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* School of Business Faculty News *

The School of Business is proud to recognize the publications and successes of its faculty. Following is news to date for the 2024-25 academic year.

 

October, 2024

  • Dr. Atefeh Yazdanparast Ardestani

Dr. Yazdanparast Ardestani had a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Marketing Intelligence and Planning, an A-level journal according to ABDC Journal Quality list.  The paper is titled, “Identifying NFT Consumer Segments: A Consumption Value Theory and Luxury Perspective.”

  • Dr. Ayan Ghosh Dastidar

Dr. Dastidar has been selected as the Chair of the Doctoral Scholarship Committee of the American Marketing Association’s Marketing & Society Special Interest Group.

September, 2024

  • Dr. Abdullah Asilkalkan

Professor Asilkalkan had a paper titled “A Parsimonious Tree Augmented Naive Bayes Model for Exploring Colorectal Cancer Survival Factors and Their Conditional Interrelations” in Information Systems Frontiers which is an A journal according to ABDC list.

  • Drs. Rita Wang, Kyunghee Yoon, and David Tang

Professors David Tang, Rita Wang, and Kyunghee Yoon had a paper titled ‘Audit Quality Under Remote Working Arrangement: The Role of Workforce Technology Competency’ accepted for publication in the Journal of Information Systems. It is an American Accounting Association journal, ranked ‘A’ on the ABDC Journal Quality List.

  • Drs. Fei Fang and David Tang

Professors Fei Fang and David Tang had a coauthored paper titled ‘Why Do Insiders Sell Stocks After Receiving Options?’ accepted for publication in Applied Economics. The journal is ranked ‘A’ on the ABDC Journal Quality List.

  • Dr. John Dobson

Professor Dobson has a visiting scholar from Malaysia visiting for 3-months who will be working on improving entrepreneurship education at her university.

  • Drs. Siti Parida and Fei Fang

Professors Siti Parida and Fei Fang have a co-authored paper titled “Climate Policy Regime Change and Mutual Fund Flows: Insights from the 2020 US Election,” which has been accepted for publication in the International Review of Financial Analysis. This journal is ranked A by ABDC rankings and ABS 3.

  • Dr. David Tang

Professor Tang had a paper entitled, “Provincial economic growth and firm excess investment: Evidence from China,” accepted by Economic Modelling, ranked A by ABDC rankings.

  • Dr. Ray Wang

Dr. Wang has a co-authored paper, “Firm Location and Short Interest,” which has been accepted for presentation at the 2025 Financial Management Association Annual Meeting.

  • Dr. Atefeh Yazdanparast Ardestani

Dr. Yazdanparast Ardestani had a paper titled, “Applying the Theory of Consumption Values to Representational and Nonrepresentational Images in Marketing: Propositions and Research Directions,” accepted for publication at the European Journal of Marketing, an A* journal according to ABDC rankings.

She also received the American Marketing Association Marketing for Higher Education SIG service award at the 2024 AMA Summer Academic Conference in Boston.