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Young Hoon Kwak

Young Hoon Kwak, associate professor of decision sciences, recently published two papers: “Understanding End Users’ Acceptance of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System in Project-Based Sectors,” in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 59(2), pp. 266-277, May 2012 (co-authored with doctoral candidate Jane Park) and “Schedule Effectiveness of Alternative Contracting Strategies for Transportation Infrastructure Improvement Projects,” in the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(3), pp 323-330, March 2012 (co-authored with Professor K. Choi, Texas A&M, and Professor J. Pyeon, San Diego State).

Posted by GWSB on May 15, 2012 | Filed under: GWSB News,Publications.


Mark Hyman

Mark Hyman, a GWSB adjunct professor who teaches courses on sport management, sport law and sport communication, recently published The Most Expensive Game in Town: The Rising Cost of Youth Sports and the Toll on Today’s Families.  “Parents (including me) often make the assumption that more is better when it comes to youth sports,” Hyman told Gelf Magazine in an interview about the book.  Hyman’s book was reviewed in TIME magazine, the New York Times and on Sportsletter.org.

Posted by GWSB on May 15, 2012 | Filed under: GWSB News,Publications.


D. Christopher Kayes

D. Christopher Kayes, associate professor of management, published “Individual contribution to a team: The importance of continuous adaptive learning” in Organization Management Journal, 9, pp 1-12.  The paper was co-authored by Melissa J. Knott, assistant professor of management at Western New England University, Springfield, Mass.

Posted by GWSB on May 15, 2012 | Filed under: GWSB News,Publications.


Liesl Riddle

Associate Dean for MBA Programs Liesl Riddle published the paper, “Managerial Values in the Greater Middle East: Similarities and Differences Across Seven Countries,” in the International Business Review, Vol. 12 (2012) p. 480-492.

The paper was co-authored with David Ralston, the Michael F. Price Chair in International Business at the University of Oklahoma; Carolyn Egri, professor of management and organization studies at Simon Fraser University; Arif Butt, associate professor of management at the Lahore University of Management Sciences; Tevfik Dalgic, clinical professor of organizations, strategy and international management at the University of Texas, Dallas; and David Brock of Ben-Gurion University’s Department of Business Administration.

Posted by GWSB on May 1, 2012 | Filed under: GWSB News,Publications.


William C. Handorf

William C. Handorf, professor of finance, published “Home Price Trends from a Financial Perspective” in the Spring 2012 edition of Real Estate Review.

 

Posted by GWSB on April 17, 2012 | Filed under: GWSB News,Publications.


Sanjay Jain

Sanjay Jain, associate professor of decision sciences, served as the lead editor for the Proceedings of 2011 Winter Simulation Conference, a collection of nearly 400 papers recently published on-line through the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences:

http://informs-sim.org/wsc11papers/prog11.html

His co-editors were Roy Creasey, business analyst at Patricio Enterprises, Inc.; Jan Himmelspach, research scientist at the Modeling and Simulation Group at the University of Rostock, Germany; K. Preston White, professor of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia; and Michael Fu, the Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science at the University of Maryland, College Park.

The Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) is an international forum for disseminating recent advances in the field of system simulation.

Posted by GWSB on March 20, 2012 | Filed under: GWSB News,Publications.


Tjai M. Nielsen

Tjai M. Nielsen, Director of Executive Education, Dean’s Research Scholar and assistant professor of management, published “Utility of OCB: Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Group Performance in a Resource Allocation Framework” in the March issue of the Journal of Management.

Posted by GWSB on March 20, 2012 | Filed under: GWSB News,Publications.


Young Hoon Kwak

Young Hoon Kwak, associate professor of Decision Sciences, had his paper, “History, Practices, and Future of Earned Value Management (EVM) in Government: Perspectives from NASA,” authored with Frank T. Anbari, clinical professor in the Project Management Program at the Goodwin College of Professional Studies at Philadelphia’s Drexel University, published in the Project Management Journal, 43(1), 77-90. 2012.

Kwak had his paper, “Decision Support Model for Incentives/Disincentives Time-Cost Tradeoff,” written with K.C. Choi, assistant professor of construction science at Texas A&M University, published in Automation in Construction, 21(1), 219-228. 2012.

Kwak’s paper, “Social Network Analysis and Organizational Control in Complex Projects: A Construction Case of EXPO 2010 China,” written with Y. Li of Tonghi University in Shanghai, China, was published by the Engineering Project Organization Journal, 1(4), 223-237.2011.

Posted by GWSB on March 6, 2012 | Filed under: GWSB News,Publications.


Joelle Carter

Joelle Carter, director of undergraduate programs, will have her article, “An analysis of white student engagement,” featured in a special spring 2012 edition of the Journal of Educational Foundations.  The article is co-authored by Tiffany Fountaine, assistant director of the Center for Academic Success and Achievement at Morgan State University. It focuses on findings of Carter’s doctoral dissertation, “Factors Influencing the Engagement of White Undergraduates Attending Public Historically Black Universities.”

Posted by GWSB on February 21, 2012 | Filed under: GWSB News,Publications.


Ravi Achrol

Ravi Achrol, professor of Marketing, and Philip Kotler, the S.C. Johnson & Son distinguished professor of International Marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, had their article, “Frontiers of the marketing paradigm in the third millennium,” published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 40th anniversary issue, Volume 40, Number 1 / January 2012.

 

Posted by GWSB on February 21, 2012 | Filed under: GWSB News,Publications.



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