PhD Supervisors
All of our professorial faculty members are active researchers. Most are available to supervise and work collaboratively with Haskayne PhD students on research projects.
Haskayne PhD Supervisors by area
Accounting
Dr. Mark Anderson
Mark Anderson’s research primarily focuses on three areas:
- Asymmetry in cost behaviour or cost stickiness
- Differences in executive compensation across industries and by gender
- The use of information technology to enhance productivity
Mark’s research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science and the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance. He also serves on the editorial board for Contemporary Accounting Research.
Dr. Irene Herremans
Irene Herremans’ research interests focus on many contemporary issues including management and environmental control systems, environmental performance, international business, intellectual capital, and performance evaluation. Her teaching responsibilities are in the areas of accounting, tourism, and environmental management.
Irene has been named "Woman of the Year" by the American Business Women's Association and has been recognized for her overall contribution by being named one of the "Outstanding Young Women of America."
Dr. Raj Mashruwala
Raj Mashruwala’s research interests revolve around the intersection of managerial and financial accounting, specifically in issues related to performance measurement, cost behaviour, and earnings management. His research has been published in leading accounting journals such as Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance, and European Accounting Review. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Management Accounting Research and Advances in Management Accounting, and as an ad-hoc reviewer for several high-quality journals.
Dr. Abu Rahaman
Abu Shiraz Rahaman’s research focuses on studying accounting in its social and institutional contexts, using qualitative research methods. His research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Academic Accounting Association, and CMA Alberta. Dr. Rahaman currently serves on the editorial board of Contemporary Accounting Research, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, and the Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies.
Dr. Anup Srivastava
Anup Srivastava is a leading researcher on the changing landscape of public companies: How digital revolution changes the paradigms for financial reporting and valuation. Previously, he worked at Kellogg (Northwestern) and Tuck (Dartmouth). He has published in Management Science, Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Accounting Studies, published numerous articles on digital revolution at Harvard Business Review, has one JFE all-star paper, and been cited in Financial Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Economist.
Dr. Hussein Warsame
Hussein Warsame’s teaching interests are in taxation and financial accounting. Prizes won by his research include: the Distinguished Research Award, from Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies, and the Vernon K. Zimmerman Best Paper Award presented by the Center for International Education and Research in Accounting. Dr. Warsame is an Associate Editor of and Accounting Education – An International Journal. He also consults with the United Nations and other interested parties on issues that relate to Somalia.
Business and the Environment
Dr. Harrie Vredenburg
Harrie Vredenburg’s is a leading scholar in the areas of competitive strategy, innovation, sustainable development and corporate governance in the global energy and natural resource industries and serves as the Suncor Energy Chair in Competitive Strategy and Sustainable Development. He was one of the visionaries who founded Haskayne’s Global Energy Executive MBA and has served as its Academic Director since its inception.
Business Technology Management
Dr. Barrie R. Nault
Part of Dr. Nault’s current research is on how information technology affects productivity directly and indirectly, through outsourcing, through complementarity with other capital and labour, through transaction costs, and through relationships along the supply chain. He also studies ownership, incentives, membership and investment in new organizational forms and has recently done work on versioning strategies for information goods, entry into e-commerce markets, third-party logistics, and in environmental incentives for new energy technology conversion. In addition, he studies the relationship between information technology and inflation, trade and productivity, understanding the ways information technology value is created and how it affects the macroeconomy. For more information, including Dr. Nault’s publications visit ucalgary.ca/bnault
Dr. Ray A. Patterson
Ray Patterson's research utilizes quantitative methods from management science and micro-economics to solve problems related to:
- Analytics, big data, and heuristics;
- Networks such as social networks, workflow control networks, distribution networks, and telecommunications networks;
- Privacy, security, and ICT investment; and
- Service customer satisfaction and healthcare.
Ray's research has been published in leading academic journals. He is also Editor-in-Chief for Information Technology and Management and serves on the editorial board for Decision Sciences.
Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Dr. Alice de Koning
Dr. de Koning's research considers how social and institutional contexts affect entrepreneurial cognition and opportunity recognition. Her current projects include metaphors for entrepreneurship in public discourse, how Champagne World Fairs created entrepreneurial-driven growth in 12th century Europe, how governance structures can impact employee-driven innovations, and the impact of experiential learning methodologies.
Dr. Mohammad Keyhani
Mohammad Keyhani’s research interests revolve around the intersection of entrepreneurship and strategy, with a view towards disequilibrium-based foundations in subjectivist and Austrian economics. Mohammad is currently studying the performance, survival and acquisition of start-ups using the Kauffman Firm Survey, and also pursuing an interest in the applications of formal (e.g., game theoretical) and computational modelling as well as computational social science in general. His other research interests include the theory of the firm, value creation and capture, decision making, technology and innovation management, and technology ventures.
Dr. Seok-Woo Kwon
Dr. Kwon's research program focuses on understanding the concept of social capital and how social capital influences the performance outcomes of organizations and individuals. While social capital is known to explain a broad range of outcomes, his research interests focus on how social capital influences entrepreneurship, innovation, and knowledge management.
Dr. Oleksiy Osiyevskyy
Dr. Osiyevskyy has research interests in the problem of achieving and sustaining firm growth through successfully engaging in entrepreneurial strategies. Particular areas of expertise include analyzing and designing innovative business models, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of corporate innovation practices, and evidence-based strategies for developing high-growth new ventures.
Dr. Olga Petricevic
Dr. Olga Petričević received her PhD degree in Strategic Management from the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. Her research interests are at the intersection of strategic management, technology and innovation, and international strategy. In her research she addresses questions related to the nature and the role of dynamic capabilities in a firm's quest to successfully and frequently engage in a variety of inter-firm collaborations with the potential to generate breakthrough innovations in nascent technological fields. She has received the American Association of University Women fellowship for her dissertation work. She actively presents her research at international and national conferences including the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, as well as Annual Meetings of the Academy of International Business. She served as the Program Coordinator and the Organizing Committee Member for the Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference for two years. In Spring 2017 she Co-Chaired the Strategic Management Society's Special Conference on the topic "Transforming Entrepreneurial Thinking into Dynamic Capabilities." She currently serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Management. Prior to joining the University of Calgary, she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in strategic management and international business as well as co-directed a Study Abroad course that examines management topics in transitioning economies. She has received numerous department and college level teaching excellence awards. She currently teaches undergraduate level courses in entrepreneurship, PhD seminar in strategic management, and executive education courses on fundamentals of strategy formulation, implementation, and innovation. Prior to pursuing her PhD studies, she worked for a commercial real estate investment advisory firm in Atlanta (USA) and Munich (Germany).
Dr. Michael Robinson
Dr. Robinson has published several books and academic research papers that study Canadian capital markets, market efficiency, and methods of raising equity capital for developing firms. His most recent interests include examining the role of the private and junior public equity markets in financing growth-oriented firms in Canada. In his studies of private equity markets, he has identified the diverse nature of the participants in this marketplace and determined that this market is more important to nascent firms than the junior public equity market. In addition, he has documented the key role that agents play in this market both by providing certification and networking benefits to private firms.
In his studies of junior public markets, he has documented the decline that has occurred in this market over the past decade, but has highlighted that the decline is not as severe as has been the case in other countries most notably the US. In addition, he has shown how it is possible to create an effective regulatory structure in this market which can balance the needs for regulatory oversight without imposing too severe a burden on firms seeking development capital. Finally, he has shown that the junior public markets can be effective in helping firms grow to the point where they can graduate to a senior public equity exchange.
Dr. Chad Saunders
Chad's program of research spans three streams of activity. The first deals with the impact of technology use in professional practices, the second explores the design and innovation of technology enabled knowledge management in organizations, and the third considers the support that entrepreneurs draw upon with a particular interest in the role of academic-industry collaborations and academics engaged in entrepreneurial activities.
Chad has published in leading journals including Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Research Policy, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and the Ivey Business Journal. Chad’s program of research is funded through various grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions (AIHS), and Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR).
Finance
Dr. Kyoung Jin (KJ) Choi
KJ's areas of research interest includes investment, Fintech (blockchain), dynamic contracting, and consumption. His recent research focuses primarily on mechanism design problems of decentralized platforms and algorithmic stablecoins on blockchain, and implications of the introduction of CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) for the financial system. He has participated in the Model X project of the Bank of Canada for the architecture design of the Canadian CBDC. He has also worked on the linkage between heterogeneous consumption patterns and asset returns.
To see his Research Papers visit: https://sites.google.com/site/kyoungjinchoiecon/research
Dr. Jess Chua - Finance, Family Business
Jess Chua’s two fields of research, reflecting his appointments, are family business governance and new venture financing. Within these two fields, he has published four books, two monographs, and over ninety papers in academic and professional journals. The research is well-cited and has received awards from numerous academic associations.
In addition to teaching and research, he has served the Haskayne School in various administrative roles and on the boards of public and private companies plus several professional organizations.
Dr. Alex David
Alex David’s research focuses on the modelling of changing investors’ uncertainty about the state of economic fundamentals and their impact on asset prices. He has not only constructed structural models of changing uncertainty, but has also estimated these models structurally providing new methodologies for the joint estimation of the parameters of asset prices, volatilities, and fundamentals of the economy.
Alex also has an active research agenda in the area of energy finance. In particular, he has provided a new modelling framework that shows the strong link between the slope of the oil futures curve and long run exploration and production decisions of energy companies. Alex also studies the systemic implications of derivative contracts that are written between banks and, in particular, discusses why banks choose to be highly interconnected, and the role of renegotiation breakdowns between them in triggering off a chain of financial disruptions.
Dr. Robert J Elliott
Robert Elliott’s recent work concerns stochastic processes and their applications in finance and engineering. In finance my current areas of interest include American options, term structure, the estimation of volatility and value at risk. In electrical engineering one is concerned with the optimal estimation of signals observed in noise. Applications of stochastic calculus and hidden Markov models gives rise to filters, smoothers and predictors.
Dr. Yrjo Koskinen
Dr. Yrjö Koskinen is an associate professor of finance at the Haskayne School of Business. Previously he has served on the faculties of Stockholm School of Economics, Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Koskinen’s main research areas are corporate finance, corporate governance, and international finance. His current research focuses on corporate social responsibility and its relationship to firm risk, entrepreneurial finance and incentives, and financial crises (in particular the euro crisis). His research has been published in the leading finance journals, such as Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Review of Finance. He is the recipient of the Standard Life Investments Finance Prize for his research on CSR and firm risk.
Dr. Alfred Lehar
Alfred Lehar is currently researching under what conditions renegotiations can facilitate a private sector workout of a financial crisis. He also works on how information produced by financial markets can be optimally used in bank regulation. In his previous research Alfred developed several methods on how to measure the probability of a financial crisis, analyzed conflicts of interest for financial Analysts, and looked at the empirical fit of alternative option pricing models. Alfred’s work has been published in Management Science, the Journal of Financial Intermediation, the Journal of Banking and Finance, and the Review of Finance.
Dr. Pablo Moran
Dr. Miguel Palacios
Miguel Palacios is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business. His academic work focuses on the intersection of human capital and asset-pricing. In particular, he studies the size and riskiness of human capital, its impact on the riskiness of firms, the riskiness of education investments, and optimal contracts for financing education. He is a co-founder of Lumni, which has financed more than 12,000 students through Income Share Agreements in Latin America and the United States. More recently, he is working on creating better financial products for retirees as a co-founder of A&P Capital. Miguel holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration — finance — and an M.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.B.A. from the Darden Business School, University of Virginia, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
Dr. Ari Pandes
Ari Pandes’ primary research is on issues in empirical corporate finance, capital markets, and entrepreneurial finance, with a specific focus on investment banking, raising financing, securities issuance, private equity, and the going public decision. He has presented his research at top international Finance conferences and at various universities internationally. His past research on Canadian bought deals and private placements drew the interest of regulators, investment banks, and corporate law firms in both Canada and the U.S, and he was invited to present this research at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington D.C.
Dr. Michael Robinson
Michael Robinson teaches investments, portfolio management, new venture finance, and corporate governance to undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and executive education students. He founded the Calgary Portfolio Management Trust (CPMT) program at the Haskayne School of Business in 1993.
Dr. Robinson’s research has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals including Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Small Business Management, Financial Analysts Journal and the Ivey Business Journal. His research interests include private and junior public equity markets, market efficiency, and the methods of raising capital for developing firms.
Marketing
Dr. James Agarwal
James’s research interests are in the following broad areas: International Marketing, Consumer Psychology, Customer Relationship Marketing, Ethical Issues in Marketing, and Statistical Methods. He has published fifty-five papers in major refereed journals, proceedings, and book chapters and presented research papers in numerous national and international conferences. He has edited two books: (a) ‘Research Methodology: Conjoint Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling & Related Techniques’ (Sage Publication, 2011) and (b) ‘Emerging Issues in Global Marketing: A Shifting Paradigm’ (Springer, 2018). His third co-authored book ‘Customer Relationship Marketing: Theoretical and Managerial Perspectives’ (World Scientific Publishing, 2020) is currently in press. He is listed in Canadian Who’s Who, University of Toronto Press and Marquis Who’s Who in America. In 2017, he received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who. He is a member of the American Marketing Association, Academy of International Business, and the Academy of Marketing Science.
Dr. Charan Bagga
Charan K Bagga is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Haskayne School of Business. Charan has a PhD in marketing from the Ivey Business School, Canada and was formerly a visiting professor at Tulane University (2015 – 2016). He does research in the areas of brand positioning, cognitive representations of competition and innovation, and consumer decision making in alternate market exchange settings. His research has been published in the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of Consumer Psychology and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. Charan has also worked as a senior manager in sales and consulting at global corporations (CSC, Standard Chartered, HCL) in the United States and India.
Dr. Mehdi Mourali
Mehdi Mourali’s research focuses on understanding how people make judgments and decisions in the marketplace. In particular, his work investigates how psychological factors, such as motivation and affect, interact with environmental factors, such as the social and physical contexts, to influence consumer judgment and decision-making. His research has been published in leading marketing journals, including the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Consumer Research, and the Journal of Consumer Psychology. He has also presented his work at several national and international academic conferences, and serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for a number of high-quality publications, including the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Consumer Psychology.
Dr. Scott Radford
Scott Radford’s research on sustainability and design focuses on consumer responses to attributes such as visual product design, mass customization, and product sustainability. He also studies the influence of death and mortality salience on consumer decision making. His work appears in the Journal of Product Innovation Management, European Journal of Marketing, Marketing Letters, and Journal of Consumer Culture. Scott is currently teaching Marketing Communication.
Scott previously worked in Montreal for several years where he was the Director of Advertising for R. Nicholls Distributors and then the Operations and Marketing Manager for Collins Safety.
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Dr. Osman Alp
Osman Alp's research interests include integrated inventory, transportation, and capacity management; sustainability in transportation operations, and omni-channel retail. His articles appeared in reputable journals including Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and Transportation Science. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Computers & OR journal.
Dr. Marco Bijvank
Marco's research interests focus on supply chain management, retail operations, health care operations and revenue management. The goal of his research is to reduce the gap between theory and practice in logistics activities, and to increase the understanding of the dynamics inherent in practical settings. Most of his work focuses on applying operation research techniques and deriving more powerful algorithms and more effective heuristic approaches for realistic models. One of the important aspects to test the applicability of the solution techniques is verification through case studies. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research and Journal of the Operational Research Society.
Dr. Giovani da Silveira
Giovani da Silveira is a researcher in the areas of operations strategy, supply chain management, and mass customization. He has published numerous articles in the Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Production Research, and International Journal of Operations and Production Management, among other scholarly journals. He has co-edited (with Flavio Fogliatto) the book Mass Customization: Engineering and Managing Global Operations published by Springer-Verlag. He has more than 2000 citations to his work in Google Scholar. His research is supported by a Research Professorship from the Haskayne School of Business.
Dr. Serasu Duran
Serasu Duran is an assistant professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Haskayne School of Business.Her main research focus is energy-related and sustainable operations management; with a particular interest on the impacts of new technologies and disruptions on existing supply chains.
Prior to joining Haskayne, she completed her PhD studies at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Dr. Alireza Sabouri
Alireza Sabouri’s research focuses on the theory and application of stochastic optimization and sequential decision making under uncertainty. In particular, he is interested in applying these techniques to facilitate decision making in areas such as healthcare operation management, inventory management, and supply chain management. Alireza received his Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of British Columbia. At the University of Calgary, he teaches Operations Management at both the undergraduate and the graduate levels.
Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources
Dr. Loren Falkenberg
Loren Falkenberg is an expert in corporate social responsibility and her research interests focus on examining ethical and social responsibility issues in companies, and exploring the relationships between companies and not-for-profit organizations. Her current research is exploring how to companies can optimize value creation for both the company and community. Loren’s research has been published in many leading journals and she is currently an editor for the Journal of Business Ethics. In addition to her academic endeavours, Loren has consulted on corporate social responsibility programs and management of ethical issues for a number of companies, and acted as a facilitator for Boards and executive teams.
Dr. Andrew Hayes
Andrew F. Hayes is a quantitative methodologist and holds a PhD in Psychology from Cornell University as well as a BA in Psychology from San Jose State University. His research and writing on applied statistical methods has been published in such journals as Psychological Methods, Multivariate Behavioral Research, Behavior Research Methods, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, Psychological Science, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, American Behavioral Scientist, Communication Monographs, Journal of Communication, and Australasian Marketing Journal, among many others.
Dr. Sandy Hershcovis
Sandy Hershcovis’s research focuses on understanding the social context of workplace mistreatment (e.g., workplace bullying, incivility, and abusive supervision). In particular, she is currently interested in witness reactions to workplace mistreatment with a focus on witness intervention. She has published her research in such outlets as Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Organizational Behaviour, and the Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology. Her research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities research Council of Canada.
Dr. Tunde Ogunfowora
Tunde Ogunfowora’s research interests include ethical leadership, abusive supervision, and personality in the workplace. Some of his recent work examines how and why ethical leaders, from frontline supervisors to CEOs, influence different stakeholders both within- and outside the organization. He is also exploring the impact of witnessing abusive supervision on non-targeted employees’ socio-emotional ties to the workgroup. He has published articles in journals such as Journal of Organizational Behaviour, Leadership Quarterly, and Human Relations.
Dr. Peter Sherer
Peter Sherer’s teaching and research lies at the intersection between strategy and human resource management. He has been the recipient of six teaching awards and in 2005, was recognized as one of Canada’s top MBA professors by Canadian Business. He has published a number of articles in leading journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Organization Science, and Personnel Psychology . His research work (in collaboration with K. Lee) was awarded the ‘Best Paper’ in 2002 in the Academy of Management Journal and, in 2006, was recognized by the editorial board as one of the most interesting academic journal articles in management over the last 100 years.
Dr. Piers Steel
Piers Steel research focuses on meta-analysis, including the creation of metaBUS (www.metaBUS.org). He has done work on creating a unified theory of motivation and is testing a series of motivational apps to improve productivity. He is also working on several aspects of synthetic validity, a methodology for creating faster, more accurate, less expensive and easier to improve selection systems. Piers is a recognized authority on the science of motivation and is known internationally for his procrastination research, receiving widespread media coverage.
Dr. Nick Turner
Nick Turner’s research focuses on transformational leadership, work design, and occupational health and safety. Some current projects deal with organizational practices related to high safety performance, the relationship between leadership and mental health, and the social construction of workplace safety. He has published articles among others in Journal of Applied Psychology, Leadership Quarterly, and Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.
Julie Weatherhead
Julie Weatherhead is an assistant professor in Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources at the Haskayne School of Business. Her primary research focus is leadership. Her PhD thesis critically assessed transformational leadership, one of the most prevalent contemporary leadership theories. That work examined whether transformational leadership is multidimensional, whether those dimensions are recognizable by others, and if there are attributes of followers that affect their ability to recognize the leadership dimensions. Julie will continue conducting research on leadership and emotion from the followers' perspective.
Dr. Justin Weinhardt
Justin Weinhardt's research focuses on self-regulation and decision making in organizational contexts. Some current projects include the use of decision aids in selection, longitudinal study of mental health in the workplace, the role of overconfidence in motivation, computational models of organizational behaviour and the causes and consequences of abusive supervision. He has published articles in Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management, Journal of Operations Management and Organizational Research Methods.
Dr. Chelsea Willness
Dr. Willness (PhD, I/O Psychology) is a Professor in Organizational Behaviour. She studies the motives, causes, and consequences of pro-environmental and pro-social behaviours, including how stakeholders—like job seekers, employees, and consumers—respond to organizations’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability initiatives. She has published this work in top journals and book chapters, and presented to academic and professional audiences locally, nationally, and internationally. For over a decade she has been actively involved in governance initiatives in the not-for-profit sector, and advises on non-profit, corporate, and post-secondary governance, strategy, CSR, and community engagement.
Risk Management and Insurance
Dr. Martin Halek
Dr. Halek’s areas of research include insurance economics, insurer ratings and financial markets, insurer loss reserving practices, adverse selection and hazard risk assessment. He has published in top academic journals including the Journal of Risk and Insurance, The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, Forest Policy and Economics and Land Economics. Dr. Halek regularly presents his research at academic conferences and universities, and he is an active member of several professional organizations including the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA), the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE) and the Western Risk and Insurance Association (WRIA). Dr. Halek has received research grants from various organizations including SSHRC, USAID, NFID and Society of Actuaries. He has also received research and teaching awards including the Les B. Strickler Innovation in Instruction Award by ARIA.
Dr. Anne Kleffner
Anne Kleffner’s research focuses on three main areas: 1) Insurance regulation and insurer operations; 2) Automobile insurance; and 3) Enterprise risk management. The first two streams of research are closely linked. The insurance industry is very regulated with respect to both the solvency of insurers and the market conduct of insurers. The most regulated line of business, from a market conduct perspective, is automobile insurance. Thus, the impacts of regulation, the efficacy of regulation, and the design of regulation are important research questions. Regarding enterprise risk management, related topics include supply chain risk, sustainability and governance.
Strategy and Global Management
Dr. Liena Kano
Liena Kano is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Global Management and the McCaig Family Future Fund Professor of International Family Business at the Haskayne School of Business. She holds a PhD and an MBA from the University of Calgary and a BA (Honours) in Linguistics and Intercultural Communications from the University of Russia's Academy of Education.
Liena teaches courses in strategic management, international business, and research methodology in the DBA, EMBA, MBA, and B.Comm. programs. Her research interests intersect international business, strategic management, and entrepreneurship. Liena studies business phenomena such as family firm governance, internationalization, and global value chains, with a particular focus on micro-level dynamics of managerial behaviour that underlie complex international governance decisions. Liena’s work has been published in such premier journals as the Journal of International Business Studies, California Management Review, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal, and other high-quality academic outlets. Liena serves on editorial review boards of multiple journals, where her work has been recognized by several Best Reviewer awards. Liena plays an active leadership role in the international scholarly community. She is a former Chair of Strategic Management Society’s Global Strategy Interest Group and a current Board member of the Academy of International Business Canada Chapter, among other activities.
Prior to earning her PhD, Liena enjoyed a dynamic career in strategy in a range of Canadian and international industry sectors, including Oil & Gas, technology, and banking. Her significant management experience has influenced her current research interests.
Dr. Mohammad Keyhani
Mohammad Keyhani’s research interests revolve around the intersection of entrepreneurship and strategy, with a view towards disequilibrium-based foundations in subjectivist and Austrian economics. Mohammad is currently studying the performance, survival and acquisition of start-ups using the Kauffman Firm Survey, and also pursuing an interest in the applications of formal (e.g., game theoretical) and computational modelling as well as computational social science in general. His other research interests include the theory of the firm, value creation and capture, decision making, technology and innovation management, and technology ventures.
Dr. Olga Petricevic
Dr. Olga Petričević received her PhD degree in Strategic Management from the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. Her research interests are at the intersection of strategic management, technology and innovation, and international strategy. In her research she addresses questions related to the nature and the role of dynamic capabilities in a firm's quest to successfully and frequently engage in a variety of inter-firm collaborations with the potential to generate breakthrough innovations in nascent technological fields. She has received the American Association of University Women fellowship for her dissertation work. She actively presents her research at international and national conferences including the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, as well as Annual Meetings of the Academy of International Business. She served as the Program Coordinator and the Organizing Committee Member for the Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference for two years. In Spring 2017 she Co-Chaired the Strategic Management Society's Special Conference on the topic "Transforming Entrepreneurial Thinking into Dynamic Capabilities." She currently serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Management. Prior to joining the University of Calgary, she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in strategic management and international business as well as co-directed a Study Abroad course that examines management topics in transitioning economies. She has received numerous department and college level teaching excellence awards. She currently teaches undergraduate level courses in entrepreneurship, PhD seminar in strategic management, and executive education courses on fundamentals of strategy formulation, implementation, and innovation. Prior to pursuing her PhD studies, she worked for a commercial real estate investment advisory firm in Atlanta (USA) and Munich (Germany).
Dr. Alain Verbeke
Dr. Alain Verbeke, McCaig Chair in Management, is a leading scholar in international business strategy. He has published over 30 books and has been cited over 10,000 times. His work focuses on structural and strategic governance. He has successfully supervised 20 (graduated) PhD students. He is presently looking for motivated PhD students interested in the management of the world's largest companies, with a focus on governance design and managerial practices that improve competitive advantage. Dr. Verbeke is also interested in working with students expanding upon some of the concepts he developed himself, such as the bounded reliability concept as a micro-foundation for management; the subsidiary specific advantage concept; the concept of shelter-based strategies; the difference between location-bound and non-location-bound firm specific advantages; the bifurcation bias in family firms; etc.
Dr. Jaana Woiceshyn
Jaana Woiceshyn's research focuses on managerial cognition and decision making, including ethical decision making, and the role of innovation in firms' strategy and performance. With expertise in qualitative methods, she has studied adoption of technological innovations in the graphic arts industry, product innovation in biotechnology firms, and implementing innovation in the health care sector. She has also studied adoption of technological innovations by oil and gas companies and their integrative capability and value creation, as well as decision making of effective CEOs.
Jaana's research in business ethics focuses on ethical decision making and its role in firms' performance, which is also the theme of her book, How to Be Profitable and Moral (Hamilton Books, 2012). Her current projects include implementing change in health care, cognitive integration as the microfoundation of firms' strategy, and knowledge production in business schools.