Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration

Sauder is committed to being an international leader in the creation and application of business knowledge, and to promoting lifelong success for our students and alumni. Dedicated to rigorous and relevant teaching, our programs generate business leaders who drive change and shape industries and organizations around the world.

The Sauder School of Business is one of the world’s leading academic business schools. Located in Vancouver, Canada’s gateway to the Pacific Rim, Sauder provides a global business perspective at a dynamic crossroads of the international marketplace.

At the Robert H. Lee Graduate School at the Sauder School of Business, we define and teach the future of management thinking. We nurture creativity and help our students develop this skills and resourcefulness to adapt concepts and ideas to new and emerging challenges. Our faculty are at the forefront of management thinking. They are recognized internationally as leaders in business research and highly respected both within and outside the academic community.

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Fact Sheet

553

Master's Students

(2017)

Doctoral Students

(2017)

249

Graduate Degrees Awarded

(2017)

Research Centres

With 15 specialized research centres working with leading international companies, Sauder is bringing creative management practices to the marketplace.

Research Facilities

The Sauder building houses a dedicated graduate school facility for the Robert H. Lee Graduate School, innovative and interactive learning spaces, a trading lab, and communication technologies that can deliver international business leaders into classrooms at the click of a mouse.

Built to inspire a new generation of business leaders, a recent $70-million expansion of the modern, high-tech Sauder building added 55,000 square feet to the original 216,000 square foot structure. The redevelopment included a host of features and facilities that help establish Sauder as a global hub for business education.

Research Highlights

With over 100 leading academics from more than 24 countries, our faculty enjoys worldwide recognition for its excellence in research, innovative teaching, and active business outreach. Faculty members collaborate across our divisions, sharing their ideas, experience, and expertise.

Schools / Departments

Research and teaching at the Sauder School of Business are organized into seven administrative units. Faculty members are affiliated with one primary division, but collaboration across divisions is common and encouraged.

Graduate Degree Programs

Research Supervisors in Faculty

Name	Research Interests
Alviarez, Vanessa	International trade; Foreign direct investment; International finance
Antweiler, Werner	high-tech businesses; innovation; international trade; exchange rates; currency unions; environmental economics; e-business; international environmental issues; trade and the environment; Canada’s National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI); public policy and the economics of cannabis prohibition., International Trade and Business, Environmental Economics and Management, Energy and Electricity Economics, Applied Econometrics and Panel Data, Applied Empirical Finance, Prediction Markets
Aquino, Karl	Organizational behavior
Baldauf, Markus	Financial Markets; Information Economics; Industrial Organization; Regulation; Market Microstructure
Begley, Joy	Finance and Accounting, Empirical financial accounting, Defined benefit and defined contribution pensions, Use of accounting information to control agency problems, Equity Valuation
Bemmels, Brian	Organizational behavior
Bena, Jan	Finance and Accounting, Financial Assets Evaluation, R&D and Innovation, Technological Innovations, Investments, Stock Market, International Capital and Products Markets, Finance and innovation, Finance and product markets, Corporate innovation, Corporate ownership structure, Access to external finance, Financial constraints
Berdahl, Jennifer	Ostracism, Harassment and Bullying, Gender and Diversity in Organizations, Power and Status in Groups, Harassment, Work-Family Interface
Bleck, Alexander	Boundary of the firm, the market and regulation
Brander, James	international trade; government; economic policy; budgets; international and environmental economics, International trade policy, Renewable resource management, Venture capital finance and the entrepreneurial sector, The role of renewable resource management in economic growth and decline
Brown, Jennifer	Personnel economics; Industrial organization; Economics of digitization
Carlson, Murray	Introduction to capital markets, corporate finance, principles of finance, asset pricing
Cavanaugh, Lisa	Emotions, Relationships, Self and Identity, Social Influence, Prosocial Consumption
Cavusoglu, Hasan	IT investment, information security, value of information technology, online product differentiation, information system security, Economics & sustainability, Management Information Systems
Cenfetelli, Ronald Timothy	Human computer interaction, E-Business, IT-mediated customer service, Negative aspects of technology, Structural equation modeling, Survey research techniques, Multi-level modeling
Chamberlain, Sandra	Accounting and the economics of, Valuation of publicly traded firms using accounting information, Accounting and contracting, Earnings quality, Accounting for Financial Institutions
Chandrashekaran, Murali	Management education, customer satisfaction, mergers and acquisition, innovation, international collaborations in education, Integration and professional development, strategic management of customer relationships, shareholder value, subsidiary performance, satisfaction strength, customer loyalty
Clough, David	Social Networks, Technological Innovations, Technological change, Organizational learning, Interorganizational networks, Entrepreneurship, Innovation management, Organization theory
Cornil, Yann	Food Marketing; Hedonic Consumption; Sensory Perception
Dahl, Darren	Consumer behaviour, new product development, social marketing, affect and emotion, creativity in business, Marketing
Daniels, Michael	Emotions in organizations; Emotional Labor; Workplace mistreatment; Leadership; Cultural values
Davidoff, Thomas	Housing, Real Estate, Annuities, Mortgages
Ding, Yichuan	Optimization, Control and Operations Research, Stochastic Processes, Computer Science and Statistics, Health Care Analytics, Health Care Operations Management , Operations Research
Donaldson, R Glen	Risk management, Volatility forecasting, Asset valuation, Financial econometrics, Financial markets and price behavior
Favilukis, Jack	Consumption and Production Based Asset Pricing; Heterogeneity and Inequality; Incomplete Markets; Real Estate