Previous Research Achievement Award Recipients
Linda Duxbury – 2023
Linda Duxbury is Chancellor’s Professor of Management. Her research project, Employee Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic, draws upon extensive real-time data about fluctuations in people’s lives, circumstances, and wellbeing, from 2020 to 2022, in order to clarify the social and human costs of pandemics and the strategies used to manage them in Canada. By identifying such factors as the pandemic’s impact on workers’ mental health, the strategies workers used to manage that impact, and the ways employers contributed to or ameliorated employee stress, Linda is improving our understanding of employee wellbeing and thereby enabling businesses, employees, and policymakers to make evidence-based decisions.
Mohamed Al Guindy – 2022
Mohamed Al Guindy is an Assistant Professor of Finance. His research on Dynamic Networks in Financial Markets will construct a dynamic network view of the economy based on social media discussions and use this network view to study the diffusion and propagation of shocks, such as COVID-19. Exploring how shocks propagate in the economy and which firms or clusters of firms are most central, he will focus on the connections between and among firms, how these connections form and fade, and what a large shock does to the economy or an industry.
Isaac Otchere- 2021
Isaac Otchere is a Professor of Finance. In recent times many firms with unsustainable business practices are being excluded from the investment portfolios of environmentally and ethically focused public investors. While this is meant to be a punishment for their environmental sins, little is known about the effectiveness of this strategy in actually changing corporate behaviours because other investors could fill this void. Through his project, The Price of Environmental Sin, Isaac is examining this effectiveness and researching if it does indeed force the excluded firms to become more environmentally sustainable.
Uma Kumar – 2020
Uma Kumar’s research focusing on Enhancing Firm’s Performance through Cloud Manufacturing will investigate the fact that many manufacturing firms have their operations and resources (e.g. design, R&D, manufacturing), at geographically decentralized locations and that they need to be integrated to facilitate information and data sharing. Advancements in Cloud Manufacturing is thought to do this; however, the question is – does cloud manufacturing help and how. This research supported by the RAA award will investigate to what extent cloud manufacturing influence the firm’s performance and does it help to create synergy between strategy and manufacturing capability. This empirical study is case-based to be conducted in Canada and the U.S.
Angela Dionisi – 2019
Angela Dionisi’s research, focusing on Examining the Intersection of Workplace Sexual Harassment and Parenting, will investigate what lessons parents are teaching their children about sexual harassment, and by extension, the potential role parents play in mitigating the occurrence of sexual harassment in the workplace. Through her research, she aims to generate knowledge that can be used to foster healthier workplace environments.
Luciara Nardon – 2018
Luciara Nardon’s proposed research aims to uncover the role of various types of social support in the career path of newcomers through a qualitative study of professional migrants working in Canada. From a practical point of view, this study has important implications to organizations engaged with newcomers both as employers or in supporting roles as well as the potential to inform policies related to professional migration.
José Rojas-Mendez – 2017
Jose Rojas-Mendez’s research aims to contribute to the nascent field of nation brand personality by addressing three main objectives specifically in regards to the brand Canada in the Latin American market: (1) developing a scale for measuring Canada’s brand personality, (2) determining whether this scale comprises good predictors of behavioral intentions towards Canada (i.e. willingness to buy Canadian products, interest in visiting Canada and invest in Canadian businesses, etc.), and (3) examining the implications of the individual culture and personality (e.g. self-congruity) upon the Canada’s brand personality structure. The proposed study advances theory in three important ways.
Sujit Sur – 2016
Sujit Sur’s research aims to undertake a comprehensive investigation of the ownership phenomenon to enhance the theoretical understanding of ownership’s impact on performance, and specifically to investigate the relationship between a firm’s ownership structure and the firm’s sustainability related performance. This project will build on extant findings to develop an overarching theoretical model and an ownership typology, empirically validate the existing ownership measures, and investigate ownership’s relationship with environmental and societal performance outcomes.
Linda Duxbury – 2015
Linda Duxbury’s proposed research focuses on two types of employed caregivers: (1) Employees with responsibilities for the care of an adult dependent (i.e. eldercare), and (2) Employees in the sandwich group: individuals who find themselves in the position of being caregivers for their young children and/or adult children as well as one or both of aging parents. The proposed research undertakes two qualitative inductive case studies which will increase our understanding of: (1) the challenges employed caregivers in Canada face in their attempts to balance the demands placed on them at work and at outside work, and (2) how such employees can be supported at work, at home, and within the community.