Whitman Research Activity from July 2022 to October 2022
Awards and Honors
The Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises is ranked third among the most productive entrepreneurship departments in the world, according to a review of publications in entrepreneurship journals (Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal).
Joel Carnevale, assistant professor of management, was offered the role of associate editor at Journal of Business Ethics. He also joined the editorial review board of Journal of Management.
Ravi Dharwadkar, chair, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence and professor of management, received the Best Reviewer Award for the Academy of Management Journal.
Roger Koppl, professor of finance, and Maria Minniti, Bantle Chair in Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, have been awarded a $231,000 grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation for a project titled Reforming Scientific Advisory Bodies.
Anparasan (Anpu) Mahalingam, assistant professor of management, received the Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award the Strategic Management Division at the 2022 Academy of Management Meeting.
Alex McKelvie, interim dean and professor of entrepreneurship, is principal investigator for the Syracuse University portion of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant awarded to 10 colleges. This Innovation Corps (I-Corps): Interior Northeast Region Hub (IN I-Corps) is a $15 million, five-year investment by the NSF designed to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in STEM programs in rural, economically underserved regions. Also involved from the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises are Todd Moss (co-PI and research lead for the program); Johan Wiklund, Al Berg Chair and professor of entrepreneurship; and Assistant Professors of Entrepreneurship Arielle Newman and Cristiano Bellavitis.
Cameron Miller, assistant professor of management, received the 2020-21 Extraordinary Service Award from the editorial board of Organization Science.
Todd Moss, chair and associate professor of entrepreneurship, and Fabian Diaz ’21 Ph.D. had their 2022 article win the Best Paper Award on Environmental Sustainability and Entrepreneurship by the ONE Division of the Academy of Management, sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation. The paper, titled “Partnerships as an enabler of resourcefulness in generating sustainable outcomes” (with Dahik Loor, A.C.), is published in Journal of Business Venturing.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Joel Carnevale, assistant professor of management, has the following papers accepted for publication:
“A Mixed Blessing? CEO Moral Cleansing as an Alternative Explanation for Firms’ Reparative Responses Following Misconduct” (with Gangloff, A.K.), Journal of Business Ethics.
“Laughing with Me or Laughing at Me? The Differential Effects of Leader Humor Expressions on Follower Status and Influence at Work” (with Huang, L., Yam, K.C. and Wang, L.), Journal of Organizational Behavior.
Erasmo Giambona, professor of finance and Falcone Chair in Real Estate, has the following papers accepted for publications:
“Unveiling the Price of Obscenity in Housing Markets: Evidence from Closing Prostitution Windows in Amsterdam (with Ribas, R.), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
“The External Cost of Prostitution: Evidence from Shutting Down Red-Light Districts in the Netherlands” (with Ribas, R.), Real Estate Economics.
Burak Kazaz, Steven R. Becker Professor of Supply Chain Management, Hakan Hekimoğlu ’16 Ph.D. and John Park ’12 Ph.D. have their paper, “Service at Risk in Delivery Operations,” accepted for publication in Decision Sciences.
Minjung Kwon, assistant professor of marketing, has her paper, “An Empirical Study of Scarcity Marketing Strategies: Limited-Time Products with Umbrella Branding in the Beer Market” (with Ishihara, M. and Mizuno, M.), accepted for publication in Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.
David Lucas, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, has a paper, “Made to be broken? A theory of regulatory governance and rule-breaking entrepreneurial action” (with Fuller, C. and Packard, M.), accepted for publication in Journal of Business Venturing.
Alex McKelvie, interim dean and professor of entrepreneurship, and Johan Wiklund, Al Berg Chair and professor of entrepreneurship, have their paper, “Entrepreneurship as an auspicious context for mental health research” (with Gish, J., Lerner, D., van Witteloostuijn, A. and Wolfe, M.), accepted at Journal of Business Venturing Insights.
Arielle Newman, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, has a paper, “Entrepreneurial Political Activity in the Informal Economy” (with Barney, J.), forthcoming in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
Craig Nichols, associate professor of accounting, and David Weinbaum, professor of finance, have their paper, “Inferring Aggregate Market Expectations from the Cross-Section of Stock Prices” (with Bali, T.G.), accepted for publication at Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
David Weinbaum, professor of finance, has a paper, “Trading Activity, News Releases, and Stock Return Predictability” (with Fodor, A., Muravyev, D. and Cremers, M.), forthcoming in Management Science.
Fasheng Xu, assistant professor of supply chain management, has a paper, “The Value of Smart Contract in Trade Finance” (with Wang, X.), forthcoming in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
OTHERS
Cristiano Bellavitis, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, had a paper, “When Do Firms Adopt Remote Hiring,” nominated for the SMS Annual Conference Best Paper Prize.
Ravi Dharwadkar, chair, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence and professor of management, and Natarajan Balasubramanian, professor of management, appear in Academy of Management Review’s (AMR) YouTube videos based on their recent AMR articles on transaction cost economics and organizational and machine learning:
AMR Origins Series - Episode 27
AMR Origins Series - Episode 8
Erasmo Giambona, professor of finance and Falcone Chair in Real Estate, had a paper, “Hedging, Contract Enforceability, and Competition” (with Phillips, G. and Kumar, A.) appear on the NBER Summer Institute conference, a prestigious conference in the business and economics disciplines.
Suho Han, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, has joined the editorial review board of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
Alex McKelvie, interim dean and professor of entrepreneurship, and Mirza Tihic, assistant teaching professor at the College of Professional Studies, have a paper, “The Influencers Made Me Do It: The Role of Influential Others On Entrepreneurs With Disabilities,” published in the 2022 Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research Proceedings, BCERC Proceedings. McKelvie has another paper, “Capturing How Opportunities Unfold: A Longitudinal Reflective Diary Approach” (with Hägg, G.), in the same 2022 BCERC Proceedings.
Kira Reed, associate professor of management, organized a cluster-related Academy of Management Professional Development Workshop, titled Building Strong Interdisciplinary Research Clusters that Inform Management Research and Practice, along with Syracuse University colleagues Danielle Taana Smith, Carol Faulkner, Patrick Berry and Ravi Dharwadkar.
EVENTS, WEBINARS AND PODCASTS
The 73rd annual Harry E. Salzberg Memorial Lecture Program (Oct. 13), with a focus on environmental social governance, honored Patagonia Inc. and Jan Fransoo, Professor of Operations and Logistics Management at Tilburg University, as Salzberg Medallion Award Winners.
The lecture program was followed by a research day on using field data in supply chain management (Oct. 14):
Morning: Doctoral workshop: How to establish industry relationships
Jan Fransoo presentation/panel/Q&A on how to build these relationships and publish the findings
Afternoon Research talks
Jan Fransoo – urban logistics and nano stores
Deishin Lee, Associate Professor, Operations Management & Sustainability, Ivey Business School – food pantries and food supply chains
Anne Robinson, chief strategy officer, Kinaxis – the importance of industry-academic partnerships
Seminar on Journal Publishing for Ph.D. Students (Oct. 24). The seminar was tailored for those who are new to the business of writing and submitting a research paper to academic journals. The panel included faculty with extensive author, reviewer and/or editorial experience— Johan Wiklund, Al Berg Chair and professor of entrepreneurship; Burak Kazaz, Steven R. Becker Professor of Supply Chain Management; Cameron Miller, assistant professor of management; and Joel Carnevale, assistant professor of management.
The 2022-23 Global Forum, sponsored by the Kiebach Center for International Business Studies, presented:
- China in Africa: Blessing or Curse? (Oct 25). Peter Koveos, professor of finance and Kiebach Chair in International Business, discussed the nature of China’s involvement in Africa and the impact that Chinese investments, loans and trade have had on that continent.
- Managing in a Global Setting: Syracuse to Kenya (Sept. 22). presented by Elizabeth Wimer, assistant teaching professor. Wimer oversaw the Global Business Group Project competition and shared the experience of a group of students on immersion trip to connect course content with entrepreneurs and educational outlets in Nairobi, Kenya.
Whitman Webinar:
Blockchain/Crypto/Web3: Implications for Supply Chain and Finance (Nov. 16).
Organizer/Panelist: Fasheng Xu, assistant professor of supply chain management. Panelist: Rowena J. Gan, assistant professor of information technology and operations management at the Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University. This webinar covered different types of blockchain applications in supply chain management, and crypto tokens and associated financing issues. In addition, panelists talked about the most recent trending topic of Web3 and its implications for supply chains and businesses in general.
PH.D. ALUMNI UPDATES
Michael B. Elmes ’89 Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), was awarded the WPI Board of Trustees Chair’s Exemplary Faculty Award, which recognizes a WPI faculty member who excels in all relevant areas of faculty performance, including teaching, research and scholarship, and advising. Elmes has been a professor of organization studies at WPI Business School since 1990 and has published more than 50 papers, conference proceedings and books on numerous topics related to organizations—as well as work related to high-altitude mountaineering. He directs WPI’s Project Center in Wellington, New Zealand.
PH.D. STUDENT CORNER
Hooman Abootorabi ’22 Ph.D., entrepreneurship doctoral graduate, has a two-year postdoc position at the management and entrepreneurship department, University of Louisville.
Kang Ho Cho, accounting doctoral candidate, presented a paper, “Does Audit Effort Mitigate the Negative Effect of Macro Uncertainty on Audit Quality?” (with Albring, S. and Xu, X.), at the 2022 Joint Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Regions of the American Accounting Association, Oct. 2022.
Yi Huang, management doctoral candidate, presented a paper, “Curb Your Enthusiasm! Concentrated Institutional Ownership as a Check on CEO Overconfidence” (with Brandes, P. and Dharwadkar, R.), at the 2022 Annual Academy of Management Meeting. The paper was nominated to the Strategic Management (STR) Division’s nominees for the AOM Best Paper proceedings, Aug. 2022.
Jaihyun Jeon, marketing doctoral candidate, presented the papers:
“Digital Transformation and Marketing Innovation: A Review, Synthesis, and Research Agenda” (with Athaide, G., Raj, S.P. and Xiong, G.), the 2022 American Marketing Association Conference, Chicago.
“Stock Market Responses to Negative Word of Mouth: Moderating Roles of Warmth and Competence Strategies” (with Xiong, G.), Marketing Strategy Meets Wall Street, Chicago, Aug. 2022.
Ali Kozehgaran, marketing doctoral candidate, has a paper, “Effect of a Paradigm Shift on Traditional Taxi Companies and their Drivers” (with Fay, S.), accepted for presentation at the Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Conference Mar. 15-18, 2023.
Saman Modiri, marketing doctoral candidate, presented a paper, “Optimal Advertising Policy to Maximize Conversion, Loyalty, And Revenue” (with Yang, L. and Basu, A.), ISMS Marketing Science Conference, University of Chicago, June 2022.
Ran Quan, management doctoral candidate, had a paper, “How Firms React to Investor Ambiguity: Evidence from New technology Adoption” (with Maritan, C.), presented at the 2022 INFORMS/Strategy Science Doctoral Workshop, NYU Stern School of Business, June 2022.
Devin Stein, entrepreneurship doctoral candidate, attended the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship (ENT) Division Doctoral Consortium, Seattle, Aug. 2022.
Stein also presented the papers:
“Nonmarket Strategies and Firm Performance: An Industry Lifecycle Perspective,” (with Palubinskas, A. and Minniti, M.) 2022 Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting, London, Sept. 2022.
“Nested Knowledge and the Creation of Public Value,” Oxford Residence Week for Entrepreneurship Scholars, Oxford, U.K., June 2022, and Industry Studies Association Conference, Philadelphia, June 2022.
“Legitimacy, Licensing, and Informal Entrepreneurship,” (with Diaz, F. and Minniti, M.) Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Waco, Texas, June 2022.
Kelly (Mi) Hoang Tran, entrepreneurship doctoral candidate, presented a paper, “Entrepreneurial Team Conflict – The Associations With ADHD, Gender, Well-Being And Firm Performance” (with Wiklund, J., Yu, W. and Perez-Luño, A.), the Academy of Management Meeting, Seattle, Aug. 2022.
Haoran Yu, supply chain management doctoral candidate, presented a paper, “Retailing Strategies of Imperfect Produce and the Battle Against Food Waste” (with Kazaz, B. and Xu, F.), at the Informs Conference, Oct. 2022.
Zhiyuan Yu, management doctoral candidate, presented the papers:
“Path Dependency of Firm Innovation: Government Funding and the Balance Between Exploitation and Exploration,” at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (virtual), Aug. 2022.
“Government Funding in Interfirm Knowledge Transfer” (with Balasubramanian, N.), presented July 2022, at the AMJ Paper and Idea Development Workshop: Making Theoretical AND Practical Impact, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
IN THE NEWS
Tom Barkley, professor of finance practice, shared his expertise in the Syracuse.com story “Crouse faces bleak financial future if it doesn’t merge with Upstate, consultants predict” (Oct. 20).
Cristiano Bellavitis, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, was quoted in the RestOfWorld.org story “A U.S. company created a crypto community in Venezuela. Now it has thousands of volunteers” (Sept. 12).
Roger Koppl, professor of finance, co-authored The Hill opinion piece “The Biden administration’s latest online speech plan is as Orwellian as the last” (Sept. 5).
Eunkyu Lee, professor of marketing and associate dean for global initiatives, was quoted in the Voice of America article “International Student Launches Career Networking Site Mapis” (Aug. 21).
Cameron Miller, assistant professor of management, authored the Syracuse.com op-ed “Congress’s antitrust crusade will harm consumers, businesses” (Sept. 5).
Patrick Penfield, professor of supply chain practice and director of executive education
• was interviewed for several stories about supply chain issues, gas prices and inflation, including Axios, International Business Times, The Denver Post, Utica Observer-Dispatch, WSYR-TV and WGRZ-TV (Aug. 17).
• was quoted in the WGRZ (Buffalo) story “Sprint to avoid looming strike, U.S. railroads and unions have days to reach a deal” (Sept. 12).
• was interviewed for the Spectrum News story “Biden, White House work to avert possible nationwide rail strike” and the Jacksonville Business Journal story “A deal is struck as workers at CSX, other railroads ready for strike” (Sept. 14).
Ray Wimer, professor of retail practice,
• was interviewed by The New York Times for the article “Wegmans Discontinues Self-Checkout App, Citing Losses” (Sept. 22).
• was interviewed by the Washington Examiner for the story “Too much of a good thing” (Oct. 1).
SEMINARS
Marshall Fisher, Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, presented a supply chain management seminar, “The Value of Social Media Data in Fashion Forecasting,” Sept. 16.
Charles Noble, University of Tennessee, presented a marketing seminar, “Pushing the Boundaries of Marketing: Better Innovation for a Better World,” Sept. 16.
Ilan Lobel, NYU Stern School of Business, presented a supply chain management seminar, “Reducing Marketplace Interference Bias Via Shadow Prices,” Sept. 23.
Andrew Davis, Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, presented a supply chain management seminar, “A Replication Study of Operations Management Experiments in Management Science,” Sept. 30.
Shiva Agarwal, The University of Texas at Austin, presented a management seminar, “A platform for change? The impact of core component innovations in a platform-based ecosystem on complementor actions,” Oct. 7.
Spencer Pierce, Florida State University, presented an accounting seminar, “Labor unionization and non-GAAP reporting,” Oct. 14.
Elena Plaksenkova, Ohio State University, presented a management seminar, “Ecosystem Evolution and Bottleneck Shifts: Evidence from the Evolution of the Anti-HIV Drug Ecosystem,” Oct. 21.
Anthony Dukes, University of Southern California, presented a marketing seminar, “Marketing at the Edge of Law: The Case of Vertical Restraints,” Oct. 28.
Shiran Vaknin Froymovich, Binghamton University, presented an accounting seminar, “Aggregate Deferred Tax Asset Valuation Allowance and GDP Growth,” Oct. 28.
Yiting Deng, University College of London, presented a marketing seminar, “A Scalable Recommendation Engine for New Users and Items,” Nov. 4.
Monica Neamtiu, Baruch College, presented an accounting seminar, “Optimistic Gatekeepers: Credit Rating Optimism around M&A Deals,” Nov. 4.