School of Business and Economics Conference Presentations

November 2012–October 2013

Bill S. Breffle

  • North American Lake Management Symposium, “Economic Values for Lake Improvement Using a Method to Better Reflect the Preferences of Less-wealthy Residents,” Madison, Wisconsin.
  • Pathways to Success: Integrating Human Dimensions into Fisheries and Wildlife Management Conference, “Socioeconomic Evaluation of the Impact of Natural Resource Stressors on Human-use Services in the Great Lakes Environment: A Lake Michigan Case Study,” Colorado State University, Breckenridge, Colorado.

Mari W. Buche

  • Association for Computer Machinery Computers and People Research, “Inter-Sourcing: Alternative IT Sourcing Solutions Using Student Interns,” Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Midwest Association for Information Systems, “The Elimination of Detrimental Shadow Systems: A Participant Observer Case Study,” Normal, Illinois.
  • “The Role of Information Analysts in Business Intelligence,” University of Michigan, Dearborn.
  • Academy of Management Meetings, “Gendered Institutions and Women’s Persistence in Entrepreneurship,” Boston, Massachusetts.

Emanuel Xavier de Castro Oliveira

  • 2013 International Network of Business and Management Journals Conference, “Technology Entrepreneurship in the Presence of Cultural Diversity and Shadow Economy: A Multi-Level Model in the Context of Developing Economies,” Lisbon, Portugal.
  • 2012 Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy Conference, “Technology Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: The Influence of Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment and Barriers to Technological Adoption,” Valencia, Spain.
  • 87th Annual WEAI Conference, “Technology Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: The Influence of Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment and Barriers to Technological Adoption,” San Francisco, California.

Howard Qi

  • 2013 Midwest Finance Association Conference, “A Structural Approach for Predicting Default Correlation,” Chicago. 
  • 2013 International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines (IABPAD) Conference, “With or Without Hilling and Value of Technology,” Orlando, Florida.
  • 2012 US-Vietnam Workshop on Multiple-hazard, “Valuation of Insurance: Insurance, Self-Insurance, or Maintenance,” NSF of the USA and the Vietnamese Government, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Maria G. Schutte

  • Financial Management Association Conference, “Comovement’s Rise and the Information Diffusion View,” Atlanta, Georgia. 

Sonia M. Goltz

  • “Gendered Institutions and Women’s Persistence in Entrepreneurship,” Academy of Management, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • “Beyond Social Exchange Theory: An Integrative Look at Transcendent Mental Models for Engagement,” Academy of Management, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • “Translating the Social Watch Gender Equity Index for University Use,” Academy of Management, Boston, Massachusetts.

Soonkwan Hong

  • Consumer Culture Theory Conference, “Incidentally Utopian: Re-imagining the Sustainability in Ecovillages,” Tucson, Arizona. 
  • “Cruising the Unadulterated Terrain of Consumption: Rural Snowmobilers’ Interpellation through Collective Simplicity,” Association for Consumer Research, Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • "Mythologized Glocalization of Popular Culture: A Postcolonial Perspective,” Association for Consumer Research, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Dana M. Johnson

  • 24th Annual Production and Operations Management Society Conference, “Patient Perceptions of Quality,” Chicago, Illinois. 
  • 24th Annual Production and Operations Management Society Conference, “Experiential Learning: A Case of Advanced Project Management,” Chicago, Illinois.
  • 2012 Decision Sciences Institute Conference, “THE Project Competition: A Case Study,” San Francisco, California.

Dean L. Johnson

  • Academy of Finance, “Are There Riches in Reputation?,” Chicago, Illinois. 

André O. Laplume

  • Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, “Immigration, Social Desirability and High-Growth Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: A Multilevel Model,” Calgary, Alberta.
  • Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, “Sequential and Simultaneous Approaches to Organizational Ambidexterity,” McEwan University, Calgary, Alberta.
  • Academy of Management, “Exploration

    and Exploitation Approaches for Various Stages of Firm Growth through Diversi cation,” Boston, Massachusetts.

Manish K. Srivastava

  • Academy of Management Annual Conference, “The Impact of Knowledge Structures on Alliance Formation,” Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Academy of Management Annual Conference, “Network Dynamism and Firm Innovation: A Knowledge Based Perspective,” Boston, Massachusetts.

Michele L. Loughead

  • Twelfth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, “Creating a Performance Culture,” Chicago, Illinois. 

Thomas E. Merz

  • “Risky and Safe Choices in Constant-Sum Games: An Experimental Design,” Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, and the University of Western Australia.

Junhong Min

  • Society for Marketing Advances, “Relationship Governance for Marketing Research Service Buyer and Provider,” Orlando, Florida. 
  • Academy of Marketing Science, “A Study of Understanding When Technology Attributes Can Increase Preference,” New Orleans, Louisiana.

Emanuel Oliveira

  • 2013 Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy Conference, “The Impact of Freedom From Corruption and Individual Attributes on Entrepreneurial Intentions in Transition Economies,” Valencia, Spain.

Saurav Pathak

  • 2012 Annual AIB Southeast USA Conference, “Informal Institutions and Technology Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets: A Multi-Level Model,” Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Karol I. Pelc

  • 20th Annual Conference of American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, “Global Dynamics of Innovation in Social Networking,” Las Vegas, Nevada.

Latha C. Poonamallee

  • “Beyond Social Exchange Theory: An Integrative Look at Transcendent Mental Models for Engagement,” Academy of Management, Boston, Massachusetts.

Tang Wang

  • Industry Studies Association Annual Conference, “Capability Stretching,” Kansas City, Missouri.
  • Darden and Judge Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference, “Capability Stretching,” Charlottesville, Virginia.
  • Opening the Black Box of Upper Echelons in China: TMT Social Attributes and Firm Flexibility,” Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
  • International Conference on Business, Management and Governance, “Trade Money for Guanxi: When do Venture Capitalists Underprice IPO Shares in China?,” Hong Kong, China.
  • "Capability Stretching,” Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China. 

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