Faculty Research in the College of Business and Legal Studies

College of Business and Legal Studies faculty members enhance their teaching experience with a variety of scholarly activities. Recent examples of our faculty's intellectual contributions include an international presentation on global business education alliances, a journal article that examines a way to identify systems fraud risk associated with employee disgruntlement, and a public administration textbook suitable for undergraduate and first-year graduate MBA students.

Featured Faculty Research Stupidomics: A Primer on the U.S. Economy, a 2009 book by William Hahn, Professor of Accounting, and Lyle Bowlin, Vice President of Academic Affairs, explains the recent financial crisis in language that average Americans can understand. The authors show how fundamental economic concepts affect everyday decisions related to our jobs, how we spend our money, how our government spends our money, and how we vote in local and national elections.

Lyle Bowlin
Professor of Finance

2009.  Stupidomics: A Primer on the U.S. Economy. North American Business Press. Co-authored with William Hahn.

2008. "Building Bridges in Team Leadership: Understanding Personality Types in Team Building." Presented at the Florida Association of College Stores Annual Conference, Crystal River, Fla.

Brian Carroll
Adjunct Instructor

R. Joseph Childs, Dean of the College of Business and Legal Studies
Professor of Management

October 2009. "Developing Global Business Education Alliances: A Case Study." Co-authored with J. Manolescu. International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE) European Conference, Skopje, Macedonia.

William Hahn
Professor of Accounting

2010.  "Strategic Plan Quality, Implementation Capability and Firm Performance." Co-authored with T. L. Powers. Academy of Strategic Management Journal.

May 2009. "Mountain State Sporting Goods: A Case of Fraud? A Case Study in Fraud Examination." Co-authored with R. Rufus. Presented to the American Accounting Association--Ohio Chapter. Geneva, Ohio.

April 2009. "Representational Faithfulness, Mark-to-Market Accounting Standards, and Going-Concern-Modified Opinions: Something's Amiss." Co-authored with Ed Plastow. Presentation to the IACBE Annual Conference. Louisville, Ky.

October 2008. "Strategic Plan Quality, Implementation Capability and Firm Performance." Co-authored with T. Powers. Presented to the IBAM Conference. Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management Conference Proceedings. Orlando, Fla.

October 2008. "Strategic Plan Quality, Implementation Capability and Firm Performance." Co-authored with T. L. Powers. Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management Conference Proceedings. Orlando, Fla.

Mark Harrison
Associate Professor of Finance

March 2010. "Community Bank Failures in 2009: A Look at How Quickly Things Can Go Bad." Co-authored with James D. Tripp and Don T. Johnson. Presented to the Academy of Finance Conference. Chicago, Ill.

September 2009.  "Innovative Web Techniques." Presented to the Marketing Management Association Conference.

Carolyn F. Holton
Associate Professor of Management Information Systems

2009. "Virtual Offices: A Solution for Remote, Special Needs, and Technology Junkie Students." Co-authored with B. Leslie. Presented to the IACBE Conference. Louisville, Ky.

2009. "Identifying Disgruntled Employee Systems Fraud Risk Through Text Mining: A Simple Solution for a Multi-Billion Dollar Problem." Decision Support Systems.

2008. "Unintended Consequences of Electronic Monitoring of Instant Messaging." Co-authored with R. Fuller. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.

Stephen M. King
Associate Professor of Public Policy

2010. "Reflections on Defining the Public Interest." Co-authored with Bradley S. Chilton and Gary E. Roberts. Administration and Society 41(8): 954-978.

2010. "Governing the 'Quango-Crats': NAMUDNO v. Holder (2009) and Public Oversight of Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organizations." Co-authored with Bradley S. Chilton. Presented to the Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 6-9.

2009. Administration in the Public Interest: Principles, Policies, and Practices.

Beth A. Leslie
Assistant Professor of Business

2009. "Virtual Offices: A Solution for Remote, Special Needs, and Technology Junkie Students." Co-authored with Carolyn Holton. Presented to the IACBE Conference. Louisville, Ky.

Ed Plastow
Professor of Accounting

March 2009. "The Financial Meltdown: How the Auditors Reported." Presentation at the IACBE National Conference. Louisville, Ky.

April 2008. "Faith Integration in University Business Programs." Presentation to the IACBE Annual Conference. Newport Beach, Calif.

Fredric W. Rohm, Jr.
Assistant Professor of Management

February 2010. "American and Arab Cultural Lenses" (forthcoming). Inner Resources for Leaders.

January-February 2010. "Deconstructing Information Operations" (forthcoming). Military Review.

January-February 2008. "Merging Army Information Operations and Psychological Operations Disciplines." Military Review.

David Royer
Assistant Professor of Marketing

March 2010. "The Role of Leadership, Culture, and Character in the Development and Provision of Ethical Business Entities." Presentation to the IACBE National Conference. Newport, R.I.

2008. "Age and the Relationship to Voluntary Turnover of Part-time Employees." The Journal of Business and Public Policy.

K. Alan Snyder, Chair of the Department of Historical, Legal, and Leadership Studies
Professor of History

2008. "Ronald Reagan on Franklin Roosevelt: The Significance of Style." First Principles.

2008. "The 'Higher' Education of Whittaker Chambers: Columbia University, Nihilism, and Despair." First Principles.

2008. "Was Whittaker Chambers Wrong?" First Principles.

Gordon Storholm
Professor of Marketing

2009.  "The Edwin Moses Theory of Direct Sales."  Journal of Selling & Major Account Management.

Carolyn L. Tripp
Professor of Marketing

2008. "An Empirical Exploration into the Relationships Between Aspects of the Worship Experience and Forms of Complaint Behavior." Co-authored with Scott William Hansen. Journal of Contemporary Business Issues.

2008. "Timeshare versus Vacation Home Ownership: An Examination of the Benefits and Costs." Co-authored with James D. Tripp, Paula Schulte, and Jacob Croxton. Academy of Finance Annual Conference (MBAA), Chicago, Ill.

James D. Tripp
Professor of Finance

March 2010. "Community Bank Failures in 2009: A Look at How Quickly Things Can Go Bad," with Mark Harrison and Don T. Johnson. Presented at the Academy of Finance Conference, Chicago, Ill.

April 2008. "Timeshare Versus Vacation Home Ownership: An Examination of the Benefits and Costs." co-authored with Carolyn L. Tripp, Paula Schulte, and Jacob Croxton. Presented at the Academy of Finance Conference (MBAA), Chicago, Ill.

April 2008. "An Assessment of the Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the Readability of CEO Letters to Shareholders." Co-authored with Don T. Johnson and Peppi M. Kenny. Presented at the Academy of Finance Conference (MBAA), Chicago, Ill.

Timothy Welch
Associate Professor of Legal Studies
Sam Walton Fellow for SIFE

2011.  "Outcomes Assessment: An Examination of the ETS Major Field Test and the Comprehensive Business Exam." Co-authored with L. Bowlin and T. Welch. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education.