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At the College of Business, faculty research drives innovation, shapes industries and creates meaningful impact in our community and beyond. Our scholars are thought leaders whose work advances knowledge in entrepreneurship, economics, finance, marketing, management and more.

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Spring 2026 Publications

January
Believe who you trust: auditor source credibility, PCAOB inspection outcomes, and non-professional investor judgments.

Believe who you trust: auditor source credibility, PCAOB inspection outcomes, and non-professional investor judgments.

Dereck Barr-Pulliam; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
The Urban Equilibrium Effects of Electric Vehicle Tax Credit.

The Urban Equilibrium Effects of Electric Vehicle Tax Credit.

Weihua Zhao; Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics

Fall 2025 Publications

August - December
Family frustration when you and your partner both work from home: The role of ICT permeability, planning and gender.

Family frustration when you and your partner both work from home: The role of ICT permeability, planning and gender.

Manju Ahuja, Rui Sundrup; Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS)
Unpacking the role of context: Understanding ambidextrous orientation in family firms.

Unpacking the role of context: Understanding ambidextrous orientation in family firms.

Isabel Botero; Journal of Business Research
Championing better ideas: Workplace dignity as an amplifier of innovative work behaviour

Championing better ideas: Workplace dignity as an amplifier of innovative work behaviour

Kristen Lucas; Creativity and Innovation Management
USER: User-side modality representation enhancement for multimodal recommendation.

USER: User-side modality representation enhancement for multimodal recommendation.

Jozef Zurada; Knowledge-Based Systems
Common ownership and executive pay duration.

Common ownership and executive pay duration.

Xudong Fu and Lori Tang; The Journal of Financial Research.

Summer 2025 Publications

May - July
The joint effects of valuation focus and employer type on valuation specialists’ perceptions of organizational-professional conflict

The joint effects of valuation focus and employer type on valuation specialists’ perceptions of organizational-professional conflict

Derreck Barr-Pulliam; Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory
Legal traditions and the ratification of the Paris agreement.

Legal traditions and the ratification of the Paris agreement.

Per Fredriksson; Energy Economics, Advance Online Publication. Volume 149.
A multidisciplinary theory repository and assurance ecosystem framework to facilitate research.

A multidisciplinary theory repository and assurance ecosystem framework to facilitate research.

Hilda Carillo; Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory
A multi-model approach to construction site safety: Fault trees, Bayesian networks, and ontology reasoning

A multi-model approach to construction site safety: Fault trees, Bayesian networks, and ontology reasoning

Jozef Zurada, Jeff Guan; Expert Systems with Applications. Volume 288

Spring 2025 Publications

January - April
Alternative Work Arrangements and Organizational Actions: Internal Auditor Behavioral Responses and Organizational Outcomes

Alternative Work Arrangements and Organizational Actions: Internal Auditor Behavioral Responses and Organizational Outcomes

Dereck Barr-Pulliam; American Accounting Association, Current Issue in Auditing
Contracting with Strangers: A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective on Gregory, Beck, Henfridsson, and Yaraghi’s “Cooperation among Strangers”

Contracting with Strangers: A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective on Gregory, Beck, Henfridsson, and Yaraghi’s “Cooperation among Strangers”

Fabian Diaz; Academy of Management Review
Adapting to Win: Churchill Downs Incorporated and the New Era of Entertainment and Betting

Adapting to Win: Churchill Downs Incorporated and the New Era of Entertainment and Betting

Mahesh Gupta, William Ferko and Thomas Lambert; The Sport Journal
Different Strokes for Different Folks: A Configural Analysis of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Different Strokes for Different Folks: A Configural Analysis of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Daniel Bennett; Small Business Economics
Petfluencers, the Fur-Mula for Sincere Endorsements: Examining How and When Pets Exhibit Greater Persuasion as Influencers

Petfluencers, the Fur-Mula for Sincere Endorsements: Examining How and When Pets Exhibit Greater Persuasion as Influencers

Katina Kulow; Journal of Advertising Research
Replicating Davidsson and Honig (2003): Updates on Human Capital, Social Capital, and Replications in Entrepreneurship

Replicating Davidsson and Honig (2003): Updates on Human Capital, Social Capital, and Replications in Entrepreneurship

Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy; Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Analytic induction: A novel approach in entrepreneurship

Analytic induction: A novel approach in entrepreneurship

Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy; Journal of Business Venturing Insights
Did Investments in LGBTQ Diversity Help Improve Relative Corporate Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis?

Did Investments in LGBTQ Diversity Help Improve Relative Corporate Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis?

Ben Foster, Xudong Fu and Andrew Manikas; Accounting, Ethics & Public Policy
Paradox of Family Firms: Comment on Fang, Singh, Kim, Marler and Chrisman

Paradox of Family Firms: Comment on Fang, Singh, Kim, Marler and Chrisman

Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy; Management and Organization Review.
Principles of Institutional and Evolutionary Political Economy: Applied to Current World Problems

Principles of Institutional and Evolutionary Political Economy: Applied to Current World Problems

Tom Lambert; Review of Political Economy