Research @ FCBE

Faculty in the Fogelman College of Business & Economics are involved in a variety of research disciplines. Listed below are research domains and faculty names that represent our expertise.

• Vladimir Ambartsoumian
  • Design Science/Organizational Design/Composable Enterprise/Microservices
  • Big Data/Hype/Lexical Diffusion and Natural Language Processing
  • Business Communication and Verbal Behavior
  • DB/ERP Market
  • IT Operations
  • Business Intelligence and Business Analytics
     
• Mehdi Amini
  • Supply chain design and configuration in the age of socially networked consumers
  • Integrated closed-loop supply chain design for new and reconstructed products
  • Status of corporate sustainability
     
• Emin Babakus
  • Management of service quality in health care, financial services and the hospitality industry
  • Measurement and management of stress in frontline service jobs
  • Managing customer and employee engagement
  • Using marketing research for competitive advantage
     
• Alan Bush
  • Improving Salesperson Performance
  • Improving the Effectiveness of Sales Force Technology
     
• George Deitz
  • Application of neurometric (.e.g., EEG) and biometric (e.g., facial expression recognition, GSR, eye tracking) measurement approaches in investigating consumer and managerial response to marketing stimuli
  • Managing the growth of frontline employee service climate within retail, customer service, and sales settings
  • Consumer response to "other-experienced" service failures and recoveries as depicted in online reviews
  • Impact of vocal prosody and use of affective language in creating viral online content
     
• Bradford Eichhorn
  • Project Management of large or high risk IT projects
  • The impact of business users on the risk profile of IT projects
  • The impact of business users on the success of IT projects
     
• Frances Fabian
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Strategic Decision Making
  • Corporate Strategy
     
• Mark Gillenson
  • Big Data and Advanced Data Management
  • Software Testing and Reliability
  • Blockchain Applications
  • Data Analytics
     
• Andrew Hussey
  • Economics of higher education and MBAs
  • Earnings inequality and gender disparities in the labor market
  • Estimation of treatment effects
     
• Pankaj Jain
  • Financial Market Design
  • Financial Regulation
  • Market Microstructure
  • High Frequency Trading
  • Short Selling
  • Institutional Investments and Trading Frictions
     
• Brian Janz
  • Implementing human-centered design across organizations
  • The role of innovation and design in entrepreneurism
  • Understanding the consequences of adopting healthcare information systems
  • High performance teams in software development Examining Technology Acceptance in Hospitals
     
• Kristen Price Jones
  • Antecedents and consequences of subtle and overt workplace discrimination
  • Identity management experiences of stigmatized employees
  • Navigating pregnancy and motherhood at work
  • Remediation strategies for reducing prejudice/discrimination at work
     
• Benwari Kedia
  • Examining the Impact of Offshore Outsourcing
  • Examining Emerging Economies
     
• David Kemme
  • Constructing Macroeconometric Models: The Case of Kazakhstan
  • Empirical Measures to Guide Monetary Policy Makers
  • Forecasting Macroeconomic Activity in Countries with Limited Data
     
• Balaji Krishnan
  • Pricing and Price Promotions
  • Global Marketing Strategies
  • Marketing in high tech environments
  • Services Marketing
  • Branding and Brand Management
     
• Joonhyung Lee
  • Globalization and its impact
  • Understanding the role of multinationals in the global economy
     
• Satish Mehra
  • Productivity Improvement Programs; How to?
  • Just-in-Time and Lean Manufacturing; Key aspects
  • Quality Orientation Adoption and TQM Implementation Processes
     
• Albert Okunade
  • Health, Health Care Economics
  • Labor Economics
  • Public Finance
  • Economics of Higher Education
  • Applied Econometrics
     
• Chuck Pierce
  • Workplace Romance and Sexual Harassment in Organizations
  • Managerial ethics & ethical decision making in organizations
  • Employee staffing decision making; test bias & discrimination in employee selection
  • Organizational Research Methods
     
• Zabihollah Rezaee
  • Sustainability performance, reporting and assurance
  • Cost management and cost stickiness
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Audit quality, audit risk and audit failures
  • Stock price informativeness and financial and non-financial information
  • Relevance of regulations (Sarbanes-Oxley Act) to the accounting profession
  • Corporate governance and professional ethics
  • Forensic accounting and financial statement fraud
  • SEC comment letters and short selling
  • IT governance, risk assessment and cyberattacks
     
• Judith Simon
  • Recruitment of women and disadvantaged groups into Cyber Security careers
  • Business program management issues and solutions in federated organization structures
  • Managing business issues regarding insider threats to security, both intended and unintended
  • The effect of personality type on likelihood to meet organizational security compliance requirements
  • Trust in social media: The role of informed consent
     
• William Smith
  • Economic Growth
  • Asset-Pricing
  • Behavior Under Uncertainty
     
• Jamin Speer
  • Gender gaps in occupational choice
  • College majors and career outcomes
  • Effects of labor market conditions on workers' career outcomes
     
• David Spiceland
  • Accounting Textbooks
  • Accounting Education Research
     
• Mark Sunderman
  • Property Tax Equity
  • Property Tax Administration
  • Real Estate Valuation
  • Real Estate Issues
  • Online Education
     
• Jeff Thieme
  • Innovation management
  • Integration of sustainability in marketing strategy
     
• Chen Zhang
  • Open innovation and open data
  • High-tech startups and entrepreneurship
  • IT ecosystems and product compatibility strategy
  • Strategic value of information and business analytics
  • Mobile applications
  • Open source software development
     
• Joseph Zhang
  • Corporate reporting and disclosure
  • Financial intermediation and information
  • Auditing and risk management
  • Accounting information system
  • Data analytics