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
