FACULTY & RESEARCH

Faculty Recognition

Edward Ahnert, executive-in-residence and former president of the ExxonMobil Foundation, presented “A Communicator’s Guide to Corporate Social Responsibility” to the North Texas Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators.He also presented “What Smart Accountants Need to Know About Corporate Social Responsibility” to Grant Thornton’s regional management team. In addition, Ahnert presented “Corporate Social Responsibility for Small and Medium Companies” to the Park Cities Rotary Club in Dallas.

Marketing Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Programs Marci Armstrong was elected vice chair of the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) Board.After a one-year term as vice chair,Armstrong will serve as chair of the GMAC Board for the 2008-2009 academic year. She plans to globalize GMAC during her term as chair with tasks such as opening an office in Europe and getting full-time staff members on the ground in Asia. In addition,Armstrong is serving as chair of the search committee to hire a new managing director for the Executive MBA Council. She recently presented “Women and the EMBA: Research,Reality, and the Future,”with Monica McGrath and Cathy Molony of the Wharton School and Beatrix Dart of the University of Toronto, at the 2006 EMBA Council Annual Conference. In addition,Armstrong presented “New MBA Program Directors: Everything You Need to Know but Are Afraid to Ask” at the 2007 MBA Leadership Conference.

Management and Organizations Professor Jay Carson’s papers—“Shared Leadership in Teams: An Investigation of Antecedent Conditions and Performance,” with co-authors Paul Tesluk from the University of Maryland and Jennifer Marrone from Seattle University, and “A Multi-Level Investigation of Antecedents and Consequences of Team Member Boundary Spanning Behavior”—are forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal.

Information Technology and Operations Management Professor Chester Chambers published “Supply Chain Management Research and Productions and Operations Management: Trends in Future Research Directions” in the journal Production and Operations Management, which reviews the literature on supply chain management in the major operations management journals and identifies potential topics for future work. In addition, Chambers’ paper, “Quality- Based Competition, Profitability, and Variable Costs,” was published in Management Science in December 2006.

Stephanie Dupaul, director of BBA Admissions, was inducted as an honorary initiate into Delta Sigma Pi Business Fraternity and the Golden Key International Honour Society. In addition, Dupaul has been invited to present at the next Texas Association for College Admissions Counseling Conference in 2007.

Bezalel Gavish, information technology and operations management professor and the Eugene J. and Ruth F. Constantin Distinguished Chair in Business, published “Fraudulent Auctions on the Internet,”with co-author Christopher Tucci, in Electronic Commerce Research. He also published “Delivering IS/OR Curricula Through Distance Learning,”with co-author L. Gerders, Jr., in the International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education. In addition, Gavish gave the keynote presentation “How Can We Reduce Fraudulent Activities on Auction Sites” at the 2006 Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference in Italy.He was also appointed to the board of SMU Hillel and to the Executive Committee of North Texas Technology Allies. In addition, Gavish was ranked in the Top 100 cited researchers in information technology by ISI HighlyCited.com.

Management and Organizations Professor Peter Heslin presented two papers at the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology annual meeting in New York City: “Contextual Boundary Conditions to Brainwriting for Idea Generation within Organizations” and “Insights from Regulatory Focus Theory for Career Theory and Practice,”which was co-authored with Mel Fugate from SMU Cox. In addition,Heslin presented “Where’s Your Genius? Implications of Mindset Research for Skill Development” to the Surgical Grand Rounds at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW). Part of UTSW’s Continuing Medical Education program, the presentation received praise from a number of participants.Heslin also recently worked with Professor Carol Dweck, an eminent social psychologist in the nation’s top-ranked psychology department at Stanford University.Heslin and Dweck collaborated on new, improved methods for cultivating the “incremental” growth mindset featured in Heslin’s recent implicit theory research with Don Vande- Walle of SMU Cox as well as in Dweck’s latest book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.

Roger Kerin, the Harold C. Simmons Distinguished Professor of Marketing, has been awarded a Management Education Research Institute Fellowship by the Graduate Management Admissions Council to examine MBA marketing in the United States. Kerin’s book, Strategic Marketing Problems: Cases and Comments, was recently published in its 11th edition by Prentice Hall. In addition, Kerin’s article, “Broadening the Scope of Reference Price Advertising Research: A Field Study of Consumer Shopping Involvement,”with co-author Dan Howard of SMU Cox, was published in the Journal of Marketing.

Accounting Professor and Director of the KPMG Institute for Corporate Governance Wayne Shaw and Real Estate Lecturer Catherine Weber presented Contemporary Accounting Ethics and Related Legal Issues to the Dallas chapter of the Texas Society of CPAs on February 20. Approved by the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy, the course meets the fourhour continuing professional education in ethics requirement for CPAs in Texas. Shaw and Weber will present the course to the Tyler Chapter of the Texas Society of CPAs in May.

Marketing Professor Tassu Shervani’s paper, “The Moderating Influence of Firm Market Power on Transaction Cost Economics Model: An Empirical Test in a Forward Channel Investigation Context,”with co-authors Goutam Challagall and Gary Frazier, was published in the Strategic Management Journal. Shervani also published “The Impact of Simulation Training on Call Center Agent Performance: A Field-Based Investigation,”with co-authors Nagesh Murthy, Goutam Challagall, and Leslie Hill, in Management Science. In addition, Shervani gave several presentations on behalf of the Cox School, including “The Impact of Globalization,”which he presented at the American Airlines Global Sales Conference in Dallas and at the American Airlines Manager Conference in Miami. Shervani also presented “Global Transactions” to more than 60 senior corporate development executives from Fortune 500 companies at the Ernst & Young Conference on Transactions in Emerging Markets in Dallas.

Management and Organizations Professor John Slocum’s book, Management: A Competency Based Approach, was recently published in its 11th edition by Thomson Publishers. In addition, Slocum’s paper, “Creating Corporate Cultures Through Mythopoetic Leadership,”with co-author Chip Jarnagin, is forthcoming in Organizational Dynamics.

Information Technology and Operations Management Professor Marion Sobol presented “Comparison of Healthcare IT Adoption: Taiwan vs. the United States” with Edmund Prater of UT-Arlington at the Fellows Session of the Decision Sciences Institute in San Antonio. In addition, Sobol was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics, a series of books to be published on IT and healthcare. Sobol’s article, “Differences in Computer Usage of U.S.Group Medical Practices: 1994-2003,”with co-author Edmund Prater, was published in the International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics, and her article “Competition and Adoption of Internet Technologies by Texas Community Banks,”with coauthors Ram N.Acharya, Albert Kagan, andVinod Kodepaka, is forthcoming in the e-Service Journal.

Management and Organizations Department Chair Don Vandewalle was one of six American scholars invited to join a group of 20 international scholars to present and discuss their research at the 2007 Motivation in Context Workshop in Switzerland. The workshop was designed to bring together leading motivations scholars from organizational behavior, social psychology, and industrial/organizational psychology to facilitate an interdisciplinary discussion on achievement motivations in work and academic contexts. In addition,Vandewalle’s article, “Keen to Help? Managers’ Implicit Person Theories and Their Subsequent Employee Coaching,”with co-authors Gary Latham of the University of Toronto and Peter Heslin of SMU Cox, was published in the winter edition of Personnel Psychology, the premier scholarly journal for human resource management research.