College of Business Faculty Research Highlights

"The consequences of chutzpah," an article published July 18, 2013, in the Washington Post, references research work of Sanjiv Sabherwal, professor of finance.

Michael Ward, professor of economics, is a co-author of the third edition of “Managerial Economics: A Problem Solving Approach” (2014). The textbook’s co-authors are Luke Froeb, Brian McCann, and Mikhael Shor.

On May 3, Dean Rachel Croson presented the 2013 Faculty and Staff Awards in the College of Business. Learn more.

A study by Zhiyong Yang, assistant professor of marketing, was published in a recent edition of the Journal of Business Research. Dr. Yang’s article, “Demarketing teen tobacco and alcohol use: Negative peer influence and longitudinal roles of parenting and self-esteem,” argues that parental influence is a powerful tool in dissuading children from smoking and drinking in their later teen years. His work was featured in an April 23 UT Arlington news release.

James C. Quick, Professor and the John and Judy Goolsby – Jacqualyn A. Fouse Endowed Chair in the Goolsby Leadership Academy, was inducted into UT Arlington’s Academy of Distinguished Scholars at the Spring Meeting of the Faculty and Associates on April 22, 2013. Academy members exemplify the University’s commitment to quality research and creative activity. Academy members advocate the importance of research and creative activity, promote a sense of community among scholars, foster research and creative activity and advise the institution on research practices and policies.
Receiving the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching was Timothy Wunder, clinical assistant professor of economics. See the full list of awards.

Dr. Zhiyong Yang, assistant professor of marketing, has co-authored a paper with Mehdi Mourali entitled "The Dual Role of Power in Resisting Social Influence" which has been recently accepted for a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Consumer Research.

C.Y. Choi, associate professor of economics, has co-authored a paper with Roisin O'Sullivan entitled "Heterogeneous Response of Disaggregate Inflation to Monetary Policy Regime Change: The Role of Price Stickiness" which has been recently accepted in a forthcoming edition of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

Radha Mahapatra and Sridhar Nerur, associate professors of information systems, have co-authored a paper with George Mangalaraj and Kenneth Price entitled "Distributed Cognition in Software Design: An Experimental Investigation of the Role of Design Patterns and Collaboration" which has been recently accepted for a forthcoming edition of the MIS Quarterly.

Xueming Luo, professor of marketing, has co-authored an article with S. Raithel and M. Wiles entitled "The Impact of Brand Dispersion on Firm Value," which has been recently accepted for a forthcoming edition of the Journal of Marketing Research.

Darren Hayunga, associate professor of finance and real estate, has co-authored an article with Peter Lung entitled "Trading in the Options Market around the Financial Analysts’ Consensus Revision" which has been recently accepted for a forthcoming edition of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Wendy Casper, associate professor of management, has co-authored a paper with J. H. Wayne, R. A. Matthews, and T. D. Allen entitled "Family-Supportive Organization Perceptions and Organizational Commitment: The Mediating Role of Work-Family Conflict and Enrichment and Partner Attitudes" which has been recently accepted in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

John Adams, assistant professor of finance, was interviewed for an article in The Wall Street Journal about the practice of hedge funds and other traders borrowing from mutual funds and ETF’s to execute their strategies. The article was based on a new study co-authored by Dr. Adams that finds that some funds earn drastically less than others on their securities-lending operations even when the funds themselves are similar. "The people managing your money may sometimes be managing it more to benefit themselves than to benefit you," said Adams.

Susanna Khavul, associate professor of strategic management and innovation, received the IDEA Thought Leader Award Winner (2012) from the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division. The award recognized the best published scholarly work in entrepreneurship in the past year. The research, coauthored with Garry D. Bruton and Helmuth Chavez, titled, “Microlending in emerging economies: Building a new line of inquiry from the ground up” appeared in the Journal of International Business Studies.

Zhiyong Yang, Assistant Professor of Marketing, co-authored the article, "Parenting Strategies as Influences of Teen Drinking via Self Esteem: An Important Area for Family Policy", which was published online in the Journal of Macromarketing in July 2010.

In January 2010, Dr. Fernando Jaramillo, Assistant Professor of Marketing, was recognized with an award for best article by the Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice. Co-authored with Francois A. Carrillat and Jay Prakash Mulki, the awarded article, "Examining the Impact of Service Quality: A Meta-Analysis of Empirical Evidence" was originally published in the Journal's Spring 2009 issue.

Thanks largely to Dr. Xueming Luo’s published research activity, UT Arlington is listed 27th among universities worldwide for research contributions from 2000 to 2007 in the leading academic journal in the field, Journal of Marketing. Based his research contributions to the Journal from 2000-2007, Dr. Luo is tied for 3rd in author rankings among marketing professors worldwide. Read more...

Dr. M. K. Raja, Professor of Information Systems, and UT Arlington graduate Dr. Anil Gurung co-authored "An Empirical Investigation on Customer's Privacy Perceptions, Trust and Security Awareness in E-commerce Environment". The article was published in the Journal of Information Privacy and Security (JIPS) Fall 2008.

Myrtle P. Bell, Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, and David Kravitz of George Mason University edited a special edition of Academy of Management Learning & Education (AMLE) 2008 on diversity education and training. AMLE is the seventh-ranked journal in the management field and the second in education.

DiversityCentral.com interviewed Myrtle Bell, Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, for an article on obesity discrimination.

Readers Digest Canada quoted James Campbell Quick, Professor of Organizational Behavior, in an article about calming workday chaos.

Dr. Xueming Luo, the Eunice & James L. West Distinguished Professor and Associate Professor of Marketing, continues a high level of published research activity. His paper “When Marketing Strategy First Meets Wall Street: Marketing Spendings and Firms’ Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)", is published in the September 2008 issue of the Journal of Marketing. Dr. Luo was also published in the July 2008 issue of the Journal of Marketing, a paper co-authored with Christian Homburg, “Satisfaction, Complaint, and the Stock Value Gap”.

Dr. Glyn Winterbotham, Assistant Professor of Accounting, coauthored the forthcoming publication, "Geographic Earnings Disclosure and Trading Volume" at the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. The paper addresses a broader area of Dr. Winterbotham’s research, examining the importance of providing disaggregated information about a firm. The publication was co-authored with Ole-Kristian Hope of the University of Toronto - Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, and Wayne B. Thomas of the University of Oklahoma - Michael F. Price College of Business. Abstract

Dr. James Campbell Quick’s latest book, “Managing Executive Health”, is now available at bookstores. Dr. Quick, the John and Judy Goolsby Distinguished professor and founding director of Goolsby Leadership Academy, collaborated with his brother, Jonathan D. Quick, a family physician and public health management specialist; Cary L. Cooper, professor of organizational psychology and health, and pro-vice chancellor at Lancaster University; and Joanne H. Gavin, assistant professor of management at Marist College. Read more.

Dr. Mike Ward, Associate Professor of Economics, returned this summer from a stint as a visiting researcher at the ZEW, a non-profit economic research institute located in Mannheim, Germany. At the ZEW, Dr. Ward investigated how Internet access may have increased the pace of academic research. Specifically, he examined citation patterns in major journals when economists obtained access to JSTOR, a major journal archive site. Dr. Ward found that researchers cite more often to journals when they obtain electronic access to this archive. Also, there is evidence that access to this archive increases researchers' publication output and the quality of their output.
 
Dr. Ward presented two working papers at the ZEW that explore different topics:
 
Video Games, Violence and Crime
Teaching Digital Piracy

Drs. Alan R. Cannon, Gregory V. Frazier and Edmund L. Prater collaborated with Pedro M. Reyes (Ph.D. '02) of the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University to author “RFID in the contemporary supply chain: multiple perspectives on its benefits and risks”. The paper was published in the May 2008 issue of the International Journal of Operations and Production Management.