Faculty in the News

Our faculty are renowned for their excellence in the classroom, and they also are prolific researchers who are often called on by popular media for their expertise.

Accountancy

Timothy Eaton and Jake Swyers, master of accountancy student, had their co-authored paper,“10 Tips for New Accounting Professionals in the Pandemic Environment” accepted for publication in New Accountant.

Annie Farrell has been named an Associate Editor at Management Accounting Research and has joined the editorial board of Contemporary Accounting Research.

Dan Heitger had his co-authored paper “Driving Performance in the Retail and Banking Industries: The Consequences of Dysfunctional Management Control Systems at W. T. Grant and Wells Fargo,” accepted for publication by Issues in Accounting Education.

Jon Pyzoha had his co-authored paper “The Influence of Perspective Taking Encouraged by the Audit Committee on Auditor and Client Judgments during Accounting Disputes,” accepted at Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory.

An Excel-based case study, co-authored by Harshini Siriwardane and Karen DeMeyst, won first place in the IMA Educational Case Journal’s Spring Short Case Study Competition.

James Zhang’s paper co-authored with former MAcc student BriAuna Keys titled “Introducing RPA in an Undergraduate AIS Course: Three RPA Exercises on Process Automations in Accounting” has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting (JETA). James Zhang, Tim Eaton, and Snigdha Porwal (EY undergraduate scholar) had their paper “Data preparation for accountants: Extract, transform and load” accepted at the Journal of Accountancy.

Billy Brink’s co-authored paper “The Effects of Minimum-wage Increases on Wage Offers, Wage Premiums and Employee Effort under Incomplete Contracts” was accepted for publication at Accounting, Organizations and Society.

Po-Chang Chen’s co-authored paper titled, “Analyst Underreaction and the Post-Forecast Revision Drift” was recently accepted for publication in Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. Great job!

Karen De Meyst had an aritcle in Financial Management titled “6 ways to increase learning in the workplace.”

Karen De Meyst and Andrew Reffett had their paper “Factors Affecting the Outcomes of Legal Claims against Auditors” accepted at Current Issues in Auditing.

Bill Moser’s co-authored article “Firm Prominence and Financial Conditions: Risk Factors for 21st Century Corporate Financial Securities Fraud in the United States” has been conditionally accepted at the Justice Quarterly.

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Economics

Jing Li recently had his paper, “Block Bootstrap Prediction Intervals for Parsimonious First-Order Vector Autoregression,” accepted at the Journal of Forecasting.

Melissa Thomasson’s coauthored study on the effects of school closures during 1916 polio outbreak was featured in this article on Bloomberg.com.

David Lindequist was interviewed for a Miami Student story about the university’s move to a cashless campus.

John Bowblis had three co-authored papers recently: “Shortages of Staffing in Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Are the Driving Factors?” accepted in JAMDA, “Prevalence of COVID-19 in Ohio Nursing Homes: What’s Quality Got to Do With It?” accepted in Journal of Aging & Social Policy, and “COVID-19 Pandemic: Exacerbating Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Long-Term Services and Supports” in Journal of Aging and Social Policy.

Mark Tremblay had his co-authored paper “Platform Competition With Endogenous Homing” published in International Economic Review.

Nam Vu was interviewed by Vietnam TV about economic implications of American actions.

Melissa Thomasson recently had her co-authored paper, “Votes for Women: An Economic Perspective on Women’s Enfranchisement” published in the spring issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

Melissa Thomasson was interviewed for an NPR article on when and how schools might reopen during the pandemic.

Melissa Thomasson and Greg Niemesh recently had their paper, “Medical Education Reforms and the Origins of the Rural Physician Shortage,” published in Cliometrica.

Entrepreneurship

Brett Smith with Bergman, B. (2020). The other side of the coin: Investor identity and its role in resource provision. Journal of Business Venturing Insights

Brett Smith with Giudici, A., Combs, J., Cannatelli, B. (2020). Successful scaling in social franchising: The case of Impact Hub. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice

Brett Smith with Knapp, J. & Cannatelli, B. (2020). Entrepreneurship at the Base-of-the-Pyramid: The moderating role of person-facilitator fit and poverty alleviation. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship

Michael Conger with Gras, D., Jenkins, A., Gras, M. (2020). Wicked Problems, Reductive Tendency, and the Formation of (Non-)Opportunity Beliefs. Forthcoming at Journal of Business Venturing

Michael Conger with Jones, J., York, J. G., Vedula, S., Lenox, M. J. (2020). The Collective Construction of Green Building: Industry Transition Toward Environmentally Beneficial Practices. Academy of Management Perspectives

Finance

Haim Kassa Gebeyehu had op-eds published by the Brookings Institute and Africa Business Magazine.

Feifei Wang, “Should mutual fund investors time volatility?” Financial Analysts Journal coauthored with Sterling Yan and Lingling Zheng.

David Yin, “Hiring Retirement-age CEOs”, European Financial Management coauthored with Emma Wang.

David Yin, “The Real Effects of Short Selling in an Emerging Market” Journal of Corporate Finance coauthored with Xiaoran Ni.

David Yin, “CEO Non-Compete Agreements, Job Risk, and Compensation” Review of Financial Studies coauthored with Omesh Kini and Ryan William.

David Gempesaw, “Information Choice, Uncertainty, and Expected Returns” Review of Financial Studies coauthored with Tim Simin and Charles Cao.

David Gempesaw, “Corporate governance and product market competition: Evidence from import tariff reductions” Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting.

David Shrider, “Are Mutual Fund Investors Loss Averse? Evidence from China” Financial Review coauthored with Wenting Huang, Jie Jinag and Yanran Wu.

Tyler Henry, “Arbitrage vs. Informed Short Selling: Evidence from Convertible Bond Issuers” Journal of Corporate Finance coauthored with John Hackney at the University of South Carolina and Jennifer Koski at the University of Washington.

ISA

Zhe Shan had his co-authored paper, “Predicting Shareholder Litigation on Insider Trading from Financial Text: An Interpretable Deep Learning Approach” accepted for publication by Information & Management.

Fadel Megahed had his co-authored paper, “Empowering the Workforce in Post-COVID-19 Smart Manufacturing Systems,” accepted to appear in Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems.

Fadel Megahed and Allison Jones-Farmer had their co-authored paper “A Forecasting Framework for Predicting Perceived Fatigue: Using Time Series Methods to Forecast Ratings of Perceived Exertion with Features from Wearable Sensors”, accepted to appear in Applied Ergonomics.

Gabe Lee had his co-authored paper, “How IT wisdom affects firm performance: An empirical investigation of 15-year US panel data” published in Decision Support Systems.

Fadel Megahed had his co-authored paper “A TwoStage Machine Learning Framework to Predict Heart Transplantation Survival Probabilities over Time with a Monotonic Probability Constraint” accepted in Decision Support Systems.

Arthur Carvalho had his co-authored paper, “A SurveyBased Assessment of How Existing and Potential Electric VehicleOwners Perceive Range Anxiety,” accepted by the Journal of Cleaner Production. Fadel Megahed had his co-authored publication, “A Data Analytic Framework for Physical Fatigue Management using Wearable Sensors” accepted in Expert Systems with Applications.

Dougla Havelka and Jeffrey W. Merhout, “The Decision to Major in Information Systems: Critical Factors for Students,” Issues in Information Systems, v21.

Joseph K. Nwankpa and Jeffrey W. Merhout, “Exploring the Effect of Digital Investment on IT Innovation,” Sustainability.

Stoel, M.D. and Havelka, D. “Evaluation of factors that impact IT auditing.” Accepted at the Journal of Information Systems.

Ozdemir, Z and Benamati, S. “Information Privacy, Cultural Values, and Regulatory Preferences,” in the Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM).

Fang, X. and Rajkumar, T.M. “Recovering Troubled IT Projects: The Roles of Transformational Leadership and Project Complexity” accepted for publication in Information Systems Frontiers.

Arthur Carvalho and Jeff Merhout had their coauthored paper “When Good Blocks Go Bad: Managing Unwanted Blockchain Data,” accepted in the International Journal of Information Management.

Management

Lisa Ellram had her manuscript titled “Cost Avoidance: Not Everything that Counts is Counted” accepted for publication in the Journal of Business Logistics.

Scott Dust’s article, “5 overlooked ways business leaders can support remote workers”, was published in Business Insider.

Tim Krehbiel had his article, co-authored with Miami colleague Andrea Hulshult, entitled “The need for agility in a VUCA pandemic world,” accepted in the American Journal of Business.

Lisa Ellram was profiled for an article in Supply and Demand Chain Executive.

Bryan Ashenbaum was quoted in a Bloomburg article about the demand for hand sanitizer and disinfectants during the coronavirus pandemic

Megan Gerhardt wrote an article for Biz Ed on “Higher Education’s Crucible Moment” during and after the pandemic.

John Ni’s paper, “Product Positioning and Pricing Decisions in A Two-Attribute Disruptive New Market,” has been accepted for publication at IISE Transactions.

Bryan Ashenbaum was interviewed for an article in USA Today about the short supply of disinfectants.

Megan Gerhardt had her article “Coronavirus and Zoom have marked a generation. Let’s call them Zoomers” appear in NBC Think.

Laurens Steed was interviewed for the HuffPost article “There Are 2 Types Of Work-From-Home Personalities. Which Are You?”

Scott Dust had his manuscript titled “Leader selfenhancement values: curvilinear and congruence effects” accepted for publication in the Leadership and Organizational Development Journal.

Scott Dust’s article, “A Letter To My Students During The Pandemic”, was published in BizEd.

John-Patrick Paraskevas had his co-authored paper: “The Impact of Buyer-Supplier TMT Misalignment on Environmental Performance” was accepted for publication in the International Journal of Operations and Production Management.

Lisa Ellram published a Sage Business Case entitled: Show Me the Money: Managing Cost Savings

Lisa Ellram and Yao Jin wrote the article “To prepare for the next ‘black swan’ event, supply chains should rethink ‘lean’” for Supply Chain Dive earlier this year.

Marketing

Gillian Oakenfull had her post “Calling All Female CMOs - We Need a Shero!” published on Forbes.com.

Gillian Oakenfull had her post “U.S. Brands Can Save America” published on Forbes.com.

Peter Nguyen had his co-authored paper “Reviewing Experts’ Restraint from Extremes and its Impact on Service Providers” accepted for publication by the Journal of Consumer Research.

Gillian Oakenfull had her post “Bridging the Empathy Gap” published on Forbes.com.

Gillian Oakenfull had her post “Are Marketers Equipped For The New Empathy Brand Mandate?” published on Forbes.com. b

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