Alumni
PLACEMENT
Our Ph.D. graduates have been placed in universities across the country, including:
- California State University
Central Michigan University
Duquesne University
Eastern Michigan University
Florida Institute of Technology
Gannon University
Idaho State University - Indiana State University
Ithaca College
Loyola University
Minnesota State University
Montana State University
San Francisco State University
SUNY Brockport - Towson University
University of Hartford
University of Massachusetts
University of Tennessee
University of Texas
West Liberty University
PAST DISSERTATIONS
The following are dissertations presented by Ph.D. students in the past five years.
Accounting
Logan Browning, August 2017, An Examination of the Association of Firm Credit Ratings with Real Activities Manipulation, Audit Quality, Corporate Governance, and Credit Default Swaps
Jing Wang, December 2016, Acquiring Firms’ Strategic Disclosure Practices around Mergers and Acquisitions
Min Chen, August 2015, LOSS OF ANALYST COVERAGE IN THE U.S. AND AROUND THE WORLD
Barry Hettler, May 2015, Disclosure Practices of Dual Class Firms: An Examination of Voluntary and Mandatory Reporting
Matthew Geiszler, August 2014, Does Accounting Quality Affect the Informational Value of Credit Ratings?
David Salerno, May 2013, The Effect of Earnings Quality on Analyst Forecast Accuracy, Dispersion, and Optimism and Implications for CEO Compensation
Nathan Jeppson, May 2013, Innovation Focused Strategy and Earning Management
Gulraze Wakil, May 2011, Conservatism, Earnings Persistence, and the Accruals Anomaly
Finance
Zilong Liu, August 2016, Two Essays on Entrepreneurial Finance
Tzveta Vateva, December 2014, Corporate Governance and Default Risk
Nonna Sorokina, August 2014, Bank Capital and Theory of Capital Structure
Natalya Schenck, August 2014, Impact of Charter Values on Moral Hazard in Banking
Thomas Hanson, August 2014, Real Effects of High Frequency Trading
Robert Antenucci, December 2013, Impact of Corporate Governance, CEO Compensation, and CEO Portfolio Risk on Firm Performance during Recessionary Periods
Pavlo Tsebro, August 2013, Two Essays in Finance: Essay I - Employee Stock Options: Financing Constraints Explanation, Essay II-Role of the Equity-Based Compensation in Valuation of (Non-) Diversified Firms
Fanglin Shen, May 2013, Responses in Divergence of Opinions Around Earning Announcement: Evidence Outside the U.S.
Colleen Asaad (Tokar), May 2013, Two Essays in Finance: Cultural Finance and Behavioral Finance
Lisa Williams, August 2012, Essays on Risk Management Strategies for U.S. Bank Holding Companies
Richard Hauser, August 2012, The Firm "Life-Cycle" Hypothesis and Dividend Policy: Tests on Propensity to Pay, Dividend Initiation, and Dividend Growth Rates
Sara Bennett, August 2012, The Order Book, Order Flow, and the Impact of Order Cancellations On Equity Index Futures
Shengxiong Wu, May 2012, The Information Content of the Euro-Bund Futures Option Markets
Randall Kimmel, August 2011, Can Statistics Based Early Warning Systems Detect Problem Banks Before Markets?
Information Systems
Geoffrey Hill, August 2015, Sensemaking in Big Data: Conceptual and Empirical Approaches to Actionable Knowledge Generation from Unstructured Text Streams
Karoly Bozan, December 2014, Process Framework of a Multi-Stakeholder EHR System
Fengkun Liu, December 2014, Informational Cascades in Mobil Application Adoption: A Study of the Effects of Review, Social, and Adopter Characteristics
Venugopal Gopalakrishna Remani, August 2012, Information Supply Chain System for Managing Rare Infectious Diseases in the U.S.
Yaman Roumani, May 2012, Predicting Vulnerability Risks Using Software Characteristics
Joseph Nwankpa, May 2012, The Implications of Real Options on ERP-Enabled Adoption
Laura Rickett, August 2011, An Analysis of the Effect of Information Activism on Capital Markets: Investor Behavior and Divergent Market Conditions
Management Systems
Zhi Tao, May 2013, Carbon Emission Modeling in Green Supply Chain Management
Marina Astakhova, May 2012, Exploring Complementary Person-Organization Fit
Marketing
Jamie Grigsby, August 2017, What’s the Story? Understanding the Experiences and Consequences of Consuming Stories
Kostas Alexiou, August 2017, Organizational Legitimacy in Entrepreneurial Contexts: Hybridity, Crowdfunding, and Social Entrepreneurship
Paul Mills, August 2017, Essays on Two Novel Pricing Mechanisms
Hua Meng, August 2016, The Effects of Scent on Consumer Behavior
Hillary Mellema, August 2015, The Effect of Indecisiveness on Consumer Choice Processes
Andrey Kretinin, August 2015, Essays on Governance Perspective on Franchising
Chan Ho Song, May 2015, An Experimental Test of the Performance of Referral Reward Programs: The Receiver's Perspective
Todd Morgan, May 2015, Antecedents, Consequences, and Boundary Conditions of Customer Participation in the New Product Development Process
Rebecca Dingus, May 2014, Management of a Multinational Salesforce: A Transaction Cost Examination of the Sales Network
Kun Chen, May 2014, Strategic Objectives, Alignments, and Firm Performance
Marie Yeh, August 2013, Cards, Creatures, and Almost Anything: A Study of Children's Trading
Alison Shields, May 2013, What Did You Do To My Brand? Consumer Responses to Changes in Brands Towards Which They Are Nostalgic
Karla Mendoza Abarca, May 2013, Essays on Social Venture Antecedents, Consequences, and Strategies
Hyunjung Lee, August 2012, Brand Valuation Model: Shareholder Value Approach
Christina Saenger, May 2012, Attachment Style, Identity Congruence, and Gift Preference: A Dyadic Model of Gift Exchange
Kendra Fowler, August 2011, An Expansion of Retail Site Selection Theory: Incorporating Managerial Intuition and Process Quality
Mary Schramm, May 2011, Value Relevance of Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Veronica Thomas, May 2011, Secret Consumption: Responses to Social Group Influence Under Conditions of Conflicting Brand Preferences
Operations Management
Yertai Tanai, December 2016, Capturing Value from Decentralized Supply Chain with Third Party Reverse Logistics
Maxim Bushuev, December 2013, Supply Chain Delivery Performance: Points of View of a Supplier and a Buyer
James Brown, May 2013, Green Supply Chain and Transportation Models
Kuntal Bhattacharyya, August 2011, Value Sourcing in Supply Chains
Lihua Chen, August 2011, Some Results in Fair Sharing of Costs and Revenue in Supply Chains with Varying Demand
Strategic Management
David Lee Baker, May 2012, Toward a Theoretical Model of the Principal Determinants of Country-Level Entrepreneurship
Supply Chain Management
Hongyan Liang, December 2017, Three Essays on Performance Evaluation in Operations and Supply Chain Management