Inside Business May-June 06

Faculty/Staff News

Professor of Accountancy Chee Chow has been accepted for concurrent session presentation at the 2006 American Accounting Association’s annual meeting in August in Washington, D.C. The articles to be presented are: “Performance Standards and Managers: Adoption of Risky Projects,” co-written with James Kohlmeyer (East Carolina University) and Anne Wu (National Chengchi University), and “Towards Understanding Chinese Auditors: Structure of Audit Approaches, Client Acceptance Decisions, Risk Assessment, and Stringency of Imposed Reporting Standards,” co-written with Joanna Ho (UC-Irvine) and Phyllis Mo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University).

Associate Professor of Management Lori Verstegen-Ryan was asked to speak at Loyola University New Orleans in April on “U.S. Corporate Governance in a Global Context.” She has also been invited to report on current trends in corporate governance research at the “Business Ethics in the Corporate Governance Era” conference in Seattle in July.

Management Professor and Chair Gangaram Singh has co-authored (along with Ellen Dannin) “Law and Collective Bargaining Power: An Experiment to Test Labor Law Reform Proposals,” which will appear in the most recent volume of Justice on the Job: Perspectives on the Erosion of Collective Bargaining in the United States. This volume presents an influential group of researches who examine the current state of workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain collectively. Senator Edward Kennedy said of the book, “This timely and important volume demonstrates how our government has undermined the long-standing right of employees to form a union and imposed an unfair cost on countless families and communities. We can’t ignore this indispensable right in creating prosperity and preserving a just society.”

Former CIBER Co-Director Steve Sacco won the best presenter’s award in April at the Georgia Tech CIBER Business Language Conference, titled “Matters of Perspective: Culture, Communication and Commerce.” A total of 74 presentations, Sacco’s was entitled “New Funding Opportunities for Strengthening International Business and Business Language Programs.”

Managing Director of CIBER Mark Ballam will serve on the steering committee for the 2007 U.S. Department of Education’s International Education Program Studies (IEPS) Outreach Conference. National steering committee members will travel to Washington, D.C. for two days in May to create the framework for the conference, including producing a mission statement and objectives for the conference; identifying topics for plenary sessions and targeted working groups; recommending potential participants/speakers; and defining the focus of any publications resulting from the conference.

Management Professor Michelle Dean has had a number of articles recently published. “An examination of the challenges daughters face in family business succession,” with C. Vera (MSBA student) in Family Business Review; “A multi-method examination of biodata theory in a field context,” with C. Russell (University of Oklahoma) in International Journal of Selection and Assessment; “The relationship between work attitudes and job analysis ratings: Do rating scale type and task discretion matter?” with J. Conte (SDSU), K. Ringenbach (Chapman University), S. Moran (St. Paul Companies), and F. Landy (Landy Litigation Support Services) in Human Performance.

Dean also had two papers recently accepted for publication: “The past, present, and future of entrepreneurship research: Data analytic trends and training” with C. Shook (Auburn University) and T. Payne (Texas Tech University) in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and “Examination of the predictive validity of Big Five personality dimensions across training performance criteria” with J. Conte (SDSU) and T. Blankenhorn (MSBA student) in Personality and Individual Differences. She recently presented an earlier version of the latter paper at the 2006 Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology conference in Dallas, TX.

Accountancy Professor Victoria Krivogorsky’s article “Effects of Top Management Replacement on Firms’ Behavior,” co-written with J. Eihenseher, was published last November in The Management International Review. In May 2006, her research paper “Ownership, Board Structure and Performance in Continental Europe” was selected to be published in The International Journal of Accounting. Her research papers were accepted for the presentation at the Academy of International Business annual conference in June 2006, Economic and Business Society International annual conference in July 2006 and American Accounting Association annual meeting in August 2006.

Marketing Professor Cristel Russell’s paper, co-authored with husband Dale Russell, titled “Explicit And Implicit Catalysts Of Consumer Resistance: The Effects of Animosity, Cultural Salience And Country of Origin on Subsequent Choice,’ was accepted in the International Journal of Research in Marketing.

IDS Professor Murray E. Jennex was a featured speaker at the 6th International Information Forum, held in Tunis, Tunisia, April 25-27. Jennex was asked to discuss knowledge management technologies and knowledge management success. The forum is hosted by the University of Tunis Carthage and this year’s forum was the first knowledge management forum or conference in North Africa. Over 100 business people, government officials, and students from North Africa attended the forum. Jennex is a recognized expert in knowledge management (he is editor in chief of the International Journal of Knowledge Management, co-chair of the Knowledge Management Systems Track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS, author of approximately 50 articles, book chapters, and conference papers on knowledge management, and editor of two knowledge management books) and was one of eight experts brought in to speak at the forum.

Finance professor Tom Warschauer has been seleced to serve on the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Board of Standards, Inc. Education Task Force. As the policy-setting body of CFP Board, the Board of Governors reviews CFP Boards core operations on a regular, rotating basis. To accomplish its review of education, the Board has formed a high-level
Education Task Force, comprised of individuals both inside and outside the financial planning profession. The task force will review CFP Boards current educational goals, standards and practices, compare them to those of other certification bodies and to models of best practice, and decide whether to recommend any changes to CFP Boards current operations.

Management Professors Present at National Conference
Management professors will represent SDSU this August at the Academy of Management Conference in Georgia. This year’s theme, titled “Knowledge, Action and The Public Concern,” explores the linkages among organizational knowledge, managerial action and the major issues that face people in the global and knowledge economy.

Three papers will be presented: “Can experts assess future technology success? A neural network and Bayseian analysis of early stage technology proposals” co-authored by Sandy Ehrlich, Craig Galbraith, Doug Kline and Alex DeNoble; Don Jung wrote “Values and authentic action: Examining the roots and rewards of altruistic leadership”; and Gangaram Singh, Kamal Haddad and Chee Chow co-authored “How well can publication of an article in a top management journal be used as a proxy for its contribution.”

Chamu Sundaramurthy will facilitate “Learn from the experts about publishing social issues research in top general management journals,” and also will serve as a chair for “Governance in entrepreneurial firms.”

Lori Verstegen-Ryan will chair “Moral language and justification in business.” Vertegen-Ryan will serve as a panelist on “Early career issues” and “Ask the experts about publishing social issues research in top management journals.” She also will preside over International Association for Business and Society and is on the editorial board of Business Ethics Quarterly and Academy of Management Review. Also presiding is Don Jung for the Association of Korean Management Scholars.