Faculty of Business and Economics
The Faculty of Business and Economics have a strong research presence at our Brampton and Sault Ste. Marie campuses.
Dr. William X. Wei
Dean, Faculty of Business & Economics
Dr. William X. Wei is inaugural Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics, Algoma University. His research areas include Emerging Markets and Multinationals and his research has been published in the International Journal of Operations and Production Management (5-year impact factor 9.074), International Journal of Emerging Markets (5-year impact factor 3.214), Project Management Journal (5-year impact factor 4.883) and Ivey Publishing (Second largest case publisher after Harvard Business Publishing).
Dr. Wei is a board member of North American Case Research Association, Associate Editor of two Emerald journals: Emerging Markets Case Studies and Chinese Management Studies. He was recognized as a distinguished scholar by the Academy for Global Business Advancement in 2012 and received the President's service award from the Association of African Business and Development in 2020.
Dr. Nusrate Aziz
Associate Professor in the School of Business and Economics
Dr. Nusrate Aziz is an Associate Professor in the School of Business and Economics at Algoma University. He is a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), a Member of the International Migration Research Centre (IMRC), and a Research Associate of the NORDIK Institute. Dr. Aziz is an Editor of the Journal of Risk and Financial Management (special issue); an Adjunct Faculty, Department of Economics, Bob Gaglardi School of Business and Economics, Thompson Rivers University; and a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Economics, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University. Dr. Aziz’s research interests include labour migration, international and regional trade, monetary policy, international finance, institutional quality, and environmental policy. He recently published in the European Journal of Political Economy (Elsevier), IZA Journal of Development and Migration (Springer), The World Economy (Wiley), Applied Economics (Taylor & Francis), International Review of Economics and Finance (Elsevier), Tourism Economics (SAGE), Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (Springer), Defence and Peace Economics (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Economic Studies (Emerald), among others. Dr. Aziz’s research was funded by the (i) NOHFC, Mitacs, SSHRC Institutional Grants; (ii)Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia; (iii) Overseas Research Students Award Scheme (ORSAS), UK; (iv) University of Birmingham, Multimedia University, Ryerson University and Algoma University, among others. He was the Principal Consultant for the British and Australian government-funded and Bangladesh Government Assisted, iDE’s rural development project and a Resource Person for the World Bank funded ‘Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project’.
View Dr. Nusrate Aziz’s website to learn more about his research.
Email: nusrate.aziz@algomau.ca
Dr. Jody Rebek
Associate Professor In School of Business & Economics
Dr. Rebek's primary research interest lies in the area of leadership, and well-being. Healthy people create a healthy planet.
Her intent is to discover ways that individuals, teams, and communities can become more aware, strengthen well-being and engage in strength-based approaches to learn to lead/change for the better. Especially with her involvement with Collaborative Online Intercultural Learning (COIL). She is working with colleagues to explore research that connects intercultural competency development with Inner Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals, and its connection to individual and cultural or community well-being. In addition, Jody is engaged in three research projects with partners that focus on: (a) freshwater and the blue economy, (b) social entrepreneurship in a local circular economy and (c) AwakenU - mindful leader development.
As a scholarpreneur for more than two decades, she has been an interdisciplinary and social entrepreneur who practices contemplative, benevolent leadership and community-based participatory research. Her research topics centre around strengths-based approaches to personal development, culture, and sustainability all with the intent to promote and better understand health and well-being, creativity, mindset and motivation, and team synergy.
Dr. Rebek has over fifteen years of experience working in the post-secondary sector, focusing on business management, leadership education, strategy, organizational development, contemplative pedagogy, and training and development related to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. For more than two decades, she has also remained engaged in supporting and growing the local community, as well as in building businesses such as Vive Strategy Consulting, and most recently co-creating Hearterra, a local refillery and zero-waste store. In 2021, she also co-founded Water Wise, a network of collaboration for freshwater sustainability research and actions centered around the upper Great Lakes.
Email: jody.rebek@algomau.ca
Dr. Inderpal Kaur
Professor in the School of Business and Economics, Brampton Campus
Dr. Inderpal Kaur joined Algoma University in 2019 as part-time Faculty in School of Business and Economics, Brampton campus. She has taught Microeconomic and Macroeconomics and is currently teaching Money and Financial Markets.
Dr. Kaur has more than twenty-five years of teaching experience in Indian University, Guru Nanak Dev University to Business and Economics classes. Some of her publications include one book and twenty-four research papers. She has also guided and supervised two Ph.D.’s and more than fifty Graduate level projects and dissertations.
Dr. Inderpal Kaur’s areas of specialization include Micro-Economics, Macro Economics Consumer Behaviour and Marketing Management, Business Statistics and Environment Economics. Her research interests include, Community Based Economic and Social Issues with special focus on economic reconciliation and environmental challenges.
Email: inderpal.kaur@algomau.ca
Dr. Jo-Anne Ryan
Associate Professor in the School of Business and Economics
I currently have two key projects I am undertaking. The first project examines the assurance and performance management related issues surrounding the insolvency and Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) protection the was undertaken by Laurentian University. I am a co-author, with Dr. Marc Pilon of Laurentian University on two case related papers. We hope that the case studies will provide a rich learning environment for accounting students in the areas of assurance and governance. The second project, funded by Algoma University’s Start-up Research Grant examines the investor relations (IR) website content of more than 500 Canadian Public Companies. With the assistance of upper year Algoma University students, I hope to find out more about what types of voluntary and non-voluntary financial and non-financial information that Canadian companies are posting on their IR website.
Dr. Ahmed Aziz
Assistant Professor in the School of Business and Economics
Dr. Aziz is an applied microeconomist with a research focus on labour, international, and development economics and the intersection between these fields. His current research projects focus on the impact of Canadian interprovincial migration on interprovincial trade. He is also interested in understanding the intergenerational effects of welfare programs in Canada and the US. Dr. Aziz is currently involved in a community-based action research project with Dr. Jody Rebek investigating blue economy and freshwater entrepreneurship opportunities in the Algoma region.
View Dr. Ahmed Aziz’s website to learn more about his research.
Dr. Mahbubul Alam
Assistant Professor in the School of Business and Economics
Dr. Mahbubul Alam’s research interests include emotional labour in leadership context, performance feedback, respect, task significance, and indigenization of human resource management education. He conducts research utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods and published articles in reputable management journals, such as Human Resource Management Review, Organizational Dynamics, and Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations.