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2019-10-15
SSHRC IG awarded 2020: Social desirability bias (SDB) is a significant threat to the validity of organizational research because it can inflate, attenuate, or moderate structural relationships depending on the testing situation, the questioning methods employed, individual differences in the...
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2019-01-21
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2019: The research outlined in this proposal focuses on a new and exciting direction in my research: examining how group leaders can strategically modify their rhetoric to strengthen follower support for collective change. Drawing on my expertise in social identity and...
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2023-09-12
NFRF-I awarded 2024: This project focuses on enhancing energy transition planning, recognizing that such plans must: integrate mitigation and adaptation; embrace a justice framework; and be socio culturally embedded within local geographies. This demands direct engagement with the diverse peoples...
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2016-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: Spending on experiential purchases, such as concerts or travel, has been shown to increase consumers' happiness and well-being, while spending on material items, such as shoes or jewellery, can subject consumers to stigma and loneliness. Overall, existing research suggests...
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2017-10-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2018: Our goal is to build an understanding of how internet slang terms affect consumers in public (consumer-to-consumer) and commercial (firm-to-consumer) online communication. How does exposure to slang in online WOM impact consumers' product attitudes and purchase intentions?...
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2023-04-25
SSHRC CG awarded 2023: Mine legacies are scattered across Canadian and Australian landscapes in the form of million-to-billion dollar public liabilities, land contamination and degradation, social disruption, and alienation of Indigenous people from their traditional lands. In the northern...
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2023-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: Currently, it is unclear how managers should respond to positive reviews in order to improve consumer outcomes. We propose that the problem for managers is that management responses do not meet consumer expectations. Thus, we aim to develop and test a model of management...
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2019-03-01
SSHRC PEG awarded 2019: We are applying to the Partnership Engage Grant in order to forge a partnership between the University of Alberta and Global Partners in Care (GPIC), an organization dedicated to enhancing access to palliative care globally, to launch a research program to explore the...
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2018-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2018: This project asks: what are the cultural macrofoundations of entrepreneurial ecosystems? The Cultural Entrepreneurship literature focuses on entrepreneurs deploying cultural elements to legitimate new ventures (Lounsbury & Glynn, 2001). Alongside calls for new thinking in...
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09/28/2021
SSRHC IG awarded 2022: The research has two objectives. First, we seek to understand how the blockchain entrepreneurship field is emerging in the context of tremendous ambiguity associated with unclear rules and the existence of competing institutional logics-what has been recently conceptualized...