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Faculty Research


April 2007

Dr. Chris Agoglia, associate professor of accounting, and Dr. Joseph Brazel ‘04 presented a paper entitled “The Effects of Computer Assurance Specialist Competence and Auditor AIS Expertise on Auditor Planning Judgments” at the International Symposium on Audit Research in Sydney, Australia.

Dr. Roger A. McCain, professor of economics and international business, attended the Eastern Economic Association conference in New York, Feb. 23 through 25. He presented two papers, commented on two, and chaired one session. The papers presented were “Marginal Cost Pricing as a Heuristic Rule: an Agent-Based Simulation Approach Evolutionary Economics: Recent Trends and a Proposal.”

March 2007

Dr. Chris Agoglia, associate professor of accounting, and Dr. Maria Sanchez ‹03 presented a paper “The Effect of Client Characteristics on the Negotiation Tactics of Auditors” at the American Accounting Association Auditing Section Mid-Year Meeting in Los Angeles.

Dr. Rolph E. Anderson, Royal H. Gibson Sr. Professor of Marketing, had a paper “Cultural Training: An Analysis of the Effects of Sales Manager and Family Training on Job Performance in a Foreign Assignment” accepted for presentation at the 2007 Academy of Marketing Science World Marketing Congress in Verona, Italy.

Dr. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, William A. Mackie professor of management, co-authored the article “Is the Opposite of Positive Negative? Untangling the Complex Relationship between Work-family Enrichment and Conflict” in Career Development International, Vol. 11, No. 7, pp. 650-659, 2006.

Dr. Bert Rosenbloom, the J. Donald Rauth Chair professor of marketing management, joined the board of The McKee Group, Builders and Developers. Dr. Rosenbloom served as guest editor of Industrial Marketing Management’s special issue, “Multi-Channel Marketing Strategy in Business-to-Business Markets,” Vol. 36, No. 1, January 2007. Drs. Rosenbloom and Trina Larsen Andras, professor and head of marketing, presented a paper “Wholesalers as Global Marketers” at the 7th annual International Business Research Conference. They also sat on a panel presentation of “Wholesale Distribution–Current Status and Future Directions.”

Dr. Mark Stehr, assistant professor of economics, had his article “The Effect of Sunday Sales Bans and Excise Taxes on Drinking and Cross Border Shopping for Alcoholic Beverages” accepted for publication in the National Tax Journal.

February 2007

Dr. Chris Agoglia, associate professor of accounting, and Dr. Joseph Brazel ‘04 presented a paper titled “The Effects of Audit Review Format on the Quality of Workpaper Documentation and Reviewer Judgments,” at the American Accounting Association Auditing Section mid-year meeting in Los Angeles.

Dr. Donna Marie DeCarolis, associate professor of management, has been invited to become a member of the editorial review board of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, a leading research journal in the field of entrepreneurship. Dr. DeCarolis is also a member of the editorial review board of the Journal of Small Business Management.

Dr. Daniel Dorn, assistant professor of finance, presented the paper “Turnover and Volatility,” co-authored with Gur Huberman from the Columbia University Business School, at the UNC Chapel-Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Dr. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, professor of management, Christy H. Weer ‘06, and S. Nihal Colakoglu ‘05 published the article, “The Role of Maternal Employment, Role-Altering Strategies, and Gender in College Students’ Expectations of Work–Family Conflict,” in Sex Roles, vol. 55, nos. 7-8, pp. 535-544.

Dr. Shawkat Hammoudeh, professor of economics and international business, presented a paper titled “A Common Currency Peg in the GCC Area: Optimal Choice of Exchange Rate Regime,” at the Middle East Economic Chapter of the ASSA conference in Chicago.

Dr. Frank Linnehan, associate professor of management, published “The Undergraduate Portfolio,” in BizEd, November/December 2006.

 Dr. V.K. Narayanan, professor of management, with S. Nadkarni co-authored the paper “Strategic Schemas, Strategic Flexibility and Firm Performance: The Moderating Role of Industry Clockspeed,” which will be published in Strategic Management Journal. Dr. Narayanan and Yi Yang, a management doctoral student, also presented “The Wave Hypothesis in CVC,” at the Strategic Management Conference in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Narayanan also led a panel on Theory Construction in Strategic Process.

Dr. Mark Stehr, assistant professor of economics, authored an article titled “The Effect of Cigarette Taxes among Men and Women,” which was accepted for publication in Health Economics.

January 2007

Dr. Roger Aliaga-Diaz, professor of economics, and a colleague presented the paper “The Cyclical Behavior of Bank Price-Cost Margins” at the Southern Economic Association in Charleston, SC.

Dr. Jie Cai, assistant professor of finance, recently published “What’s In the News? Information Content of S&P 500 Additions” in the forthcoming Financial Management.

Dr. Daniel Dorn, assistant professor of finance, and a colleague presented the paper “Turnover and Volatility” at the University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School

Dr. Teresa D. Harrison, assistant professor of economics and international business, had the paper “Consolidations and Closures: An Empirical Analysis of Exits from the Hospital Industry” accepted for publication in Health Economics.

Drs. George Tsakumis, assistant professor of accounting, and Christopher Agoglia, associate professor of accounting, presented the paper “The Effect of Fraud Assessment Documentation Structure on Auditors’ Ability to Identify Control Weaknesses: The Moderating Role of Reviewer Experience” (co-authored with Cathy Beaudoin, accounting doctoral student) at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Three of Dr. Lin Tan’s (PhD Alumni 2005) essays from her Ph.D. dissertation are now confirmed to be published in the referee journals.

    • Herding Behavior in Chinese Stock Markets: An Examination of A and B Shares" (with Drs. Lin Tan, Thomas C. Chiang, Joe Mason, and Edward Nelling), the special issue on behavioral finance for the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2007, forthcoming.
    • "Empirical Analysis of Dynamic Correlations of Stock Returns: Evidence from Chinese A-Share and B-Share Markets (Drs. Thomas C. Chiang,  Lin Tan and Huimin Li), Quantitative Finance, 2007, forthcoming.
    • "Empirical Analysis of the Speed of Adjustment to Information: Evidence from the Chinese Stock Market," (Drs.Thomas C. Chiang, Lin Tan and Edward Nelling) International Review of Economics and Finance, 2007, forthcoming.

    December 2006

    Drs. Chris Agoglia, associate professor of accounting, and Joe Brazel ’04 published the paper “Review Methods Matter” in CPA Journal, vol. 75, no. 9.

    Dr. Hande Y. Benson, assistant professor of decision sciences, presented the paper “Interior-Point Methods for Nonconvex Nonlinear Programming: Regularizations and Warmstarts” and chaired a session on “Interior-Point Methods for Linear Programming” at the INFORMS Conference in Pittsburgh.

    Dr. Donna Marie De Carolis, associate professor of management, and Stuart Napshin, business administration doctoral candidate, presented the paper “Reducing the Impact of an Adverse Event in Young Firms” at the Southern Management Association Conference in Clearwater Beach, Fla. The paper won the “Best Doctoral Paper in Strategy and Entrepreneurship” award.

    Drs. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, William A. Mackie Professor of Management, V.K. Narayanan,  Stubbs Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, and  Jonathan C. Ziegert , assistant professor of management, organized and conducted “Emerging Frontiers in Project Management Research,” a research program working session, at the Project Management Institute’s North America Global Congress in Seattle.

    Dr. Shawkat Hammoudeh, professor of economics, and a colleague had the paper “Systematic Risk, and Oil Price and Exchange Rate Sensitivities in Asia-Pacific Stock Markets” accepted for publication in Research in International Business and Finance.

    Dr. Robert W. Keidel, visiting associate professor of management, presented “Strategy as Geometry” to the Greater Philadelphia PeopleSoft Regional Users Group.

    Dr. Edward Nelling, associate professor of finance, and a colleague presented the paper “Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance: the ‘Virtuous Circle’ Revisited” at the Annual Meeting of the Financial Management Association in Salt Lake City.

    Dr. Girish Ramani, assistant professor of marketing, published “CRM Implementation: Effectiveness Issues and Insights” in Journal of Service Research, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 184-94

    Dr. Bert Rosenbloom, Rauth Chair Professor of Marketing, published the article “Multi-Channel Strategy in Business-to-Business Markets: Prospects and Problems” in Industrial Marketing Management.

    November 2006

    Dr. Murugan Anandarajan, professor of management, published his co-authored book, The Internet and Workplace Transformation.

    Dr. David Campbell,  department head and professor of accounting, published his co-authored article “Guidance for Smaller Public Companies Reporting on Internal Controls: An Overview and Assessment of the COSO Exposure Draft” in The CPA Journal, September 2006, pp. 22-5.

    Dr. David Gefen , associate professor of management, was recognized as one of the “Top IS Researchers between 2001 and 2005” in Communications of the AIS.

    Dr. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, William A. Mackie Professor of Management, co-authored the article, “Managing Incidents of Work-family Conflict: A Decision-making Perspective” for Human Relations.

    Dr. Bruce McCullough, professor of decision sciences, was invited to submit the chapter on “Computational Accuracy and Evaluation of Software” for the Handbook of Econometrics.

    Dr. Bert Rosenbloom, Rauth Chair Professor of Marketing, presented “The Whole Truth about Wholesaling” as a keynote speaker at the Research Frontiers in Wholesale Distribution conference at Trinity College, University of Dublin (Ireland).

    Dr. Konstantinos Serfes, assistant professor of economics, had his co-authored article “Product Customization” accepted for publication in the European Economic Review.

    Dr. Rajneesh Suri, associate professor of marketing, presented “Scarcity’s Effects on Evaluation of Prices” and “Understanding Value Perceptions in Consumer Relationships: A Look at the Role of Self-Esteem” at the Association for Consumer Research conference in Orlando, Fla.

    October 2006

    Dr. Jie (Jay) Cai assistant professor of finance, co-authored the paper "Incentive Effects of Stock and Option Holdings of Target and Acquirer CEOs," which was accepted for publication in The Journal of Finance.

    Dr. Anthony Curatola Joseph F. Ford Professor of Accounting, published "Enrolled Agents Exam Review" in the Accounting and Tax Review Series (Englewood, Colorado: PassMatrix). He was reappointed editor of Strategic Finance's tax column and published the following series: a co-authored three-part series appearing in the April, May, and June 2006 issues on tax benefits provided to the use of energy-efficient appliances, homes, and improvements as a result of the Energy Tax Incentive Act; and a co-authored two-part series in the February and March issues on tax special tax benefits provided to military members and families as a result of the Military Family Tax Relief Act .

    Drs. Howard Forman assistant professor of marketing, and Hyokjin Kwak, assistant professor of marketing, had the paper "Consumer Attitudes Toward Firms' Marketing Activities: Implications for Marketing Communications Strategies," accepted for publication in International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising. Forman also had his paper "The Effect of Decision Context on Perceived Risk in Pricing Strategies," accepted for the Affect, Motivation, and Decision Making Conference.

    Dr. Shawkat Hammoudeh professor of economics, and a colleague had the paper "Systematic Risk, and Oil Price and Exchange Rate Sensitivities in Asia-Pacific Stock Markets" accepted for publication in Research in International Business and Finance.

    Dr. Edward Nelling associate professor of finance and LeBow College associate dean of graduate studies, co-authored the article "Executive Compensation in Socially Responsible Firms," published in the September 2006 issue of Corporate Governance: An International Review.

    September 2006

    Dr. Daniel Dorn assistant professor of finance, presented his co-authored paper "Trading as Gambling" at the European Summer Symposium in Financial Markets, held in Gerzensee, Switzerland.

    Dr. Sean Hackett assistant professor of management, co-presented the papers "Real Options and the Option to Incubate: An Exploratory Study of the Process of Business Incubation"; "Scale Development for Constructs Related to Entrepreneurship: Venture Selection, Assistance Intensity, and Resource Munificence"; and "Inside the Black Box of Business Incubation: Scale Assessment and Model Refinement" at the annual Academy of Management Conference in Atlanta.

    Dr. Trina Larsen Andras department head and professor of marketing, and Dr. Hyokjin Kwak, were invited by the Association for Consumer Research (ACR) to have their article "Consumer Ethnocentrism Offline and Online: The Mediating Role of Marketing Efforts and Personality Traits" from the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science rewritten in a style appropriate for practitioners and posted on ACR's Web site.

    Dr. Roger A. McCain professor of economics and international business, presented the following papers: "Worker Cooperatives, Effort and Shirking: A Semi-Effective Game Model," at the Sixth Meeting on Game Theory and Practice in Zaragoza, Spain; and "Cooperation and Effort, Reciprocity and Mutual Supervision in Worker Cooperatives" and "Cooperative Partnership of Not-for-Profit and Conventional Corporations: A Proposal" at the 13th Conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation in Sanctuario de Arantzazu, Spain. He will publish "Cooperation and Effort, Reciprocity and Mutual Supervision in Worker Cooperatives" in Advances in the Economics of Participatory and Labor- Managed Firms and his comment on the Herbert Gintis essay "Probabilistic Equilibria for Evolutionarily Stable Strategies" in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

    Dr. Samuel H. Szewczyk associate professor of finance, was elected to the Board of Directors of the Multinational Finance Society.

    Dr. Jonathan Ziegert assistant professor of management, presented his co-authored papers "The Effects of Cultural Mistrust on Diversity Related Attributions and Attraction" at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology conference and "Goal Orientation and Performance: Does Achievement Motivation Matter?" at the annual Academy of Management Conference. He had his co-authored paper "Dynamic Delegation: Shared, Hierarchical and Deindividualized Leadership in Extreme Action Teams" accepted for publication in Administrative Science Quarterly.

    August 2006

    Dr. David Campbell, department head and professor of accounting, co-authored "Adding Significant Value with Internal Controls" in The CPA Journal, June 2006.

    Dr. Daniel Dorn, assistant professor of finance, presented the paper "Correlated Trading and Returns" at the meetings of the Western Finance Association.

    Dr. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, William A. Mackie Professor of Management, was appointed to the editorial review board of the online journal M@n@gement.

    Dr. Shawkat M. Hammoudeh, professor of economics, joined the editorial review board of the International Journal of Business Innovation and Research.

    Dr. Frank Tian Xie, assistant professor of marketing, participated in the panel discussion "A Closer Look at China-Exploring Its Political System, Economic Prospects and Global Impact" held at Yale University.

    July 2006

    Dr. Rolph E. Anderson, Royal H. Gibson Sr. Professor of Marketing, co-authored the second edition of Personal Selling: Building Customer Relationships and Partnerships (Houghton Mifflin)

    Lawrence K. Duke, instructor of marketing, and a colleague published "Drivers of Mutual Fund Investment and Marketing Performance in a Changing Regulatory Environment: Implications for Mutual Fund Management" in the summer 2006 edition of The Journal of Investing.

    Dr. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, William A. Mackie Professor of Management, and Gerard A. Callanan '89, co-edited the two-volume Encyclopedia of Career Development (Sage). Greenhaus presented the paper 'The Relationship between Work-Family Conflict and Marital Quality: A Crossover Perspective' at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and was invited to serve as editor of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology's special issue section on the work-family interface.

    Dr. Shawkat M. Hammoudeh,professor of economics and international business, co-authored manuscript "Examining Asymmetric Behavior in U.S. Petroleum Futures and Spot Prices," which was accepted for publication in The Energy Journal.

    Dr. Robert W. Keidel, visiting associate professor of management, had his book Game Plans: Sports Strategies for Business reprinted a second time by Beard Books.

    Dr. Fariborz Partovi, professor of decision sciences, was recently elected president of the Northeast Decision Science Institute.

    Dr. Konstantinos Serfes, assistant professor of economics, had his co-authored paper "Market Segmentation and Collusive Behavior" accepted for publication by the International Journal of Industrial Organization.

    June 2006 No Research found.

    May 2006

    Dr. Rolph E. Anderson, Royal H. Gibson Sr. Professor of Marketing, co-authored the sixth edition of Multivariate Data Analysis (Pearson/Prentice Hall).

    Dr. Hande Benson , assistant professor of decision sciences, presented “Nonlinear Programming for Supply Chain Management: A Survey and Extensions” at the Northeast Decision Sciences Institutes (NEDSI) meeting. The paper was co-authored with graduate students Wanting Hu and Xiangrong Liu. Benson was also elected to a three-year term on the NEDSI Board of Directors.

    Dr. David Campbell, professor and department head of accounting and tax, and colleagues published “Accounting Before the Fall: The AICPA Vision Project and Related Professional Enterprises” in Accounting, Organizations and Society.

    Dr. Thomas Chi-Nan Chiang , Marshall M. Austin Professor of Finance, published “International Parity Conditions and Market Risk” in the Encyclopedia of Finance (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005), pp. 290-304. Chiang and colleagues also published the following articles: “Phase Distribution and Phase Correlation of Financial Times Series: in Physical Review E, March 2006; “Country-Fund Discounts and Risk: Evidence from Stock Market Volatility and Macroeconomic Volatility” in Journal of Economics and Business; and “Response Asymmetries in Asian Stock Markets” in Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 637-57.

    Dr. Anthony P. Curatola, Joseph F. Ford Professor of Accounting, authored Energy Tax Incentive Act of 2005, Continuing Professional Education Software Series (MicroMash). He was appointed to the Editorial Review Board of Journal of Legal Tax Research.

    Dr. Howard Forman , assistant professor of marketing, and colleagues published “The Role of IT in Supply Chain Integration” and “External Factors Key to Improving 3PL Service Performance” in the 3PL Executive.

    Dr. Jacqueline Garner , assistant professor of finance, was elected to the Financial Management Association Board of Directors. She served as vice president of local arrangements for the Eastern Finance Association Meeting.

    Dr. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, William A. Mackie Professor of Management, was appointed to the editorial review board of Human Relations. He co-authored the chapter “Health Consequences of Work-Family Conflict: The Dark Side of the Work-Family Interface” in Research in Occupational Stress and Well-Being (Elsevier). He presented “Work-Family Balance: Exploration of a Concept” to the department of management at the University of Connecticut.

    Dr. Sean M. Hackett , assistant professor of management, presented “Why Don’t More ‘Born Globals’ Exist? A Model for Reducing the Uncertainty of Internationalization for New Ventures” at the San Francisco-Silicon Valley Global Entrepreneurship Research Conference. The paper was co-authored with Dr. Donna De Carolis, department head and associate professor of management.

    Dr. Robert W. Keidel , visiting associate professor of management, presented “Strategic Scaffolding: A Framework for Big-Picture Thinking” to board members, administrators and faculty at The Crefeld School.

    Dr. Merrill W. Liechty , assistant professor of decision sciences, presented his co-authored paper “Portfolio Selection with Higher Moments” at the Eighth Annual Financial Econometrics Conference presented by the University of Waterloo’s Centre for Advanced Studies in Finance and the Institute for Quantitative Finance and Insurance.

    Dr. Bruce D. McCullough, associate professor of decision sciences, published “The Unreliability of Excel’s Statistical Procedures” in Foresight: the International Journal of Applied Forecasting (February 2006).

    Dr. Bert Rosenbloom, Rauth Chair Professor of Marketing Management, spoke on “Customer Experience Management” to the Senior Housing Council of the New Jersey Builders Association.

    Dr. Rajneesh Suri, associate professor of marketing, and William Karg ’06, presented “The Effects of Mathematics Anxiety on Consumers Processing of Prices” at the annual Fordham University Pricing Conference.

    Dr. Bijou Yang Lester , professor of economics, presented “Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty: A Meta-Analysis of Thirty Years after Ehrlich” at the ASSA/SABE Annual Meetings. Lester and colleagues published “The Base Rate of Suicide: Comment on ‘A Novel Integrated Knowledge Explanation of Factors Leading to Suicide’” in New Ideas of Psychology, 2005, vol. 23, pp. 49-51, and “Gender Differences in E-Commerce” in Applied Economics, 2005, vol. 37, pp. 2077-89.

    Dr. Jonathan Ziegert, assistant professor of management, presented on the topic of shared leadership to the Human Resources Research Organization in Alexandria, Va.

    April 2006

    Dr. Rolph E. Anderson, Royal H. Gibson Sr. Professor of Marketing, and a colleague published the article “Empowering Salespeople: Personal, Managerial and Organizational Perspectives” in Psychology and Marketing, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 1-21.

    Dr. Anthony P. Curatola, Joseph F. Ford Professor of Accounting, and a colleague published “Flexible Spending Plan Regs Amended” in Strategic Finance, September 2005, pp. 15-16. Curatola also presented a tax update seminar to the MBNA accounting and finance group in Delaware.

    Drs. Donna Marie De Carolis, department head and associate professor of management, and Patrick A. Saparito, assistant professor of management, published the paper “Social Capital, Cognition and Entrepreneurial Opportunities: A Theoretical Framework” in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, January 2006. De Carolis, Dr. Edward Nelling, associate professor of finance, and a colleague presented “Weathering the Storm: Preparing New Ventures for an Adverse Event” at the 2006 SBI/USABE Joint Conference.

    Dr. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, William A. Mackie Professor of Management, co-authored the article “When Work and Family are Allies: A Theory of Work-Family Enrichment” in Academy of Management Review, January 2006.

    Dr. Joan Weiner, professor of management and fellow in the Center for Teaching Excellence, co-edited the special issue business ethics for the Journal of Management Education.

    March 2006

    Dr. Avijit Banerjee, professor of production operations management, presented “Coordination of Multi-Product Batch Scheduling with Full Truckload Shipments” at the Third International AIMS Conference at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India. He chaired a keynote session on New Developments in Leadership Education in Graduate Management Curricula at the same conference.

    Dr. David Gefen, associate professor of MIS, coauthored “Psychological Contract Violation in Online Marketplace: Antecedents, Consequences and Moderating Role” in Information Systems Research, vol. 16, no. 4 pp. 372-99. Gefen was appointed track chair in research methodology for the International Conference on Information Systems 2006.

    Dr. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, William A. Mackie Professor of Management, co-authored the article “When Work and Family are Allies: A Theory of Work-Family Enrichment” in the January 2006 issue of Academy of Management Review.

    Dr. Teresa D. Harrison, assistant professor of economics, presented “Entry and Exit in the Nonprofit Sector” (co-authored Dr. Christopher A. Laincz , assistant professor of economics) at the Southern Economic Association Meetings in Washington, D.C

    Drs. Bang Jeon, professor of economics and international business, Thomas Chiang, Marshall M. Austin Professor of Finance, and Amy Li ’04, had the paper “Dynamic Correlation Analysis of Financial Contagion: Evidence from Asian Markets,” accepted for publication in Journal of International Money and Finance. Jeon also had “Determining Factors for the Adoption of e-Business: The Case of SMEs in Korea” accepted for publication in Applied Economics and “A Financial Model of Foreign Direct Investment: A Dynamic Analysis of International Data in Research” accepted by International Business and Finance.

    Dr. Bob Keidel, visiting associate professor of management, presented “Is Your Organization Playing Enough Basketball?” to the Cornell Club of Greater Philadelphia.

    Dr. Hyokjin Kwak, assistant professor of marketing, was named to the Journal of Academy Marketing Science editorial board.

    Dr. Thomas P. McWilliams, associate professor of decision sciences, and colleagues published “Economic Control Chart Policies for Monitoring Variables” in International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management. McWilliams presented “Performance of Truncated Sequential Tests for a Binomial Parameter Based on Spending Functions” at the National Decision Sciences Institute meeting.

    Dr. Ralph A. Walkling, Stratakis Chair in Corporate Governance and Accountability, was named president-elect for the Financial Management Association. He presented “Share Repurchase, Executive Options and Security Wealth Change” at the Law and Business Seminar Speaker Series at Vanderbilt University. He organized and moderated a panel discussion on “The Future of Research in Corporate Governance” for the Financial Management Conference and was the moderator and a panelist for “Corporate Ethics: New Demands for a New Era” at Villanova University.

    Dr. Edward M. Werner II, assistant professor of accounting, coauthored “Secondary Evasion and the Earned Income Tax Credit,” published in the Journal of the American Taxation Association.

    Dr. Jonathan Ziegert , assistant professor of management, coauthored “Why are Individuals Attracted to Organizations?” in Journal of Management.

    February 2006

    Drs. Chris Agoglia, associate professor of accounting, and Maria Sanchez ’03 presented the paper “The Effect of Auditors’ Use of a Reciprocity-Based Strategy on Auditor-Client Negotiations” at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting.

    Drs Ken Colwell, assistant professor of management, and Donna Marie De Carolis, department head and associate professor of management, presented “University Business Schools as Regional Economic Engines” at Creating Pennsylvania’s Future: A Higher Education and Economic Development Summit held at Penn State University. Colwell published his co-authored paper “Organizing Far from Equilibrium: Nonlinear Change in Organizational Fields” in Organization Science. De Carolis presented “Strategic Thinking: Building, Leading and Sustaining the Innovative Organization” to managers at Independence Blue Cross. She also presented the papers “Weathering the Storm: Preparing New Ventures for Adverse Events” and co-authored case on Red Oak Software at the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 2006 Conference.

    Dr. Daniel Dorn, assistant professor of finance, and a colleague published “Talk and Action: What Individual Investors Say and What They Do” in Review of Finance (December 2005).

    Dr. Howard Forman, assistant professor of marketing, was named to the Industrial Marketing Management editorial board. He had “Participative Case Studies: Integrating Case Writing and a Traditional Case Study Approach in Marketing Context” accepted for publication in the Journal of Marketing Education.

    Dr. Martin R.Thomas, visiting associate professor of finance and LeBow College of Business executive-in-residence, earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

    Dr. Bijou Yang Lester, professor of economics, co-authored the following published papers: “Gender Difference in E-Commerce” in Applied Economics, no. 37, pp. 2077-89; “Predicting Credit Card Behaviors: A Study in Neuroeconomics” in Perceptual and Motor Skills, no. 100, pp. 777-78; “Correlation of Credit Card Ownership in Men and Women” in Psychological Reports, no. 96, pp. 912-14; “A Short Computer Anxiety Scale” in Perceptual and Motor Skills, no. 100, pp. 964-68; and “Artists’ Suicides as a Public Good” in Archives of Suicide Research, no. 9, pp. 389-96.

    January 2006

    Drs. Chris Agoglia, associate professor of accounting, and Maria Sanchez ’03, presented the paper “The Effect of Client Characteristics on Negotiation Tactics of Auditors” at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting.

    Dr. Thomas C. Chiang, Marshall M. Austin Professor of Finance, published “International Parity Conditions and Market Risk” in Encyclopedia of Finance, pp. 290-304 (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005), and “International Asset Excess Returns and Multivariate Conditional Volatilities” in Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 295-312.

    Dr. Shawkat M. Hammoudeh, professor of economics, had “Characteristics of the Permanent and Transitory Returns in the Oil-Sensitive Emerging Stock Markets: The Case of GCC Countries” accepted for publication in Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money.

    Dr. V.K. Narayanan, Stubbs Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and LeBow College of Business associate dean of research, presented “The Temporal Dimension in Strategic Management” and “Dynamic Capabilities” (with Dr. Ken Colwell, assistant professor of management) at the British Academy of Management meeting Oxford University’s Said School of Business. Narayanan and colleagues led the pre-conference session for faculty in Strategy Process Interest Group and a panel discussion on “Building Capabilities: An Academic Practitioner Dialogue” at the Strategic Management Society.

    Dr. Gordian A. Ndubizu, professor of accounting, published the papers “The Valuation Properties of Earnings and Book Value Prepared Under U.S. GAAP in Chile and IAS in Peru” in Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and “Determinants of Cross-Border Listing of American Depository Receipts (ADR) on Regulated and Less Regulated U.S. Stock Markets” in Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management. He was appointed a member of the Advisory Board of the American Accounting Association – International section.

    Dr. Edward Nelling, associate professor of finance, and LeBow College of Business associate dean of graduate programs, presented “Earnings Management and the Long-Term Performance of Reverse Stock Splits” (co-authored with Dr. Yueh-Fang “Amy” Ho ’03) at the Financial Management Association annual meeting.

    December 2005

    Drs. Christopher  Agoglia, associate professor of accounting, and Joseph Brazel ’04 presented the paper “The Effects of Audit Review Format on the Quality of Workpaper Documentation and Reviewer Judgments” at the 2005 International Symposium on Audit Research in Singapore.

     William Deane, instructor of management, was selected for inclusion in Who’s Who in Business Education (Academic Keys).

     Dr. Jacqueline Garner, assistant professor of finance, presented the paper “Executive and Director Compensation and Fraud” (co-authored by  Dr. Samuel Szewczyk, associate professor of finance, and a colleague) at the Financial Management Association in Chicago.

    Dr. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, professor of management and William A. Mackie Chair, was appointed to the editorial review board of the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. He participated in a panel discussion on “Workplace Flexibility and Health” co-sponsored by Boston College’s Sloan Work and Family Network and Georgetown University Law Center’s Workplace Flexibility 2010 project.

     Dr. Fariborz Partovi, professor of operations management, published “An Analytic Model for Locating Facilities Strategically” in Omega, The International Journal of Management Science, vol. 34, pp. 41-55.

     Dr. George P. Tsetsekos, LeBow College of Business dean, was a panelist for “The Extreme Curriculum Makeover” at the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business’ Continuous Improvement Conference. He presented on the revision of LeBow College’s undergraduate curriculum.

     Dr. Bijou Yang Lester,
    professor of economics, chaired two sessions on economics and finance at the Fourth Global Conference on Business and Economics at Oxford University. She presented “British and American Attitudes Toward Buying Online” and was a discussant for “Population Aging and Sectoral Growth” at the conference. Lester published the co-authored papers “Sex Differences in Purchasing Textbooks Online” in Computers in Human Behavior, 2005, vol. 21, pp. 147-52; “Reliability and Validity of a Short Credit Card Attitude Scale in British and American Subjects” in International Journal of Consumer Studies, 2005, vol. 29, pp. 41-6; and “Regional and Time-Series Studies of Suicide in Nations of the World” in Archives of Suicide Research, 2005, vol. 9, 123-33.

    November 2005

     Dr. V.K. Narayanan, Stubbs Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and LeBow College of Business associate dean of research, and Ken Colwell, assistant professor of management, presented two workshops on Toulimn analysis at the British Academy of Management at Oxford University.

    October 2005

    Drs. Chris Agoglia, associate professor of accounting, and George Tsakumis, assistant professor of accounting, and Cathy Beadoin, doctoral candidate in accounting, presented “The Effect of Fraud Assessment Documentation Structure on Auditors’ Ability to Identify Control Weaknesses: The Moderating Role of Reviewer Experience” at the American Accounting Association Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting.

    Drs. Rolph E. Anderson, Royal H. Gibson Sr. Professor of Marketing, and a colleague published “The Scholarship of Teaching in Marketing Education” in Marketing Education Review, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 1-10. Anderson and a colleague had the article “Empowering Salespeople: Personal, Managerial and Organizational Perspectives” accepted for publication in the Journal of Psychology and Marketing.

     Dr. Hande Benson, “Interior Point Algorithms, Equilibrium Problems and Penalty Methods” at the Fourth International Conference on Complementary Problems. She presented “An Exact Penalty Approach to Warmstarting Interior-Point Methods for Linear Programming” at the Complementarity, Duality and Global Optimization conference.

     Dr. Jacqueline Garner, assistant professor of finance, presented the paper “When is 10% Not Enough?” at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

     Dr. David Gefen, associate professor of M.I.S., had his article “Relative Importance of Perceived Ease of Use in IS Adoption: A Study of E-Commerce Adoption,” which was published in Journal of the Association of Information Systems, vol. 1, article 8, listed among the publication’s top 10 most downloaded articles for the past year.

    Dr. Robert W. Keidel, visiting associate professor of management, published the article “Strategize on a Napkin” in Strategy & Leadership, July/August 2005.

     Dr. V.K. Narayanan, Stubbs Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and LeBow College of Business associate dean of research, presented “The Empirical Literature on Corporate Venturing: A Review and Synthesis” (co-authored with Yi Yang, business administration doctoral student) at the EDGE 2005 Conference held by the Singapore Management University. Narayanan and colleagues had the paper “Learning and Post Project Competence and Status Enhancement in Fast Cycle and Regular Teams” published in the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 2005. The paper was one of three finalists for the Stephen Schroeder Best Paper in the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management.

     Dr. Konstantinos Serfes, assistant professor of economics, presented “Product Customization” at the Conference on Research in Economic Theory and Economics, held in Syros, Greece. His paper “A Location Model with Preference for Variety” was accepted for publication in The Journal of Industrial Economics.

    September 2005

    Drs. Chris Agoglia, assistant professor of accounting, and Maria Sanchez ’03, presented the paper “The Role of Auditor Strategy in Auditor-Client Negotiations over Proposed Financial Statement Adjustments: the Rule of Reciprocation” at the American Accounting Association Auditing Section Mid-Year Meeting in New Orleans.

    Drs. Rolph E. Anderson, Royal H. Gibson Sr. Professor of Marketing, and Srinivasan S. Swaminathan, associate professor of marketing, presented their research, “Loyalty in E-Commerce: Impact of Business and Customer Characteristics” at the 2005 Academy of Marketing Science International Retailing Conference, held in France.

    Dr. Robert W. Keidel, visiting associate professor of management, presented “What Game is Your Organization Playing” to a senior management group at Telecom Italia/TSF in Rome. He also presented the keynote speech, “Competitive Strategies and Game Plans,” at a conference sponsored by the Executive Development Unit of Sabanci University in Istanbul.

    Dr. Roger A . McCain,. professor of economics, presented the paper “Offer Games and Non-Market Clearing Nash Equilibria: A Biform Game Analysis and Agent-Based Simulation Study” at the Society for Computational Economics.

    Dr. Rajneesh Suri, associate professor of marketing, and a colleague published “Impact of Gender Differences on the Evaluation of Promotional Emails” in Journal of Advertising Research.

    August 2005

    Drs. Chris Agoglia, assistant professor of Accounting and Maria Sanchez ’03 presented the paper “The Role of Auditor Strategy in Auditor-Client Negotiations over Proposed Financial Statement Adjustments” at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting in Orlando. Agoglia and Dr. Joseph Brazel ’04 presented the paper “The Effects of Computer Assurance Specialist Competence and Auditor AIS Expertise on Auditor Planning Judgments” at the American Accounting Association Auditing Section Mid-Year Meeting in New Orleans

    Dr. Anthony Curatola, Joseph F. Ford Professor of Accounting, was appointed a trustee of the Foundation of Applied Research of the Institute of Management Accountants.

    Dr. Jacqueline Garner , assistant professor of Finance, presented the paper “When is 10% Not Enough?” at Villanova and Hofstra Universities.

    Dr. Shawkat Hammoudeh , professor of Economics, and colleagues had the following papers accepted for publication: “Sudden Changes in Volatility in Emerging Markets: The Case of the Gulf Arab Stock Markets” in International Review of Financial Analysis, vol. 15, no. 4, and “Volatility Regime Switching in the Gulf Arab Stock Markets” in Finance Letters. He was named a member of the editorial board of Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss.

    Drs. Teresa Harrison, assistant professor of Economics, presented “A Simple Model of Nonprofit Decision Making Over Time,” a paper co-authored with assistant professor of economics Dr. Chris Laincz, at the 2005 Eastern Economic Association Conference. Harrison was also an invited discussant at the Social Science Research Council Capstone Conference on Nonprofits and Philanthropy in Florence, Italy.

    Dr. Robert W. Keidel, visiting associate professor of Management, had two books reprinted by Beard Books: Corporate Players: Designs for Working and Winning Together (Wiley, 1988) and Seeing Organizational Patterns: A New Theory and Language of Organizational Design (Berrett-Koehler, 1995).

    Dr. Merrill Liechty, assistant professor of Decision Sciences, presented “Portfolio Selection with Higher Moments: A Bayesian Decision Theoretic Approach” at a colloquium sponsored by the Wharton School’s statistics department.

    Drs. Susan Lippert, assistant professor of MIS, and Howard Forman, assistant professor of Marketing, co-authored “T Utilization of Information Technology: Examining Cognitive and Experiential Factors of Post-Adoption Behavior” in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Lippert co-authored “Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) and Technology Trust Issues” to be published in Journal of Information Science.

    Dr. Bruce McCullough, associate professor of Decision Sciences, was appointed associate editor of Foundations and Trends in Econometrics and Computational Statistics.

    Dr. Fariborz Y. Partovi, professor of Operations Management, was program chair for the 34th Annual Meeting Northeast Decision Science Institute, held in Philadelphia.

    Dr. Bert Rosenbloom, Rauth Chair Professor of Marketing was appointed to the editorial board of Industrial Marketing Management. He was named to the advisory board of Reshare Corporation.

    Dr. Konstantinos Serfes, assistant professor of Economics, and a colleague had the paper “Customer Information Sharing Among Rival Firms” accepted for publication in The European Economic Review. Serfes had “Risk Sharing Versus Incentives: Contract Design Under Two-Sided Heterogeneity” accepted for publication in Economics Letters.

    Dr. Srinivasan Swaminathan, associate professor of Marketing, published “The Different Faces of Coupon Elasticity” published in Journal of Retailing, vol. 81, issue 1.

    Dr. Ted Theodosopoulos, assistant professor of Decision Sciences, had the paper “Uncertainty Relations in Models of Market Microstructure” accepted for publication in Physica A. He presented the papers “Properties of the Wealth Process in a Market Microstructure Model” at the 10th Annual Workshop on Economic Heterogeneous Interacting Agents at the University of Essex (UK); “Optimal Timing of Mark-to Market for Contingent Credit Risk Control” at the Society for Computational Economics and the Federal Reserve Board’s 11th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.; and “Properties of a Renewal Process Approximation for a Spin Market Model” (co-authored with Dr. Robert Boyer, professor of mathematics) at the Fourth International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance in Salt Lake City.

    July 2005

    Dr. Hande Benson, assistant professor of Decision Sciences, presented “Penalty Methods in Interior-Point Algorithms” at the University of Michigan industrial and operations engineering department.

    Dr. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, professor of Management, was elected a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). This is the organization’s highest honor.

    May 2005

    Drs. Chris Agoglia, assistant professor of Accounting, and Maria Sanchez ’03, presented “The Effectiveness of Interactive Professional Learning Experiences as a Pedagogical Tool: Evidence from an Audit Setting” at the American Accounting Association Meeting.

    Drs. Rolph Anderson,Royal H. Gibson Sr. Professor of Marketing, and Srinivasan Swaminathan, associate professor of Marketing, and Frederick Hong-kit Yim, marketing doctoral student, will publish “Customer Relationship Management: Its Dimensions and Effect on Customer Outcomes” in the fall 2005 issue of Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management.

    Dr. Anthony Curatola, Joseph F. Ford Professor of Accounting, participated in a panel on tax policy in the business curriculum at the American Tax Association meeting in Washington, D.C. He also recently authored three chapters on the Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2004, published by the MicroMash Publishing Company.

    Dr. Donna Marie De Carolis, associate professor and Management Department Head, presented seminars on “Strategic Thinking” to The Leader’s Edge and Lincoln Financial Group.

    Dr. Bang Jeon , professor of Economics and International Business, Lei Zhu, economics doctoral student, and a colleague had “Information Technology and Bilateral FDI: Theory and Evidence” accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Integration. Jeon published “The Role of Foreign Capital in the Korean Economy: A Driving Force of Economic Development or Financial Crisis?” in Series in Honor of Ral Prebisch and Sir Hans Singer, vol. 23: NICs After Asian Crisis (2005).

    Trina Larsen Andras , professor and department head of Marketing, and Dr. Bert Rosenbloom, professor of Marketing and Rauth Chair of E-Commerce, and colleagues had “The Impact of Cultural Differences in U.S. Business to Business Export Marketing Channel Strategic Alliances” accepted for publication in Industrial Marketing Management.

    Drs. Susan Lippert, assistant professor of management information systems (MIS), and Murugan Anandarajan, associate professor of MIS, published “Academic vs. Practitioner Systems Planning and Analysis” in Communications of the ACM, vol. 47, no. 9, pp. 91-4.

    Dr. Kristina Lybecker, assistant professor of Economics, was selected for the Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy Council.

    Dr. V.K. Narayanan, LeBow College associate dean of research and Stubbs Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, co-published Casual Mapping for IT Professionals by IDEA Publishing (2005); “Institutional Underpinnings of Porter’s Five Forces Framework: An Epistemological Analysis” in Journal of Management Studies, January 2005; and “Validity of the Structural Properties of Casual Maps” in Organizational Research Methods, January 2005.

    Dr. Konstantinos Serfes, assistant professor of Economics, and a colleague had “Customer Information Sharing Among Rival Firms” accepted for publication in European Economic Review.

    Michael G. Welker, instructor of Accounting and Distinguished Teaching Fellow, was selected for Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (ninth edition) and the National Register’s Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals.

    April 2005

    Drs. Chris Agoglia, assistant professor of Accounting, and Joseph Brazel ’04, presented “The Effects of Computer Assurance Specialist Competence and Auditor AIS Expertise on Auditor Planning Judgments” at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla.

    Dr. Seong-Yeon Cho, assistant professor of Accounting, and a colleague published “Security Analysis and Market Making” in the January 2005 issue of the Journal of Financial Intermediation, vol. 14, pp. 114-41. Dr.Kenneth Colwell, assistant professor of Management, was interviewed for and cited as an academic expert in The CEO’s Nanotechnology Playbook market research report.

    Dr. Shawkat Hammoudeh , professor of Economics and International Business, and a colleague, presented “Characteristics of the Permanent and Transitory Returns in the Oil-Sensitive Emerging Stock Markets: The Case of the GCC Countries” at the Middle East Economic Association conference, an affiliate of the Allied Social Science Association’s meetings held in Philadelphia.

    Dr. Robert W. Keidel, visiting associate professor of Management, presented “What Game is Your Organization Playing?” to the Cornell Club of Greater Philadelphia.

    Dr. Christopher A. Laincz , assistant professor of Economics, received the Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies’ Best Paper Award for “Understanding Gibrat’s Law with a Markow-Perfect Dynamic Industry Model.”

    Dr. Bijou Yang Lester,professor of Economics, was appointed to the advisory board of the Behavioral & Experimental Economics Journal. She co-authored “Suicide Bombers: Are Psychological Profiles Possible?” in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2004, 27, pp. 283-95; “Prefrontal System Dysfunction and Credit Card Debt” in Journal of Neuroscience, 2004, 114, pp. 1322-32; and “Reliability and Validity of a Short Credit Card Attitude Scale in British and American Subject” in International Journal of Consumer Studies, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 41-46.

    Dr. Joseph Mason, associate professor of Finance, was appointed to the board of directors of the Methodist Home for Children Foundation.

    Dr. Bruce McCullough,associate professor of Decision Sciences, was appointed associate editor of Foundations and Trends in Econometrics.

    Dr. Bert Rosenbloom, professor of Marketing and Rauth Chair in Electronic Commerce, co-authored “Customer Intention to Return Online: Price Perception, Attribute Level Performance and Satisfaction Unfolding Over Time” in European Journal of Marketing, vol. 39, no. 2.

    Dr. Konstantinos Serfes,assistant professor of Economics, had two co-authored papers accepted for publication: “Imperfect Price Discrimination, Market Structure and Efficiency” in Canadian Journal of Economics and “Imperfect Price Discrimination in a Vertical Differentiation Model” in International Journal of Industrial Organization. Serfes and a colleague published “Quality of Information and Oligopolistic Price Discrimination” in Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2004, 13, pp. 671-702.

    Dr. Mark Stehr, assistant professor of Economics, published “Cigarette Tax Avoidance and Evasion” in Journal of Health Economics, vol. 24, issue 2, March 2005.

    Dr. Rajneesh Suri,associate professor of Marketing, co-authored The Price Advantage Workbook (published by Wiley, copyrighted by McKinsey & Co., 2005).

    February 2005

    Drs. Chris Agoglia, assistant professor of accounting, and Maria Sanchez '03 presented "The Role of Auditor Strategy in Auditor-Client Negotiations over Proposed Financial Statement Adjustments" at the American Accounting Association Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting.

    Dr.Rolph Anderson, Royal H. Gibson Sr. Professor of Marketing, was a distinguished panelist for the special session on "Revolution in Selling and Sales Management Education: Market Driven Change in the Classroom" at the 2004 American Marketing Association Summer Educators' Conference. He chaired the plenary session "Measuring Adoption of a Customer Relationship Orientation in the Firm" at the American Marketing Association's 2004 Customer Relationship Management Faculty Consortium.

     Dr. Sam Kurokawa, assistant professor of management, and colleagues presented "Factors Affecting Technological Alliances in Small-to-Medium Manufacturing Firms in Japan," "A Contingency Perspective of R&D Cross Functional Communication in New Product Development" and "Determinants of Strategy and Performance in Small Technology-based Private Firms in Japan: Their Governance Structures, Internal Resources, Visionary Leadership and Environments" at the 2004 Academy of Management Meeting.

    Dr. Bert Rosenbloom, professor of marketing and Rauth Chair in Electronic Commerce, and a colleague published "Customer Intention to Return Online: Price Perception, Attribute Level Performance and Satisfaction Unfolding Over Time" in the European Journal of Marketing, vol. 39, no. 2.

    Drs. Srinivasan Swaminathan, associate professor of marketing, and Rajneesh Suri , associate professor of marketing, published "Price Communications in Online and Print Coupons: An Empirical Investigation" in the Journal of Interactive Marketing, vol. 18, no. 4.   

    January 2005

     Dr. Howard Forman, assistant professor of marketing, presented "Participative Case Studies: The Integration of Case Writing and a Traditional Case Study Approach in the Supply Chain Context" at the Council of Logistics Management Logistics Educators Conference and "An Examination of the Role of Risk in Developing International Pricing Strategies for Industrial Products" at the Fordham Pricing Conference.

    Drs. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, William A. Mackie Professor of Management, and Romila Singh '01, co-authored the chapter "Relationship Between Work and Family" in the Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology (Elsevier).

    Dr. Bruce D. McCullough, associate professor of decision sciences, received the Best Paper Published in 2000-01 Award from the International Journal of Forecasting for "Is it Safe to Assume that Software is Accurate?"

    Dr. Tian Xie, assistant professor of marketing, and colleagues had the article "Covalence and Ionic Bonding in Business-to-Business Relationships: Insights from Chemistry" accepted for publication in Industrial Marketing Management.  

    December 2004

     Dr. Hande Benson, assistant professor of decision sciences, presented "Interior-Point Algorithms, Penalty Methods and Equilibrium Problems" at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science.

    Dr. Kenneth Colwell, assistant professor of management, presented "Partner Selection and Network Resources: How Firms Use Alliance Networks to Gain Competitive Advantage" at the Organization Science Conference on Competitive Heterogeneity. He also presented "Strategic Posture and University Alliances in Technology Intensive Industries (co-authored with Dr. Donna DeCarolis , associate professor of organization sciences) at the Strategic Management Society Annual Conference.

    Dr. Anthony Curatola, Joseph F. Ford Professor of Accounting, and colleagues published "Behavioral Implications of Going Concern Reporting: The Canadian Experience" in Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, vol. 7, 2004, pp. 51-72.

    Dr. Kabir Hassan, associate professor of finance, and colleagues had "Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999: Market Assessment of Winners and Losers in the Insurance Industry" accepted for publication in the spring 2005 edition of the Journal of Insurance Issues. He presented "Safety-First and Extreme Value Bilateral U.S.-Mexican Portfolio Optimization Around the Peso Crisis and the NAFTA in 1984;" "Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999: Market Assessment of Winners and Losers in the Insurance Industry;" "Federal Reserve Policy and the Returns of Real Estate Companies;" "Grann-Leach-Bliley Act and the Insurance Industries of Developed Countries;" "The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on the Efficiency of the U.S. Banking Industry;" "Does Distance Matter in Venture Capital Financing;" "Forward Discount Bias: Is it Risk Premium or Expectational Errors;" and "Effect of Monetary Policy on Commercial Banks Across Different Business Conditions" at the Academy of Financial Services and Financial Management Association.

    Dr. Prabakar Kothandaraman, assistant professor of marketing, will receive the Best Paper in the Personal Selling and Sales Management Track for "Selling Organization Mapping: Some Antecedents and Consequences" at the Winter American Marketing Conference. He will edit a special issue of Industrial Marketing Management on "Outsourcing Business Processes: Impact on Industrial Marketing Strategy Formulation and Implementation" to be published in 2006.

    Dr. Thomas McWilliams, associate professor of decision sciences, published "The Design of Truncated Sequential Test Plans Based on Attributes Data" in Communications in Statistics — Simulation and Computation, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 843-59. He presented "Economic Advantages of CUSUM Control Charts for Variables" at the Eighth International Workshop on Intelligent Statistical Quality Control in Warsaw.

    Dr. Martin Thomas, Executive-in-Residence in the department of finance, and a colleague published Hedging Instruments and Risk Management: How to Control Financial Risk in Any Market (McGraw-Hill/Irwin).

    Dr. Bijou Yang Lester, associate professor of economics, organized the joint Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics and International Association of Economic Psychology. She edited the joint conference proceedings, Cross-Fertilization of Economics and Psychology.

    November 2004

    Drs. Rolph Anderson, Royal H. Gibson Sr. Professor of Marketing, and Srinivasan Swaminathan , associate professor of marketing, and Frederick Hong-kit Yim, doctoral student, published "Customer Relationship Management: Its Dimensions and Impact on Company Performance" in the 2004 Proceedings of the Academy of International Business. The paper was presented at the organization's annual conference in Stockholm.

    Dr. Thomas C. Chiang, Marshall M. Austin Professor of Finance, was invited by the China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges and the United Nations to deliver a series of speeches on "A System of International Financial Parities: Theory, Empirics and Applications"; "Dynamic Correlations of International Stock Returns and Financial Shocks"; and "Central Bank Policy and Financial Market Stability" at China's Renmin University, the University of International Business and Economics and Bank of China. He was appointed associate editor of the Journal of Risk Management and Multinational Finance Journal and published "Foreign Exchange Risk Premiums and Time-Varying Equity Market Risks" in the International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 310-31.

    Dr. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, William A. Mackie Professor of Management, co-authored the following presentations at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management: "Is the Opposite of Positive Negative?: The Relationship Between Work-family Enrichment and Conflict"; "Does a Balanced Life Promote Work-family Enrichment?" (with Dr. Sharon Foley, assistant professor of management); "The Role of Gender, Maternal Employment and Coping in Students' Expectations of Work-family Conflict (with Foley and doctoral students Christy Weer and Nihal Colakoglu); and "The Impact of Family Responsibilities on Career Success: Does Gender Matter?" (with Dr. Romila Singh '01).

    Dr. George T. Tsakumis, assistant professor of accounting and taxation, presented "An Examination of the Influence of National Culture on Accountants' Application of Financial Reporting Rules" at the American Accounting Association's Annual Conference.

    October 2004

    Drs. Chris Agoglia, assistant professor of accounting, and Maria Sanchez '03 presented "The Role of Auditor Strategy in Auditor-Client Negotiations Over Proposed Financial Statement Adjustments" at the 2004 International Symposium on Audit Research.

    Dr. Hande Benson, assistant professor of decision sciences, presented "LOQO: An Infeasible Interior-Point Algorithm for Nonlinear Programming" at the International Conference on Continuous Optimization.

    Dr. Shawkat Hammoudeh, associate professor of economics, and a colleague had "Oil Sensitivity, Systematic Risk, Skewness and Kurtosis in Oil-Sensitive Stock Indices at Industry and Country Levels" accepted for publication in the Journal of Economics and Business.

    Dr. Bang Jeon, professor of economics and international business, had "The Linkages between the U.S. and Korean Stock Markets: The Case of NASDAQ, KOSDAQ and the Semiconductor Stocks" accepted for publication in Research in International Business and Finance. He coauthored "Multinational Corporations and the Host Country Receptivity: Perceptions from Three Asian Countries" in Multinational Business Review. He presented "The Determining Factors for the Adoption of e-Business: The Case of SMEs in Korea" at the JIBS Paper Development Workshop at the 2004 Annual Meetings of the Academy of International Business in Stockholm.

    Drs. Hyokjin Kwak, assistant professor of marketing, Trina Larsen Andras, professor and department head of marketing, and a colleague had "Consumer Ethnocentrism Offline and Online: The Mediating Role of Marketing Efforts and Personality Traits in the United States, South Korea and India" accepted for publication in Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.

    Dr. Yanni Papadakis, assistant professor of decision sciences, presented "Supply Chain Disruption Analysis Using Simulation" at the Industrial Simulations Conference 2004. His paper "Financial Performance of Supply Chains After Disruptions: An Event Study" was selected for publication in Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, vol. 11 (2006).

    Dr. Theodore Theodosopoulos, assistant professor of decision sciences, will present "Uncertainty Relations in Models of Market Microstructure" at the First Bonzenfreies Colloquium on Market Dynamics and Quantitative Economics. He is organizing a special section for the Second IASTED International Conference on Financial Engineering and Applications Models for Financial Market Microstructure.

    Dr. Joan Weiner, professor of management, who serves as chair of the Academy of Management's teaching committee, co-sponsored 18 professional development workshops and created two workshops on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Scholarly Teaching with Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal at the Academy's meeting in New Orleans. She participated in the "Practitioner-Friendly Delivery of Actionable Knowledge" and Cinema Update sessions of the "Teaching with Technology" series.

    September 2004

    Dr. Kevin Brown, former assistant professor of accounting, presented "The Effectiveness of Interactive Professional Learning Experiences as a Pedagogical Tool: Evidence from an Audit Setting" at the 2004 American Accounting Association Ohio Regional Meeting. The paper, co-authored by Drs. Chris Agoglia, assistant professor of accounting, and Maria Sanchez '03, won a best paper award.

    Dr. Anthony Curatola, Joseph F. Ford Professor of Accounting, published Enrolled Agent Exam Review in the Professional Education Software Series (Pass Matrix Inc.).

    Dr. David Gefen, associate professor of M.I.S., co-authored "Building Effective Online Marketplaces with Institution-Based Trust" in Information Systems Research, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 37-59.

    Dr. Roger McCain, professor of economics, presented "Cognitive Economics, Creativity and the Economics of the Arts" at the Association for Cultural Economics International Conference, and "Semi-Effective Games" at the Second World Congress of Game Theory Society. He was a member of a National Science Foundation review panel on the Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement, Educational Materials Development, and National Dissemination programs.

    Dr. Gordian Ndubizu, professor of accounting, published "Contracts Variation Assessment Noise and Cross-Border Listing of Equities on U.S. and U.K. Stock Markets: in The International Journal of Accounting, vol. 38, 2004.

    Dr. Fariboz Partovi, professor of decision sciences, won best paper at the Northeast Decision Science Institute 2004 Annual Meeting.

    Dr. George Tsakumis, assistant professor of accounting, presented "An Examination of the Influence of Culture on Accountants' Application of Financial Reporting Rules" at the 2004 American Accounting Association National Conference.

    August 2004

    Dr. Kevin Brown, former assistant professor of accounting, Dr. Chris Agoglia, assistant professor of accounting, and a colleague presented "Interactive Experiential Learning in an Audit Setting" at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting in Honolulu.

    Dr. Thomas Chiang, Marshall M. Austin Professor of Finance, is associate editor of Multinational Finance Journal, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies and International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management.

    Dr. Sharon Foley, assistant professor of management, and Dr. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, William A. Mackie Professor of Management, presented "Work-Family Balance: Exploration of a Concept" at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology.

    Dr. Jacqueline Garner, assistant professor of finance, had "Unit IPOS: What the Warrant Characteristics Reveal about the Issuing Firm" accepted for publication in The Journal of Business.

    Dr. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, William A. Mackie Professor of Management, presented "Work and Family as Allies and Enemies: Are There Gender Differences?" at the Third Annual Invitational Journalism-Work/Family Conference in Boston. He and alumnus Dr. Gerard A. Callanan '89 were commissioned by Sage Publications to develop and edit the Encyclopedia of Career Development. Greenhaus and alumnus Dr. Romila Singh '01 published "The Relation between Career Decision-Making Strategies and Person-Job Fit: A Study of Job Changers" in the Journal of Vocational Behavior. Greenhaus and two colleagues published "The Relation Between Work-Family Balance and Quality of Life" in the Journal of Vocational Behavior.

    Dr. Robert W. Keidel, visiting associate professor of management, presented "Shared Mindset: Organization as Meta-Cognition," at the Third International Conference on Systems Thinking in Management (ICSTM2004).

    Dr. Bert Rosenbloom, Rauth Chair in Electronic Commerce Management, will serve as guest editor for a special edition of Industrial Marketing Management on "Multi-Channel Marketing Strategy in Business-to-Business Distribution Channels."

    Michael Scheuermann, adjunct faculty in engineering management and LeBow College of Business, presented "Developing a Viable ASP Model for Distributed Learning" and "ERP Implementation as an Agent of Organizational Change" at the CUMREC Conference in Austin, Texas.

    Dr. Sidney Siegel, professor of management, presented "Group Projects In and Out of the Classroom: Enhancing the Student Experience" at the European College Teaching and Learning Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. The paper will be published in the refereed conference proceedings. He also chaired a round table session at the conference.

    July 2004

    Dr. Hande Benson, assistant professor of decision sciences, presented "Interior-Point Algorithms, Penalty Methods and Equilibrium Problems" at the CORS/INFORMS Joint International Meeting.

    Drs. Anthony P. Curatola, Joseph F. Ford Professor of Accounting, Frank Linnehan, assistant professor of management, and a colleague presented "A Behavioral Model of Decisions to Accrue and Disclose Environmental Liabilities" at the Behavioral Issues session of the AAA 2004 Mid-Atlantic Region Arlington Meeting. Curatola also presented "Tax Legislation Update" to the Institute of Management Accountants and published Employee Benefit Plans (Introduction, Executive Compensation, Mergers and Acquisitions).

    Dr. Joseph Mason, assistant professor of finance, had "Credit Card Securitization and Regulatory Arbitrage" accepted for publication in Journal of Financial Services Research.

    Dr. Frank Xie, assistant professor of marketing, coauthored "Emotional Appeal and Incentive Offering in Banner Advertisements" in Journal of Interactive Advertising, vol. 4, no. 2, spring 2004.

    June 2004

    Dr. Shawkat Hammoudeh, associate professor of economics, and Huimin Li, economics doctoral students had "Risk and Returns in Oil-Sensitive Stock Markets" accepted for publication in Finance Letters.

    Dr. Joseph Mason, assistant professor of finance, and a colleague published "What is the Value of Recourse to Asset Backed Securities? A Study of Credit Card Bank ABS Rescues" in Journal of Banking and Finance, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 857-74.

    Dr. Bijou Yang Lester, associate professor of economics, co-authored "Prefrontal Cortex Dysfunction and Income: A Study in Neureconomics" in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, vol. 15, pp. 217-33; and "Attitudes Toward Buying Online" in CyberPsychology & Behavior, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 85-91.

    May 2004

    Dr. Kevin Brown, assistant professor of accounting, Dr. Chris Agoglia, assistant professor of accounting, and Dr. Maria Sanchez, a 2000 LeBow College doctoral graduate, presented "Consideration of Control Environment and Fraud Risk" at the American Accounting Association Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting in Philadelphia.

    Dr. Sharon Foley, assistant professor of management, and a colleague had the paper "Perceptions of Discrimination and Justice: Are there Gender Differences in Outcomes?" accepted for publication in Group and Organization Management.

    Dr. Shawkat Hammoudeh, associate professor of economics, and Huimin Li, economics doctoral student, had "Risk and Returns in Oil-Sensitive Stock Markets" accepted for publication in Group and Organization Management.

    Dr. Joseph R. Mason, assistant professor of finance, and a colleague published the article "Fundamentals, Panics and Bank Distress" in the American Economic Review (December 2003). Mason presented "A Real Options Approach to Bankruptcy Costs: Evidence from Failed Commercial Banks During the 1990s" at Villanova University and "Too-big-to-fail, Government Bailouts and Managerial Incentives: The Case of Reconstruction Finance Corporation Assistance to the Railroad Industry during the Great Depression" at the American Finance Association Meetings.

    Dr. Bijou Yang Lester, associate professor of economics and international business, and a colleague published "Who are Online Shoppers?" in Global Business and Economics Review, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 350-58.

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