May 7, 2026
Location: Room 370, Armstrong Building, McGill University
8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast & Refreshment
8:30 - 10:30 Complete Paper Presentation; 20 minutes presentation + 10 minutes Q&A
Heui Jae Choi - Following the Scent: How Attention-grabbing Verbal Cues in Headlines Shape Fake News Believability
Yeonjung Choi - Cross-Border Data Regulation and Firm Performance: Evidence from Schrems II
Yanda Tao - Configuring CSR Narratives in the Digital Age: Cross-Channel CSR Communication and Firm Performance
Paul Wang - When Stocks Go On-Chain: Tokenization and Spillover on Information Environment in Underlying Equity Markets
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 12:20 Short Paper Presentation; 10 minutes presentation + 5 minutes Q&A
Dugmee Hwang - Too Easy to Choose? Information and the Co-Construction of Temporal Decisions in AI-Enabled Retail
Dongwoo Jeong - Algorithm aversion as a principal-agent problem
Benedict Lewis Abotsi - When Outsourcing Meets AI: How Externalizing IT Functions Shapes Firms’ AI Readiness under Data-Sovereignty Shocks
Mona Jafarzade - A Self-Determination Perspective on How Routine and Innovative GenAI Usage Shape Performance Over Time
Zerong Wang - Indirect Spillovers of AI Through Labor Mobility: Technical Worker Transitions Across Firms and Industries
Yahui Zhang - AI as the First Interpreter of the Crowd: How Review Overviews Obscure Disagreement and Distort Choice
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch / Awards announcement
Warut Khern-am-nuai (warut.khern-am-nuai@mcgill.ca)
Sameer Borwankar (sameer.borwankar@mcgill.ca)
Elizabeth Han (elizabeth.han@mcgill.ca)
Business & Management Research Centre (BMRC) at McGill University