Honours Students

The Honours Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is designed for students who are interested in pursuing graduate school and/or who are interested in gaining an additional in-depth perspective of their major.

The Honours BBA provides students a choice of two streams. The first is a scholarly stream and intended for students interested in pursuing graduate school. The second is an applied stream and intended for students seeking to enhance career skills - with a focus on applying theory to practice.

Students may complete the Honours stream in all of the BBA majors. Depending on the curriculum year a student is following, 36 of the courses in the Honours BBA are identical to those in the four BBA majors.

The students in the Honours BBA must take the following two (2) courses, and can be used towards their four (4) BBA electives:

- MGMT 5110 - Research Methods for Business
- MGMT 5120 - Honours Research Project

Students will apply to the Honours BBA in the Fall semester following their completion of 60 credits (normally the Fall semester of their third year). Coursework will begin in the Winter of their third year with MGMT 5110 (Research Methods for Business) and continue into their fourth year with MGMT 5120 (Honours Research Project).

Please consult the BBA Honours Handbook for Students for information on admission requirements and application procedures.

The course outlines are available for each of the two courses below. Please note that these outlines are subject to change at any time, and are to be used as a reference only.
- MGMT 5110 - Research Methods for Business
- MGMT 5120 - Honours Research Project

You should register for a full compliment of Winter courses, as if you were not in the BBA Honours program. The time for MGMT 5110 will be listed on mymru.ca, so be sure to schedule your courses around that time, so that if you are accepted into the program, you will not have to make any radical changes to your courses when you go to add MGMT 5110 (and drop another course).

Students should consult the BBA Honours Handbook for Students for the answers to more detailed questions, including those about faculty supervisors, the rigour of the applied research, assessment differences of the two streams, Human Research Ethics Board (HREB) clearance, and the expected outcomes and expectations of each required course. Students may also contact the Business Advisors for any questions that they may have about completing the BBA Honours.

The following Faculty members have expressed an interest in supervising students in the Honours Program. This is not an exhaustive list, but may act as the first point of contact for students needing supervisors.

Accounting and Finance

Reza Chowdhury
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Entrepreneurial Finance
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Emerging Financial Markets

Harjinder Deol
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Applied and Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Capital markets
- Valuation
- Intellectual capital
- Not-for-profit organizations

Jim Fischer
Stream(s) willing to supervise - Applied
Research Interests:
- Passive investment management
- Libertarian economics

Tashfeen Hussain
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Scholarly and Applied
Research Interests:
- Corporate finance
- Public and private debt market
- Investor monitoring
- Information asymmetry
- Social media and finance
- Fintech
- Financial institutions

Simon Magennis
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Financial accounting/reporting
- Accounting education
- ESG/Sustainability reporting
- Financial analysis
- New technology and accounting

Carlton Osakwe
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Corporate finance: agency problems and strategic options
- Financing of SMEs
- Financial markets
- Financial Risk Management
- Behavioural finance

Cathy Roy-Heaton
Stream(s) willing to supervise - Applied
Research Interests:
- Financial markets ethics and integrity
- ESG integration in equity valuation
- Diversity in finance

Nicole Edge
Stream(s) willing to supervise 
- Interdisciplinary topics (performance/ performativity/ leadership/ identity/ ethics) 
- Data/ business analytics / tech and "human skills" implications  
- Regenerative ag and ecology
- Alternative economics (degrowth/ behavioral/ valuation models)
- ESG and integrated reporting (esp DEI, governance and ethics)

 

Entrepreneurship, Marketing & Social Innovation

AnneMarie Dorland
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Scholarly
Research interests: 
- Design Thinking
- Creativity
- Branding
- Design
- Cultural industries
- Organizational Change
- Advertising and Brand Strategy

David Finch
Stream(s) willing to supervise - Applied and Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Strategic planning
- Segmentation
- Product management
- Reputation
- Sports marketing
- Sponsorship marketing
- Promotional marketing

Katharine McGowan
Stream(s) willing to supervise - Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Social innovation theory and dynamics
- Indigenous social innovation
- Cross-scale dynamics
- Institutional entrepreneurship/systems leadership -Complexity, systems and resilience

Catherine Pearl
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Applied and Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Social innovation
- Social entrepreneurship
- Social enterprise (applied and theoretical)
- Cooperatives
- Nonprofit Management

International Business and Supply Chain Management

Rajbir Bhatti
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Applied and Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Logistics, sustainable transportation
- Data analytics, transportation and procurement
- GHG emission and carbon footprint reduction in supply chain management
- Analytical hierarchy modelling
- Multi criteria decision making
- Quality management systems
- AI and business

Abdulrahman Chikhouni
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Applied and Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Social network data analysis
- Multi-level analysis (HLM)
- Strategy and/or international business (for the applied stream)

Adebayo Aderounmu
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Applied and Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Statistics and advanced analytics
- AI and business
- Big data analytics

Irina Dovbischuk
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Applied and Scholarly
Research Interests:
Global Value Chains (GVC)
Global operations management
International transportation 
Sustainable supply chain management
Social issues in Global Value Chains (GVC)
Social sustainability compliance in Global Value Chains
Supplier relationship management from emerging economies 
Social Due Diligence in Canada (Bill S-211) and beyond 
Supply Chain resilience 
Information and Communication technologies for transparent and data-driven Global Value Chains

 

Management & Human Resources

Christian Cook
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Applied and Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Strategic human resources
- Workplace culture
- Diversity and inclusion
- Employee engagement
- Teaching and learning
- Community services learning
- Burnout and engagement

Leah Hamilton
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Applied and Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Social and economic integration of newcomers to Canada
- Refugee resettlement
- Racism and discrimination
- Equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace
- Underemployment
- Mentorship

Kris Hans
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Applied and Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Branding
- Creativity
- Design
- Design Thinking
- Entrepreneurship
- Futurism
- Innovation
- Marketing
- Social Implications of Technology
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Strategic Planning
- Business Communications

Matthew McLarnon
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Applied and Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Employee selection
- Employee well-being and resilience
- Teamwork and team dynamics (i.e., conflict, cohesion)
- Analytics in professional sports
- Big data and advanced analytics

Rachael Pettigrew
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Employee supportive organizational practices
- Workplace inclusion/diversity
- Gender in the workplace
- Work/life balance
- Newcomer employment issues

Harris Rubin
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Scholarly
Research Interests:
My research is focused primarily on decision-making processes. This includes investigating the influence of factors such as emotions and ideal standards on decision-making. I am also interested in dyadic relationship processes such as trust, gratitude, and forgiveness. Finally, I also conduct research on undergraduate employability and labour market outcomes.

Uthpala Senarathne Tennakoon
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Work-life balance issues
- Employee attraction
- Life-friendly practices of organizations

Stream(s) willing to supervise: Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Leadership Development
- Succession Planning
- Workplace Culture
- Transformative Learning

Paul Varella
Stream(s) willing to supervise: Applied and Scholarly
Research Interests:
- Governance
- Leadership
- Organizational decision making
- Environmental management

You can check out information on student research opportunities, an well as the Library's Undergraduate Research Guide.