to fostering relationships, research community-building and advancing Schulich’s international reputation for research excellence.

  Closing remarks at 3:50 p.m., to be delivered by Dirk Matten, Associate Dean, Research, and Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility, will be followed by a reception in the Schulich Executive Dining Room.

  To attend Schulich Research Day, please register at:  https://schulich.yorku.ca/researchdayregister

  2017 RESEARCH POSTERS
  Accounting

  Accounting and the Stigma of Poverty: Toronto in the 1920s
  Cameron Graham¹ and Claudine Grisard^{2
  1}Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, ²Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland

  Media Sentiment Divergence and Analyst Earnings Forecasts
  Hangsoo Kyung¹ and Albert Tsang^{2
  1}CUHK Business School, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong, ²Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Ethics in the Eye of the Beholder: A Pluralist View of Fair Trade
  Jeff Everett¹, Dean Neu¹, and Abu Shiraz Rahaman^{2
  1}Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, ²University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

  Accounting/Finance

  Investor Protection and Analysts’ Use of Valuation Models Around the World
  Hongping Tan and Changqui Yu
  Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Entrepreneurship

  Yes Boss, No Boss: The Role of Hierarchy on Organizational Conflict and Common Pool Resource Coordination – A Field Experiment in Rural Ghanaian Cooperatives
  Geoff Kistruck¹, Angelique Slade Shantz¹, Desiree Pacheco², and Justin Webb^{3
  1}Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, ²Portland State University, Oregon, USA, ³University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

  Finance

  Angel Investors Around the World
  Douglas Cumming and Minjie Zhang
  Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Market Manipulation and Innovation
  Douglas Cumming¹, Shan Ji², and Rejo Peter^{1
  1}Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, ²Capital Markets CRC Limited (CMCRC), Sydney, Australia

  Your Mutual Fund Fees Have Caused You Serious Harm! A Dissection of Mutual Fund Fees Flows and Performance
  Douglas Cumming, Sofia Johan, and Yelin Zhang
  Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Migrating Financial Risk Management Methods to Medicine
  Eitan Prisman¹ and Eliezer Z Prisman^{2
  1}University of British Columbia, and Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, Canada, ²Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Do Catastrophic Experiences Affect Risk Attitudes? Evidence from U.S.-Based Managers of Non-U.S. Mutual Funds
  Gennaro Bernile¹, Vineet Bhagwat², Ambrus Kecskés³, and Phuong-Anh Nguyen^{3
  1}Singapore Management University, Bras Basah, Singapore, ²University of Oregon, Oregon, USA, ³Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Are U.S. Industries Becoming More Concentrated?
  Gustavo Grullon¹, Yelena Larkin², and Roni Michaely^{3
  1}Rice University, Texas, USA, ²Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, ³Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University and IDC, New York, USA

  Customer News and Supplier Short Sellers
  Rui Dai¹, Lilian Ng², and Nataliya Zaiats^{3
  1}WRDS, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA, ²Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, ³Sawyer School of Business, Suffolk University, Massachusetts, USA

  Why Has Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivity Disappeared? An International Explanation
  Yelena Larkin, Lilian Ng, and Jie Zhu
  Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Marketing

  Marketplace Protocols in the Making: The Case of Blockchain Technology
  Burcak Ertimur¹, Markus Giesler², and Ela Veresiu^{2
  1}Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, USA, ²Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Market-Mediated Multiculturation: The Institutional Shaping of the Ethnic Consumer Subject
  Ela Veresiu and Markus Giesler
  Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Compensatory Contagion: A Psychological Defense Against Threat
  Justin F. McManus, Sean T. Hingston, Peter R. Darke, and Theodore J. Noseworthy
  Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Scandal, What Scandal? Consumer Contribution to Brand Reputation Recovery
  Luciana Velloso and Eileen Fischer
  Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Activists on the Inside: Corporate Responsibility as Everyday Practice
  Michal Carrington¹, Detlev Zwick², and Benjamin Neville^{1
  1}Department of Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, ²Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Do You Really Hate GMOs? Exploring the Underpinnings of the Preference for Natural
  Sean T. Hingston and Theodore J. Noseworthy
  Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Compensating for Innovation: How Extreme Product Incongruity Encourages Consumers to Affirm Unrelated Consumption Schemas
  Theodore J. Noseworthy¹ and Aparna Sundar^{2
  1}Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, ²University of Oregon, Oregon, USA

  Marketing/Operations Management and Information Systems
  Spoils from the Spoiled: Strategies for Entering Stigmatized Markets
  Angelique Slade Shantz, Eileen Fischer, Aurora Liu, and Moren Lévesque
  Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Operations Management and Information Systems

  Customer Acquisition and Retention: How to Invest in Service Quality
  Adam Diamant, Eugene Furman, and Murat Kristal
  Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Data Analytics using Ontologies of Management Theories
  Henry Kim, Ho-Nam Jackie Cheung, Marek Lasksowski, and Iryna Gel
  YODA Lab, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada (www.yoda.lab.yorku.ca)

  Towards an Ontology-Driven Blockchain Design for Supply Chain Provenance
  Henry Kim and Marek Laskowski
  Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Benchmarking Best R&D Proposals in High Tech Firms
  Wade D. Cook and Ahmad Hassan
  Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Ecological Systems Study in Regions of China
  Wade D. Cook, Zhepeng Li, and Wanghong Li
  Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Inferring Contagious Social Foci in Two-mode Social Networks
  Zhepeng (Lionel) Li¹, Yong Ge², and Xue Bai³

  ¹Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, ²University of Arizona, AZ, USA, ³University of Connecticut, CT, USA

  Organization Studies

  Anxious Attachment and Fairness in the Workplace
  Chris Bell¹, Camellia Bryan², and Jonathan Crawshaw^{3
  1}Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, ²Social Psychology, York University, Toronto, Canada, ³Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

  Drowning in the Fishbowl: Cultural Background, Self Regulatory Focus, and Envy in the Job Search Process
  Chris Bell and Casey Dai
  Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Creating “Everybody’s Hometown”: How Places Gain Special Meanings
  Nyla Obaid¹ and Tina Dacin^{2
  1}Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, ²Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

  Switching Gears: Training Team Leaders and Members to Adapt Leadership Behaviours in Dynamic Conditions
  Sjir Uitdewilligen¹, Ramon Rico², and Mary J. Waller^{3
  1}Faculty of Psychology & Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, ²School of Business, University of Western Australia, Australia, ³Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Real Estate & Infrastructure

  Rethinking the Role of Private Capital: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Financial Risk Transfer in Canadian Infrastructure Public Private Partnerships
  Sherena Hussain
  Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  The Business of Infrastructure: Business Models for Success
  Sherena Hussain and James McKellar
  Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Unlocking the Value in the Nexus between Real Estate and Infrastructure: The Case of the Toronto Pan/Parapan American Athletes Village
  Sherena Hussain¹, Jenna Russo², and James McKellar^{1   
  1}Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, ² Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Strategic Management/Policy

  INV-MNE Engagement: Entrepreneurial Partnering and New Venture Internationalization
  Anoop Madhok¹ and Shameen Prashantham^{2
  1}Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, ²China-Europe International Business School, Shanghai, China

  Transforming to Bullet-Fast Innovation: Institutional Reform in China’s High-Speed Train Sector
  Aurora Liu¹, Jane Song², and Justin Tan^{1
  1}Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, ²Central South University, Changsha, China

  Performance Persistence of Business Group Affiliated Firms under Varieties of State Capitalism: A Comparative Study of China and India
  Preet S. Aulakh¹, Helen Hu², and Lin Cui^{3
  1}Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, ²University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, ³Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

  Mining on First Nations Territory: Bridging the Knowledge Gap
  Wesley Cragg
  Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

  About Schulich

  Known as Canada’s Global Business School™, the Schulich School of Business in Toronto is ranked among the world’s leading business schools by a number of global surveys. Schulich’s MBA program is ranked #1 in the world by Corporate Knights, the world’s largest circulation magazine with an explicit focus on Corporate Social Responsibility, in a global survey that identifies which schools are doing the best job of preparing future business leaders for the environmental, social and ethical complexities of modern-day business. Schulich’s MBA program is also ranked #1 in Canada and among the world’s leading schools by The Economist, Forbes, CNN Expansión and América Economía. Schulich is also ranked among the world’s top 35 business schools for a career in investment banking in a global survey by eFinancialCareers.com. The Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program is ranked #5 in the world by The Economist and #1 in Canada by the Financial Times of London. For complete ranking details, please visit www.schulich.yorku.ca.

  Global, innovative and diverse, Schulich offers business programs year-round at its state-of-the-art complex at York University; at its Miles S. Nadal Management Centre located in the heart of the Toronto’s financial district; and at its new campuses in Hyderabad, India and Beijing, China. Schulich also operates a number of satellite centres in Beijing and Shanghai, China; Mumbai, India; Seoul, South Korea; Mexico City, Mexico; and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Schulich offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate business degrees that lead to rewarding careers in the private, public and nonprofit sectors, and has approximately 30,000 alumni working in over 90 countries. The School pioneered Canada’s first International MBA (IMBA) and International BBA (iBBA) degrees, as well as North America’s first ever cross-border Executive MBA degree, the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA. In addition to Schulich’s Master of Finance, Master of Management and Master of Accounting degrees, the School launched one of the world’s first Master of Business Analytics and Master of Real Estate and Infrastructure degrees. Schulich’s Executive Education Centre provides executive development programs annually to more than 12,000 executives in Canada and abroad.

  For more information, please contact:
  Dirk Matten
  Associate Dean, Research & Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility
  Schulich School of Business
  Email: dmatten@schulich.yorku.ca

  Beth Marlin
  Media Relations
  Email: bmarlin@schulich.yorku.ca
  Phone: (905) 717-6278