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Faculty Research Grants and Creative Activities
Faculty Name Dept. Amount Awarded Research Proposal Term Awarded Published
Alvayay, Jaime OBE $3,836 Proposal: Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Metropolitan Housing Markets: Evidence from Sacramento, California. In Progress Spring 03
Bach, Seung MGMT $2,000 Proposal: A Sense making Perspective on Early International Expansion Framework. Spring 03
Bach, Seung MGMT $5,000 Proposal: Do I Have to Have a Thorough and Costly Strategic Planning? Under final revision. Summer 03
Bach, Seung, MGMT $5,000 "Determinants of Strategic Value, Creating Process for New Ventures" Fall 02
Bridges, Claudia MGMT $5,000 Proposal: Promoting Sustainable Development: Incorporating Environmental Impact into Marketing Mix. In progress. Spring 04
Chinen, Kenichiro MGMT $5,000 Proposal: Toward Liberalization of Japanese Rice Market. Short article: Rice a Special Ingredient in US-Japan Trade Relations in CBA Business Futures. Japanese Interviews completed. In Progress. Spring 04
Chinen, Kenchiro MGMT $4,950 Proposal: Increasing Appetite for the U.S. Rice. Conducted survey. In progress. Summer 03
Chinen, Kenichiro MGMT $4,950 Paper: "Japanese Perceptions Toward the U.S. Rice." Fall 02
Chinen, Kenichiro MGMT $1,600 Paper "Delineating Bias in International Business Textbooks" Summer 02 YES, published Phi Beta Delta International Journal, Fall 2002.
Clark, John MGMT $5,000 3 papers at 3 different International conferences/presentations. No longer pursuing refereed journal publications Spring 02
Dardan, Shana MIS $2,400 Proposal: Valuation of Technology Investments Used to Enhance Customer Service: A Comparison of Event Study and Semi Parametric Approaches. Final draft being edited. Summer 03
Dardan, Shana MIS $2,000 Proposal: The Impact of Fluctuating Financial Markets on the Signaling Effects of eCommerce Announcements through Firm Valuation. Spring 03
Dardan, Shana MIS $5,000 "A Diffusion Model for the Demand of Ecommerce" Reworking Fall 02
Estenson, Jerry OBE $5,000 "Lessons Borrowed from the Development and Application of Leadership Philosophies and Practices in Military Special Operations Units: Teaching Civilians How to Lead in High Risk Terra Incognito Situations" Summer 02 YES, accepted for publication in the Journal of the Academy of Organizational Culture, Communication and Conflict. Study provided to Army Chief of Staff, the Commanding General Army Special Operations Command as well as others.
Evaggelopolous, Nicholas MIS $2,220 Presented conference paper and writing journal article. Faculty member resigned Spring 02 N/A.
Halgas, Jordan OBE 3 units of assigned time + 500 "Same Old, Same Old, Not the Same: A Legal and Business Analysis of Same-Sex Marriage" Spring 2005
Han, Stanley MGMT $5,000 "Learning with Flexibility and R&D Alliances. Spring 2005
Han, Stanley MGMT $5,000 Proposal: Technology Preemption as a Motive for R&D Alliances. Spring 04 Yes, The Journal of American Academy of Business,, Cambridge, Vol5.1&2,September
Han, Stanley MGMT $5,000 Proposal: Institutional Environment, Transaction Costs, and the Theory of Interim Guanxi Summer 03 Yes, Journal of Academy of Business and economics, Vol. Ii, No.2
Han, Stanley MGMT $5,000 "Venture Capital Funding" Summer 02 Yes, Review of Business Research, October 2004
Han, Stanley MGMT $5,000 "The Effects of Ethnic Networks in Immigrant Founded Companies" Co-Authored with Joseph Richards Summer 02 Yes- Review of Business Research, Vol.5,No.1&2, September 2004
Han, Stanley MGMT $4,940 "What Drives R&D Alliances" Spring 02 YES, Journal of American Academy of Business, Cambridge, Vol.5, No.1&2, September
Hatton, Lindle MGMT $2,500 Made three presentations at conferences. "Modeling the Effects of new Venture Strategy on the Environment," A Case Study in Strategic ManagementUsing a Systems Thinking Approach," and "Crafting Enterprise Strategy in the Context of Managerial Behaviors." Conferences will be used as stepping stones to refereed journals. Spring 03
Karalli, Serge MGMT 3 Unit Assign Time "The Periodic Loading Problem: Relaxing the Equal Lot Size Rule When Safety Stocks Are Present Spring 2005
Karagozoglu, Necmi MGMT $2,700 "Economic Development and Environmental Management" - surveys sent, waiting for responses. Spring 02 Yes, Accepted JSBED, Special Edition
Kelley, Craig A. MGMT $5,000 Intoducing Soft and Career Development Skills in Marketing Curriculum Fall 02
Lam, Monica MIS $3,500 Proposal: Adoption Factors for Internet Banking: A Case Study of a Community Bank. Published in a proceeding. Rejected by first journal. Looking for another Journal for submission Spring 03
LaRocco, John OBE $2,280 Jurisdictional Disputes Spring 02 YES, published in Elkouri and Elkouri, How Arbitration Works, Sixth Edition (BNA, 2004)
Legoretta, Leonardo MIS $4,538 "Measuring eBusiness Architecture Flexibility" Paper accepted at HICSS-36 Conference. Fall 02
Li, Min MIS $5,000 Proposal: "Nonparametric Estimation for Time-Inhomogeneous Diffusions"?. In progress. Spring 04
Li, Min MIS $900 "A Robust Approach to the Interest Rate Term Structure Estimation" Summer 03 Yes, Accepted by Journal of Data Science
Li, Min MIS $2,000 Proposal: "Estimating the Interest Rate Terms Structures of Treasury and Corporate Debt with Bayesian Penalized Splines." Spring 03 Yes, accepted by Journal of Data Science
Li, Min MIS $4,740 "Bayesian Adaptive Penalized Splines" - revising paper for journal. Fall 02
Lojo, Maureen MGMT $1,000 Single-Use Services. Spring 03
Lojo, Maureen MGMT $2,305 Proposal: Individual versus Organization Attributions of Service Customers Summer 03
Lojo, Maureen MGMT $2,080 Presented a paper in England and is writing paper for a Journal submission "Outsourcing and Control Strategies" Summer 02
Mackey, James ACCY $1,800 "A Study of AACSB Accredited Accounting Departments." Retitled: "The New CPA Exam Continues to Ignore the Needs of Managerial Accounting Skills for American Industry" Co-Authored with Richard Vangermeersch Summer 02 YES, The CPA Journal July, 2003, pgs 58-60
Marens, Richard OBE $5,000 Proposal: Making Stakeholder Theory Relevant: Reconsidering the Processes Necessary for the Adoption and Diffusion of New Ideas. Paper published. Spring 04 YES, Journal of Academy of Ethics 2 (1):63-87,2004
Martin, Merle ACCY $396 "Justification of Enterprise Models," book chapter completed. Summer 02
Merchant, John MGMT $4,865 Proposals: Management Styles and Cultural Differences; Establishing a Global Competitive Advantage in Central European Countries; and Designing Learning Content. Two articles in submission; third article being edited. One article Published, Summer 03 Yes, "Management Styles and Cultural Differences: Bridging the Productivity Gap in the Implementation of Information Technology," in the International Business and Economic Research Journal, Fall, 2003
Merchant, Sylnovie MIS $4,977 Proposals: Toward the Development of Effective Teams in an Academic Setting; A Proposed Model of the Relationship Between Information Systems' Strategy. Both papers presented at conferences. Summer 03
Merchant, Sylnovie MIS $1,780 Proposal: Toward the Development of Effective Teams in an Academic Setting: Understanding Cultural Orientations. In progress SPRING 03
Merchant, Sylnovie MIS $4,360 "Role of Social Networks in Adoption of Technological Innovations" Fall 02
Merchant, Sylnovie MIS $3,960 "Towards an Understanding of Cultural Values and Their Influence on the Acceptance of Information Technology". Summer 02
Merchant, Sylnovie MIS $3,500 "Small Business Survival Growth - ECommerce" Spring 02
Mickel, Amy OBE 3 units of assigned time + 500 "Experiential Learning Through Interactive Drama" Spring 2005
Mickel, Amy OBE $5,000 Proposal: Quality of Life and Organizational Socialization. Spring 04
Mickel, Amy OBE $5,000 Proposal: Interactive Drama: An Innovative Experiential Learning Tool. Spring 03 Yes, accepted- Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education
Mickel, Amy OBE $5,000 "Exploring Quality of Life Issues". Fall 02
Mickel, Amy OBE $4,100 Submitted paper to Academy of Management Review - "How Does Money Motivate?" Summer 02
Mickel, Amy OBE $5,000 Grant was for design, distribute survey and organize data for future coding, which was completed. Paper to be submitted "Exploring Quality of Life issues", paper to be published under Fall 02 grant. Spring 02
Pletcher, Dale MGMT $5,000 Proposal: Consumer Rebate Programs: The Economic Ramifications for the Consumer and for Society that Accompany Consumer Rebates. Will submit results to a Consumer Journal. Retired. Project not completed. Spring 04
Richards, Joseph MGMT $5,000 Proposal: Towards a New Theory of the Firm. Paper accepted for IABE-2003 Conference Presentation. Submission plan to peer-reviewed journal. Retitled: "Theory of the firm:Theoretical perspectives from an innovation point of view" Summer 03 Yes- Accepted Review of Business Economics
Richards, Joseph MGMT $4,900 "Impact on the Internet on Consumer"…analyzing data. Retitled: "Evidence and impact of consumer human capital in e-commerce transactions" Fall 02 Yes- Accepted-International Journal of Business Economics
Richards, Joseph MGMT $5,000 "The Effects of Ethnic Networks in Immigrant Founded Companies" Co-Authored with Stanley Han Summer 03 Yes- Review of Business Research, Vol.5,No.1&2, September 2004
Riolli, Laura OBE 3 Unit Assign Time "Project Plan for Research and Creative Activity Award" Spring 2005
Riolli, Laura OBE $5,000 Proposal: Coping with Traumatic Stress in Search and Rescue Employees. Spring 04
Riolli, Laura OBE $5,000 "Can Service Learning Help?" paper submitted to Michigan Journal of Service Learning. Published Fall 02 Yes,Published- Journal of Science Learning
Riolli, Laura OBE $5,000 Proposal: Extending Knowledge on Human Resources Information System: Using a Data Modeling Approach. DSI proceedings submission entitled "Object-Oriented Modeling of a Generic HRIS: Evolving a Common Reference for IS Developers and HR Specialists." Summer 02
Riolli, Laura OBE $5,000 Questionnaires sent, responses coming in. Will submit paper this Fall. "Resilience of Search and Rescue Workers: Optimism, Personality and Coping with the Events of September 11, 2001." Published in National Academy of Management Proceedings- no plans to submit to refereed journal. Spring 02
Sablynski, Chris OBE $5,000 "Employer Branding at SMUD: Explorations into Organizational Attractiveness" Spring 2005
Sablynski, Chris OBE $5,000 Proposal: Retaining CSUS College of Business Administration Students Using Student Embeddedness. Spring 04
Sablynski, Chris OBE $2,900 Proposal: Who Becomes Embedded? Individual Differences Correlates of Job Embeddedness. In Progress Summer 03
Sablynski, Chris OBE $2,750 Proposal: Causes and Processes of Becoming Embedded in Culturally Diverse Organizations. Spring 03
Sablynski, Chris OBE $4,353 "Microsoft Employment Perception" - accepted for conference. Fall 02
Sandman, Thomas MIS $1,930 Proposal: Selecting Middleware for N-Tier Applications. Summer 03 Yes, Published in Journal of International Technology and Information Management, Volume 12, Number 1 (Spring 2003)
Tom, Gail MGMT $4,000 Proposal: Positive Affect Effects on Product Attitudes. Results to be submitted to academic journal and presentation at an academic conference. Work in process. Spring 04
Tom, Gail MGMT $4,400 "Body Image, Relationships and Time" Summer 03 Yes, "Body Image, Relationships and Time" accepted for publication in Journal of Psychology" 05 publication date.
Tom, Gail MGMT $3,350 "Mere Exposure and the Endowment Effect" Spring 2005
Tsai, San-Yun (Nancy) MIS $4,550 Proposal: Information Technology Infrastructure Model for E-Business. Three conference presentations have been made. Journal manuscript is in process. Spring 03
Wang, Ruth MGMT $4,400 Proposal: Outsourcing Strategies, Process Management and Service Qualities of Universities Dining Facilities in the State of California. Study completed of CSUS dining facilities. Paper in process. Summer 03
Wheeler, Tony OBE 3 Unit Assign Time "Leadership and temporary employment: A theoretical examination" Spring 2005
Wilson, Martha MGMT 3 Unit Assign Time "Assessing the Impact of Road Traffic Congestion on Supply Chain Performance" Spring 2005
Wunder, Haroldene ACCY $2,496 Proposal: Empirical International Taxation Research Project. Spring 03 Yes, “The Effect of International Tax Policy on Foreign Direct Investments,” Tax Notes International 35(8) August 2004: 733-757.
Wunder, Haroldene ACCY $2,123 "International Tax Policy…" - developing survey to send for responses. This grant is complete. Project was for developing and sending survey. Article written under above grant. Fall 02 Completed
Xiong, Yan ACCY $4,838 "Earning Management and IPO Under pricing" - Ready for submission. Fall 02
Xiong, Yan ACCY $915 Proposal: Economic Profitability of Pre-IPO Earnings Management Summer 03
Xiong, Yan ACCY $5,000 "Auditor Litigation, Earnings Management, and IPO Under pricing. Spring 2005