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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.

Faculty Directory

Economics professor honored with top scholar rankings

Per Fredriksson has been honored in the ScholarGPS rankings. He is ranked in the top 0.35% overall (all fields), 0.31% in Economics, 0.03% (#5) in Environmental Policy and 0.09% (#18) in Corruption Studies. He has also been included in the Research.com 2025 Ranking of Best Scientists in Political Science, where he is ranked #482 in the world and #257 in the U.S.

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

Assistant professor of accountancy featured by Oracle Academy

Hilda Carillo was featured by Oracle Academy for her collaboration with Patrick Johnson, chief operating officer and partner at Louisville-based Oasis Solutions, to develop a curricular innovation that integrates Oracle NetSuite ERP simulation cases into her accounting course.

Faculty publish new works in economics and management

Tom Lambert, Associate Professor of Economics and Equine, has published a book chapter titled “Displaced Worker Angst and Far-Right Populism” in the book Neoliberal Economic Policy and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism.

James Fiet, Professor of Management, has published a book titled “The Theoretical Logic of Strategy” with Springer Nature.

Faculty recognized with editorial appointments and awards

Saurav Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, Information Systems, Analytics & Operations, has been appointed as an Associate Editor for Decision Support System, an elite journal on our journal list.

Marketing Professor, Mike Barone, has been honored with the 2024 Outstanding Reviewer Award and appointed as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Consumer Psychology.

Entrepreneurship professor invited to deliver featured talks

Daniel Bennett, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, was invited to deliver two distinguished talks this spring. He presented “Riding the Populist Wave: Entrepreneurial and Firm Responses to the Changing Political Current” as a plenary lecture at the Public Choice Society Annual Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. He also spoke on “Rethinking Capital(ism) in the 21st Century” at the Workshop on the Law & Political Economy Project, hosted by the Law & Economics Center of George Mason University in Destin, Florida.