Faculty & Student Accomplishments

The latest issue of the ISU Report highlighting a partial listing of faculty and staff accomplishments, presentations and publications was published on October 10, 2008. A more detailed version can also be viewed online at the Media Relations Website.

The College of Busienss will continue to publish a complete listing of staff accomplishments, presentations and publications in the "What's New in the COB".

Mark Baker (MQM)

In June Baker traveled to Dubai in the UAE to deliver a seminar about using pre-employment testing to select candidates for positions, reduce voluntary turnover, and increase the efficacy of training programs as part of “Training Open Week” in Knowledge Village.

 

Glenn Bailey (ACC)

Dr. Glenn Bailey, Assistant Professor and Business Teacher Education Program Coordinator, was named the Collegiate Teacher of the Year at the annual North Central Business Education Association Conference held on October 1 thru 3 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  The award is based on contributions and excellence in the field of business education. 

Bailey previously  received the Collegiate Teacher of the Year award from the Illinois Business Education Association, and that organization nominated him for the region award.  The North Central region includes the states of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois. 

 

Keldon Bauer (FIL)

Bauer, K. (April 2008).  “Detecting abnormal credit union performance.” Journal of Banking and Finance, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 573-586.

 

Dan Goebel (MKT)

Presented “The Role of Communication in Sales Manager Effectiveness” was presented at the Summer AMA Educators’ Conference in San Diego.

 

Domingo Joaquin (FIL)

A June webinar on "Insurance Loss Modeling." broadcast from his College of Business office, was attended by 25 insurance professionals and academicians from the US, Mexico, and Canada.

Karen Hosack & Katrin Varner (FIL)

• Hosack, Karen A. and Varner, Katrin C. (August 2008). Speech and the Workplace: A Matter of Public Concern, Academy of Legal Studies in Business National Convention, Long Beach, CA.
• Hosack, Karen A. and Varner, Katrin C. (April 2008).  Exploring the Employment-at-Will Doctrine Through the Use of Recent Events Related to Off-Duty Employee Conduct and Political Speech in the Workplace, Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.

Peter Kaufman (MKT)

At the American Marketing Association’s Summer Educator’s Conference Kaufman received the  Prentice-Hall’s Solomon-Marshall Award for Innovative Excellence in Marketing Education.

Debbie Babcock (FIL)

At the annual meeting of the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA) in August 2008 in Portland, Oregon, Deborah Babcock, Associate Director of the Katie School of Insurance and Financial Services, received the President’s Award in recognition and appreciation for her commitment and dedicated service to the Association.  She also completed her term as a Board member.

Jim Jawahar (MQM)

Professor Jim Jawahar, Chair of the MQM department, co-authored two journal articles: (1) Predicting students' perceptions of academic misconduct on the Hogan Personality Inventory Reliability Scale. Psychological Reports, 102, 2008, 495-508, and (2) Self-efficacy and political skill as comparative predictors of task and contextual performance: A two-study constructive replication. Human Performance, 21, 1-20. Jim presented two co-authored papers, at the 2008 Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management (Anaheim, California), entitled: (1) Using Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior to predict academic misconduct intentions and behaviors, and (2) Do social competencies mitigate or augment abusive behavior.

Jim presented a co-authored paper at the 2008 Annual Meetings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) entitled “The differential effect of inter-role conflict on proactive individual’s experience of burnout.” Jim Jawahar’s single-authored paper entitled “Are reactions to feedback the mediating link between feedback and performance?” received the HR Division’s Best Paper Award at the 2008 Annual Meetings of ASAC.

 

Aysen Bakir (MKT)

Dr. Aysen Bakir attended a Visiting Professor Program at Ogilvy & Mather advertising agency for two weeks in July.  She was one of the 17 participants selected for this national program by Advertising Education Foundation.  Ogilvy has helped to build some of the most recognizable brands in the world: American Express, Sears, Ford, Shell, Barbie, Dove, Maxwell House, IBM, Kodak among them.  Given that Dr. Bakir’s research focuses on issues related to children’s advertising, she spent most of her time with the group responsible for the Mattel account.  Ogilvy has had the Mattel account for more than four decades.

During her visit, Aysen met with various executives and staff members, including account executives, creative directors, legal/compliance officers, and producers.    This program offered an opportunity to observe how the various principles of advertising that are taught in the classroom are implemented in practice.  Dr. Bakir’s visit provided great classroom material and inspired more research ideas.  While at Ogilvy Dr. Bakir presented one of her research projects on children’s response to gender-typed advertising at Ogilvy Los Angeles.  Her presentation was very well received.   

Aysen Bakir also co-authored an article entitled “How Are Children’s Attitudes Toward Ads and Brands Affected by Gender-Related Content in Advertising” which will appear in the Journal of Advertising.

 

Yayuan Ren  (FIL)

Conference presentations:

• "Insurance Investment Cycle", American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting, Portland, USA, August 2008
• 'Are High-Franchise-Value Firms More Prudent?-Evidence from the Property and Casualty Industry', Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting, Sydney, AU, July, 2008

 

Leon Schjoedt (MQM)

• Schjoedt, L. (In Press/2009). "Entrepreneurial job characteristics: An examination of their effects on entrepreneurial satisfaction."  Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 33(3):

• Schjoedt, L. & Kraus, S. (In Press/2009). "Entrepreneurial teams: Definition and performance factors". Management Research News,

• Schjoedt, L. & Kraus, S. (In press). "The Heart of a New Venture: The Entrepreneurial Team". Management Research News,

• Schjoedt, L. & Hauck, R. V. (In Press). "Conflict between the domains of work and family: How does it affect job satisfaction for small business executives?" Journal of International Management Studies, 3(2, August).

• Schjoedt, L. (In Press, 2009). "Defining Entrepreneurial Teams and Modeling Entrepreneurial Team Performance." In M. Fink & S. Kraus (Eds.), The Management of Small and Medium Enterprises (pp. - ). Routledge.
  

Paper presentations:

• " Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy: Scale development of based on the PSED data." Presented at the 2008 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, August, 2008.
• "Development and validation of an entrepreneurial locus of control scale." Presented at the 2008 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, June 5-7, 2008.
  

Awards & Honors:

• Nominated for the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research, 2008.
• Best Reviewer Award, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 2008.

Katrin Varner & Carson Varner (FIL)

• Varner, Katrin C. and Varner, Carson H. (April 2008). Privacy and the Paparazzi: Free Speech or Harassment? Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.

Mathew Sheep (MQM)

• Kreiner, G. E., & Sheep, M. L. 2008. Looking through the Lens of Positive Identity. S howcase Symposium presented at the 68th Annual Academy of Management Meeting, Anaheim (August 8-13, 2008).
• Khazanchi, S. Slay, H.,& Sheep, M. L. 2008. Barriers and enablers of creativity during organizational identity shift. Paper presented at the 68th Annual Academy of Management Meeting, Anaheim(August 8-13, 2008).
• Hollensbe, E. C., Kreiner, G. E., & Sheep, M. L. 2008. Divided we stand: A study of the Episcopal Church through multiple qualitative lenses. Paper to be presented at the Qualitative Research in Management and Organization Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (March 12, 2008).
• Khazanchi, S. Slay, H.,& Sheep, M. L. 2008. Creativity in the Printing Industry: A Comparative Case Study.  Paper presented at the Alfred P. Sloan Industry Studies, Boston (May 1, 2008).
• Kreiner, G.E., Hollensbe, E.C., & Sheep, M.L. 2008 (in press). Do I Build a Bridge or Secure the Border? Negotiating the Work-Home Interface via Boundary Work Tactics. Academy of Management Journal.

 

S.J. Chang (MBA)

SJ Chang (Associate Dean) published an article entitled, "Business-Society Reciprocity as a Guideline for Global Corporate Governance" in International Finance Review, Vol. 9, 2008.

 

Deborah Seifert (ACC)
Deborah Seifert presented two papers for the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting held in Anaheim, CA -  August 3-6, 2008 co-authored with both papers is William W. Stammerjohan, Louisiana Tech University

• An Empirical Investigation of Perceived Taxpayer Compliance: Equity Theory and Prospect Theory across Income Levels and Visibility
• Measuring the Level of Commitment to a Professional Code of Ethics

 

Linda Miles & Joe Trefzger (FIL)

A “Viewpoints” piece by Finance professors Linda Miles and Joe Trefzger appeared in the August 15, 2008 issue of American Banker, a prominent newspaper produced each business day for the banking industry.  The article, “While They’re At It, Can They Fix Deposit Insurance?” discusses inefficiencies imposed on both savers and banks by a deposit insurance system that limits coverage for money held at one bank but allows essentially unlimited coverage system-wide.

Among the convoluted provisions the authors explain are the expansion of coverage as people open joint accounts, paired with the cumbersome contraction of coverage that arises as banks merge.  They propose raising the limit immediately to $500,000 per person per bank, as with the current standard for insuring accounts with securities brokers, and working toward unlimited coverage. They express the hope that as the federal government pursues its major overhaul of financial institution regulation this year, it might address these longstanding problems afflicting the plans that guarantee Americans’ bank balances.

Laura Erskine (MQM)

• Libby Weber, Laura Erskine, and Kyle Mayer. An experimental investigation of the impact of structural distance on contract design and partner relationships. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada Annual Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 25, 2008.
• Laura Erskine. A multidimensional understanding of relational distance in organizations. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, August 11, 2008. 
• Emily S. Block and Laura Erskine.  Interviewing by telephone: Specific consideration, opportunities, and challenges. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, August 11, 2008.

 

Keith Jones (ACC)

• “Auditors’ Performance Evaluations:  An Experimental Analysis of the Effects of Initial Impressions and Task-Specific Experience on Information Later Recalled”, published in Accounting Forum, with Steve Hunt and Clement Chen.
• “Blended Learning in a Graduate Accounting Course:  Student Satisfaction and Course Design Issues”, published in The Accounting Educators’ Journal, with Clement Chen.  Vol. XVIII, 2008

 

Lahiri Somnath (MQM)

 Lahiri, Somnath; Pérez-Nordtvedt, Liliana; Renn, Robert W.  “Will the new competitive landscape cause your firm's decline? It depends on your mindset. “  Business Horizons. Vol. 51, Issue 4 (July 2008) Pages: 311-320.

G. N. Naidu & Askar Choudhury (FIL - MQM)

“Portfolio Diversification in the European Union: A Country Beta Approach.”  Journal of Academy of Finance, Vol.5, No.2 (Fall 2007), pp.110-124.

Jack Howard (MQM)

“Balancing Conflicts of Interest when Employing Spouses.”  Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal,  (2008).  20, 29– 43.

Doug Micklich (MQM)

Doug Micklich a paper entitled, "Does Learning Occur in One-shot, Non-Cooperative Games?" at the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning's (ABSEL's) 2008 Conference held March 5 - 7 in Charleston, South Carolina.

Peter Kaufman (MKT)

Peter Kaufman, presented a paper along with Dr. Frederick Langrehr (from Valparaiso) at the American Marketing Association's Winter 2008 Conference titled "A Model to Include the Potential Impact of Governmental Public and Foreign Policies on Global Brand Equity."

 

Dan Goebel (MKT)

Deeter-Schmelz, Dawn R., Daniel J. Goebel, and Karen Norman Kennedy (2008), “What are the Characteristics of an Effective Sales Manager? An Exploratory Study Comparing Sales Person and Sales Manager Perspectives,” Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, 28 (Winter), 7-20.

 

Gary Hunter & Dan Goebel (MKT)

Hunter, Gary L. and Daniel J. Goebel (2008), “Salespersons’ Information Overload: Scale Development, Validation, and its Relationship to Salesperson Job Satisfaction and Performance,” Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, 28 (Winter), 21-35.

 

Den Patten (ACC)

• “Corporate Charitable Contributions: A Corporate Social Performance or Legitimacy Strategy?”  Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 82, No. 1 (2008), pp. 131-144, co-authored with Jennifer Chen, Brigham Young University – Hawaii, and Robin Roberts, University of Central Florida.

• “Did the GAO Get It Right?  Another Look at Corporate Environmental Disclosure.”  Social and Environmental Accounting Journal, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2008), pp. 21-32, co-authored with Charles Cho, Concordia University.

• “Social Responsiveness, Profitability and Catastrophic Events: Evidence on the Corporate Philanthropic Response to 9/11.”  Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 81, No. 4 (2008), pp. 863-873, co-authored with Bill Crampton, Illinois State University.

• “Does the Market value Corporate Philanthropy? Evidence from the Response to the 2004 Tsunami Relief Effort.”  Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 81, No. 3 (2008), pp. 599-607.

• Den Patten gave the invited plenary presentation at the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research’s International Research Congress in St. Andrew’s, Scotland on September 4th.  The title of the presentation was “With Apologies to Dierkes and Coppock, America Tries the Corporate Social Report – Does Anybody Care?”

• Den Patten presented the paper “Social and Environmental Accounting in North America: Who?  Where? Whither?” at the first North American CSEAR Summer Congress.  The congress was held in Montreal in July.

Department of Accounting /Tenture Promotions:

Promotions:

Bill Crampton – Associate Professor
Keith Jones – Associate Professor
Deborah Lindberg – Full Professor

Tenure:

Keith Jones