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UCD Smurfit School welcomes new faculty members
Date: 28 Oct 2009
UCD Smurfit School is delighted to welcome the following new academic staff:
Federica Pazzaglia, Amir Azaron, Ian Walsh, Karan Sonpar and Ciaran Heavey.
Prior to moving to UCD Business Schools Dr. Federica Pazzaglia was Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba, Asper School of Business in Canada and Visiting Professor at Instituto de Empresa Business School in Spain. She has taught courses in the Bachelor of Commerce programs at Alberta and Manitoba, in the Master in Management program at Instituto de Empresa, and in the Executive program jointly offered by Instituto de Empresa and Northwestern University, and is a recipient of several teaching awards. Dr. Federica Pazzaglia earned a PhD from the University of Alberta Business School in Canada in 2008. Her research interests are in the areas of corporate governance, strategy and corporate finance. Her current research focuses on agency theory, organizational forms, diversification and corporate disclosure. Federica’s work appears in journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Corporate Governance, Human Relations and Canadian Investment Review.
Dr. Amir Azaron has joined the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School for a temporary appointment as Lecturer in Project Management. In his new role, he will be mainly responsible for the supervision of students and teaching courses in the Masters programmes, in general, and to Project Management students, in particular. Amir holds two Ph.D. degrees, the first in Industrial Engineering obtained from Tarbiat Modarres University in Iran and the second in Systems Engineering obtained from Hiroshima University in Japan and took up several prestigious fellowships and scholarships including Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dalhousie University in Canada, Humboldt Research Fellowship at Karlsruhe University in Germany, SI Scholarship at Linkoping University in Sweden and Monbukagakusho Scholarship at Hiroshima University in Japan. Prior to joining UCD, he also worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Sciences at University College Cork for one year, and as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Bu-Ali Sina University in Iran for two years. Amir’s research interests are in multiple objective decision making, stochastic networks, supply chain management, reliability, production planning and project management. He has over 30 refereed publications in a variety of journals indexed by ISI Web of Science such as European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Computers and Operations Research, International Journal of Production Economics, OR Spectrum, Expert Systems with Applications and many others. He has also served as a reviewer for more than 15 leading Operations Research journals.
Ian J. Walsh joins UCD from Boston College, where he received his PhD in Organization Studies from theCarroll School of Management. His primary research interests include organizational identity, change and leadership. In particular, he focuses on processes of redemptive organizing that transforms negatively-construed conditions into constructive outcomes. His dissertation explored the role of organizational identification endurance in individuals'participation in efforts to sustain valued organizational elements following an organization's formal death. His research has recently appeared in Human Relations, Management and Organization Review, and Corporate Reputation Review.
Dr. Karan Sonpar moved to UCD Business Schools from Instituto de Empresa Business School in Spain. He earned his PhD at University of Alberta, Canada in 2008. His research interests are behavioural strategy, stakeholder theory, institutional theory, and use of qualitative research. His work appears in publications such as the Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Human Relations, and Organizational Research Methods. He has taught courses in strategy and organization theory at the PhD, Executive MBA, Masters, and Bachelors level. He has also won several teaching awards to include the Professor of the Year award from the Commerce Students Association in 2008. Prior to undertaking his masters and doctorate degree in Canada, Karan was a Captain in the Indian Military.
Ciaran Heavey currently teaches business strategy on the MSc in Technology Management programme at UCD Smurfit School. He is in the final stages of completing his PhD at the University of Connecticut, where he served in a faculty role during the final year of his doctoral studies. His research interests on top management teams, strategic innovation and entrepreneurship have been published in the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Management Studies, and Advances in Global Leadership, and are frequently presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management and Strategic Management Society. His teaching interests include strategic management and new venture management and planning. A recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, he was recently inducted into the University of Connecticut, School of Business Hall of Fame and the honor societies of Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma. He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for the British Journal of Management, Organization Studies, and the Small Business economics Journal.
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