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QSB sets record for SSHRC funding
Seven faculty to receive prestigious grant
June 02, 2006
SSHRC funding is awarded to faculty for research in areas across the social sciences and humanities, including the economy, education, immigration, globalization and ethics.
As part of the 2005 competition year, Professors Kee-Hong Bae, Peter Dacin, Lynnette Purda, Michael Welker, Jana Raver, Steven Salterio and Teri Shearer will collectively receive almost $400,000 in funding. SSHRC funding was awarded to four QSB faculty in 2004 and two faculty in 2003.
SSHRC and NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) funding are considered the most prestigious grants for faculty at a business school, especially given the increasingly competitive market for federal funding.
Highlights of SSHRC-funded QSB faculty research include:
- Finance Professor Kee-Hong Bae will look at the issue of home bias - the tendency for portfolio investors to overweight domestic securities in their portfolio investment.
- Marketing Professor Peter Dacin will explore the role of the interplay between organizational activities and the activities of its internal and external constituents in defining brand/corporate identities and meanings.
- Finance Professors Lynnette Purda and Kee-Hong Bae, as well as Accounting Professor Michael Welker will look at financial intermediaries as monitors as a potential solution to the inherent conflict between management and investor interests.
- Jana Raver, Professor of Organizational Behavour, will extend her prior research to investigate the nature, emergence and effects of aggression in work groups.
- Accounting professors Steven Salterio and Teri Shearer will use field and experimental research to investigate diverse aspects of transparency in accounting, auditing and corporate governance.
In addition, Laurence Ashworth, Louis Gagnon and Kelly Porter received "4As", a designation that acknowledges applications that were worthy of funding, but for which there were insufficient funds.
For more information on research at Queen's School of Business, visit business.queensu.ca/research