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SCHOOL OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

PhD & Research-Based Masters Programs Bulletin

ISSUE 8.2 | JUNE 2014

Program Updates 2013/2014 Celebrating our students’ academic and research excellence! We are pleased to report that our current students have not only been active in their research produc-tivity, but have also won many awards and scholar-ships such as the SSHRC, OGS, and the Travel and Research Award.

For the 2014-2015 admissions cycle, we have award-ed the Dean’s entrance scholarship to outstanding incoming domestic and international students in each PhD and research-based master’s program. With an increasing number of applications to our programs from last year, most of our fields are expe-riencing healthy growth. In addition, many highly qualified applicants have chosen to join us this com-ing September, including two SSHRC winners in MSc in Management: OB/HRM program. We are excited to have such high calibre students joining our programs in every field.

This issue of the bulletin shines a spotlight on the many accomplishments of our students. We hope that you will join us in celebrating their well-deserved success.

Wishing you a safe and happy summer,

- PhD & Research-Based Masters Programs Office

WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY WATERLOO | Brantford | Kitchener | Toronto

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Award Winners..………………………………………..2

Papers & Conference Presentations……….…….3

Graduates & Co-op Placements…………..………5

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Award Winners OGS 2014/2015 Congratulations to the following stu-dents who have received the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) for the 2014/2015 year:

Alireza Azimian (PhD in O/SCM)

Jon Kerr (PhD in Marketing)

Kevin Melville (MABE)

Dave Whiteside (PhD in OB/HRM)

TRAVEL & RESEARCH AWARD

The following students have received the Travel and Research Award from the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoc-toral Studies:

Alireza Azimian (PhD in O/SCM)

Lisa Kuron (PhD in OB/HRM)

Hamed Mehrabi (PhD in Marketing)

Dave Whiteside (PhD in OB/HRM)

PROGRAM NEWS PRIME (Project on Research in Inter-national Business, Marketing and En-trepreneurship) is funded by an SSHRC grant to support knowledge mobilization in International Entrepre-neurship. Co-led by Nicole Coviello and Helena Yli-Renko (USC Marshall), the PRIME team is assessing over 700 multi-item measures from over 400 articles. The outcome of this project will be a Handbook of Multi-item Measures. The PRIME team consists of four doctoral students from the Marketing Area:

Ken Chen Hamed Mehrabi

Jon Kerr Greg Tanguay

OTHER AWARD-WINNERS Congratulations to the following students who have won awards:

Jon Kerr (PhD in Marketing), SSHRC 2014-2016

Samantha Hancock (MSc in OB/HRM), September 2014 start

Irene Kim (MSc in OB/HRM), September 2014 start

SSHRC Congratulations to the following students who have received the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) awards:

Alireza Azimian (PhD in O/SCM) has received funding from the P&G Centre for Business & Sustainability at Laurier for his project with Dr. Hamid Noori, Implementing Sustainability through Governance of Contagion Risk in the Food Sector. He also won the Ontario Institute of PMAC Achievement of Ex-cellence Scholarship.

Jon Kerr (PhD in Marketing) became 2013 Consortium Fellow at the AMA Entrepreneurial Marketing SIG Doctoral Consorti-um in Boston, USA.

Lisa Kuron (PhD in OB/HRM) has won 2014 Best Paper Award, Human Resources Division at the Administrative Sci-ence Association of Canada Annual Meeting, and Doctoral In-stitute Scholarship from 2014 Organizational Behavior Teach-ing Society.

Christos Stathopoulos (MABE) has been granted the 2014 Fin-lay Award, which is an endowed scholarship established in memory of Professor John Finlay, a member of the Depart-ment of Economics from 1969-1992.

Dave Whiteside (PhD in OB/HRM) was named the Graduate Students’ Association’s (GSA) Researcher of the Year.

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Papers and Conference Presentations

VISITING SCHOLARS Dr. Jin Gao (Shanghai Maritime Uni-versity) has joined our School as a vis-iting professor (from December 2013 for 12 months) in the Economics de-partment.

Dr. Glen Gorman (PhD in Psychology, Laurier) has joined our School as a post-doctoral fellow (from March 2014 to December 2014) in Marketing & Consumer Behaviour to work with Dr. Tripat Gill in the Consumer Research Lab. Dr. Gorman’s fellowship is fund-ed by SSHRC grants awarded to Dr. Tripat Gill and Dr. Zhenfeng Ma.

Dr. Xi Chen (PhD in Management, New York University) has joined our School as a post-doctoral fellow (from April 2014) in the OB/HRM area to work with Dr. Laurie Barclay.

Dr. Jun Huang (Executive Director of MBA program and Assistant to the Dean, Southwest University) has joined our School as a visiting profes-sor (from May 2014 to October 2014).

Dr. Meltem Arat (Dokuz Eylul Univer-sity) and Dr. Melih Arat (Yalova Uni-versity) will be joining our School as visiting professors (from July 2014 for 12 months) with the P&G Centre for Business & Sustainability at Laurier to complete their work on a book on hu-manistic capitalism.

Dr. Rui Zhang (Dean of Research Center for Accounting Development, School of Accounting, Jiangxi Univer-sity of Finance and Economics) will be joining our School as a visiting profes-sor (from September 2014 to February 2015).

Leila Kamali Kamali, L. & Gill, T. (2014, May). When is Sustainability a Liability Versus an Asset in Hedonic Products. Paper Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Muskoka,

ON, Canada.

Jon Kerr Kerr, J. & Coviello, N. (2013). Re-conceptualizing the Dynamic Model of Effectuation. Paper Presentation at AMA Global Marketing & Entrepreneurship In-terface Research Symposium, Boston, USA.

Lisa Kuron Lyons, S., & Kuron, L. (2013). Generational differences in the workplace: A review of the evidence and directions for future re-search. Journal of Organizational Behavior. DOI: 10.1002/job.1913

Kuron, L.K.J., Schweitzer, L., Lyons, S., & Ng, E.S.W. (2014, May). Careers profiled: Investigating differences in career be-haviours and experiences. Conference Proceedings and Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Administrative Sci-ences Association of Canada, Muskoka, ON, Canada. Winner of the Best Paper: Human Resources Division at the 2014 Ad-ministrative Sciences Association of Canada Conference.

Kuron, L.K.J. & Taggar, S. (2014, May). The job search fair? The influence of justice perceptions on job seekers’ self-regulation. Conference Proceedings and Presentation at the Annual Meet-ing of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Muskoka, ON, Canada.

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Papers and Conference Presentations cont’d

Lyons, S.T. & Kuron, L.K.J. (2014, May). Taking stock of generational differences: What’s next? Symposium at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Inc., Honolulu, HI, USA.

Kuron, L.K.J. (2014, June). Let’s give them something to talk about: Integrating pop culture, social media and OB theories to facilitate intrinsic motivation. Presentation at the Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Nashville, TN, USA.

David Lewis Lewis, D., Gill, T., & Ranaweera, C. (2014, May). Does Delegation Offer Relief from the Burden of Choosing? An Experiment on the Effect of Complexity and Delegation on Consumer Satisfaction with Investment Decisions. Poster Presentation at Boulder Sum-mer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making, Boulder, CO, USA.

Lewis, D. (2014, May). Case Study: Canadian Scholarship Trust Foundation. Conference Proceedings and Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Muskoka, ON, Canada.

Hamed Mehrabi Mehrabi, H. & Coviello, N. (2014, May). Institutional Effects on the Configuration of Market-Based Capabilities: A Conceptual Framework. Poster Presentation at the 2nd Annual Canadian Empirical and Theoretical Symposium in Marketing Strategy, Hamil-ton, ON, Canada.

Eman Nasr Nasr, E. & Noori, H. (2014, August). Process Innovation Propagation: Appropriating Sup-ply Chain Innovation Returns. Conference Proceedings and Presentation in a Divisional Paper session at the 2014 Academy of Management Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Nasr, E. & Noori, H. (2014, May). Building Distinctive Innovative Capability for Supply Chains: The Role of Relational Governance. Presentation at the Technology Innovation

and Industrial Management, Seoul, Korea.

Adrian Tan Noori, H. & Tan, A. (2014, July). A study to determine appropriate configuration struc-tures in transient collaboration networks. Conference Proceedings and Presentation at the 21st International Annual EurOMA Conference, Palermo, Italy.

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Congratulations, Graduates! The following students graduated in the Spring 2014 convocation. Congratulations on this major accomplishment!

DISSERTATION DEFENCE

Saba Sharih (OB/HRM) has successfully de-fended her doc-toral disserta-tion. Congratula-tions to Saba for

this major accomplishment!

DISSERTATION PRO-POSAL DEFENCE Hosein Nooriaan (FE) has successfully defended his dissertation proposal. Congratulations to Hosein for his hard work and success!

COMPREHENSIVE EXAM NEWS Justin Mindzak (Accounting) has suc-cessfully completed his comprehen-sive exams for the PhD in Manage-ment. He will now proceed to working on his doctoral dissertation proposals.

Sundip Dhanial (MABE)

Andrew Doudnikov (MABE)

Cameron Fortier (MABE)

Yu Fu (MFin Co-op)

Xinyi Guo (MFin Co-op)

Dylan Hsu (MFin Co-op)

Lelan Jiang (MFin Co-op)

Sivakanthan Karunakanthan (MABE)

Kristen Saguil (MABE)

David Smerd (MABE)

Srisharavanan Thanaba-lasingam (MABE)

Zhiyuan Xiao (MFin Co-op)

Leo Xu (MFin Co-op)

Daniel Yan (MFin Co-op)

Co-op Placements The following students are currently on their co-op term:

Zechuan Deng (MABE), Employment and Social Development Canada

James Fudurich (MABE), Bank of Canada

Piaoxia Lai (MFin), Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

Xinyu Li (MFin), Ministry of Economic Development, Trade & Employment

Jing Luo (MFin), Validus Research Inc.

Di Meng (MFin), International Opportunity

Wentao Shi (MABE), Fidelity Investments Canada

Christos Stathopoulos (MABE), BMO Financial Group

Ali Syed (MABE), Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Cory Timmons (MABE), Employment and Social Development Canada

Yanling Tu (MFin), Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

Elizabeth Vickers (MABE), Ministry of Finance

Zinan Wang (MFin), International Opportunity

Zequan Yan (MFin), Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Mengjia Zhu (MFin), Ontario Education Collaborative Market-place

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