MEET SOME OF OUR FACULTY

Ben Amoako-Adu, PhD (University of Toronto)
Professor (Finance) & Economical Insurance Group Professor of Finance

Primary Research: Investments, financial institutions, corporate finance, corporate governance, takeovers, dual class shares, and asset prices and taxes.

email: bamoako@wlu.ca

Phelim Boyle, PhD (University of Dublin)
Professor (Finance)

Primary Research: Options and contingent claims, asset pricing, insurance, and actuarial science.

email: pboyle@wlu.ca

Nicole Coviello, PhD (University of Auckland)
Professor (Marketing) & Betty and Peter Sims Professor of Entrepreneurship

Primary Research: New venture network and resource dynamics, network interactions and structure in new product development, entrepreneurial internationalisation, methodologies for network analysis, and the impact of transactional vs. relational marketing in different contexts. 

email: ncoviello@wlu.ca

Michael Haughton, PhD (Pennsylvania State University)
Professor (Operations & Decision Sciences) & Director, Centre for Supply Chain Management

Primary Research: Using model-based and empirical methods to study issues of managing transportation, logistics, and supply chain operations in vehicle routing and trans-national trade contexts.

email: mhaughton@wlu.ca

Kevin Hendricks, PhD (Cornell University)
Professor (Operations & Decision Sciences)

Primary Research: Empirical research on the impact of operations strategy on firm performance.

email: khendricks@wlu.ca

Greg Irving, PhD (University of Western Ontario)
Professor (Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management) & Area Coordinator

Primary Research: Met expectations, work attitudes, psychological contracts, organizational socialization, and organizational justice.

email: girving@wlu.ca

David Johnson, PhD (Harvard University)
Professor (Economics)

Primary Research: Macroeconomics and finance.

email: djohnson@wlu.ca

Maurice Kugler, PhD (University of California at Berkeley)
Professor (Economics) & CIGI Chair in International Public Policy

Primary Research: International economics and the political economy of development.

email: mkugler@wlu.ca

Robert Mathieu, PhD (University of Waterloo)
Professor (Accounting) & Area Coordinator

Primary Research: Financial accounting, banking, and corporate governance.

email: rmathieu@wlu.ca

Hamid Noori, PhD (University of Western Ontario)
Professor (Operations & Decision Sciences); Laurier Chair Professor in Enterprise Integration & Technology Management; Laurier EMTM, PhD & Research-Based Masters Programs Director

Primary Research: Management of innovation & technological change, technology transfer and commercialization, network manufacturing & integrated supply chain, fast cycle product/service design, and operations strategy and benchmarking.

email: hnoori@wlu.ca

Chet Robie, PhD (Bowling Green State University)
Professor (Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management)

Primary Research: Non-cognitive testing and cross-cultural measurement issues.

email: crobie@wlu.ca

Pierre Siklos, PhD (Carleton University)
Professor (Economics) & Director, Viessmann Research Centre

Primary Research: The impact of monetary and fiscal policies, time series modeling, and forecasting.

email: psiklos@wlu.ca

Brian Smith, PhD (University of Western Ontario)
Professor (Finance) & Area Coordinator

Primary Research: Corporate finance and market microstructure.

email: bsmith@wlu.ca

Simon Taggar, PhD (McMaster University)
Professor (Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management)

Primary Research: Creativity and innovation in groups, group leadership, and aligning HR with strategy to predict firm performance. 

email: staggar@wlu.ca

Laurie Barclay, PhD (University of British Columbia)
Associate Professor (Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management)

Primary Research: Organizational justice, emotions in the workplace, and workplace agression.

email: lbarclay@wlu.ca

Peter Carayannopoulos, PhD (York University)
Associate Professor (Finance) & Associate Dean of Business: Faculty Development and Research

Primary Research: Corporate finance, investments, fixed income, derivatives, and financial risk management.

email: pcarayanno@wlu.ca

Ignacio Castillo, PhD (Texas A&M University)
Associate Professor (Operations & Decision Sciences) & Area Coordinator

Primary Research: Facility location, facility layout and material handling systems, manufacturing and service operations and logistics, and sustainable and closed-loop supply chain management.

email: icastillo@wlu.ca

Tripat Gill, PhD (McGill University)
Associate Professor (Marketing) & Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Market Insight and Innovation

Primary Research: Consumer adoption of new products/technological innovations, brand management and the applications of evolutionary psychology in marketing.

email: tgill@wlu.ca

Madhu Kalimipalli, PhD (University of Houston)
Associate Professor (Finance) & Director, Financial Services Research Centre

Primary Research: Risk-management, derivatives, bond markets, and market microstructure.

email: mkalimipalli@wlu.ca

Lisa Keeping, PhD (University of Akron)
Associate Professor (Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management) & Undergraduate Business Programs Director

Primary Research: Performance appraisal, feedback, and leadership.

email: lkeeping@wlu.ca

William McNally, PhD (University of Toronto)
Associate Professor (Finance)

Primary Research: Corporate finance, particularly in issues relating to information economics such as the signaling role of stock repurchases.

email: wmcnally@wlu.ca

William Morrison, PhD (Simon Fraser University)
Associate Professor (Economics) & Director, Laurier Centre for Economic Research & Policy Analysis (LCERPA)

Primary Research: Theoretical research includes academic publications on evolutionary game theory, and applied research in transportation focuses on aviation.

email: wmorrison@wlu.ca

Subhankar Nayak, PhD (Yale University)
Associate Professor (Finance)

Primary Research: Asset pricing, corporate finance, financial institutions, fixed income securities, information economics, and risk management.

email: snayak@wlu.ca

Stephen Preece, PhD (The Ohio State University)
Associate Professor (Policy)

Primary Research: Strategic management in the performing arts.

email: spreece@wlu.ca

Chatura Ranaweera, PhD (Cambridge University)
Associate Professor (Marketing) & Area Coordinator

Primary Research: CRM, services marketing,  service bundling, and e-commerce.

email: cranaweera@wlu.ca

Peruvemba Ravi, PhD (University of Washington)
Associate Professor (Operations & Decision Sciences)

Primary Research: Supply chain management, the marketing-manufacturing interface, demand management, production planning, and scheduling.

email: pravi@wlu.ca

Fang Wang, PhD (McMaster University)
Associate Professor (Marketing)

Primary Research: Brand equity assessment, marketing data mining/analysis, long-term marketing productivity, and marketing strategy.

email: fwang@wlu.ca

Xuan Zhao, PhD (University of British Columbia)
Associate Professor (Operations & Decision Sciences)

Primary Research: Supply chain competition, coordination/contracting, inventory/transshipment decision-making, and competitive revenue management.

email: xzhao@wlu.ca

Steffen Ziss, PhD (Queen's University)
Associate Professor (Economics) & Chair, Department of Economics

Primary Research: Mergers and managerial compensation in oligopoly.

email: sziss@wlu.ca

Amy Christie, PhD (Queen's University)
Assistant Professor (Organizational Behariour/Human Resource Management)

Primary Research: Status, power, leadership/followship, employee well-being, and intra-individual change.

email: achristie@wlu.ca

Lan Guo, PhD (Washington State)
Assistant Professor (Accounting)

Primary Research: Performance measurement, incentive designs and motivational issues, and more broadly, behavioural issues in management accounting.

email: laguo@wlu.ca

Si Li, PhD (Duke University)
Assistant Professor (Finance)

Primary Research: Empirical corporate finance, corporate misreporting, corporate fraud, financial restatement, debt, incentives, investments, and insurance regulation.

email: sli@wlu.ca

Andriy Shkilko, PhD (University of Mississippi)
Assistant Professor (Finance)

Primary Research: Financial institutions, market structure, securities trading and regulation.

email: ashkilko@wlu.ca

Tony Tang, PhD (University of Hawaii)
Assistant Professor (Finance)

Primary Research: Market microstructure, corporate finance, financial markets and institutions, investments, and behavioural finance.

email: ntang@wlu.ca