Asper School of Business

Research

Our research influences business and leadership in Canada and throughout the world. Beginning as a small department in 1937, the I. H. Asper School of Business has grown into a major research and teaching unit with more than 60 full-time staff and approximately 1800 students at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate levels.

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Knowledge creation

Asper School of Business aims to expand global knowledge and engage in intellectual exploration to advance teaching, learning and research. Our researcher’s scholarly work is regularly published in internationally renowned scholarly publications with some of the most recent publications by Asper faculty listed here.

  • Dr. Hee Mok Park 

    Journal of Marketing
    The Weight of Consumer Preference and Peer Influence in Trying New Products

  • Shiu-Yik (“Yik”) Au 

    Management Science
    Does Social Interaction Spread Fear Among Institutional Investors?

  • Dr. Lei Lu

    Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 
    Anomaly Discovery and Arbitrage Trading

  • Wenxi Pu 

    Personnel Psychology
    The impact of social media disclosures on veteran hiring

Upcoming events

Asper School of Business research events

Our researchers

Research chairs 

Awards, Recognitions and Appointments

  • The Asper School of Business is proud of our faculty's achievements. We pride ourselves in our teaching and research excellence. 

Professorships and fellowships

Professorships

Sandeep Arora, Associate Professor 
F. Ross Johnson Professorship in Marketing 

Bruno Dyck, Professor
Norman Frohlich Professorship in Business Sustainability

Jae Yun Kim, Assistant Professor
Richard Morantz and Sheree Walder Morantz Professorship in Business Ethics

Paul Larson, Professor
CN Professorship in Supply Chain Management 

Bruno Silvestre, Dean
CPA Manitoba Chair in Business Leadership

Xiaofan Steven Zheng, Professor
Stu Clark Professorship in Financial Management

Faculty

Our researchers and educators

Meet the faculty at the Asper School of Business.

Fellowships

Sandeep Arora, Assistant Professor
F. Ross Johnson Fellows Program

Namita Bhatnagar, Full Professor
F. Ross Johnson Fellows Program

Sean Buchanan, Associate Professor
The Associates Fellow in Business Administration 

Sriharsha Kamatham, Assistant Professor
F. Ross Johnson Fellows Program

Chi Liao, Assistant Professor
The Associates Fellow in Finance

Mingzhi Liu, Associate Professor
Chartered Professional Accountants Research Fellowship

Kelley Main, Professor
F. Ross Johnson Fellows Program

Hee Mok Park, Assistant Professor
F. Ross Johnson Fellows Program

Subbu Sivaramakrishnan, Associate Professor
F. Ross Johnson Fellows Program

Kelsey Taylor, Assistant Professor
The Associates Fellow in Supply Chain Management

Fang Wan, Professor
F. Ross Johnson Fellows Program

Luming Wang, Associate Professor
F. Ross Johnson Fellows Program

Changqiu Yu, Assistant Professor
Chartered Professional Accountants Research Fellowship

PhD and MSc students

PhD students

Business Administration

  • Arvinder Chopra
    Strategy and Entrepreneurship
  • Arjun Odedra
    Strategy and Entrepreneurship
  • Peter Pomart
    Business and Human rights, Institutional Theory and Stakeholder Theory
  • Mojtaba Mohammadnejad Shourakaei
    Business Sustainability
  • Li Yu
  • Daniel Kachikwu Njoagwuani 
  • Olumide Akintunde Adeoye

Finance

  • Zhengyifan Chen
  • Linlin Jin
  • Xin Liu
  • Yang Liu
  • Yuying Sun
  • Xingyu Chen 
  • Xin Tong
  • Zhihao Huang
  • Weijian Sun

Marketing

  • Nazanin Khaksari
  • Kaushik Bhattacharjee
  • Fatemeh Hardani pour
  • Zeyuan Liu 

Supply Chain Management

  • Dax Trejo

MSc students

Business Administration

  • Mita Rezvani
  • Wen Ma

Finance

  • Behroo Kafi
  • Mahdad Mollazamani

Marketing

  • Shabnam Emamikervee

Supply Chain Management

  • Bagheri Pedram
  • Maryam Mozaffari
  • Sarah Mohammadpour
  • Supul Muhandiram
     

Postdocs

Business Administration

PhD placements

Accounts

Full namePhD placement
Jonathon DriedgerLeftField Commodity Research
Mitch RoznikData scientist in industry & postdoc at University of Arizona

Business Administation

Full namePhD placement
Xianzhe JinSun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University
Zulfiquer HaiderWestern University
Li Jingnan London South Bank University 

Finance

Full namePhD placement
Wang YuanSt Francis Xavier University 
Lin NanyingArkansas State University
Zhang ZixuTD Bank
Zhang QiBurgundy School of Business 
Yan MengMount Royal University

Marketing

Full namePhD placement
Kumar SanjayUniversity of Winnipeg
Trang MaiMcManus Cape Breton University
Vo NganUniversity of Exeter Business School 
Banh Uyen UyenDeakin University
Yanit Mehmet  

Centres and institutes

Departments

Accounting and finance

Accounting and finance researchers at Asper are broadly concerned with the measurement of wealth and the financial impact of transactions.

Centre for Accounting Research and Education

 

Actuarial

Researchers in actuarial studies apply mathematical disciplines, particularly probability, statistics, and risk theory, to real life financial problems involving future uncertainty.

Warren Centre for Actuarial Studies and Research 

 

Business administration

Our researchers are studying organizations worldwide to understand how work works across cultures. Research in business administration at UM goes beyond the fundamentals of business to investigate leadership, decision-making methods, and contemporary themes that inform decisions in today’s business world.

 

 

Logistics and supply chain management

Researchers in logistics and supply chain management investigate the interaction of logistics and transport, operations, purchasing, and some elements of marketing and information technology. Research examines how supply chains have been affected by the increased complexity of organizations, the globalization of commerce and the evolution of information technology.

 

 

Marketing

Marketing research at the Asper School of Business aims to learn about and understand consumers, and explore advancements in consumer behaviour, branding, international marketing and the marketing of social issues. .

 

Management information systems

Our management information systems researchers delve into how organizations and individuals use computers, how computers can benefit organizations and how to manage this widespread technology.

 

The Asper School of Business.
Main Street, Winnipeg, looking north, circa 1912.
A woman writes on a white board during a presentation.
A tour of a warehouse.
Fang Wan.
A close up of a laptop computer monitor.

Research labs

Marketing Research Lab


Opened in January 2008, this innovative lab is fitted with 15 customized computer workstations to conduct computerized marketing simulations and electronic data capture directly from research participants, as well as non-computer-mediated activities. The room can be modified for other research-based activities, such as conducting in-depth interviews, focus group sessions and screening of advertisements.

Behavioural Research Lab


In 2022, the Asper School of Business will open the The David Dreman Behavioral Management Research Lab. The lab will assist faculty with carrying out research, developing additional research capacity based on cutting edge trends and multidisciplinary collaboration. We will introduce new workshops to further enhance the research potential of our graduate students and stimulate faculty collaborations.

Contact us

Asper School of Business
Drake Centre
181 Freedman Crescent
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus) 
Winnipeg MB R3T 5V4 Canada

Drake Centre hours 
Monday - Friday, 7 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Saturday - Sunday, 7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Holiday closures: July 1, August 5, September 2

204-474-6390 (general)
204-474-6388 (Undergraduate Program Office)
431-294-3130 (Stu Clark Graduate School)