Luncheon Speaker Series

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.

Stay tuned for more Fall 2024 and Winter 2025 talks to be announced.

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: TBA

Samir Trabelsi

Professor of Accounting & CPA Ontario Emerging Research Scholar
Accounting Department
Goodman School of Business, Brock University

Friday, Nov. 1, 2024
Presentation: TBA
Location: TBA

Simon Suwanyangyuan

Associate Professor of Accounting & CPA Ontario Emerging Research ScholarAccounting DepartmentGoodman School of Business, Brock University

Friday, Nov. 8, 2024
Presentation: TBA
Location: TBA

Fayez Elayan

Professor of Accounting & CPA Ontario Distinguished 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: TBA

Fouad Ben Abdelaziz

Distinguished Professor & Head of the MSc Artificial Intelligence for BusinessNEOMA Business School

Friday, Nov. 22, 2024
Presentation: TBA
Location: TBA

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: TBA

Winter 2025

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: TBALocation: 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

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