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Elena Lvina, PhD

Associate Professor

Elena Lvina PhD

Department

Office

Mandeville 324

Phone

610-660-2240
Contact
    • PhD in Business Administration: Organizational Behavior/Human Resources, John Molson School of Business (JMSB), Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2011
    • Candidate es Science (PhD equivalent; major in Social psychology), Samara State Pedagogical University, Russian Federation, 2000
    • MA in linguistics. Diploma of Teacher of Foreign Languages (Master equivalent), Samara State Pedagogical University, Russian Federation, 1993

     

  • SJU Teaching Experience

    • 2019-Present: Associate Professor, Management,  Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA.
    • 2012-2019: Assistant Professor, Management, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA. 

    Outside of SJU Teaching Experience

    • 2008-2011: Part-time faculty, McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management, Montreal, Canada. 
    • 2006-2011: Part-time faculty, Concordia University, John Molson School of Business, Montreal, Canada.
    • 2003-2004: Member of Dissertation Committees, awarding PhD degrees in Social Psychology at Samara State Pedagogical University (Russia).
    • 1996-2004: Associate professor of psychology, Psychology Department, Samara State Pedagogical University (Russia). 

    Selected PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:  RESEARCHER & PRACTITIONER

    • 2019-2022: Faculty Leadership Fellow for McNulty Scholars Program for Excellence in Science and Mathematics, SJU. 
    • 2015-2018: Arrupe Research Fellow, SJU HSB Pedro Arrupe Center for Business Ethics
    • 2018-2019: Member of the SJU Teaching/Consulting team for the Liberty Health project, Philadelphia, PA.
    • 2015: Member of the SJU Teaching/Consulting team for the Leadership Program at Kennedy Hospital, NJ.
    • 2005- 2011: Research assistant at the Department of Management, JMSB, Concordia University.
    • 2006-2007: External grants facilitator for Office of the Associate Dean, Research (JMSB, Concordia).
    • 2001-2004: Head of the International Office, Samara State Pedagogical University, Russia.
    • 2001-2004: Founder and consultant, Center of Personnel Management Ltd.  Supervised and conducted psychological assessments of over 1000 financial crisis-prevention managers across Russia. Licence granted by the Federal Service of Financial Health, The President of Russian Federation office.
    • 2000-2001: Visiting scholar at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.

     

    • Lvina, E. (2024). Teaching Ethics and Ethical Leadership with Harvard Everest Simulation. Journal of Leadership Education. In Print.
    • Weidner, K. & Lvina, E. (2023). Teaching Ethics with Business Grand Rounds: Reimagining Student-Written Cases Using Ignatian Pedagogy. Journal of Jesuit Business Education, 14 (1), 15-41. Best Paper Award.
    • Michaud, J., Lvina, E., Galperin, B.L., Lituchy, T.R., Punnett, B.J. et al. (2020). Development and validation of the Leadership Effectiveness in Africa and the Diaspora (LEAD) scale. International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, 20(3), 361-384.
    • Tetrault Sirsly, C., Lvina, E. and Ratiu, C. (2019). Good neighbor or good employer? A stakeholder view on CSR dimensions in reputation improvement, Journal of Global Responsibility, 11 (1), 93-110. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGR-03-2019-0033
    • Lvina, E., Matveev, A., & Grishin, G.  (2019). Transforming Cultural Barriers into Assets: Lessons Learned from a Global Insurance Broker. Review of International Comparative Management, 20(3), 226-240.
    • Lvina, E., Maher, L.P., & Harris, J.N. (2017). Political Skill, Trust, and Efficacy in Teams. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 24(1), 95-105. doi: 10.1177/1548051816657984
    • Mach, M. & Lvina, E. (2017). When Trust in the Leader Matters: The Moderated-Mediation Model of Team Performance and Trust. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. Published online before print June 14, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2016.1196765
    • Tetrault-Sirsly, C.-A. & Lvina, E. (2016). From Doing Good to Looking Even Better: The Dynamics of CSR and Reputation. Business and Society. Published online before print February 9, 2016, doi: 10.1177/0007650315627996.
    • Bérubé, N., Donia, M.B.L., Gagné, M., Houlfort, N., Lvina E. (2016). Validation Evidence for the Work Domain Satisfaction Scale in Two Languages. International Journal of Psychological Studies, 8 (3). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijps.v8n3p26
    • Lvina, E., Johns, G., Vandenberghe, C. (2015). Team Political Skill Composition as a Determinant of Team Effectiveness. Journal of Management, first published online on August 26, 2015. doi: 10.1177/0149206315598371
    • Atay, S., Lvina, E., Cırakoglu, B., Dogan, A., Gulmez, N. (2014). Eastern Culture-Oriented Leadership Competency Scale. Journal of Strategic and International Studies, 9(3), 100–111.
    • Sur S., Lvina E.  & Magnan, M. (2013). Why do boards differ? Because owners do! Corporate Governance: An International Review, 21(4), 373-389.
    • Lvina, E., Johns, G., Treadway, D., Blickle, G., Atay, S. & Liu, Y., Liu, J., Zettler, I., Solga, J., Noethen, D., & Ferris, G. Measure invariance of the Political Skill Inventory (PSI) across five cultures. (2012). International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, 12 (2), 171–192.
    • Ratiu, C., Lvina, E. & Berte, E. (2012). Matchmaking and the multinational enterprise: How individual motivation and international strategy interact to affect expatriate adjustment. International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, 11, 274-289.
    • Boies, K., Lvina, E. & Martens, M.L. (2010). Shared leadership and team performance in a business strategy simulation. Journal of Personnel Psychology: 9(4), 195-202.
    • Lituchy, T.R., Reavley, M.A., Lvina E. & Abraira, R.J. (2006). Success factors of Aboriginal women entrepreneurs: A study of Mohawk community in Canada. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business: 3(6), 760-778.
    • Lvina, E. (2004). Case Method in Education, Textbook, Offort: Samara, Russia. (In Russian). 
    • Moghaddam, F.M., & Lvina, E. (2002). Toward a psychology of societal change and stability: The case of human rights and duties. International Journal of Group Tensions: 31, 31-51. 

    Book Chapters, Manuals

    • Lvina, E. (Forthcoming). Team Political Skill: Operationalization, Measurement, and Predictive Power of the Construct. In D.C. Treadway (Ed.), The Handbook of Political Skill Research. Edward Elgar.
    • Weidner, K. & Lvina, E. (2021). Business Grand Rounds: A Roadmap to Using Student Cases for Problem-based Learning [Teaching Note] IgnitEd Global.
    • Lvina, E. (2021). Integrating Moral Theory and Giving Voice to Values Framework into HBR Everest Leadership and Team Simulation Debrief. Ignited Global. IgnitEd Global.

    Recent Conference Presentations

    • Lvina, E., Sur, S., Ratiu, C, & Weidner, K., & Schein, E. H. (2023). The power of humble teaching. Professional Development Workshop. Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston MA.
    • Lvina, E., Moshirian, M., Sur, S., & Ratiu, C. (2023). The Conditional Effects of Personality, Soft Skills and Stress in Virtual Teams. Annual meetings of Easter Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA
    • Lvina, E. Sur., S, Ratiu, C. (2023). The Power of Humble Teaching and What it Takes to Master it. Annual meetings of the International Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, St. Andrews, Scotland.
    • Weidner II, C. K., & Lvina, E. (2023). Learning From Our Students & Their Experiences: Why Student-Written Cases Are Powerful and How to Use Them Effectively. MOBTS, Jacksonville, FL.
    • Lvina, E., & Weidner II, C. K. (2022). Creating better leaders through student cases
    • and problem-based learning. Professional Development Workshop. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle. Winner of Management Education and Development Division Best Professional Development Workshop Award.
    • Weidner II, C. K., & Lvina, E. (2022). Student-written cases as self-determined learning: Exchanging experiences, perspectives & questions. Caucus Organizer/Facilitator. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle.
    • Weidner II, C. K., & Lvina, E. (2022). Case learning as Ignatian pedagogy: Empowering students to “flip” case teaching. Presented at the Colleges in Jesuit Business Education, Washington, DC.
    • Ratiu, C., Sur, S., & Lvina, E. (2022). Integrating business sustainability into the business curriculum: The CSR audit as a pathway towards ESG literacy training, International Association for Business and Society, San Francisco, CA.
    • Weidner II, C. K., & Lvina, E. (2022). Discovering the case authors in our business courses: Facilitating problem-based learning through Business Grand Rounds. Professional Development Workshop. Presented at the International Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Mannheim, Germany.
    • Weidner II, C. K., & Lvina, E. (2022). Case learning instead of case teaching: A process for using student-written cases. Professional Development Workshop. Presented at the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Cal Poly-Pomona, CA.
    • Weidner, K., Lvina, E. & Simmers, C. (2022). Business Grand Rounds: Experiences of Faculty Teaching with Student-Written Cases. MBAA International Conference, Chicago, IL.
    • Lvina, E. (2021). Integrating Moral Theory into HBR Everest Leadership and Team Simulation Debrief. Southern Management Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA.
    • Steingard, D., & Lvina, E. (2020). SDGs: Impact and Reporting in Higher Education. The 2nd Latin American SDEWES Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems. Buenos Aires, Argentina.    
    • Tetrault Sirsly, C., Lvina, E. and Ratiu, C. (2019). Good neighbor or good employer? A stakeholder view on CSR dimensions in reputation improvement, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
    • Sur, S., & Lvina, E. (2019). Why University Led Innovation in Conjunction with Social Entrepreneurship is Key for the Circular Economy. 25th IAJBS World Forum & CJBE South Asia Regional Chapter Meeting Odisha, India.
    • Lvina, E. & Sur, S. (2019). Ensuring Student Flourishing in Online Business Education: Soft Skills Still Matter. 25th IAJBS World Forum & CJBE South Asia Regional Chapter Meeting Odisha, India.
    • Michaud, J., Lvina, E., Lituchy, T., Galperin, B., Punnett, B.J., Taleb, A., et al. (2019). Development and Validation of the Leadership Effectiveness in Africa and The Diaspora (LEAD) Scale. International Academy of African Business and Development Conference, Tanzania, Dar es Saalam.

  • External grants and awards

    • 2024: IAJU Inspirational Paradigm for Jesuit Business Education grant for “Adapting and Adopting a Student-Written Case Method to a Global Context: A North-South Collaborative Proposal to Advance the Inspirational Paradigm for Jesuit Business Education.” Principal investigator, along with Weidner, K., in collaboration with Mosquera, M., & Flores, R. 
    • 2023: Best Paper Award. Weidner, K. & Lvina, E. (2023). Teaching Ethics with Business Grand Rounds: Reimagining Student-Written Cases Using Ignatian Pedagogy. Journal of Jesuit Business Education, 14 (1), 15-41.
    • 2022: Teaching and learning grant from Carleton University, Canada. "The Conditional Effects of Hard and Soft Skills in Student Virtual Teams," Co-investigator.
    • 2022:  Academy of Management, Management Education Division best PDW award.
    • 2021: IAJU Inspirational Paradigm for Jesuit Business Education grant for development Teaching Notes “Integrating Moral Theory, Ethical Leadership and Decision Making into HBR Everest Leadership and Team Simulation Debrief”
    • 2021: IAJU Inspirational Paradigm for Jesuit Business Education grant for "Business Grand Rounds": A Process for Integrating Theory, Practice, Ethics, and Ignatian Pedagogy in the Modern Business School." Principal investigator, along with Weidner, K.
    • 2017: MAACBA (Middle Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration) Innovative Teaching Award in the graduate category
    • 2011-2013: FQRSC (Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture) Post-Doctoral scholarship.
    • 2009-2010: Commerce and Administration Students Association, Concordia University, Research grant.
    • 2008-2009: FQRSC (Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture) Doctoral scholarship.
    • 2007-2009: Hydro Quebec Doctoral scholarship.
    • 2005-2007: Concordia University Graduate Entrance Fellowship.
    • 2003: Individual Mobility Grant for partner University exchange in European Union, “Tempus,” Germany.
    • 2003: Award of "Innovation and Development Center" (USA/Ukraine) for case and teaching notes for "Western Enterprise in Russia: Peculiarities of HRM".
    • 2003: Project Harmony USA. Grant for developing and teaching the seminar “Case Method in Education”. Principal investigator. Samara, Russia.
    • 2002: Project Harmony (Russia-Ukraine-USA) Grant for taking Electronic Hallway/University of Minessota Summer School course “Teaching with Case Studies,” St. Petersburg, Russia.
    • 2000-2001: Junior Faculty Development Program (American Councils. ACTR/ACCELS, U.S. State Department) Grant for undertaking a training program at U.S. host institutions, held at Georgetown University, USA.

    Internal grants and awards

    • 2023: SJU Summer research grant.
    • 2021: Michael J. Morris Grant for Scholarly Research, Saint Joseph’s University.
    • 2017: SJU Faculty Research Award, Saint Joseph’s University.
    • 2017: Michael J. Morris Grant for Scholarly Research, Saint Joseph’s University.
    • 2015: Fellowship, Arrupe Center for Business Ethics, Saint Joseph’s University.
    • 2014: Summer Research Grant, SJU, Saint Joseph's University.
    • 2013-2014: Michael J. Morris Grant for Scholarly Research, St. Joseph’s University.
    • 2013: Summer Research Grant, HSB, Saint Joseph's University.