In 2012, faculty members in the School of Business and Economics presented their research and shared their expertise across the nation and around the world.
2011-2012 Faculty Travel/Presentations
Mari Buche
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Midwest Association for Information Systems
“Inter-sourcing IT Solutions with University Partners”
Gary Campbell
Beidaihe, China
Executive MBA program for China University of Mining and Technology
Beijing, China
Lectures on Goal-Setting and Strategic Planning by Private International Mining Companies
Josh Filzen
Vancouver, Washington
American Accounting Association Western Region Meeting
“The Information Content of Risk Factor Disclosures in Quarterly Reports”
Gregory A. Graman
Chicago, Illinois
POMS 2012 23rd Annual Conference and Sustainable Operations College Mini-Conference
"Sustainable cellulosic-ethanol closed-loop supply chain"
Soonkwan Hong
Tampa, Florida
American Marketing Association Conference
“A Postcolonial Critique of the globalization of popular culture: The case of K-pop”
San Francisco, California
American Marketing Association Conference
"Liberating Stigmatized Consumption Practices”
Chicago
Consumer Culture Theory Conference
"Skating Dialectics and Flipping Genealogy”
Latha Poonamallee
San Antonio, Texas
Academy of Management Conference
“Impact of Collective Socio-Ecological Beliefs and Values on Societal Compassion in
Disaster Management”
Glasgow, Scotland
MOPAN Conference
“Leader, Participant, Beneficiary, or Partner? Examination of Leadership Dynamics
in a Collaborative Inter-Organizational Initiative”
Anne Warrington
Austin, Texas, and Denver, Colorado
Accounting Conference
Washington, DC
American Accounting Association’s Annual Meeting
"Effective Learning Strategies”
Dana M. Johnson
Chicago, Illinois
2012 23rd Annual Production and Operations Management Society Conference
“Woody forest residue supply chain for biofuels”
Dana M. Johnson and Gregory A. Graman
Boston, Massachusetts
2011 Decision Sciences Institute Conference
“Modeling the Operations Strategy for Outsourcing of Non-Core Operations in Institutions
of Higher Education.”
Dean Johnson
Chicago, Illinois
MBAA Conference
“Overreaction to the CALPERS Focus List“
Becky Lafrancois
Evanston, Illinois
Midwestern Economics Association Annual Meeting
Andre Laplume
San Antonio, Texas
AOM Conference
“Exploration and exploitation approaches for different stages of firm growth through
diversification”
Thomas Merz
Copenhagen, Denmark
The Copenhagen University College of Engineering
Taught Economics during summer session
New Orleans,
Louisiana
American Political Science Association
“The Order of Voting and Cooperation: Collective-Action Games”
Howard Qi
Chicago, Illinois
Academy of Finance Annual Conference
“Is APV Better than WACC for Non-Stationary Debt Ratio?”
Maria Schutte
Krakow, Poland
19th Meeting of the Multinational Finance Society
“Stock Return Comovement in the New Millennium”
Liang Song
Chicago, Illinois
American Accounting Association
“Do Islamic Banks Employ Less Earnings Management?”
Bronx, New York
Financial Market Workshop at Fordham University
"Bank Stock Price Synchronicity: Global Evidence”
Junhong Min
Memphis, Tennessee
SMA Conference
“Promoting the Provider Performance in B2B Relationships”
Saurav Pathak, Emanuel Xavier de Oliveira, and Andre Laplume
Valencia, Spain
2nd Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy
“Technology Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: The Influence of Intellectual
Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment and Barriers to Technological Adoption”
San Francisco, California
87th Annual Western Economic Alliance International Conference
“Technology Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: The Influence of Intellectual
Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment and Barriers to Technological Adoption”
Saurav Pathak
Dallas, Texas
Babson College
Entrepreneurship Research Conference
“Consumer Receptivity to innovations: Individual, peer-group and country-level effects”
Saurav Pathak, Sonia Goltz, and Mari Buche
Dallas, Texas
Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference
“Gendered institutions and influences on women’s entrepreneurship”
Manish K. Srivastava
Miami, Florida
Strategic Management Society Conference
“What They Like About You? Alignment of Firm Knowledge Structure and its Growth
Strategy”
San Antonio, Texas
Academy of Management Conference
“Lost in Your World? Role of Behavioral Orientation on the Impact of Alliance Portfolio
on Innovation”
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