Since 2005, the Luncheon Speaker Series has provided the Goodman community with an informal and engaging opportunity to listen and discuss recent advances in research, teaching, and practice with international business colleagues.
Fall 2024
Oded Shenkar
Professor of Management & Human Resources
Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management
Fisher College of Business
Ohio State University
Friday, Sept. 6, 2024
Presentation: New Directions in Culture Research
Location: Sankey Chamber
Jeff Boichuk
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Ivey Business School
Western University
Friday, Sept. 20, 2024
Presentation: Deal seeking: How the cost of living, family size and income influence search patterns
Location: GSB 310
Shavin Malhotra
Conrad Research Excellence Chair & Professor of StrategyConrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, University of Waterloo
Friday, Sept. 27, 2024
Presentation: Beyond Individual Leadership: The Impact of Joint CEO Involvement on M&A Success
Location: GSB 310
Magnus Hultman
Professor of Marketing and International BusinessGoodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Oct. 4, 2024
Presentation: Corporate Sociopolitical Activisim: How managers choose between low vs high polarizing issues
Location: Sankey Chamber
Brandon N. Cline
John “Nutie” and Edie Dowdle Professor of FinanceCo-Director, Institute for Market StudiesFinance Ph.D. CoordinatorDepartment of Finance and Economics, Mississippi State University
Friday, Oct. 25, 2024
Presentation: Broken Windows: SEC Enforcement of Delinquent Insider Filings
Location: Sankey Chamber
Samir Trabelsi
Professor of Accounting & CPA Ontario Distinguished Research Scholar
Accounting Department
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Nov. 1, 2024
Presentation: The Effect of SASB Standards Adoption on Audit Report Lags: The Mediating Effect of ESG Controversies
Location: Sankey Chamber
Simon Suwanyangyuan
Associate Professor of Accounting & CPA Ontario Emerging Research ScholarAccounting DepartmentGoodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Nov. 8, 2024
Presentation: Inflation Announcements and Stock Returns: Event Study Evidence from the COVID Period
Location: GSB 310
Fayez Elayan
Professor of Accounting & CPA Ontario Transdisciplinary Research ScholarAccounting DepartmentGoodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Nov. 15, 2024
Presentation: Auditee Merger, Audit Fees, and the Market Dominance of the Big Four Accounting Firms
Location: Sankey Chamber
Fouad Ben Abdelaziz
Distinguished Professor & Head of the MSc Artificial Intelligence for BusinessNEOMA Business School
Friday, Nov. 22, 2024
Presentation: Portfolio selection: should investors include crypto-assets? A multiobjective approach
Location: Sankey Chamber
Nicole Coviello
Lazaridis Chair in International Entrepreneurship & Innovation Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
Friday, Nov. 29, 2024Presentation: What Lies Beneath New Venture Internationalization Patterns? Insights from an Historical StudyLocation: Sankey Chamber
Winter 2025
Stay tuned for more Winter 2025 talks to be announced.
Dirk De Clercq
Distinguished Professor of Management
Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship and EthicsGoodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Jan. 10, 2025Presentation: TBALocation: Sankey Chamber
Anteneh Ayanso
Department Chair of Finance, Operations and Information Systems
Professor of Information SystemsGoodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Jan. 17, 2025Presentation: TBALocation: Sankey Chamber
Gina Colarelli O’Connor
Professor of Innovation Management & Fischer Family Term Chair in Healthcare Management
Entrepreneurship Division, Babson College (Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Friday, Jan. 31, 2025
Presentation: TBA
Location: Sankey Chamber
Amalesh Sharma
Associate Professor
Mays Business School, Texas A&M University
Friday, Feb. 28, 2025Presentation: Mental Health Emphasis and Organizational PerformanceLocation: Sankey Chamber
Sadia Jahanzeb
Associate Professor of Human Resource Management
Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship and Ethics
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, March 14, 2025
Presentation: TBA
Location: Sankey Chamber
Amr ElAlfy
Assistant Professor
School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development (SEED)
University of Waterloo
Friday, March 21, 2025Presentation: TBALocation: Sankey Chamber
Viswanath Venkatesh
Eminent Scholar and Verizon Chair
Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech
Friday, March. 29, 2025Presentation: TBALocation: Sankey Chamber
Past Events
Saima Naseer
Associate Professor of Human Resource ManagementOrganizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship and EthicsGoodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Jan. 19, 2024
Presentation: “Losing It” in the Wake of a Pandemic: The Interactive Effects of Fear of COVID-19 Virus and Emotional Regulation on Paranoid Cognition and Outcomes
Location: GSB 310
Lianxi Zhou
Professor of MarketingMarketing, International Business, and StrategyGoodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Jan. 26, 2024
Presentation: Toward a theory-in-use approach for unpacking relationship dynamics: Insight from OEM suppliers in global value chains
Location: Sankey Chamber
Paul Dunn
Professor of Business EthicsOrganizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship and EthicsGoodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Feb. 2, 2024
Presentation: Deception and Resource Dependency
Location: Sankey Chamber
April Wright
Professor of Organization StudiesOrganisation and Work GroupWarwick Business School, University of Warwick
Friday, Feb. 9, 2024
Presentation: New professionals and experiences of extreme values violations: A study of novice physicians in Kenya
Location: Sankey Chamber
John Saldanha
Sears Chair in Global Supply Chain ManagementFaculty Director Wehrle Global Supply ChainProfessor Supply Chain ManagementJohn Chambers College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University
Friday, Feb 16, 2024Presentation: Bootstrap Approach for Setting Safety Stock for a Common ComponentLocation: Sankey Chamber
Charles H. Noble
Henry Distinguished Professor of BusinessHaslam College of Business, The University of Tennessee
Friday, March 1, 2024Presentation: Do In-Home Live Video Chats Lead to Better Outcomes?Location: GSB 310
Magnus Hultman
Professor of Marketing & IPBS Research Scholar
Marketing, International Business, and Strategy
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, March 22, 2024
Presentation: Developments in international marketing communications standardization/adaptation research
Location: GSB 310
Viswanath Venkatesh
Eminent Scholar and Verizon Chair of Business Information Technology
Director, Executive PhD in Business
Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech (U.S.A.)
Friday, Sept. 8
Presentation: Escalating Digitalization of Work Due to COVID-19: A Cross-Context Comparison of Job Impacts and Job Outcomes
Location: Sankey Chamber
Andriy Shkilko
Professor of Finance & Canada Research Chair in Financial Markets
Department of Business Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
Friday, Sept. 15Presentation: The Retail Execution Quality Landscape
Location: GSB 310
Nefertiti A. Walker
Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion
Professor of Sport Management Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (U.S.A)
Friday, Sept. 22Presentation: Exclusion in Sport
Location: Sankey Chamber
Shaul Oreg
Head of Equal Opportunities and Diversity
Professor of Organizational BehaviorSchool of Business Administration
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Friday, Sept. 29Presentation: Organizations as reflections of their leaders’ personality
Location: Sankey Chamber
Dirk De Clercq
Professor of Management
Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship and Ethics
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, October 6
Presentation: Impact of workplace bullying on voluntary change initiatives
Location: Sankey Chamber
Nicholas Paparoidamis & Katy Robinson
Associate Dean for Faculty, Research & Pedagogy
Full Professor of Marketing | Burgundy School of Business (France)
Assistant Professor of Marketing & Head of Business Development
Friday, Oct. 20
Presentation: Unpacking drivers, outcomes and boundary conditions of sustainable innovativeness
Location: Sankey Chamber
Walid Ben Omrane
Professor of Finance
Finance, Operations, and Information Systems
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Nov. 10
Presentation: Macroeconomic News, Senior Officials Speeches, and Emerging Currency Markets: An Intraday Analysis of Price Jump Reaction
Location: Sankey Chamber
Mehmet Begen
Associate Professor of Management Science
Ivey Business School, Western University
Friday, Nov. 24
Presentation: Appointment, Advance and Combined Scheduling
Location: Sankey Chamber
Sara R.S.T.A. Elias
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria
Friday, Feb. 3, 2023
Location: Sankey Chamber
Presentation: Entrepreneurial imagining: How a small team of arts entrepreneurs created the world’s largest traveling carillon
Sadia Jahanzeb
Associate Professor of Human Resource Management
Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship and Ethics
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Feb. 10, 2023
Location: Sankey Chamber
Presentation: Workplace Ostracism and Organizational Deviance: A Self-Regulatory Perspective
Kai-Yu Wang
Professor of Marketing
Marketing, International Business, and Strategy
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Feb. 17, 2023
Location: Sankey Chamber
Presentation: How the emoji use in apology messages influences customers’ responses in online service recoveries: The moderating role of communication style
Dave Bouckenooghe
Professor, Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship and EthicsGoodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, March 3, 2023
Location: Sankey Chamber
Presentation: The challenge of building diverse and inclusive workplaces: A research agenda
Tanya Tang
Professor of Accounting
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, March 10, 2023
Location: Sankey Chamber
Presentation: Tax avoidance and disclosure strategies
Christian Vandenberghe
Professor and Chair in the Management of Employee Commitment and PerformanceDepartment of Management, HEC Montréal
Friday, March 17, 2023Location: Sankey ChamberPresentation: Contextualizing Transformational Leadership for Patient Loyalty: The Role of Contextual Substitutes for Leadership and Substitute Strength
Stav Fainshmidt
Associate Professor of International BusinessIvey Business School, Western University
Friday, March 24, 2023Location: Sankey ChamberPresentation: Industry offshoring intensity and international diversification: Facilitative and inhibitive learning
Rajendra Srivastava
Professor Emeritus, Ex EY Professor of AIS
Ex Director of EY Center for Auditing Research and Advanced Technology
School of Business, University of Kansas (Kansas, U.S.A.)
Friday, September 9th, 2022
Location: Sankey Chamber
[part of the CPA Center for Public Policy and Innovation in Accounting’s (CPA-CPPIA) Brownbag Series]
Presentation: New Measure of Similarity in Textual Analysis: Vector Similarity Metric versus Cosine Similarity Metric
Jayanthi Krishnan & Jagan Krishnan
Professor and Merves Senior Research Fellow at the Fox School of Business, Temple University (Pennsylvania, USA)
Friday, September 16th, 2022
Location: TH 259
[part of the CPA Center for Public Policy and Innovation in Accounting’s (CPA-CPPIA) Brownbag Series]
Jayanthi Krishna
Management Going Concern Reporting by Firms without Auditors’ Going Concern Reports: Evidence from ASU 2014-15
Jagan Krishnan
Accounting Firms’ Corporate Social Responsibility Activities: Determinants and Consequences
Dirk De Clercq
Professor of Management
Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship and Ethics
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, September 23rd, 2022
Location: Sankey Chamber
Presentation: Career Plateau Beliefs and Employee Voice
Marijke Taks
Professor and Vice-Dean Research at the Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa
Friday, Oct. 7, 2022
Location: Sankey Chamber
Presentation: Reflections on Socio-Economic Impacts of Major Sport Events
V. Kumar
Salvatore Zizza Professor of Marketing
The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, St. John’s University (New York, U.S.A.)
Friday, October 28th, 2022
Location: Sankey Chamber
Presentation: Span of Control and Salesforce Performance: An Empirical Investigation
Eugene Kaciak
Professor of Management
Finance, Operations, and Information Systems
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, November 11th, 2022
Location: Sankey Chamber
Presentation: Family- and Non-Family-Related Reasons for Entrepreneurial Exits
Magnus Hultman
Associate Professor of Marketing
Marketing, International Business, and Strategy
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, November 25th, 2022
Location: Sankey Chamber
Presentation: Configuring relational political resources to navigate host-country institutional complexities: insights from anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa
Christian Resick
Associate Professor of Management
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Organizational Behavior
LeBow College of Business, Drexel University (Pennsylvania, USA)
Friday, December 2nd, 2022
Location: Sankey Chamber
Presentation: When Focus and Vision Become a Nightmare: Bottom-Line Mentality Climate, Shared Vision, and Unit Unethical Conduct
Viswanath Venkatesh
Eminent Scholar and Verizon Chair of Business Information Technology
Director, Executive PhD
Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech
Friday, April 8, 2022
Location: TH259 for MSc students and online via Teams for all other attendees
Presentation: Big Data, Big Problems: Organizational Data Breaches and Customer Compensation Strategies
Joseph Hair
Director of the PhD Program and Cleverdon Chair of Business
Mitchell College of Business, University of South Alabama (U.S.A.)
Friday, April 1, 2022
Location: WH208 for MSc students and online via Teams for all other attendees
Workshop: Recent Methodological Developments for PLS
Luke R. Potwarka
Associate Professor
Founder and Director, Spectator Experience and Technology (SEAT) Laboratory
Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies
Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo
Friday, March 25, 2022
Location: TH259 for MSc students and online via Teams for all other attendees
Presentation: In Search of Inspiration: A Realist Synthesis Approach to Understanding Demonstration Effects
Maxim Voronov
Professor of Organization Studies
Schulich School of Business, York University
Friday, March 18, 2022
Location: TH259 for MSc students and online via Teams for all other attendees
Presentation: Distilling authenticity: Materiality and narratives in Canadian distilleries’ authenticity work
Marijn Janssen
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Chair in “ICT and Governance”
Head of Information and Communication Technology
Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology
Friday, March 11, 2022
Location: TH259 for MSc students and online via Teams for all other attendees
Presentation: Data and AI governance for automated decision-making
Rajkumar Venkatesan
Ronald Trzcinski Professor of Business Administration
Darden School of Business, University of Virginia (U.S.A.)
Friday, March 4, 2022
Location: TH259 for MSc students and online via Teams for all other attendees
Presentation: AI in Marketing and Privacy Implications
Sadia Jahanzeb
Assistant Professor, Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship and Ethics
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Feb. 18, 2022
Location: TH259 for MSc students and online via Teams for all other attendees
Presentation: Silence and proactivity in managing supervisor ostracism: Implications for creativity.
Shawna Chen
Associate Professor, Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship and Ethics
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Feb. 11, 2022
Location: Webinar
Presentation: Advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion through research
Shavin Malhotra
Professor of Strategy and Conrad Research Excellence Chair
Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business
Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo
Friday, Jan. 28, 2022
Location: Webinar
Presentation: A Blessing and a Curse: How CEO Cognitive Complexity Influences Firm Performance
Samir Trabelsi
Professor, Accounting
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Dec. 3, 2021
Location: Webinar
Presentation: Greenwashing and the Cost of Equity Capital: International Evidence
Magnus Hultman
Assistant Professor, Marketing, International Business and Strategy
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Nov. 26, 2021
Location: Webinar
Presentation: International Marketing Strategy Fit – How and When Does It Matter?
Skander Lazrak
Professor, Finance, Operations and Information Systems
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Nov. 19, 2021
Location: Webinar
Presentation: Firm Value and the Use of Derivatives
Wesley Helms
Associate Professor, Marketing, International Business and Strategy
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Nov. 12, 2021
Location: Webinar
Presentation: Competing for Good: How Organizational Hybridity Challenges Inter-Organizational Categorization and Cross-Sector Value Creation
Simon Suwanyangyuan
Assistant Professor, Accounting
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Nov. 5, 2021
Location: Webinar
Presentation: Auditor Choice and the Informativeness of 10-K Reports
Lianxi Zhou
Professor, Marketing, International Business and Strategy
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Oct. 8, 2021
Location: Webinar
Presentation: International Entrepreneurship Research: Taking Stock and Going Forward
Fayez Elayan
Professor of Accounting
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Oct. 1, 2021
Location: Webinar
Presentation: The Market Response to Mandatory Disclosure of Payments to Foreign Governments under the Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act
Dirk De Clercq
Professor, Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship and Ethics
Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Friday, Sept. 10, 2021
Location: Webinar
Presentation: Entrepreneur Resources, Cultural Context, and Social Value Creation
