Mark Riley, Assistant Professor in the Department of Accountancy, has been selected to receive research funding from PricewaterhouseCoopers through the firm's INQuires Program (2008). This year, Riley is one of only 26 researchers nationwide to receive funding from the firm. The INQuires Program is a highly competitive research grant program that is in its second year; since its inception in 2006, PricewaterhouseCoopers has funded nearly $1 million grant requests. Riley's grant request proposal that won the research funding is "Accounting Estimates: A Study of the Estimates Associated with the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts." Riley co-authored the grant request proposal with Bill Pasewark from Texas Tech University.
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.
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
Research Achievements Prior to 2007