Lazaridis School faculty to launch 26 government-funded research projects

Sept. 19, 2025

Laurier has secured $5.4 million in Tri-Agency research funding from the Government of Canada. As part of this funding, researchers in the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics will begin or continue 26 research projects as applicants, co-applicants, or collaborators.

The 2024 and 2025 awards for Lazaridis faculty are distributed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Congratulations to the following researchers for undertaking these initiatives. We are excited to see how these projects and collaborations develop over the next few years and how they shape the future of business and economics around the world.

SSHRC Insight Grants (2024)

Diego Amaya (Finance)

Co-Applicant (with Dr. Piotr Orlowski, HEC Montreal) – “Conditional Model-Free Stochastic Discount Factors”

Scott Ensign (Strategic Management)

Applicant – “Impact of federal and provincial policies on the survival of shortline freight railways serving Canada's rural enterprises and communities”

Jonathan Farrar (Accounting)

Applicant – “An investigation of interpersonal trust formation between tax professionals and their clients in the SME market”

Salar Ghamat (ODS)

Applicant – “Enhancing coordination mechanisms in supply and service networks through data analytics”

Lan Guo (Accounting)

Applicant – “Meaningfulness framing in job postings: an experimental investigation of heterogeneous treatment effects”

Oliver Masakure (BTM)

Collaborator – "AgeSmart-AI: AI-enabled shadow technologies catalyzing age-inclusive healthcare environments”

Stephen Snudden (Economics)

Applicant – “Advancements in forecast temporal disaggregation”

Fang Wang (Marketing)

Co-Applicant (with Shan Wang, University of Saskatchewan) – “Towards a nomological network of digital platform resilience: a social-ecological systems perspective”

SSHRC Insight Development Grants (February 2024 Competition)

Shirley Chen (OB/HRM)

Applicant – “To be or to show? A study of brands taking a stand on social media platforms”

Xiorian (Jason) Jia (Accounting)

Applicant – “Banks’ digital transformation, credit quality, and financial reporting effectiveness”

Madhu Kalimipalli (Finance)

Applicant – “Does employee whistleblowing improve corporate environmental performance?”

Lindie Liang (OB/HRM)

Applicant – “Leading with the heart: the power and potential of vulnerable leadership”

Jie Lie (OB/HRM)

Applicant – “Workplace justice and its reciprocal relationship with gossip about management: tracing their dynamics over time”

Akbar Saeed (BTM)

Applicant – “Improving solopreneur business sustainability: validating a more holistic approach to training and development of marginalized entrepreneurs in Kampala, Uganda”

Andriy Shkilko (Finance)

Applicant – “Optimizing execution of individual investor orders”

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (May 2024 Competition)

Oliver Masakure (BTM)

Co-Applicant (with Laurier Criminology professor, Dr. James Popham) – “Integrating foreign skilled workers in Grand Erie’s workforce”

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (September 2024 Competition)

Wendy Wu (Economics)

Applicant – “How does monetary policy impact Canadian firm investment?”

NSERC Discovery Development Grant (2025)

Xuan Zhao (ODS)

Grant Holder – “Emerging issues in supply chain and operations management under the sharing and circular economies”

SSHRC Insight Development Grants (2025)

Jonathan Farrar (Accounting)

Co-applicant – “An investigation of interpersonal trust formation between tax professionals and their clients in the SME market”

Salar Ghamat (ODS)

Collaborator – “Bridging socioeconomic gaps in autism services: insights from empirical data and three-player cooperative games.”

Lan Guo (Accounting)

Co-Applicant – “Navigating norm-norm dilemmas in accounting”

Qiang Li (ODS)

Applicant – “Human-AI collaboration: challenges and opportunities of generative AI in professional domains”

Ammara Mahmood (Marketing)

Applicant – “The role of technology-mediated consumption in enhancing self-efficacy during precarious times”

Michael Moorhouse (Finance)

Co-Applicant – “Democratizing financial planning for women through personalization, automation, and digital technology”

Chet Robie (OB/HRM)

Co-Applicant – “Toward a better understanding of the design of forced-choice personality assessments: putting the theory to the test”

Fang Wang (Marketing)

Co-Applicant – “User responses to artificial intelligence fitness apps”