Research Report 2021-2022: UofG's Lang School of Business and Economics

RESEARCH REPORT 2021–2022

Business research as a force for good

We offer our gratitude to the lands on which the University of Guelph campuses are situated and the Indigenous ancestors who have inhabited these lands for centuries. We recognize that our campuses are located on the lands of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and we offer our respect to the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Delaware Nation at Moraviantown, Six Nations of the Grand River and the diverse communities of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples who now reside on these lands. We also recognize that our educational and research enterprises occur on Indigenous lands and we endeavour to ensure that our activities honour and respect Indigenous peoples. We recognize that acknowledging the land we are on and Indigenous peoples’ relationship with the land is a starting point. As a school of business and economics, we recognize the role business, research, and education have had, and continue to have in the systemic mistreatment and harm of Indigenous peoples, communities, cultures, and lands. It is our responsibility and understanding that Lang needs to play a meaningful role in addressing the ongoing damage of colonization and developing a better future for all peoples. The 94 Calls to Action for Truth and Reconciliation and Bi-Naagwad | It Comes Into View, U of G’s Indigenous Initiatives Strategy provide us with opportunities to further reflect on the role we as educators and researchers can and should have towards collective action. We recognize there is significant work to be done to learn and unlearn in order to build trust, community, and partnership. Our strategic plan aims to demonstrate our commitment, as well as the need for action and provide an opportunity for the Lang community to engage in their own personal journey of reflection, reconciliation, and action.

Message from the Dean

It is my pleasure to present the second annual Research Report of the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics. The research contributions detailed in this report are a true reflection of the diversity and excellence that the Lang School embodies. As an AACSB accredited business school, we strive for continuous improvement in our scholarly contributions. I am proud of the strides we have made over the past year in further building our reputation for research excellence, as demonstrated by the quality of our publications, our successes with competitive grant funding, the impactful mobilization of our research knowledge, our collaborations and partnerships and our training of future researchers.

This is an exciting time at the Lang School, marked by the addition of a new Lang Chair in Marketing and several new scholars who add to our research capacity. Lang continues to be recognized as a thought leader in sustainable business research, as recognized by our MBA’s top ranking in the Corporate Knights Better World MBA list. Our momentum is strong.

I invite you to review the impact of our hard work over the past year as we look forward to the continued development of the Lang School as a nationally recognized hub of research that promotes Business as a Force for Good.

Sara Mann Dean, Lang School of Business and Economics

Message from the Associate Dean

I am pleased to present the Lang Research Impact Report (2021-22), which highlights the Lang School’s research accomplishments over the past year. Although the Lang School has a long history of high-quality research, the addition of strong researchers to our community presents exciting opportunities for growth and development of our research contributions. The theme of this year’s report is excellence through collaboration. Throughout this report you will see examples of the exciting new partnerships that are boosting the research capacity and success of the School. An excellent illustration of this collaborative spirit is the new SSHRC Insight Grant-funded research project undertaken in partnership between two Lang Chairs – Dr. Ann Pegoraro and Dr. Laurie Barclay, which investigates the pandemic’s impact on gender+ equity in Canadian sport while assessing opportunities to aid recovery and sector inclusion. I am pleased to see established faculty working in partnership with emerging scholars, as is evident in the SSHRC Insight Development Grant-funded project undertaken by Dr. Yiguo Sun and Dr. Delong Li. We have also seen exceptional partnership with private and not-for-profit sector organizations facilitated by grants from Mitacs. These projects enable the development of student researchers in projects that are of direct benefit to our industry partners.

I wish to express my sincere gratitude to the team of people who made this report a possibility, including Diane Dobbins, Manager of Research and Partnerships, Scott Carter, Manager of Marketing and Communications, Research Assistants Casey Higgins and Alexandre Dovale.

It is my privilege to support Lang’s researchers in the creation of their excellent and varied scholarly contributions. As we pause to reflect on the achievements of the past year, I look forward to continued success in the future.

Sean Lyons

Associate Dean, Research & Graduate Studies, Lang School of Business and Economics

Business Research as a Force for Good

The vision of the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics at the University of Guelph is to be recognized locally and globally for our commitment to developing future leaders for a sustainable and equitable world.

Lang’s mission

Reflecting the University of Guelph’s commitment to ‘Improve Life’, Lang’s mission is built upon the belief that ‘business as a force for good’® is important in the world. It is our mission to inspire purpose by promoting responsible and sustainable businesses and communities through interdisciplinary learning, problem-solving, and critical thinking.

Our ability to inspire purpose and cultivate business as a force for good® in society is guided by, and established within, three foundational pillars:

EMPOWERING PEOPLE CARING FOR THE PLANET DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY

Commitment to the development of leadership for a sustainable and equitable future through our teaching, research, and community engagement, with a strong emphasis on indigenization, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Lang’s Research Mission

Advocating for responsible, ethical, and sustainable business and organizational practices through dynamic and impactful research, pedagogical innovation, and intellectual curiosity.

Creating high quality and innovative research and partnerships that enhance local and global communities through economic, human, and societal impact and entrepreneurship.

To generate and mobilize excellent research that has an impact on business as a force for good.

2021-2022 Lang Research Publications Keywords & Terms

Source: Better World MBA Ranking - Sustainability

Keywords and Terms 2022

Lang’s Research on Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) Issues

Business research as a force for good tackles many of today’s most pressing global challenges. A sample of our work on environmental, social and governance issues includes:

ENVIRONMENTAL

Determinants of renewable energy consumption: Importance of democratic institutions. Renewable Energy, 179, 75-83. Chen, C., Pinar, M., & Stengos, T. (2021).

Dynamic pricing and green investments under conscious, emotional, and rational consumers. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 2, 100007. Genc, T. S., & De Giovanni, P. (2021).

On valuing (m)other nature in times of climate crises–A reflection on the non and nom of accounting for (m)other nature. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 102430. Senkl, D., & Cooper, C. (2022).

SOCIAL

Positive psychology and human resource management: Building an HR architecture to support human flourishing. Human Resource Management Review, 100911.

Gruman, J. A., & Budworth, M. H. (2022).

Incomes and Child Health in SubSaharan Africa, 1990–2018. Journal of African Economies, 30(4), 301-323. Grogan, L., & Moers, L. (2021).

It’s Alive! Increasing protective action against the coronavirus through anthropomorphism and construal. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 7(1). Wan, J., Kulow, K., & Cowan, K. (2022).

GOVERNANCE

Better policies from policy-selective aid? The World Bank Economic Review, 35(4), 829-844. Annen, K., & Knack, S. (2021).

Rewards and Fear of Being Labeled as Racist: A Tax Fraud Whistleblowing Investigation. Accounting Perspectives. Dhaliwal, S., Farrar, J., & Hausserman (2022).

Are firms with better sustainability performance more resilient during crises? Business Strategy and the Environment, 1– 17. Lu, J., Rodenburg, K., Foti, L., & Pegoraro, A. (2022).

Corporate governance, law, culture, environmental performance and CSR disclosure: A global perspective. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 70(C). Lu, J., & Wang, J. (2021).

Strategic Research Goal: Elevate Excellence

Lang aims to be ranked among the top Canadian research-intensive business schools by building on our disciplinary strengths to secure competitive research funding and produce high quality research. Lang seeks to be ranked globally in our established disciplines, with other disciplines moving along a trajectory towards national prominence.

Research Funding

The number and value of competitive external research grants, particularly tri-agency grant funding.

$1,322,835*

Value of active SSHRC IG held by PI $395,608*

Value of active SSHRC IDG held by PI

$43,741*

Value of other active external SSHRC Grants by PI

$220,500

Value of active NSERC DG held by PI

(May 1, 2021 - April 30, 2022)

*until April 30, 2022

$115,000

New Tri-Agency Funding

NSERC DG

SSHRC Connection

SSHRC PEG

SSHRC IDG

SSHRC IG

Research Projects Funded in 2021-22

SSHRC Insight Grants

Three Lang research projects were awarded SSHRC Insight Grants. This prestigious grant supports fully developed research projects.

Dr. Thanasis Stengos, will develop statistical econometric methods to measure the relative economic and human costs of policy responses to COVID-19 such as lockdowns

Drs. Ann Pegoraro, Lang Chair in Sport Management and Laurie Barclay, Lang Chair in Leadership, will assess the impact of COVID-19 on gender equity in Canadian sport and identify ways to build back an improved system.

Dr. Juan Wang is investigating how potential donors determine which charities to support.

2 years, $38,189

OMAFRA Alliance Tier 1 Research Program

The Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance Research Program invests in research that aligns with the research priorities of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), which support strong rural communities, keep our food safe and develop a prosperous, environmentally sustainable agri-food sector in Ontario. This program invested over $220,000 in support of two projects led by Lang faculty.

Dr. Kalinga Jagoda will map the Canadian hazelnut supply chain using a suite of tested methodological approaches, with the goal of evaluating the market potential for Ontario hazelnuts while considering supply chain costs, lead times and responsiveness.

and

aim to address the development of new supply chains, value-added products and economies of scale and potential for a cannabis agri-tourism

Dr. Chris Choi

Dr. Susan Dupej

Research Quality and Impact

Scholarly Impact Data:

Peer reviewed journal articles: 259

Books: 11

Book Chapters: 40

Conference Proceedings: 47

Conference Presentations: 175

Citations to Lang Scholars’ work in 2021: 4484 (Scopus)

Faculty in RePEc’s top 25% of Canadian authors: 11

130 13

ABDC A or A* publications ABS 4 or 4* Publications

7 7.38

FT50 Publications Average faculty h-index (Scopus)

Journal Quality Source: Lang Faculty Distribution on ABDC List

Source: Australian Business Deans Council List (2019)

High Impact Scholar Profile

Dr. Jamie Gruman

Dr. Gruman is an internationally recognized expert in "people issues" in organizations with a particular focus on workplace well-being and organizational on-boarding. He's published papers in some of the world's top-ranked business journals and has garnered 6,470 citations and an h-index of 23 according to Google Scholar (scholar. google.com) and 1,766 citations and an h-index of 16 according to Scopus (www.scopus.com). Dr. Gruman has authored numerous books, the latest in 2021 entitled “Advanced Introduction to Employee Engagement".

Jamie is a highly sought-after keynote speaker and has spoken for Fortune 500 corporations, public, and nonprofit organizations. Additionally, his work is cited in media outlets around the globe including NBC News, Time, Oprah, Fast Company, Inc, Forbes, the BBC, the New York Times, and the World Economic Forum.

Lang Supported Research (2021- 2022)

Conference Sponsorships: $30K+

SSHRC Institutional Grant Exchange program: Travel Support: $130K

SSHRC Institutional Grant - Explore program: Seed Funding $175K+

Lang Graduate Research

Assistant Funding: $710K+

PhD Student Travel Grants: $170K+

Proposal Development Grants: $107K+

Research Leadership Chairs are granted by the Office of the Vice-President (Research) to recognize research excellence of mid- to late-career-stage faculty who have proven records of outstanding and sustained scholarly work and who have received significant recognition on both a national and international level.

Over two decades, Dr. Sun has distinguished herself as a leader in her field, ranking in the top quintile of Canadian economists, according to RePEc. Dr. Sun is recognized for sustained, high quality academic output, several SSHRC grants, knowledge mobilization, and mentorship of early career researchers and highly qualified personnel. Professor Sun’s current research focuses on spatial econometrics, which is applicable across many fields, including international trade, real estate, economic development, and tourism economics, among others.

The Office of the Vice-President (Research) administers this annual award, which recognizes research achievements of recently tenured faculty members who have demonstrated excellence through scholarly output that is demonstrably internationally impactful within the nominee’s discipline.

Over the past year, Professor Li was the recipient, as a sole applicant, of both a SSHRC Insight Development Grant and a 5-year NSERC Discovery Grant. Dr. Li has an impressive publication record, all as a first author, and more than 80% listed in high-quality “A” journals.

Professor Li’s research focuses primarily on insurance data analytics and insurance economics, with an emphasis on quantifying and examining economic and financial risks. More specifically, Dr. Li’s work applies advanced statistics and machine learning algorithms to the measurement, pricing and management of financial and insurance risk, especially in the context of agriculture, automobile, climate, health and longevity.

Scholars Joining Lang in 2021-2022

DR. RAY’S EXPERTISE IN MARKETING AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES WILL HELP ADVANCE LANG’S MISSION OF DEVELOPING FUTURE-FOCUSED BUSINESS LEADERS WHO WILL SHAPE TOMORROW’S BUSINESS WORLD. I AM CONFIDENT THAT HE WILL CONTINUE TO PUBLISH IMPACTFUL RESEARCH IN TOP-TIER JOURNALS. I LOOK FORWARD TO THE LEADERSHIP AND COLLABORATION HE’LL BRING TO THE LANG CHAIR POSITION.

Dr. Sourav Ray

In 2021-2022 the Lang School welcomed the Lang Chair in Marketing, Dr. Sourav Ray. Dr. Ray joins fellow Lang Chairs Laurie Barclay, Lang Chair in Leadership, Ann Pegoraro, Lang Chair in Sport Management, and Ilias Tsiakas, Lang Chair in Finance. The goal of the Lang Chairs is to advance Lang’s position as a globally focused business school dedicated to improving life through purpose-driven management education. The Lang Chairs are funded by the School’s historic $21-million gift from Stu and Kim Lang in 2019.

Dr. Ray earned his PhD in Marketing from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. His research explores strategic issues in business-to-business marketing, distribution channels, pricing, emerging technologies and technology-intensive markets. Dr. Ray has taught undergraduate, graduate and executive courses for more than two decades. He fosters PhD student development in his research while prioritizing research quality, having published in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Science, Journal of Monetary Economics and The Journal of Law and Economics, among others.

Dr. Ray is senior editor of the E-Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA) Journal and supervises several doctoral students. In international seminars for academics and practitioners, he has contributed to media and industry associations with his expertise on marketing trends.

AS THE SPECTRUM OF CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES AND EXPECTATIONS EVOLVE WITH THE ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY, BUSINESSES ARE INCREASINGLY LOOKING TO HARNESS NEW-FOUND CAPABILITIES IN CONNECTIVITY AND ANALYTICS FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES. FOR MARKETERS, THESE CREATE NUMEROUS OPPORTUNITIES FOR CURATING VALUEADDED CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES THAT ARE ALSO SUSTAINABLE AND EQUITABLE. NEVERTHELESS, THESE OFTEN COME AT A COST AND UNFORESEEN BUSINESS CHALLENGES THAT REQUIRE RETHINKING OF TRADITIONAL MODELS AND OBJECTIVES.

Dr. Sara Mann, Dean of the Lang School

Dr. Sourav Ray

Management

Dr. Burga earned his PhD from the University of Guelph. He brings decades of industry experience, academic research, and a passion for student success to his new appoint ment and looks forward to devoting more time to his research in the areas of project management, sustainability and the scholarship of teaching and learning in addition to continuing to guide undergraduate and graduate stu dents in their learning journey.

Heather Kennedy Assistant Professor, Sport Management

Dr. Kennedy earned her PhD from Temple University, in 2020, and completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Lang in 2021. Her innovative research focuses on optimizing the use of technol ogy by sport consumers and organizations. She has a strong background in sport and IS and brings expertise in predictive analytics and social media engagement to Lang, supporting the growing field of sport analytics.

Dr. Audrey Jamal Assistant Professor, Management & Assistant Dean, Strategic Partnerships and Societal Impact, Dean’s Office

Dr. Jamal earned her PhD from the University of Waterloo. Her research addresses questions related to local economic development, entrepreneur ship, and sustainability. She is working in partnership with the Shorefast Foundation, Community Foundations of Canada and the Canadian Urban Institute to map out place-based strategies to activate local econ

omies in five prototype communities across the country.

Dr. Katie Lebel Assistant Professor, Sport Management

Dr. Lebel earned her PhD in Kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario. She spent three years teaching sport management at St. John’s University, in New York, one of North America’s most established Sport Management programs, prior to joining the Ted Rogers School of Management where she developed the sport business curriculum. Her research explores innovative disruption in sport, new sport business models, and gender equity. Dr. Lebel brings expertise in digital media and sport engagement to Lang, supporting the growing field of sport analytics.

Xiaowen Lei Assistant Professor, Economics and Finance

Dr. Lei earned her PhD from Simon Fraser University in 2018. Since then, Dr. Lei has held positions at the Bank of Canada as a visiting scholar and more recently a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Economics at the University of Oxford. Her research specialization is macroeco nomics, with a focus on understanding the interaction of belief heterogeneity and wealth distribution.

Dr. Fred Liu Assistant Professor, Economics and Finance

Dr. Liu joined the Lang School in July 2021 after completing his doctorate at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Liu’s teaching and research interests reside within the intersection of finan cial econometrics, machine learning, asset pricing, and risk management.

Dr. Ruben Burga Assistant Professor,

Dr.

Dr.

Feature Story: How businesses can best help employees disconnect from work

By Drs. Jamie Gruman and Nita Chhinzer

A number of countries have recently introduced legislation giving employees the legal right to disconnect electronically from work. Originating in France, right-to-disconnect initiatives mandate that organizations cannot expect employees to be available outside of their established working hours.

This legislation has now expanded to Ireland, Canada, Spain and other countries.

However, by maintaining a focus on a set of established working hours during which employees must be available, the right to disconnect simply takes the physical time clock off the wall and figuratively puts it into the cloud. Although an important initiative, a greater focus on employee autonomy is needed to maximize the benefits intended by these laws.

Although the right to disconnect may foster high performance by allowing employees to recharge their batteries, the major intent is to promote employees’ worklife balance by allowing them to disengage from work, handle different responsibilities and ensure their wellbeing. Right-to-disconnect laws signal a greater focus on employee well-being, and a rejection of the idea that workers need to be “always on.”

The aim of right-to-disconnect laws is to enhance work-life balance. But is there a better way?

Limitations of the right to disconnect

But right-to-disconnect legislation has limitations. It focuses on specific hours employees are free to disconnect and establishes a window during which they must be accessible.

However, establishing working hours during which employees must be available is a holdover from the industrial age when the value of employees was based on the inputs they provided — physical labour, for example. It fails to recognize that the value of today’s employees is often based on their outputs, including creative work.

However, when organizations implement policies that allow employees the freedom to choose for themselves when and how to disconnect, the well-being and performance benefits of disconnecting are maximized.

For example, someone working at home may choose to disconnect in order to go for a run at 2 p.m. and then work at 8 p.m., after their kids are asleep. Also, different people operate more effectively at different times of the day.

Similarly, an employee completing a series of intense meetings might want to take a break before re-engaging in work. Giving employees the right to disconnect on their own terms may be the best formula for promoting both performance and well-being.

Fostering autonomy

These benefits can be maximized when work is designed to provide employees with an appropriately high level of autonomy, which refers to the discretion employees have over how, when and, increasingly, where they complete their work tasks. Numerous classic and contemporary studies demonstrate the value of employee autonomy.

For example, research shows that employees who have the freedom to choose how to structure their workday and schedule their tasks (work-scheduling autonomy) have higher levels of work engagement and innovative work behaviour.

Gordon

Other studies indicate that allowing employees to make decisions (decision-making autonomy) and choose for themselves how to perform tasks (work-method autonomy) reduces mental strain, increases work motivation and improves job performance.

Similarly, research shows that when employees have the discretion to choose where to work (location autonomy) they select environments that promote both their productivity and well-being.

As these studies demonstrate, there are a variety of forms of autonomy. Employee well-being and performance will be enhanced if greater autonomy, of various types, is built into right-to-disconnect initiatives.

In structuring work this way, organizations effectively separate work hours from work outputs and focus squarely on results rather than the time clock. Doing so also reduces concerns over how to manage employees remotely.

Overseeing an employee’s work behaviour may not, in fact, be necessary as long as workers are generating outputs on time, within budget and at an acceptable level of quality. As long as employees are meeting organizational objectives, when, how and where they work may be largely immaterial.

If workers are high-performing, it shouldn’t matter when, where and how they work.

Limits to autonomy

Different jobs have different levels and forms of autonomy they support. For instance, an emergency room nurse cannot choose to work from home or independently decide when to arrive at the hospital for a shift. The relationship between autonomy and work outcomes may vary depending on the nature of the work and the employer.

Issues such as the nature of the work, co-ordination requirements, dealing with deadlines or crises, work standards and employee tenure should all be considered in deciding how much autonomy is warranted. But the general principle should be to provide as much autonomy as a job will allow and support employees in their exercise of it.

Additionally, work groups should have the opportunity to establish the parameters of autonomy themselves and revisit this issue on a regular basis.

The right to disconnect is an issue that has emerged due to technological developments that have allowed organizations to keep employees tethered to work 24/7. Implementing this right effectively requires overcoming the industrial age mentality that imposes constraints on employee autonomy that are unnecessary, and possibly counterproductive, in the modern age.

The best way to help employees disconnect from work is to allow them the autonomy to choose for themselves how, when and where to disconnect.

Feature Story: Everyone should have a say on the future of green accounting

By Dr. Daniela Senkl

Accounting and corporate reports typically — and incorrectly — assume that value can best be expressed in financial terms. They also assume that value is determined through so-called “fair markets” where goods and services are priced accurately and in good faith.

These ideological biases result in more of our lives being understood predominantly in money terms, with people and the environment being treated as commodities. Increasingly, values cease to exist outside the financial realm.

Accounting and the mysterious language of accountants are important to all of us — citizens cannot leave the reporting to the accounting profession and their assumptions about who and what is important. They assume profits are good, however created, but employee well being and environmental degradation are irrelevant.

It suits accountants to be seen as too technical to be understood by the average person — that way, they don’t have to justify their decisions. Recent proposals on sustainability reporting for all significant Canadian organizations reflects this, and should have us all concerned.

Sustainability reporting

Sustainability reporting — sometimes also referred to as environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting — requires organizations to publicly report on a wide range of performance goals, not just profits.

Sustainability reporting is useful to employees, customers, citizens and governments to assess the impact and sustainability of an organization’s activities. The most

popular ESG reporting system, developed by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), highlights environmental issues, employee well being and social contributions made by organizatons.

Sustainability reporting requires organizations to publicly report on a wide range of performance goals, not just profits.

But over the last few years, the international accounting profession, led by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), has created its own set of rules that focuses solely on the needs of investors.

This issue has recently come to a head in several countries, including Canada. The Canadian accounting profession supports the ISSB, and, dramatically, is proposing to extend this neoliberal approach to every significant organization.

Missing perspectives

Last December, the Canadian accounting profession quietly released their consultation paper on sustainability standard setting in Canada.

There are clearly some positives: It makes some welcome gestures regarding diversity, equity and inclusion, suggests making the setting of standards independent from the accounting profession and it appeals to the public interest.

But the consultation paper does not define who that public is, nor does it offer substantive proposals in any of the above listed areas. It also ignores Indigenous and feminist perspectives, which question the very core of accounting’s definitions of assets and liabilities.

decades ago, if women really counted, then unpaid labour, clean water and air and beautiful landscapes would also count. Canada increasingly recognizes the need to reflect on, and publicly discuss, the important role of language as a tool of colonization and repression.

Language directs our thinking, and the language of business is no exception. Sustainability reporting is an invitation to start discussions about how accounting language structures society and renders important aspects of life invisible.

The Canadian accounting profession has always prioritized male and colonial-settler views, meaning that it prioritizes private ownership and market transactions. For all its talk, the consultation paper focuses on making sure the ISSB’s financial perspective is implemented in Canada.

The proposed sustainability standard board aims to mirror the ISSB, as shown in the terms of reference section of the consultation paper. It does not recognize its own financial, gendered, colonial biases and ignores multi-stakeholder approaches such as the GRI. Instead it paves the way for systematic greenwashing.

The new proposed sustainability standard board neglects the public interest, ignores future generations and the planet’s capacity to meet the needs of our children.

The Canadian standards will apply to all significant organizations, not just those listed on a stock exchange. Sustainability reporting, as defined by the ISSB, pressures governments, publicly owned organizations, not-for-profit enterprises and most corporations to focus on investors and bankers while ignoring the concerns of everyone

else. Canadian accountants’ woeful neglect of the public interest ignores the impact these standards will have on future generations and the planet’s capacity to meet the needs of our children.

Now is the time to act

The rules of the Canadian Sustainability Standards Board will eventually make their way into laws and regulations. The most inclusive and sensible approach to encourage genuine sustainability and inclusion is a perspective that includes multiple stakeholders, including the general public.

But without public intervention and outcry — and without public demand that the accounting profession do something different — people in Canada will be left with ESG rules that focus on investors, not the public.

It is important that people in Canada make their voice heard and let the accounting profession (and the government) know that inclusive sustainability rules are essential for Canada. The consultation process is open to anyone to respond until March 31.

The future of ESG reporting, and the future of sustainability in Canada, is at stake. Who makes the rules, and which stakeholders are considered when the rules are set, matter greatly.

The sustainability reporting rules will influence the required disclosures for organizations. This, in turn, will impact decisions and actions relating to sustainability affecting Canadians.

Gordon S. Lang

Strategic Research Goal: Mobilize Discoveries

Lang will be a Canadian business school leader in the mobilization of knowledge by increasing engagement with industry, communities and policymakers throughout the research process. Lang will pursue scholarship that creates a positive impact on society in addition to scholarly impact.

Lang faculty mobilizing discoveries through conferences and workshops

SSHRC Connection Grant

SSHRC Connection Grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives.

Mobilizing the world’s tourism knowledge is the focus of a one-year, $19,000 SSHRC grant for Dr. Statia Elliot and Dr. Marion Joppe.

The funding, part of SSHRC’s Research Data Management Capacity Building Initiative, supported the 2022 Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) International Conference, in Victoria, BC where scholars, industry experts, and government converged to share insights into the tourism sector’s post-pandemic recovery.

The funding supported live streaming and recording of keynote speeches including taping of best paper presentations, a digital repository, subsidization of student conference fees, and a qualitative research workshop.

The annual TTRA conference serves as a hub of tourism knowledge mobilization, uniting scholars and academics, highlighting prominent studies and leading data methods while also ensuring the representation and advancement of diverse voices and research.

The Institute of Sustainable Commerce at Guelph

Lang’s Institute of Sustainable Commerce supports and advances research and curriculum innovations related to business sustainability, corporate social responsibility and circular economy innovations. The Institute acts as a hub for the generation of new research and dissemination of knowledge while being collaborative and inclusive.

In April 2022, ISCG hosted its inaugural research forum: “Facing a Sustainable Future, Together”. The event featured a keynote address from Dr. Tima Bansal, Professor of Strategy at the Ivey Business School, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability. Other forum speakers included Lang faculty who presented preliminary findings about their ISCG funded projects.

(ISCG)

Recipients of ISCG: Small Research Grant Program 2022 Competition

1. The Rise of Women Legislators in Sub-Saharan Africa (Kurt Annen)

2. Tackling grand challenges: cross-sectoral collaborations to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (Felix Arndt)

4. Multiple Ways of Knowing to Inform Sustainability Standard Setting in Canada (Sonia Dhaliwal)

5. From Pandemic Adaptation to Sustainable Consumption (Yuanfang Lin)

6. Pen to Paper: Emerging Scholar Engagement Event on Sustainability Related Accounting Research and Beyond (Daniela Senkl)

International Applied Business Conference on the Evolution of Small and Medium Enterprises in the 21st Century and beyond (May 2021)

In May 2021, Dr. Alireza Talebi, Assistant Professor, Department of Management, was part of the scientific committee that organized a two-day virtual conference on the impact of COVID-19 on small businesses. Nearly 300 delegates from over 30 countries, 90 institutions, gathered virtually to participate in the “International Applied Business Conference on the Evolution of Small and Medium Enterprises

in the 21st Century and beyond” hosted by the University of Guelph Humber. The conference featured 5 keynote speakers in addition to over 75 academic papers that were presented during the 2-days with speakers joining from Brunei, Canada, Greece, Hungry, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Jorden, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Russia, Thailand, and the United States.

6th Annual Qualitative Accounting Research Symposium (QARS) (November 2021)

In partnership with Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA), the 6th annual symposium welcomed academics, graduate students and practitioners at all levels of experience, who are interested in qualitative accounting research. The theme for 2021-2022 was Near and Far: Trends in Qualitative Accounting Research. Yves Gendron of the University of Laval was the keynote speaker.

Lang Researchers in the News

Faculty have contributed their insights and expertise on a range of topics impacting business and the economy, travel and tourism, foodservice and hospitality, and more. The top frequent contributors from Lang includes:

Simon Somogyi

Food inflation, rising food prices, and food supply.

Tim Dewhirst

Brand ambassadorship, ‘shrinkflation’, cigarette packaging, Facebook name change, and Starbucks brand post pandemic

Ann Pegoraro

Tokyo Olympics, pro sports, women’s hockey, Canada Soccer wage discrepancy, Hockey Canada controversy, and sport culture

Nita Chhinzer

Electronic monitoring, quiet quitting, right to disconnect, and health-care worker burnout

Bruce McAdams

Minimum wage, worker crisis, tipping, and food waste

A sampling of some other contributions during the year:

Paul Anglin

Challenge to meet proposed housing changes

Laurie Barclay

Covid-induced anxiety triggers unethical employee behaviour

Ruben Burga

Roadmap to sustainability

Rumina Dhalla and Felix Arndt

Sustainability rankings don’t always identify sustainable companies

Nikola Gradojevic

Interest rate hike to hurt those with heavy debt

Audrey Jamal

Community-based economic development is key to strong recovery

Katie Lebel

Serena Williams will remain a trailblazer long after she retires

Sean Lyons

Return to the office

Tanya Mark

The Bay revives Zellers not for nostalgia’s sake, but for success

Davar Rezania

Impact of university education on entrepreneurship

Katheen Rodenburg

Sustainable practices good for business during economic crises

Sunghwan Yi

Pandemic-caused distress sparks rise in addictive behaviours

Feature Story: Worker shortage? Or poor work conditions? Here’s what’s really vexing Canadian restaurants

By Bruce McAdams and Rebecca Gordon, MSc

First job for many Canadians

A 2010 Canadian Restaurant and Foodservice Association report found that 22 per cent of Canadians worked in a restaurant as their first job — the highest of any industry. The study also found that 32 per cent of Canadians have at one point worked in the restaurant industry.

These statistics show that millions of Canadians have been introduced to restaurant work and the industry has enjoyed a seemingly endless supply of labour for decades. So why is it that the restaurant industry is burning through so many people?

Our research on restaurant work conditions shows that working in a restaurant is difficult, requiring the sacrifice of work-life balance due to long hours and unpredictable schedules. While restaurant work can be rewarding and fun, it can also be low-paying, stressful and physically demanding, all of which can have a negative impact on

Prior to the pandemic, Canada’s food service sector employed 1.2 million people, and according to Statistics Canada it currently needs to fill 130,000 positions to reach pre-pandemic levels. That said, the Canadian restaurant industry has been struggling with hiring and retention problems for many years.

Should the chronic hiring struggles of Canadian restaurants be referred to as a labour shortage, or can it be more accurately portrayed as a retention issue fuelled by a lack of decent work? Does the use of the term labour shortage take the onus off of restaurant operators for creating these shortages, and instead place it on Canadian job-seekers?

Many restaurant workers spend at least eight hours a day on their feet with no time for breaks or meals. Workers are also required to forgo their social and family life by having to work late nights, weekends and holidays.

Many restaurant workers almost never know precisely when their shifts will end, and tend to be placed on unpredictable split shifts or “on call” shifts to save labour costs.

Toxic work environment

The restaurant industry has also been rampant with sexual harassment, abuse and toxic work environments.

A Statistics Canada study found that hospitality workers have the worst job quality out of any industry. This was largely due to low earnings, the inability to take time off, no paid sick leave, a lack of training opportunities and no supplemental medical and dental care.

This same study found that 67 per cent of hospitality workers work in jobs with work conditions that fall below decent work levels.

So what exactly is “decent work?” It’s a concept established by the International Labour Organization and is linked to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Decent work establishes universal conditions of work that are central to the well-being of workers.

These conditions are considered to be minimum labour standards that include living wages, work hours that allow for free time and rest, safe working environments and access to health care. Decent work is considered a human right but based on the conditions of restaurant work, it appears the Canadian restaurant industry is struggling to provide it to all of its employees.

Bartenders and wait staff wait for the lunch hour rush as patrons sit on the patio of a Toronto restaurant. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Exodus of workers from the industry

Through our research on restaurant work, and via conversations with many restaurant employees across the country, we’ve learned that many are fleeing the industry because the work is a grind. What’s more, they don’t see any future in a job that will continue to hinder their well-being. The pandemic allowed workers time to find jobs in other industries that provide more stability and feature regular work schedules, vacation time, higher pay and benefits.

These workers often felt neglected, and that their employers did not believe they were worth investing in. While there are certainly good restaurant employers, the industry as a whole has failed to improve working conditions because historically, there were always new people to fill roles. That raises the question: Could the continuous reference to a labour shortage in the restaurant industry actually be creating a lack of urgency in addressing longstanding issues of work quality?

If restaurants want to operate at full staff in the postpandemic future, they need to invest in their employees because, after all, it’s impossible to run a restaurant without people working in it.

The restaurant industry has always spent money, time and resources to attract customers and increase revenues. It’s long past time for restaurant operators to consider their employees internal customers, and put as much effort into providing great experiences for them as they do for their external customers.

A good place for operators to start is by providing decent and dignified work for all that provides decent wages, benefits and healthy working conditions.

Strategic Research Goal: Promote Partnerships and Collaboration

Lang will be recognized globally as a Canadian business school research partner of choice for industry, government, and not-for-profit organizations and leverage strong internal and external academic collaborations to enhance our creation and mobilization of academic research knowledge.

Partnership Engage Grant

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants provide short-term support for partnered research activities that inform decision making for public, private or not-for-profit organizations.

Dr. Statia Elliot: Rebuilding Trust in Travel: Canadian Residents as Tourism Advocates (1 year, $24,741)

Working with Destination Canada, the research team seeks to address the devastation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic to Canada’s tourism sector, a key driver of Canada’s economy, and directly support a pathway to recovery.

Mitacs Programs and Industry Partnership

Mitacs is working to build a stronger, more inclusive innovation ecosystem through student internships, partnerships, and networks. Their programs aim to foster and support partnerships between academic institutions, industry, and social organizations. In 2021-2022, a significant number of faculty were successful in garnering Mitacs support with industry projects including:

Mitacs supported projects from the International Institute for Sport Business and Leadership:

1. Canada Basketball - Assessment and Implementation of a new Club licensing and accreditation system $15,000 Dr. Dan Wigfield (post-doc)

2. Sport Nova Scotia - Evaluating the Nova Scotia True Sport Athlete Ambassador Program, $15,000 Dr. Lianne Foti

3. Canadian Paralympic Committee - Building a leading Paralympic Organization Strategic Renewal at the Canadian Paralympic Committee, $30,000 Dr. Ann Pegoraro

4. Canadian Paralympic Committee - The Canadian Paralympic Committee – Embedding Data Analytics into the business operations, $45,000 Dr. Ann Pegoraro

5. Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport - Advances to business and sport management professionals’ ethical decision making: A practical approach in collaboration with CCES, $60,000 Dr. Kathleen Rodenburg

Other Mitacs supported projects included:

1. Innovation Guelph - Why businesses fail, Dr. Felix Arndt $15,000

2. IndigenousTech.ai Corporation - University of Guelph and IndigenousTech.ai Mentorship Program for Indigenous Youth, Dr. Sara Wick $15,000

3. Danby Appliances - Innovation Management: Decision mapping in the production and management of Danby Appliances, Dr. Kalinga Jagoda $15,000

4. Kinross Gold - Towards an understanding of women’s experiences on well-being in mining communities, Dr. Daniela Senkl - $30,000

5. Social Innovation Canada - Community Wealth Building in Ontario’s Mid-Sized Cities, Dr. Audrey Jamal - $30,000

6. SOWCool - Exploring Generation Alpha as Environmental Stewards, Dr. Sean Lyons - $15,000

7. Upper Canada Growers - Exploring the drivers of innovation diffusion for virus-resistant grape vines, Bruce McAdams$30,000

Industry Partnerships

Dr. Simon Somogyi is a co-investigator with Gale Bozzo from the Ontario Agricultural College on a 3-year, $260,500 NSERC Alliance grant focused on Postharvest Preservation Technologies for Canadian-grown Horticulture as a Strategy to Reduce Food Waste.

Simon’s role will focus on the value chain analysis and investigating business management issues related to the adoption of plant-derived antioxidant products for preservation of highly perishable horticulture.

Industry partners involved in the project are all notfor-profit organizations that span various horticultural producers in Ontario or across Canada. Key partners are Mushrooms Canada; Fresh Vegetable Growers of Ontario; and Berry Growers of Ontario.

Dr. Sara Mann is collaborating with Dr. Ryan Gibson in the Ontario Agricultural College on an OMAFRA Knowledge Translation and Transfer (KTT) project entitled “Rural futures: Mobilizing knowledge and sustaining partnerships”.

This initiative will create an online portal to showcase the knowledge mobilization of rural research conducted at the University of Guelph, ensuring it is translated and mobilized to rural partners in local government, community-based organizations, charities/nonprofits, Indigenous communities, all levels of government, businesses, and other researchers. In addition, the portal will serve as a pathfinder to connect rural partners to rural researchers demonstrating the interconnected nature and mass of rural research conducted at the University of Guelph.

University of Guelph Sustainable Restaurant Project Symposium reaches 10-year milestone

It started with a national panel discussion on the future of sustainability in Canadian food-service in 2011, and ten years later this group of driven students, faculty and community partners are more committed than ever to working towards a more sustainable future for the restaurant industry. Since May 2011, UGSRP’s goal has been to push the foodservice industry to become more sustainable through education and impactful research. UGSRP has developed sustainability curriculum for hospitality students, worked to move the University

of Guelph student run restaurant PJ’s towards a more environmentally sustainable model and worked on countless research projects with students and foodservice operators. Every year, UGSRP holds a symposium which brings prominent speakers to the University of Guelph to discuss issues in the foodservice industry. Due to Covid restrictions, the 10th annual symposium was delayed until October 2022. Last year’s theme is confronting foodservice industry challenges through research and advocacy.

Learn more about the UGSRP and past symopsiums

Tourism Initiatives Fund

After a distinguished career spanning more than three decades Dr. Marion Joppe retired at the end of 2021. During her years in HFTM, Marion made significant contributions and was recognized both within and beyond academia with a range of research awards, including the Society of Incentive and Travel Executives Foundation; Ontario Hostelry Institute; The Research Process; Ontario Accommodation Association; and HAFA/HTM Alumni Association.

At the forefront of Dr. Joppe’s research was collaboration and partnership with industry stakeholders and making a meaningful impact within the tourism sector.

In 2022, the Tourism Initiatives Fund (TIF) was launched as part of a gift from Professor Emerita Marion Joppe. The Tourism Initiatives Fund supports short-term tourismfocused research projects.

Two projects were funded in 2021-2022, including:

• Tourism’s Great Correction: Searching for Sustainability Post-Pandemic – Drs. Statia Elliot and Chris Choi

• Changes in seasonal student tourism workers’ job satisfaction and intention to stay over the course of employment – Bruce McAdams and Rebecca Gordon

Tourism Initiatives Fund project highlight:

COVID-19 forced the world to pause and reimagine travel. As the pandemic eases now is the time for the tourism industry to correct its environmental impact, says a University of Guelph researcher.

Elliot is creating a framework, with HFTM colleague Dr. Chris Choi and PhD student Alireza Zolfaghari, for the industry that she hopes will guide tourism through a sustainable recovery and away from the thinking of “more is better.” The document will address responsible travel, resiliency, community engagement, capacity management and digital efficiencies, all of which will help the industry adjust to market and capacity pressures, she says.

“The COVID-19 pandemic caused major disruptions not only to travel and tourism operations but to the sector’s pre-pandemic drive to improve economic and environmental sustainability,” she explains.

“Airports, hotels and restaurants are faced with staff shortages and investment disparities, limiting their capacity to return to pre-pandemic levels of operation and forcing a re-prioritization of traditional business approaches.”

A more environmentally and socially sustainable model

Creating ways to make the tourism industry more environmentally and socially sustainable is more important than ever because of the pandemic, Elliot says. The industry is a major economic driver for Canada, and many countries and travel trends that emerged during the pandemic signal a need to transform.

“Governments, nationally and provincially, can impact tourism’s recovery, by influencing the image of our destinations, either negatively or positively,” she says.

Elliot says industry players might consider limiting the number of visitors to popular attractions to avoid mass tourism, highlighting other destinations and promoting offseason travel.

Tourists can do their part by booking accommodations that follow sustainable practices, using local guides, eating at local restaurants to support the destination’s economy, staying longer in one place to minimize transportation emissions and respecting cultural practices, says Elliot.

“Tourism’s Great Correction: Searching for Sustainability Post-Pandemic”

Internal partnership and collaboration with Institutes and Centres

With the Arrell Food Institute:

• Canada’s Food Price Report: Lang faculty collaborate with U of G’s Arrell Food Institute, the Vector Institute and Dalhousie’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab to prepare the annual national food price prediction report.

• Deep Dish Dialogues: an online monthly series that showcases chefs and food experts and dives into impactful subjects. Viewers learn how to make a new dish while learning more about food, sustainability and our communities. The series is co-sponsored by AFI and HFTM.

With the Centre for Advancing Responsible and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (CARE-AI):

• CARE-AI integrates ethics, governance and social responsibility with technical leadership. Researchers work collaboratively with inter-disciplinary departments and industry partners to focus on applying machine learning and AI to a wide range of issues.

• Dr. Nikola Gradojevic was awarded a CARE-AI Innovation Grant (2yr, $10,000) in support of his project entitled “Explainable AI in financial model risk management.” These grants support the formation of interdisciplinary research collaborations along with spearheading new research initiatives that have the potential to achieve recognition on the national or international stage.

With Canada India Research Centre for Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE)

• Interdisciplinary nucleus for faculty, students and community partners who are interested in cutting-edge research related to India/Indian diaspora, to advocate, showcase, catalyze, and foster an equitable, respectful, and sustained exchange of knowledge between Canadian and Indian scholars on complex and emerging topics related to sustainability and social and economic well-being.

Research Profile: Exploring South Asian women’s sense of belonging Anju Philip, PhD Management Candidate

In many Canadian workplaces, South Asian women are a distinct and thriving minority. But what do their paths to success look like?

The West must cut a deal with the Taliban to prevent mass starvation in Afghanistan

The lack of food security in Afghanistan may soon become a threat to the stability of many other countries.

Without a radical change of western policy towards the Taliban, millions of people will make their way to anywhere they can find food. The arrival of the poorest of the poor in neighbouring countries and the European Union threatens to fuel further political polarization at a moment in which many governments are already under severe strain.

Both accepting and rejecting refugees may be very costly in these countries, economically and politically. Meanwhile in Afghanistan, the Taliban remain in power. Even in the absence of a moral motive to alleviate famine, there is a strong rationale for the West to do whatever it takes to feed Afghanistan.

Women have been the focus

Sharbat Gula is seen in this famous photo that was on the cover of National Geographic magazine in the 1980s. For 20 years, the fight against the Taliban has been framed in NATO countries as a fight for women’s rights. This is similar to how post-revolution fighting in central Asia in the 1920s was portrayed, and the 1980s occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviets.

As a child, young Sharbat Gula became the face of Sovietoccupied Afghanistan to citizens of the West. Her famed 1985 appearance on the cover of National Geographic magazine preceded by a year the American sale of Stinger missiles to the Mujahadeen, forerunners of the Taliban.

Other well-known photos taken in Afghanistan featured mini-skirted girls walking in 1970s Kabul before the Soviet invasion, women in burkas under the Taliban and various photos of girls in hijab attending school under the governments of Hamid Karzai and Ashraf Ghani. Together these photos suggested dramatic swings in the status of Afghan women that coincided with changes in government.

There were real improvements during the 20 years of western presence in Afghanistan before the U.S. withdrawal in August 2021. More rural children, and more girls, went to school. Infant and maternal mortality rates fell. Still, improvements in living standards of rural populations aren’t sustainable if there’s no food security.

For women, height at the age of 15 is a summary measure of the nutrition and disease environment during childhood. National survey data from 2013 shows that women born before 1976 in the part of the historic province of Badakhshan — incorporated into the Soviet Union — were three to four centimetres taller than those in Afghan Badakhshan.

By this measure, there has been no real progress in food security during the childhoods of young Afghan women.

It’s much easier to count the number of schools and hospitals built, the number of female students or how many women presenters appear on television than it is to reliably measure the amount of food being consumed. Indeed, the failure to alleviate food insecurity during the NATO campaign may have been a harbinger for the Taliban’s ultimate victory.

Dr. Louise Grogan

Food is the No. 1 need

More hospitals and better highways also don’t do much to help people if they’re still hungry. Afghans have long needed a strong foundation of food and physical security, and still do. Past Soviet successes in education and increasing the status of women in Central Asia were founded on providing people with food to eat.

Geography may not help domestic food security in Central Asia. In Tajikistan, which shares a common border, language (Dari) and culture with northern Afghanistan, the main income source of families is remittances from family members working in Russia. But seasonal migration to Russia isn’t an option for Afghan families.

Data also show that women in Afghanistan had far more difficult lives, even 15 years after the NATO intervention, than women in neighbouring countries. Afghan women still marry far earlier, have more children and are much more accepting of spousal violence than are those in neighbouring Tajikistan.

News reports from Afghanistan are increasingly focused on food shortages. There is widespread recognition that millions could starve this winter without massive food aid.

American aid may have been the main factor averting famine in recent years, when lack of rain and lack of security constrained the harvesting of food crops.

Amid dismay in NATO countries about the rapid collapse of the Afghan army in August 2021, and the US$2 trillion cost of the failed war, there’s been little evidence of any consensus among NATO allies about what to do. More than three months after the Taliban takeover, U.S.-held Afghan government funds remain frozen. There is no NATO or EU representation in the country.

Many more Sharbat Gulas

Iris-recognition software allowed the West to rediscover Sharbat Gula, of National Geographic fame, after her child marriage and the bearing of five children. In response to international news reports about her legal woes in Pakistan in 2017, former president Ghani offered her a large house in Kabul.

Gula and her family were reportedly evacuated from Afghanistan to Italy after the U.S. withdrawal of troops in August.

But there are millions more like her — and their husbands and children — who cannot be welcomed elsewhere.

NATO countries should deal urgently and co-operatively with the Taliban. If they don’t, nations ranging from China to the United Kingdom face the spectre of hundreds of thousands of destitute refugees at their borders.

The domestic political implications for these countries, including fuelling support for anti-immigration, anti-EU parties, should not be underestimated.

The only answer is to make life in Afghanistan slightly less difficult by facilitating the large-scale import of food this winter. That means accepting the reality of Taliban rule, immediately unblocking at least some of the international accounts frozen since August 2021 and financing humanitarian aid. The rest will have to wait.

Strategic Research Goal: Amplify Impact

Lang will maximize the positive impacts of our research outputs for society and will make use of our expertise to ensure evidence-based practice in all Lang activities, including teaching, research support, administration, and governance.

Global Partnership

NORTH AMERICA

Lin, Y., Wang, X., & Dhar, T. (2021). Impact of Information on Food Stocking during Early Period of COVID-19 Outbreak: Survey Exploration between Canada and US Consumers

Global Impact

Lang researchers partner with colleagues across the globe. Over the past year, faculty have published work with co-authors from the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Portugal, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States.

144 28

5 Academic partnerships with 144 institutions In 28 countries Across 5 continents

EUROPE

Huang, S., & Yi, S. (2021). Exploring creative tourist experience: A text-mining approach based on TripAdvisor reviews of a cooking workshop in Lisbon, Portugal

McKenzie, B. (2021). From communism to capitalism: Tallinna Kaubamaja, Estonia’s department store

ASIA

Zhou, P., Arndt, F., Jiang, K., & Dai, W. (2021). Looking backward and forward: Political links and environmental corporate social responsibility in China

Grogan, L. (2021). Civil war, famine and the persistence of human capital: Evidence from Tajikistan.

Röell, C., Osabutey, E., Rodgers, P., Arndt, F., Khan, Z., & Tarba, S. (2022). Managing socio-political risk at the subnational level: lessons from MNE subsidiaries in Indonesia

AFRICA

Lassou, P. J., Hopper, T., & Ntim, C. (2021). Accounting and development in Africa

Grogan, L (2022) “Manufacturing employment and women’s agency: Evidence from Lesotho 2004-2014”

Ghattas, P., Soobaroyen, T., & Marnet, O. (2021). Charting the development of the Egyptian accounting profession (1946–2016): An analysis of the StateProfession dynamics

Lassou, P.J., Hopper, T. and Ntim, C. (2021). “How the colonial legacy frames state audit institutions in Benin that fail to curb corruption”.

Fourie, L., Inwood, K., and Mariotti, M. (2022). Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865-1920

AUSTRALIA/OCEANIA

Inwood, K., Oxley, W. L., Roberts, E. (2022). “The mortality risk of being overweight in the twentieth century: Evidence from two cohorts of New Zealand men”

Dodds, R., Grima, J., Novotny, M., & Holmes, M. R. (2022). Sustainability Gets Thrown in the Trash: Comparing the Drivers and Barriers of Festival Waste Management in Canada and New Zealand

Global Impact via International Scholarly Conferences

Even though the pandemic constrained travel, Lang faculty persevered and disseminated their findings at conferences hosted around the world including Austria, Belgium, China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, and the United States.

International Partnership supported by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute

In 2021, the Shastri Indo-Canadian institute awarded a Shastri Institutional Collaborative Research Grant (SICRG) grant to co-applicants Dr. Tirtha Dhar, Department of Marketing and Consumer Studies along with Dr. Arindam Banik, International Management Institute, India

The grant supports Institutional collaboration in research and development for a period of two years and is intended to fill information gaps for policy makers and others influencing the policy-making process.

Project title: A Tale of North-South IPR Conflicts and Cooperation: Exploring the interplay of Market Structure, FDI, Imitation, Innovation and IPRs in the Pharma Industry in India and Canada

The proposed study plans to extend the general North-South framework and illuminate the intellectual property rights (IPR) debate by analyzing the effects of tighter IPRs on foreign direct investment (FDI), innovation, and imitation in the context of the pharmaceutical sector in India and Canada.

Strategic Research Goal: Develop Tomorrow’s Research Leaders

Lang will increase its capacity to support the success of the next generation of highly qualified personnel by providing high-quality and meaningful training opportunities to a diverse and inclusive population of researchers across a variety of disciplines and approaches to research.

2021-2022 Lang Doctoral Entrance Scholars

Lang doctoral scholarship recipients demonstrate: a high level of academic achievement; strong research skills and potential; leadership within and/or beyond the academic community; and strong alignment with the vision of the Lang School. The scholarships are funded by Kim and Stu Lang’s $21-million gift to name the business school.

2021 Lang Doctoral Entrance Scholars

PhD Management, Services Management

Advisor: Dr. WooMi Jo

Research: Revisiting hotel reward programs through the subscription economy

Bajgiran

PhD Economics

Advisor: Drs. Nikola Gradojevic & Fred Liu

Research: Artificial Intelligence in financial markets

PhD Management, Organizational Leadership

Advisor: Dr. Agnes Zdaniuk

Research: Forgiveness in the workplace

PhD Management, Organizational Leadership

Advisor: Dr. Felix Arndt

Research: Do unintentional knowledge absorption promote firms’ innovation?

Pengsongze Xue

Bahare Ramezanian

Mavis Opoku

Jiamin Jiang

Milad Ghasemi Ariani Iranian Memorial Scholarship recipient:

Akierah Binns

Established in memory of Milad Ghasemi Ariani, a Ph.D. in Management student who perished in the Iran plane crash in January 2020. This scholarship is awarded annually to a qualified international graduate student.

Akierah Binns, PhD Management student, is the inaugural recipient of the 2021-2022 Milad Ghasemi Ariani Scholarship. She aims to examine how organizational communication strategies have informed downsizing processes during the Covid-19 pandemic. Her research was recognized with a Best Student Paper award at ASAC 2022.

Highly Qualified Personnel Scholarship

Recipient: Maryamsadat Hashemi Fesharaki

The Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance and Food from Thought fund the Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP) Scholarship Program to support the development of highly skilled graduates who can meet the changing demands of the agri-food and rural sector. Maryamsadat Hashemi Fesharaki, aims to study the impact of smart and virtual food retailing on organic food purchases, with advisor Dr. Simon Somogyi.

Feature Story: Lang Chairs

Collaborate on SSHRC IG Funded Equity-Focused Research

Over the past year we have witnessed the public unraveling of one of Canada’s largest national sport organizations (NSO), Hockey Canada and abuse in sport scandals mount. The sport system in Canada was already under immense strain from the pandemic with plummeting participation rates and the loss of revenues. Never has there been a better time to examine this system and work to help build a more gender equal and transparent sport for all. To tackle this, two Lang Research Chairs have teamed up. Dr. Ann Pegoraro, the Lang Chair in Sport Management and Dr. Laurie Barclay, the Lang Chair in Leadership, both Professors in the Department of Management, will work together with researchers from the University of Toronto and Unversité Laval to investigate how sport can build back better post pandemic.

Dr. Pegoraro combines her vast experience in the sport sector and a leadership role as the co-director of E-Alliance, the National Research Network for Gender Equity in Canadian Sport with Dr. Barclay’s expertise in fairness and its intersection with work and leadership. Their four-year, $230,265 SSHRC Insight Grant is entitled “COVID-19 Impacts on Gender+ Equity in Canadian Sport: Understanding how sport can Address and Prevent Gender Inequity in Post-Pandemic Times.”

This research will explore the pandemic’s impact on gender+ equity in Canadian sport while assessing opportunities to aid recovery and sector inclusion. Gender+ equity is a term used to acknowledge the overarching need to ensure equity for women and girls in binary sports systems and guarantee equity for all individuals, including gender-expansive people with intersecting identities such as race, ethnicity, indigeneity, sexuality, and disability. The research explores the persistence of inequalities within the sports sector and how in returning to a “normal” state post-crisis, the industry can mitigate inequities and build back a more gender+ equitable sport system. The research team, in collaboration with stakeholders, will develop evidenceinformed guidelines for gender+ equity in the Canadian sports sector and mobilize knowledge within the industry.

The recent scandals at Hockey Canada and other NSOs related to safe sport have sparked ongoing national conversations regarding gender disparities, inclusion, and the persistence of structural inequities within sport. The findings of this research project will facilitate informed conversations that carry the capacity to shape the Canadian sports sector and guide the future of sports as a whole. Moreover, with collaboration at the heart of the research team’s focus, the in-depth analysis and the dissemination of the resulting knowledge among academics, industry leaders, and policymakers will contribute to social change focused on creating a more equity-based framework for Canadian sport.

Gordon S. Lang

Feature Story: Global Research Project Widens Horizons

Exploring diversity and the wider world were among the unexpected benefits this past year for business students in a virtual international research team based at the University of Guelph. The group members, hailing from three continents, were initially supposed to work face to face along with Dr. Nita Chhinzer, but then came COVID-19 restrictions.

“We shifted to a completely online environment,” said Chhinzer, whose team studied workplace restructuring and layoffs during the pandemic. Accommodating varied time zones was a challenge, she added, but “we still managed to meet.” More than that, she said, “world-building” ended up being an unexpected bonus for the group.

Chhinzer said the virtual globe-spanning gave four students – along with the professor – a “chance to get international perspectives, diversity and inclusion of thought that we need to have to create workplaces and research teams that have multiple viewpoints.”

Workplace research brought together students from three continents

Only one of her four group members was a domestic student: Haohan Zhang, originally from Guelph, now entering the fourth year of her applied human nutrition program.

Zhang’s teammates included PhD candidate student Akierah Binns, who grew up in Jamaica and who was teaching English in Japan when she applied to U of G for grad studies. Chhinzer said Binns has developed an interest in employment relations experiences of immigrants to Canada – a critical topic for this country, where one in five people were born elsewhere.

Two other members worked from abroad: Sebastian Hamid, a fourth-year business administration student at the CEIPA business school in Medellin, Colombia; and Jia “Ray” Mingrui, also completing an undergrad in business administration at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Both Hamid and Mingrui were hired under the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship program. The program allows international undergrads to work with Canadian university faculty members for 12 weeks.

Hamid looked at employee downsizing and mass layoffs in Ontario, using data from a provincial government ministry.

He said studying downsizing strategies may help organizations, many of which are ill-prepared to conduct layoffs. “This research aims to guide organizational approaches to downsizing by using evidence to identify best practices in layoffs.”

Dr. Nita Chhinzer

Building relations, discovering cultures among benefits for students

Hamid said arranging meetings with group members around the world was difficult, but that wrinkle was outweighed by the benefits of belonging to a global team.

“Working with international teammates is like discovering the world across the corporation, discovering their cultures, their way of doing business, and building relationships and bridges of knowledge,” said Hamid. He plans to explore further international research opportunities between Latin America and other nations.

In Guelph, Zhang spent the summer analyzing differences in communications about downsizing that employers shared either with employees or with media and government. She said the research enabled her to hone skills in data analysis and writing that will be useful in her studies and, ultimately, her career.

Beyond that, she said, the experience gave her unexpected connections and perspectives, despite pandemic restrictions.

“I have spent much of my life in Ontario, so it was a unique experience working with an international research team,” said Zhang. “I think it’s important to work with and learn from a diverse group of people as the world is becoming even more connected.

“Through this experience, I got to listen and learn about news that was happening in other students’ countries that I would not have been aware of otherwise.”

Global experience offers benefits for professor as well

Chhinzer said her group members had opportunities to hone skills in collaborating, presenting and speaking on various topics. “This group has definitely found ways to rely on each other, grow and expand their horizons using research,” said Chhinzer. In turn, Nita also benefited from her students’ varied backgrounds.

Binns’s experience of employee-employer relations in Japan has given Chhinzer a view of cultural differences from employment legislation to occupational health and safety. “Those differences help enlighten my perspective,” she said.

“Bringing together multiple perspectives was a unique and challenging opportunity,” added the professor, who said the experience had her returning to the classroom this fall with added anticipation and enthusiasm for teaching. “My experience with these students has inspired me to give my best.”

Much of the group’s work was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Graduate Profiles

FACULTY, ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA OF ECONOMETRICS.

BEYOND GRADUATION, I AM PLEASED TO SHARE THAT I HAVE SECURED A TENURE-TRACK LECTURER IN ECONOMICS POSITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, BASED IN DUBAI, UAE.

More graduate profiles

Ruifeng Liu, PhD in Economics

Thesis Title: Robust Kurtosis and the Cross Section of Financial Asset Returns

Advisors: Alex Maynard & Ilias Tsiakas

Placement: Manager, Enterprise Model Risk Management, Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto

Henrietta Agyei Asiamah, PhD in Economics

Thesis Title: Essays in Applied Microeconomics

Advisors: Alex Maynard & Ilias Tsiakas

Placement: Economist, Statistics Canada, Ottawa

Renliang Liu, PhD in Economics

Thesis Title: Three Essays of Empirical Investigation in International Economics

Advisors: Thanasis Stengos & Yiguo Sun

Placement: Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Advanced Institute of Finance and Economics, Liaoning University

Anastasia Dimiski, PhD in Economics

Thesis Title: Three Essays in the Economics of pre-primary school education: An application of Gini-BMA methodology

Advisor: Thanasis Stengos

Placement: Special Scientist (Research), Economics Research Center, University of Cyprus

Aisha Mohammed, PhD Management

Title: Priming Power and Its Impact on Choices Using Discrete Choice Experiment Approach

Advisor: Vinay Kanetkar

Zahra Bhojani, PhD Management

Title: Supporting Relationality with Leader Mindfulness: Exploring Leaders’ Experiences with Mindfulness Practice, Integrative Thinking and Sustainable Happiness

Advisor: Elizabeth Kurucz

Saad Hossain, PhD Management

Title: Exploring Functional Level Strategic Process, Performance and Controls: A study of North American Manufacturing Industry

Advisor: Kalinga Jagoda

Patrick Kelly, PhD Management

Title: Mental Health on Campus: An exploration of Faculty’s Receptivity to Adjusting their Practices in Response to this Increasing Challenge

Advisors: Sean Lyons and Julia Christensen Hughes

Lang Graduate Research Assistant Program

Each year a limited number of Lang Graduate Research Assistantships are awarded to graduate students to work on faculty- or student-driven projects. A sampling from this past summer includes:

Faculty Lead Student Researcher Project Title

Arndt, Felix Jiamin Jiang A reconceptualization of absorptive capacity

Barclay, Laurie Malika Khakhar

Chhinzer, Nita Akierah Binns

Examining Motivated Cognition in the Workplace

Managing organizational communication in changing contexts

Hoy, Mike Alexander Meer Public vs Private Long Term Health Care: Quality of Outcomes

Jo, WooMi Pengsongze (Dave) Xue

Kosempel, Steve Tselmuun Tserenkhuu

Liu, Fred Jianhan Zhang

Mark, Tanya Rebecca Randle

Maynard, Alex Alexia Anastasopoulos

Rezania, Davar Yang Hoong

Senkl, Daniela Nicole Bena Adam Dencsak

Technology progress in hospitality and tourism research: A systematic review

Finite horizons, international credit constraints, and real business cycles in a small open economy

Basel 3 Market Risk Forecasting using Machine Learning and Big Data

Improving organ donation in Canada

Explanatory and Predictive Power of Order Flow for Cryptocurrencies

Securing cybersecurity in the context of SMEs

A critical analysis of the materiality concept in sustainability reporting and standard setting

Stengos, Thanasis Mingze Li Resources, conflict and economic development in Latin America

Sun, Yiguo Yu Wang

Identifying influential ETFs by high dimensional sparse vector autoregression

Tsiakas, Ilias Michael Di Carlo Corporate Earnings Surprises and Stock Returns

Zdaniuk, Agnes Mavis Opoku Is too much leader empathy a bad thing?

Feature Story: Speaking of allergies: Communication challenges for restaurant staff and customers

Malika Khakhar, a PhD in Management student, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Calgary, was part of a team that analyzed how and why information about food allergies gets communicated, and miscommunicated, at restaurants. Their work was published in the International Journal of Hospitality Management in July 2021.

Public health researchers have called food allergies “a growing public health epidemic in Canada” affecting nearly one in 13 Canadians and one in five Canadian households. Dining out can be risky and stressful for people with allergies, in part because many restaurant employees lack the training, skills and confidence to manage food allergies safely and effectively.

In recent years, news outlets across Canada have reported several cases of people suffering extreme, sometimes fatal, allergic reactions to restaurant food. Accidents like these are most often due to miscommunication.

The research team analyzed how and why information about food allergies gets communicated, and miscommunicated, at restaurants. They approached allergy communication the way we might approach communication among a flight crew or a surgical team: by isolating the make-or-break behaviours in the communication process.

Based on this research, guidelines to reduce the risk of allergic reactions at restaurants and improve the customer experience were offered.

Full story available in The Conversation.

Bold = Lang faculty

Red = Lang graduate student

Blue = Post-doctoral fellow

BOOKS

2021

Saks, A. M., & Gruman, J. A. (2021). Advanced Introduction to Employee Engagement. Edward Elgar Publishing.

2022

Eaton, S. E., & Christensen Hughes, J. (2022). Academic integrity in Canada: An enduring and essential challenge.

Edelheim, J., Joppe, M., & Flaherty, J. (Eds.). (2022). Teaching Tourism. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Hoy, M., Livernois, J., McKenna, C., Rees, R., & Stengos, T. (2022). Mathematics for economics. MIT press.

Cooper, C., Romi, A. & Senkl, D. (2022). Accounting, sustainability and the feminine. C. Adams (ed.) Handbook of Accounting and Sustainability. Edward Elgar.

Burga, R., Rodriguez-Tejedo, I., & Naim Indrajaya, A. (2022). Critical Reflections on Innovative Flourishing Businesses in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. University of Guelph

Barrad, S., Ghattas, P., Lowe, D., Saccucci, F., Qadri, H., (2022). Principles of Management Accounting.

McKenzie, B. (2022), “Shades of Dark Tourism: The Case of Bermuda”, The Dynamics of Caribbean Tourism: Opportunities, Challenges and a Re-imagined Future, editor Gaunette Sinclair-Maragh

McRoberts, S. (2022). O’Reilly, N., Seguin, B., Abeza, G., & Narraine, M. “Sport Marketing: A Canadian Perspective: 3rd Edition”, Human Kinetics Books, Canada.

BOOK CHAPTERS 2021

Arndt, F. (2021) Divine opportunities in environmental entrepreneurship. In Environmental Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Arndt, F. (2021) Dynamic Capabilities and Innovation. In Innovation Management.

Arndt, F., Katic, M., Mistry, A., & Nafei, S. (2021). Dynamic capabilities of global value chains: From selection to deployment. In The Routledge Companion to Global Value Chains (pp. 23-34). Routledge.

Bhojani, Z., & Kurucz, E. C. (2021). Sustainable Happiness, Well-Being, and Mindfulness in the Workplace. In The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Well-Being, 1085-1109.

Bravo Monge, C. (2021). High potential intrapreneurs development: An integrated approach for executive education in Latin American companies. In Innovations in Global Entrepreneurship Education.

Burga, R., & Rezania, D. (2021). Corporate Social Responsibility in Canada. In Current Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility (pp. 621-636). Springer, Cham.

Dewhirst, T., and Lee, W.B. (2021). The shifting landscape of sponsorship in Formula 1. In: Stephen Wagg, David Andrews, and Damion Sturm (eds.), Lives in the Fast Lane: Essays on the History and Politics of Motor Racing. Global Culture and Sport book series from Palgrave Publishers.

Dong, J. Y., Dubois, L. E., Joppe, M., & Foti, L. (2021). How Do Video Games Induce Us to Travel?: Exploring the Drivers, Mechanisms, and Limits of Video Game-Induced Tourism. In Audiovisual Tourism Promotion (pp. 153-172). Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.

Flaherty, J. & Gallina, S., (2021). “University of Guelph’s School of Hospitality, Food and Tourism Management co-op program: Aiming for a transformative learning experience” In Ren, L., and McKercher, B. (Eds) (2021) Practical Learning in Hospitality Education. University of Queensland.

Jo, W. (2021). Casino Tourism. In J. Jafari & H. Xiao (eds.), Encyclopedia of Tourism, Springer.

Thomas-Francois, K., Shen, Y., & Joppe, M. (2021). “Grenada: A Vision of Integrated Technological Advancements to Build a Resilient Tourism Future Through Youth Involvement and Consumer-Centric Service Excellence,” Springer Books, in: Acolla Lewis-Cameron & Leslie-Ann Jordan & Sherma Roberts (ed.), Managing Crises in Tourism, chapter 0, pages 175-193, Springer.

Li, Y., Joppe, M. & Shen, Y. (2021). “Donkey Friends”: Motivations, Constraints and Negotiation Strategies of Chinese Backpackers” in O’Regan, M. (Ed.). Backpacking and beyond: Independent and nomadic travel, Channelview.

McKenzie, B. (2021), “Genocide Tourism”, in Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing, editor D. Buhalis, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK.

McKenzie, B. (2021), “Transition from Communism”, in Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing, editor D. Buhalis, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK.

McKenzie, B. (2021). Do you Believe? Online Reviews and Dark Tourism: A Sentiment Analysis Approach. In Handbook on Tourism and Social Media.

Mishra, S., Fogg, C., & Deminchuk, J. (2021). Competition and risk-taking. In S. Garcia, A. Tor, & A. Elliot (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Psychology of Competition. Oxford University Press.

Pegoraro, A., & Frederick, E. (2021). Social Media and Crisis Communication in Sport. In Social Media in Sport: Theory and Practice, 2, 345.

Shen, Y., & Joppe, M. (2021). 4 Gamification: Practices, Benefits and Challenges. In Gamification for Tourism (pp. 63-80). Channel View Publications.

Elliot, S. (2021). Finding flow in the travel experience. In Richard Sharpley (Ed) Routledge Handbook of the Tourist Experience, pg 101-112.

Elliot, S. (2021). Tourist Destination Image in A. Correia, S. Dolnicar (Eds) Women’s Voices in Tourism Research: Contributions to Knowledge - uq.pressbooks.pub, pg 173176.

Rezania D., Sasso T. (2021) Building Blocks of Coaching Project Managers. In: Machado C., Davim J.P. (eds) Coaching for Managers and Engineers. Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham.

Rezania D., Sasso T. (2021) Building Blocks of Coaching Project Managers. In: Machado C., Davim J.P. (eds) Coaching for Managers and Engineers. Management and Industrial Engineering (pp. 13-25). Springer, Cham.

Cooper, C., Romi, A. & Senkl, D. (2021). Accounting, sustainability and the feminine. In Adams, C. (eds), Handbook of Accounting and Sustainability. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK.

van Duren, E. (2021). Cookbooks: Exploring Economic(s) Themes. In C. Prescott & M. Thompson (Eds.), A Taste of Backstories: The Kitchen Table Talk Cookbook (pp. 43-60). Digital Press, University of North Dakota.

Hughes, J. C., & Christensen, J. D. (2021). Talent Management Innovation in a Time of Unprecedented Disruption: Implications for Practice and Research. In Talent Management Innovations in the International Hospitality Industry. Emerald Publishing Limited.

Moeke-Pickering, T., Rowat, J.*, Cote-Meek, S., and Pegoraro, A. (2021) Indigenous social activism using Twitter: Amplifying voices using #MMIWG in Berglund, J. & Carlson, B. eds Indigenous Peoples Rise Up: the Global Ascendancy of Social Media Activism (pp. 79-85) NJ: Rutgers University Press

Pegoraro, A. and Lebel, K. (2021) Social Media and Sport Marketing in Butterworth, M. (Ed) Handbook of Communication and Sport, (pp. 636-650) Mouton de Gruyter

Darvin, and Pegoraro, A. (2021) Ethical Relativism and Sport Mega-Event Gendered Discourses: Uneasiness towards the Dominant Play of Women in Sport, Dashper, K. (Ed.) Sport, Gender and Mega-Events (Emerald Studies in Sport and Gender), (pp. 57-70) Emerald Publishing Limited.

Mallen, C., Triantafyllidis, S., & McRoberts, S. (2021). Chapter 10: Vision of the future of sport and sustainable development. In S. Triantafyllidis & C. Mallen (Co-Editors). Sport and Sustainable Development: An Introduction. London: Routledge.

2022

Kennedy, H., Gonzales, J., & Pegoraro, A. (2022). The Rise of Digital Sport Fandom. In Routledge Handbook of Sport Fans and Fandom.

Joppe, M., Johan, E., Flaherty, J., Bommenel, E., Blanca,C., Helene Balslev Clausen, Crossley, E., et al. “Professionalism.” In Teaching Tourism. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. See chapter 7 and 12

Lassou, P. & Neiterman, D. (2022). “Effectiveness of anti-corruption agencies in Africa”. In Brivot, M. & Cho, C. (Eds). Research Handbook on Accounting and Ethics. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham.

Wong, A., Kim, S., Lee, S., & Elliot, S. (2022). An application of Delphi method and analytic hierarchy process in understanding hotel corporate social responsibility performance scale. In H. Han (Ed.), Sustainable consumer behaviour and the environment, 133-159. New York: Routledge.

Dewhirst, T., and Lee, W.B. (2022). The shifting landscape of sponsorship in Formula 1. In: Stephen Wagg, David Andrews, and Damion Sturm (eds.), Lives in the Fast Lane: Essays on the History and Politics of Motor Racing, the Global Culture and Sport book series from Palgrave Publishers.

Dewhirst, T. (2022). Location, location, location of the Formula 1 race calendar: The geopolitics of money versus morals. In: Simon Chadwick, Paul Widdop, and Michael Goldman (eds.), Geopolitical Economy of Sport: Pivotal Moments in a New Era from Routledge.

McRoberts, S. (2022). Expert’s view. In Mallen, C., & Dingle, G. Chapter 8. The ecological perspective of sport and sustainable development. In S. Triantafyllidis & Mallen (Co-Editors) Sport and Sustainable Development: An Introduction. London: Routledge.

Dhaliwal, S. (2022). Canadian Income Tax Planning and Decision Making, In McGraw Hill Canadian Income Taxation (2022-23 Edition).

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

2021

Al Hadwera, A., Tavana, M., Gillis, D., & Rezania, D. (2021). A Systematic Review of Organizational Factors Impacting Cloud-based Technology Adoption Using TechnologyOrganization-Environment Framework. Internet of Things, 100407.

Anglin, P., Cui, J., Gao, Y., & Zhang, L. (2021). Analyst Forecasts during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from REITs. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 14(10), 457.

Anglin, P., Deng, X., Gao, Y., Sun, H. (2021). How do the political leanings of a CEO affect a REIT’s operational decisions?, Journal of Real Estate Research.

Anglin, P., Gao, Y. (2021). Value of communication and social media: An equilibrium theory of messaging, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.

Annen, K., & Knack, S. (2021). Better policies from policyselective aid?. The World Bank Economic Review, 35(4), 829-844.

Arndt, F., Ng, W., & Huang, T. (2021). DIY Laboratories, Communities of Practice, and Open Innovation in a Digitalized Environment. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management.

Aung, M., Zhang, X., Wang, J. (2021). Navigating the Field of Contemporary Political Consumerism: Consumer Boycott and Consumer Buycott Vistas. Journal of Marketing Development and Competitiveness.

Ayoobzadeh, M., Schweitzer, L., & Lyons, S. (2021). Career Expectations of International and Domestic Students in Canada. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance.

Bains, K., DeMarco, N., Brauer, P., & Yi, S. (2021). PostSecondary Food Service Manager Perspectives on Fruit and Vegetable Nudging Strategies: Qualitative Study. Current developments in nutrition, 5(9).

Baker, R. (2021). An Approach to Integrating Historical Perspective into an Undergraduate Accounting Course. Journal of Accounting Institute, 64, 85-91.

Bandi, F., Maynard, A., Moon, H. R., & Perron, B. (2021). Special Issue: Celebrated Econometricians: Peter Phillips. Econometrics, 9(3), 29.

Bernardo, G., Brunetti, I., Pinar, M., & Stengos, T. (2021). Measuring the presence of organized crime across Italian provinces: a sensitivity analysis. European Journal of Law and Economics, 51(1), 31-95.

Bies, R. J., Tripp, T. M., & Barclay, L. J. (2021). Second Acts and Second Chances: The Bumpy Road to Redemption. Journal of Management Inquiry, 30(4), 371–384.

Bors, Máté, Li, D., Sun, Y. (2021). “Is the Yardstick ratio a “good yardstick” for stock market valuations?,” Economics Bulletin 41(3), 1444-1450.

Cellarier, L. L. (2021). Is landownership a ladder out of poverty? World Development, 146, 105552.

Charbonneau, B. D., Powell, D. M., Spence, J. R., & Lyons, S. T. (2021). Unintended consequences of interview faking: Impact on perceived fit and affective outcomes. Personnel Assessment and Decisions, 7(1), 6.

Charlebois, S., Bowdridge, E., Lemieux, J. L., Somogyi, S., & Music, J. (2021). Supply Management 2.0: A Policy Assessment and a Possible Roadmap for the Canadian Dairy Sector. Foods, 10(5), 964.

Charlebois, S., Smook, M., Wambui, B. N., Somogyi, S., Racey, M., Fiander, D., ... & Caron, I. (2021). Can Canadians afford the new Canada’s Food Guide? Assessing Barriers and Challenges. Journal of Food Research, 10(6), 1-22.

Chen, A., Li, H., & Schultze, M. B. (2021). Tail indexlinked annuity: A longevity risk sharing retirement plan. Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 1-26.

Chen, C., Pinar, M., & Stengos, T. (2021). Determinants of renewable energy consumption: Importance of democratic institutions. Renewable Energy, 179, 75-83.

Chhinzer, N., & Oh, J. (2021). Employer perspectives on workforce integration of self-initiated expatriates in Canada. Education+ Training.

Choi, E., Farb, N., Pogrebtsova, E., Gruman, J., & Grossmann, I. (2021). What do people mean when they talk about mindfulness?. Clinical Psychology Review, 102085.

Choi, E., Gruman, J. A., & Leonard, C. M. (2021). A balanced view of mindfulness at work. Organizational Psychology Review.

Chowhan, J., MacDonald, K., Mann, S., and Cooke, G.B. (2021). Telework in Canada: Who is working at home during the COVID-19 pandemic? Relations Industrielles/ Industrial Relations.

Christofides, L. N. (2021). Edging towards a national minimum wage? Initial context, recent developments and the road ahead. Cyprus Economic Policy Review, 15(2), 1-25.

Christofides, L. N., Hoy, M., Milla, J., & Stengos, T. (2021). Vietnam Era Fathers: The Intergenerational Transmission of Tertiary Education. Review of Income and Wealth.

Clayton, J., Devine, A., & Holtermans, R. (2021). Beyond building certification: The impact of environmental interventions on commercial real estate operations. Energy Economics, 93(C).

Cooke, G. B., Chowhan, J., McDonald, K., and Mann, S.L. (2021). Talent Management: Four ‘Buying versus Making’ Talent Development Approaches. Personnel Review.

Cowley, T., Frost, L., Inwood, K., Kippen, R., MaxwellStewart, H., Schwarz, M., ... & Wilson, P. (2021). Reconstructing a longitudinal dataset for Tasmania. Historical Life Course Studies, 11(2), 1-30.

Darvin, L., Mumcu, C., & Pegoraro, A. (2021). When virtual spaces meet the limitations of traditional sport: Gender stereotyping in NBA2K. Computers in Human Behavior, 122, 106844.

Li, H., Sun, Y. (2021) The Impact of Uncertainty on Investment: Empirical Challenges and a New Estimator.

Deniz, P., Stengos, T., & Yazgan, M. (2021). Revisiting the link between output growth and volatility: panel GARCH analysis. Empirical Economics, 61(2), 743-771.

Dewhirst, T. (2021). ‘Beyond nicotine’ marketing strategies: Big Tobacco diversification into the vaping and cannabis product sector. Tobacco Control.

Dewhirst, T. (2021). Co-optation of harm reduction by Big Tobacco. Tobacco Control.

Dewhirst, T. (2021). Natural American Spirit cigarettes are marketed as ‘made different’: The role of brand positioning and differentiation. Tobacco Control.

Dewhirst, T. (2021). The interplay of food and tobacco product descriptors and health claims. Tobacco Control.

Eddy, T., Cork, B. C., Lebel, K., & Hickey, E. H. (2021). Examining Engagement With Sport Sponsor Activations on Twitter. International Journal of Sport Communication, 14(1), 79-108.

Erdemlioglu D., Gradojevic N. (2021), Heterogeneous investment horizons, risk regimes and realized jumps, International Journal of Finance and Economics 26 (1), 617-643.

Eshghi, K., & Ray, S. (2021). Conflict and performance in channels: a meta-analysis. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 49(2), 327-349.

Frederick, E., Pegoraro, A., & Sanderson, J. (2021). Sport in the Age of Trump: An Analysis of Donald Trump’s Tweets. International Journal of Sport Communication, 1(aop), 1-23.

Frederick, E., Pegoraro, A., & Smith, L. R. (2021). An examination of Michigan State University’s image repair via Facebook and the public response following the Larry Nassar scandal. Communication & Sport, 9(1), 128-149.

Frederick, E., Pegoraro, A., and Sanderson, J. (2021) Sport in the Age of Trump: An Analysis of Donald Trump’s Tweets International. Journal of Sport Communication.

Gatto, L. E., Pearce, H., Plesca, M., & Antonie, L. (2021). Students with Disabilities: Relationship between Participation Rates and Perceptions of Work-Integrated Learning by Disability Type. International Journal of WorkIntegrated Learning, 22(3), 287-306.

Genc, T. S. (2021). Implementing the United Nations sustainable development Goals to supply chains with behavioral consumers. Annals of Operations Research, 1-32.

Genc, T. S., & De Giovanni, P. (2021). Dynamic pricing and green investments under conscious, emotional, and rational consumers. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 2, 100007.

Genc, T., & De Giovanni, P. (2021). Trade-in and save: A two-period closed-loop supply chain game with price and technology dependent returns (vol 183 B, 514, 2017). International Journal of Production Economics, 233.

Ghattas, P., Soobaroyen, T., & Marnet, O. (2021). Charting the development of the Egyptian accounting profession (1946–2016): An analysis of the State-Profession dynamics. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 78, 102159.

Ghotbi, S., Dhar, T., & Weinberg, C. B. (2021). Do Consumers Order More Calories in a Meal with a Diet or Regular Soft Drink? An Empirical Investigation Using Large-Scale Field Data. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 40(4), 521-537.

Godfrey, B., Homer, C., Inwood, K., Maxwell-Stewart, H., Reed, R., & Tuffin, R. (2021). Crime, Penal Transportation, and Digital Methodologies. Journal of World History, 32(2), 241-260.

Gonsalves, C. A., McGannon, K. R., & Pegoraro, A. (2021). A critical discourse analysis of gendered cardiovascular disease meanings of the# MoreMoments campaign on Twitter. Journal of health psychology, 26(10), 1471-1481.

Gradojevic N. (2021), Brexit and foreign exchange market expectations: Could it have been predicted? Annals of Operations Research 297, 167-189.

Gradojevic, N., & Tsiakas, I. (2021). Volatility cascades in cryptocurrency trading. Journal of Empirical Finance, 62, 252-265.

Gradojevic, N., Kukolj, D., Adcock, R., & Djakovic, V. (2021). Forecasting Bitcoin with technical analysis: A notso-random forest?. International Journal of Forecasting.

Grogan, L. (2021). Civil war, famine and the persistence of human capital: Evidence from Tajikistan. Comparative Economic Studies, 63(4), 577-602.

Grogan, L., & Moers, L. (2021). Incomes and Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1990–2018. Journal of African Economies, 30(4), 301-323.

Hayes, L., & Boritz, J. E. (2021). Classifying Restatements: An Application of Machine Learning and Textual Analytics. Journal of Information Systems, 35(3), 107-131.

Holmes, M. R., Dodds, R., & Frochot, I. (2021). At home or abroad, does our behavior change? Examining how everyday behavior influences sustainable travel behavior and tourist clusters. Journal of Travel Research, 60(1), 102116.

Holmes, M. R., McAdams, B., Gibbs, C., & D’Angelo, A. (2021). Is the foodservice industry perceived as being palatable by those looking to enter it?. Journal of Foodservice Business Research, 1-20.

Hou, Z., Liang, L. J., Meng, B., & Choi, H. C. (2021). The Role of Perceived Quality on High-Speed Railway Tourists’ Behavioral Intention: An Application of the Extended Theory of Planned Behavior. Sustainability, 13(22), 12386.

Huang, S., & Yi, S. (2021). Exploring creative tourist experience: A text-mining approach based on TripAdvisor reviews of a cooking workshop in Lisbon, Portugal. Journal of Tourism and Development, 36(1), 135-148.

Huang, S., Choi, H. C., Shen, Y., & Chang, H. S. (2021). Predicting Behavioral Intention: The Mechanism from Pretrip to Posttrip. Tourism Analysis, 26(4), 279-292.

Huddleston, D., Liu, F., & Stentoft, L. (2021). Intraday Market Predictability: A Machine Learning Approach, Journal of Financial Econometrics.

Inwood, K. (2021). Report of the Editor for 2020. Australian Economic History Review, 61(1), 2-9.

Inwood, K., & Maxwell-Stewart, H. (2021). Historical Databases Now and in the Future. Historical Life Course Studies, 10, 9-12.

Islam, T., Meade, N., & Sood, A. (2021). Timing Market Entry: The Mediation Effect of Market Potential. Journal of International Marketing, 1, 15.

Jingen Liang, L., & Elliot, S. (2021). A systematic review of augmented reality tourism research: What is now and what is next? Tourism and Hospitality Research, 21(1), 15–30.

Jones, G. J., Taylor, E., Wegner, C., Lopez, C., Kennedy, H., & Pizzo, A. (2021). Cultivating “safe spaces” through a community sport-for-development (SFD) event: implications for acculturation. Sport Management Review, 24(2), 226-249.

Jones, G. J., Taylor, E., Wegner, C., Lopez, C., Kennedy, H., & Pizzo, A. (2021). Examining the Efficacy of a Government-Led Sport for Development and Peace Event. Journal of Sport Management, 36(1), 56-67.

Kennedy, H., Kunkel, T., & Funk, D. C. (2021). Using predictive analytics to measure effectiveness of social media engagement: A digital measurement perspective. Sport Marketing Quarterly, 30(4), 265-277.

Kirkegaard, R. (2021). Ranking reversals in asymmetric auctions. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 102478.

Kourtellos, A., Stengos, T., & Sun, Y. (2021). Endogeneity in Semiparametric Threshold Regression. Econometrics Theory.

LaPlante, G., Andrekovic, S., Young, R. G., Kelly, J. M., Bennett, N., Currie, E. J., & Hanner, R. H. (2021). Canadian Greenhouse Operations and Their Potential to Enhance Domestic Food Security. Agronomy, 11(6), 1229.

Lassou, P. J., Hopper, T., & Ntim, C. (2021). Accounting and development in Africa. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 78.

Lassou, P. J., Hopper, T., & Soobaroyen, T. (2021). Financial controls to control corruption in an African country: Insider experts within an enabling environment. Financial Accountability & Management, 37(2), 107-123.

Lassou, P.J.C., Hopper, T. and Ntim, C. (2021). How the colonial legacy frames state audit institutions in Benin that fail to curb corruption. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 78, 1-23.

Lebel, K., Mumcu, C., Pegoraro, A., LaVoi, N. M., Lough, N., & Antunovic, D. (2021). Re-thinking Women’s Sport Research: Looking in the Mirror and Reflecting Forward. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 3.

Lee, S., Baumgartner, H., & Pieters, R. (2021). A Triadic Model of Social Motivations in Pay-What-You-Want Decisions. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 6(1), 105-119.

Lento, C., & Gradojevic, N. (2021). S&P 500 Index Price Spillovers around the COVID-19 Market Meltdown. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 14(7), 330.

Lever, M. W., Elliot, S., & Joppe, M. (2021). Exploring destination advocacy behavior in a virtual travel community. Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, 38(5), 431-443.

Li, D., Bors, M., Sun, Y. (2021) Is the Yardstick ratio a good yardstick for stock market valuations? Economics Bulletin, 41(3), pp.1444-1450.

Li, H., & Shi, Y. (2021). A new unique information share measure with applications on cross-listed Chinese banks. Journal of Banking & Finance, 128, 106141.

Li, H., & Shi, Y. (2021). Forecasting mortality with international linkages: A global vector-autoregression approach. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 100, 59-75.

Li, H., & Shi, Y. (2021). Mortality forecasting with an agecoherent sparse VAR model. Risks, 9(2), 35.

Li, H., Lu, Y., & Lyu, P. (2021). Coherent mortality forecasting for less developed countries. Risks, 9(9), 151.

Li, H., Porth, L., Tan, K. S., & Zhu, W. (2021). Improved index insurance design and yield estimation using a dynamic factor forecasting approach. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 96, 208-221.

Li, H., Song, Q., & Su, J. (2021). Robust estimates of insurance misrepresentation through kernel quantile regression mixtures. Journal of Risk and Insurance, 88(3), 625-663.

Li, H., Tan, K. S., Tuljapurkar, S., & Zhu, W. (2021). Gompertz law revisited: Forecasting mortality with a multifactor exponential model. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 99, 268-281.

Li, M., Milne, F., & Qiu, J. (2021). Central bank screening, Moral hazard, and the lender of last resort policy. Journal of Banking Regulation, 1-21.

Li, T., Desmond, A. F., & Stengos, T. (2021). Dimension Reduction via Penalized GLMs for Non-Gaussian Response: Application to Stock Market Volatility. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 14(12), 583.

Lin, Y., & Pazgal, A. (2021). Taking marketing strategy risks with seemingly no expected gains. Marketing Letters, 1-15.

Lin, Y., Pazgal, A., & Soberman, D. A. (2021). Who is the winner in an industry of innovation?. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 38(1), 50-69.

Lin, Y., Wang, X., & Dhar, T. (2021). Impact of Information on Food Stocking during Early Period of COVID-19 Outbreak: Survey Exploration between Canada and US Consumers. International Business Research, 14(2), 1-72.

Liu, F., & Stentoft, L. (2021). Regulatory Capital and Incentives for Risk Model Choice under Basel 3. Journal of Financial Econometrics, 19(1), 53-96.

Lopez, C., Pizzo, A. D., Gupta, K., Kennedy, H., & Funk, D. C. (2021). Corporate growth strategies in an era of digitalization: A network analysis of the national basketball association’s 2K league sponsors. Journal of Business Research, 133, 208-217.

Lu, J., & Wang, J. (2021). Corporate governance, law, culture, environmental performance and CSR disclosure: A global perspective. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 70(C).

Lu, J., Mahmoudian, F., Yu, D., Nazari, J. A., & Herremans, I. M. (2021). Board interlocks, absorptive capacity, and environmental performance. Business Strategy and the Environment, 30(8), 3425-3443.

Fereshteh, M., Lu, J., Yu, D., Nazari, J., & Herremans, I. (2021). “Inter-and intra-organizational stakeholder arrangements in carbon management accounting.” The British Accounting Review 53, no. 1 .

Maraz, A., Katzinger, E., Yi, S. (2021). Potentially addictive behaviours increase during the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, Volume 10, Issue 4, 912–919.

McAdams, B., Elliot, S., & LeBlanc, J. E. (2021). Drive by My Cellar Door: Rethinking the Benefits of Wine Tourism in Niagara. Tourism Analysis, 26(2-3), 225-236.

McKenzie, B. (2021). From communism to capitalism: Tallinna Kaubamaja–Estonia’s department store. History of Retailing and Consumption, 1-22.

Meade, N., & Islam, T. (2021). Modelling and forecasting national introduction times for successive generations of mobile telephony. Telecommunications Policy, 45(3), 102088.

Mir, F. A., & Rezania, D. (2021). From interactive control to IT project performance: examining the mediating role of stakeholder analysis effectiveness. Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change.

Mir, F.A., Rezania, D. (2021) The Interactive Use of Management Control Systems and Information Technology Project Performance: A Conceptual Framework. Accounting Perspectives.

Murray, W. C. (2021). Understanding the preferred job rewards in the Canadian lodging sector. Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality & Tourism, 20(1), 101-126.

Murray, W.C.; Holmes, M.R. (2021). Impacts of Employee Empowerment and Organizational Commitment on Workforce Sustainability. Sustainability. 13 (6), 3163

Naraine, M. L., Pegoraro, A., & Wear, H. (2021). # WeTheNorth: Examining an online brand community through a professional sport organization’s hashtag marketing campaign. Communication & Sport, 9(4), 625645.

Oh, J. and Chhinzer, N. (2021), “Is turnover contagious? The impact of transformational leadership and collective turnover on employee turnover decisions”, Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. 42 No. 7, pp. 1089-1103.

Pegoraro, A., & Taylor, T. (2021). Women’s Professional Sport: Understanding Distinctiveness. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 3.

Pegoraro, A., Kennedy, H., Agha, N., Brown, N., & Berri, D. (2021). An analysis of broadcasting media using social media engagement in the WNBA. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 3.

Pinar, M., & Stengos, T. (2021). Democracy in the neighborhood and foreign direct investment. Review of Development Economics, 25(1), 449-477.

Polemis, M., Stengos, T., Tzeremes, P., & Tzeremes, N. (2021). Quantile eco-efficiency estimation and convergence: A nonparametric frontier approach. Economics Letters, 202(C).

Rastegar, N., Flaherty, J., Liang, L.L. and Choi, H. C. (2021). The adoption of self-service kiosks in quickservice restaurants. European Journal of Tourism Research 27, 2709.

Rodenburg, K., & MacDonald, K. (2021). Enhancing Business Schools’ Pedagogy on Sustainable Business Practices and Ethical Decision-Making. Sustainability, 13(10), 5527.

Rodenburg, K., De Silva, V., & Christensen Hughes, J. (2021). SDGs: A Responsible Research Assessment Tool toward Impactful Business Research. Sustainability, 13(24), 14019.

Rodenburg, K., Hayes, L., Foti, L., & Pegoraro, A. (2021). Responsible Leadership in Sport: An Ethical Dilemma. Societies, 11(3), 85.

Rodenburg, K., Rizwan, T., Liu, R., & Christensen Hughes, J. (2021). Enhancing the Positive Impact Rating: A New Business School Rating in Support of a Sustainable Future. Sustainability, 13(12), 6519.

Rotella, A., Sparks, A. M., Mishra, S., & Barclay, P. (2021). No effect of ‘watching eyes’: An attempted replication and extension investigating individual differences. PLoS ONE, 16(10).

Saks, A. M., & Gruman, J. A. (2021). How do you socialize newcomers during a pandemic?. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 14(1-2), 217-220.

Saks, A., Gruman, J., & Zhang, Q. (2021). Organization engagement: A review and comparision with job engagement. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance.

Saldanha, M. F., & Barclay, L. J. (2021). Finding meaning in unfair experiences: Using expressive writing to foster resilience and positive outcomes. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 13, 887-905.

Salter, N. P., & Sasso, T. (2021). The positive experiences associated with coming out at work. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal.

Shen, Y., Huang, S., Choi, H. S. C., & Morrison, A. M. (2021). Does brand love matter to casual restaurants? A multi-group path analysis. Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management, 1-25.

Stengos, T. (2021). Recent Developments in Cryptocurrency Markets: Co-Movements, Spillovers and Forecasting. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 14(3), 1-3.

Szto, C., Pegoraro, A., Morris, E., Desrochers, M., Emard, K., Galas, K., ... & Richards, K. (2021). # ForTheGame: Social Change and the Struggle to Professionalize Women’s Ice Hockey. Sociology of Sport Journal, 1(aop), 1-10.

Talebi, A., Rezania, D., & Bragues, G. (2021) Value creation in public procurement of innovation: a case of engaging start-ups by a local government, Local Government Studies

Teng, L., Xie, C., Liu, T., Wang, F., & Foti, L. (2021). The effects of uppercase vs. lowercase letters on consumers’ perceptions and brand attitudes. Journal of Business Research, 136, 164-175.

Tetzlaff, E. J., Goggins, K. A., Pegoraro, A. L., Dorman, S. C., Pakalnis, V., & Eger, T. R. (2021). Safety culture: a retrospective analysis of occupational health and safety mining reports. Safety and health at work, 12(2), 201-208.

Thomas-Francois, K., & Somogyi, S. (2021). Affective adoption of new grocery shopping modes through cultural change acceptance, consumer learning, and other means of persuasion. International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Retailing, 12(4), 323-338.

Thomas-Francois, K., & Somogyi, S. (2021). Consumers’ intention to adopt virtual grocery shopping: do technological readiness and the optimisation of consumer learning matter?. International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management.

Toffoletti, K., Pegoraro, A., & Comeau, G. S. (2021). Selfrepresentations of women’s sport fandom on Instagram at the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Communication & Sport, 9(5), 695-717.

Tsiakas, I., & Zhang, H. (2021). Economic fundamentals and the long-run correlation between exchange rates and commodities. Global Finance Journal, 100649.

Varty, C. T., Barclay, L. J., & Brady, D. L. (2021). Beyond adherence to justice rules: How and when manager gender contributes to diminished legitimacy in the aftermath of unfair situations. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42, 767-784.

Wan, Z. Huang, S. and Choi, HSC (2021). Modification and validation of the travel safety attitude scale (TSAS) in international tourism: A reflective-formative approach. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights

Wang, O., Somogyi, S., & Ablett, R. (2021). The influences of quality attributes and socio-demographics on Chinese consumers’ general and online consumptions of Canadian, US and Australian lobsters. British Food Journal.

Wick, S. (2021). Subjectivity in Performance Evaluations: A Review of the Literature. Accounting Perspectives, 20(4), 653-685

Wong, A. K. F., Kim, S., Lee, S., & Elliot, S. (2021). An application of Delphi method and analytic hierarchy process in understanding hotel corporate social responsibility performance scale. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 29(7), 1153-1179.

Wuth, A., Mishra, S., Beshai, S., & Feeney, J. (2021). Experiences of developmental unpredictability and harshness predict adult cognition: an examination of maladaptive schemas, positive schemas, and cognitive distortions. Current psychology, 1-11.

Yan, G., Pegoraro, A., & Watanabe, N. M. (2021). Examining IRA bots in the NFL anthem protest: Political agendas and practices of digital gatekeeping. Communication & Sport, 9(1), 88-109.

Zhang, Y., De Zoysa, A., & Jagoda, K. (2021). The influence of second language learning motivation on students’ understandability of textbooks. Accounting Research Journal.

Zhou, P., Arndt, F., Jiang, K., & Dai, W. (2021). Looking backward and forward: Political links and environmental corporate social responsibility in China. Journal of Business Ethics, 169(4), 631-649.

Zhu, W., Tan, K.S., Porth, L. (2021) Reply to Hans U. Gerber and Elias S. W. Shiu on Their Discussion on Our Paper Entitled “Agricultural Insurance Ratemaking: Development of a New Premium Principle”, North American Actuarial Journal, 25(3), 466-467.

Zhu, W., Tan, K.S., Porth, L. (2021) Reply to Abylay Zhexembay on the Discussion on Our Paper Entitled “Agricultural Insurance Ratemaking: Development of a New Premium Principle”, North American Actuarial Journal, 25(3), 472.

2022

Baker, R. (2022). Government Accounting in Canada: A Special Issue. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences.

Baker, R. (2022). Accounts from the Backwoods: The role of accounting in an early Upper Canada settlement. Accounting History.

Barclay, L. J., Kiefer, T., & El Mansouri, M. (2022). Navigating the era of disruption: How emotions can prompt job crafting behaviors. Human Resource Management, 61( 3), 335– 353.

Beaulieu, P. , Hayes L., & Timoshenko, L.M. (2022) Changes in accounting estimates: An update of priors or an earnings management strategy of “last resort”? Journal of Business Finance & Accounting.

Boikos, S., Bucci, A., & Stengos, T. (2022). Leisure and innovation in horizontal R&D-based growth. Economic Modelling, 107, 105730.

Burga, R., Spraakman, C., Balestreri, C., & Rezania, D. (2022). Examining the transition to agile practices with information technology projects: Agile teams and their experience of accountability. International Journal of Project Management, 40(1), 76-87.

Carson, R. T., Eagle, T. C., Islam, T., & Louviere, J. J. (2022). Volumetric choice experiments (VCEs). Journal of Choice Modelling, 100343.

Chen, A., Li, Hong., and Schultze, M. (2022). Collective longevity swap: A novel longevity risk transfer solution and its economic pricing. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 201, 227-249.

Chen, C., Gospodinov, N., Pesavento, E., Maynard, A. (2022). Long-horizon stock valuation and return forecasts based on demographic projections. Journal of Empirical Finance.

Chhinzer, N. (2022), Management beyond a critical threshold of employees: evidence-based HR solutions for SMEs. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

Dai, W., Yin, J., Liao, M., Arndt, F. (2022). Corporate philanthropy, political connections, and external corporate venturing: Evidence from a transitional economy. AsiaPacific Journal of Management.

Davies, J., Hoy, M., & Zhao, L. (2022). Revisiting comparisons of income inequality when Lorenz curves intersect. Social Choice and Welfare, 58(1), 101-109.

Dean, J., & Steele, M. (2022). Income decline, financial insecurity, landlord screening and renter mobility. Regional Science and Urban Economics.

Dhaliwal, S., Currie, E., Foti, L., Chandrakumar, P., Kurian, E., Motala, M., McCarty, S., & George, M. (2022). The future for Ontario cider production and consumption: Assessment of Ontario’s excise tax regime. World Food Policy, 8(1), 38– 61.

Dhaliwal, S., Farrar, J., & Hausserman (2022). Rewards and Fear of Being Labeled as Racist: A Tax Fraud Whistleblowing Investigation. Accounting Perspectives.

Dodds, R., & Holmes, M. R. (2022). Who Walks the Walk and Talks the Talk? Understanding What Influences Sustainability Behaviour in Business and Leisure Travellers. Sustainability, 14(2), 883.

Dodds, R., Grima, J., Novotny, M., & Holmes, M. R. (2022). Sustainability Gets Thrown in the Trash: Comparing the Drivers and Barriers of Festival Waste Management in Canada and New Zealand. Event Management.

Eleftheriou, K., Polemis, M. L., & Stengos, T. (2022). Does market power converge among the US states? Evidence from the natural gas sector. Economics Letters, 214, 110432.

Elliot, S., & Lever, M. (2022). You Want to go where? Shifts in social media behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic. Annals of Leisure Research.

Erb, S.; Barata, P.; Yi, S.; MacLachlan, K; Powell, D.; et al. (2022). The Shame and Guilt Distinction: Addressing the (Mal)Adaptive Nature of Guilt, Traumatology.

Eshghi, K., Shahriari, H., & Ray, S. (2022). Sports Sponsorship Announcements and Marketing Capability, Journal of Sport Management, 36(2), 171-187.

Fourie, L., Inwood, K., and Mariotti, M. (2022). Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865-1920. Economics & Human Biology. 47, 101158.

Frederick, E, Russin, A.,* and Pegoraro, A. (2022). Social media, crisis, and college sport: An analysis of recent crises. Journal of Sport Media.

Gospodinov, N., Pesavento, E., Maynard, A. (2022). Conditional Inference in Nearly Cointegrated Vector Error Correction Models with Small Signal-to-Noise-Ratio. Advances in Econometrics.

Gradojevic, N., & Kukolj, D. (2022). Unlocking the black box: Non-parametric option pricing before and during COVID-19. Annals of Operations Research, 1-24.

Grogan, L. (2022). Manufacturing employment and women’s agency: Evidence from Lesotho 2004-2014. Journal of Development Economics. 160, 102951.

Gruman, J. A., & Budworth, M. H. (2022). Positive psychology and human resource management: Building an HR architecture to support human flourishing. Human Resource Management Review, 100911.

Hayes, L., Lu, J., & Rezania, D. (2022). An Empirical Examination of The Relationship between Capability Maturity and Firm Performance across Manufacturing and IT Industries. Management and Production Engineering Review.

Hillebrandt, A., & Barclay, L. J. (2022). How COVID-19 can promote workplace cheating behavior via employee anxiety and self-interest – and how prosocial messages may overcome this effect. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 43, 858–877.

Hillebrandt, A., Brady, D. L., Saldanha, M. F., & Barclay, L. J. (2022). The paradox of paranoia: How one’s own self-interested unethical behavior can spark paranoia and reduce affiliative behavior toward coworkers. Journal of Business Ethics.

Hillebrandt, A., Saldanha, M. F., Brady, D. L., & Barclay, L. J. (2022). Delivering bad news fairly: The influence of core self-evaluations and anxiety for the enactment of interpersonal justice. Human Relations, 75, 1238-1269.

Huang, S., Liang, L. J., & Choi, H. C. (2022). How We Failed in Context: A Text-Mining Approach to Understanding Hotel Service Failures. Sustainability, 14(5), 2675.

Inwood, K., & Maxwell-Stewart, H. (2022). Solitary confinement and health and other life course outcomes for convict women. History Australia, 19(1), 13-33.

Inwood, K., Antonie, L., Minns, C., Summerfield, F. (2022). “Intergenerational mobility in a mid-Atlantic economy: Canada, 1871-1901”, Journal of Economic History.

Inwood, K., Oxley, W. L., Roberts, E. (2022). “The mortality risk of being overweight in the twentieth century: Evidence from two cohorts of New Zealand men”, Explorations in Economic History.

Islam, T., Meade, N., Carson, R, Louviere, J., and Wang. J (2022). The Usefulness of Socio-demographic Variables in Predicting Purchase Decisions: Evidence from Machine Learning Procedures, Journal of Business Research, 151, 324-338.

Kani, A., Fong, D.K.H. and S. DeSarbo, W. (2022), “Modeling the evolution of competitive market structure via competitive group dynamics”, Journal of Modelling in Management.

Kasioumi, M., & Stengos, T. (2022). The Effect of Pollution on the Spread of COVID-19 in Europe. Economics of disasters and climate change, 6(1), 129-140.

Kirkegaard, R. (2022). Efficiency in asymmetric auctions with endogenous reserve prices. Games and Economic Behavior.

Lee, S., & Winterich, K.P. (2022). The Price Entitlement Effect: When and Why High Price Entitles Consumers to Purchase Socially Costly Products. Journal of Marketing Research.

Lento, C., & Gradojevic, N. (2022). The Profitability of Technical Analysis during the COVID-19 Market Meltdown. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 15(5), 192.

Lever, M. & Elliot, S. (2022). The Northern Likes: The case of Northwest Territories’ Social Media Campaign. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Cases, Vol. 7, Iss. 3.

Lever, M., Elliot, S., & Joppe, M. (2022). Pride and Promotion: Exploring relationships between national identification, destination advocacy, tourism ethnocentrism and destination image. Journal of Vacation Marketing.

Li, M. (2022). Market expectation management and renminbi exchange rate policy under depreciation pressure. China Economic Journal.

Lu, J., Rodenburg, K., Foti, L., & Pegoraro, A. (2022). Are firms with better sustainability performance more resilient during crises? Business Strategy and the Environment, 1–17.

Maraz, A., Yi, S. (2022). Compulsive buying gradually increased during the first six months of the Covid-19 outbreak, Journal of Behavioural Addictions, Volume 11, Issue 1, 88-101.

McAdams, B., & Gallant, M. (2022). Full-service restaurant leaders’ preparedness for managing employee mental health issues post COVID-19. Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality & Tourism, 21(1), 3-30.

McCaig, M., Rezania, D., & Dara, R. (2022). Is the Internet of Things a helpful employee? An exploratory study of discourses of Canadian farmers. Internet of Things, 17, 100466.

McKitrick, R. (2022). Checking for model consistency in optimal fingerprinting: a comment. Climate Dynamics, 58(1), 405-411.

McKitrick, R. (2022). On the choice of TLS versus OLS in climate signal detection regression. Climate Dynamics.

Morrongiello, B. A., Corbett, M., Colwell, S., Bryant, L., & Cox, A. (2022). A longitudinal study of boys’ and girls’ injury-risk behaviors and parent supervision during infancy. Infant behavior and development, 68, 101729.

Murray, W. C. (2022). Refining the Service Orientation Scale (SOS-22) from inside the Canadian lodging sector. Tourism and hospitality management, 28(1), 101-122.

Music, J., Charlebois, S., Marangoni, A. G., Ghazani, S. M., Burgess, J., Proulx, A., ... & Patelli, Y., Somogyi, S. (2022). Data deficits and transparency: What led to Canada’s ‘buttergate’. Trends in Food Science & Technology.

Nasreen, T. and Baker, R. (2022). Canadian Government Accounting: A Systematic Review. Copernican Journal of Accounting.

Pinar, M., Stengos, T., & Topaloglou, N. (2022). Stochastic dominance spanning and augmenting the human development index with institutional quality. Annals of Operations Research, 1-29.

Polemis, M. L., & Stengos, T. (2022). Threshold effects during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis: evidence from international tourist destinations. Current Issues in Tourism, 25(3), 387-393.

Polemis, M. L., & Stengos, T. (2022). What shapes the delay in the Nobel Prize discoveries? A research note. Scientometrics, 127, 803–811.

Reaume, C., Seddon, J. A., Colwell, S., Sack, L., Do Rosario, S., & Thomassin, K. (2022). Racial-ethnic differences in positive emotion socialization: Links to child emotional lability. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 81, 101443.

Rich, K. A., Moore, E., Boggs, J., & Pegoraro, A. (2022). Mapping Women’s Community Sport Participation to Inform Sport Development Initiatives: A Case Study of Row Ontario. Frontiers in sports and active living, 129.

Robinson, E., Somogyi, S., McAdams, B and ThomasFrancois, K. (2022). Managerial decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the sustainability initiatives of Canadian foodservice businesses. Journal of Foodservice Business Research.

Röell, C., Arndt, F., & Kumar, V. (2022). A Blessing and a Curse: Institutional Embeddedness of Longstanding MNE Subsidiaries in Emerging Markets. Journal of Management Studies.

Röell, C., Osabutey, E., Rodgers, P., Arndt, F., Khan, Z., & Tarba, S. (2022). Managing socio-political risk at the subnational level: lessons from MNE subsidiaries in Indonesia. Journal of World Business, 57(3), 101312.

Roznik, M., Boyd, M., & Porth, L. (2022). Improving crop yield estimation by applying higher resolution satellite NDVI imagery and high-resolution cropland masks. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 100693.

Senkl, D., & Cooper, C. (2022). On valuing (m) other nature in times of climate crises–A reflection on the non and nom of accounting for (m) other nature. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 102430.

Shen, Y. S., Jo, W., & Joppe, M. (2022). Role of country image, subjective knowledge, and destination trust on travel attitude and intention during a pandemic. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 52, 275-284.

Sobczak, W., Kanetkar, V. (2022). Price Dependence in the Supply Chain on the Mushroom Market in Canada, International Journal of Food System Dynamics, 13(1), 46-55.

Yi, S., Kanetkar, V., and Brauer, P.(2022). “Customer support for nudge strategies to promote fruit and vegetable intake in a university food service”, BMC Public Health.

Yi, S., Kanetkar, V., and Brauer, P.( (2022). “Nudging food service users to choose fruit- and vegetable-rich items: Five field studies”, Appetite 173.

Sveinson, K., Taylor, E., Keaton, A. C., Burton, L., Pegoraro, A., & Toffoletti, K. (2022). Addressing Gender Inequity in Sport Through Women’s Invisible Labor. Journal of Sport Management, 36(3), 240-250.

Thomas-Francois, K., & Somogyi, S. (2022) Consumers’ intention to adopt virtual grocery shopping. Does technological readiness and the optimization of consumer learning matter? International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management.

Thomas-Francois, K. & Somogyi, S. (2022) Self-Checkout behaviours at supermarkets: does the technological acceptance model (TAM) predict smart grocery shopping adoption? The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research.

Varmazyari, H., Mirhadi, H., Kalantari, K., Joppe, M., & Decrop, A. (2022). “Ecolodge entrepreneurship in emerging markets: an analysis of the entrepreneurship process,” Sustainability,14(14), 8479.

Wan, J., Kulow, K., & Cowan, K. (2022). It’s Alive! Increasing protective action against the coronavirus through anthropomorphism and construal. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 7(1).

Wu, Z., Weersink, A., & Maynard, A. (2022). Fuel-feedlivestock price linkages under structural changes. Applied Economics, 54(2), 206-223.

Yi, S; Kanetkar, V; Brauer, P. (2022). Nudging food service users to choose fruit-and vegetable-rich items: Five field studies, Appetite, Volume 173, 105978.

Yi, S., Kanetkar, V., Brauer, P., et al. (2022) Customer support for nudge strategies to promote fruit and vegetable intake in a university food service, BMC Public Health.

Zolfaghari, A., Thomas-Francois, K and Somogyi, S. (2022). Consumer adoption of digital grocery shopping: What is the impact of consumer’s prior-to-use knowledge? British Food Journal.

In Memoriam: Dr. Bram Cadsby

With great sadness we learned of the passing of University Professor Emeritus Dr. C. Bram Cadsby on Saturday February 12, 2022.

Bram worked for 39 years as a faculty member in the Department of Economics and Finance before retiring in September 2021. He held degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD, 1985), Queen’s University (MA, 1978), and the London School of Economics (BSc, 1976). Prior to completion of his PhD, he joined the Department of Economics and Finance as faculty member in 1982. While most of his academic work was undertaken at the University of Guelph, he twice held a Visiting Erskine Fellowship (awarded to distinguished international academics) at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and was a Visiting Professor at numerous universities in China, Australia, the United States, and Japan.

Committed to teaching and mentoring, he inspired generations of students to study economics and finance. He was also an active researcher having published 39 peer-reviewed journal articles and 5 book chapters, and having received 2958 citations. His research articles have been published in various highly ranked general interest and field journals such as Review of Financial Studies,

Journal of Public Economics, Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Games and Economic Behavior, Experimental Economics and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Bram’s primary research interest was in experimental economics and experimental finance. Within this field he began publishing innovative research in the early 1990s at a time when the field and its methods were still in its infancy and experimental economists worldwide were few in number. As a result, many of his pioneering contributions have shaped this growing field.

Bram’s research was supported by numerous external grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Australian Research Council, the Ontario Centre for International Business, and the Financial Research Foundation of Canada. Most impressively, he was externally funded from SSHRC through a series of 9 grants covering the entire 25 year period from 1989 to 2014.

Shortly following his retirement, Bram was awarded the title of University Professor Emeritus, which is given to a retired faculty member from the University of Guelph for having sustained, outstanding scholarship of such a level that it is recognized internationally.