August 16, 2002

 School of Business faculty publish books, articles;
receive awards, honors

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Many faculty members in the School of Business published books, textbooks, articles and earned honors and awards from 2001 to July 2002. The following is a sampling of many of those honors (the listing may not be complete). 

Abu-Hamdieh, Ayman, assistant professor, management information

• Won the Tae-Won Sohn Award in recognition for an outstanding teaching portfolio submission, April 2001.

Adams, Mary Ellen, Indiana Business Education Association Outstanding Business Educator Award 2001 (Adams also received this award in 1984).

Boose, Mary A., program coordinator, associate professor, insurance/risk management

• “A proposition for Effective Integration of Ethics Across the Business Curriculum,” The International Business and Economics Journal, 2002.
  

• “Web-Based Instruction: Successful Preparation For Course Transformation,” Journal of Applied Business Research, 2001.

Buffington, James R., associate professor, management information systems

• “A Framework for the Model Student IS Organization,” Journal of Informatics Education and Research, spring, with J. Harper and J. Harder.
  

• Presented with a plaque of appreciation from University Speakers Series for five years of service as chair of committee, Nov. 2001.

Chandra, Aruna, assistant professor, management

• “India Business: Finding Opportunities in this Big Emerging Market,” 2002, with Pradeep Rau and John K. Ryans, Jr.
  

• “Advertising Standardization in India: U.S. Multinational Experience,” International Journal of Advertising, 2002, with David Griffith and John Ryans.
  

• “Marketing to India’s Vibrant Middle Class: Four U.S. Consumer Goods Firms’ Perspective,” Marketing Management, spring 2002 with John Ryans
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• “Why India Now?” Marketing Management, 2002, with John Ryans.
  

• “Marketing IT in India: Perspectives of Mr. Murali Raman, Country Manager IBM India,” Thunderbird International Business Review, Feb. 2002.

Douglas, Max E., professor, program coordinator, management

• Recipient of a School of Business Professional Development Grant, June 2001.
  

• Inducted as an honorary member of the Golden Key International Honor Society.

Ferreira, Eurico J., professor, finance program

• “On Public versus Private Equity Placements:  Pedagogical Illustrations,” Financial Practice and Education, Fall 2001 with LeRoy D. Brooks,
  

• “Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser; Information or Entertainment?” Financial Analysts Journal, with S. Smith.

Girard, Eric C., assistant professor, finance program, and Zaher, Tarek, professor, program coordinator, finance

• “Intertemporal Risk-Return Relationship in the Asian Markets around the Asian Crisis.” Financial Services Review, 2002, with H. Rahman.
  

• “Asymmetric Reverting Behavior of Stock returns in MENA Capital Markets.”Review of Finance, 2002.
  

• “The Effect of the Asian Financial Crisis on Stock Returns, Volatility and Market Integration in the Region,” Studies in Economics and Finance (Spring 2002), 55-79, with H. Rahman.
  

• “Consequences of the Asian Financial Crisis on Global Asset Allocation Strategies: Evidence from the Asian Block,” International Review of Comparative Public Policy, Special Issue on International Financial Systems and Stock Volatility, Dec. 2001, with H. Rahman.
  

• Best Paper Award at the Feb. 2002 Academy of Finance Conference. “Asymmetric Reverting Behavior of Stock returns in MENA Capital Markets,” 
  

• Best Paper Award at the Oct. 2001 Academy of Financial Services Conference. “Intertemporal Risk-Return Relationship in the Asian Markets around the Asian Crisis.”

Harder, Joseph T., assistant professor, organizational dept. and Ferreira, Eurico J., professor, finance program

• “Private Equity Offerings: Picking Bad Versus Good Performers,” Journal of Private Equity, 2002, with L. Brooks.
  

• “A Framework for the Model Student IS Organization,” Journal of Informatics Education and Research, spring, with J. Buffington and J. Harper.

Harper, Jeffery, associate professor, Gongaware Center

• “A Framework for the Model Student IS Organization,” Journal of Informatics Education and Research, spring, with J. Buffington and J. Harder.
  

• “Understanding UMTS: Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems,” Journal of Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education.

Harris, Tom, assistant professor, accounting and Sanders, Joseph C., associate professor, accounting

• “FASB Terminates Pooling and Goodwill Amortization,” The Ohio CPA Journal.

Haque, Mahfuzul, assistant professor, finance program

• “Diversification as a Corporate Strategy for Family-Controlled Group in a Frontier Market,” The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4, winter 2001 with M. Kabir Hassan.
  

• “The Asian Financial Crisis of 1997: Causes and Policy Responses,” Multinational Business Review, spring 2002, with S. Kim.
  

• Best Paper Award in International Finance for the year 2001 – Southwest Finance Association (SWFA)

McLaren, Bruce J., professor, dept. chairperson, MIS Program

• “Mastering and Using Access 2002, Introductory and Advanced” Napier and Judd Series, Course Technology, 2002.
  

• “Mastering and Using Office XP Introductory and Advances” with B. Rand, L. Sourek and S. Lehner. Napier and Judd Series. Course Technology.

McLaren, Constance H., program coordinator, quality/decision systems, professor and Nelson, Sandra J., professor, assistant dean, administrative systems and business education

• “Alternative Classroom Management and Instructional Delivery Systems in Business Education,” Delta Pi Epsilon Nat. Hon. Prof. Grad. Society in Bus. Ed., 2002, with D. Smith, D. Davis, D. Everett, D. Kruger, H. Morse, G. Smith, C. Yatch and T. Yohan.

McLaren, Bruce J., professor, dept. chairperson, MIS Program and McLaren, Constance H., program coordinator, quality/decision systems, professor

• “E-Commerce: Business on the Internet,” 1998, rewriting for 2002.

Mikolaj, Peter J., professor, insurance and risk management program

• “Facilitating Web-Based Instruction: Formative Research on Improving an Online Undergraduate Course,” Quarterly Review of Distance Education, Vol. 2 No. 3, fall 2001, pp. 209-220, with Branon and Wang.

Moates, William H., associate professor, management information systems and Harper, Jeffery, associate professor, Gongaware Center

• “Glas-Col Laboratory Products,” Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2001, with J. Harper and S. Sterrett.

Moncada , Susan M., associate professor, accounting

• “An Investigation of the Critical Thinking Dispositions of Principles of Accounting Students,” The Journal of Accounting and Finance Research, Vol. 9, No.1, pp. 56-66, spring 2001, with T.P. Moncada.
  

• “Enhancing Learning:  Web Course Delivery and MERLOT,” Sketches of Innovators in Education, (a collection of articles on teaching with technology by Indiana State University faculty and staff), 3rd ed., pp. 19-20, 2001.
  

• “Critical Thinking and the Business Writing Competencies of Junior Accountants,” Journal of Business and Training Ed. Vol. 10 with S. Nelson and G. Smith.
  

• “From Classroom to Computer: Web Development and Delivery,” (online), Houghton Mifflin, Nov. 2001.
  

• “The Accounting Instructors’ Report,” An online journal.
  

• School of Business Faculty Recognition Award for Excellence in Teaching, April 20, 2001.

Nelson, Sandra J., professor, assistant dean, administrative systems and business education

• “Developing and teaching a web-based course,” Arizona Business Education Association Journal, 2001, with L. Gallion.
  

• “Critical Thinking and the Business Writing Competencies of Junior Accountants,” Journal of Business and Training Ed. Vol. 10 with S. Moncada and G. Smith.

Sanders, Joseph C., associate professor, accounting

• “SFAS No. 131 Results in Increased Segment Reporting for Banks,” Bank Accounting and Finance, Vol. 15, No. 2, with C, Jordan and S. Clark

Schikora, Paul F., assistant professor, quality and decision systems program

• “Predicting Performance of Dial-up Modem Pools:  Regression vs. Data Mining and Neural Networks,” (with Michael Godfrey) submitted to the International Journal of Production Economics,  Feb. 2001.
  

• “Flowcharting with Excel” (with Daniel R. Heiser), Quality Management Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3, fall 2001, pp. 26-35.

Warfel, William J., professor, insurance and risk management

• “Premises Security Litigation:  Risk Management Implications,” CPCU Journal, spring 2002.
  

• “Nursing Home Litigation: A Case for Reform,” CPCU Journal, pp. 233-248, winter 2001.
  

• “Regulation of Risk Retention Groups: A Case for Reform,” CPCU e-Journal, 2002.

Wilhelm, William J., assistant professor, administrative systems and business education

• “Alchemy of the Oracle:  The Delphi Technique.” Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, winter 2001, Vol. 43, No. 1.
  

• “Beyond Rhetoric:  Research About Skills Employers Want,” Arizona Business Education Association Journal, spring 2001, Vol. 20, No. 1 (online).
   

• “Meeting the Demand:  Teaching Soft Skills,” with Joyce Logan, Shiela Smith, Linda Szul.  Monographo published by the Delta Pi Epsilon national Honorary Professional Graduate Society in Business Education, 2002.
  

• “Needed Research in Business Education,” Sixth Edition, with Martha Rader.  Monographo published by Delta Pi Epsilon National Honorary Professional Graduate Society in Business Education, 2001.
  

• Indiana State University Research Grant Award for “Determinants of Moral Reasoning: Academic Factors, Gender and Religious Preferences,” 2002.

Young, Joyce A., associate professor of marketing

• “Public Opinion About Franchising in an Emerging Market: An Exploratory Investigation Involving Indian Consumers,” with A. Paswan and S. Kantamneni, Riverwoods, Illinois:  CCH Publishing, 2001, pp. 173-186.
  

• “The Evolution of Franchising in India: Prospects and Caveats,” with A. Paswan and R. Dant, Riverwoods, Illinois:  CCH Publishing, 2001, 131-157.
  

• “Franchise Owner-Operators and Employee Managers: The Case of the Outdoor Sign,” Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, 12:3, Oct. 2001, pp. 1-13. with A. Paswan.
   

• “Food Service Franchisers and their Co-Branding Methods,” Journal of Product and Brand Management, 2001, pp. 218-225, with C. Hoggatt and A. Paswan.
  

• “Relational Norms and Goal Orientation in the Indian Market,” Journal of International Consumer Marketing, 2002, with M. Pappu.

Zaher, Tarek S., professor, program coordinator, finance

• “A Comparative Literature Survey of Islamic Finance and Banking,” Financial Markets, Institutions, and Instruments, 2001 Vol. 10 No. 4 pp. 155-194, with Kabir Hassan.

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