Faculty Recognition
Awards
Department head and professor Dale Goodhue received the Best Paper Award for the Organizational Systems and Technology Track at the 2011 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences for "Have IS Researchers Lost Bandur'as Self-Efficacy Concept? A Discussion of the Definition and Measurement of Computer Self-Efficacy," co-written with Jennifer Claggett.
Assistant professor Nathaniel Grow received the 2010 Best Proceedings Paper Award at the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business in November 2010 for "American Needle and the Future of the Single Entity Defense Under Section One of the Sherman Antitrust Act."
Assistant professor Nicholas Berente received a $300K grant from the National Science Foundation to study the management of radical IT-based innovation.
Assistant professor Anindita Chakravarty was a 2010 Harold Maynard Award Finalist by the American Marketing Association in November 2010 for her outstanding contribution to marketing theory.
Appointments
Department head and professor Robert Hoyt was elected to Grange Insurance's board of directors at the company's annual meeting February 24. Grange Insurance is based in Columbus, Ohio, and serves policyholders in 13 states, including Georgia.
Associate professor James Linck was named associate editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance.
Professor Linda Bamber was appointed to the advisory board of Accounting Research in China: A Journal of the Accounting Society of China.
Assistant professor Thomas Berry-Stoezle was elected to the boards of the Southern Risk and Insurance Association and the Western Risk and Insurance Association.
Associate professor Marie Boudreau has been named associate editor of MIS Quarterly.
Associate professor Jackie Hammersley has been appointed to the editorial review board of The Accounting Review.
Assistant professor Marie Mitchell has been appointed to the editorial review board of the Journal of Applied Psychology.
Associate professor Amrit Tiwana was appointed to the editorial boards for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and Journal of Management Information Systems.
Associate Dean and professor Daniel Feldman has been appointed to the editorial boards for the Academy of Management Journal and Personnel Psychology.
Presentations and Mass Media
Assistant professor Tina Carpenter presented her paper "The Effects of Tone at the Top and the Presence of Fraud on Auditors' Fraud Risk Assessments, on Identified Audit Procedures, and on Professional Skepticism," at the AAA Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California. Her research "Auditor's Use of Brainstorming in the Consideration of Fraud: Reports from the Field," co-authored with Brazel and Jenkins, was cited in the November 29, 2010 TIME article, "Forget IQ: The Emerging Science of Collective Intelligence."
Assistant professor James Hilliard was invited to present his paper "Market Structure and Performance in the Insurance Industry: Effects of Government Intervention," co-authored with assistant professor David Eckles. It was one of five papers selected for presentation at the American Risk and Insurance Association session at the Allied Social Sciences Association Conference in Denver, Colorado. Hilliard also presented "Catastrophe and Market Correlations," co-authored with Rob Hoyt at the Zurich National Catastrophe Advisory Council in Menlo Park, California on February 24.
Assistant professor Jane Thayer's dissertation "Determinants of Investors' Information Acquisition: Credibility and Confirmation," co-written with Kathryn Kadous and Molly Mercy and published in The Accounting Review, has been cited by Forbes writer Chris Barth in his January 3, 2011 article "Investing Intelligently without Indulging your Impulses," and in the January 4, 2011 WebCPA article, "Investors Trust Dubious Sources for Stock News."
Michael Bamber presented "International Financial Reporting Standards and Aggressive Reporting: An Investigation of Proposed PCAOB Auditor Judgment Guidance," co-authored with Tina Carpenter and graduate student A.G. Backoff at Notre Dame's Academic Workshop last October. Backoff presented the topic at the American Accounting Association's Auditing Mid-year Conference in Alburquerque, New Mexico in January.
Alexander Barinov presented "Analyst Disagreement and Volatility Risk," and "Institutional Ownership and Aggregate Volatility Risk," at the Southern Finance Association Meetings last November in Asheville, North Carolina and at the Financial Management Association Meetings in New York, New York last October. In October, Barinov presented "Turnover: Liquidity or Uncertainty?" at the Sixth Annual Central Bank Workshop on the Microstructure of Financial Markets Conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, New York.
Dawn Bennett-Alexander presented "The Use of the Term 'Boy' as Evidence of Race Discrimination: The Eleventh Circuit Court Ignores the U.S. Supreme Court's Direction, Leading Some to Conclude There is no Race Discrimination in The South," at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business in Charleston, South Carolina last November.
John Campbell presented "A Convenient Scapegoat: Fair Value Accounting by Commercial Banks During the Financial Crisis," at the American Accounting Association's Mid-Year Meeting in late January in Tampa, Florida.
Margaret Christ presented "Say-on-Pay and the Differential Effects of Voluntary Versus Mandatory Regimes on Investor Perceptions and Behavior," at the American Accounting Association's Management Accounting Section Conference in early January in Atlanta, Georgia.
Carolyn Dehring presented "Does National Flood Insurance Program Participation Induce Development in High-Risk Areas? Evidence From Florida Counties," co-authored with Mark Browne, David Eckles, and William Lastrapes at the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association's Allied Social Sciences Association Conference on January 8 in Denver, Colorado.
David Eckles presented "Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Reserves and Recessions," co-authored with Rob Hoyt and "Excess Groth and Reserve Risk," co-authored with Michael Barth at the Southern Risk and Insurance Association in Charleston, South Carolina last November.
Michael Eriksen presented "The Impact of Neighborhood Attributes on the Earnings of Low-Income Households: Evidence From a Field Experiment," at the Allied Social Sciences Association Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado on January 8.
Jie He presented "The Exit Choices of Entrepreneurial Firms,"co-authored with Thomas Chemmanur, He Shan, and Debarshi Nandy at the Duke/Kauffman Entrepreneurship Conference in Durham, North Carolina in March. He also co-authored the published presentation "Credit Ratings and the Evolution of Mortgage-Backed Securities," with June Qian and Philip Strahan at the American Economic Association Meetings in Denver, Colorado on January 9.
Son Lam presented "Applications of Social Identity Theory in Marketing Research: A Critical Review and New Trends," at the American Marketing Association Winter Conference on February 20 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Stacie Laplante presented "Discussion of Tax Loss Asymmetry and Income Shifting Behavior," at the National Tax Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois last November.
William Lastrapes presented "Evidence on the Relationship Between Housing and Consumption in the U.S.: A State-Level Analysis," co-authored with Chadi Abdallah at the Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia last November.
Henry Munneke presented "Valuing Real Options in Real Estate: A Spatial Study of the Option to Redevelop," co-authored with Kip Womack at the Annual Southern Economic Association Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia last November.
Michael Pfarrer presented "The Bradley Effect: When Sense-making Does not Make Sense," at the INFORMS annual meeting in Austin, Texas last November.
Steven Pottier presented "Insurer Capital Structure and Deb-Equity Hybrid Securities," co-authored with James Hiliard and Jianren Xu at the Southern Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting in Charleston, South Carolina last November.
James Reed presented "But I'm an American! A Text-Based Rationale for Dismissing F-Squared Securities Fraud Claims After Morrison v. National Australia Bank," at the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business 2010 Conference last November in Charleston, South Carolina.
Jessica Rodell presented "From Justice to Injustice to a Justice: What Else Explains Perceptions of Fairness in Organizations," co-authored with Jason Colquitt and Michael Baer at the International Justice Roundtable Conference last November in Orlando, Florida.
Ian Schmutte presented "The Effects of Minimum Wage Laws on Worker Flows," co-authored with Kaj Gittings at the Southern Economic Association's 80th Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia. He also presented "Endogenous Mobility," co-authored with John Abowd at the Research Data Center Network Annual Research Conference at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. Both presentations took place last November.
Greg Trandel presented "Too Clever By Half: Can Recognizing the Availability of a New Option Result in a Lower Payoff?" at the Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia last November.
Robert Vandenberg presented "Longitudinal Research: Combining Recent Advances," at the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference in April 14 in Chicago, Illinois.
Guiyang Xiong presented "Antecedents and Consequences of the Pre-release C2C Buzz Evolution Patterns — A Functional Analysis," at the Marketing Strategy Meets Wall Street II Conference at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts on May 12. Xiong also presented "The Impact of Upper Echelon Structure on Startups' Absorptive Capacity," and "at the American Marketing Association Winter Educator's Conference in Austin, TX on February 20.
