Recognitions

A number of the Emerging Markets Centre faculty, doctorals and PhD program graduates were recognized at recent international conferences:

2009 Academy of Management Annual Meeting
Chicago, Illinois, USA  August 7-11, 2009

INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT DIVISION Outstanding Educator Award

We congratulate professor emeritus Dr. Harry Lane on receiving the Outstanding Educator Award at the 2009 Academy of Management Conference.  The award recognizes continuous excellence and innovation in teaching international management at all levels and in a global context. 

INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT DIVISION Dissertation Award

PUBLIC AND NONPROFIT DIVISION (PNP) Dissertation Award

Dr. Geoff Kistruck (PhD 2009) received the best PhD Dissertation Award of 2008 from two divisions of the Academy of Management:  International Management, and Public and Nonprofit Management. The awards were conferred at the Academy of Management this year.

Geoff’s thesis entitled "Comparative Institutional Arrangements of Social Intermediation in Developing Countries" was written under the supervision of Paul Beamish. Geoff studied ten cases in seven different countries in Africa and Latin America concerning efforts to alleviate poverty by bridging underdeveloped, informal markets with more developed domestic and international markets. The cases covered a range of activities, from microfinance to organic grains, coffee, handicrafts and fish farming.

The PNP selection committee found that Kistruck’s dissertation excelled in every category, stating “the topic is extremely important, the quality of work was exceptional and creative, the scholar created new knowledge using sound and appropriate methods, the scholarship contributed to theory, and the writing was both clear and lucid.”

Geoff graduated at June convocation and is currently Assistant Professor of Management and Human Resources at the Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business. Congratulations Geoff!

2009 Administrative Sciences Association of Canada Conference
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada  June 6-9, 2009

BEST PAPER AWARD, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DIVISION

Dr. Suhaib Riaz (PhD 2009) and Prof. Glenn Rowe's paper "Expatriate Deployment and Subsidiary Performance Over Time: A Co-Evolution Perspective" won the Best Paper Award in the International Business Division of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) 2009.

Abstract:
We argue that expatriates comprise valuable, rare and costly-to-imitate resources in the host country competitive environment, and examine temporal changes in expatriate deployment and subsidiary performance. Results from latent curve analysis using structural equation models indicate that expatriate deployment and subsidiary performance are co-evolutionary processes over the long-term.

Suhaib joined the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in July 2008 as Assistant Professor (Strategy) at the Faculty of Business and Information Technology.
 

2008 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
(International Management division)
Anaheim, California, USA  August 8-13, 2008

GEORGE PENG received the Douglas Nigh Award given to the most innovative paper that adopts an interdisciplinary perspective.

JING’AN TANG (now at Sacred Heart University) was a finalist for the Barry Richman Outstanding Dissertation Research Award.

YULIN FANG (now at City Polytechnic University), FRANK JIANG, SHIGE MAKINO (now at Chinese University of Hong Kong), and PAUL BEAMISH received a Samsung Distinguished Paper Award. The paper was also the IM division’s nominee for the AOM-wide Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award.

GEOFF KISTRUCK, ISRAR QURESHI and PAUL BEAMISH received a Samsung Distinguished Paper Award.

LAURA GUERRERO received a Best Reviewer Award.

Academy of International Business (AIB) 2008 Annual Meeting
Milan, Italy  June 30 - July 3, 2008

JULIAN BIRKINSHAW (now at London Business School) was elected a Fellow of the AIB.

PAUL BEAMISH and ANTHONY GOERZEN (now at University of Victoria) each received Best Reviewer 2008 Awards from Journal of International Business Studies.

GUY HOLBURN and a co-author from Duke University shared the 2008 Haynes Prize for Most Promising Scholar (under the age of 40). Their paper was also one of the 10 finalists for the AIB Best Conference Paper Award.

JING’AN TANG (now at Sacred Heart University) was a finalist for the 2008 Haynes Prize for Most Promising Scholar.

ANDREW DELIOS (now at National University of Singapore) supervised two of the four dissertations – including the winner – which were finalists from the 42 theses submitted for the 2008 Richard N. Farmer Dissertation Award.