Shaokun Carol Yu, assistant professor of Accountancy, co-authored a research paper which received the American Accounting Association's (AAA) Midwest Region 2008 Best Paper Award. The paper is entitled "SFAS No. 131: Are Reconcilable Differences between Firm-Level and Segment-Level Earnings Informative?". The paper explores whether firm-segment reconcilable differences in segment earnings provided under the SFAS No. 131 'management approach' segment reporting regime is more informative than that provided under the SFAS No. 14 'industry approach' segment reporting regime. Yu's co-authors are Dana Hollie at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Robin Tarpley at George Washington University.
Pam Smith, KPMG professor of Accountancy, and Linda Matuszewski, assistant professor of Accountancy, co-authored a paper that describes how the NIU business college is integrating ethics into the business curriculum through the college's BELIEF Initiative ("Building Ethical Leaders Using an Integrated Ethics Framework"). Their paper was presented at the March 28, 2008 Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Accounting Association. At this meeting, Smith and Matuszewski were awarded the Teaching and Curriculum Section Best Manuscript Award for their work. The co-authors recently revised their award-winning paper and title to "Integrating Ethics into the Business Curriculum." This updated version has subsequently been accepted for publication in the ethics column of the May 2008 issue of Strategic Finance. Strategic Finance is a monthly publication of the Institute of Management Accountants.
John Hansen and Bobby Riggle, both assistant professors in the Department of Marketing, received national recognition for their co-authored research. Their paper -- "The Role of Ethical Salesperson Behavior in Relationship Selling" -- won the best paper award at the 2008 National Conference in Sales Management in Dallas Texas. The National Conference in Sales Management is the leading conference in the professional selling area.
Charles Gowen, Professor in the Management Department, Kathleen McFadden, Professor in OM&IS, and Greg Stock, Professor in OM&IS won the "Best Application Paper Award" at the National Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute. Their paper was selected as the best paper out of 484 refereed papers submitted nationally to the conference. Their paper is entitled "Effects of Six Sigma and Knowledge Management on Healthcare Organizational Results and Competitive Advantage." The National Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute will be held in mid-November, at which time Professors Gowen, McFadden, and Stock will receive their award.
OM&IS Professor Greg Stock's article "Hospital Operations and Length of Stay Performance" - which was published in the International Journal of Operations and Production Management (Vol. 27, No. 9) -- was featured in the August 2007 "Monthly Highlights" on the Emerald Web Site. Stock's research study is one of only 10 selected by Emerald each month, out of an average of 450 new research articles and case studies.
Gerald Jensen, Professor in the Finance Department, co-authored a research paper, "The Presidential Term: Is the Third Year the Charm?", which is receiving national media coverage. The research paper describes the effect of the United States President's third year on market performance, based on a review of the period 1957 to 2004. Media outlets currently carrying Jensen's co-authored research findings include: Reuters WireService, InvestmentNews, and the Chicago Sun-Times. Click here for the Chicago Sun-Times story.
Along with Northern Illinois University Finance Professor Gerald Jensen, the co-authors of the research are Robert Johnson, Managing Director at the CFA Institute, and Scott Beyer, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Assistant Finance Professor. Their research paper will be published in the Journal of Portfolio Management .
Don Tidrick
, Deloitte Professor of Accountancy, will receive the 2007-2008 National Author Award from the Association of Government Accountants (AGA). The award -- designated by the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Government Financial Management -- will be presented to Don at AGA's annual meeting in June 2007. Don was selected to receive the award based on his article "An Interview with Elmer Staats, Former Comptroller General of the United States: The First in a Three-Part Series," which appeared in the Journal of Government Financial Management in summer 2006. Visit the AGA Web Site.
Chang Liu, Associate Professor in the Department of Operations Management & Information Systems, was ranked in 2007 among the top 20 most productive researchers worldwide by Information & Management, which is regarded as one of the leading information systems journals. Chang's research on electronic commerce and IS usage was noted in the article. [Information & Management 44 (2007) 1-11.] Related Link
Gerald Jensen, Professor of Finance, co-authored a research paper entitled "Gridlock's Gone, Now What?" which was published in the September/October 2006 edition of The Financial Analysts Journal. The research study examines whether or not political gridlock is good for stocks. The study was co-authored by NIU Finance Professor Gerry Jensen, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Professor Scott Beyer, and CFA Institute Managing Director Robert Johnson. The study, as conducted by the trio of financial analysts, examines the monthly inflation-adjusted returns of 10 stock indexes over the period 1949 through 2004. Their findings indicate that stocks performed as laggards during the 402 months of gridlock that occurred within the 56 year period 1949 through 2004; during those months of gridlock, stocks averaged gains of 6 percent a year. Conversely, during the 270 months of governmental "harmony" that occurred within the period 1949 through 2004, stocks averaged gains of 22 percent a year.
Lei Zhou, Assistant Professor of Finance, authored a research paper entitled "Asset Opaqueness and Split Bond Ratings" which has been accepted for publication in Financial Management. (Summer 2006.) Financial Management is one of the top academic journals in finance.
Mark Rosenbaum, Assistant Professor of Marketing, authored a research paper entitled "Exploring the Social Supportive Role of Third Places in Consumers' Lives" which was published in August 2006 in the Journal of Service Research (click for abstract of the study). Dr. Rosenbaum was quoted, and his research findings cited, in a Chicago Tribune article -- "Hangouts Feed Souls of Lonely"-- which ran on August 12, 2006.
Gerald Jensen, Professor of Finance, John Banko, Assistant Professor of Finance, and University of Richmond Finance professor Mitch Conover co-authored a research paper entitled "The Relationship between the Value Effect and Industry Affiliation." This paper discusses value investing and the interrelationship between the higher historical returns (known as "value effect") produced by firms and the industry in which a firm operates. The authors' paper has been accepted for 2006 publication by The Journal of Business, which is published and produced by the University of Chicago Press. The Journal of Business publishes only the highest quality papers in all business disciplines. This paper represents the first NIU paper ever accepted for publication in The Journal of Business (University of Chicago).