Newsletter Spring 2025 – A Productive Winter

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“As we navigate these times with uncertainties and challenges on so many fronts, our research represents not just an achievement to look back and be proud of, but a bridge to the future we want to co-create.” – Eileen Fischer, Associate Dean of Research

Though the year is only 4 months old, the Schulich School of Business faculty continues to excel, reinforcing its status as a leader in business education and research. As the academic year comes to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on our research achievements over the last few months.

Academic Excellence

The much-longer-than-expected winter (and I think that most of us have been caught by surprise by snowstorms in April!) did not stop our faculty from publishing their research, with dozens of articles published in academic journals between January 2025-April 2025.

A full list of publications can be found here. Some interesting highlights include:

  • Matt Bamber’s “Can we explain managerial non‐answers during conference call Q&As?” in Contemporary Accounting Research”
  • Olaf Weber’s “To label or not? A choice experiment testing whether labelled green bonds matter to retail investors” in Nature’s Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • Irene Henriques & Perry Sadorsky’s “Connectedness and systemic risk between FinTech and traditional financial stocks: Implications for portfolio diversification” in  Research in International Business and Finance
  • Ashwin Joshi’s “How and when incentives and collaboration are effective in fostering supplier component innovation: Insights from social exchange theory” in Journal of Business Research
  • Gregory Saxton, Dean Neu, Abu S. Rahaman, &Jeff Everett’s “Indigenous peoples, environmental accountability and the semantic meaning of resource extraction firm disclosures” in Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal (which also featured Schulich PhD student Minqi Liu as lead author)
  • Winny Shen & Ivona Hideg’s “Leading through the uncertainty of COVID‐19: The joint influence of leader emotions and gender on abusive and family‐supportive supervisory behaviours” in Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
  • Linda Thorne’s forthcoming book The Routledge Handbook of Behavioural Accounting Research, coming out later this month.

Reaching Broader Audiences

However, not everyone has access to academic journals. As part of our ongoing efforts to promote the research work of Schulich faculty, we also continued to promote faculty research through alternative mediums, such as talks/lecture, social media and podcasting.

Talks/Lectures

On April 2nd, Schulich hosted  Mitacs scholar Dr. Daniela Balutel (York University, Economics) and Schulich Associate Professor Henry M. Kim (Operations Management and Information Systems) spoke on a topic that has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years – cryptocurrency use and ownership. The lively discussion attracted close to 80 registrants, and also featured research posters developed by Schulich PhD students and Schulich faculty, highlighting original research focusing on topics related to cryptocurrency and the blockchain. You can read about the event

Social Posts

Our social posts aim to summarize academic articles into quick reads, tailored to specific audiences in the Schulich alumni community. Recent posts from the past few months include Charles H. Cho’s article “Examining stakeholder reactions to corporate social irresponsibility: Evidence from social media” and Ruodan Shao’s article “The plurality effect: People are more dishonest toward group than individual targets” are some recent examples of how we approach this sometimes tricky task.

Podcasts

In a similar vein, the Research @ Schulich Podcast features Schulich faculty members speaking on their research in plain language for a broader public audience in short 15-25 minute long episodes – though we do find that our faculty does go over time a bit when talking about their research(but that’s a good habit to have).

Recent releases include:

Watch this space for more information about upcoming episodes, including new video-first episodes which will be filmed in our studio space.

(Also, while we’ve got your attention, make sure to subscribe to our podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts)

In the coming months, you can expect to see our annual Spotlight on Research Report (check out last year’s edition here), providing a summary of all of Schulich’s annual research achievements, as well as long form features profiling Schulich faculty members and in-depth features on research that’s been published over the last few years.

Apologies for being coy, but you’ll have to wait until July to find out more!