Dr. Sime Curkovic, professor, supply chain management, was the keynote speaker with Mike Vitek, vice president, Mercedes Benz Technology, North America, at the Midwest Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, “Supply Chain Management Risk," April 13, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Geralyn Heystek and Jessie Wagner, career advisors, presented "Supporting Student Success through Externships: An Academic and Career Advising Collaboration" at the NACADA Region V Conference--Academic Advising: Reinventing Student Success for the 21st Century, April 11-13 in Akron Ohio.
Dr. Chris Stamper, associate dean for undergraduate programs, and Dr. Timothy Palmer, professor of management, presented "Strategies for Faculty Engagement: Driving Culture Change through a College-wide Assessment Retreat" at the AACSB Assessment Conference in Houston, Texas in March.
Stacey Markin, alumni relations officer, and Valorie Juergens, communications coordinator, presented “Communications Strategies for Alumni Relations and Development” at the AACSB Building B-Schools Symposium in early March in Tampa, Fla.
Dr. Sime Curkovic, professor of management, will present "Supply Chain Management Risk" as the joint keynote speaker, with Mike Vitek, vice president, Mercedes Benz Technology NA LLC, for the Midwest Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting in Grand Rapids, Mich., scheduled for April 13, 2012.
Dr. Stacey Fitzsimmons, assistant professor of management, presented at two international conferences in late February. She presented her research "Multicultural Employees: A Framework for Understanding How They Contribute to Organizations" to faculty members at Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) as part of a Research Seminar Series.
Dr. Stacey Fitzsimmons, assistant professor of management, presented a research paper, co-authored with Dr. Chris Stamper, associate dean for undergraduate programs, titled "Cultural Influences on Fit and Friction in the Employee-Employer Relationship" at the International Organizations Network Conference" in Heilbronn, Germany.
Dr. Roberta J. Schultz, associate professor of marketing, and Dr. Charles H. Schwepker, Jr. (University of Central Missouri) and Dr. David J. Good (Grand Valley State University) will have the abstract of their paper "Generational Differences and their Impact on Sales Management" published in the Pi Sigma Epsilon National Sales Conference Proceedings and in the Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management. Schultz will present the paper in Indianapolis in March 2012.
Hal Bates, director of recruitment and retention, presented with Yumi Takahashi-Ede, academic advisor, WMU College of Arts and Sciences, on the Early Alert program in a talk titled “Why attend a class?” at the National Academic Advising Association National Conference in Denver.
Geralyn Heystek, career advisor, and Paul Hildenbrand, director of advising and admissions, presented on “Careerademics” at the National Academic Advising Association National Conference in Denver. The talk focused on changes made to the freshmen orientation process since 2008.
Dr. Andrew Targowski, professor of business information systems, was a keynote speaker at the International Conference on CENTERIS 2011, October 5-8, in Vilamour, Portugal. He spoke on "From Portuguese to Virtual Globalization: 500 Years of ICT-driven Civilizational Development and a Triumph of Humanity? The Comparative and Modeling Approach."
Allen, R., Han, J. and Rooney, P. (2010). Business communication and the culture of assessment. Annual Conference of Associaton for Business Communication, Chicago, IL.
Arugaslan, O., Cook, D., and Kieschnick, R. (2010). Is Liquidity Really a Priced Risk Factor? Global Conference on Business and Finance, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.
Arugaslan, O. and Yaman, D. (2010). Do unified firms fare better in corporate takeovers? Global Conference on Business and Finance.
Balik, R. J. and Mehran, J. (2010). A comparative performance analysis of four model portfolios of value line: A proposal. MBAA International / Academy of Finance Conference.
Balik, R. J. and Mehran, J. (2010). Changes in the market volatility index (VIX). MBAA International/Academy of Finance Conference.
Burnie, D. A., DeRidder, A. and Rasbrant, J. (2010). The Nominal stock price puzzle:A long view, Sweden. EurHISTOCKII Workshop. Cambridge, UK.
Cartwright, P. (2010).Toxic leadership. WMU Conference on Ethical Leadership: Competitive Edge in a Rebounding Economy.
Cornell, K. B. (2010). Corporatization of higher education: Situating the case of Antioch College. The Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute, Yellow Springs, OH.
Deshpande, S. (2010). Antecedents of ethical behavior of business and non-business students. 2nd International Conference on Education, Economy and Society, Paris, France.
Joseph, J. and Deshpande, S.P. (2010) Factors impacting perception of ethical behavior of peers. Paper presented at the
International Conference on Behavioral, Cognitive, Educational and Psychological Sciences, Paris, France.
Edmonds, T., Stevenson, L. and Swisher, J. (2010). Forgive us our debts: The great recession of 2008-09. Allied Academies International Internet Conference. (The paper received a Distinguished Research Award from the Academy of Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Issues.)
Gabel-Goes, J. (2010). Creating dynamic collaborative SoTL projects. SoTL Conference.
Gabel-Goes, J. (2010). Student leadership advisory board. Lilly Conference on College & University Learning, Traverse City, MI.
Harrison, R. L. (2010). Black Friday: A dramaturgical analysis of an organizational ritual. Consumer Culture Theory Conference, Madison, WI.
Leach-Lopez, M.A. and Hays, L. (2010). Should students’ learning preferences dictate utilization of accounting principles learning tools? AAA Annual Meeting.
Leach-Lopez, M. A. and Hays, L. (2010). Selecting resources for financial and managerial principles of accounting courses: Differences in usefulness perception of students and instructors. American Accounting Association South East Region Meeting, Mobile, AL.
Luqmani, M., (2010). Economic and business perspectives on Pakistan: Opportunities, challenges, and flood implications. Sponsored by MSU Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University.
Monczka, R., Scannell, T., Carter, P. and Carter, J. (2010). Accelerating innovation through effective supplier collaboration. 95th IAM aAnnual International Supply Management Conference, San Diego, CA.
Nissen, S. and Philpoot, J. (2010). A resource dependence perspective examination of board of directors composition, finance committees and corporate financial performance. MBAA International/Academy of Finance Conference.
O'Shaughnessy, K. C., Peterson, C. and Scannell, T. (2010) Risk promoting compensation and stock market losses in the financial services industry following the global financial crisis. Conference on Corporate Governance & The Global Financial Crisis, Philadelphia, PA.
Quraeshi, Z. (2010). Conscientious marketing: Making a difference in people’s lives. (Keynote Speech) The International Conference on Marketing: Global Issues and Challenges, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 23.
Quraeshi, Z.A. and Luqmani Mushtaq (2010). U.S. Managerial Decision-Making for Offshore Health Care Alternatives, Association for Global Business Conference, Nov.2010 . New Orleans, LA( Best paper award).
Schullery, N., Knudstrup, P., Schullery, S.E., and Pfaff, L. (2010). Correlations of MBTI Typologies & 360-degree Evaluation of Management Skills. Association for Business Communication, Chicago, IL.
Wiley, J. (2010). Landscapes. International Society of the Study of Midwestern Literature and Writers’ Symposium of Scholars, Poets, Writers & Filmakers, East Lansing, MI.
Yaman, D. (2010). Convertible bond design and long-run operating performance. Global Conference on Business and Finance. Kailua-Kona, HI. (Yaman received two awards for the paper: 1) Outstanding Research Award, and 2) Best in Session Award.)
Yaman, D. (2010). Long-run operating performance of preferred stock issuers. Global Conference on Business and Finance, San Jose, Costa Rica.
