Faculty Research Collection: Recent submissions
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Forests, livelihoods, and conservation: Broadening the empirical base
(World Development, 2014)More than 10,000 years after the Agricultural Revolution started, millions of rural smallholders across the developing world may still derive as much income from foraging forests and wildlands as from cultivating crops. ... -
Forest-based livelihoods strategies conditioned by market remoteness and forest proximity in Jharkhand, India
(World Development, 2015)The study uses a novel method to investigate the role of forest proximity, market remoteness, and caste in determining household income, especially forest income, in an underdeveloped region of India. A high (>50%) ... -
Environmental income and rural livelihoods: A global-comparative analysis
(World Development, 2014)This paper presents results from a comparative analysis of environmental income from approximately 8000 households in 24 developing countries collected by research partners in CIFOR’s Poverty Environment Network (PEN). ... -
A response to “Assessing the impact of transdisciplinary research: The usefulness of relevance, credibility, and legitimacy for understanding the link between process and impact
(Research Evaluation, 2018)Hansson and Polk (2018, Research Evaluation, 27/2: 132–44) aim to assess the usefulness of the concepts of relevance, credibility, and legitimacy for understanding the link between process and impact in transdisciplinary ... -
Defining and assessing research quality in a transdisciplinary context
(Research Evaluation, 2016)Research increasingly seeks both to generate knowledge and to contribute to real-world solutions, with strong emphasis on context and social engagement. As boundaries between disciplines are crossed, and as research engages ... -
Crossing the science-policy interface: Lessons from a research project on Brazil nut management in Peru
(Forest Policy and Economics, 2018)There are high expectations for contemporary forestry research, and sustainability research more broadly, to have impact in the form of improved institutions, policy and practice and improved social and environmental ... -
The new archivists: Social media, memory and history
(ACS Canadian Journal for Social Research Special Issue on Technology, Memory and History, 2018)In a time of growing populism around the world and here in Canada, many are wondering: if we forget our world history, are we doomed to repeat it? This provocative question may be increasingly relevant. In a recent Leger ... -
Engagement in online learning: It’s not all about faculty!
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018)In this chapter, we, the authors Bishop, Etmanski and Page, argue for the need to disrupt the traditional notion of faculty solely as expert. We redefine the online faculty role to be that of a facilitator who creates the ... -
Engagement in online learning: It’s not all about faculty!
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018)In this chapter, we, the authors Bishop, Etmanski and Page, argue for the need to disrupt the traditional notion of faculty solely as expert. We redefine the online faculty role to be that of a facilitator who creates the ... -
Why Canadians give to charity: An extended theory of planned behaviour model
(International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing, 2018)The purpose of this paper is to test an expanded model of charitable giving and the intention to donate based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). The novelty of this research resides in disaggregating the overall ... -
Teaching in Iran: Culture and consequences
(Intercultural Education, 2018)The purpose of this paper is to examine cultural effects on interactions within a Canadian MBA program delivered in Iran. The analysis helps illuminate some of the important cultural differences between the countries and ... -
Cultural intelligence and mindfulness: Teaching MBAs in Iran
(Journal of International Education in Business, 2018)Purpose: A dynamic global economy has increased the need for cross-cultural flexibility and cultural intelligence. While a large literature has examined various means to increase cultural intelligence (CQ) in student and ... -
Exploring consumer's needs and motivations in online social lending for development
(Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing, 2013)This study is the first in exploring the needs and motivations of those who participate in the social phenomenon of Online Social Lending for Development (OSL4D). OSL4D represents a new form of charity support behavior ... -
Scholars' temporal participation on, temporary disengagement from, and return to Twitter
(First Monday, 2018)Even though the extant literature investigates how and why academics use social media, much less is known about academics’ temporal patterns of social media use. This mixed methods study provides a first-of-its-kind ... -
Biases in charitable giving to international humanitarian aid: The role of psychic distance
(Journal of Macromarketing, 2018)At a time when government support for international humanitarian aid is decreasing, organizations devoted to helping in times of disaster are looking ever more to the individual donor for financial contributions. In this ... -
Informing the fraud triangle: Insights from differential association theory
(Journal of Theoretical Accounting Research, 2018)The fraud triangle (FT) has been criticized by scholars and practitioners for not being thorough enough to include every occurrence of fraud. However, not every case of fraud can follow the FT and the problem might have ... -
Auditors’ liability and investors’ protection in Canada: The ‘leaky umbrella’
(Journal of Accounting and Auditing: Research & Practice, 2018)In the spring of 1997, the Supreme Court of Canada (“Court”) rendered a decision in Hercules Managements Ltd. v. Ernst & Young [1997] (“Hercules”) that left shareholders out in the cold. Ever since the verdict in Hercules ... -
The application of cognitive interviews to financial crimes
(Journal of Financial Crime, 2018)The purpose of this paper is to present an argument for the use of cognitive interviews to be use in financial crime investigations. In particular, the paper argues that the components of cognitive interview make it useful ... -
Toward an integrative framework for local development path analysis
(Ecology and Society, 2018)Despite decades of debate and policy interventions, the wicked social-ecological problem of anthropogenic climate change continues to threaten the sustainability of local communities. Impacts resulting from a rapidly ... -
Network structure, diversity, and proactive resilience building: A response to Tompkins and Adger
(Ecology and Society, 2005)Although community social networks can build resilience, and thus, aid adaptation to unexpected environmental change (Tomkins and Adger 2004), not all social networks are created equal. Networks composed of a diversity of ...
