In a recent article for The Conversation, I rely on my research to provide recommendations on how to address the concerning work situation of women.
The Conversation: How can we address the concerning work situation of women?
The Canadian Press: Why do banks pay bonuses during the pandemic?
Banks' employees have been resilient and nimble in adapting to the extraordinary circumstances brought about by the pandemic, and banks do not want them to get hired away by competitors.
The Conversation: Employers should help workers struggling with child care during COVID-19
The media abounds with stories of how working parents across Canada are struggling with caring for their young children during the COVID-19 pandemic while daycares and schools closed or operated part-time. So what is the responsibility of employers towards employees who have children during the pandemic? Are organizations responsible for their employees, and if so, …
LSE Business Review: Threats to professional identities can lead to resistance to organisational change
Professional service firms, like law firms, need to comply with multiple demands on how they should operate and what they should deliver. Society demands transparency and accountability. Legal professionals who work in professional service firms ask for autonomy and discretion. The clients of professional service firms request not only cost efficiency but also short delivery …
#Coronavirus: Why the cure is better than the disease
I recently read an article, that, like many others, argues that we should adopt a laissez-faire approach where only those at risk isolate themselves, and the coronavirus would more or less run its course. Otherwise, if we were to engage in wide-spread confinement and quarantines, the economic costs will be too steep. This argument gets …
Why did so few women in the 1940s get educated and rise through the ranks? Here is an answer, and a book review
I recently read “Creativity – the psychology of discovery and invention”, a fascinating book on creativity written by Professor Csikszentmihaly at Claremont Graduate University. It is based on interviews conducted between 1990 and 1995 with ninety-one individuals who had made a difference to a major domain of culture, the hallmark of creativity. Many of these …
Research highlight: The gender gap in corporate leadership in Canada
Nelson Duenas, a Ph.D. student whose research I supervise at Concordia University in Montreal, presents the research that I am doing on the gender gap in corporate leadership in Canada.
The Gazette: How is the gender gap in Canadian corporate leadership affecting our boardrooms?
A few weeks ago, I spoke with Lindsay Burgess, from The Gazette, a newspaper in Montreal, Canada. We discussed my research on the gender gap in corporate leadership in Canada; in a recent position paper, available here, the Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations shows that the gender gap in boardrooms across Canada …
Rethinking Responsibility: What are the Roles of Agents and Structures?
On December 6 and 7 2018, we welcomed researchers to our first conference on responsibility (called “Rethinking Responsibility: Agents and Structures”) at Concordia University. The researcher came from Canada, the US, Europe and Africa; they studied business, ethics, geography, labor, law, sociology and philosophy. Why care about responsibility? Responsibility is important as is speaks to …
What do we know about dual class firms?
I recently reviewed published studies that explore dual class firms. Below, I will discuss what can be learned from these studies about dual class firms. I will address a series of questions: What are dual class firms? Why do dual class share structures exist? What firms have dual class structures? What consequences do these structure …
Benefits from Investor Relations are highest in countries without a shareholder tradition
This Friday, the Luc Beauregard Centre of Excellence in Communications Research welcomed Professor François Brochet from Boston University who presented a study on investor relations (IR). IR are important as firms have many different investors (e.g., retail investors, institutional investors including hedge funds, pension funds, ETFs). Firms communicate with these investors by disseminating mandated and …
Sexual harassment and how we talk about it in organizations
Today, the Luc Beauregard Centre for Excellence in Communications Research at Concordia University welcomed Professor Debbie Dougherty from the University of Missouri, who gave a fascinating talk about sexual harassment in organizations and about the role of communication in sexual harassment. Communication is about the creation of meaning; in other words, when we talk about …
EAA ARC – Humanities in Business Education
In the years leading up the last French Presidential election, economic growth, or “la croissance”, became a political buzzword in France. The French president at the time, François Hollande, staked his reelection on growth. He failed to deliver and never put his name forward for a second shot at being le président. His Minister of …