Our Research Impact

Research in Focus

Sobey School of Business publishes a Research Newsletter regularly to keep up with the publications, awards and achievements of our productive professors and PhD students. 

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2026

2025

 

We are proud of our impact on our region's economic, social, intellectual and entrepreneurial aspects. We contribute in many ways - our students and graduates add value to the economy, our programs help build our professional milieu and the research our scholars do both individually and within our research centres has real impact. 

Here is a sample of research our faculty have recently published in peer reviewed journals.

  • Athanasakou, V., Jørgensen, B. N., Pérez Cavazos, G., & Voulgaris, G. (in press). Corporate governance and evolving corporate disclosures: A commentary and reflections. Corporate Governance: An International Review.
  • Boland, M., Hlaing, K. P., & Lisowsky, P. (2026). Taxes and investment: Evidence from the “Halloween Massacre” of 2006. Journal of Accounting Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-679x.70084 
  • Carter-Rogers, K., Tabvuma, V., Smith, S. M., Sutherland, S. & Brophy, Y. (Accepted). Inclusive Education as Organizational Inclusion: Creating Inclusive Business Schools Through Co-Curricular Learning. International Journal of Management Education. 
  • Dilmaghani, M. (2026). Framing the Unknown: Security Narratives and Ethics of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, (0). 
  • Drira, M., Abdelhedi, M., and Dlala, A. 2026. Board Gender Diversity and Cyber Risk Management in FinTech and InsurTech Firms. Meditari Accountancy Research. 
  • Gulseren Biricik, D., Sayin, F. K., Turner, N., & Kelloway, K. (2026). Transformational leadership and chronic pain at work: Psychological pathways to reduced pain interference. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 99, e70148. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70148   
  • Hu, C., Liu, M. and Chen, Z. 2026. From words to value: How disclosure specificity and venture capital shape valuation uncertainty. Applied Economics Letters. Online. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2026.2691970 
  • Kalai, M., Becha, H., Drira, M., and Helali, K. 2026. Budget Deficit Effects on Tunisian Economic Growth: Linear and Nonlinear Regressions. Economic Analysis and Policy. 
  • Kim, Y., & Melkadze, G. (2026). Macroeconomic Effects of Carbon Pricing: The Role of Bank Credit. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 105400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2026.105400   
  • Mazumdar, B., Gilbert, S., & Walsh, M. M. (2026). Pursuing leadership on one’s own terms: A human resource development perspective on leadership aspiration, identity and organizational influence. Human Resource Development Quarterly. 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.70029   
  • Mohammadi, F., Zarei, G., & Farahani, H. (2026). Passive-avoidant leadership and psychological distress among Iranian nurses: the mediating role of work-to-family conflict. BMC health services research, 26(1), 997. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-026-14757-y   
  • Pourvaziri, H., Sarhadi, H., Afshari, H., Taghavi, M., & Azad, N. (2026). Fairness and coverage optimization in electric vehicle charging networks with exact and reinforcement learning-embedded solution methods. Expert Systems with Applications, 133817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.133817   
  • Sayin, F. K. (2026). When sustainability backfires: The ACCESS framework for more inclusive organizational change. Organizational Dynamics, 55(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2026.101277   
  • Temel, S., De Fuentes, C., & Sayin, F. K. (2026). Institutional and organizational thickness in National Systems of Innovation as attractors to high skilled migration. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 43(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/cjas.70064 
  • Voltan, A., & Kells, K. (2026). Facilitating System Change With GOSR: Integrating AI and Human Collaboration. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.library.smu.ca/doi/10.1002/sres.70125   
  • Wang, S., Zhang, W., Fan, H., & Shangguan, Z. (2026). Supply chain finance and joint R&D performance in strategic alliances. Finance Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2026.110380
  • Wu, Y., Zhou, T., & Shang, G. (in press). Gender and workload choices in the financial services industry: Evidence from the real estate brokerage. Real Estate Economics.