Mark Baetz

Wilfrid Laurier University | WLU · Department of Business

There is general consensus that volunteer and community service learning (CSL) experiences are important to career development even though research remains unclear on the relationship and about how best to help students make a link between service and career decisions. This study investigated the possible impact of CSL experiences on students’ care...

The present study conducted a qualitative analysis of faculty members? perceptions, beliefs and instructional concerns regarding academic integrity in their classrooms following their observation of their students engaged in a 45-minute interactive presentation on academic integrity. Overall, seven overarching themes and a series of sub-themes were...

Community service-learning (CSL) is an educational approach which depends on students reflecting about their learning from service in the community. The pre-service phase of CSL involves reflecting about learning from prior community service. This paper reports on how results of a survey of students who reflected on prior community service can be u...

The present study assessed business students’ responses to an innovative interactive presentation on academic integrity that employed quoted material from previous students as launching points for discussion. In total, 15 business classes (n = 412 students) including 2nd, 3rd and 4th year level students participated in the presentations as part of...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how an employee volunteer program (EVP) as one aspect of responsible corporate citizenship (typically expressed in a mission statement) can influence the relationships among a firm, its employees and its community. Design/methodology/approach A pedagogical approach used in the educational sector know...

This paper examines three separate episodes of government consultation in the environmental sector involving the activities of a chemical plant owned by Uniroyal Chemical Ltd. in Elmira, a small town in southwestern Ontario near Kitchener. The first episode involved the creation in the early 1980s of two advisory committees at two separate levels o...

The proliferation of governance measurements and ranking schemes has led to an intense debate about corporate governance standards and reform. In Canada, socially responsible investment (SRI) organisations have joined the debate by including governance in their screening processes and shareholder advocacy activities. In this paper, we describe and...

The ability to enforce the provisions of a code of conduct influences whether the code is effective in shaping behavior. Enforcement relies in part on the willingness of organization members to report violations of the code, but research from the business and educational environment suggests that fewer than half of those who observe code violations...

Some business schools have integrated business ethics issues into their core functional courses rather than simply offering a separate ethics course. To accommodate such a strategy, functional faculty members usually teach ethical issues, a task for which they are rarely trained. However, learning materials are available: some core course textbooks...

Early-stage technology-based firms are confronted with the complexity of foreign markets and global competition from their earliest stages of development. Not only must technology entrepreneurs keep pace with ever-changing technology-based product offerings, but they must also simultaneously stay abreast of competitors and industry trends in multip...

This study examines the use of strategic alliances by small technology-based firms. These firms, who have innovative ideas and products but often lack the resources and experience to fully capitalize on them in a timely fashion, are ideal candidates for alliance arrangements. It is argued, however, that firms who rely on alliances, as opposed to th...

This paper examines the relationship between mission statements and firm performance using a sample of 136 large Canadian organizations. Previous writings suggest that mission statements are essential for superior organizational performance results. However, there is little empirical evidence to support this claim. The data from the present study d...

A mission statement is potentially an invaluable tool for formulating and implementing an organization's strategy. This article reports on a survey of large Candian firms to determine the prevalence of mission statements and how they are created and used. Most large firms had a mission statement, the top management group was most involved in its cr...

This article reports on a two‐phase study of government relations (GR) units in large corporations. Data were collected on the backgrounds of GR unit managers, the assessments of these managers of the impact and influence of the unit, the roles assigned to the GR unit, and the impediments facing GR unit managers. It was found that the GR unit plays...

This paper reports on student and site manager evaluations of Business Policy field projects from five universities in Canada and the United States. In total, there were over 900 detailed evaluations by students and site managers and more limited assessments from another 1200 students. A preliminary analysis is presented of various factors which po...

Automation of the manufacturing sector is proceeding worldwide at a rapid pace. Government can play a significant role in the modernization and competitive positioning of Canada's manufacturing sector by encouraging and facilitating the use of new manufacturing technologies. In this study small, medium and large Ontario firms reported their attitud...

An orientation program on academic integrity has the potential to both reduce academic misconduct and reinforce business ethics education. This paper describes an orientation program on academic integrity for a large Canadian undergraduate business program along with the various possible outcomes of such a program, including how it can be used to r...