Discover@Spears 2022

ALLEVIATING POVERTY SPEARS BUSINESS PROFESSOR’S RESEARCH SHINES A LIGHT ON ECONOMIC POVERTY IN WEST AFRICA

The research magazine of Spears School of Business

Dean, OSU Spears School of Business Ken Eastman

Vice Dean, Graduate Programs and Research, Watson Graduate School of Management

Ramesh Sharda

Associate Deans

Teresa Lightner

Marlys Mason

Assistant Deans

Sarah Johnson

Marc Tower

Spears Business Marketing and Communications Bailey Stacy Terry Tush

Editor Jordan Bishop Art Director

Dave Malec

Lead Design

Valerie Kisling

Writers Karson Dodd

Lyn Putnam Bailey Stacy Terry Tush

Photography

Andrea Borgarello/World Bank

Blake Brasor

Gary Lawson

Piper Reese

Phil Shockley

Department Heads

Bruce Barringer | Entrepreneurship

Tom Brown | Marketing and International Business Angela Spencer (Interim) | Accounting

J.B. Kim | Economics

James Pappas | Management

Betty Simkins | Finance

Brij Thapa | Hospitality and Tourism Management

Rick Wilson | Management Science and Information Systems

DISCOVER Magazine

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Shining a Light on West Africa

On the cover: Spears professor’s research about economic disparities in his native homeland gets published in Nature. (Photo by Andrea Borgarello/World Bank)

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GREETINGS

We are pleased to share with you the latest edition of Discover@Spears, which highlights the scholarly activities and accomplishments of the Spears School of Business faculty at Oklahoma State University. We had another outstanding year of research productivity as our faculty colleagues published almost 140 papers in professional research journals, many appearing in the best journals in their respective fields.

As usual, this issue highlights some of our faculty members’ best research that was published last year. In addition, it highlights our continued success in generating significant external research support from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and many state and private organizations. Our sponsored research activity continues to grow both in terms of its financial value to Spears Business, and also the depth and breadth of topics and organizations faculty colleagues are targeting.

Last spring, we launched a new Public Impact Research Initiative (PIRI). The goal of the research initiative is to identify insights and solutions to tackle pressing challenges and expand the knowledge base for industry, governments, communities and academia. Following OSU’s land-grant mission, the priority is for Spears Business faculty to concentrate on public impact research and become a leading voice committed to positive change in and beyond the state. This issue of Discover highlights the two

projects as our first grants in this initiative, in addition to the opening and the cover stories.

Spears Business was fortunate to attract strong talent from many top-tier universities, and conversely, our Ph.D. graduates were placed in very competitive comprehensive universities. We recognize the new arrivals and our doctoral graduates’ placements in this issue.

We hope you enjoy reading about the exciting scholarly work being done by our faculty. For more information on their achievements, visit the faculty research website: business.okstate.edu/research

Ken Eastman, Ph.D. Dean, Spears School of Business

Ramesh Sharda, Ph.D. Vice Dean, Graduate Programs and Research Watson Graduate School of Management

Dean Ken Eastman

Vice Dean Ramesh Sharda

AWARDING INNOVATION

AWARDING INNOVATION

grants

Three Spears School of Business faculty and staff members were selected to receive funds to implement programs over the next year through Partnering to Impact, a donorfunded grant program sponsored by Women for OSU.

The award recipients were announced April 28 at the Women for OSU Symposium.

A proposal by Dr. Miriam McGaugh, assistant professor of professional practice in the School of Marketing and International Business, was awarded one of six total grants for her “Stopping Sex Trafficking with Big Data” technology and her research on sex trafficking. The funds will be used to grow the online advertising database into the next phase: the development of the “Break the Chain” mobile application.

Dr. Alexis Smith Washington, associate professor in the Department of Management, and Sarah Teague, manager of outreach programs in the Riata Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, were also awarded a grant. It will assist in their development of a new LeadHERship Spears program that will offer professional development workshops, conference participation and networking, as well as a jobshadowing program for women.

Both proposals received the $10,000 maximum amount awarded through the Partnering to Impact program.

“We are very proud of the work of Dr. McGaugh, Dr. Washington and Ms. Teague and their efforts to secure these grants,” said Dr. Ken Eastman, dean of Spears Business. “Dr. McGaugh’s work to harness analytics to fight the scourge of sex trafficking will help to diminish

this terrible crime. Dr. Washington and Ms. Teague’s will better prepare our female students for leadership responsibilities. I commend them all for their efforts and look forward to what they accomplish.”

McGaugh has collaborated with Louisiana State University and the University of Alabama to research and create predictive models from online advertisements and sex trafficking. The development of the “Break the Chain” mobile app utilizes McGaugh and her team’s research into publicly available online escort apps.

Their research employs a public health approach and marketing concepts typically used to build a business and reverses those concepts to stop human trafficking one network at a time. The apps work by:

• Looking at the traditional price, placement and promotion of the

“services” to determine similarity scores across differing ads and geographic locations.

• Examining similarity scores to determine likelihood of the person being related to sex trafficking networks.

• Making that information available in a searchable database for law enforcement to use during investigations or suspected trafficking cases.

“This grant will allow us to complete the app and move it into implementation with the law enforcement community,” McGaugh said. “Strengthening the relationships with law enforcement and community organizations and building applications to enhance sex trafficking investigations falls in line with the landgrant mission of OSU.”

Dr. Miriam McGaugh, assistant professor of professional practice in the School of Marketing and International Business.

Spears faculty, staff receive Partnering to Impact

The LeadHERship Spears proposal from Washington and Teague also was recognized by Partnering to Impact leadership.

Washington and Teague are designing a yearlong leadership development program for women in Spears Business. Designed to complement the foundational and technical skills students learn in classes, the LeadHERship Spears program aims to provide additional professional savvy to female students.

Women who participate in the program through monthly meetings will receive leadership competencies and hands-on business experiences and form relationships with a cohort of aspiring future female leaders.

“Receiving this grant will allow us to pilot test a program that will help set women in Spears up for success and give them access to like-minded females,” Washington said. “Given that one of our primary goals is to advance the development of, especially, first generation and diverse female students, our program may expose them to opportunities they have never thought of before and encourage them to become leaders in their community no matter what path they decide to take. We see this becoming a permanent program for Spears and one we hope will impact generations to come.”

McGaugh, Washington and Teague are pleased to be recipients of the award.

“Thank you to the Women for OSU Partnering to Impact grant for this opportunity and funding this project that could help so many people within Oklahoma and beyond and allowing our ideas to come to fruition that have just been dreams for more than three years,” McGaugh said.

Teague says the grant will make a difference in the lives of OSU female students.

“Receiving this grant is a huge honor,” Teague said. “This grant is going to allow us to pilot a program that we are going to learn so much from and we have the opportunity to make this a program that will be here for years to come. We get to say it all started because Women for OSU gave us a chance to do it.” @ @

Dr. Alexis Smith Washington, associate professor in the Department of Management.

Sarah Teague, manager of outreach programs in the Riata Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Planting a Seed

Spears

Business research initiative focuses on issues impacting businesses, communities

Spears School of Business faculty will have the opportunity to take advantage of the school’s Seed Grant Initiative, allowing them to collaborate and strengthen public impact research through interdisciplinary projects which focus on contemporary issues that impact society, businesses and communities.

The goal of the research initiative is to identify insights and solutions to tackle pressing challenges and expand the knowledge base for industry, governments, communities and academia. Following OSU’s land-grant mission, the priority is for Spears Business faculty to concentrate on public impact research and become a leading voice committed to positive change in and beyond the state.

“Spears faculty have a long tradition of producing meaningful and significant research,” said Dr. Ken Eastman, dean of Spears Business. “The intent of this program is to encourage faculty in different disciplines to collaborate on research

that addresses important societal issues. We look forward to seeing what these research teams produce.”

The first proposals selected through the Seed Grant Initiative highlight the research from Dr. Bryan Hammer, assistant professor of management science and information systems, as well as the collaborative research of Dr. Jinyoung Im, assistant professor of hospitality and tourism management, and Dr. Rebecca Eastham, director of the Center for the Future of Work.

Hammer’s research is entitled “Feelings of inclusion and empowerment: How technology supports individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their caregivers.” The study’s goal is to help individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) feel socially included and develop digital and technical skills required to navigate the digital world. Researchers will study implementation and acceptance of some assistive technologies that

Dr. Bryan Hammer, assistant professor of management science and information systems.

Dr. Jinyoung Im, assistant professor of hospitality and tourism management.

have been developed to better understand how such technologies might help or hinder completion of basic tasks to be accomplished by individuals facing IDD issues.

Im and Eastham’s study — “Women executives’ experience of inclusion and gendered strategies in hospitality organizations” — aims to capture female executives’ lived experiences of inclusion and to investigate their negotiation strategies in hospitality organizations. Objectives are to explore female executives’ inclusion experience in terms of perceived belongingness and uniqueness, investigate their negotiation strategies when interacting with situational factors in day-today work and examine the impact of the COVID19 pandemic on their inclusion experiences and strategies. The researchers will interview a focus group of female executives in the hospitality industry and identify the common issues and best

practices for enhancing diversity and exclusion in this industry.

“Public impact research is becoming a key focus at OSU as well as in business schools across the world,” said Dr. Ramesh Sharda, vice dean for graduate programs and research at Spears Business. “We are pleased to be able to launch our own pilot initiative to encourage our faculty to engage in such work.”

The faculty research should focus on the following key themes:

• Business innovation, resilience and adaptation

• Data science, technology and society

• Innovation, strategy and business competitiveness

• Human resources transformation — diversity, equity and inclusion

• Climate change and its impact on businesses and communities

• Global business and society issues

• Community health, well-being and quality of life

• Sustainable enterprise development — environmental and social sustainability

• Renewable energy — finance, economics and policy

• Demographics and lifestyle — analytics and consumer behavior

This initiative offers an opportunity for faculty to develop interdisciplinary proposals that target relevant multi-disciplinary research priorities. The goal is to provide seed funding for new research projects. Moreover, it is important that new and existing projects have the potential to lead to other funding, as well as publications in leading academic journals.

To promote research collaboration within Spears Business and universitywide, it is required for the project team to include faculty from at least two departments or colleges.

For more information on the Seed Grant Initiative, please contact Dr. Sharda (ramesh. sharda@okstate.edu). @

Dr. Rebecca Eastham, director of the Center for the Future of Work.

“Spears faculty have a long tradition of producing meaningful and significant research.”

DR. KEN EASTMAN, DEAN OF THE SPEARS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

High Esteem

OSU professor awarded Fulbright Distinguished Chair

Oklahoma State University’s Dr. Ramesh Sharda has been selected for the Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award at Aalto University in Finland.

Sharda serves as the Spears School of Business vice dean for research and regents professor of Management Science and Information Systems.

“The Fulbright program is recognized around the world for its role in international exchange, and Dr. Sharda’s award will contribute to OSU’s global visibility and reputation,” said Dr. Randy Kluver, associate provost and dean of the School of Global Studies and Partnerships.

The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to build lasting connections between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.

The Fulbright Program is funded through an annual appropriation made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State. Participating governments and host institutions, along with corporations and foundations around the world, also provide direct and indirect support to the program, which operates in over 160 countries worldwide.

The Distinguished Chair Award is the most prestigious appointment in the Fulbright Scholar Program, and Sharda is only the second OSU faculty member to receive this award.

READ MORE: information about the Fulbright program at OSU at global.okstate. edu/Fulbright For information about the National Fulbright Program, visit eca.state.gov/ fulbright .

Sharda currently holds the Watson and ConocoPhillips Chairs and was selected as the 2020 OSU Eminent Faculty Award winner. He is a Fellow of INFORMS and AIS and was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame in 2016.

Sharda’s research has been published in major management science and information systems journals: Management Science; Operations Research; Information Systems Research; and many others.

He also serves on editorial boards for journals such as Decision Support Systems, Decision

Sciences, ACM Database and Information Systems Frontiers.

Sharda said he has two broad goals for his grant activities.

“The first goal is to leverage my knowledge and experiences of analytics research as well as launching, managing and supervising graduate degree programs to help grow Aalto’s new business analytics program,” Sharda said. “The second goal is to engage in collaborative research projects with interested faculty colleagues and launch a healthy analytics research project that can take advantage of our current initiatives and activities in applications of network science.”

The U.S. Fulbright Program is administered at OSU through the School of Global Studies and Partnerships. Cara Menasco Eubanks serves as the Fulbright Program advisor and Fulbright Scholar liaison to assist students and faculty with finding Fulbright opportunities and the application process.

“Dr. Sharda is an internationally recognized analytics scholar and his receiving the Fulbright reflects the esteem in which he is held. His research has brought positive recognition to Spears and OSU. We are honored to have him as a member of our faculty and administration,” said Dr. Ken Eastman, dean of the Spears School of Business.

The Fulbright Program is designed to forge lasting connections between the people of the United States and the people of other countries, counter misunderstandings, and help people and nations work together toward common goals.

Since its establishment in 1946, the Fulbright Program has enabled more than 390,000 dedicated and accomplished students, scholars, artists, teachers and professionals of all backgrounds to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas, and find solutions to shared international concerns. @

“The Fulbright program is recognized around the world for its role in international exchange, and Dr. Sharda’s award will contribute to OSU’s global visibility and reputation.”

DR. RANDY KLUVER, ASSOCIATE PROVOST AND DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF GLOBAL STUDIES AND PARTNERSHIPS

Dr. Ramesh Sharda serves as the Spears School of Business vice dean for research and regents professor of Management Science and Information Systems.

ALLEVIATING

ALLEVIATING POVERTY

Spears Business professor published in prominent journal for his work with West African economic development

Growing up in West Africa, Dr. Harounan Kazianga saw firsthand the consequences of people in the region not being able to find consistent sources of income.

The Oklahoma State University professor still has family in Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire, the two neighboring West African countries he was raised in and travels back to regularly.

But when he makes the trip home, Kazianga has a dual purpose in mind: finding ways to help alleviate poverty in countries such as Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal and other countries throughout West Africa. The OSU Spears School of Business economics professor’s research has focused on economic development for years, but one of his most recent research projects is recognized for its impact in Niger, where the average monthly salary is $320, and it’s not uncommon for women to live on less than $1 a day.

The research paper that he co-authored with a handful of colleagues — “Tackling psychosocial and capital constraints to alleviate poverty” — is attracting international attention

STORY TERRY TUSH | PHOTOS ANDREA BORGARELLO/WORLD BANK

after getting published earlier this year in Nature, the leading international journal of science first published in 1869.

“Most of the papers that I’m writing are for development economists who are interested in Africa,” Kazianga said. “As a researcher, being published in a scientific journal with a high impact factor that reaches a broader audience outside of economics is not a common occurrence.”

Kazianga and his co-authors, including a team of researchers from the World Bank, tackle the issue of poverty from a different angle than most have in the past. Policies that aim to reduce poverty often target economic interventions, but Kazianga and his colleagues decided to address psychological and social barriers in an attempt to help extremely poor households in Niger.

The researchers teamed up with the national cash transfer program of Niger’s government and used a clustered randomized control trial to document the effectiveness of multifaceted interventions designed to produce ways to generate income for women in poor households. They targeted 322 villages that were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups or a control group. All households received monthly cash transfers.

The households from the treatment groups received support for group formation and coaching, setting up saving groups, microentrepreneurship training and market access facilitation.

The groups also received one of three options: 1, a cash grant (capital arm); 2, psychological and social interventions, such as life-skill training and a community film screening to boost aspirations as well as address gender and social norms (psychosocial arm); or 3, both the cash grant and psychosocial interventions (full arm).

Women participating in the project saw their revenues increase by 49% to 102%, Kazianga said.

“It was an unexpected surprise to see those type of numbers,” he said. “When we first saw the numbers so large, we wanted to double check

to make sure we were not making any mistakes. We were expecting some positive change, but it was an unexpected surprise to see this enormous change. That was really encouraging.”

Kazianga is pleased that the research is being lauded by the Niger government.

“It’s exciting that the government was really interested and reacted in a positive way,” he said.

“The government itself reacted positively to the results, and they were looking at it asking if it was something that they could use and implement. It’s not every time that you do some research and then the government wants to use it, right? So, we were very happy.”

Dr. Ramesh Sharda, vice dean for graduate programs and research in Spears Business, is proud of the work by Kazianga and the other researchers.

“Harounan and the colleagues’ work follows a rich tradition of conducting experiments to understand behavior changes to address global poverty,” Sharda said. “Work in this stream was recognized in 2019 with the Nobel Prize awarded to three economists — Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer. I am pleased that our colleague Professor Kazianga is extending that line of research.

“A publication in Nature is relatively uncommon for a business school professor, so we are especially proud of his publication.”

The OSU researcher is pleased that he’s helping to make a difference in West Africa but said there is still plenty of work to be completed.

“It’s a region that faces many challenges, but has limitless potential,” he said. “I grew up there and I’m fortunate to do my research in the region. I’ve seen an overall positive trend and the difference that sound research can make. There are ups and downs but overall it’s an upward trend that we see in the region.

“I think this paper illustrates neatly how researchers and policymakers can team up to help the most vulnerable people in the region seize some of the economic opportunities the region offers.” @

“IT’S A REGION THAT FACES MANY CHALLENGES, BUT HAS LIMITLESS POTENTIAL. I GREW UP THERE AND I’M FORTUNATE TO DO MY RESEARCH IN THE REGION. I’VE SEEN AN OVERALL POSITIVE TREND AND THE DIFFERENCE THAT SOUND RESEARCH CAN MAKE.”

DR. HAROUNAN KAZIANGA, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS

Women in Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal and other West African countries benefited from multifaceted interventions designed to find ways to generate income for women in poor households.

Dr. Harounan Kazianga co-authored a research paper that was published in Nature.

Non-smoking Area

OSU researchers studying portal system to help patients quit smoking

Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 48,000 deaths in the United States each year, according to the United Health Foundation. While many smokers want to quit — 70% — less than 5% use medications or go to counseling that has been linked to successful quitting.

A team of researchers at Oklahoma State University are working to bridge that gap.

“The idea is that there are superior resources that lie with physicians — and quit attempts that involve physicians tend to be more successful,” said Marjorie Erdmann, director of the OSU Center for Health Systems Innovation. “Yet the smokers and physicians aren’t connecting very often.”

Because of a sponsorship from Pfizer, OSU researchers Erdmann, Dr. Bryan Edwards from the Spears School of Business and OSU Medicine student Tomi Adewumi leveraged a health system’s online portal system to test whether proactively offering physician help to patients who smoke increases physician-smoker collaboration. Half the patients were invited to come to the clinic for help and the other half were invited to click through to an asynchronous care survey for help.

By embedding asynchronous care links into half the messages, they were able to test the effect of eliminating logistic barriers that are typical for physician help (e.g., making an appointment, going to the clinic).

All portal messages contained information on how to successfully quit smoking through medications to control cravings and counseling or support to stay motivated — and proactively offered physician help.

Smokers responded more strongly to asynchronous care — the physicianassisted quit attempt rate among those smokers was twice that of the group invited to the office, 9.5% vs. 4.3%. Among the smokers who opened the message containing the asynchronous care link 18% — nearly 1 in 5 — made a physician-assisted quit attempt.

The study — published in the open access Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), one of the leading publishers for medical studies — consisted of 188 known smokers. Smoking attempts were tracked for 30 days after electronic outreach.

The study reached populations where smoking is concentrated and people tend to not go to the doctor as often — including rural and younger populations, Erdmann said.

Although the study was designed to help smokers, it also sheds light on another issue.

“On a larger scale, it’s encouraging for health systems — systems that are trying hard to figure out how to best engage with their patients — that physicians can effectively offer care to patients and patients are open to receiving care asynchronously,” Erdmann said. @

Dr. Bryan Edwards

Editorial Service

ACCOUNTING

Audrey Gramling

Editorial Board Member

Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory

SSRN for the Journal in Behavioral and Experimental Accounting

Brad Lawson

Editorial Board Member

Journal of Information Systems

The International Journal of Accounting

Teresa Lightner

Editorial Board Member Issues in Accounting Education

Sandeep Nabar

Editorial Board Member

Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation

ECONOMICS

Lee Adkins

Editorial Board Member

Dynamic Econometric Models

Harounan Kazianga

Associate Editor

Journal of African Economics

J.B. Kim

Associate Editor

International Economic Journal

Korea and the World Economy

Korean Social Science Journal

Editorial Board Member

Southwest Business and Economics Journal

Dan Rickman

Editor or Co-Editor

Growth and Change

Associate Editor

Journal of Regional Science

Editorial Board Member

Journal of Business Valuation and Economic

Loss Analysis

Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy

Papers in Regional Science

The Review of Regional Studies

Hongbo Wang

Editorial Board Member

Growth and Change

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Bat Batjargal

Editorial Board Member

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Management and Organization Review

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Special Issue Editor

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice Special Issue

Global Strategy Journal

Per Bylund

Associate Editor

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy

Editorial Board Member

Academy of Management Review

Cosmos + Taxis

Journal of Business Venturing

Journal of Management Studies

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Special Issue Editor

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy

Journal of Institutional Economics

Kristen Madison

Editorial Board Member

Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice

Family Business Review

Journal of Business Venturing

Journal of Family Business Strategy

Special Issue Editor

Family Business Review

Curt Moore

Associate Editor

Group & Organization Management

Editorial Board Member

Family Business Review

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal

Journal of Business Venturing

Matthew Rutherford

Editorial Board Member

Business Horizons

Family Business Review

Journal of Business Venturing

Special Issue Editor

Journal of Business Venturing

Craig Watters

Editorial Board Member

AASAR Academy of Scientific and Applied Research

Journal of Arts, Science and Technology

FINANCE

David Carter

Associate Editor

Journal of Undergraduate Research in Finance

Special Issue Editor Energies

Ramesh Rao

Editorial Board Member

Banking and Finance Review

Financial Review

Indore Management Journal

Journal of Financial Research

Betty Simkins Editor or Co-Editor

Journal of Commodity Markets

Associate Editor

Advances in Financial Education

British Accounting Review Energies

European Research Studies Journal Finance Research Letters

International Review of Financial Analysis

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance

Journal of Banking and Finance

Journal of Financial Education

Journal of Risk and Financial Management

Review of Financial Economics

Editorial Board Member

European Research Studies Journal

Journal of Climate Finance

Journal of Finance Case Research

Journal of Risk Finance

Special Issue Editor

Energies

Finance Research Letters

HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT

Catherine Curtis

Associate Editor

Journal of Hospitality Entrepreneurship

Jinyoung Im

Editorial Board Member

Event Management

Lisa Slevitch

Editor or Co-Editor

International Journal of Hospitality Management

Kam Fung (Kevin) So

Associate Editor

International Journal of Hospitality Management

Editorial Board Member

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management

Journal of Destination Marketing & Management

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

Journal of Travel Research

Journal of Vacation Marketing

Psychology and Marketing Tourism Economics

Tourism Management

Special Issue Editor

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management

Brij Thapa

Editor or Co-Editor

Journal of Park and Recreation Administration

LEGAL STUDIES IN BUSINESS

John Holden

Editorial Board Member

Journal of Addictive Diseases

Journal of Global Sport Management

Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport Sport and Entertainment Review

Laurie Lucas

Editorial Board Member

Book proposals and books in production (as a reviewer) to the American Bar Association

Business Law Section from academics and practitioners

MANAGEMENT

Federico Aime

Editorial Board Member

Journal of Management

Matt Bowler

Editorial Board Member

Journal of Business and Psychology

Nikolaos Dimotakis

Editorial Board Member

Journal of Applied Psychology

Bryan Edwards

Editorial Board Member

Human Performance

Journal of Applied Psychology

Journal of Business and Psychology

Journal of Management Personnel Psychology

Jason Kiley

Editorial Board Member

Journal of Management Studies

Lisa Lambert

Editor or Co-Editor

Organizational Research Methods

Editorial Board Member

Academy of Management Journal

Journal of Applied Psychology

Engaged Management ReView Journal

Alexis Washington

Editorial Board Member

Journal of Applied Psychology

Journal of Business & Psychology

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

David Biros

Associate Editor

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security, and Law

Dursun Delen Editor or Co-Editor

AI in Business

International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science Journal of Business Analytics

Associate Editor

Decision Analytics Healthcare Analytics

International Journal of RF Technologies: Research and Applications (IJRFT)

Editorial Board Member

International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA)

International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies

International Journal of Service Sciences (IJSS)

Journal of Big Data

Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence

Journal of Information and Knowledge Management (JIKM)

Jeretta Nord

Editor or Co-Editor

The Journal of Computer Information Systems

Rathindra Sarathy

Editorial Board Member Journal of Database Management

Ramesh Sharda

Associate Editor

Engaged Management Review

Information Systems Frontiers

Editorial Board Member

Decision Support Systems (Advisory Editor)

DataBase: ACM (Preeminent Editor)

International Journal of Service Sciences

Mark Weiser

Associate Editor

Journal of Information Systems Security

Rick Wilson

Associate Editor

Case Studies in Business, Industry and Government Statistics

Editorial Board Member Journal of Computer Information Systems

MARKETING

Todd Arnold

Associate Editor

European Journal of Marketing

Journal of Service Research

Editorial Board Member

Journal of Business Research

Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice Journal of Product Innovation Management Journal of Retailing

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

Tom Brown

Associate Editor

Journal of Service Research

Editorial Board Member Corporate Reputation Review Journal of Service Research Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

Karen Flaherty

Editorial Board Member

Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management

Justin Lawrence

Editorial Board Member Journal of Service Research

Marlys Mason Associate Editor

Journal of Public Policy & Marketing

Editorial Board Member

Journal of Consumer Affairs

Kevin Voss

Editorial Board Member

International Marketing Review Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

Psychology & Marketing

Graduate Student Placements

ECONOMICS

Anurag Deb Lecturer Finance/Economics Texas State University

HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT

Bonak Koo

Assistant Professor Texas Tech University

Kai-Sean Lee

Assistant Professor University of Tennessee

Kiyan Shafieizadeh

Assistant Professor Metropolitan State University of Denver

Yi Zhang

Postdoctoral Fellow Jinan University

MANAGEMENT

Anna Zabinski

Assistant Professor Illinois State University Sherry Fu Assistant Professor Colorado State University Truit Gray Assistant Professor Bowling Green State University

MARKETING

Colleen McClure

Assistant Professor University of Alabama-Birmingham

Minjoo Kim

Assistant Professor Washington State University Pramit Banerjee

Assistant Professor Missouri Western State University

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Ankita Srivastava

Assistant Professor Bentley University

Gabriel Bahr Visiting Professor Oklahoma State University

Madhav Sharma Assistant Professor Kansas State University Surya Ayyalasomayajula

Assistant Clinical Professor Arizona State University

Strategic Management Society Recognizes Washington

Dr. Alexis Smith Washington, associate professor in the Department of Management in the Spears School of Business, was the recipient of the 2022 Sucheta Nadkarni Award for Outstanding Publication on Women Executive Leadership for co-authoring the 2019 paper, “Making the invisible visible: Paradoxical effects of intersectional invisibility on the career experiences of executive Black women.”

Leaders from the Behavioral Strategy, Strategic Leadership and Governance interest groups have selected the winner of the Sucheta Nadkarni Award for Outstanding Publication on Women Executive Leadership each year since its creation in 2020.

This award is sponsored by Cambridge Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and is in memory of Sucheta Nadkarni, a gender equality champion and Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School

director. The award recognizes research which advances the understanding of gender diversity — including women on corporate boards and top management positions — according to the Strategic Management Society website.

“My co-authors and I are so deeply honored to be recognized by the Behavioral Strategy interest group of the Strategic Management Society (SMS) in this way,” Washington said. “Moreover, this award is extra special because it is named in honor of Dr. Nadkarni, a star in the field of women in executive leadership. I thank SMS, our publisher the Academy of Management Journal, my amazing coauthors and the wonderful women who shared their stories with us.”

The full paper can be found at okla.st/ Washingtonpaper @

Spears Business Rankings

UNDERGRADUATE

ACCOUNTING

No. 41 nationally in the Best 50 Accounting Schools (Big4Accountingfirms.org)

HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT

No. 1 in the Best Hospitality Management Colleges in Oklahoma for 2022 (Universities.com)

No. 6 in Top 20 Colleges for Hospitality and Hotel Management in the U.S. for 2021 (DegreeQuery.com)

MARKETING

No. 7 in Best Online Marketing programs 2021-22 (AffordableCollegesOnline.org)

GRADUATE

HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT

No. 13 in the U.S. and No. 25 in the world in the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects in Hospitality and Tourism Management for 2022 (Academic Ranking of World Universities-ShanghaiRanking. com)

MBA/GRADUATE PROGRAMS

Tied for No. 28 on the list of the 2022 Best Online MBA Programs (U.S. News & World Report)

Tied for No. 38 on the list of the 2022 Best Online Graduate Programs (non-MBA) (U.S. News & World Report)

MASTER’S IN BUSINESS ANALYTICS AND DATA SCIENCE

No. 10 in the 2022 rankings of the Best Online Master’s in Business Analytics programs (Fortune.com) No. 11 in the 2022 rankings of the Best Online Master’s in Data Science programs (Fortune.com)

Dr. Alexis Smith Washington, associate professor in the Department of Management

Faculty Journal Publication Highlights

Spears Business faculty had a terrific year in scholarly achievements. Our faculty and doctoral students had a total of 131 papers accepted or published last year. Of these, 14 papers were published in A+ journals, and another 47 in SSB’s A-listed journals, 44 in B and 32 in other scholarly journals. In addition, our faculty colleagues published two papers each in practitioner and pedagogical journals. It is remarkable that more than half of all the publications by Spears Business faculty are in A+ or A journals.

The following includes a list of papers in A+ and A journals, followed by a list B and other journals where Spears Business faculty have been published this last year.

A+ JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Lindsey Greco, Jeanine Porck, Sheryl Walter, Alex Scrimpshire, Anna Zabinski , (2022), “A Metaanalytic Review of Identification at Work: Relative Contribution of Team, Organizational, and Professional Identification,” Journal of Applied Psychology, (107), 5, 795–830

Russell James, Stanimir Markov, Michael Wolfe, (Forthcoming), “Can FinTech Competition Improve Sell-Side Research Quality?” The Accounting Review.

S.W. Min, Humphrey, Federico Aime, O.V. Petrenko, M.J. Quade, Qiang (Sherry) Fu, (Forthcoming), “Dealing With New Members: Team Members’ Reactions to Newcomer’s Attractiveness and Sex,” Journal of Applied Psychology.

Joel Koopman, James Conway, Nikolaos Dimotakis, Bennett Tepper, Young Lee, Steven Rogelberg, Robert Lount, (2021), “Does CWB Repair Negative Affective States, or Generate Them? Examining the Moderating Role of Trait Empathy.” Journal of Applied Psychology, (106), 10, 1493-1516

A. Hill, S. Johnson, Lindsey Greco, E. O’Boyle, S. Walter, (2021), “Endogeneity: A Review and Agenda for The Methodology-Practice Divide Affecting Micro and Macro Research,” Journal of Management, (47), 105-143. Eunkwang Seo, Deepak Somaya, (2022), “Living It Up at the Hotel California: Employee Mobility Barriers and Inventor Collaborativeness in Firms,”Organization Science, (33), 2, 766-784.

Rebecca Greenbaum, Yingli Deng , Marcus Butts, Cynthia Wang, Alexis Washington, (2021), “Managing My Shame: The Indirect Effect of Parental Identity Threat and Emotional Stability Onto Work Productivity and Parentchild Bonding.” Journal of Applied Psychology.

Greg Eaton, Clifton Green, Brian Roseman, Yanbin Wu, (Forthcoming), “Retail Trader Sophistication and Stock Market Quality: Evidence from Brokerage Outages,” Journal of Financial Economics.

Anna Lennard, F. K. Matta, S.-H. Lin, J. Koopman, R. E. Johnson, (2021), “The Dynamism of Daily Justice: A Personenvironment Fit Perspective on the Situated Value of Justice,” Organization Science.

Dain Donelson, Christopher Yust, Elizabeth Tori, (Forthcoming), “The Effects of Independent Director Litigation Risk,” Contemporary Accounting Research, 63.

Linda Myers, Roy Schmardebeck, Timothy Seidel, Stuart Michael, (Forthcoming), “The Impact of Managerial Discretion in Revenue Recognition: A Reexamination,” Contemporary Accounting Research.

Colleen McClure, Justin Lawrence, Todd Arnold, Lisa Scheer, (Forthcoming), “The Opportunities and Costs of Highly Involved Organizational Buyers,” Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.

Lincoln Brown, Per Bylund, (Forthcoming), “Where do Stakeholders Come From? Entrepreneurial Choice as the Genesis of Stakeholder Emergence,” Academy of Management Review

A JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Artemis Boulamatsi, T. Smith, Nikolaos Dimotakis, B. Tepper, L. Luccianetti, C. Reina, B. Runnals, (Forthcoming), ““How dare you?!”: A Self-Verification Perspective on How Performance Influences the Effects of Abusive Supervision on Job Embeddedness and Subsequent Turnover,” Personnel Psychology

Dursun Delen , Baidyanath Biswas, Ajay Kumar, Shivam Gupta, (Forthcoming), “A Critical Assessment of Consumer Reviews: A Hybrid NLP-based Methodology,” Decision Support Systems.

Baidyanath Biswas, Arunabha Mukhopadhyay, Sudip Bhattacharjee, Ajay Kumar, Dursun Delen, (Forthcoming), “A Text-Mining Based Cyber-Risk Assessment and Mitigation Framework for Critical Analysis of Online Hacker Forums,” Decision Support Systems.

H. Kim, H. Shin, K. K. F. So, (2021), “Actor Value Formation in Airbnb: Insight from Multi-Source Data,” International Journal of Contemporary

Hospitality Management.

Muhammet Deveci, Dragan Pamucar, Ilgin Gokasar, Dursun Delen, Qun Wu, Vladimir, (Forthcoming), “An Analytics Approach to Decision Alternative Prioritization for Zero-Emission Zone Logistics,” Journal of Business Research.

Y. Xu, S. Hazée, K. K. F. So, K. Li, E. Malhouse, (2021), “An Evolutionary Perspective on the Dynamics of Service Platform Ecosystems for the Sharing Economy,” Journal of Business Research, (135), 127-136.

Behrooz Davazdahemami, Hamed Majidi Zolbanin, Dursun Delen, (Forthcoming), “An Explanatory Machine Learning Framework for Studying Pandemics: The Case of COVID-19 Emergency Department Readmissions,” Decision Support Systems.

Jeanine Porck, D. van Knippenberg, (Forthcoming), “An Integrative Model of Structural, Behavioral, and Cognitive Coordination in Intergroup Effectiveness: How Middle Managers Play a Role,” Journal of Management Studies.

Mahdi Hajiali, Ebrahim Teimoury, Meysam Rabiee, Dursun Delen, (Forthcoming), “An Interactive Decision Support System for Real-Time Ambulance Relocation with Priority Guidelines,” Decision Support Systems.

K. K. F. So, S. Min, H. Kim, (2021), “Creating Customer Value in the Sharing Economy: An investigation of Airbnb Users and Their Tripographic Characteristics,” International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management.

B JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Academy of Management Perspectives

Annals of Operations Research

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Empirical Economics

Entrepreneurship Research Journal

Finance Research Letters

Human Resource Management Review

Information Systems Frontiers Information Technology and Management

International Journal of Electronic Commerce

International Journal of Information Management

Issues in Accounting Education

Journal of Computer Information Systems

Journal of Consumer Affairs

Journal of Empirical Finance

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management

Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management

Journal of Institutional Economics

Journal of International Money and Finance

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

Journal of Services Marketing

Michigan State University Law Review

Small Business Economics Journal

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

OTHER JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Computers and Security Decision Analytics Journal Energies

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Expert Systems With Applications

Healthcare Analytics Industry and Innovation Issues in Information Systems

Journal of Business Venturing Insights Journal of Commodity Markets

Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance

Journal of Economic Education Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition

Journal of Information and Knowledge Management

Journal of Information Systems Education

Journal of Mountain Science Journal of Physical Activity and Health Journal of Risk and Financial Management

Journal of the American Medical Association

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Knowledge-Based Systems mHealth

OR/MS Today, INFORMS Members’ Magazine

Reliability Engineering & System Safety Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology

Review of Austrian Economics

Review of Development Economics

Sport, Business, Management: An International Journal

Technological Forecasting & Social Change

Texas Tech Law Review

Tourism and Hospitality Research

Media Mentions

Several Spears Business faculty members were interviewed or their research was highlighted in many public outlets. Here is a partial list of the media mentions:

NPR MarketPlace

AP News

Entrepreneur News on 6 WalletHub Wired Fox 23 News

The Norman Transcript KRMG

The Post Arthur News The Oklahoman

The Black Chronicle

The O’Colly Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Listen

KOSU

NBC News Tulsa World Yahoo Finance ESPN Built In Yahoo News MSN Fox 25 News News 9 MarketPlace

Restaurant Relevance - the podcast News Channel 8 Tulsa New York Post

The New York Times

KSWO 7 News

Honolulu Civil Beat Boston Globe OETA The Joplin Globe Fox 5 Washington DC CNN Business Wire The Conversation Newsbreak NPR 2 News Oklahoma Sportico

Reuters

The Oklahoma News Report Regulated podcast Fd.

Frontburner CBC News Cal Matters Press Herald Wichita Beacon

The Sacramento Bee Bloomberg Management Insights Digitalhealthwire TCU 360 Diligent Fortune

Faculty Appointments

NEW FACULTY, TENURE TRACK

PROMOTIONS

Sarah Johnson

Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Learning

Dr. Angela Spencer

Department Head for Accounting Chasteen Chair

Dr. Andy Urich

Department Head for Business Administration

Dr. Peter Margaritis

ECONOMICS

Dr. Minhae Kim

Assistant Professor Ph.D. in Economics

Ohio State University

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Dr. Victoria Yates

Assistant Professor Ph.D. in Business Administration Mississippi State University

Director for School of Accounting Communications Center

Dr. Eric Sisneros

Assistant Department Head Finance

Dr. Rebecca Eastham

Director for Center of the Future of Work

Dr. Alyssa Vowell

Assistant Department Head and Program Coordinator for Accounting

Dr. Nikos Dimotakis

Professor Dr. Greg Eaton

Associate Professor

MANAGEMENT

Dr. Daniel Milner Assistant Professor Ph.D. in Management

Professor Ph.D. in Hospitality Administration

University of Houston

Northwestern University

Dr. Lindsey Greco Associate Professor Dr. John Holden Associate Professor Dr. Justin Lawrence Associate Professor Dr. Jim Burkman Professor of Professional Practice

NEW APPOINTMENTS

ACCOUNTING

Dr. Audrey Gramling

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Chair

Dr. Craig Sisneros

Patrick B. Dorr Professorship

Dr. Michael Wolfe

Judy Johnson Fellow

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Dr. Evan Davis Data Analytics Fellow

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Dr. Per Bylund

Johnny Pope Chair Dr. Marc Tower

Norman C. Stevenson Chair

HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT

Dr. Chenzhang Bao

William S. Spears Fellow in Business Dr. Kevin So William S. Spears Chair in Business Dr. Brij Thapa Charles W. Lanphere Professorship

MANAGEMENT

Dr. Lindsey Greco

William S. Spears Professorship in Business

MARKETING AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Dr. Justin Lawrence

William S. Spears Professorship in Business

MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Dr. Jinyoung Im

William S. Spears Fellow in Business Kim Strom Data Analytics Fellow

MANAGEMENT

Dr. Christopher Dinkel

Assistant Professor Juris DoctorateCornell Law School Master’s in Political Science

Northwestern University

Faculty Grants

Several Spears Business faculty and staff members have been successful in securing industry and government grants. A list of current active grants follows:

Betty Simkins

Determinants of Liquefied Natural Gas Prices — EIA

GPA Midstream Association — GPA Midstream

Dan Rickman

Oklahoma Econometric Model — OTC

Goutam Chakraborty

Infinedi Analytics — Infinedi

CICS Integration Analytics — Host Bridge

Triangle Insurance Data Visualization — Triangle Insurance

Fraud Analytics Internship and Forecasting Internship — Elevate

Apex Pricing Solutions

TSET

LOVE’S — Love’s Travel

Taurex

Kevin So

Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center Expansion: Standards, Practices and Projections — University of South Carolina

Laura Ahlstrom

Status of Women in Oklahoma — United WE

Lisa

Slevitch

How to Successfully Sell a Plant-Based Protein Product in a Carnivore State: Case of Oklahoma Restaurants — Research Jumpstart/Accelerator Grant program

Miriam McGaugh

Chickasaw Nation Indigenous Project LAUNCH — Chickasaw Nation Break the Chain: Stopping Sex Trafficking with Big Data — Women for OSU

Matthew Rutherford

SCC-PG: Revitalizing Rural-Equipping Rural Communities with Technology Literacy for Seizing Productivity — NSF

Chad Mills

Veterans with Disabilities Entrepreneurship Program — US Small Business Administration

William Paiva

Harnessing Tensor Info to improve HER data Quality for accurate data driven screening of Diabetic Retinopathy with Routing lab results — NIH

Leveraging deep active-transfer learning to identify low-resource mobility functioning information in public clinical notes — OCAST

Stacy Tomas

Hospitality Training for Wineries — ODAFF

Willie Tao Service Robot and Service Failure — Harrisburg University

Kevin So

The Watson Trading Floor in the Spears School of Business. PHOTO SPEARS BUSINESS