C-FOAM: An Active Research Network
Brian Davy, Telfer Adjunct Professor and member of the Canadian Fisheries, Oceans, and Aquaculture Management (C-FOAM) network is collaborator on a project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) through its International Opportunities Fund. The research project is led by professor Iain J. Davidson-Hunt from the Natural Resource Institute at the University of Manitoba, and is entitled “Building an International Research Network for Collaborative Coastal Management: Sharing Experience from Brazil and Canada”.
Another C-FOAM member, Carlyle L. Mitchell, Telfer Adjunct Professor, was heading the Grenada delegation to the Joint Boundary Commission between Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago. The Commission wrote a report to the respective governments to outline where the maritime boundary of each country begin and end.
The C-FOAM group, lead by Professor Dan Lane, has been supported by the Telfer School of Management’ Strategic Research Clusters Program since 2005. To learn more about C-FOAM activities, visit www.c-foam.telfer.uOttawa.ca.
Trust Level in Organic Food Products
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), through its International Opportunities Fund Program, awarded $70,313 to Associate Professor Leila Hamzaoui for her research project entitled “Building Trust in Organic Food Products: Crossing Consumers, Distribution and Certification Organizations’ Perspectives”. Dr. Mehdi Zahaf, Associate Professor from the Faculty of Business Administration at Lakehead University (Ontario) and Dr. Lucie Sirieix, Professor of Marketing from UMR Moisa at Montpellier SupAgro-SESG (France) are collaborating on this project.
The organic food industry has become the focus of worldwide interest due to a level of trust and mistrust held by consumers towards organic food products. This study will explore the important decisions regarding product distribution, labelling and standardisation that are being made in France and Canada. These decisions will not only affect the future of the organic food industry but also the long term perceptions of consumers.
Telfer Professor Receives a Grant from CGA Ontario
Kaouthar Lajili, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the Telfer School of Management, has been awarded $10,000 from the Certified General Accountants of Ontario (CGA Ontario) for her research project “Exploring Modern Human Resource Accounting and Financial Reporting in the North-American Financial Services Industries”.
Linking together three inter-related fields (accounting, financial accounting and human resource management), this research project will explore how companies disclose information about their human assets, the type of information they disclose and the value of that disclosed information to market participants and investors. This study will seek to provide best practice guidelines to both Canadian and international industries, and will also endeavour to foster exchange and collaboration among scholars, policy makers and professionals in these fields.
Acceptance of New Technologies
Associate Professor Mirou Jaana is the lead investigator in a research program funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for an amount of $52,336, and entitled “Adoption and Use of an Expert System: User Acceptance and Usage Oucomes”. Her co-investigators are Full Professors Doug Angus (Telfer School of Management), Guy Paré (HEC Montréal) and Claude Sicotte (Université de Montréal).
This research aims at examining the social and behavioural factors that influence the adoption of an expert telemonitoring system by patients with heart failure. It will also assess how the patients accept and use this system and compare the factors leading to its adoption in home settings and retirement homes.
Case Studies on Challenges Faced by Northern Communities in Canada
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) awarded $65,200 to Associate Professor Scott Ensign through its Public Outreach Grants for the Northern Communities. Dr. Ensign’s research project is entitled “Developing Case Studies about Entrepreneurial Experience in the North”.
The research program will enable sharing with a wider audience an understanding of entrepreneurial initiatives demonstrated by individuals and enterprises facing pressures from a turbulent economic environment; struggles faced by new ventures in bringing products and services to market in remote areas (Northern Manitoba, Northern Québec, and the territories); and the aptitudes and behaviours of small business owners in Canada’s North. In order to achieve these objectives, Dr. Ensign will create six case studies for learning and instructional purposes using multimedia technologies. The materials will be disseminated to colleges, universities, and small business and economic development centres with the goal of strengthening the skills of existing and future business leaders.
The research has the support of the CAPE Funds (Capital for Aboriginal Prosperity and Entrepreneurship), a private-sector investment fund initiated by the family of the Right Honourable Paul Martin; the University of Ottawa’s Aboriginal Resource Centre; the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI); and, the School for Social and Policy Research at Charles Darwin University, Australia.
