Researchers at Smith
The professors at Smith School of Business are active in all areas of business and organizational research. They collaborate with scholars worldwide, publish in leading journals, and inspire each other to explore new lines of enquiry.
Meet Our Faculty Researchers
Explore our researcher's profiles to learn about their interests, publications, and how they are advancing knowledge to impact management practice and public policy. Whether you are a prospective student, fellow researcher, or industry partner, we invite you to connect and collaborate.
Researcher Spotlight
Paul Calluzzo
Associate Professor & Toller Family Fellow of Finance
The determinants of LGBTQ+ corporate policies
Some companies chose to adopt pro-LGBTQ+ workplace policies, while others steer away. Why? and what role does shareholder pressure play in driving change?
How Bad Actors Infect Mutual Fund Boards
Dual-employed directors may not have shareholders’ best interests in mind
Researcher Awards
Individual Award
Vedat Verter, CORS Award of Merit
This award recognizes Vedat’s significant contributions to operations research, particularly in healthcare, supply chains, and public sector systems. He has published extensively in these areas, led numerous research initiatives, and mentored a generation of OR professionals in Canada and internationally.
Publication Awards & Accolades
Goce Andrevski, Julian Barling, and Matthias Spitzmuller
A paper co-authored by Goce Andrevski, Julian Barling, and Matthias Spitzmuller, Forbearance leadership: Doing without doing, was selected for the best paper proceedings of the Eighty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (top 10% of the accepted papers).
Erica Pimentel
Erica Pimentel’s paper, When Worlds Collide: Auditor Expansion into the Blockchain Field, co-authored with Emilio Boulianne and Crawford Spence, received the 2024 CAAA Lazaridis Institute Prize for Best Paper on Accounting Issues Relevant to Technology Firms.
Anthony Goerzen
Anthony Goerzen’s paper, Unleashing the Power of Local Value Chain Interventions: Accelerating Livelihood Upgrading to Empower Women in Fragile Contexts, co-authored with Smith PhD candidate Shengwen Li, was shortlisted for the Best Paper (“That’s Interesting”) Award at the Academy of International Business annual conference from a pool of over 1,700 submissions.
Juan Francisco Chavez Ramirez
Juan Francisco Chavez Ramirez was awarded the European Group for Organizational Studies Best Paper Award 2023 with his co-author Matt Murphy. The paper, “Institutional subversion through performative acts: The emergence of aboriginal monitoring programs in the Canadian oil pipeline industry” was part of Juan Francisco’s doctoral research.