Research events

Human Readability of Disclosures in a Machine-Readable World
May 17, 2024
Dr. Andy Call, School Director & Professor, Accountancy Professional Advisory Board Professor, School of Accountancy, Arizona State University

Market Feedback: Evidence from the Horse’s Mouth
February 3, 2023
Dr. Liyan Yang, Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics, and the Peter L. Mitchelson/SIT Investment Associates Foundation Chair in Investment Strategy at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Leadership in Turbulent Times: Making Sense of Events
December 8, 2023
Dr. Geoffrey Wood, Dancap Private Equity Chair in Change and Innovation, Chair, DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies, Western University

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and the Workplace: Systematic Review and Feminist Conceptual Analysis
February 4, 2022
Dr. Michelle Greenwood, Associate Professor in the Department of Management at Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia

Me-Search: A Path to Relevant Research with Impact and Meaning
December 9, 2022
Dr. Johan Wiklund, Professor & AI Berg Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University

Balancing the Bright and Dark Side of Digitization - Dr. Alain Verbeke
February 5, 2021
Dr. Alain Verbeke, Professor and Research Director on Strategy and Organization
McCaig Research Chair in Management, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary

How Subtle Feelings Shape Judgement and Choice - Dr. Norbert Schwarz
February 26, 2021 
Dr. Norbert Schwarz, Provost Professor of Psychology and Marketing, University of Southern California

Security Analysis: An Investment Perspective - Dr. Kewei Hou
April 30, 2021
Dr. Kewei Hou, Ric Dillon Endowed Professor in Investments, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University and Editor of the Journal of Empirical Finance

Competition and Product Quality: Fake Trading on Crypto Exchanges – Dr. Evgeny Lyandres
November 19, 2021
Dr. Evgeny Lyandres, Professor of Finance at Tel Aviv University and Head of Hogeg Blockchain Research Center

Unraveling the Puzzling Risk-Return Relationship: Distinctive Roles of Government Involvement in Venture Capital Investment
Qian (Cecilia) Gu, Associate Professor, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University

Roe v. Rates: Reproductive Healthcare and Public Financing Costs
Runjing Lu, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Alberta

Span of Control and Salesforce Performance: An Empirical Investigation
Dr. V. Kumar, Professor of Marketing, Goodman Academic-Industry Partnership Professor, Goodman School of Business, Brock University

Techno-nationalism and Cross-Border Acquisitions in an Age of Geopolitical Rivalry
Jing Li, Professor of International Business, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University

Prior Environmental Disclosures and the Likelihood and Extent of Climate Change-Induced Financial Risk Disclosures
Dr. Andrew W. Stark, Emeritus Professor, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester 

Risk-Sharing Pricing of Variable Annuities within a Principal-Agent Framework
Dr. Bin Li, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo

Boundary Spanning in Social Impact Supply Chains: Improving Lives Through Coffee (Joint work with Madeleine Pullman)
Dr. Eugenia Rosca, Assistant Professor of Operations Management, University of Groningen

Moral Identity and Workplace Meaning: The Role of Organizational Virtuousness and Prosocial Behaviour
Dr. Luke Zhu, Program Director, Master of Management, Associate Professor of Organization Studies, Schulich School of Business, York University

Consumers’ Reactions to Corporate ESG Performance: Evidence from Store Visits
Dr. Tinghua Duan, Assistant Professor of Finance, IESEG School of Management

What Drives B2B Service Innovations? A Machine Learning-Based Empirical Analysis
Dr. Venky Shankar, Ford Chair Professor of Marketing & E-Commerce, Director of Research, Center for Retailing Studies, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University

Developing Theoretical Insights in Entrepreneurship Research

Dr. Yong Li, Lee Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Nevada Las Vegas

Understanding Customer Emotions towards Service Robots

Dr. Zhibin Lin, Professor in Marketing, Durham University Business School

Search Systems over Enterprise Databases for Business Users
Dr. Mehdi Kargar, Associate Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management, TMU

The Plight of People Living with HIV: Consequences of HIV Stigma in Organizations
Dr. Simon Lloyd D. Restubog, Full Professor of HR & Organizational Psychology, School of Labor & Employment Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

When Do Corporate Parents Matter? Disentangling the Corporate Effect
Dr. Daniel S. Andrews, Assistant Professor, Global Strategy, Ivey Business School, Western University

Digitalization of Inventive Records and Startup Innovation
Dr. H. Dennis Park, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Dallas

Passive Investing and the Rise of Mega-Firms
Dr. Hao Jiang, Associate Professor of Finance, A.J. Pasant Fellow

Managing and Tuning-up Big Data Systems
Dr. Jarek Szlichta, Associate Professor, York University, Faculty Fellow, IBM Centre for Advanced Studies

The Spillover Effect of Product Quality Failures in Multi-tier Buyer-Supplier Networks
Dr. Kersi Antia, George and Mary Turnbull Faculty Fellow, Professor of Marketing, Ivey Business School, Western University

Focused Learning from Big Enterprise Data
Dr. Morteza Zihayat, Associate Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University, Faculty Member, IBM Center of Advanced Studies

An Examination of the Chief Audit Executives’ Reporting Standards for Handling Artificial Intelligence Design Ethical Decision-Making Processes
Dr. Waymond Rodgers, Chair Professor, University of Hull, Professor, University of Texas, El Paso
 

Inventory in Times of War
Juan Camilo Serpa, William Dawson Associate Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

Do Pensions Have Teeth? Evidence from the State Government Borrowing Costs
Ting (Jeffrey) Zhang, PhD, Professor of Finance, Department of Economics & Finance, School of Business Administration, University of Dayton

Analytical Solution to a Partially Observable Machine-Maintenance Problem
Dr. Hao Zhang, PhD Associate Professor of Operations & Logistics, Sauder School of Business, UBC

Blockholder Mutual Fund Participation in Private In-house Meetings: Evidence on Social Bonding and Stock Return Volatility
Dr. Pengcheng (Phil) Zhu, Professor of Finance, University of San Diego School of Business

Physician Staffing and Shift Scheduling at Emergency Departments with Time Varying Productivity
Dr. Alireza Sabouri, Assistant Professor, Operations & Supply Chain Management Area, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary

Heterogeneous Response: An Extension of the Fama-MacBeth Regression
Dr. Guofu Zhou, Frederick Bierman & James E. Spears Professor of Finance, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis

Hurting Those We Mean to Help? Startup Boards, Conflict and Entrepreneurial Success
Dr. Laura Huang, MBA Class of 1954 Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Supply Disruptions: Complex Effects of Supplier Shirking Opportunism, Sourcing Relationship Investments and Cross-Functional Information Sharing
Dr. M. Johnny Rungtusanatham, Canada Research Chair in Supply Chain Management, Professor & Area Coordinator, Operations Management &

Information Systems, Schulich School of Business, York University
Asset Pricing with Attention Guided Deep Learning
Dr. Ruslan Goyenko, Professor of Finance, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

The Psychology of User-Generated Content
Dr. Shiri Melumad, Assistant Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
 

2023 Rod Senft Family Business Conference

The Rod Senft Family Business Conference is an opportunity for business and academics to connect and collaborate to strengthen the family enterprise footprint in Manitoba and Canada.

The 2023 conference theme; Succession Planning in Family Enterprise-Align the Family and the Business will Follow, focused on the intricacies of succession planning, whether it be management or ownership succession.

The 2023 Rod Senft Family Business Conference was co-sponsored by the Senft Family Fund for the Advancement of the Study of Family Business and the Asper School of Business.  

2023 CPA Manitoba-Asper School of Business Accounting Research Conference and British Accounting Review Special Issue Workshop

The CPA Manitoba-Asper School of Business Accounting Research Conference was the first hybrid conference held both over Zoom and in person since the pandemic, and brought together international academics and local practitioners alike, all of whom were focused on bridging accounting and finance with entrepreneurship, from business and social perspectives. 

Quadrant Behavioural Finance Conference

The Annual Quadrant Investor Behaviour Conference is a top level academic conference that brings leading international academics and practitioners in the investment field together to examine and discuss cutting edge academic research in investment finance.

This conference provides enhanced learning experiences for student and research opportunities for professors, as well as provides exposure to new trends in investment finance to practitioners.