Brown Bag Research Presentation Series

Each Academic year the Faculty of Business Administration hosts a number of informal research seminars typically scheduled during the lunch hour. These seminars provide valuable opportunities for our faculty and graduate students to share their latest research projects, and encourage collaboration and collegial networking among the Faculty of Business Administration community.

Academic Year 2021 / 2022

A Data Driven Approach in Assessing Electronic Public Procurement: The Canadian Context

Dr. ShiKui Wu, Assistant Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, November 5, 2021

Academic Year 2020 / 2021

New immigrant Welcoming in Northwestern Ontario: A Comparison of Perspectives

Dr. Kathy Sanderson, Assistant Professor
Ryan Hron, MSc, Research Assistant
Julia Whitney, MSc Student, Research Assistant
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, January 29, 2021

Can Supervisory Coaching Increase Nurses’ Performance and Commitment to the Profession?

Dr. Claudio Pousa, Associate Professor
Dr. David Richards, Dean
Alyxandra Mclvor, M.Sc. in Management graduate
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, November 27, 2020

Understanding the Correlations of Business and Product Ecosystems

Dr. Henning Hinderer, Associate Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Pforzheim University
Date: Friday, November 27, 2020

Beauty Beyond Sensuality

Katriina Tiilikainen, MSc Graduate
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, October 30, 2020

How Does the Practice of Coaching affect the Leader Self- Development of the Manager: An Explorative Study using the Self- Determination and Leader Self-Development Theories

Roberto Felipe Loayza, MSc Graduate
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, October 30, 2020

Academic Year 2019 / 2020

The Effect of Skilled Labour Scarcity on Law-abiding Organizational Climates in Emerging Markets: The Moderating Role of Managerial Ties in Mexico

Dr. Shoeb Mohammad
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, February 28, 2020

Unleashing the Power of Implementation Intentions through Coaching

Dr. Claudio Pousa
Associate Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, January 31, 2020

Coping with academic capitalism in Canadian universities: Reconstructing contradictory institutional logics through identity work

Dr. Farshid Shams
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, November 29, 2019

An Economic Analysis of a Risk-Sharing Agreement with Patient Compliance Program for Chronic Diseases

Dr. Hui Zhang
Associate Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, November 22, 2019

Fostering Sales Leadership effectiveness: the complementary effects of Sales Coaching and Leader-member exchange

Dr. Claudio Pousa
Associate Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, September 27, 2019

Academic Year 2018 / 2019

Canada’s Mandatory Adoption of IFRS: Impact on Market-Based and Non-Market-Based Accounting Quality

Dr. Gulraze Wakil
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, March 29, 2019

A Bibliometric Analysis of Social Media in Hospitality and Tourism Research

Dr. Irfan Butt
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, March 1, 2019

E-sourcing Mechanisms and Technologies: A Preliminary Study

Dr. ShiKui Wu, Assistant Professor
Ms. Jingyu Zhang, MBA Candidate
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, January 25, 2019

Visualizing Praxis and Practicing Visuality: How the Visual Turn Could Inform the Practice Turn in Entrepreneurship Studies

Dr. Will Zhao
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, October 26, 2018

An institutional view on the evolution of CSR in the West and East: The case of Shell and Petro China

Dr. Liyun Qi, Visiting Scholar
Dr. Yuanyuan Wu, Associate Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University (Orillia)
Date: Friday, September 28, 2018

Academic Year 2017 / 2018

Smart Contracts in IT Project Management

Dr. ShiKui Wu
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, March 23, 2018

Sectoral system of innovation: Evolution of solar photovoltaics sector

Dr. Xue Han
Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University (Orillia)
Date: Friday, March 23, 2018

Managerialism Vs. Academic Freedom in Contemporary Universities: A Fuzzy Set-theoretic Analysis

Dr. Farshid Shams
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, February 16, 2018

Developing a Strategy Map for a Post-Secondary Institution using the Balanced Scorecard Approach

Katelyn Stejskal
M.Sc. in Management Graduate
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, January 19, 2018

Academic Year 2016 / 2017

Strategies for Effective Group Work in the Faculty of Business Administration

Dr. Asad Aman, Assistant Professor
Dr. David Richards, Associate Professor
Kathy Sanderson, Lecturer
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, November 25, 2016

Academic Year 2015 / 2016

Action Research: Evidence Informed Best Practices

Kathy Sanderson
Lecturer
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, March 18, 2016

Strategic Balance for the Transnational Hybrid Organisation: The Impacts of Organisational Institutional Pluralism on the Subsidiary's Choice

Cross Cultural Care Project
Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre
Dr. Farshid Shams
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, February 26, 2016

Building and Sustaining Authentic Partnerships: Business Readiness and Relationships with Aboriginal Communities in Northwestern Ontario

Christina Brassard
M.Sc. in Management Graduate
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, February 26, 2016

Benchmark Beating in Chinese Listed Firms: The Impact of Earnings Management

Dr. Camillo Lento, Associate Professor
Dr. Wing Him Yeung, Assistant Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, November 27, 2015

The Efficient House Innovation: Healthful, Efficient and Sustainable Housing for Northern and Southern Climates

Dr. Bryan Poulin
Associate Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, October 30, 2015

Managerial Coaching and Attitudes and Behaviours of Nurses

Alyxandra McIvor
M.Sc. in Management Graduate
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, October 30, 2015

Academic Year 2014 / 2015

Does R&D Create or Resolve Uncertainty?

Wing Him Yeung
Lecturer
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, March 30, 2015

Attachment and Physiological Needs Satisfaction: Predicting Burnout and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour

Dr. David Richards
Associate Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, February 27, 2015

Gender Moderation in Managerial Coaching: Results from a Multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Dr. Claudio Pousa
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, February 27, 2015

Academic Year 2013 / 2014

Understanding the Power and Politics of ‘Bottom of the Pyramid Marketing’: A Discourse Analysis

Asad Aman
Lecturer
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
Date: Friday, February 28, 2014