Jason Smith (Accounting) recently had his research, "Investor Perceptions of Government Deregulation: Evidence from Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act," accepted for publication in Accounting Horizons, an "A" journal on the Australian Business Deans Council journal list. Smith's research study, which is co-authored with colleagues from…

Emir Malikov (Economics), together with Ruiqing Miao and Jingfang Zhang, both of Auburn University, coauthored an article, "Distributional and Temporal Heterogeneity in the Climate Change Effects on U.S. Agriculture," that has been accepted at the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. The paper provides new…

Sutirtha Chatterjee, Andrew Hardin, and Greg Moody (all Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) co-authored a paper, "The Nonlinear Influence of Harmonious Information Technology Affordance on Organizational Innovation," that has been accepted by the Information Systems Journal (ISJ). ISJ is an A journal on the LEE SARS journal list.…

Hans Rawhouser (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) recently was recognized as a runner up for the 2020 Best Paper for the Academy of Management Discoveries along with co-authors Shon Hiatt (USC) and Michael Cummings (Arkansas) for their paper titled, "Does a Common Mechanism Engender Common Results? Sustainable Development…

Han-Fen Hu and Kirk Silvernail (both Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) co-authored a publication with former UNLV professor Robert Randolph titled "Better the Devil You Know: Inter-organizational Information Technology and Network Social Capital in Competition Networks." The paper will appear in the September issue of Information…

Rajiv Kishore (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) recently had his co-authored paper, “Effects of Structural and Trait Competitiveness Stimulated by Leaderboard and Points on User Engagement and Performance Growth: A Natural Experiment with Gamification in an Informal Learning Environment,”  accepted by the European Journal of…

Robyn Raschke (Accounting) has been appointed the Kenneth and Tracy Knauss Endowed Chair in Accounting. The endowment was established to provide financial support for the department of accounting’s premier faculty member. The position was previously held by Lee Business School accounting professor Bill Messier and is awarded for a three-year…

Dominic Ronca, Stephanie Pohl, and Claire Stanley (Accounting) of the Beta Alpha Psi Theta Omicron Chapter received the Gold Chapter Award for the fifth year in a row at the international organization's  2020 virtual annual meeting. In addition, for the first time in Beta Alpha Psi history, the Theta Omicron chapter received first…

Ian McDonough (Economics) has been awarded the S.J. Hall Faculty Fellowship. Awarded to tenured professors in the department of economics, the fellowship provides incentive for continuing research productivity and teaching performance. The fellowship is funded in the memory of Sherwood James Hall, a successful lumber entrepreneur who sought to…

Zhi Cao (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) co-authored a paper, "Carriers of Competing Institutional Logic: The Effect of Returnees on Corporate Boards on M&A," that was selected as a finalist for the IM Division Douglas Nigh Award in this year's Academy of Management annual meeting, which will be virtual this year.  The…

Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business) and Robyn Raschke (Accounting) recently were included in a Forbes article, “Covid-19 The Opportunity For Business Schools To Think Creatively,” which featured the findings from their paper, “The Story Only Few Can Tell: Exploring the Disproportionately Gendered Professoriate in Business Schools…

Sutirtha Chatterjee (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation) recently was appointed as a senior editor of the Information Systems Journal (ISJ). ISJ is an international journal promoting the study of, and interest in, information systems, and publishes articles about research, practice, experience, current issues, and debates.