Ph.D. Graduates
FinanceArik Nachmias, "An Empirical Study of the Financial Profile of Firms Participating in Merger Activity", 1983, (Advisor: Shalit), The Open University of Israel
Vairamuththu Alaganar, "Empirical Investigation of a Capital Asset Pricing Model Using Fundamental Financial Variables", May 1990, (Advisor: Hsu), Assistant Professor, Hofstra University
Kevin Bahr, "An Analysis of Leveraged Buyouts", December 1990, (Advisor: Marcus), Marion College, Fond du Lac. Subsequent position Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Ilene Levin, "Stock Splits, Share Prices, and Ownership Composition", May 1993, (Advisor: Hsu), Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Peter Barrett, "Factors Affecting Corporate Dividend Policy: A Survey Investigation of the Beliefs of Market Participants", December 1994, (Advisor: Hsu), Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Deceased.
Mohammad Musa, "Post Event Period Security Returns and Market Efficiency", May 1995, (Advisor: Hsu), Assistant Professor, North-South University (Bangladesh)
Joseph Retzer "Implementing Weighted Average Cost of Capital in Place of Return on Equity to Characterize Firm Performance", May 1996, (Advisor: Warga), Senior Research Analyst, Market Probe, Inc.
Yuli Su, "On the Winner-Loser Effect and A Contrarian Strategy for Stock Investment", May 1996, (Advisor: Hsu), Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University Has been promoted to Associate Professor.
Bijesh Tolia, "The CEO Compensation Puzzle - Theory and Practice", May 1997, (Advisor: Hsu), Assistant Professor, Chicago State University Has been promoted to Associate Professor.
Donald McGuire, "Risk Effects on the Pricing of Corporate Bonds: A Relative Pricing Model", August 1998, (Advisor: Warga & Ambrose), Research Department, Market Probe, Inc.
Gwangheon Hong, "An Empirical Study of Corporate Bond Market Microstructure", August 1998, (Advisor: Warga & Ambrose), Assistant Professor, Saginaw Valley State University
Yewmun Yip, “Predictability in Cross-Sectional Expected Returns: Furthur Empirical Evidence”, December 1999, (Advisor: Hsu ), Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University
David W. Kesler, "An Investigation of Equity Investment Anomalies Using Implied Asset Returns Generated from a Contingent Claims Model", May 1998, (Advisor: Hsu ), Assistant Professor, Winona State University
Pattanaporn Kitsabunnarat, "Three Essays on Corporate Finance: Evidence from Asia", May 2002, (Advisor: K. Kim), Assistant Professor, Texas A & M, Laredo
Kiyoung Chang, “Two Essays on International IPOs”, April 2004, (Advisor: Marcus), Assistant Professor, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Saleh Al-Harbi, “Three Essays on Currency Risk Exposure.” December 2004, (Advisor: Y. Kim) Assistant Professor, King Saud University
Cheng-Huei Chiao, “Three Essays on Earnings Expectations and Asset Pricing”, May 2005, (Advisor: Hsu, Y. Kim) Assistant Professor, King College
Dongmin Ke, “Three Essays on Mutual Fund Investment Decisions,” August 2006, (Advisor: Ng), Assistant Professor, Eastern Kentucky University
Qi Sun , “Three Essays on Earnings Announcements and Stock Returns,” December 2006, (Advisor: Ng), Assistant Professor, California State-San Marcos
Wenlian Gao , “Essays on Corporate Finance” May 2007, (Advisors: Ng, Wang), Assistant Professor Dominican University
Pengfei Ye , “Three Essays on Mutual Fund Managers’ Behavior” May 2007, (Advisor: Ng, Wang), Visiting Assistant Professor Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Wen-Hsiu Chou, “Essays on Corporate Governance” May 2008, (Advisor: Ng), Assistant Professor Florida International University
Praveen Das, “Essays on Mutual Funds’ Investment and Proxy Voting Decisions” May 2008, (Advisor: Ng), Assistant Professor University of Louisiana-LaFayette
Nataliya Kocherkevych, “Essays on Corporate Governance, Agency Conflicts, and Regulations” May 2008, (Advisor: Ng), Assistant Professor Simmons College
Management Information SystemsDavid P. Hale, "A Framework for Distributed Data Base Fragment Allocation Utilizing Semantic Meta-Data to Compose Data Fragments", August 1986, (Advisor: Haseman), Associate Professor, Information Systems & Quantitative Sciences, Texas Tech University. Subsequent position; Associate Professor and Director of Manufacturing Information Technology Center, University of Alabama
Mohammed I. Bu-Hulaiga, "Model Manipulation in Decision Support Systems: A Plan-Based Approach", August 1987, (Advisor: Jain), Member of the Saudi Arabia Consultative Council appointed by the King, (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), and Secretary General, Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting, (Doha, Qatar)
Jeanne Wenzel Ross, "An Examination of Information Services Department Control Over End-User Computing in the Marketing/Sales Departments of High and Low Information-Intensive Industries: An Application of Strategic Contingencies Theory", August 1987, (Advisor: Kaiser), Principal Research Scientist, Center for Information Systems Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Editor-in-Chief, MIS Quarterly
David L. Munro, "An Architecture for Distributed Decision Support Systems", December 1988, (Advisor: Haseman), Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Alok R. Chaturvedi, "Goal Directed Conceptual Aggregation: An Artificial Intelligence Technique to Support Management Decision Making", May 1989, (Advisor: Hutchinson), Professor, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University.
Uday R. Kulkarni, "An Integrated Support System for Design of Distributed Data Bases", May 1989, (Advisor: Jain), Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Tung-Ching Lin, "Knowledge-Based Semantical Query Processing: An Optimal Transformation Approach", May 1989, (Advisor: Haseman), Assistant Professor, National Sun Yat-Sen University (Taiwan)
Hwa-Suk Ryu, "An Investigation of the Relationship Between Organizational Characteristics and the Degree of Site Autonomy, and Its Impact on the Performance of Data Administration in Distributed Systems", May 1990, (Advisor: Jain), Samsung Data Systems (Korea)
J. Stephanie Collins, "A Design for Dynamically Constructing Conceptualized Models of Users' Mental Models to Provide Adaptive System Responses to Individual Users", (Advisor: Haseman), December 1990, Assistant Professor, MIS, Northeastern University. Subsequent position, Associate Professor, Southern New Hampshire University
Benedict J. Arogyaswamy, "An Object-Oriented Approach for Integrating Data Model Bases in Decision Support Systems", August 1992, (Advisor: Jain), Associate Professor, University of South Dakota
Kurt A. Pflughoeft, "A Knowledge-Based Approach to Automate and Support Dynamic Decision Making for the Control of Complex Discrete Systems", August 1993, (Advisor: Hutchinson), Assistant Professor, University of Texas-El Paso. Subsequent position: Information Systems Department Head, Market Probe, Inc.
Frank Groom, "An Object Storage Model: Structure for the Storage and Management of Objects", August 1993, (Advisor: Haseman), Assistant Professor, Ball State University. Has been promoted to Professor.
Elizabeth Rose Towell, "An Object-Oriented Integration Framework for Distributed Multimedia Database Systems", August 1993, (Advisor: Haseman), Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University. Subsequent position: Associate Professor, Carroll College
Sandeep Purao, "A Methodology for Distribution of Object-Oriented Applications", May 1995, (Advisor: Jain), Assistant Professor, Georgia State University. Subsequent position: Associate Professor, Penn State University
Nui Kettanurak, "An Empirical Investigation of the Degree of Interactivity in an Interactive Multimedia Instructional Program", April 1996, (Advisor: Haseman)
Antonio M. Reis, "Collaborative Decision-Making Supported by a Modeling Environment: A Financial Example", April 1996, (Advisor: Haseman), Assistant Professor, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestao, Technical University of Lisbon, & Visiting Professor, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
Sreedhar Sundaram, "Integrating Visual Interaction Modelling with Multiple Criteria Group Decision Support Systems", December 1996, (Advisor: Jain), MIS Consultant, Blackwell Consulting Services
George S. Nezlek, "Architectures for Cooperative Computing: A Knowledge-Based Approach", August 1997, (Advisor: Jain), Assistant Professor, MIS, Loyola University
Souren Paul, "Group Memory and its Use in Group Decision Making", December 1997, (Advisor: Haseman), Assistant Professor, MIS, Concordia University (Montreal). Subsequent position: Assistant Professor, MIS, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
JungJoo Jahng, "Successful Design of Electronic Commerce Environment: The Role of Sense of Presence on User Behavior", August 2000, (Advisor: Jain and Ramamurthy ), Assistant Professor, Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute. Subsequent position; Associate Professor, Seoul National University
Padmal K. Vitharana, "Designing and Managing Reusable Business Components", August 2000, (Advisor: Jain and Zahedi ), Associate Professor, Syracuse University
Jaeki Song, "Internet Market and Web-Design Strategies for eCommerce," August 2001, (Advisor: Zahedi ), Assistant Professor, Texas Tech . Promoted to Associate Professor 2007.
Seokwoo Song, "Knowledge Management in an Agent-Based Environmental Scanning System," May 2001, (Advisor: Jain), Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Arlington
Suprasith Jarupathirun , “Novel Decision Support Systems: Design and Assessment ” December 2005, (Advisor: Zahedi), Lecturer, Ramkhamhaeng University
Ying Lu, “IT Capability, Uncertainty and Organizational Performance: Development of Measures and Empirical Examination” December 2005, (Advisor: Ramamurthy), Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Hangjung Zo , “Supporting Intra- and Inter-Organizational Business Processes with Web Services ” August 2006, (Advisor: Jain), Assistant Professor, Information and Communications University (ICU) Korea
Andrew Ciganek , “The Need for Speed: The Decision to Adopt a Service-Oriented Architecture” August 2006, (Advisor: Haseman), Assistant Professor, Jacksonville State University
Ananth Chiravuri, “Resolving Cognitive Conflicts Among Experts in Virtual Teams During Knowledge Capture” May 2007, (Advisor: Ramamurthy), Assistant Professor, American University of Sharjah
Belinda Shipps, "Information Technology Staffing Strategies: On the Road to 'Agility'" December 2007, (Advisors: Zahedi, Mone), Assistant Professor, North Carolina A&T State University
Peter Haried, “Evaluating Relational Antecedents and Components of IT Offshoring Success: When Is Success and Failure One and the Same?”
May 2008, (Advisor: Ramamurthy), Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
MarketingRaj Javalgi, "Simplifying and Optimizing the Multistage Multiattribute Choice Model", August 1985, (Advisor: Gensch), Professor, Cleveland State University
Michael S. Patrick, "A Theory Based Methodology for Determining the Organization of Product Concepts in Memory", December 1987 (Advisor: Ring)
Prasad V. Kilari, "Effect of Information Load on Decision Makers and the Use of Heuristics", August 1989, (Advisor: Ring), Assistant Professor, University of Nevada-Reno
Lois J. Smith, "The Effects of Program Context and Advertising Placement on Children's Responses to Televised Commercial Messages", August 1989, (Advisor: Prasad & Ring), Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Tyagarajan N. Somasundaram, "An Investigation of Alternative Postpurchase Evaluation Strategies Used in Arriving at Satisfaction Judgments", December 1989, (Advisor: Ring), Assistant Professor, University of San Diego. Has been promoted to Associate Professor.
Marsha Van Egeren, "A Causal Model of Top Management Team and External Environmental Antecedents of Market Orientation and Organizational Performance in Service Organizations", November 1994, (Advisor: Ring), Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Oded Lowengart "Using a Relative Price Preference Scale to Analyze Choice: A Prototype Modeling Approach", May 1996, (Advisor: Ghose), Assistant Professor, Ben Gurion University (Israel)
Anil V. Gupta "Heterogeneity in Reference Incidence and its Impact on Brand Choice", June 1997, (Advisor: Ring)
Gururaj Kurubarahalli, "Change in Discriminating Ability Over Time as a Signal to Measure 'Closeness to Purchase' of an Industrial Buyer", June 1997, (Advisor: Gensch), Blackwell Consultants (Chicago). Subsequent position: Portfolio Target Marketing, First USA Bank, Delaware
C. Robert Newberry, "Predicting Readiness-to-Purchase based on a Consumer's Ability to Differentiate among Alternatives", December 1997, (Advisor: Gensch), Assistant Professor, Winona State University
Seijin Jang, "A Dynamic Learning Multiattribute Logit Model", August 1998, (Advisor: Gensch), ACNielson (Coke Team), Georgia
Wenyou Du, "Modeling the Online Sales System: A Catastrophe Theory Approach", August 1999, (Advisor: Ghose ), Assistant Professor, Winona State University. Subsequent position: Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
David Luna Gomez, "Information Processing of Bilingual Consumers: Implications for Marketing Communications", May 1999, (Advisor: Peracchio ), Assistant Professor, Chapman College. Subsequent position: Associate Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York
Kanghyun Yoon, “An Investigation of Bid-Timing Decisions in Online Auctions: Theory & Empirical Results,” May 2004,(Advisor: Papatla), Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida
Minli Liang, “The Effect of Ad Uniqueness on Attitudes,” May 2006, (Advisor: Peracchio), Assistant Professor, State University of New York-Brockport
Ruiliang Yan , “Pricing, Advertising, and Direct Retailing on the Internet,” August 2006, (Advisor: Ghose), Assistant Professor, Virginia State University
Kai-yu Wang , “Does Thinking Make It So? The Role of Counterfactual Thinking” May 2007, (Advisor: Peracchio), Assistant Professor Brock University
Feng Liu , “Why Consumers Buy Multiple Products from a Single Retailer: A Household Production Explanation” August 2007, (Advisor: Papatla), Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
Organizations and Strategic ManagementHaug, Ralph, “Contingency Approaches to the Design of Strategic Planning Systems”, December 1990, (Advisor: Yasai-Ardekani), Assistant Professor, Roosevelt University
Kamala Arogyaswamy, "Organizational Turnaround: A Two Stage Strategy Contingency Model", December 1991, (Advisor: Yasai), Current Placement: Associate Professor, University of South Dakota (Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, USD).
Teresa Steffen, "Determinants of Service Quality in Health Care Organizations", May 1992, (Advisor: Nystrom), Current Placement: Associate Professor and Program Director, Concordia University (Initial Placement: Assistant Professor and Program Director, Concordia University).
Jean M. Lundin, "Determinants of Administrative Intensity: A Multivariate Analysis of Mass Transit Organizations", May 1992, (Advisor:Weber), Associate Professor, Lake Superior State University (Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Lake Superior State University).
Halonen, Brian, “Cognition and Causation in Formunating Unstructured Decision Problems”, December 1992, (Advisor: Nystrom)
Laurence Weinzimmer, "Determinants of Organizational Growth for U.S. Publicly Traded Companies", December 1993, (Advisor: Nystrom), Current Placement: Associate Professor, Bradley University (Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Bradley University). Has been promoted to Associate Professor.
Michele Gee, "An Examination of the Strategic Fit Between Quality Management Strategy and Levels of Training Provided to Develop People-Dependent Capabilities", November 1994, (Advisor: Weber), Current Placement: Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Parkside (Initial Placement: UW-Green Bay, Assistant Professor).
Reginald M. Beal, "Industry Life Cycle Stages - Competitive Strategy - CEO Characteristics Alignments: How Small Manufacturing Firms Compete", April 1995, (Advisor: Yasai), (Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Florida A&M University). Has been promoted to Associate Professor.
Alla Wilson, "Organizational Climate and the Adoption of Technological Innovations by Hospitals", August 1996, (Advisors: Nystrom and Ramamurthy), Current Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. (Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater).
George C. Mueller, "Strategic Decision Making and Performance: Decision Processes and Environmental Effects", August 1998, (Advisors: Barker and Mone), (Initial Placement: Principal, Mueller Consulting) Current placement: Vice President of Marketing Research, Aurora Health Care Systems.
Chungho Moon, "The Effects of Macro and Micro Fit on the Performance of Multinational Corporations, August 1999, (Advisor: Yasai), (Initial Placement: LG Management Development Institute). Current Placement: Faculty, Ahsan College of Technology.
Moses Acquaah, "Firm Resources and the Sustainability of Firm-Specific Profitability: an Empirical Analysis", December 2000, (Advisors: Barker and Chi), Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Bonnie S. O'Neill, "A Contingency Approach to Referent Selection: A Model and Empirical Test", December 2000, (Advisor: Mone), Initial and Current Placement: Assistant Professor, Marquette University
Virginia Baeten, "Aligning Strategy and Leadership Characteristics in a Nonprofit Environment: Does it Influence Performance?", May 2001, (Advisor: Barker), Emeritus Chief Executive, Brown County Association for Retarded Citizens
Corey Pfaffe, "Assessment of Feasibility and Urgency: The Threshold of Action for High Performing Organizations," May 2003, (Advisor: Yasai) Current placement: Assistant Professor, Maranatha Baptist Bible College
Hermann Ndofor, "Entrepreneurial Forms of Capital, Venture Strategy & Performance: The Special Case of Immigrant Entrepreneurs," August 2004, (Advisor: Priem) Current Placement: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University . (Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Charlotte).
Sibin Wu, "Nascent Entrepreneurs: Motivation, Aspiration and Opportunity Search," August 2004 (Advisors: Priem & Levitas) Current placement: Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Pan American
Joseph O’Connor, Jr., “The Effect of Organizational Learning on Market Entry Strategy”, August 2005, (Advisor: Levitas), Assistant Professor, University of Texas-El Paso
Lucy Arendt, “Leaders’ Use of Positive Humor: Effects on Followers’ Self-efficacy and Creative Performance,” August 2006, (Advisor: Mone), Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Mujtaba Ahsan, “Incumbents Adaptation to Uncertain Competence-Destroying Changes: Real Options Perspective,” August 2006, (Advisor: Levitas), Assistant Professor, Pittsburg State University
Jeff Vanevenhoven, “Taxonomies of Environmental Uncertainty Sources Perceived by Executives in the United States, Mexico and Taiwan” August 2008, (Advisor: Priem), Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Production and Operations ManagementDiptendu Sinha, "Study of Optimal Policy Approximation for a Class of Inventory Control Problems", August 1985, (Advisor: Sahin)
X. Chen, "Product Quality and Warranty Cost", August 1991, (Advisor: Sahin)
Barbara Doll, "MINTIME: A Dynamic Log Sizing and Scheduling Method for Multiple Product, Single Resource Production Systems", December 1993, (Advisor: Liu), Senior Scheduling Engineer, Motorola Co.
Bijayananda Naik, "A Knowledge-Based Approach to the Management and Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems", April 1995, (Advisor: Chakravarty & Liu), Associate Professor, University of South Dakota
L. Hakan Polatoglu, "Cost, Revenue, and Profit Distributions in Warranty Analysis", July 1995, (Advisor: Sahin), Assistant Professor, Suffolk University
Jon Baum, "Impact on Out-of-Pocket Costs on the Utilization of Health Services with Applications to Post-retirement Health Benefit Plans", July 1995, (Advisor: Sahin), Assistant Professor, Concordia University Has been promoted to Professor.
Debopam Chakraborty, "Modeling Processes With Increasing Output Variance: Optimum Variance Reduction Policies Under the Taguchi and the Rejection Losses and Their Applications in Static and Dynamic Conditions", May 1996, (Advisor: Mukhopadhyay), Manager (Data Services), Lucent Technologies
Seong-Hyun Nam, "Dynamic Regulation of Manufacturing Quality Diffusion Under Uncertain Exogenous Influence", December 1997, (Advisor: Liu ), Associate Professor, University of North Dakota
Dongqing Yao, "Study of Bullwhip Effect and Channel Design in Supply Chains", August 2001, (Advisor: Liu ), Assistant Professor, Towson University
Robert Setoputra, “Role of Return Policy in Reverse Logistics: Issues and Optimum Policies”, August 2005, (Advisor: Mukhopadhyay), Associate Professor, Shippensburg University
Hisashi Kurata, “Interactions of Retailers’ Marketing Decisions on Operational Performance in a Supply Chain,” May 2006, (Advisor: Liu & Alwan), Assistant Professor, International University of Japan
Xiaowei Zhu, “The Role of Information in Supply Chain Contracts,” August 2006, (Advisor: Mukhopadhyay), Assistant Professor, Westchester University of Pennsylvania
Xuemei Su , “The Role of Marketing Effort in Supply Chain Management” August 2007, (Advisor: Mukhopadhyay), Assistant Professor California State University-Long Beach
