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College of Business Faculty Research Interests

Aaron Ahuvia – consumers’ love of certain brands, issues related to brand symbolism and consumer identity such as brand image, fashion, and trends, and the nature of contemporary consumer culture with a special focus on how people can build successful lives within this environment

Mohamed Bayou – management and cost accounting for manufacturing and service industries, financial accounting, and international accounting

Joy Beatty – diversity, gender, and management education

Robert Blatz – taxation

Bruce Bublitz – financial issues facing higher education

Kelly Cai – initial public offerings, bond pricing, and capital market

Thomas Callahan – strategic inter-organizational relationships, cognitive decision making processes, incentive-performance relationships

Julie Dziekan – geographic mobility and international recruitment in the European Union, human resource practices in Central/Eastern Europe, organizational change in transition economies

Michael Foran – financial accounting and accounting education

Lee Freeman – online pedagogy, systems analysis and design, information ethics, and information security

Brian Green – management fraud detection, assessing effective teaching

Maggie Guo – e-commerce, online shopping experience, flow theory, and agent-based systems in knowledge management

Mike Harkness – information search and use, accounting education

Jun He – systems design and development, knowledge management, and methodological issues

Elif Izberk-Bilgin – globalization of consumer culture, consumer activism, cross-cultural consumption, branding, and sociological aspects of consumerism in emerging countries

Barbara Klein – information quality, user error behavior, and information systems pedagogy

Claudia Kocher – agency problems, debt contracts, pedagogical issues in business education, and health care finance

Kamalesh Kumar – examining the environment-strategy linkages and their implications for company performances

Hei-Wai Lee – seasoned security issuance, initial public offerings, information content of analyst’ coverage, cross-listing of foreign firms, insider trading, value premium anomaly, valuation and capital market research

William Lekse – entrepreneurship, strategic leadership, technology information, and coporate governance

Ben Lev – applications of operations research and management sciences

Zhixin Liu – supply chain modeling and scheduling, specifically those with game issues

K.H. Padmanabhan – impact of structure of industry on product planning, impact of structure of industry on sales management, pricing policy, psychological economics and consumer behavior, attitude, beliefs, and environmental education

Kirk Philipich – financial accounting, auditing, financial markets

Lee Redding – corporate financial policy, money markets, liquidity in the financial markets, and government policy as it relates to fixed income securities

Young Ro – product development, supply chain management, lean manufacturing, management of technology, organizational behavior, corporate strategy

Don Rossin – new performance measures and models for supply chain management

Kim Schatzel – how corporate reputation and top-management-team marketing activities impact firm performance and new product success

Crystal Scott – leadership in the marketing organization, characteristics of successful chief marketing officers (CMOs), impact of CMO turnover, managing cross-functional teams

Robert Steel – turnover, absenteeism, and quality improvement

Vivek Sharma – corporate finance, derivatives

Karen Strandholm – corporate failure, turnaround strategies, agency theory, transaction cost theory, resource dependence theory

Andrew Urbaczewski – wireless mobile collaboration, electronic commerce, and electronic monitoring of employees

Magali Valero-Tonone – foreign firms’ cross-listings, international initial public offerings, analyst recommendations around the world, and the financial and economic development of emerging markets

Yan Xie – fixed-income securities, risk management, corporate capital structure, and earnings management