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Faculty of Management
Okanagan Campus
EME4145 – 1137 Alumni Ave
Kelowna, BC Canada
V1V 1V7

Reception:

Tel 250.807.9462
Fax 250.807.8533
Email fom.reception@ubc.ca

Academic Programs Office:

Bachelor of Management: fom.bmgt@ubc.ca

Post-Experience Master of Management: postexperience.mm@ubc.ca

Dual Degree Master of Management: dualdegree.mm@ubc.ca

Faculty of Management Directory

Amin Ahmadi Digehsara | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Faculty of Management | amin.ahmadidigehsara@ubc.ca | EME 4107

Research Interests: Network Optimization, Public transportation planning, Optimization under Uncertainty, Operational research methodologies

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Healthcare Operations, Supply Chain, Business Analytics

Kwame Boateng | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | kwame.boateng@ubc.ca

Kim Buschert (On Leave) | Faculty of Management Librarian | Faculty of Management, Library Services | kim.buschert@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: Subject librarian for: Management, Psychology. On leave for 2024. For assistance with Management, contact Talia Greene For assistance with Psychology, contact Marjorie Mitchell

Research Interests: Management communications; Science and engineering communications; Interdisciplinary and intercultural communications; Creative writing; Contemporary Canadian fiction and memoir; Contemporary East African writing and cultural productions; Intersectional feminisms; Survivor narratives; and writing that inspires social change.

Courses & Teaching: ENGL 112 Studies in Composition; MGMT 240 Introduction to Management Communications; CORH 321 Personal and Professional Identity and Interpersonal Communication; CRWR 217 Intermediate Workshop in Creative Writing: Fiction

Adrienne Cook (On Leave) | Faculty Programs Assistant | Faculty of Management | adrienne.cook@ubc.ca | EME 4157

Allyssa Costerton-Grant, MM, BAPC | Director, Strategic Initiatives and Operations | Faculty of Management | allyssa.costerton-grant@ubc.ca | EME 4101

M.J. D'Elia | Adjunct Instructor | Faculty of Management | mj.delia@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses: Topic coverage includes operations management, health economics, clinically applied economic evaluation, multiple imputation of missing data, research methods, and biostatistics. Graduate Courses: Topics taught include epidemiological methods (led problem-based learning groups), research methods in rehabilitation: taught multiple imputation of missing data, conducting systematic reviews and instructor for a web-based course – Quality of Life Program: A CIHR Training Program in Rehabilitation Research.

Mackenzie Dunlop | Executive Coordinator | Faculty of Management | mackenzie.dunlop@ubc.ca | EME 4145

Courses & Teaching: UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: MGMT 201 / 301 Introduction to Financial Accounting MGMT 202 / 302 Introduction to Managerial Accounting MGMT 330 Introduction to Organizational Behaviour MGMT 360 Business Conditions Analysis MGMT 401 Intermediate Managerial Accounting MGMT 403 Auditing and Assurance Services MGMT 405 Advanced Managerial Accounting MGMT 419H Special Topics in Management: Corporate Governance GRADUATE COURSES: MGMT 531 Leadership

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Organization theory; Institutional logics; Emotions and institutions; Social-symbolic work; Environmental sustainability; Inequality; Community-based entrepreneurship; Social entrepreneurship Indigenous resurgence; Peoplehood model; Two-Eyed Seeing; Decolonization; Reconciliation; Feminist care ethics; Community-based participatory research; Ethnography

Courses & Teaching: MGMT 100 Introduction to Business MGMT 450 Entrepreneurship and Small Business MGMT 481 Strategy and Change Management

Sarah Gumpinger | Lecturer | Faculty of Management | sarah.gumpinger@ubc.ca | EME 4149

Dustin Gumpinger | Visiting Faculty | Faculty of Management | dustin.gumpinger@ubc.ca | EME 4149

Tanja Halsall | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | thalsall@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Public finance and political economy; fiscal policy (government expenditure and taxation) and how it is influenced by interactions within a hierarchy of governments (municipal, provincial and federal); elections; lobbying activity.

Courses & Teaching: Public finance; empirical economics; macroeconomics

Research Interests: Sustainability in Art, Fashion, and Wine; Wine Tourism, Artification Process; Luxury Brand Marketing and Management; Gender, Levinas and the Ethics of recognition.

Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses: MGMT 440 Brands, Culture and Marketing MGMT 442 Consumer Behavior MGMT 441-Marketing Strategy MGMT 220-Introductory marketing Graduate Courses: Brand Management (Ph.D.) Consumer Culture Theory (Ph.D.)

Kelli Lethbridge | Academic Programs Coordinator | Faculty of Management | kelli.lethbridge@ubc.ca | EME 4157

Eric Li, PhD | Associate Professor | Faculty of Management, Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER), Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention (IHLCDP), Interdisciplinary Co-op Education, Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies (IGS), Survive and Thrive Applied Research (STAR) | eric.li@ubc.ca | 250.807.8853 | EME 4125

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Consumer culture; Social Innovation and social enterprise, Healthy living and well-being; Food consumption and food security; Digital economy, Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of People (IoP); Social media marketing and consumption, Ethical consumerism and prosocial behaviour, Corporate philanthropy, Fashion marketing and consumption.

Courses & Teaching: MGMT220/320 Introduction to Marketing (undergraduate-level) MGMT441 Marketing Strategy (undergraduate-level) MGMT444 Marketing Research (undergraduate-level) MGMT495 Directed Studies on Fashion Advertising (2012), Digital Consumption and Marketing (2013), Fashion and Cultural Heritage (2014), Family Identity and Consumption (2018) MGMT536B – Enterprise and Innovation (Marketing module) MGMT541 – Applied Research Methods MGMT544A – Applied Project IGS515 Qualitative Methods for Management Research (graduate-level) IGS520A Special Topics on Digital Marketing and Consumption (graduate-level) IGS524 Applied Research Methods (graduate-level)

Candice Loring, MBA | Faculty of Management | candice.loring@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses: MGMT 250 Introduction to IT Management MGMT 360 Business Conditions Analysis MGMT 425 Strategic Entrepreneurial Technology

Cassandra McFarland | Communications and Events Specialist | Faculty of Management | cassandra.mcfarland@ubc.ca | EME 4159

Tasia-Li McGrew | Sessional Lecturer | Faculty of Management | tmcgrew@mail.ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Sustainability measurement and management; life cycle thinking; environmental and social life cycle assessment of food, feed and biomass supply chains; resource efficiency; social license and market access; trade-based externalization of environmental and social risk.

Courses & Teaching: Sustainable food systems; sustainability measurement and management; ecological economics.

Paul Pickard | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | paul.pickard@ubc.ca | EME 4101

Courses & Teaching: MGMT 480 Law and Business

Cayla Reeve | Academic Programs Coordinator | Faculty of Management | cayla.reeve@ubc.ca | 4157

Adam Saifer | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Management | adam.saifer@ubc.ca | EME 4151

Research Interests: critical philanthropy studies; nonprofit organizations; sustainable community development; critical management studies; national identity; “the arts” and cultural production; racial capitalism; critical discourse analysis

Courses & Teaching: MGMT380 - Sustainability and Business

Stacey Sandison | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | stacey.sandison@ubc.ca

Roger Sugden (On Leave) | Professor | Faculty of Management | roger.sugden@ubc.ca | EME 4145

Asfiya Taji | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Faculty of Management | asfiya.taji@ubc.ca

Marcela Valania | Honorary Research Associate, Sessional Lecturer | Faculty of Management | marcela.valania@ubc.ca | EME 4141

Graduate student supervisor

Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses: MGMT 230 Organizational Behaviour MGMT 411 Human Resource Management MGMT 419k Special Topics in Management – Service Human Resource Management Graduate Courses: MGMT 530 Organizational Behaviour MGMT 533 Human Resources

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Dr. Zhu’s primary research interests include digital marketing, branding, consumer behavior, business analytics, and social networks. She has two streams of research: 1) investigating the impact of technology on consumers and the antecedents and consequences of consumer use of technology (e.g., AI, Metaverse) and 2) examining the effectiveness of different marketing strategies (e.g., digital marketing, business networks) and the importance of branding (e.g., brand extension).

Courses & Teaching: MGMT 100 Introduction to Business MGMT 441 Marketing Strategy MGMT 442 Consumer Behavior MGMT 461 Service Marketing

Nikki Zwaagstra | Special Projects Administrator | Faculty of Management | nikki.zwaagstra@ubc.ca | EME 4159

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