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School of Business Annual Report

 

Publications (2025-2026)

 

 

 

   Accountancy

  • Oded Rozenbaum, associate professor of accountancy, recently had two papers accepted for publication. “Distribution channels of analyst research: new evidence,” co-authored with Dan Amiram, Zach Bozanic, and Mark Bradshaw, is forthcoming in the Review of Accounting Studies. “Does Analyst Participation in Earnings Conference Calls Curb Real Activities Earnings Management?” co-authored by Yuan Ji (a former doctoral student), is forthcoming in Contemporary Accounting Research.
  • Yun Zhang, associate professor of accountancy, co-authored an article titled "The Usefulness and Limited Supply of Disclosure Accessibility" with Qi Chen (Duke University) and Carlos Corona (Ohio State University), which was recently accepted into Management Science.
  • Yun Zhang, associate professor of accountancy, co-authored an article titled "Do Key Audit Matters in Hong Kong and Mainland China provide incremental information and improve audit quality?” with Miguel Minutti-Meza (Miami), Lin Liao (Nanjing Audit University), Valbona Sulcaj (UT-El Paso) and Youli Zou (UConn).  It is forthcoming in Contemporary Accounting Research.
  • Angela Gore, professor of accountancy, recently published "Are disasters extraordinary? Reporting nonrecurring items in the government setting." It is co-authored with Xiangpei Chen (who received her Ph.D in Accountancy at GW Business) and James Potepa (a former faculty member), forthcoming in Review of Accounting Studies (RAST).
  • Edward Sul, associate professor of accountancy, was recently accepted into the Review of Accounting Studies with his paper "Firm-Specific Information Processing and the Delayed Discovery of Macroeconomic News: Evidence from Earnings Announcement Returns”, co-authored with Jing Pan (Penn State) and Sean Wang (Southern Methodist).
  • Edward Sul, associate professor of accountancy, and Riddha Basu, associate professor of accountancy, have been invited to serve on the Editorial Board of Contemporary Accounting Research, a FT-50 journal. This took effect in January 2026, with the new senior editor of the journal taking charge.
  • Riddha Basu, associate professor of accountancy, co-authored an article titled “Real Effects of Lagged Guidance from Prudential Regulators on CECL” with Sugata Roychowdhury (Northwestern), and Kirti Sinha (UT Dallas). The article was published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics (December 2025).
  • Riddha Basu, associate professor of accountancy, co-authored an article titled “Labor Unionization and Non-GAAP Reporting” with Spencer Pierce (Florida State) and Gary Chen (DePaul University). The article is forthcoming in the Review of Accounting Studies.
  • Riddha Basu, associate professor of accountancy, co-authored an article titled ”The Effect of Investor Inattention on Non-GAAP Disclosure” with Spencer Pierce (Florida State) and Andrew Stephan (Indiana). The article was published in the Journal of Financial Reporting (February 2026).

 

   Decision Sciences

  • Yuan Guo, assistant professor of decision sciences, co-authored “A Customer Choice Model of Impulse Buying in Social Commerce,” forthcoming in Naval Research Logistics.
  • Long He, associate professor of decision sciences, co-authored "Does the Locker Alliance Network Improve Last Mile Delivery Efficiency?" in Management Science 2025, "Spatial-Data-Driven Facility Location Planning" in Production and Operations Management (POM) 2026 and "Robust Capacity Planning with General Upgrading" in Manufacturing & Services Operations Management (M&SOM) 2025. He also published "Proactive Policing: Resource Allocation for Crime Prevention with Deterrence Effect," in Operations Research 2025.
  • Young Hoon Kwak, associate professor of decision sciences, co-authored “A Two-Phase Scheduling Framework for Construction Program with Forbidden Time Windows” in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 2025
  • Young Hoon Kwak, associate professor of decision sciences, co-authored “Collaborative decision making for natural disaster recovery of interdependent infrastructure systems" in Reliability Engineering & System Safety 2026.
  • Miguel Lejeune, professor of decision sciences, co-authored "Risk-Adaptive Local Decision Rules" and "Drone-Delivery Network for Opioid Overdose" in Operations Research 2025.
  • Miguel Lejeune, professor of decision sciences, co-authored "Stochastic Optimization Model with Exogenous and Decision-Dependent Uncertainty for Medical Evacuation" and "A Heuristic for Complementary Problems Using Difference of Convex Functions" in the INFORMS Journal on Computing 2025.
  • Miguel Lejeune, professor of decision sciences, co-authored "Response Time Minimization for Cardiac Arrests" in Production and Operations Management 2025.
  • Miguel Lejeune, professor of decision sciences, co-authored “Relaxations for Probabilistically Constrained Stochastic Programming Problems: Review and Extensions” in Annals of Operations Research 2025.
  • Miguel Lejeune, professor of decision sciences, co-authored “On the Use of Battery-Electric Locomotive as a Grid-Support Service in Electric Power Systems” in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 2025.
  • Zhengling Qi, associate professor of decision sciences, co-authored “Offline Feature-Based Pricing under Censored Demand: A Causal Inference Approach” in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 2025.
  • Zhengling Qi, associate professor of decision sciences, co-authored “Off-policy Evaluation in Doubly Inhomogeneous Environments” and “Distributional Off-policy Evaluation in Reinforcement Learning” in the Journal of the American Statistical Association 2025.
  • Zhengling Qi, associate professor of decision sciences, co-authored “Offline Reinforcement Learning for Human-Guided Human-Machine Interaction with Private Information,” in Management Science 2026.
  • Zhengling Qi, associate professor of decision sciences, has three co-authored articles that have been accepted for publication: “Sequential Knockoffs for Variable Selection in Reinforcement Learning,” in Journal of the American Statistical Association, “Blessing from Human-AI Interaction: Super Reinforcement Learning in Confounded Environments,” in Journal of the American Statistical Association.
  • Refik Soyer, professor of decision sciences and statistics, co-authored “An Adversarial Risk Analysis Framework for Software Release Decision Support” in Risk Analysis 2025.
  • Refik Soyer, professor of decision sciences and statistics, co-authored “Fifty Years of Reliability in Operations Research”, in the European Journal of Operational Research 2025
  • Refik Soyer, professor of decision sciences and statistics, co-authored “Penalty Kicks: An Adversarial Risk Analysis Approach” in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 2025
  • Refik Soyer, professor of decision sciences and of statistics, co-authored  “Deep Thinking in Reliability and Risk Analysis: An Overview of Nozer D. Singpurwalla’s Work” in Applied Stochastic Models for Business & Industry 2025.
  • Refik Soyer, professor of decision sciences and statistics, co-authored “Bayesian Forecasting of Zero-inflated Time-Series of Counts,” which was accepted for publication in the International Journal of Forecasting. 

 

   Finance

  • Șevin Yeltekin, dean and professor of finance, co-authored with Bryan Routledge (Carnegie Mellon) and published "Crypto Assets and Crypto Derivatives" in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain and DLT, February 2026. The entry covers the full arc of crypto's financialization, from Bitcoin and stablecoins to tokenizations, perpetual futures contracts, leverage risk and the evolving regulatory landscape. Crypto has financialized fast; the governance is still catching up.
  • Brian Henderson, associate professor of finance, Gergana Jostova, professor and chair of the department of finance, and Alexander Philipov (George Mason University) co-authored the article “Strategic Behavior by Equity Lenders”, in Management Science 2026.
  • Chukwuma Dim, assistant professor of finance, authored “‘Social Media Analysts' Skill: Evidence from Text-Implied Beliefs,” forthcoming in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 2025.
  • Senay Agca, professor of finance and decision sciences, co-authored “Doing More for Less? New Evidence on Lobby and Government Contracts” alongside Fuhong Li, Deniz Igan, and Prachi Mishra in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2025.
  • Alexandre Baptista, associate professor of finance, authored the article “From Mean-Variance Analysis to Mental Accounting and Back: Bridging Contributions of Markowitz to Portfolio Selection” in the European Journal of Finance 2026.

 

   International Business

  • Jin Hyung Kim, associate professor of international business, has recently published his co-authored article (with Reuben Hurst at University of Maryland and Jordan Siegel at University of Michigan) titled "Status-Amplified Deterrence: Paul Manafort’s Prosecution Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act" in Organization Science (FT 50, UTD 24, and ABS 4*).
  • Jin Hyung Kim, associate professor of international business, has recently published his co-authored article (with Jordan Siegel at University of Michigan) titled "Home‑country egalitarianism and cross‑border nonmarket strategy" in Journal of International Business Studies (FT 50, UTD 24, and ABS 4*).
  • Jin Hyung Kim, associate professor of international business, had his paper, “ESG as a nonmarket strategy to cope with geopolitical tension: Empirical evidence from multinationals' ESG performance”, recognized by the Strategic Management Society as one of the top 10 most-cited papers published in the Strategic Management Journal (FT 50, UTD 24, and ABS 4*) in 2024. 

 

   Management

 

   Marketing

  • Gil Appel, assistant professor of marketing, co-authored the article "Nice to meet you.(!) Gendered norms in punctuation usage," now published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
  • Li Jiang, associate professor of marketing, earned a DEI recognition badge from the Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) Conference with the publication "Beyond 'Vulnerable Populations': A Unified Understanding of Vulnerability in Privacy and Security from a Socio-Ecological Perspective." Additionally, her paper "Assessing the Efficacy of Industry Self-Regulation: A Field Experiment on Online Advertising and Consumer Choice" has received a grant from the Center for Industry Self-Regulation (CISR).
  • Gil Appel, assistant professor of marketing, has his paper, "The Effect of Online Cart Composition on Cart Abandonment," accepted into the Journal of Consumer Research with co-authors Liat Hadar, Yael Steinhart, and Yaniv Shani from Tel-Aviv University. The paper explores an overlooked driver of cart abandonment: the cart composition.

 

   Strategic Management and Public Policy

  • Joel Gehman, chair and professor of strategic management and public policy, together with Christi Lockwood and JF Soublière, has published a new article, "The Cogs and Wheels of Cultural Entrepreneurship: The Becoming of New Possibilities," in the Academy of Management Annals (Ranked #1 out of 317 Business journals by Journal Citation Reports). Their publication integrates three fragmented traditions of cultural entrepreneurship research into a unified framework that explains how entrepreneurial action both draws on and reshapes culture.
  • Joel Gehman, chair and professor of strategic management and public policy, was recently a discussant for the Elliott School Book Launch Series, discussing the book A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics on September 3.
  • Vanessa Perry, professor of marketing and strategic management and public policy, recently co-authored a publication featured in the Journal of Business Ethics with SMPP colleague Jenn Griffin and former doctoral student Andrew Bryant, "To Act or Not to Act: The Effects of Firm Size on Inaction, Eco-friendly, and Compensatory Actions."
  • Joel Gehman, chair and professor of strategic management and public policy, published a new article, "The Limits of Pivoting: A Culturally Informed Model of Resource Commitments during Repeated Organizational Transformation," in the Academy of Management Journal, a top 10 business journal, alongside Eric Knight and Matthew G. Grimes.
  • Jennifer Merluzzi, associate professor of strategic management and public policy, attended and led a Professional Development Workshop at the African Academy Management (AFAM) Conference in Morocco. The session was jointly-led with eight Senior Editors from Organization Science and the Academy of Management Journal.
  • Vikram Bhargava, assistant professor of strategic management and public policy, has his Business Ethics Quarterly article "Ethics on the Attention Economy: The Problem of Social Media Addiction" referenced in a report delivered to Governor Murphy of New Jersey and produced by the "Commission on the Ethics of Social Media Usage on Adolescents," a commission established by law in 2023. It was also referenced in an official policy paper from the French Treasury.
  • Joel Gehman, chair and professor of strategic management and public policy, had his paper, "Organizations as Algorithms: A New Metaphor for Advancing Management Theory," recognized as one of the top 10 most-cited papers published by the Journal of Management Studies in 2024, based on citations received in 2025.
  • Vikram Bhargava, assistant professor of strategic management and public policy, delivered the keynote address at the 2026 Lasallian Societal Impact Case Competition, featuring participants from around the world. The competition featured his article "Hiring, Algorithms, Choice: Why Interviews Still Matter" as a key supplemental material for participants to read before the competition.
  • Joel Gehman, chair and professor of strategic management and public policy, recently presented a research paper at Austral University's IAE Business School (in Argentina) titled "Resonance Through Concealment: How Ethnicity Inferences Shape Entrepreneurs' Business Naming Decisions."
  • David Halliday, teaching associate professor of strategic management and public policy, hosted and lectured Master’s in Management students from Vlerick Business School during their annual U.S. tour, focusing on business and public policy implications for big tech. The discussion covered regulatory concerns with tech oligopolies, AI industry concentration, and parallel regulatory challenges facing Washington and Brussels.
  • Vontrese Pamphile, associate professor of strategic management and public policy, co-authored the article “Market-Stigmatized Groups and the Effectiveness of Stigma Management Strategies: Evidence from Washington’s Marijuana Market” alongside Cyrus Dioun and Kisha Lashley. The article was published in the Academy of Management Journal.
  • Vontrese Pamphile, associate professor of strategic management and public policy, co-authored the article “‘Making It Easy to Do Hard Things’: How Experts Help Novices Perceive Craft as Accessible” alongside Cyrus Dioun and Andreea Gorbatai. The article was published in Organization Studies.
  • Joel Gehman, chair and professor of strategic management and public policy, co-authored “An Assemblage Perspective on Hybrid Agency: A Commentary on Raisch and Fomina’s ‘Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence’” alongside Paul Merritt and Vern L. Glaser in the Academy of Management Review.
  • Joel Gehman, chair and professor of strategic management and public policy, co-authored the article “Escalation of Prosocial Commitment: How the B Corporation Movement Catalyzes Social Impact” alongside Garima Sharma, Leonardo Boni and Alim J. Beveridge. The article has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
  • Among UTD/FT50/AJG4* journals, Voni Pamphile and Joel Gehman both serve on the Academy of Management Journal ERB and Jim Wade, Jennifer Merluzzi and Joel Gehman serve on the Administrative Science Quarterly ERB. Vikram Bhargava is co-editor of the Technology and Business Ethics section at the Journal of Business Ethics. Jennifer Merluzzi also completed her first 3-year term as Senior Editor at Organization Science and has agreed to renew for a second 3-year term. 

 

   Information Systems and Technology Management

  • Chad Ho, associate professor of information systems and technology management, has been appointed as a Department Editor at the Decision Sciences Journal. This is his second major editorship at a leading business journal, in addition to his current Associate Editor role at Information Systems Research, where he has received both the Best AE Award and the Best Reviewer Award.
  • Yixin Lu, associate professor of information systems, published an article, “Team Makes You Better: Evidence from Online Medical Consultation Platforms,” in Information Systems Research (UTD-24, FT-50, ABS4*) with co-authors Xiaofei Zhang, Jingchuan Pu, and Feng Guo.
  • Yi-Chun (Chad) Ho, associate professor of information systems, along with co-author T Song, published “Relational Resonance and Content Creation” in Management Science (UTD-24, FT-50, ABS4*).
  • Young-Ki Park, associate professor of information systems, with co-authors One-Ki Daniel Lee, Inmyung Choi, and Arun Rai, published “Configurational Recipes for IT-AMC Competitive Dynamics” in the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (ABS4*).
  • Yi-Chun (Chad) Ho, associate professor of information systems, along with co-authors S. Xiao, Z. Zhou, Y. Tan,  and M. Zhang, published an article, “Investor Learning in Crowdfunded Supply Chain Finance Markets, in Production & Operations Management (UTD-24, FT-50).
  • Sunghun Chung, assistant professor of information systems, with co-authors J. Kim, S. Yoon, and W. Oh, had their paper “Working Daily, Paid Monthly? Effects of On-Demand Wage Access on the Financial Engagement of Low-Wage Workers,” accepted for publication in Information Systems Research (UTD-24, FT-50).
  • Sunghun Chung, assistant professor of information systems, with co-authors J. Jung, J. Park, C. Lee, and Y. Ceran, published “Two-sided Impacts of Service Provider’s Identity Disclosure in e-Customer Service Platforms: Evidence from Two Field Experiments,” in Information Systems Research (UTD-24, FT-50).
  • Yi-Chun (Chad) Ho, associate professor of information systems, and Subhasish Dasgupta, professor and chair of the department of information systems & technology management, with co-authors S. Xiao, H. Huang, and Z. Lin, published “Asymmetric and Contingent Value of Crowd Wisdom in Crowdfunding” in Information Systems Research, published online (UTD-24, FT-50).