COXACHIEVEMENTS
Faculty & Staff
Achievements Aydin Alptekinoglu, assistant professor of information technology and operations management, had two working papers accepted for publication in INFORMS journals. “Learning Consumer Tastes through Dynamic Assortments” will appear in Operations Research and “Inventory Pooling to Deliver Differentiated Service” will appear in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. Alptekinoglu gave research seminars in March and April at the business schools of Cornell University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Utah. Sreekumar Bhaskaran, who holds a Corrigan Research professorship and is an associate professor of information technology and operations management, coauthored a paper titled “Consumer Mental Accounts and Implications to Selling BaseProducts and Addons.” It is forthcoming in Marketing Science. Bhaskaran was also appointed as associate editor for IIE Transactions Journal. Indraneel Chakraborty, assistant professor of finance, had his paper titled “Does Shareholder Coordination Matter? Evidence from Private Placements,” accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics (JFE). Chakraborty and Nickolay Gantchey from UNC KenanFlagler Business School co-authored
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the paper, which proposes a new role for private investments in public equity as a mechanism to reduce coordination frictions among existing equity holders. In addition, Chakraborty’s working paper, “Marriage Stability, Taxation and Aggregate Labor Supply in the U.S. vs. Europe,” has received press attention in Vox, Washington Post, Freakonomics and BusinessInsider, among others. Read more on page 23. W. Michael Cox, director of the William J. O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom, and O’Neil Center Writer-in-Residence Richard Alm, wrote a chapter for a new book, The 4% Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs, released by The George W. Bush Institute in July. The book is an extension of the Institute’s economic growth initiative and features commentary and analysis from more than 20 economists. The Cox-Alm chapter, “Incentives,” focuses on incentives built into a capitalist society. Cox and Alm also prepared two “charticles” for D CEO magazine, documenting economic growth and job creation in DFW. In addition, Cox gave a series of speeches around the country titled “Six Economic Themes for the Decade,” “Looking for the New New World,” “The U.S., China and India in the Global Economy of the Future” and “The Imagination Age.” Judy Foxman, senior lecturer of marketing, received the 2012 Extra Mile Award from Students with New Learning at the University Awards Extravanganza in April.
The award was given to Foxman in honor of her outstanding approach to teaching students who learn differently. Mel Fugate, associate professor of management and organizations, has multiple papers in press. “Managing Employee Withdrawal During Organizational Change: The Role of Threat Appraisal,” co-authored with G.E. Prussia and A.J. Kinicki, appears in the Journal of Management. “The Impact of Leadership, Management, and HRM on Employee Reactions to Organizational Change” appears in Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management. “Capturing the Experience of Change: Antecedents, Processes, and Consequences” is in The Psychology of Organizational Change. “Anticipatory Justice and the Employee-Organization Relationship (EOR),” co-written with L. Shore, J. Coyle-Shapiro and L. Tetrick, was published in The Employee-Organization Relationship. With S. Harrison and A.J. Kinicki, Fugate wrote “Thoughts and Feelings About Organizational Change: A Field Test of Synchronous Reciprocal Relationships in Appraisal Theory,” which appears in the Journal of Organizational and Leadership Studies. In addition, Fugate made three presentations at the 2012 annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston. “Which Fit Fits? The Effect of Two Types of Leadership-Culture Fit on Firm Performance,” with C. Hartnell, A. Kinicki and T. Corner, was selected for the Best Paper Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston (Organizational Behavior Division). Fugate and G. Soenen presented “The Champions of Change: Employees, Managers, and Cognitive Processes.” Also Fall 2012