Research Grants

2011 Research Grant Recipients

• Suzanne McCoskey, Assistant Professor - Women's Leadership Program, Department of Economics. "The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and Liberia's Civil Conflict 1989-2003."
• Eun-Hee Kim, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy. "What Drives the Rising Uptake of Non-Hydro Renewable Electricity Generation by Investor-Owned Electric Utilities in the US?"
• Rafel Lucea, Assistant Professor of International Business. "Rules of Engagement: NGO-MNE Partnership Governance and International Expansion."
• Mark Klock, Professor of Finance. "Ethics and Regulation of Securities Markets."

2010 Research Grant Recipients

Multi-Year Awards

• Suzanne McCoskey, Assistant Professor - Women's Leadership Program, Department of Economics. "The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and Liberia's Civil Conflict 1989-2003."
• Eun-Hee Kim, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy. "What Drives the Rising Uptake of Non-Hydro Renewable Electricity Generation by Investor-Owned Electric Utilities in the US?"
• Rafel Lucea, Assistant Professor of International Business. "Rules of Engagement: NGO-MNE Partnership Governance and International Expansion."
• Mark Klock, Professor of Finance. "Ethics and Regulation of Securities Markets."

One-Year Awards

• Liesl Riddle, Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs. "Investing in Peace and Development: The Process of Diaspora Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa."
• Pete Tashman, PhD Student, School of Busineses. "How Corporate Climate Change Adaptations Influence Corporate Environmental Performance: A Longitudinal Study in the U.S. Ski Resort Industry."
• Saurabh Lall, PhD Student, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. "Entrepreneurial Approaches to Sustainable Development: Aligning Incentives, Measuring Outcomes."
• Mark Heuer, Adjunct Faculty, Strategic Management and Public Policy. "Sustainability Governance Across Time and Space:�� Connecting Environmental Stewardship in the Firm with Global Community."
• Chao Wei, Assistant Professor of Economics. "A Stochastic Discrete Analysis of Scrapping Subsidies."
• Srividya Jandhyala, Assistant Professor of International Business and International Affairs. "Commitments to Global Initiatives: Empty Promises or Good Practices?"
• Medlir Mema, PhD Candidate, Graduate Research Fellow-Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. "The Greening of Human Rights: NGOs and Climate Change."
• Smita Trivedi, PhD Candidate, Strategic Management and Public Policy. "Ethical Employee Behavior through Trust Network Embeddedness."
• Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre, PhD Candidate, Political Science. "Doing the Right Thing: Perceptions of Ethical Problems and the Social Legitimacy of Multi-national Corporations."
• Senay Agca, Associate Professor of Finance. "Credit Market Reforms and Corporate Borrowing Costs in Emerging Markets."
• Patricia Kanashiro, PhD Candidate, Strategic Management and Public Policy. "Corporate Environmental Strategy: A Corporate Governance Perspective."
• Javier Ayala, PhD Candidate, Finance. "What Attributes of Corporate Governance are Relevant to Bondholders?"

2009 Summer Research Grant Recipients

• Zinan Zhu, PhD Student in Accounting Department at GWU. "The Association between corporate Governance and Accounting Irregularities."
• Kuo-Liang Chen, PhD Student, SMPP Department. "Profit Margins and the Initiative of Corporate Social Responsibility."
• Michael M. Harmon, Professor of Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. "Counterintuitive Ethical Guidance for Managers."
• Pete Tashman, PhD Student, SMPP Department. "A Conceptual Model of Business Strategies for Climate Change."
• Stuart Levy, Assistant Professor , Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management (PI) , and Gu Huimin, Deputy Dean, China Hospitality Industry Center and Professor, Beijing International Studies University. "Guest and Employee Perceptions of Hotel Sustainability Efforts."
• Mark Klock, Professor of Finance. "What will it take to Label Participation in a Deceptive Scheme to Defraud Buyers of Securities a Violation of Section 10(b)? The Disastrous Result and Reasoning of Stoneridge."
• Jorge Rivera, Associate Professor SMPP, "Industry Associations and Corporate Environmental Performance: Evidence for Trinidad and Tobago"
• Juan Andres Roeschmann Gillmore, PhD Student, SMPP Department. "Collective Participation into a Voluntary Environmental Certification."
• J. Mark Philips, JD/MBA (Doctoral Candidate, Department of Management. "Citizen Shareholders: Does the Receipt of Federal Bailout Money Expand a Corporation's Fiduciary Duties Beyond its Shareholders?"
• Rafel Lucea, Assistant Professor in International Business. "Cross-Border Non-Market Environments; a Multirelational approach: Follow up research" ( No Application form)
• Susan Aaronson, Research Professor, Elliott School. "Educating Practioners and MBA students on Corporate Responsibility in Conflict Zones.

2008 Summer Research Grant Recipients

• Michelle Westermann-Behaylo, Doctoral Student, Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy. "Corporate Ethical Climate as an Antecedent to Stakeholder Management Decisions: A Structural Equation Model and Empirical Test."
• Chuck Koerber, Department of Strategic Management & Public Policy. Motivations for Social, Ethical, and Environmental Reporting and Corporate Codes of Conduct."
• Paul Churchill, Professor, Dept. of Philosophy. "The Difficulty of Assessing Corporations Morally: Alternate Perspectives."
• Lucy Lim, Doctoral Student, Department of Accounting. "Dual class vs. single class firms: information environment."
• Tim Clark, Doctoral Student, Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy. "A dependent variable concept for measurement of stakeholder management"
• Peter Tashman, Doctoral Student, Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy. "Dynamic Capabilities and Base of the Pyramid Business Strategies."
• Susan Aaronson, Research Associate Professor, GWU Graduate School of Business and the Elliott School of International Affairs. "Reluctant Partners: Business, Governments, NGOs and the EITI."
• Jorge Rivera, Associate Professor, Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy. "Business and Public Policy: Responses to Environmental & Social Protection Processes."
• Jennifer J. Griffin, Associate Professor, Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy. "Corporate Responsibility in a Global Economy."
• John Forrer, Associate Research Professor, Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy. "Locating PTC in the Global Governance Landscape."