Selected Faculty Research

Jasmijn Bol’s paper “Managers’ Discretionary Adjustments: The Influence of Uncontrollable Events and Compensation Interdependence” has been accepted for publication in Contemporary Accounting Research. The paper was co-authored with Gary Hecht of the University of Wisconsin and Steven Smith of Brigham Young University. Bol is an associate professor and the PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP Faculty Fellow in accounting.

Michael Burke, Lawrence Martin Chair in Business and professor of management, recently had three papers accepted for publication. Burke’s paper “Assessing Interrater Agreement via the Average Deviation Index Given a Variety of Theoretical and Methodological Problems,” co-authored with Kristin Smith-Crowe, Maryam Kouchaki and Sloane Signal, was accepted for publication in Organization Research Methods. His paper “Change the Referent? A Meta-Analytic Investigation of Direct and Referent- Shift Consensus Models for Organizational Climate,” co-authored with Craig Wallace, Bryan Edwards and Michael Christian, was accepted for publication in Journal of Management. And his paper “Gendered Influence: A Gender-role Perspective on the Use and Effectiveness of Influence Tactics,” co-authored with Alexis Smith, Marla Baskerville-Watkins, Caitlin Smith, Alison Hal and Michael Christian, was accepted for publication in Journal of Management.

Eric Hamerman’s paper “Conditioned Superstition: Desire for Control and Consumer Brand Preferences,” co-authored with Gita Johar, professor of business at Columbia University, was accepted for publication in the Journal of Consumer Research. Hamerman is an assistant professor of marketing.

Lynn Hannan, professor of accounting, has been awarded a research grant from the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) Research Foundation to investigate how non-verifiable communication affects the performance of teams. Hannan is conducting this research project with Markus Arnold, professor of accounting at the University of Bern, and Ivo Tafkov, assistant professor of accountancy at Georgia State University. IMA is a worldwide association for accountants and financial professionals working in business, representing more than 65,000 members.

Kris Hoang, assistant professor of accounting, recently received a grant from the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) to fund her research proposal “How Do Auditors Cope with Clients’ Persuasion Attempts?” In the study, Hoang and co-author Sanaz Aghazadeh explore the conditions under which auditors’ objectivity is affected by clients’ attempts to persuade auditors about the appropriateness of an accounting choice.

Jennifer Merluzzi’s paper “How many names are enough? Identifying network effects with the least set of listed contacts” has been accepted for publication in Social Networks. Merluzzi, an assistant professor of management, co-authored the paper with Ronald S. Burt, Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Daniel Mochon, assistant professor of marketing, recently had two papers accepted for publication. Mochon’s paper “Single option aversion” was accepted for publication in Journal of Consumer Research, and his paper “Anchoring in sequential judgments,” co-authored with Shane W. Frederick, was accepted for publication in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

Geoffrey Parker’s research is featured in the May 2013 issue of International Innovation, a publication dedicated to the dissemination of science and technology research. The article, titled “The Power of Platforms,” discusses the research conducted by Parker and Marshall Van Alstyne, associate professor at Boston University, on platform-driven markets, a topic the two colleagues have studied for over 15 years. The magazine also features a Q&A with Parker and Van Alstyne. Parker is a professor of management science and director of the Tulane Energy Institute.

Claudiney Pereira, senior professor of practice, recently contributed “Brazilian retail banking and the 2008 financial crisis: Were the government-controlled banks that important?” to the July 2013 issue of Journal of Banking and Finance. The paper, co-authored with Luiz F. Maia-Filho, revisits the interest rate pass-through effect using weekly retail banking data from May 2006 to March 2010. In addition, Pereira’s paper “The Effects of Brazil’s Taxation and Social Spending on the Distribution of Household Income,” co-authored with Sean Higgins, was accepted for publication by Public Finance Review. In that paper, the authors estimate the redistributive effect of fiscal policy on income distribution and poverty in Brazil using detailed household survey data.