Fall 2020 Newsletter

INCOMING STUDENTS

The PhD Program had 9 students starting their PhD this fall.

AWARDS

Lauren Hindman received two grants, the UMass Graduate School Fieldwork Grant and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Grant.

Mojtaba Salarpour from the Management Science Department was accepted into the INFORMS 2020 Doctoral Colloquium and also received the Seth Bonder Foundation Award. https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/Scholarships/The-Seth-Bonder-Foundation-Student- Registration-Grant

Long The Nguyen from Information Systems received the Outstanding Reviewer Award from Americas Conference for Information Systems (AMCIS) 2020, in recognition of quality review work at the conference.

Conner Blake from the Accounting Department had a paper awarded the Lybrand Silver Medal, which is awarded by the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) to recognize articles with "exceptional contributions to the profession." The paper was titled, “Talk May be Cheap, but It Works: Supplement Quantitative Performance Measures with Narrative Reporting" By Jeremy Bentley, Conner Blake, Pam Trafford, and Margaret Shackell.

 

PRESENTATIONS

Risa Isard from the Sport Management presented her project, “Say Her Name: Prominent Trends in Reporting Women’s Professional Sports“ at A Call to Action, a research fair sponsored by UMass Athletics, the Office of Equity and Inclusion, Isenberg, and McCormack.

Smriti Kumar from the Marketing Department presented 2 papers and a poster at 3 conferences:

Kumar, Smriti, Elizabeth G. Miller, George R. Milne (2020): ”To Delete or not Delete: Effects of Data Request Frames on Consumers’ Willingness to Share Their Personal Information”, Paper presented at the Association of Consumer Research, Virtual

Kumar, Smriti, George R. Milne, Elizabeth G. Miller (2020): ”How you ask affects How I respond: Effects of Data Request Frames on Consumers’ Willingness to Share Their Personal Information”, Paper presented at the American Marketing Association SUMMER, Virtual

Kumar, Smriti, George R. Milne, Elizabeth G. Miller (2020): ”(Don’t) Kiss and Tell: Effects of Who Asks and How on Sharing of Personal Information”, Poster presented at the Marketing and Public Policy Conference, Virtual

PUBLICATIONS

Lauren Hindman from Sport Management had a paper published:

Walker, N. A., Agyemang, K. J. A., Washington, M., Hindman, L. C., & MacCharles, J. (in press). Getting an internship in the sport industry: The institutionalization of privilege. Sport Management Education Journal.

Huan Kuang from Finance Department had his paper: “Mandatory Audit Partner Rotations and Audit Quality in the United States” by Huan Kuang, Huimin Li, Matthew G. Sherwood, and Robert L. Whited published in the peer reviewed journal of the American Accounting Association, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. This paper was also featured in a CFO Magazine article on the CFO website discussing the the paper’s findings. You can find the news article here: https://www.cfo.com/auditing/2020/09/audit-partner-rotation-delivers-few-benefits/

Conner Blake from the Accounting Department had an article published in Strategic Finance:

Bentley, J.W., C. Blake, M. Shackell, and P. Trafford. “Talk May be Cheap, but it Works: Supplement Quantitative Performance Measures with Narrative Reporting” (Marh 2020 at Strategic Finance) https://sfmagazine.com/post-entry/march-2020-let-me-explain/

Howard Jean-Denis from Strategic Management had a poem published in a special issue of an academic journal. The poem describes an approach of managing stakeholder relationships from a compassionate, humanistic perspective. Inspired by the Ubuntu philosophy, the poem illustrates ways in which organizations can address social challenges through placing the welfare of humans above organizational goals.

Jean-Denis, H. (2020). Humanistic Management of Stakeholders. Organizational Aesthetics, 10(1), 53-54.

SERVICE

Lauren Hindman from Sport Management was elected the Diversity Committee Student Representative for the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) for 2020-21.

 

PhD PROJECT CONFERENCE

The PhD Project conference had their annual conference virtually this year. Professors George Milne, Mzamo Mangaliso, Orlando Richard, and Elizabeth Miller all attended the university fair where they were able to speak with several potential PhD students.

DISSERTATION PROPOSALS

Amro El-Adle
Management Science
Analytics-Based Optimization for the Integration of Drones into Last-Mile Logistics

Oscar Lopez
Information systems
Information Privacy in the Online Health Communities Context: A literature review and two empirical studies

Eugene See
Strategic Management
The Impact of Activist Appointed Directors on Firm Strategic Change

Howard Jean-Denis
Strategic Management
Les Deux Jeannots: An Investigation of Firm Behavior in Corrupt Environments

 

DISSERTATION DEFENSES

Aaron Mansfield
Sport Management
Multiple Identities in Sport Fandom: Balance, Conflict, & Negotiation

Yeongsu Kim
Strategic Management
The Impact of Client Capital Acquisition on Firm-Client Relational Embeddedness

Matthew Lyle
Organization Studies
Up in Smoke? Towards a Theory of Community Identity Work

Jeffrey MacCharles
Sport Management
Covering All Their Bases: An Investigation into Identity Covering in the Sport Workplace

 

PLACEMENTS

Aaron Mansfield is an Assistant Professor of Sport Management at Merrimack College

Yeongsu Kim is an Assistant Professor of Management at Western Kentucky University

Matthew Lyle is an Assistant Professor of Management at University of Colorado -Colorado Springs

Jeffrey MacCharles is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Michigan State University