Whitman Research News December 2024-April 2025

Awards and Honors

Johan Wiklund, Al Berg Chair and professor of entrepreneurship, has been appointed Distinguished Professor at Syracuse University by Provost Lois Agnew. One of 3 newly appointed Distinguished Professors at Syracuse, Wiklund was selected based on his extraordinary achievements and accomplishments and their high impact on his field of study. The selection process involved special consideration from an international group of peers who characterized Wiklund as one of the most productive entrepreneurship scholars and transformational leader in the study of neurodiversity and well-being entrepreneurship, among other things. Read more>

Journal Publications

Arielle Newman, assistant professor of entrepreneurship:

“Emancipatory Entrepreneurship in Postcolonial Economies: The Clash of Institutional Systems in the Kejetia Marketplace” (with Lewis, A. and Coles, R.), forthcoming, Journal of Business Venturing.

“How should we study heterogeneity in entrepreneurship? Moving the field to an inclusive approach” (with Garcia, R. Dodd, S., Wettermark, A. Schwartz, B., Berglund, K., Lindbergh, J., Radu-Lefebvre, M., Keim, J., Dey, P., Villeseche, F., Yang Liu, C., O'Toole, J., Randolph, A., Nair, A., Lewis, A., Jackson, D., Hechavarria, D., Xheneti, M., Sindani, T. and Atkins, R.), forthcoming, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

Rachael Goodwin, assistant professor of management:

“Under Pressure to Be Perfect: How Dehumanizing and Rehumanizing Social Cues Lead to Maladaptive and Adaptive Perfectionism in Professional Ballet” (with Garrett, L. and Block, A.), forthcoming, Academy of Management Journal.

“She Sees the Trees, He Sees the Forest: Descriptive Gender Stereotypes of Concreteness and Abstractness” (with Dodson, S., Wakslak, C., Diekmann, K. and Graham, J.), accepted, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Guiyang Xiong, associate professor of marketing, “Enhancing Consumer Decision-Making with AI: The Role of the Sense of Autonomy” (with Hou, J.J., Yang, S. and Pavlou, P.), accepted, Management information Systems Quarterly.

Cristiano Bellavitis, assistant professor of entrepreneurship:

 “Explaining the involvement and investment of women in business angel groups: The impact of organizational context and investment experience” (with Cohen, L. and Wirtz, P.), Journal of Corporate Finance.

 “Equity Crowdfunding for sustainable oriented ventures: Lead Investor Impact on Campaign Success and Post-Campaign Performance” (with Del Sarto, N.), Finance Research Letters.

Burak Kazaz, The Steven R. Becker Professor of Supply Chain Management:

“Retailing strategies of imperfect produce and the battle against food waste” (with Yu, H. ’25 P.D. and Xu, F.), accepted at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

“Converting Counterfeiters in Emerging Markets to Authorized Suppliers: A New Anti-Counterfeiting Measure” (with Lu, L. (postdoc), Fang, X. and Gao, S.Y.), accepted in Production and Operations Management.

Erasmo Giambona, professor of finance and Falcone Chair in Real Estate, “Quantitative Easing, Investment, and Safe Assets: The Corporate-Bond Lending Channel” (with Matta, R., Peydro, J-L. and Wang, Y.), forthcoming in Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.

Others

A paper by David Lucas, Cristiano Bellavitis, assistant professors of entrepreneurship, and David Park, associate professor of entrepreneurship, was recognized as being in the top 10 most cited articles of 2023 in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Joel Carnevale, associate professor of management, has a symposium forthcoming at the 2025 Academy of Management meeting, Copenhagen, titled “Putting Reputation Back in the Spotlight: Exploring New Perspectives on the Development, Maintenance, and Consequences of Personal Reputation at Work” (co-organized with Huang, L. and Auburn. U.).

Events

The 5th Annual Conference on Health and Entrepreneurship will be hosted by the Whitman School. Organized by Johan Wiklund, Al Berg Chair and Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Arielle Newman, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, this conference will bring together scholars from around the globe to explore the intersection of health and entrepreneurial activities. The conference seeks to strengthen the community of researchers interested in entrepreneurs’ physical and mental health, ill-being, and well-being, and to create new connections. It is designed for academics specializing in entrepreneurship, management and related fields who are interested in advancing research on the relationship between entrepreneurship and health.

Following the footsteps of our late Professor Fred Easton who co-organized the Information Intensive Operations Workshop with colleagues at the University of Rochester, the 2025 New York-Ontario (NYON) Operations Day will be held on Sept. 26, 2025. Steering the creation of NYON are The Steven R. Becker Professor of Supply Chain Management Burak Kazaz and Milind Sohoni (University of Buffalo). This single-day event will bring together scholars in the areas of operations and supply chain management from academic institutions and industry located in Upstate New York and Ontario, Canada, including University of Buffalo, Cornell University, RIT, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Toronto and Queens University. Presentations are on an invite-only basis. This year the event is hosted at the University of Buffalo. Whitman will host the 2026 NYON Operations Day.

Co-hosted by the Whitman School, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Texas A&M, the 2025 Second Workshop on Food Waste aspect of sustainability will take place on Oct. 23-24, 2025, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus. The program is organized by Professors Burak Kazaz, Dorothee Honhon (University of Texas at Dallas), Arzum Akkas (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Alex Hubner (Technical University of Munich) and Michael Katzenberg (Texas A&M). Future events will alternate between Europe and North America.

Ph.D. Student Highlights

Haoran Yu, doctoral student in supply chain management has a paper, “Retailing strategies of imperfect produce and the battle against food waste” (with Kazaz, B. and Xu, F.), accepted at Manufacturing & Service Operations. Yu’s second dissertation essay, “Impact of Hyperinflation Economy on Consumer Spending,” was presented at POMS (May 2025) and accepted for the poster presentation at M&SOM (June 2025).

Yi Huang ’25 Ph.D. has a paper, titled “Negative Performance Feedback and R&D Intensity: The “Problem” with Problemistic Search” (with Dharwadkar, R. and Brandes, P.), accepted for presentation at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, July 2025.

Jaihyun Jeon, doctoral student in marketing, has a paper, “Stock Market Responses to Negative WoM: Moderating Roles of CSR Reputation” (with Xiong, G.), accepted for presentation at Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) 2025 Conference. Jeon is also scheduled to attend the 2025 AMA Marketing Strategy Consortium and the 2025 AMA Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium.

Sanggeun Lee, doctoral student in entrepreneurship, has two papers accepted for presentation, “Working Hours, Subjective Socio-Economic Status, and Subjective Well-Being of Entrepreneurs” (with Park, D. and Wiklund, J.), at the 2025 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, and “How Working Hours Regulation Influences Entrepreneurs’ Subjective Well-Being” (with Wiklund, J.), at the 2025 Babson Conference.

Xiaoying Feng, doctoral student in marketing, has a paper, “Consumer Response to AI Technology in Beauty Product Marketing” (with Xiong, G., Lee, E. and Yang, L.), accepted for presentation at the 2025 Marketing Science Conference, Washington, D.C. Feng also published a blog review, titled “The Parents’ Plate Problem: How Good Intentions for Kids Lead to Poor Food Choices for Adults” (with Doan, L.T.), Journal of Marketing Research Scholarly Insights, May 8, 2025.

Xiaobo Lin, doctoral student in marketing, has a paper, “Intra-industry Spillover Effects of Negative News and Rival Firms’ Strategic Reactions” (with Xiong, G., Lee, E. and Yang, S.), accepted for presentation at the 2025 Marketing Science Conference and a paper at the 2025 AMA Summer Academic Conference. Lin is also scheduled to attend the 2025 AMA Marketing Strategy Consortium Doctoral Consortium.

Kelly (Mi) Hoang Tran ’25 Ph.D.:

“ADHD, Gender and Entrepreneurship” (with Wiklund, J.), accepted for publication in Lerner, D., Marino, L. and Corbett, A. (eds) Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth.

“The Entrepreneurial Heart: A Study of Different Entrepreneurial Passion and Eudaimonic Well-Being” (with Zhang, Y. and Perez-Luno, A.) accepted for presentation and designated as Best Paper at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.

“Impacts of the NSF I-Corps Program on Ability Beliefs Among Diverse Entrepreneurs” (with Forbes, D. and Bellavitis, C.), accepted for presentation at the Organizational Issues in Entrepreneurial Innovation symposium, 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.

Tran also attended the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Doctoral Consortium in Feb. 2025, was selected as a Business Research Quarterly Best Reviewer in 2024 and will attend an Entrepreneurship Research Conference in Massachusetts in June 2025.

Wenxin Zhang, doctoral student in supply chain management, has her papers, “The Interplay between Supplier’s Demand Forecast Sharing and Channel Encroachment” and “Exploring Antecedents of Channel Choice for App Download under Android System” (with Wu, Z.), accepted for presentation at the 2025 POMS Annual Conference.

In the News (selected)

David Park, associate professor of entrepreneurship, was quoted in the Newsweek story “UnitedHealth Stock Plunges as Company Faces New Scrutiny After CEO Shooting” (Dec. 9, 2024)

Cristiano Bellavitis, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, was interviewed for the Cointelegraph article “US Bitcoin reserve ups volatility, futures recoil” (April 29).

Ray Wimer, professor of retail practice, was interviewed and/or quoted for the Fox Business story “Sears out of bankruptcy, a handful of stores are left” (Dec. 5, 2024), The Dallas Morning News story “JCPenney is trying to reinvent itself again. Will it work this time?” (Jan. 22).

Kivanc Avrenli, professor of practice, was quoted in The National News Desk story “Influx of aviation disasters raise fears about air travel as investigators probe crashes” (Feb. 19).

Patrick Penfield, professor of supply chain practice, was interviewed and/or quoted for the stories and articles at CBS News 19 “Coffee prices expected to rise in 2025,” Yahoo! News “What is the cost of shoplifting to you?” (Jan. 6); Yahoo! News “Eggs are about to get even more expensive, expert says. Here’s how much” (Jan. 18); Newsweek “Map Shows Where Most Chickens Have Been Killed Amid Egg Shortage” (Feb. 1); Yahoo! Finance “Denny’s announces ‘pricing decision’ about egg dishes” (March 4); WGRZ-TV “Concerns about tariffs impacting the automotive sector” (March 10); The Baltimore Sun “Tariffs raise worries, ‘confusion’ for some Maryland business owners,” The National News Desk “Tech tariff exemptions add new element of uncertainty for trade rollout” (April 15); and Straight Arrow News “Dockworkers push to ban automation at ports with strike deadline weeks away” (April 20).

Seminars

Chi Zhang, from Texas A&M University, presented a marketing seminar, “Digital Artwork Pricing Using Image Analytics and Auction Models,” on December 12, 2024.

Mirza Tihic, from Syracuse University, presented an entrepreneurship seminar, “Influencing (Dis)Ability: The Role of Attitudes in Shaping Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of People with Disabilities,” on Feb. 21.

Paul Momtaz, associate professor of entrepreneurship, presented an entrepreneurship seminar, “The going-public(-blockchain) decision: How token exchange listing impacts digital platform growth and decentralization,” on Feb. 21.

Yu Guo, vice president of data, analytics and AI at BP, presented a supply chain management seminar, “Opportunities and Challenges of Data and AI in an Integrated Energy Company,” on March 5.

Adem Atmaz, from Purdue University, presented a finance seminar, “Volatility Disagreement and Asset Prices,” on March 7.

Stefan Lewellen, from Penn State University, presented a finance seminar, “Creditor Coalitions in Bankruptcy,” on March 21.

Disen Huang Albrecht, from Rutgers Business School, presented an accounting seminar, “Mutual Fund Governance of Corporate Political Spending: Evidence from Politically Motivated Charitable Giving,” on March 21.

Christof Stahel, from Investment Company Institute, presented a finance seminar, “Dilution and Strategic Complementarity in Fixed-Income Funds: Evidence from European UCITS,” on April 4.

Tinglong Daj, from Johns Hopkins University, presented a supply chain management seminar, “Regulating Adaptive Medical Artificial Intelligence,” on April 4.

Simon Parker, from Western University, presented an entrepreneurship seminar, “Women entrepreneurship under conditions of institutional improvement: Evidence from a natural experiment in India,” on April 4.

Karca Aral, associate professor of supply chain management, presented a behavioral lab seminar, “Gender Bias in Performance Evaluations: The Role of Operational Moderators” and “Racial Discrimination in Sourcing: Evidence from Controlled Experiments,” on April 4.

Tony Cookson, from University of Colorado at Boulder, presented a finance seminar, “Coverage Neglect in Homeowners Insurance,” on April 11.

Brandon Szerwo, from SUNY Buffalo, presented an accounting seminar, “Insights from Auditors' Disclosures of How They Addressed Critical Audit Matters,” on April 11.

Yu Xu, from Cornell University, presented a finance seminar, “A Dynamic Model of Private Asset Allocation,” on April 18.

Caroline Flammer, from Columbia University, presented an entrepreneurship seminar, “Blended Finance,” on April 18.

Anton Ovchinnikov, from Queen’s University, presented a supply chain management seminar, “Biases of Humans, of AI, and of Humans with AI,” on April 25.

Shawn Shi, from University of Washington, presented an accounting seminar, “Carbon Accounting Quality: Measurement and the Role of Assurance,” on May 2.