Rotman professors and Ph.D. students honored at academic conferences

(Press-News.org) August 17, 2023

Rotman Professors and PhD Students Honoured at Academic Conferences

Toronto – Faculty and doctoral students at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management were honoured at recent academic conferences for their research and contributions.

At the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association last week in Denver, Jee-Eun Shin, an assistant professor of accounting, received the Best Early Career Researcher in Management Accounting Award sponsored by the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants. The award recognizes an early-career researcher with the best overall body of research in management accounting.

As previously announced, Gordon Richardson, a professor of accounting; Yue Li, a professor of accounting at the Institute for Management & Innovation at the University of Toronto Mississauga; Florin Vasvari, a graduate of the Rotman PhD program who is a professor of accounting at London Business School; and, Peter Clarkson, a professor of accounting at The University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia, were presented with the award at the conference for the 2023 Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award.

Last week awards were also presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, which was held in Boston. Sarah Kaplan, Distinguished Professor of Gender & the Economy, received a 2023 Responsible Research in Management Award from the Academy of Management Fellows and the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management.  This annual award recognizes and celebrates recent research that benefits society by producing credible and useful knowledge. Kaplan, who is also a professor of strategic management, received the award for her last book, The 360º Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation, published by Stanford University Press.

As previously announced, Prof. Anita M. McGahan, is this year’s recipient of the William D. Guth Distinguished Service Award from the Strategic Management Division of the Academy. She is University Professor and George E. Connell Chair in Organizations and Society at the Rotman School. She also holds cross-appointments with the University’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Prof. McGahan was also honoured as a best reviewer for the Academy of Management Journal.

A paper, "Micro-affiliation Theory,” co-authored by Geoffrey Leonardelli, a professor of organizational behaviour and human resource management Soo Min Toh, a professor of organizational behaviour and human resource management at the University of Toronto Mississauga, who holds a cross-appointment to Rotman, and Xian Zhao of Northwestern University, was named as one of the best accepted papers in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion division.  The paper was published in the Proceedings of the 2023 Academy of Management Meeting.

A symposium organized by Rotman PhD students Manuela Collis and Daphnè Baldassari with Cathy Lu of the University of Minnesota, on Drivers of Racial and Gender Workplace Inequalities, was the runner-up for the Best Symposium from the Organization and Management Theory Division.

Baldassari, Amrita Saha, a Rotman PhD student, and Stefan Dimitriadis, an assistant professor of strategic management, received The Above and Beyond the Call of Duty Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division, which recognizes reviewers who were deemed worthy of special acknowledgment for the helpfulness, extensiveness, and insight of their reviews.

Leandro Pongeluppe, a graduate of the Rotman PhD program in 2022, won the Strategic Management Division Best Dissertation Award. He is currently an assistant professor of management at the Wharton School.

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Ken McGuffin

Manager, Media Relations

Rotman School of Management

University of Toronto

E-mail:mcguffin@rotman.utoronto.ca

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