Accountancy
A paper co-authored by Edward Sul, assistant professor of accountancy, with Salman Arif, associate professor of accounting at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, entitled “Does Accounting Information Identify Bubbles for Fama? Evidence from Accruals,” has been accepted for publication in the November-December issue of the Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE).
Congratulations to Edward Sul, associate professor of accountancy, on his recent publication in Management Science! His paper, "The Effects of MiFID II on Voluntary Disclosure," co-authored with Chongho Kim and Jihwon Park, explores the impact of financial regulations on corporate disclosure practices. Read it here.
Jenny Zha Giedt, Assistant Professor of Accountancy, and Hyunjung Rim, Doctoral Student in Accountancy, examine a stock return anomaly that follows corporate announcements of strategic alternatives. Their paper, "Mistaking Bad News for Good News: Investor Optimism and Mispricing of Strategic Alternatives Announcements," was recently accepted for publication in the Review of Accounting Studies, a Financial Times Top 50 journal and one of the "top 5" accounting journals.
Decision Sciences
Patrick Hall, assistant professor of decision sciences, co-authored a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publication titled “Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile,” a deliverable for the Executive Order (EO) on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development of AI. The publication is a cross-sectional profile that defines the risks associated with the use of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and suggestions to help manage its risks. This research is funded by GWU-PREP.
Long He, associate professor of decision sciences, recently published a paper titled "Crowd-Starting a Shared (Shuttle) Service With Customer Suggestions" in Production and Operations Management. This paper proposes data-driven optimization methods to design shuttle services based on customer suggestions. The findings provide insights for enhancing urban transportation services and underscore the value of customer input in service design.
Miguel Lejeune, professor of decision sciences, is the author of the article "Risk-Adaptive Local Decision Rules" which will appear in Operations Research (AB4*,UTD24, FT50). The article was co-authored with professor Johannes Royset of the University of Southern California.
Miguel Lejeune, professor of decision sciences, is the author of the article "Drone-Delivery Network for Opioid Overdose: Nonlinear Integer Queueing-Optimization Models and Methods" which will appear in Operations Research (AB4*,UTD24, FT50). This paper designs drone transportation networks for medical emergencies, such as opioid overdoses and cardiac arrests. It was co-authored with Wenbo Ma, a former student in the MS Program in Data Sciences at GW.
Long He recently co-authored a publication "On the Equivalence and Performance of Distributionally Robust Optimization and Robust Satisficing Models" in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, examining the connection between two popular approaches to decision-making under uncertainty: distributionally robust optimization (DRO) and robust satisficing (RS).
Young Hoon Kwak recently co-authored and “The Power(lessness) of Flexibility in Public-Private Partnerships: Two Capital Projects from the National Capital Region” in the Project Management Journal.
Young Hoon Kwak recently co-authored and published “Online Firestorms in Twitter: Exploring Risks to Large Infrastructure Projects From Digital Communities” in the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
Young Hoon Kwak recently co-authored and published “The Impact of Contractor-Client Network Structure on Building Project Quality” in the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
Young Hoon Kwak and Janne Kattunen recently co-authored and published “Does competition Impact Workplace Safety in Public Utilities’ Procurement? Insights from Bid-Estimate Ratio and Firm Size” in the IEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
Young Hoon Kwak recently co-authored and published “Assessing Inter-Organizational Relationships among Key Supply Chain Partners (KSCP) in Public Construction Projects” in the IEEE Transaction on Engineering Management.
Finance
Şenay Ağca, professor of finance and decision sciences, co-authored an article titled “Managerial activism,” with Asli Togan Egrican, assistant professor at Kadir Has University and former Ph.D. student in finance at the GW School of Business. The article focuses on collective managerial activism of pro-business and pro-manager policies by CEOs and the impact on firms. The article was published in the Journal of Corporate Finance.
William C. Handorf, professor of finance, recently co-authored a publication titled "Property Performance and Access to Bank Funding during the Pandemic" in the winter 2024 edition of Real Estate Finance Journal.
William C. Handorf, professor of finance, recently published "Commercial Real Estate Lending at Large U.S. Banks" in the Banking and Financial Services Policy Journal (January 2025, Volume 44, Issue 1, pp. 1-8).
William C. Handorf recently published “The Impact of Interest Rates on Banks,” International Banker (Winter, 2025, pp. 36-39).
William C. Handorf, professor of finance, recently published “The Federal Home Loan Banks’ Approach 100: Evolution from Housing Lender to Liquidity Provider”, in the North Carolina School of Law Banking Journal.
William C. Handorf, professor of finance, recently published “Commercial and Industrial Lending by U.S. Banks” in the Banking and Financial Services Policy Journal.
William C. Handorf, professor of finance, recently published “Ex ante Autopsy of a Failed Bank Using Public Information” in the International Banker.
William C. Handorf, professor of finance, recently published Handorf, William C., “Bank Failure, a Risk Index and Capital” in the Banking and Financial Services Policy Journal
Professor Senay Agca had a recent paper accepted at the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization on how federal contractors adjusted their lobbying strategies after the unexpected federal budget cuts of 2013. The paper was coauthored with her former PhD student Fuhong Li (Amazon), Deniz Igan (IMF) and Prachi Mishra (Ashoka University, India).
International Business
Danny Leipziger's letter, "We would all be worse off without the dollar," was published in the Financial Times.
Anu Phene recently co-authored and published “Microfoundations as a toolkit for international business research” in the Journal of International Business Studies.
Anu Phene recently co-authored and published “Beyond global mobility: how human capital shaped the MNE in the 21st century” in the Journal of International Business Studies.
Management
Herman Aguinis, Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and professor of management, published the 9th edition of his classic textbook “Applied Psychology in Talent Management.” The 700-page book provides a comprehensive overview of psychological theories and how they impact people’s decisions in today's workplace. It equips students and managers across all industries with the tools necessary to create productive and enjoyable work environments. New and expanded topics include how talent management practices are affected by social media, machine learning, AI, gamification, virtual reality, and big data, as well as demographic trends.
Research by Herman Aguinis, Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and professor of management, and Jing Burgi-Tian, adjunct professor of management, was featured in Nikkei, Japan's most prestigious business publication. The article, including an interview with Ryosuke Sasaki, Chief People and Culture Officer of PwC Japan, refers to Aguinis and Burgi-Tian’s “Performance Promoter Score,” a new performance management approach described in their Business Horizons article "Measuring performance during crises and beyond: The performance promoter score."
Herman Aguinis, Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and professor of management, published an article in Academy of Management Perspectives titled “Putting Scholarly Impact in Context: Implications for Policy-making and Practices.” The article describes the development of a new software available at https://www.hermanaguinis.com/CSII.html that assesses both the quality and quantity of management research and also incorporates a date range explicitly so users can measure impact over time and during specific periods, uncovering whether impact is increasing, decreasing, or staying flat. The CSII addresses the increasing frustration with using the U.S. News & World Report and Poets & Quants business school rankings and the UT-Dallas, FT-50, and Clarivate impact factor journal lists as proxies for management research quality and impact. The CSII has already been downloaded more than 1,600 times and can be used to improve the accuracy of impact assessment over time in several ways, such as allowing for a side-by-side comparison of individual researchers with those at similar levels of seniority and business schools with peer and aspirational institutions.
Patrick McHugh, associate professor of management co-authored an article with GW Business doctoral student alum Ravi Ramani, assistant professor at Morgan State University, in The International Journal of Management Education titled "Cultural Influences on Internship Development Value and Job Pursuit Intention: An Exploratory Comparison of Student Experiences in France and the United States."
Ursula Martin, GWSB doctoral student, and Herman Aguinis, Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and professor of management, co-authored an article in the Human Resource Management Journal titled “Articulating scholarship in human resource management: Guidance for researchers.” Their article offers multidisciplinary insights and practical guidance to researchers on advancing theory, empirical evidence and research methods, enhancing the rigor, credibility and impact of scholarly work in human resource management and other fields.
N. Sharon Hill, professor of management, is co-editor for a special issue of Organization Science on the topic of remote and hybrid work. Please share the call with interested colleagues and consider submitting your work, if relevant, to the special issue.
Jungho Suh’s recent peer-reviewed journal article, "The role of entrepreneurship in alleviating ESG backlash and advancing sustainability," has been published.
Jungho Suh’s recently published "Harnessing Tourism & Sports for MSMEs Development & Economic Growth" in the ICSB Annual Global Micro-, Small-, and Medium-Sized Enterprises Report 2024 from the United Nations and International Council for Small Business.
Dr. Chris Kayes, professor and chair of the Department of Management, released his new book, Leading Outside Your Comfort Zone: The Surprising Psychology of Resilience, Growth, and Well-Being! The research-backed guide offers strategies for leading with confidence and resilience in an age of anxiety. The book has already been featured in Forbes and Fast Company. Purchase your copy here.
Herman Aguinis, Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and professor management, published an article in the Journal of Organizational Behavior titled A star is born or not: Understanding the star emergence gender gap. The article explains the barriers contributing to the gender gap in star performance and offers actionable recommendations to mitigate them.
N. Sharon Hill, professor of management, co-authored the article “Gender Differences in Virtual Collaboration Effectiveness in Hybrid Teams,” which has been published online by Information & Management.
Herman Aguinis, Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and professor of management, and first-year GWSB Ph.D. student Bria C. Gibson, co-authored an article in the journal Business Research Quarterly titled “Making Waves: How to Improve Scholarly Impact Performance Through Stakeholder Engagement.”
Their article expands the traditional focus of scholarly impact beyond researchers to a multidimensional, multistakeholder framework that includes personal, theoretical, educational, organizational, societal, and global dimensions, and introduces measures for assessing impact. It also extends the CORE performance model to enhance scholarly impact performance across different types of universities and business schools.
Professor N. Sharon Hill co-authored “Does Returning to the Office Support Your Company’s Strategy?” in the Harvard Business Review. The article explains how an organization’s strategic goals might benefit from a more flexible work arrangement instead of immediately jumping on the return-to-office bandwagon.
Marketing
Gil Appel, assistant professor of marketing, had a paper recently accepted at the Journal of Marketing with co authors, Stephanie Tully (USC), and Chiara Longoni (Bocconi) titled "Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity." The paper is receiving traction with references at Wired, Fast Company and more.
Gil Appel’s latest paper, co-authored with Giulia Maimone (UCLA), Ayelet Gneezy (UCSD), and Craig McKenzie (UCSD), is now published in PLOS One! The study examines how sexual misconduct scandals affect academic citations. It is also featured in Nature and Science.
Strategic Management and Public Policy
Joel Gehman, Lindner-Gambal Professor of Business Ethics and professor of strategic management & public policy, co-authored an article titled "An Assemblage Perspective on Hybrid Agency" in the Academy of Management Review. The article, co-authored with Vern Glaser, a professor at the University of Alberta, and Paul Merritt, a doctoral student at Cornell University, considers the implications of a conjoined human-AI agency on organizational search processes.
An article by Joel Gehman, Lindner-Gambal Professor of Business Ethics and professor of strategic management and public policy, “Organizations as Algorithms: A New Metaphor for Advancing Management Theory,” has been published in the Journal of Management Studies. Co-authored with Vern Glaser and Jennifer Sloan of the University of Alberta, the article is part of the Point-Counterpoint debate and proposes a novel management metaphor: organizations as algorithms. The metaphor offers three insights for developing innovative, relevant, and grounded organization theory. First, agency is distributed in assemblages rather than being solely attributed to individuals, algorithms, or data. Second, machine-readability serves as the immutable and mobile base for organizing and decision-making. Third, prompting and programming transform the role of professional expertise and organizational relationships with technologies. Contrary to the ‘Point’ essay, the authors see no theoretical ‘end’ in sight; the organization as algorithm metaphor enables scholars to build innovative theories that account for the intricacies of algorithmic decision-making.
For Nature, Joel Gehman, the Lindner-Gambal Professor of Business Ethics and professor of strategic management and public policy, co-authored the research featured in the article “Wastewater production footprint of conventional and unconventional oil and gas wells in North America.’’
Joel Gehman, professor of strategic management and public policy, recently published The Limits of Pivoting: A Culturally Informed Model of Resource Commitments during Repeated Organizational Transformation in the Academy of Management Journal. Co-authored with Eric Knight (Macquarie Business School) and Matthew Grimes (Cambridge Judge Business School), the study "reveals limits to the number of transformations an organization can make without losing the support of key stakeholder groups."
Joel Gehman, professor of strategic management and public policy, recently co-authored and published “The Cogs and Wheels of Cultural Entrepreneurship: The Becoming of New Possibilities”, which was conditionally accepted at the Academy of Management Annals.
Joel Gehman, professor of strategic management and public policy, recently co-authored and published “The Escalation of Prosocial Commitment: How the B Corporation Movement Catalyzes Social Impact”, which was conditionally accepted at the Journal of Applied Psychology.
Joel Gehman, professor of strategic management and public policy, recently co-authored and published “Collaboration for Tackling Grand Challenges: A Curated Conversation” in the Journal of Management Inquiry.
Joel Gehman, professor of strategic management and public policy, recently co-authored and published “Tackling Grand Challenges: Insights and Contributions from Practice Theories” in the Journal of Management Inquiry.
Joel Gehman, professor of strategic management and public policy, recently co-authored a publication titled Large Language Models and the Future of Organization Theory in the Organization Theory.
Joel Gehman, professor of strategic management and public policy, recently co-authored a book, Organizing beyond Organization for the Common Good: Confronting Societal Challenges through Process Studies in the Perspectives of Organization Studies.
Joel Gehman, professor of strategic management and public policy, recently published a book that he co-authored, titled Concise Introduction to Organization Theory: From Ontological Differences to Robust Identities. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-80392-128-0
Joel Gehman, professor of strategic management and public policy, was recently featured in a publication he co-authored titled “Organizing beyond Organizations for the Common Good: Confronting Societal Challenges through Process Studies” in the Perspectives on Process Organization Studies.
Joel Gehman, professor of strategic management and public policy, was recently featured in his co-authored publication, “Grand Challenges and Social Entrepreneurship”, featured in the De Gruyter Handbook of Sociology of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Joel Gehman, professor of strategic management and public policy, recently co-authored a publication titled ”Certified B Corporations and Benefit Corporations” in the Oxford Bibliographies in Management.
Dr. Jorge Walter, chair of the Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy and professor of strategic management and public policy, alongside co-author Markus Kreutzer of European Business School, published their new book, Reconceptualizing Organizational Control: Managing in the Age of Hybrid Workplaces, Artificial Intelligence, and the Gig Economy, with Cambridge University Press. The book "integrates the new and evolving trends in technology, organizations, and society into a reconceptualization of organizational control for twenty-first-century organizations."
Jennifer Merluzzi recently published “A Hidden Barrier to Diversification? Performance Recognition Penalties for Incumbent Workers in Male-Dominated Occupations”, which is featured in the American Sociological Review.
Tourism, Hospitality, and Event Management
Cevat Tosun, director of the M.S. in Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management program and Eisenhower Chair and professor of tourism studies and management, co-authored an article titled "The Role of Gender in Shaping the Destination Service Quality and Its Consequences" in the International Journal of Tourism Research. The article considers how gender dynamics influence destination experiences. The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) bought its copyright and made it open access.