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Faculty News

Richard P. Bagozzi, J. Hugh Liedtke Professor of Management, has two publications forthcoming: Bergami, M., & Bagozzi, R. P., “Self-categorization and Commitment as Distinct Aspects of Social Identity in the Organization: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Relation to Antecedents and Consequences,” in the British Journal of Social Psychology (in press) and Bagozzi, R. P., Lee, K. H., and Van Loo, M. F., “Decisions to Donate Bone Marrow: The Role of Attitudes and Subjective Norms Across Cultures,” in Psychology and Health. Bagozzi also presented “Attitudes, Emotions, Volition, and Action,” to the Department of Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy in September.

Steven C. Currall, associate professor of management and psychology, will publish “International Strategic Alliances” (with S.C. & Inkpen, A.C.) in M. West, D. Tjosvold, and K. Smith (eds.) International Handbook of Organizational Teamwork and Cooperative Working (New York: John Wiley & Sons). He presented “Empirical Analysis of Organizational Characteristics of University Entrepreneurship Centers” (Currall, S.C. & Towler, A.J.) at the Roundtable on Entrepreneurship, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California in October.

Marc Epstein, distinguished research professor, and Robert Westbrook, William Alexander Kirkland Professor of Management and associate dean for faculty affairs, published “What Drives Corporate Profit? How To Know If What You’re Doing Is Paying Off,” in the Spring 2001 Sloan Management Review.

Jennifer George, Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management and professor of psychology, received the Human Relations Best Paper Award for 2000 for “Emotions and Leadership: The Role of Emotional Intelligence,” published in the August issue of Human Relations.

Michael Heeley, assistant professor, received the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Best Journal Article on Corporate Entrepreneurship Award for “Pioneers and Followers Competitive Tactics, Environment and Firm Growth,” (with Jeffrey G. Covin and Dennis P. Slevin), published in the Journal of Business Venturing.

Neelam Jain, assistant professor, presented “Financial Intermediation and Entry-Deterrence” (co-authored with Thomas D. Jeitschko and Leonard J. Mirman) at the South Eastern Theory and International Trade meetings held here at Rice University in October. She also presented “Strategic Experimentation in Financial Intermediation with Threat of Entry” (with Jeitschko and Mirman) at the Midwest Theory and International Trade meetings at Minneapolis, Minnesota in October.

Quintus Jett, assistant professor of management and engineering, will publish “Web-based Periodicals as an Emerging Cultural Form: Incumbent and Newcomer Producers in the Early Stages of Industry Revolution” in a forthcoming International Journal of Electronic Commerce. He presented: “Core Competencies and Problem Solving Capabilities in a U.S. and a Japanese Firm” at the 20th Annual International Conference of the Strategic Management Society in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, in October and “Proximity and the Sharing of Tacit Knowledge” at the Annual Meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences in San Antonio, Texas in November.

Lisa Klein, assistant professor, presented three papers: “The Impact of Category Expertise on Telepresence in Computer-Mediated Environments,” at the Association for Consumer Research Annual Conference, October, in Salt Lake City, Utah; “Consumer Response to Web Site Privacy Claims,” at INFORMS 2000, November, in San Antonio, and, “Understanding the Importance of Expertise in Creatng Virtual Experiences,” University of Houston Marketing Department Doctoral Research Seminar Presentation” in September.

Assistant Professor Karen Schnietz reviewed You Say You Want a Revolution by Reed Hundt (former FCC Chair under President Clinton) in Business History Review this spring.

The Journal of Advertising will publish Assistant Professor Sanjay Sood’s “Communication Strategies for Brand Extensions: Enhancing Perceived Fit by Establishing Explanatory Links.” He presented “Differences between Children and Adults in Brand Extension Evaluations” at the Association for Consumer Research Conference in October.

The Journal of Financial Intermediation will publish Assistant Professor Albert Wang’s “Overconfidence, Investor Sentiment, and Evolution.” He presented this paper last November in Washington D.C. at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Also in November, he presented his paper “Closed-End Fund Discounts with Informed Ownership Differential,” 2000, co-authored with Gustavo Grullon, assistant professor, at the 11th Annual Financial Economics and Accounting Conference in Ann Arbor. At the same conference, he presented a second paper, “On Stock Market Co-Movements: Macroeconomic News, Dispersion of Believes, and Contagion?” co-authored with Robert Connolly.

Robert A. Westbrook, William Alexander Kirkland Professor of Management and associate dean for faculty affairs, with Distinguished Research Professor Marc Epstein published “What Drives Corporate Profit? How To Know If What You’re Doing Is Paying Off,” in the Spring 2001 Sloan Management Review. His paper “Towards A Managerial Research Agenda for Customer Satisfaction,” will appear in the Journal of Consumer Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction and Complaining Behavior, Vol. 13, 17-25, 2000.

The American Economic Review has accepted Assistant Professor James Weston’s paper “Exchange Rate Exposure: Financial vs. Operational Strategies” (co-authored with George Allayannis and Jane Ihrig) for publication.

The Journal of Post Keynesian Economics will publish Edward E. Williams, Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Management, and M.C. Findlay’s “A Fresh Look at the Efficient Market Hypothesis: How the Intellectual History of Finance Encouraged a Real ‘Fraud on the Market.’”

Duane Windsor, Lynette S. Autry Professor of Management, was co-editor of the International Association for Business and Society 2000 Proceedings, Eleventh Annual Conference. He will publish “Moral Activism and Value Harmonization in an Integrating Global Economy,” in the Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, Vol. 1, pp. 300-312; and, “Emergence of a Global Anti-Corruption Campaign”, in the forthcoming Ninth World Business Congress Proceedings. Duane presented “Incorporating Ethics into Business Functional Courses: Approaches and Caveats” at the University of Texas at Austin College of Business Administration in October.

Stephen A. Zeff, Herbert S. Autry Professor of Accounting, presented “SEC vs. IASC: The Confrontation on International Accounting Standards,” at the 26th Annual Seminar on Accounting Education, Texas Society of CPAs in Houston in October; “The Confrontation on International Accounting Standards,” at the HARMONIA Seminar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium in October; “Accounting Research,” at the Annual Research Conference of the Academy of Accounting Historians in Columbus, Ohio in November; and, “The Confrontation on International Accounting Standards,” at The Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge, England in December.