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43rd Annual Atlantic Schools of Business Conference

2013 Conference Program

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Contents

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President’s!Welcome!...................................................................................................................................!2!

Letter!from!the!Conference!Co7Chairs!.........................................................................................................!3!

Introducing!the!Atlantic!Schools!of!Business!...............................................................................................!4!

The!2013!Conference!Team!.........................................................................................................................!5!

ASB!2013!Conference!Theme!......................................................................................................................!5!

Events!at!a!Glance!.......................................................................................................................................!6!

Plenary!Keynote!Speaker!.............................................................................................................................!7!

Luncheon!Keynote!Speaker!.........................................................................................................................!8!

KPMG!Student!Case!Competition!................................................................................................................!9!

Schedule!of!Academic!Sessions!by!Day!and!Time!......................................................................................!10!

Schedule!of!Sessions!by!Track!...................................................................................................................!15!

Recent!Conferences!and!Presidents!of!ASB!(200072013)!..........................................................................!22!

List!of!Authors!............................................................................................................................................!23!

Track!Chairs!...............................................................................................................................................!25!

List!of!Reviewers!........................................................................................................................................!26!

Information!about!the!St.FX!Campus!........................................................................................................!27!

Thank!you!to!our!sponsors!!.......................................................................................................................!28!

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President’s Welcome

Welcome to the 43rd Atlantic Schools of Business Conference. ASB’s mission is to support and encourage the exchange of ideas in higher education. Initially, our members came primarily from the universities in Atlantic Canada, but in recent years we have welcomed national and international scholars to showcase their research. We continue the tradition of bringing post-secondary researchers and educators together to disseminate their research in the administrative sciences and pedagogy. As such, the conference represents an opportunity to publish peer-reviewed research in the proceedings or receive feedback for works-in-progress in a collegial setting. The ASB conference also provides an excellent venue for graduate students to present their work and exchange ideas.

On behalf of the ASB executive, I would like to thank St Francis Xavier University for organizing and hosting the 43rd Annual ASB Conference.

Enjoy the conference!

John Rumsey ASB President

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Letter from the Conference Co-Chairs

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the Gerald Schwartz School of Business, St Francis Xavier University for the 43rd annual Atlantic Schools of Business Conference (ASB). We are pleased to report that we have approximately 60 presentations of papers and symposiums scheduled over the course of the conference. Submissions have not only come from the Atlantic Canadian region, but have spanned the globe including international submissions from Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia, University of Botswana, Université de Pau, France, and University of Juraj Dobrila at Pula, Croatia.

We are delighted to welcome our academic keynote speaker, Dr. Anshuman Prasad, Professor of Management and University Research Scholar at the College of Business, University of New Haven, USA. Along with delivering the conference keynote address, Dr. Prasad will lead the doctoral and early career symposium. We are also happy to welcome our luncheon speaker, Mr. Nova Scotia know it all, Bruce Nunn who will discuss the connection of our past within the context of Nova Scotia.

This conference would not be possible without the help of the many volunteers from universities around the region. We would like to thank our track chairs for their diligent efforts to coordinate the review process and provide feedback to authors who submitted papers. We would also like to thank all the reviewers who took the time to review papers in their area of expertise and offer constructive feedback to authors to help improve their work.

We are especially grateful for the continued support and guidance from the ASB executive, particularly our President, Dr. John Rumsey who was always willing to lend a hand and provide insights on conference planning and EasyChair. Special thanks go out to Ian Feltmate who developed, updated and maintained the ASB2013 website. We also are appreciative of the continued help from Albert Mills and Jean Helms Mills who offered advice on all aspects of the conference planning. The support of our outgoing Dean, Mr. Leo Gallant and, incoming Dean, Dr. Tim Hynes, have been greatly appreciated in helping bring this conference together.

Finally, we also wish to thank the St.FX undergraduate conference volunteers, including Ashley Pettipas who handled photography and designed the conference logos, Graham Haynes, Steve Allen, Zack Konings, Jordan Perry, Gaojiawei Fu (Wei Wei), and Celeste Tremblay who helped out in a variety of ways.

In closing, we would like to extend our thanks to universities around the region for graciously sponsoring events during the conference. Your commitment to ASB helps to continue the tradition. Thanks to all the authors for choosing ASB as a venue to present your research.

Sincerely,

Gabrielle Durepos and Monica Diochon Conference Co-Chair, ASB 2013!

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Introducing the Atlantic Schools of Business

First held in 1971, “the Atlantic Schools of Business (ASB) conference is one of the longest-running organizations of its type in North America. Consisting of the schools of business from the four Atlantic Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland-Labrador) the schools collaborate on matters of mutual concern. Each autumn, a regional conference is hosted by one of the schools on a rotating basis.” (Haddon & Mills, 2008).

According to one history,1 the seeds of ASB can be traced to a meeting of a small group of deans and directors from the region attending the opening ceremony for the new school of business at the University of Moncton in late 1964:

It was suggested by one and heartily agreed to by others that it would be beneficial to meet again, perhaps regularly, “to trade advice and stories”. Thus the seed was planted for the collaboration that became known as the Atlantic Schools of Business (ASB). The following year, in 1965, the first meeting took place (Haddon & Mills, 2008, p.4)

The first conference was held in 19712 and has been held every year since through an informal arrangement that saw the conference organization rotated across the different business schools. In 2005 the conference moved to a standing committee, involving representatives from at least one business school from each of the four regions. The following year, in 2006, the ASB History Project was established by the Sobey PhD Program and this has generated a series of histories, most of which have been presented at subsequent ASB conferences and can be found on the 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and the 2010 ASB Proceedings.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 In the spirit of encouraging plural histories (see Mills & Durepos, 2010), we would stress that this is but of many possible accounts of ASB. 2 Apart from the year – 1971 -- we do not have any information on where or when this conference was held and would appreciate any clues that people can send us: contact Albert Mills (ASB History Project) albert.mills@smu.ca. !

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The 2013 Conference Team The 43rd Atlantic Schools of Business Conference has been coordinated by the following team:

Conference Co-Chairs: Gabrielle Durepos, St. Francis Xavier University

Monica Diochon, St. Francis Xavier University

Proceedings Chair: Trish McLaren, Wilfrid Laurier University

Conference Web Master: Ian Feltmate, Acadia University

Conference Logo Design: Ashley Pettipas, St. Francis Xavier University

ASB 2013 Conference Theme

The theme of this year’s conference is “Business in Time”. Time has assumed prominence as a subject of inquiry within many facets of business and organization research, ranging from philosophical issues associated with temporality, business practices such as ‘just in time’ inventory management to questions about organization and business histories. Undoubtedly, the discourse of time has shaped people, organizations and institutions throughout history. Organizations, for example, have had a significant impact on our understanding of time and the importance we afford it. While the clock’s rise in popularity and significance in workplaces can be traced to the industrial revolutions’ factories, today’s workplaces reflect a similar, but intensified focus on time. As the emphasis on efficiency increases, ‘saving’ or ‘cutting down’ on time has become a key priority. Whether it be the use of nostalgia by marketers to sell products or being ‘first to market’, the issue of time plays a central role in business.

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Events at a Glance Friday, September 27th 2013 1.00-7.00 Registration Desk is Staffed McNeil Gallery, SCHW 210 3.30-5.00 Doctoral & Early Career Symposium SCHW 281 3.30-5.00 Dean’s Meeting SCHW 285 3.30-5.00 Executive Meeting SCHW 289 5.00-7.00 Conference Welcome Reception McNeil Gallery, SCHW 210 Saturday, September 28th 2013

6.45-7.30 ASB Fun Run Meet at Maritime Inn – run at Antigonish Landing

8.00-9.00 Buffet Breakfast & KPMG Case Competition Official Welcome SCHW 330

9.00-10.30

Finance John Rumsey SCHW 152

HR/IR Tom Mahaffey SCHW 156

E&SI Cathy Driscoll SCHW 205

Mgmt Ed & Bus Comm James O’Brien SCHW 215

Strategy Alidou Ouedraogo SCHW 289

10.30-10.45 Nutrition Break McNeil Gallery, SCHW 210

10.45-12.15

Finance John Rumsey SCHW 152

OB Brad Long SCHW 156

E&SI & Mgmt Ed James O’Brien SCHW 205

BH Terrance Weatherbee SCHW 215

Strategy & Marketing Alidou Ouedraogo SCHW 289

11.30-2.30 Working Lunch for KPMG Judges & Participants, SCHW Lounge 330

12.15-1.45 Luncheon with Keynote Speaker Bruce Nunn Frank McKenna Leadership Centre, SCHW 414

KPMG Case Competition Presentations SCHW 285 12.00-5.00

2.00-3.30

Finance John Rumsey SCHW 152

Accounting Ken MacAulay SCHW 156

Mgmt Ed James O’Brien SCHW 205

BH Terrance Weatherbee SCHW 215

Entrep Claudia De Fuentes SCHW 289

3.30-3.45 Nutrition Break McNeil Gallery, SCHW 210

3.45-5.15 Plenary Speaker Anshuman Prasad Auditorium, SCHW 110

6.00-8.30 KPMG Case Competition Awards Banquet Dinner McNeil Gallery, SCHW 210

6.30-9.30 ASB2013 Conference Reception & Awards Banquet Frank McKenna Leadership Centre, SCHW 414

Sunday, September 29th 2013

7.30-9.00 Buffet Breakfast & Annual General Meeting SCHW 330

9.00-10.30

Finance George Ye SCHW 152

Accounting Gabie Durepos SCHW 156

Case Track Robert MacDonald SCHW 205

Marketing Terrance Weatherbee SCHW 215

Entrep & Open Claudia De Fuentes SCHW 289

10.30-10.45 Nutrition Break McNeil Gallery, SCHW 210

10.45-12.15

Accounting Mary Oxner SCHW 156

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Plenary Keynote Speaker

Anshuman brings an interdisciplinary orientation in his scholarship, which deals with such issues as globalization and postcoloniality, workplace diversity and multiculturalism, corporate legitimacy, resistance in organizations, and epistemology. His research has been published in some of the major scholarly journals of the field. He is the editor of Against the Grain: Advances in Postcolonial Organization Studies (2012), as well as Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis: A Critical Engagement (2003), and a co-editor of Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity (1997). Professor Prasad has served in different capacities on the editorial boards of several academic journals: his current editorial board memberships include the boards of Human Relations, and Organization. He has served as Program/Track Chair at a number of scholarly conferences, including the Academy of Management Conference, the Eastern Academy of Management Conference, International Critical Management Studies (CMS) Conference, and the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Conference. Professor Prasad has been invited to present his research at various academic institutions, such as the Indian Institute of Management (IIM-Calcutta), Saint Mary’s University, University of Toronto, University of Cambridge (U.K.), Rutgers University, and Lund University (Sweden). Currently, he is working on a book that explores the multi-dimensional implications of ongoing global transformations, and co-editing the reference volume, Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies. Before joining academe, he earned an MBA degree with concentration in finance, and worked as an executive in the commercial banking sector for several years.

Anshuman Prasad (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst) is Professor of Management and University Research Scholar at the College of Business, University of New Haven, USA.

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Luncheon Keynote Speaker !

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With his tongue-in-cheek title, Mr. Nova Scotia Know-It-All, Nunn developed a style of presenting curious connections from Nova Scotia’s past in a way that was fact-filled and fun. Loyal listeners over the years have complained his weekly stories sometimes made them late for work in the morning as they waited to hear how the story ended.

History with A Twist was Bruce’s first collection of his Nova Scotia history stories, published by Nimbus Ltd. It was followed by More History with a Twist, and later, 59 Stories: Nova Scotia’s Curious Connections. His true stories from our past include the dramatic and heroic, the poignant and endearing, the entrepreneurial and inventive, the fascinating and funny. His ‘Know-It-All’ storytelling also has been enjoyed as a regular column in the Chronicle Herald, the Daily News, CoastLife Magazine, and in speaking engagements at corporate conferences, community clubs, and schools. Younger readers in the province know Bruce as the author of Buddy, the Bluenose Reindeer, the story of Rudolph’s Nova Scotian cousin, and Buddy, the Bluenose Reindeer and the Boston Christmas Tree Adventure, a sequel. He is also author of two other illustrated children’s books inspired by his provincial research: The Magical Christmas Light of Old Nova Scotia, and, his most recent, A Bluenose Twelve Days of Christmas.

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Bruce Nunn is a St. Francis Xavier University graduate from Antigonish and a broadcast journalist now working in media relations and communications.

Bruce became known on CBC Radio and Television for his role as a storyteller of ‘all things uniquely Nova Scotian’.

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KPMG Student Case Competition

!Judges

• Jeff Muton • Peter Bowler • Justin Melnyk

Participants

St. Francis Xavier University

Cape Breton University

• Austin Carter

• Shaun Curry • Jake Baker

• Justin Cashin

• Patricia McCann

• Emma Blair Steele Acadia University

• Riley Livingstone

Saint Mary's University Team 1 • Bethany Dickey

• Jonathan Gibson

• Sarah Burgess

• Kelsey McKay • Haley Perry

• Bryan McLaughlin

Université de Moncton

Saint Mary's University Team 2 • Virginie Basque

• Keith Oland

• André-Phillippe Caissie

• Masut Miri • Justin Robichaud

• Kyle Rogers

• Joanne Vienneau

Saint Mary's University Team 3

Mount Allison University

• Mallory Levy • Yuting Long

• Heidi Landry

• Elaine Theriault

• Hannah Wallace • Jake Mosher

• Joshua Outerbridge

Crandall University

• Tara McLean

• Joel MacPherson

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Schedule of Academic Sessions by Day and Time Note: Papers denoted with an asterisk (*) have been accepted into the proceedings.

Saturday, September 28, 9:00am – 10:30am

Track, Chair and Location

Title Author(s)

Finance

John Rumsey

SCHW152

The Quality of Financial Markets: An Attempt to Explain a Developmental Anomaly in Corporate Tax Policy

Kirk Collins and Daniel Brou

Modelling the Effect of Transactions Costs on Options-Related Trading Frequency *

Zac Chartier and Justin Mayne

Information Asymmetry and Market Response to Dividend Change Announcements: Unregulated versus Regulated Firms

Rahman Khokhar and Sudipto Sarkar

HR/IR

Tom Mahaffey !SCHW156

New Brunswick Model of Shared Risk Pension Plan: Human Resource Implications in an Academic Setting * Gopalan Srinivasan Differences in Job Satisfaction among Pre-Service Multicultural Cohorts Dannie Brown

Human Resources Practices in the Biotechnology Sector: The Leadership Difference *

Margaret McKee, Wendy Carroll, Elizabeth Kelley, E. Kevin Kelloway and Juergen Krause

Ethics and Social Issues

Cathy Driscoll

SCHW205

Ties that Bind: An Institutional Isomorphic Comparison of Mandatory CSR Reporting Standards in the Canadian Financial Services Industry * Mark Fuller and Stefan Litz The Internet and Cultural Capital; A Critical Perspective Tammy Oulton Foreign Financial Flows and Terrorism In Developing Countries

Amar Anwar and Mazhar Mughal

Management Education & Business Communications Joint Session James O’Brien SCHW215!

Software Product Development at a Small, Rural, Undergraduate University Conor Vibert

Complements to Student Evaluations of Instruction James O'Brien and Ethan Pancer

Expectations of Commerce Students: Are International and Domestic Student Expectations Converging? *

Linda Macdonald and Binod Sundararajan

Strategy Alidou Ouedraogo SCHW289!

Reactions of Powerful CEOs to Accusations of Illegal Activity *

Russell Fralich and Naina Garg

Executive hubris, groupthink, and Links to path-dependence: Parsing General Motors (1980-2010)

Shamsud Chowdhury, Binod Sundararajan and Paul Armstrong

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Saturday, September 28, 10:45am – 12:15pm

Track, Chair and Location

Title Author(s)

Finance

John Rumsey

SCHW152

Relationship Between Stock Market Development And Economic Growth: Evidences From Canada And Australia

Hang V. D. Pham and Hung T. Nguyen

Testing Weak-Form Market Efficiency On The Toronto Stock Exchange

Ilona Shiller and Ishmael Radikoko

The Performance Of Experts Recommended Stocks - The Effect Of The Experts’ Personal Ownership

Xiaofei Song and Hang V.D. Pham

Organizational Behaviour Brad Long SCHW156

Social Media World: A Communicative Constitution Of Organizations (CCO) Perspective

Amy Thurlow and Anthony Yue

Making Sense of the Story: Contextual Frameworks Revealed in Acts of Narration William Murray

Ethics and Social Issues

Management Education

Joint Session

James O’Brien

SCHW205

A Survey of Student Perceptions of Academic Cheating and Plagiarism

Elsie Henderson and Mallika Das

Why Only A Little Snippet? It’s Prime Time For Business Ethics Education

Joanne Firth and Cathy Driscoll

Community-Based Service-Learning: Serving Student And Community Engagement

Cathy Driscoll, Margaret McKee and Shelley Price

Business History

Terrance Weatherbee

SCHW215

Critical History: Simultaneous Multiplicity and the Interrogation of Perspective Christopher Hartt We’ve Been Busy “Putting our House in Order:” A Tale of Ontological Politics at the Nova Scotia Museum of Industry * Graham Haynes Searching for James Beek: A Working Paper on my Early Adventures in Archival Research on Post-1867 History of Legislative Audit in the New Brunswick Brent White

Strategy

Marketing Joint Session

Alidou Ouedraogo

SCHW289

Analyzing the iron ore industry to develop Investment strategies in Canadian iron ore projects

Kun Wang, Thomas Cooper, Alex Faseruk and Amy Hsiao

Job satisfaction, employees retention and organizational performance Alidou Ouedraogo Benchmarking the Behaviour and Characteristics of Wine Tourists in a New Wine Region *

Tara Laceby and Donna Sears

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Saturday, September 28, 2:00pm – 3:30pm

Track, Chair and Location

Title Author(s)

Finance

John Rumsey

SCHW152

Time After Time: An Analysis of Recent Financial Crises in Europe Ian Glew Financial Constraints, R&D Investment, and the Value of Cash *

Jun Zhou, Laurence Booth and Christos Ntantamis

Implications Of Limited Investor Attention To Customer-Supplier Information Transfers * Hui Zhu

Accounting

Ken MacAulay

SCHW156

Taffy Case Joan Conrod, Judy Cumby and Pauline Downer

(De)Legitimation Rhetoric And Global Governance: The Case Of International Accounting Standards

Ian Hutchinson, Alan Richardson and Burkard Eberlein

Corporate Reporting in the 21st Century Lynn MacLean Management Education

James O’Brien

SCHW205

Film Narratives And Lessons In Leadership Brad Long Using Speculative Fiction in Critical Management Studies Education David Wicks

Higher Education: The Existential Self And Critical Thinking

Scott MacMillan and Anthony Yue

Business History

Terrance Weatherbee

SCHW215

Un-bracketing “Wings of Freedom” through R&R trips - Pam Am, carrier or mediator of the war in Vietnam

Kien T. Le, Jean Helms Mills and Albert J. Mills

The Quantitative-Qualitative Debate: Add Temporality and Stir * Lawrence Corrigan Fifty Shades Of Play: Monopoly™ And The Spirit Of Capitalism* Terrance Weatherbee

Entrepreneurship

Claudia De Fuentes

SCHW289

Reversing a gloomy provincial economy through entrepreneurial immigration: the case of New Brunswick, Canada * Leyla Sall Nova Scotia's Social Enterprise Sector: An Empirical Study

George Karaphillis and Amanda Tarr

Place-based Entrepreneurship: The Incidence and Geography of Canada’s Depleted Communities

Isabella Yuan and Harvey Johnstone

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Sunday, September 29, 9:00am – 10:30 am

Track, Chair and Location

Title Author(s)

Finance

George Ye

SCHW152

How Many Days Equal A Year? A Note On The Mean-Variance Model *

George Ye and Christine Panasian

Predicting events with an unidentified time horizon: a cautionary note

Patrick de Lamirande and Jason Stevens

R.I.P. Risk-Free Asset Eben Otuteye and Mohammad Siddiquee

Accounting

Gabie Durepos

SCHW156

Analyse des enjeux fiscaux au Nouveau-Brunswick *

Egbert McGraw et Yves Robichaud

Implications De La Juste Valeur Sur L’allocation Optimale Des Ressources En Matière D’investissement

Mohamed Zaher Bouaziz et Gaétan Breton

Case Track

Robert MacDonald

SCHW205

Damnant Quodnon Intelligent? Trinity Western University's School of Law *

Robert MacDonald and Joanne Laplante

Hop-portunity Lost? Spetz Brewery Considers a Pale Future *

Robert MacDonald, Heather Steeves and Joanne Laplante

Marketing

Terrance Weatherbee

SCHW215

I Didn’t Know That: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of Facebook Users’ Privacy Literacy *

Bobbi Morrison And Randy Delorey

Customer Engagement In Facebook Brand Communities: An Exploratory Investigation Ramesh Venkat

Why Do Committed Customers Defect? Because They Are Not Engaged! * Gordon Fullerton

Entrepreneurship

Open

Joint session

Claudia De Fuentes

SCHW289

Cooperatives as Agents of Collective Entrepreneurship *

Milford Bateman and Sonja Novkovic

A Novel Adaptive Boundary Search Algorithm For Solving Facility Layout Problems *

Imran A. Tasadduq, M. H. Imam, and Abdul-Rahim Ahmad

Socio-technical perspectives on impediments in adoption of operations research & Management Science tools * Abdul-Rahim Ahmad

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Sunday, September 29, 10:45am – 12:15 pm

Track, Chair and Location

Title Author(s)

Accounting

Mary Oxner

SCHW156

Taxation Through Time: An Intertemporal Assessment of the Taxation of Human Capital in Atlantic Canada * Kirk Collins and Joshua Sim

Operationalizing Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis Under Uncertainty *

Joe Abekah, Sajedeh Beykaei and Abdur Rahim

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Schedule of Sessions by Track

Note: Papers denoted with an asterisk (*) have been accepted into the proceedings.

Accounting

Day, Time Chair and

Room Title Author(s)

Saturday 2:00-3:30 Ken MacAulay SCHW156

Taffy Case Joan Conrod, Judy Cumby and Pauline Downer

(De)Legitimation Rhetoric And Global Governance: The Case Of International Accounting Standards

Ian Hutchinson, Alan Richardson and Burkard Eberlein

Corporate Reporting in the 21st Century Lynn MacLean Sunday 9:00-10:30 Gabie Durepos SCHW156

Analyse des enjeux fiscaux au Nouveau-Brunswick *

Egbert McGraw et Yves Robichaud

Implications De La Juste Valeur Sur L’allocation Optimale Des Ressources En Matière D’investissement

Mohamed Zaher Bouaziz et Gaétan Breton

Sunday 10:45–12:15 Mary Oxner SCHW156

Taxation Through Time: An Intertemporal Assessment of the Taxation of Human Capital in Atlantic Canada *

Kirk Collins and Joshua Sim

Operationalizing Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis Under Uncertainty *

Joe Abekah, Sajedeh Beykaei and Abdur Rahim

Business Communication

Day, Time Chair and

Room Title Author(s) Saturday

9:00-10:30

James O’Brien

SCHW215

Expectations of Commerce Students: Are International and Domestic Student Expectations Converging? *

Linda Macdonald and Binod Sundararajan

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Business History

Day, Time Chair and

Room Title Author(s)

Saturday

10:45– 12:15pm

Terrance Weatherbee

SCHW215

Critical History: Simultaneous Multiplicity and the Interrogation of Perspective Christopher Hartt We’ve Been Busy “Putting our House in Order:” A Tale of Ontological Politics at the Nova Scotia Museum of Industry * Graham Haynes Searching for James Beek: A Working Paper on my Early Adventures in Archival Research on Post-1867 History of Legislative Audit in the New Brunswick Brent White

Saturday

2:00-3:30

Terrance Weatherbee

SCHW215

Un-bracketing “Wings of Freedom” through R&R trips - Pam Am, carrier or mediator of the war in Vietnam

Kien T. Le, Jean Helms Mills and Albert J. Mills

The Quantitative-Qualitative Debate: Add Temporality and Stir * Lawrence Corrigan

Fifty Shades Of Play: Monopoly™ And The Spirit Of Capitalism* Terrance Weatherbee

Case Track

Day, Time Chair and

Room Title Author(s)

Sunday

9:00-10:30

Robert MacDonald

SCHW205

Damnant Quodnon Intelligent? Trinity Western University's School of Law *

Robert MacDonald and Joanne Laplante

Hop-portunity Lost? Spetz Brewery Considers a Pale Future *

Robert MacDonald, Heather Steeves and Joanne Laplante

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Entrepreneurship

Day, Time Chair and

Room Title Author(s)

Saturday

2:00-3:30

Claudia De Fuentes

SCHW289

Reversing a gloomy provincial economy through entrepreneurial immigration: the case of New Brunswick, Canada * Leyla Sall Nova Scotia's Social Enterprise Sector: An Empirical Study

George Karaphillis and Amanda Tarr

Place-based Entrepreneurship: The Incidence and Geography of Canada’s Depleted Communities

Isabella Yuan and Harvey Johnstone

Sunday

9:00-10:30

Claudia De Fuentes

SCHW289 Cooperatives as Agents of Collective Entrepreneurship *

Milford Bateman and Sonja Novkovic

Ethics and Social Issues

Day, Time Chair and

Room Title Author(s)

Saturday 9:00-10:30 Cathy Driscoll SCHW205

Ties that Bind: An Institutional Isomorphic Comparison of Mandatory CSR Reporting Standards in the Canadian Financial Services Industry *

Mark Fuller and Stefan Litz

The Internet and Cultural Capital; A Critical Perspective Tammy Oulton Foreign Financial Flows and Terrorism In Developing Countries

Amar Anwar and Mazhar Mughal

Saturday 10:45-12:15 Ethics and Social Issues James O’Brien SCHW205

A Survey of Student Perceptions of Academic Cheating and Plagiarism

Elsie Henderson and Mallika Das

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Finance

Day, Time Chair and

Room Title Author(s)

Saturday

9:00-10:30

John Rumsey

SCHW152

The Quality of Financial Markets: An Attempt to Explain a Developmental Anomaly in Corporate Tax Policy

Kirk Collins and Daniel Brou

Modelling the Effect of Transactions Costs on Options-Related Trading Frequency *

Zac Chartier and Justin Mayne

Information Asymmetry and Market Response to Dividend Change Announcements: Unregulated versus Regulated Firms

Rahman Khokhar and Sudipto Sarkar

Saturday

10:45-12:15

John Rumsey

SCHW152

Relationship Between Stock Market Development And Economic Growth: Evidences From Canada And Australia

Hang V. D. Pham and Hung T. Nguyen

Testing Weak-Form Market Efficiency On The Toronto Stock Exchange

Ilona Shiller and Ishmael Radikoko

The Performance Of Experts Recommended Stocks - The Effect Of The Experts’ Personal Ownership

Xiaofei Song and Hang V.D. Pham

Saturday

2:00-3:30

John Rumsey

SCHW152

Time After Time: An Analysis of Recent Financial Crises in Europe Ian Glew Financial Constraints, R&D Investment, and the Value of Cash *

Jun Zhou, Laurence Booth and Christos Ntantamis

Implications Of Limited Investor Attention To Customer-Supplier Information Transfers * Hui Zhu

Sunday

9:00-10:30

George Ye

SCHW152

How Many Days Equal A Year? A Note On The Mean-Variance Model *

George Ye and Christine Panasian

Predicting events with an unidentified time horizon: a cautionary note

Patrick de Lamirande and Jason Stevens

R.I.P. Risk-Free Asset Eben Otuteye and Mohammad Siddiquee

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Human Resources / Industrial Relations

Day, Time Chair and

Room Title Author(s)

Saturday

9:00-10:30

Tom Mahaffey

SCHW156!

New Brunswick Model of Shared Risk Pension Plan: Human Resource Implications in an Academic Setting * Gopalan Srinivasan Differences in Job Satisfaction among Pre-Service Multicultural Cohorts Dannie Brown

Human Resources Practices in the Biotechnology Sector: The Leadership Difference *

Margaret McKee, Wendy Carroll, Elizabeth Kelley, E. Kevin Kelloway and Juergen Krause

Management Education

Day, Time Chair and Room

Title Author(s)

Saturday

9:00-10:30

Karen Grandy

SCHW215

Software Product Development at a Small, Rural, Undergraduate University Conor Vibert

Complements to Student Evaluations of Instruction

James O'Brien and Ethan Pancer

Saturday

10:45-12:15

James O’Brien

SCHW205

Why Only A Little Snippet? It’s Prime Time For Business Ethics Education

Joanne Firth and Cathy Driscoll

Community-Based Service-Learning: Serving Student And Community Engagement

Cathy Driscoll, Margaret McKee and Shelley Price

Saturday

2:00-3:30

James O’Brien

SCHW205

Film Narratives And Lessons In Leadership Brad Long Using Speculative Fiction in Critical Management Studies Education David Wicks

Higher Education: The Existential Self And Critical Thinking

Scott MacMillan and Anthony Yue

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Marketing

Day, Time Chair and Room

Title Author(s)

Saturday 10:45-12:15 Alidou Ouedraogo SCHW289

Benchmarking the Behaviour and Characteristics of Wine Tourists in a New Wine Region *

Tara Laceby and Donna Sears

Sunday 9:00-10:30 Terrance Weatherbee SCHW215

I Didn’t Know That: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of Facebook Users’ Privacy Literacy*

Bobbi Morrison And Randy Delorey

Customer Engagement In Facebook Brand Communities: An Exploratory Investigation Ramesh Venkat

Why Do Committed Customers Defect? Because They Are Not Engaged! * Gordon Fullerton

Open Track

Day, Time Chair and Room

Title Author(s)

Sunday

9:00-10:30

Claudia De

Fuentes

SCHW289

A Novel Adaptive Boundary Search Algorithm For Solving Facility Layout Problems *

Imran A. Tasadduq, M. H. Imam, and Abdul-Rahim Ahmad

Socio-technical perspectives on impediments in adoption of operations research & Management Science tools * Abdul-Rahim Ahmad

Organizational Behaviour

Day, Time Chair and Room

Title Author(s)

Saturday

10:45-12:15

Brad Long

SCHW156

Social Media World: A Communicative Constitution Of Organizations (CCO) Perspective

Amy Thurlow and Anthony Yue

Making Sense of the Story: Contextual Frameworks Revealed in Acts of Narration William Murray

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Strategy

Day, Time Chair and Room

Title Author(s)

Saturday

9:00-10:30

Alidou Ouedraogo

SCHW289

Reactions of Powerful CEOs to Accusations of Illegal Activity *

Russell Fralich and Naina Garg

Executive hubris, groupthink, and Links to path-dependence: Parsing General Motors (1980-2010)

Shamsud Chowdhury, Binod Sundararajan and Paul Armstrong

Saturday

10:45-12:15

Alidou Ouedraogo

SCHW289

Analyzing the iron ore industry to develop Investment strategies in Canadian iron ore projects

Kun Wang, Thomas Cooper, Alex Faseruk and Amy Hsiao

Job satisfaction, employees retention and organizational performance Alidou Ouedraogo

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Recent Conferences and Presidents of ASB (2000-2013) !

YEAR PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY SPONSOR (Location)

2000 Alex Faseruk MUN (St. John’s)

2001 Paul Dixon SMU (Halifax)

2002 Neil Maltby St. Francis Xavier University (Antigonish)

2003 Ann MacGillivary MSVU (Halifax)

2004 Ann MacGillivary MSVU (Halifax)

2005 Basu Sharma UNB (Fredericton)

2006 Basu Sharma UNB (Fredericton)

2007 Peter Sianchuk Mount Allison University (Sackville)

2008 Ian Hutchinson Acadia University (Wolfville)

2009 Lawrence Bauer MUN (St. John`s)

2010 Gerard Fillion Université de Moncton (Moncton)

2011 Jean Helms Mills UPEI (Charlottetown)

2012 Wendy Carroll Dalhousie University (Halifax)

2013 John Rumsey St. Francis Xavier University (Antigonish)

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List of Authors

Authors Affiliation Authors Affiliation Abdul-Rahim Ahmad Dalhousie University Joanne Laplante Crandall University Abdur Rahim University of New Brunswick Joe Abekah University of New Brunswick

Albert J. Mills Saint Mary's University Joshua Sim Queen's University

Alex Faseruk Memorial University of Newfoundland

Judy Cumby Memorial University of Newfoundland

Alidou Ouedraogo Université de Moncton Judy Bailey Cape Breton University

Amanda Tarr Cape Breton University Jun Zhou Dalhousie University

Amar Anwar Cape Breton University Justin Mayne Dalhousie University

Amy Hsiao Memorial University of Newfoundland

Kien T. Le, Saint Mary's University

Amy Thurlow Mount Saint Vincent University Kirk Collins St. Francis Xavier University

Anthony Yue Mount Saint Vincent University Kun Wang Memorial University of Newfoundland

Binod Sundararajan Dalhousie University Laurence Booth University of Toronto Bobbi Morrison St. Francis Xavier University Lawrence Corrigan Saint Mary's University

Brad Long St. Francis Xavier University Leyla Sall Université de Moncton

Brent White Mount Allison University Linda Macdonald Dalhousie University Cathy Driscoll Saint Mary's University Lynn MacLean Cape Breton University

Christine Panasian Saint Mary's University M. H. Imam Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia Christopher Hartt Dalhousie University Mallika Das Mount Saint Vincent University

Christos Ntantamis Mount Allison University Margaret McKee Saint Mary's University

Conor Vibert Acadia University Mark Fuller St. Francis Xavier University

Daniel Brou Western University Mazhar Mughal Université de Pau, France

Dannie Brown Cape Breton University Milford Bateman University of Juraj Dobrila at Pula

David Wicks Saint Mary's University Mohamed Zaher Bouaziz

Université de Moncton

Donna Sears Acadia University Mohammad Siddiquee

University of New Brunswick

Eben Otuteye University of New Brunswick Naina Garg Saint Mary's University

Egbert McGraw Université de Moncton Patrick de Lamirande

Cape Breton University

Elizabeth Kelley Dalhousie University Paul Armstrong Dalhousie University

Elsie Henderson Mount Saint Vincent University Pauline Downer Memorial University of Newfoundland

Ethan Pancer Saint Mary's University Rahman Khokhar Saint Mary's University

Gaétan Breton UQAM Ramesh Venkat Saint Mary's University

George Karaphillis Cape Breton University Randy Delorey St. Francis Xavier University

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Authors Affiliation Authors Affiliation George Ye Saint Mary's University Robert MacDonald Crandall University

Gopalan Srinivasan University of New Brunswick Russell Fralich Saint Mary's University

Gordon Fullerton Saint Mary's University Sajedeh Beykaei University of New Brunswick

Graham Haynes St. Francis Xavier University Scott MacMillan Mount Saint Vincent University

Hang V.D. Pham Saint Mary's University Shamsud Chowdhury

Dalhousie University

Harvey Johnstone Cape Breton University Shelley Price Saint Mary's University

Heather Steeves Crandall University Sonja Novkovic Saint Mary's University

Hui Zhu Cape Breton University Stefan Litz St. Francis Xavier University

Hung T. Nguyen Massey University, New Zealand Sudipto Sarkar McMaster University

Ian Glew Memorial University of Newfoundland

Tammy Oulton Mount Saint Vincent University

Ian Hutchinson Acadia University Tara Laceby Nova Scotia Community College

Ilona Shiller University of New Brunswick Terrance Weatherbee

Acadia University

Imran A. Tasadduq Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia

Thomas Cooper Memorial University of Newfoundland

Isabella Yuan Cape Breton University Wendy Carroll University of Prince Edward Island

Ishmael Radikoko University of Botswana William Murray Mount Saint Vincent University

James O'Brien Saint Mary's University Xiaofei Song Saint Mary's University

Jason Stevens University of Prince Edward Island

Yves Robichaud Laurentian University

Jean Helms Mills Saint Mary's University Zac Chartier Dalhousie University

Joan Conrod Dalhousie University E. Kevin Kelloway Saint Mary’s University

Juergen Krause University of Prince Edward Island

Alan Richardson University of Windsor

Joanne Firth Saint Mary's University Burkard Eberlein York University

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Track Chairs

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Accounting Business History Ken MacAulay, St Francis Xavier University kmacaula@stfx.ca

Terry Weatherbee, Acadia University terrance.weatherbee@acadiau.ca

Case Track Entrepreneurship Robert MacDonald, Crandall University robert.macdonald@crandallu.ca

Claudia De Fuentes, St. Mary’s University claudia.defuentes@smu.ca

Ethics & Social Issues Finance Margaret McKee & Cathy Driscoll, St Mary’s University margaret.mckee@smu.ca cathy.driscoll@smu.ca

John Rumsey, Dalhousie University john.rumsey@dal.ca

Gender & Diversity HR/IR David Wicks, Saint Mary’s University david.wicks@smu.ca

Jim Grant, Acadia University jim.grant@acadiau.ca

Information Systems Management Education Neil Foshay, St Francis Xavier University nfoshay@stfx.ca

James O’Brien, St Mary’s University j.obrien@smu.ca

Marketing Organizational Behaviour Bhasker Mukerji, St Francis Xavier University bmukerji@stfx.ca

Brad Long, St Francis Xavier University blong@stfx.ca

Organizational Theory Strategy Brad Long, St Francis Xavier University blong@stfx.ca

Alidou Ouedraogo, Universite de Moncton alidou.ouedraogo@umoncton.ca

Doctoral Consortium Business Communication Randy Delorey, St Francis Xavier University rdelorey@stfx.ca

Karen Grandy, Saint Mary’s University Karen.Grandy@SMU.CA

Student Case Competition CONFERENCE CHAIRS Karen Lightstone, Saint Mary’s University karen.lightstone@smu.ca

Gabie Durepos, gdurepos@stfx.ca Monica Diochon, mdiochon@stfx.ca

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List of Reviewers !

Albert Mills, Saint Mary’s University K. Doreen MacAulay, University of South Florida Alex Faseruk, Memorial University Karen Lightstone, Saint Mary’s University Alidou Ouedraogo, Université of Moncton Keke Song, Dalhousie University Amy Thurlow, Mount St. Vincent University Ken MacAulay, St. Francis Xavier University Bally Thun Kristene Coller, University of Lethbridge Bobbi Morrison, St. Francis Xavier University Larry Corrigan, Saint Mary’s University Brad Long, St. Francis Xavier University Leo Gallant, St. Francis Xavier University Brent White, Mount St. Vincent Mahmoud Sharif, North South University Caterina Bettin, Saint Mary's University Margaret McKee, Saint Mary’s University Cathy Driscoll, Saint Mary’s University Maria Pacurar, Dalhousie University Chris Hartt, Dalhousie University Mark Fuller, St. Francis Xavier University Conor Vibert, Acadia University Mark Mellon, University of South Florida Daphne Rixon, Saint Mary’s University Mary Oxner, St. Francis Xavier University David Wicks, Saint Mary’s University Merle Emms, Saint Mary’s University Denton Anthony, St. Francis Xavier University Monica Diochon, St. Francis Xavier University Donna Parsons, University of North Carolina Najah Attig Saint Mary’s University Donna Stapleton, Memorial University Nicole Morris, Saint Mary’s University Ellen Rudderham-Gaudet, Saint Mary’s University Oumar Sy, Dalhousie University Ethan Pancer, Saint Mary's University Patricia McLaren, Wilfrid Laurier University Gabrielle Durepos, St. Francis Xavier University Pauline Downer, Memorial University George Ye, Saint Mary's University Ping Wang, St. Francis Xavier University Gina Grandy, Mount Allison University Randy Delorey, St. Francis Xavier University Greg Hebb, Dalhousie University Robert Madden, St. Francis Xavier University Hamadou Boubacar, University of Moncton Russ Fralich, Saint Mary's University Heather Jewers, St. Francis Xavier University Ryan MacNeil, Saint Mary's University Heidi Weigand, Saint Mary’s University Scott MacMillan, Mount Saint Vincent University Ian Hutchinson, Acadia University Shelagh Campbell, University of Regina Iraj Fooladi, Dalhousie University Stefan Litz, St. Francis Xavier University Irfan Butt, Sultan Qaboos University Sylvie Berthelot, Université de Sherbrooke Jean-Marc Suret, Université Laval Terrance Weatherbee, Acadia University Jeff Power, Saint Mary’s University Todd Boyle, St. Francis Xavier University Joan Conrod, Dalhousie University Tom Cooper, Memorial University John Rumsey, Dalhousie University Tom Kozloski, Saint Mary's University Judy Ann Roy, University of New Brunswick Vedmani Sharan, Carleton University Judy Cumby, Memorial University William Murray, Mount Saint Vincent University Jun Zhu, Dalhousie University Yonggan Zhao, Dalhousie University

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Information about the St.FX Campus !

Please refer to the picture below for information about parking (parking lot is circled in red) during the ASB Conference as well as the location of the Gerald Schwartz School of Business (building 2 & 3).

Internet Connection To connect to the St. FX Internet (wirelessly), please use the login and password information that has been pasted behind your name-badge give to you at registration.

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