2007 Tenure and Promotion
Tenure
Mehdi Farashahi
Department of Management
Dr. Mehdi Farashahi received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor In the Department of Management at Concordia University in 2007. He was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Management Department in 2002. He holds a B.Sc. (1979) in Aerospace Engineering from North Carolina State University, and an MBA (1994) and a Ph.D. (2003) in strategy from Concordia University. Dr. Farashahi has been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in the fields of strategy and international business in the last 9 years. He started his teaching at McGill University in 1998 and then became an LTA at JMSB from 1999 to 2002. Dr. Farashahi has published in journals such as Organization Studies, Management International Review, International Journal of Commerce and Management, and International Journal of Management Reviews. His works have been presented at international conferences such as AoM, AIB, British AoM, ASAC, HCB, ICMS, and ABAS in the last 8 years. He is one of the inventors of the Montreal Local/Global Research Group, which has seven faculty members from five universities (including McGill, HEC, U. of Quebec, and U. of Western Ontario) as well as 6 Ph.D. students. Dr. Farashahi has established several research collaborations with faculty members within JMSB as well as from other schools in Montreal. One of his research projects has been recently funded by FQRSC. His research interests combine institutional theory, organizations' forms and strategies, and global/local issues. He is particularly interested in management practices of firms in the global business environment and more specifically in the developing contexts. He is also interested in aggregate analysis as a type of meta-analytical approach in synthesizing research.
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Bianca Grohmann
Department of Marketing
Dr. Bianca Grohmann received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing at Concordia University in 2007. She joined Concordia University as Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing in 2002 after graduating from Washington State University with an MBA (2000), and a Ph.D. (2002) degree. At Washington State University, Dr. Grohmann taught undergraduate marketing research and introductory marketing classes. Since she joined the John Molson School of Business, Dr. Grohmann has taught a variety of undergraduate courses (marketing management, retailing), developed and taught various M.Sc. and Ph.D. seminars (brand management, retail atmospherics, research in retailing), and supervised M.Sc. students. Dr. Grohmann’s research focuses on scale development for marketing applications, branding, and multi-sensory marketing. Her research has been published in the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Retailing, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Psychology & Marketing, and the Journal of Business Research. Dr. Grohmann has presented her research at major international conferences of the Association of Consumer Research, the Society for Consumer Psychology, and the European Academy of Marketing, and CORS/INFORMS. In 2003, Dr. Grohmann received the Omer DeSerres Outstanding Paper Award at the 6th Retail Strategy and Consumer Decision Research Seminar of the Society for Marketing Advances. In 2004, she was the recipient of the JMSB Junior Researcher Award. Her research is funded by the FQRSC, SSHRC, and the Bell Research Center for Business Process Innovation.
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Majidul Islam
Department of Accountancy
Dr. Majidul Islam received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Accountancy at Concordia University in 2007. He immigrated to Canada in 1992 and began his Canadian career as a lecturer/instructor for Concordia University’s Department of Accountancy in August 1993. He was promoted to Assistant Professor tenure track in June 2002. Dr. Islam’s previous faculty appointments were at the University of Chittagong and University of Nigeria. He also worked as a financial controller for the Government of Fujairah, UAE; as Chief Program Officer in the Micro Industries Development Services of US Agency for International Development at Dhaka; and as a consultant in a chartered accountancy firm in Nigeria. Dr. Islam received his Bachelor of Commerce in Business Faculty and his Master’s in Accountancy from Dhaka University and his Ph.D. from the Institute of National Economy, Moscow. He received his professional designations in different countries, doing the Diploma in Industrial Management in Nigeria, completing Level 1 and Level 2 of the Chartered Association of Certified and Corporate Accountants (ACCA) in the UK, and receiving the Certified General Accountant (CGA) designation in Quebec in 2002. His research interests include TQM, ABC, balanced scorecard, ethical issues in financial reporting, international accounting, and accounting education. He currently teaches advanced management accounting, financial accounting and international accounting. Dr. Islam has had his papers published in the Journal of Business Ethics, Benchmarking—An International Journal, Journal of American Academy of Business, Managerial Auditing Journal, the Business Review, Canadian Accounting Perspectives, International Journal of Business Information Systems and others.
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Dowan Kwon
Department of Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems
Dr. Dowan Kwon received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences and MIS in 2007. He joined Concordia University as an Assistant Professor in 2002. He received his Ph.D. (2003) in Information Systems from Case Western Reserve University, and holds an MBA from George Washington University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses such as database management, systems design and implementation, and advanced topics in information systems development. His research interests include business values and strategic consequences of information systems, detailed analyses of technological framing and evolution, and qualitative research methodologies. Dr. Kwon has made numerous presentations at such conferences as ICIS doctoral consortium, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, ASAC, and KMIS. He is also a recipient of a three-year FQRSC grant in 2005. His research work has been published in Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information Technology and People, Journal of Business Research, and is forthcoming in Journal of Management Information Systems. His work experience includes consulting for telecommunication start-ups and designing information systems for a major South Korean financial firm.
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Imants Paeglis
Department of Finance
Dr. Imants Paeglis received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at Concordia University in 2007. He joined the John Molson School of Business in June 2002, after receiving his Ph.D. from Boston College a month earlier. His research interests are in newly public family firms, initial public offerings (IPOs), management quality, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and various forms of corporate restructuring. His research has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Journal of Private Equity, and is forthcoming in the Advances in Financial Economics. In June 2006, Dr. Paeglis was awarded the 2005-2006 Distinguished Teaching Award, John Molson School of Business.
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Promotion
Dogan Tirtiroglu
Department of Finance
Dr. Dogan Tirtiroglu was promoted to Professor in the Department of Finance at Concordia University in 2007. He earned his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1983, his MBA from St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY, USA in 1987, and his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA in 1991. He joined Concordia University as an Associate Professor of Finance in 1997. He served as a visiting faculty member and the Interim Director of the M.Phil. Program in Real Estate Finance at the University of Cambridge, UK between 2002 and 2003 and later spent his sabbatical leave in affiliation with the same program between 2004 and 2006. Dr. Tirtiroglu has published 28 refereed academic articles -- mainly in Corporate Finance, Financial Institutions, and Real Estate Finance -- so far, receives regularly citations for his research contributions, has several new research papers either under review or in-progress, has presented research papers in many international and national conferences and workshops, and guest-edited a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences.
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