Areas of Emphasis: School of Business

Accounting

• Utilization of advanced technology to improve decision-making processes
• Economics of the auditing profession
• Effects of new financial reporting standards
• Causes and consequences of financial reporting failures

Decision Sciences

• Monte Carlo methods and their applications to finance and decision theory
• Uncertain reasoning, artificial intelligence, time series analysis and forecasting, Bayesian statistics

Entrepreneurship

• Economic justification and underlying financial models for undertaking a commercially oriented enterprise (e.g., railroads, biosciences, services, etc.), to also include projects with social benefits (e.g., the value of green space)
• Identification of project characteristics leading to new venture creation
• Defining powerful unifying paradigms for entrepreneurship research, building frameworks from interdisciplinary theories

Finance

• Corporate finance, investments, financial institutions, derivatives, risk management, corporate governance, international finance, market microstructure, and entrepreneurial finance.

Human Resources Management

• Impact of HR practices (e.g., selection or training techniques) on individual-level measures of satisfaction or performance
• Effects of systems of HR policies and practices on organizational-level outcomes

Information Systems

• Behavioral factors affecting successful system integration and use
• Design of information systems to support business processes
• Reengineering systems for optimal functional use

Marketing

• Pricing factors in business decisions
• Advertising content as a signal of product quality
• Regulatory focus and framing of in advertising
• Consumer preference and choice modeling

Organizational Behavior

• Employee well-being, work design, teams, decision-making, ethics, emotions, leadership, careers, individual differences, motivation, creativity and innovation, organizational change, culture, and cross-cultural differences

Supply Chain Management

• Efficiency and effectiveness of supply chains in global economy, just-in-time ordering for cost savings versus inventory buildup for manufacturing responsiveness, using the supply chain for competitive advantage.

Strategic Management

• How firms and organizations gain competitive advantage over rival firms or organizations, including research on developing firm resources, competitive interactions, relational governance, strategic decision making, innovation, entrepreneurship and organizational learning -- within the context of globalization and international business