Whitman Research Highlights (Dec. 2023 through Feb. 2024)

Awards and Honors

Natarajan Balasubramanian, professor of management, was appointed associate editor at Journal of Strategic Management for a 3-year term.

Sebastian Tideman-Frappart, assistant professor of accounting, has been appointed by the European Accounting Association for a 3-year term to serve on a new Standing Scientific Committee responsible for social and environmental accounting and ethical issues in accounting.

Guiyang Xiong, associate professor of marketing, was appointed associate editor at Service Science for a 3-year term.

The following Whitman faculty are recipients of 2024 Lender Center Research Grants for March 2024-March 2025: 

Karca Aral, (PI) assistant professor of supply chain management, and Erasmo Giambona, (Co-PI) professor of finance and Ricardo Lopez, (Co-PI) assistant professor of finance, project title “Optimizing Corporate Supplier Diversity Programs and Corporate-Facing Regulations for Addressing the Racial Wealth Gap?” ($62,500 + fringe and 20% IDC).

Arielle Newman, (PI) assistant professor of entrepreneurship, project title “Race and Military Service: Economic Mobility for Minority Veteran Entrepreneurs” (with PI Zoli, C. and Co-PIs Gomez, A., Maury, R. and Mercado, M.) ($15,000 + fringe and 20% IDC).

El-Java Abdul-Qadir, (Co-PI) director of the South Side Innovation Center, project title: “From Highways to High-speed Internet: Leveraging Equitable Infrastructure for the Data Economy” (with PIs Patin, B. and Gray, L. and Co-PIs McKnight, L., Smith, D., King, K., Tacheva, J. and Zwick, A.) ($110,518 + fringe and 20% IDC).

Journal Publications

Natarajan Balasubramanian, professor of management:

“The Cue-Ball Effect: How an Advantaged Firm’s Closer Competitors Can Propagate the Impact of Its Advantage to More Distant Competitors” (with Makadok, R. and Chiu, W.T.), Strategic Management Journal.

“Caveat Emptor as an Obstacle to Business Transfers: Effect of Product Line Liability Exceptions on Acquisitions, Entry, and Exit” (with Sivadasan, J., Xu, W. and Tong, S.J.) Strategic Management Journal.

“How Does Worker Mobility Affect Business Adoption of a New Technology? The Case of Machine Learning” (with Forman, C. and Chen, R.) Strategic Management Journal.

Joel Carnevale, assistant professor of management, “Capable Fish or Deficient Ponds? A Meta-Analysis of Consequences, Mechanisms, and Moderators of Perceived Overqualification” (with Liao, M., Zhang, M.J., Huang, C. and Wang, L.), Journal of Management.

Cameron Miller, associate professor of management, “Digitization and product differentiation strategy change: Evidence from the book publishing industry” (with Wang, R.D.), Strategic Management Journal. 

Lihong Liang, associate professor or accounting, “Do Eastern Religious Traditions Stifle or Encourage Corporate Innovation? Evidence from China” (with Liu, S., Yang, D. and Zhang, C.), Journal of International Accounting Research.

David Park, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, “An Image of Industry: Exploring the Effects of Knowledge Sources in the Medical Imaging Industry” (with Rha, R., Shah, S.K. and Chattopadhay, S.) Industrial and Corporate Change. 

Alex McKelvie, interim dean and professor of entrepreneurship:

“Entrepreneurial Responsibility: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Ethical Dualism Throughout the Entrepreneurial Process” (with Hägg, G., Kurczewska, A. and Haataja, V.) Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice.

“Customer Engagement Patterns and New Venture Outcomes” (with Chandler, G.N., McLeod, M., Broberg, J.C. and DeTienne, D.A.), Small Business Economics.

“Health Resourcefulness Behaviors: Implications of Work-Health Resource Trade-offs for the Self-employed” (Michaelis, T.L., Carr, J.C., Spivack, A. and Lerman, M.P.), Journal of Business Venturing Insights.

Maria Minniti, Bantle Chair in Entrepreneurship and Public Policy and director of the Institute for an Entrepreneurial Society (IES), and Zach Rodriguez, post-doctoral researcher and associate fellow with IES, “Resilience Within Constraints: An Event-Oriented Approach to Crisis Response” (with Williams, T.), Journal of Management.

Mirza Tihic, adjunct professor in entrepreneurship, and Alex McKelvie, interim dean and professor of entrepreneurship, “Entrepreneurship Education and its Role in Transitional Entrepreneurship as Veterans Transition From Military to Civilian Life” (with Pritchard, A.J. and Maury, R.V.), Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy. 

David Weinbaum, professor and chair of the finance department, “Performing Up to Par? Hospitality Firms After ASU 2016-02” (with Liu, C., Yang, Y. and Yehuda, N.), forthcoming in the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly. 

Others

Maria Minniti, Bantle Chair in Entrepreneurship and Public Policy and director of the Institute for an Entrepreneurial Society:

Panelist on an Institute for Humane Studies online research workshop on “The Governance of Emerging Technologies,” Nov. 2023.

 “Is Productive Entrepreneurship Getting Scarcer? A Reflection on the Contemporary Relevance of Baumol’s Typology,” Discussion Paper Series, IZA DP No. 16408, Berlin.

Lynne Vincent, associate professor of management, was a contributing member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration on the paper “Reproducibility in Management Science,” (Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A.) forthcoming in Management Science.

Events, Webinars and Podcasts

Faculty Forum on AI & ML is Research Held on Feb. 23, 2024, it brought together faculty and Ph.D. students to discuss How and why AI/ML is already being used, and can be used to support research? Are there tools that simplify the use of AI/ML in research? Is generative AI/ML useful (now that some conferences are asking if it was used for any part of a paper)? A follow-up forum is planned to illustrate how some faculty and Ph.D. students are combining AI/ML tools into research work.[LB1] 

Ph.D. Student Corner

Kelly (Mi) Hoang Tran, entrepreneurship doctoral student:

Paper presentation, “Neurodiversity and Startup Performance Evaluation – The Moderating Role of Founder Gender and Race,” Great Lake Entrepreneurship Network (GLEN) conference in Chicago, May 2024. 

“Neurodiversity and Entrepreneurship” (with Wiklund, J. and Rahm, R.), in “Neurodiversity and Work: Employment, Identity and Support Networks for Neurominorities,” Patton, E., Santuzzi, A.M. (Ed.), Palgrave Mcmillan.

Ghonche Khalaj, finance doctoral student, has a paper accepted for presentation, “Do ESG Mutual Funds Care? A Demand System Approach,” at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Finance. 

In the News (selected)

Natarajan Balasubramanian, from the management department, was covered in UCLA Anderson Review about his article “Was Research — on Physicians and Noncompete Agreements — Before Its Time?” (Dec. 13, 2023).

J. Michael Haynie, vice chancellor and Whitman’s executive dean, was interviewed for the Fox News story “Military recruitment concerns: It is a generational challenge” (Frb. 16, 2024).

Aral Karca, from the supply chain management group, and Erasmo Giambona, from the finance department, were covered in the story “Recent findings on enhancing experiences, gender wage transparency, long-term planning, networks and the dangers of flattery” in INSEAD Insights: January 2024 Research Picks (Jan. 18, 2024).

Eunkyu Lee, professor of marketing and associate dean for global initiatives, was interviewed for the Washington Post story “A campaign to prod students into college tries a new tack: Making it simple” (Feb. 16, 2024)

Patrick Penfield, professor of supply chain management practice, 

was quoted in the stories: “Will a Sugar Shortage Sour Your Holiday Baking?” in AARP (Dec. 11, 2023), ‘We haven’t seen this situation before’: A perfect storm of supply chain issues could impact retailers globally” in Modern Retail (Jan. 8, 2024), “The top challenges in semiconductor manufacturing this year” in Manufacturing Dive (Jan. 30, 2024), “Buying Clothes in the US Is About to Get More Expensive” in Newsweek (Jan. 8, 2024), “Listeria Outbreak Linked to Cheese Leads to Recalls from Trader Joe's, Costco” in Healthline (Feb. 9, 2024), “How the Green Energy Switch Will Affect Engineers' Jobs“ in IEEE Spectrum (Feb. 12, 2024), and “'No Contract. No Beer.' Union prepares for strike at Central NY's Anheuser-Busch brewery” in Syracuse.com (Feb. 21, 2024).

Milena Petrova, associate professor of finance, was covered in the Ecology, Environment & Conservation newsletter about her article “Building Sustainability, Certification, and Price Premiums: Evidence from Europe” (Dec. 28, 2023).

Willie Reddic, associate professor of accounting and associate dean for business education, was quoted in the Des Moines Register story, “Did Iowa exercise due diligence in opening door for insurance executive with checkered past?” (Dec. 14, 2023)

Lynne Vincent, associate professor of management, was quoted in the CBS News article “UAW deal with Detroit's Big 3 automakers sees pushback from workers” (Nov. 15, 2023), CNBC story “Microsoft, Uber, Dell and a brand new plan to start out each child inventory choosing” (Nov. 26, 2023), CNBC feature “The new plan to create a stock market portfolio for every child in America that’s caught Microsoft, Uber, Dell and Zillow’s attention” (Nov. 29, 2023), ABC News stories “Unions made 2023 the year of the strike. What will happen next?” (Dec. 16, 2023) and “Unions made 2023 the year of the strike. What will happen next?” (Dec. 26, 2023), and the News Nation feature “Unions projected to build on the momentum of 2023 labor strikes” (Jan. 24, 2024).

Seminars

Joost Rietveld, UCL School of Management, presented an entrepreneurship seminar, “Rolling the Dice: Resolving Demand Uncertainties in Markets with Heterogeneous Network Effects,” on Nov. 29, 2023.

Candace Jens, assistant professor of finance, presented a finance seminar, “Credit Market Driven Acquisitions,” on Dec. 8, 2023.

Jenny Tucker, University of Florida, presented an accounting seminar, “The power of information aggregation: An evaluation of machine-generated peer firms,” on Dec. 8, 2023.

Tina Dacin, Queens University, presented an entrepreneurship seminar, “Maintaining craft: The collective custodial work of community entrepreneurs,” on Jan. 26, 2024.

Ben Hallen, University of Washington, presented an entrepreneurship seminar, “Measure Twice, Cut Once: Achieving Exceptional Growth in Nascent Online Fashion Markets,” on Feb. 2, 2024.

J.P. Eggers, NYU Stern, presented a managementseminar, “Unlocking Novel Knowledge Recombinations: The Impact of AI Adoption on Manufacturing Innovation,” on Feb. 8, 2024.

Yongwook Paik, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KAIST College of Business, presented an entrepreneurship seminar, “How Incumbent Firms Cope with Economic Policy Uncertainty: The Case of Corporate Venture Capital Investments in Innovative Startups as a Real Option,” Feb. 16, 2024.

Kyle Emich, University of Delaware, presented a management seminar, “Intelligence Is Not Enough: How Cognitive Ability, Emotional Regulation Ability, and Conscientiousness Align to Predict Team Performance,” on Feb. 23, 2024.

Anywhere (Siko) Sikochi, Harvard Business School, presented an accounting seminar, “Transitory and Permanent Cash Flow Shocks in Debt Contract Design,” on Feb. 23, 2024.