.. JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2007

FACULTY/STAFF NEWS

PROFESSIONAL

For the second year in a row, IDS Professor James Beatty will serve as a judge for the Department of Veterans Affairs Carey Awards for 2007. Carey Program Manager Eric Malloy at the Department of Veterans Affairs said, “The list (of judges) looks like it came from the top 10 Baldrige people in America.” The annual award was established in 1992 to recognize organizations within Veterans Affairs that have implemented systems management approaches in an exemplary manner.

Martha Doran, Nathan Oestreich and Carol Venable, all from the School of Accountancy, along with Brock Allen from the Center for Teaching and Learning, made two presentations of Mapping the Accounting Curriculum at the annual joint meeting of the Federations of Schools of Accountancy and the Administrators section of the American Accounting Association on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at the Marriot Mission Valley.

At the May 2007 meeting of the International Association for Business and Society in Florence, Italy, Lori Ryan, associate professor of management, will present the paper, “Corporate Governance: Principles or Rules?” She also will chair the referred panel, “Markets and Business Ethics,” and co-chair the third annual “Corporate Governance Research Workshop,” which attracts an active cadre of corporate governance scholars from the U.S., Canada, and Europe. At the Florence meeting, Ryan also will finish her term as the organization’s president after 15 months in office.

Amy Randel, assistant professor of management, was selected to be on the editorial board of the Journal of Organizational Behavior (JOB). The JOB publishes high-quality research on work-related issues worldwide. Its articles emphasize how organizations impact people and how people shape organizations. Her term began on Feb. 1.

“Marketing in the New Media,” a new book by Marketing Lecturer, Holly Berkley, is coming out in March. The book shows top brands how they can combine traditional advertising (televisions, radio, print, outdoor) with new media (internet, mobile marketing) to reach more customers and increase profits. Berkley also is the CEO and Director of Internet Marketing and Sales of Vantage Internet Services.

Gerald Whittenburg, accounting professor, had four publications in Fall 2006. His paper with Howard Toole, C. Medlin and Don Sciglimpaglia “AACSB International Accreditation: An Australian Perspective,” was published in The Journal of Academic Administration in Higher Education (Spring-Fall 2006) pp. 9-15. His paper with Martha Doran and W. Raabe, “Indicators of a problem client,” was published in Taxes (September 2006) pp. 35-39. His paper with I. Horowitz and W. Raabe, “Determining Innocence in Innocent-Spouse Court Cases Using Logit/Probit Analysis,” was published in Advances in Taxation (Volume 17, 2007), pp.143-165.

Gangaram Singh, management professor, has five forthcoming articles. His paper with C. Galbraith and Alex DeNoble, “Market Justice, Religious Orientation, and Entrepreneurial Attitudes,” will be published in the Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy. “The Modern Living Wage Movement,” written with K. Muilenburg will be published in the Compensation and Benefits Review. His paper with Alex DeNoble and Sanford Elrich, “Toward the Development of a Domain-Specific Measure of Family Business Self-Efficacy,” will be published in Family Business Review. “Burnout and the Big Five Personality Traits: Evidence from Academia,” his paper with Jai Ghorpade and Jim Lackritz will be published in the Journal of Career Assessment. His paper with Chee Chow and Kamal Haddad, “Human Resource Management, Job Satisfaction, Morale, Optimism, and Turnover,” will be published in the International Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Administration.

IDS Professor Bruce Reinig and IDS alumnus Robert Briggs received a Best Paper Award at the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). A panel of judges selected their paper, "Bounded Ideation Theory: A New Model of the Relationship between Idea-quantity and Idea-quality during Ideation," from 79 papers published in the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track. HICSS is one of the longest running and most prestigious conference in the field of information systems and its proceedings are published by the IEEE computer society. Briggs is the director of Academic Affairs for the Institute of Collaboration Science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Sport Business Management MBA instructor, Scott Tinley, has released his sixth book, a collection of non-fiction essays surrounding the theme of struggle in the unique rents and seams of American culture. Things to Be Survived: Tales of Resolution and Resurrection is published by Habitus Books.

Share Repurchase Offers and Liquidity: An Examination of Temporary and Permanent Effects, by Finance Professor Allan Zebedee, was accepted for publication in Financial Management. The paper is co-authored with Nandkumar Nayar (Lehigh University) and Ajai Singh (Case Western University).

Accounting Professor Chee Chow had the following book chapter published: “Management Accounting Practices in the People’s Republic of China,” chapter 19 in Volume 2 of C. S. Chapman, A. G. Hopwood, & M. D. Shields (Eds.), Handbook of Management Accounting Research (Oxford, UK: Elsevier, 2007), with Rong-Ruey Duh (National Taiwan University) and Jason Xiao (Cardiff University), pp. 941-986.

Jeff Glazer, management lecturer, has been appointed to serve a two-year term as a Board member of the Campanile Foundation. The Foundation provides SDSU with the community expertise, oversight and advocacy to increase private giving and manage the philanthropic assets of the university. Glazer previously served as the faculty representative for the Foundation.

Gangaram Singh, along with Chee Chow, Kamal Haddad and Anne Wu, wrote a paper entitled, "How Well Can Publication of an Article in a Top Accounting Journal Be Used as a Proxy for its Contribution?" Their paper was recently listed on Social Science Research Network's Top 10 download list for "Behavioral Economics (Topic)". As of February 15, 2007 the paper had been downloaded 86 times. This paper is currently under second review
at Issues in Accounting Education.

NEW EMPLOYEES

Debra Woodman, Accounting
Debra Woodman, will be serving as the administrative support coordinator for the School of Accountancy and IDS. Woodman graduated as an accounting major from SDSU in 2004. She previously held a position with Aztec Shops since 2000.

Heather Erwin, Executive and Specialized Programs
Heather Erwin, will be serving as a temporary program coordinator in the Executive and Specialized Programs office. After graduating from UC Davis with a BS in applied behavioral sciences, Erwin went into real estate as an escrow officer in Sacramento. She then changed career paths to purse international education and worked at UCSD’s Med Center Reproductive Department as the Branch Operations Manager’s Assistant.

Linda Jansen-Buonanducci, Development Office
Linda Jansen-Buonanducci, will be serving as the development assistant. She was previously the office manager at First Allied Securities where she worked for four years. She was born in Los Angeles and attended Woodbury University.

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