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Recipients of TRSM Outstanding Research Recognition Fund

By: TRSM Research Recognition
January 31, 2024

The TRSM Outstanding Research Recognition Fund was established to recognize research excellence by TRSM faculty members who have made exceptional contributions to scholarship, as exhibited through publication of scholarly work in top-tier, peer-reviewed journals. The Fund is intended to facilitate and support the research endeavours of eligible faculty members by providing resources necessary for the conduct of their research. The Fund is in compliance with the Ryerson-RFA Collective Agreement.

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2024 Outstanding Research Recognition Fund Recipients
Name
Journal Title
Dr. Ojelanki Ngwenyama Journal of the Associating for Information Systems Should We Collaborate with AI to Conduct Literature Reviews? Changing Epistemic Values in a Flattening World
Dr. Matthew Philp Journal of Business Research How reviews influence product usage post- purchase: An examination
of video game playtime
Dr. Deborah De Lange Journal of Cleaner Production Climate action now: Energy industry restructuring to accelerate the renewable energy transition
Dr. Michael Halinski Journal of Management Creativity during threat to organizational survival: The influence of employee creativity on downsizing survival
Dr. Eugene Chan
Journal of Advertising Are concave ads more persuasive? The role of immersion
Dr. Burcu Bulgurcu MIT Sloan Management Review Are enterprise social platforms all talk
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia
Expert Systems with Applications A bi-objective green vehicle routing problem with a mixed fleet of conventional and electric trucks: Considering charging power and density of stations
Dr. Michael Baumtrog Episteme Deep Agreements
Dr. Deborah de Lange Cities The role of artificial intelligence in the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 11: Fostering sustainable cities and communities

2023 Outstanding Research Recognition Fund Recipients

Name Journal Title Article Title
Dr. Shengkun Xie Mathematics Generalized Additive Modelling of Auto Insurance Data with Territory Design: A Rate Regulation Perspective
Dr. Zeinab Noorian Information Processing and Management What Users’ Musical Preference on Twitter Reveals about Psychological Disorders
Dr. Dongning Yu Review of Accounting Studies Earnings Prediction with DuPont Components and Calibration by Life Cycle
Dr. Burcu Bulgurcu Journal of the Association for Information Systems Living in a Fish Bowl or Not? The Role of Transparency and Privacy in Creative Dialogues on Enterprise Social Media
Dr. Mohammad Nikoofal Production and Operations Management Securing Containerized Supply Chain through Public and Private Partnership
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia Transportation Science No Longer in the Dark: Utilizing Imperfect Advance Load Information for Single-Truck Operators
Dr. Shengkun Xie Journal of Management Analytics Classification of Territory Risk by Generalized Linear and Generalized Linear Mixed Models
Dr. Karen Peesker Journal of Business Research Hiring for sales success: The emerging importance of salesperson analytical skills
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics Routing a mixed fleet of conventional and electric vehicles for urban delivery problems: considering different charging technologies and battery swapping
Dr. Rachel Dodds Current Issues in Tourism Seasoned Travellers are More Sustainable: Modelling the Tourism Experience Life Cycle
Dr. Sareh Pouryousefi Journal of the American Philosophical Association Empirical reflections on trust in groups
Dr. Irfan Butt Journal of Business Research Machine autonomy for rehabilitation of elderly people: A trade-off between machine intelligence and consumer trust
Dr. Eugene Chan Journal of Travel Research To Whom Does Destination Anthropomorphism Appeal? Power and Perceived Control
Dr. Anson ho Journal of Environmental Economics and Management We didn’t start the fire: Effects of a natural disaster on consumers’ financial distress
Dr. Oliver Okafor and Dr. Kenneth Kalu Critical Perspectives on Accounting Integration challenges, immigrant characteristics and career satisfaction for immigrants in the field of accounting and finance: An empirical evidence from Canada
Dr. Shengkun Xie Expert Systems With Applications TOPSIS-Based Comprehensive Measure of Variable Importance in Predictive Modelling
Dr. Shengkun Xie Expert Systems With Applications Modelling Auto Insurance Size-of-Loss Distributions Using Exponentiated Weibull Distribution and De-grouping Methods
Dr. Sonya Graci Annals of Tourism Research Tourism Myths and the Dunning Kruger Effect
Dr. Wayne Smith International Journal of Hospitality Management To Airbnb or not to Airbnb: Does Airbnb feel safer than hotels during a pandemic
Dr. Atefeh Mashatan Communications of the ACM The Arrival of Zero Trust: What Does it Mean?
Dr. Atefeh Mashatan Communications of the ACM From Zero to One Hundred - Demystifying zero trust and its implications on enterprise people, process, and technology
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia European Journal of Operational Research Together we stand? Coopetition for the development of green products
Dr. Ojelanki Ngwenyama European Journal of Information Systems Realising the potential of digital health communities: a study of the
role of social factors in community engagement
Dr. Mahdi Roghanizad and Dr. Ozgur Turetken International Journal of Information Management Resource-seeking and media choice process: A case of irrational decision
making
Dr. Ojelanki Ngwenyama Information Systems Research The open prison of the big data revolution: False consciousness, faustian bargains, and digital entrapment
Dr. Eugene Chan
Journal of Business Research Self-construals and health communications: The persuasive roles of guilt and shame
Dr. Eugene Chan Journal of Business Research When does anthropomorphism hurt? How tool anthropomorphism negatively affects consumers' rewards for tool users
Dr. Eugene Chan Journal of Business Research Don’t blame the powerless: The impact of hierarchy on reactions to responses to ethical scandals
Dr. Eugene Chan Journal of Business Research Political ideology and fair-trade consumption: A social dominance orientation perspective
Dr. Eugene Chan Journal of Business Research They’re vs They Are: Contractions influence product choice and judgments
Dr. Eugene Chan International Journal of Hospitality Management Name reminders and customization preferences: The role of perceived control
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia
Computers and Industrial Engineering Angels against demons: Fight against smuggling in an illicit supply chain with uncertain outcomes and unknown structure
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia Computers and Industrial Engineering A robust multi-objective routing problem for heavy-duty electric trucks with uncertain energy consumption
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia Computers and Industrial Engineering A decision support framework for sustainable production planning of paper recycling systems
Dr. Matthew Philp Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science The greenguard efect: When and why consumers react less negatively following green product failures
2022 Outstanding Research Recognition Fund Recipients
Name Journal Title Article Title
Dr. Michael Halinski Journal of Organizational Behavior Do Sick Coworkers Make Us Help Others?: Investigating the Critical Roles of Citizenship Pressure and Psychological Detachment

Dr. Oliver Okafor &

Dr. Kenneth Kalu

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal Instituional Entrepreneurship: Collaborative Change in a Complex
Dr. Annika Hillebrandt Journal of Organizational Behavior How COVID-19 Can Promote Workplace Cheating Behavior Via Employee Anxiety and Self-Interest – And How Prosocial Messages May Overcome This Effect
Dr. Shengkun Xie Expert Systems With Applications Feature Extraction of Auto Insurance Size of Loss Data Using Functional Principal Component Analysis
Dr. Michael Halinski Human Resource Management Organizational Social Activities and Knowledge Management Behaviors: An Affective Events Perspective
Dr. Ellen Choi Journal of Occupational Health Psychology Flaws and All: How Mindfulness Reduces Error Hiding by Enhancing Authentic Functioning
Dr. Fei Song Journal of Management On the Role of Institutional Logics in Legitimacy Evaluations: The Effects of Pricing and CSR Signals on Organizational Legitimacy
Dr. Annika Hillebrandt Journal of Business Ethics The Paradox of Paranoia: How One’s Own Self-interested Unethical Behavior can Spark Paranoia and Reduce Affiliative Behavior Toward Coworkers
Dr. Sareh Pouryousefi Business Ethics Quarterly The Promise of Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and Business Ethics
Dr. Morteza Zihayat Kermani Decision Support Systems Social Influence-based Contrast Language Analysis Framework for Clinical Decision Support
Dr. Nukhet Taylor Journal of Consumer Psychology Your fries are Less Fattening than Mine: How Food Sharing Biases Fattening Judgments without Biasing Caloric Estimates
Dr. Matthew Philp &           Dr. Jenna Jacobson Journal of Business Research Predicting Social Media Engagement with Computer Vision: An Examination of Food Marketing on Instagram
Dr. Shengkun Xie Mathematics Measuring Variable Importance in Generalized Linear Models for Modelling Size of Loss Distributions
Dr. Morteza Zihayat Kermani Information Systems Feature-based Question Routing in Community Question Answering Platforms
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia Journal of Manufacturing Systems Real-time integrated production-scheduling and maintenance-planning in a flexible job shop with machine deterioration and condition-based maintenance
Dr. Yi Luo Contemporary Accounting Research Evidence‐Informed Audit Standard Setting: Exploring Evidence Use and Knowledge Transfer
Dr. Farid Shirazi Technological Forecasting and Social Change The Role of Social Factors in Purchase Journey in the Social Commerce Era
Dr. Mohammad Nikoofal Manufacturing and Service Operations Management The Strategic Role of Supplier Learning
Dr. Charlene Nicholls-Nixon & Dr. Dave Valliere Entrepreneurship and Regional Development How Incubation Creates Value for Early-stage Entrepreneurs: The People-place Nexus
Dr. Morteza Zihayat Kermani Information Sciences Embedding-based Team Formation for Community Question Answering
Dr. Hyunghwa (Rick) Oh International Journal of Hospitality Management Service Improvisation as a Double Edged Sword
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia
Computers & Industrial Engineering
The Utilization of Patients’ Information to Improve the Performance of Radiotherapy Centers: A Data-driven Approach
Dr. Atefeh Mashatan Journal of Business Research High Interest, Low Adoption. A Mixed-method Investigation into the Factors Influencing Organisational Adoption of Blockchain Technology
Dr. Atefeh Mashatan Computers in Industry A data-driven, comparative review of the academic literature and news media on blockchain-enabled supply chain management: Trends, gaps, and research needs
Dr. Dongning Yu Business Strategy and the Environment Board Interlocks, Absorptive Capacity, and Environmental Performance
Dr. Dongning Yu Business Strategy and the Environment Board Interlocks and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
2021 Outstanding Research Recognition Fund Recipients
Name Journal Title Article Title
Dr. Hasko von Kriegstein Journal of Business Ethics The Radical Behavioral Challenge and Wide‑Scope Obligations in Business
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment To Green or Not to Green Trucking? Exploring the Canadian Case
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia Computers & Industrial Engineering Integrated Production and Maintenance Scheduling for a Single Degrading Machine with Deterioration-based Failures
Dr. Mark Lee Journal of Business Research Virtual Products as an Extension or a Presentation of My Body: Exploring Hedonic and Utilitarian Shopping Value in Retail Environment
Dr. Matthew Philp Journal of Business Research I Should have Known Better!: When Firm-caused Failure Leads to Self-image Concerns and Reduces Negative Word-of-mouth
Dr. Matthew Philp   Journal of Business Research Social Anxiety and Salesperson Performance: The Roles of Mindful Acceptance and Perceived Sales Manager Support
Dr. Matthew Philp and                                       Dr. Martin Pyle   Journal of Business Research The “Easy Win” Preference: Negative Consumption Experiences, Incompetence, and the Influence on Subsequent Unrelated Loyalty Behavior
Dr. Martin Pyle Journal of Business Research In eWOM We Trust: Using Naïve Theories to Understand Consumer Trust in a Complex eWOM Marketspace
Dr. Mehdi Kargar Expert Systems With Applications A Unified Framework for Effective Team Formation in Social Networks
Dr. Morteza Zihayat Expert Systems With Applications A Non-Factoid Question Answering System for Prior Art Search
Dr. Annika Hillebrandt Human Relations Delivering Bad News Fairly: The Influence of Core Self-evaluations and Anxiety for the Enactment of Interpersonal Justice
Dr. Zeinab Noorian Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) On the Causal Relation between Real World Activities and Emotional Expressions of Social Media Users
Dr. Sameh Al Natour Journal of Management and Information Systems Designing Online Virtual Advisors to Encourage Customer Self-disclosure
Dr. Mehdi Kargar Expert Systems With Applications A Socially Motivating and Environmentally Friendly Tour Recommendation Framework for Tourist Groups
Dr. Andre Laplume Business Ethics Quarterly Evidence of an Inverted Ushaped Relationship Between Stakeholder Management Performance Variation and Firm Performance
Dr. Ojelanki Ngwenyama European Journal of Information Systems Public Management Challenges in the Digital Risk Society: A Critical Analysis of the Public Debate on Implementation of the Danish NemID
Dr. Sameh Al Natour Information & Management A Methodology for Improving the Practical Relevance of Belief-Based Information Technology Usage Theories
Dr. Wayne Smith Journal of Travel Research Who Should You Market to in a Crisis?Examining Plog’s Model during theCOVID-19 Pandemic
Dr. Matthew Philp Journal of Consumer Psychology Content Hungry: How the Nutrition of Food Media Influences Social Media Engagement
Dr. Morteza Kermani        and                                      Dr. Mehdi Kargar Journal of Business Research Leveraging Non-Respondent Data in Customer Satisfaction Modeling
Dr. Mehdi Kargar            and                                      Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia Journal of Cleaner Production Unearthing Trends in Environmental Science and Engineering Research: Insights from a Probabilistic Topic Modeling Literature Analysis
Dr. Mohammad Nikoofal Management Science Online-Exclusive or Hybrid? Channel Merchandising Strategies for Ship-to-Store Implementation
Dr. Yi Luo Accounting, Organizations and Society Communication is a Two-way Street: Analyzing practices undertaken to systematically transfer audit research knowledge to policymakers
Dr. Yi Luo Journal of Business Ethics The Effect of Gender on Investors’ Judgments and Decision‑Making
Dr. Zeinab Noorian Knowledge-Based Systems Learning Product Representations for Generating Reviews for Cold Products
Dr. Ravi Vatrapu Information Systems Journal Beyond Popularity: A User Perspective on Observable Behaviours in a Digital Platform
Dr. Atefeh Mashatan Communications of the ACM Quantum-Safe Trust for Vehicles: The Race Is Already On
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia International Journal of Production Economics Pricing and Quality Setting Strategy in Maritime Transportation: Considering Empty Repositioning and Demand Uncertainty
Dr. Yoonate Jeon Journal of Financial Economics News as Sources of Jumps in Stock Returns: Evidence from 21 Million News Articles for 9000 companies
Dr. Ellen Choi Clinical Psychological Review What do People Mean When They Talk About Mindfulness?
Dr. Fei Song Journal of Management High Compensation and Unethical Reciprocity
Dr. Atefeh Mashatan
Communications of the ACM
The Complex Path to Quantum Resistance
Dr. Mahdi Roghanizad
Social Psychological and Personality Science Should I Ask Over Zoom, Phone, or In-Person?
Communication Channel and Predicted vs. Actual Compliance
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia
Computers & Industrial Engineering
A Proposed Method for Third-party Reverse Logistics Partner Selection and Order Allocation in the Cellphone Industry
Dr. Oliver Okafor
Journal of Business Ethics
Shaming of Tax Evaders: Empirical Evidence on Perceptions of Retributive Justice and Tax Compliance Intentions
2020 Outstanding Research Recognition Fund Recipients
Name   Journal Title Article Title
Dr. Annika Hillebrandt Journal of Applied Psychology How Cheating Undermines the Perceived Value of Justice in the Workplace: The Mediating Effect of Shame
Dr. Morteza Zihayat IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data
Engineering
Paywall Policy Learning in Digital News Media
Dr. Hasko Von Kriegstein Philosophical Studies On Being Difficult: Towards an Account of the Nature of Difficulty
Dr. Farid Shirazi International Journal of Information Management  A Big data Analytics Model for Customer Churn Prediction in the Retiree Segment
Dr. Morteza Zihayat and                              Dr. Mehdi Kargar IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Effective Keyword Search over Weighted Graphs
Dr. Oliver Okafor Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal Deployment of Whistleblowing as an Accountability Mechanism to Curb Corruption and Fraud in Developing Democracy
Dr. Mohammad Nikoofal European Journal of Operational Research Value Audit for Supply Chains with Hidden Action and Information
Dr. Sameh Al Natour and                              Dr. Ozgur Turetken International Journal of Information Management A Comparative Assessment of Sentiment Analysis and Star Ratings for Consumer Reviews
Dr. Sameh Al Natour Information Systems Research An Empirical Investigation of the Antecedents and Consequences of Privacy Uncertainty in the Context of Mobile App
Dr. Tom Griffin Current Issues in Tourism The Impact of Video Games on Destination Image
Dr. Ravi Vatrapu International Journal of Operations & Production
Management
An Unstructured Big Data Approach for Country Logistics Performance Assessment in Global Supply Chains
Dr. Deborah De Lange and                              Dr. Dave Valliere Journal of Business Research Investor preferences between the sharing economy and incumbent firms
Dr. Morteza Zihayat International Journal of Information Management A Big Data Analytics Framework for Detecting User-level Depression from Social Networks
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia European Journal of Operational Research Considering Short-term and Long-term Uncertainties in Location and Capacity Planning of Public Healthcare Facilities
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia International Journal of Production Economics A Scenario-based Robust Possibilistic Model for a Multi-objective Electronic Reverse Logistics Network
Dr. Jenna Jacobson International Journal of Information Management Setting the Future of Digital and Social Media Marketing Research: Perspectives and Research Propositions
Dr. Sui Sui                  and                              Dr. Horatio Morgan Journal of International Business Studies No Place Like Home: The Effect of Exporting toCountry of Origin on the Financial Performance of Immigrant-Owned SMEs
Dr. Sameh Al Natour Internet Research The Determinants of Learner Satisfaction with the Online Video Presentation Method
Dr. Ojelanki Ngwenyama European Journal of Information Systems Contact-tracing Apps and Alienation in the Age of COVID-19
Dr. Andre Laplume Journal of Business Ethics Incumbent Stakeholder Management Performance and New Entry
Dr. Dongning Yu British Accounting Review Inter-and-intra- organizational Stakeholder Arrangements in Carbon Management Accounting
Dr. Farid Shirazi Industrial Marketing Management Using Artificial Intelligence to Detect Crisis Related to Events: Decision Making in B2B by Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Rachel Dodds Annals of Tourism Research Tourism Development from Disaster Capitalism
Dr. Burcu Bulgurcu Journal of Management Information Systems Idea Generation in Enterprise Social Media: Open versus Closed Groups and Their Network Structures
Dr. Yoontae Jeon Review of Finance Time-Varying Crash Risk Embedded in Index Options: The Role of Stock Market Liquidity
Dr. Michael Halinski Journal of Business and Psychology Employed Caregivers’ Response to Family-Role Overload: the Role of Control-at-Home and Caregiver Type
2019 Outstanding Research Recognition Fund Recipients
Name Journal Title Article Title
Dr. Michael Halinski Human Resource Management Journal It is Not Just About Paying Your Dues: Impact of Generational Cohort on Active and Passive Union Participation
Dr. Mohammad Nikoofal Production and Operations
Management
Supply Diagnostic Incentives under Endogenous Information Asymmetry
Dr. Morteza Zihayat Decision Support Systems  A Utility-based News Recommendation System
Dr. Horatio Morgan and                           Dr. Sui Sui Journal of Business Venturing Are SMEs with Immigrant Owners Exceptional Exporters?
Dr. Mohammad Nikoofal Manufacturing & Service Operations
Management
Quality at the Source or at the End? Managing Supplier Quality Under Information Asymmetry
Dr. Ojelanki Ngwenyama International Journal of
Production Economics
Managing Emissions Allowances of Electricity Producers to Maximize CO2 Abatement: DEA models for Analyzing Emissions and Allocating Emissions Allowances
Dr. Mehdi Kargar The VLDB Journal Effective and Complete Discovery of Bidirectional Order Dependencies via Set-based Axioms
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia International Journal of Production Economics Green Product Development and Environmental Performance: Investigating the Role of Government Regulations
Dr. Jonathan Farrar Journal of Business Ethics Tax Fairness: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Measurement
Dr. Fei Song Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization  Are "left-behind" Children Really Left Behind: A Lab-in-field Experiment
Dr. Fei Song Journal of Business Ethics Firm Status and Evaluators' Trust: The Many Ways to Trust a Firm
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia OMEGA - The International Journal of
Management Science
Dynamic Interdiction Networks with Applications in Illicit Supply Chains
Dr. Thomas Schneider Critical Perspectives in Accounting Fossil Fuel Reserves and Resources Reporting and Unburnable Carbon: Investigating Conflicting Accounts
Dr. Deborah DeLange Journal of Cleaner Production A Paradox of Embedded Agency: Sustainable Investors Boundary Bridging to Emerging Fields
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia International Journal of Production Economics Designing a Green Meat Supply Chain Network: A Multi-objective Approach
Dr. Sui Sui Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice How Home-Peers Affect the Export Market Exit of Small Firms: Evidence From Canadian Exporters
Dr. Frederic Dimanche International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management Destination Competitiveness in Russia: Tourism Professionals’ Skills and Competences
Dr. Norman Shaw International Journal of Information Management The Non-monetary Benefits of Mobile Commerce: Extending UTAUT2 with Perceived Value
Dr. Atefeh Mashatan IEEE Access Improved Dynamic Multi-Party Quantum Private Comparison for Next-Generation Mobile Network
Dr. Margaret Plaza and                           Dr. Farid Shirazi International Journal of Production Economics Management of Inventory under Market Fluctuations the Case of a Canadian High Tech Company
Dr. Mehdi Kargar Information Processing & Management User Community Detection via Embedding of Social Network Structure and Temporal Content
Dr. Yi Feng Journal of Banking & Finance Director Networks and Initial Public Offerings
Dr. Morteza Zihayat and                           Dr. Mehdi Kargar Information Processing & Management Compact Group Discovery in Attributed Graphs and Social Networks
Dr. Mark Lee Journal of Business Research The Effects of Virtual Reality (VR) on Charitable Giving: The Role of Empathy, Guilt, Responsibility, and Social Exclusion
Dr. Mark Lee Journal of Business Research Using Warmth as the Visual Design of a Store: Intimacy, Relational Needs, and Approach Intentions
Dr. Rachel Dodds and                          Dr.  Philip Walsh Current Issues in Tourism Assessing the Factors that Influence Waste Generation and Diversion at Canadian Festivals
Dr. Atefeh Mashatan Scientific Reports Secure Dynamic Multiparty Quantum Private Comparison
Dr. Chris MacDonald Journal of Business Ethics A Big-data Approach to Understanding the Thematic Landscape of the Field of Business Ethics, 1982-2016
Dr. Rachel Dodds Journal of Travel Research At Home or Abroad, Does Our Behavior Change? Examining How Everyday Behavior Influences Sustainable Travel Behavior and Tourist Clusters
Dr. Tom Griffin Current Issues in Tourism A Discussion of Video as a Data Collection Tool
Dr. Atefeh Mashatan and                           Dr. Ozgur Turetken Computer An Enterprise Transformation Guide for the Inevitable Blockchain Disruption