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Butler to present at AAA-MAS 2008 meeting

December 1, 2007


Maureen Butler, an Assistant Professor in the School of Accountancy, has had her paper titled "Human Resource Outsourcing: Market Performance of Service Providers" accepted for presentation at the American Accounting Association's (AAA) 2008 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting. The Management Accounting Section of the AAA has their midyear meeting from January 10-12, 2008 in Long Beach, California. Dr. Butler co-authored the paper with Carolyn Callahan and Rod Smith.



Hevner appointed as MISQ Senior Editor

November 29, 2007


Dr. Alan Hevner, MIS Professor in Information Systems and Decision Sciences, has accepted the position of Senior Editor for Management Information Systems (MIS) Quarterly. MIS Quarterly, a peer reviewed scholarly journal, is consistently ranked as the number one journal in the information systems field. Dr. Hevner begins his three-year appointment in January 2008.



Barnett appointed to Faculty Fellows Program

November 20, 2007


Michael Barnett, Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, was recently appointed to the Patel Faculty Research Fellows Program of the Dr. Kiran C. Patel Center for Global SOlutions. The center will provide compensation to support the development of his research on the intersection of business practice and sustainability.


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Information Markets Project Receives Funding

May 1, 2007


Donald Berndt, Associate Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS), received a Navy grant close to $93,000 for his project to estimate software effort using information markets. Berndt, along with Assistant Professor Joni Jones, also received another grant totaling $30,000 from the Project Management Institute (PMI) for this project.


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Agrawal Awarded Academic Excellence Award from Sun Micro Systems

May 1, 2007


Manish Agrawal, Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, was awarded an Academic Excellence Award of $17,215 from Sun Microsystems. The award provides 2 UNIX servers for hands-on activities in graduate and undergraduate IS classes. Spare computing power will be used for IS research projects.


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Blanton Awarded the Best Paper

April 26, 2007


J. Ellis Blanton, Professor of Management Information Systems, was awarded the Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper Award that was given to the best paper at 2007 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference.  The paper titled “Examining User Resistance and Management Strategies in Enterprise System Implementations" was co-authored with Tim Klaus and Stephen C Wingreen.


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More Funding for SBDC

February 20, 2007


The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at COBA has received funding totaling $ 767,959 from the University of West Florida (UWF). The grant has been awarded to Irene Hurst, the Director of SBDC, for a period of 12 moths ending December 31, 2007.


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DeSalvo and Concas Awarded Funding from FDOT

February 13, 2007


Joseph S. DeSalvo, Professor of Economics, and Sisinnio Concas, an Economics doctoral student currently with the USF Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR), have received a research grant of $140,000 from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), for their project titled: “Integrating Transit and Urban Form.” This grant covers a period of 18 months beginning February 1, 2007.


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Gebhardt Named a Recipient of the MSI/H. Paul Root Award

February 12, 2007


Gary F. Gebhardt, Assistant Professor of Marketing, has been named a recipient of the 2006 MSI/H. Paul Root Award by the Journal of Marketing. Gebhardt co-authored an article that was chosen by members of the Journal of Marketing Editorial Review Board for its “significant contribution to the advancement of marketing.”

The article, “Creating a Market Orientation: A Longitudinal, Multi-Firm, Grounded Analysis of Cultural Transformation,” is the work of Gebhardt and co-authors Gregory S. Carpenter and John F. Sherry, Jr. Gebhardt teaches in the MBA and EMBA programs.


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Another Grant for COBA SBDC

December 13, 2006


Irene Hurst, Director of Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at COBA, has received another grant totaling $32,065 from Highlands County Economic Development for a project on Highland County.


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COBA SBDC Receives Funding

November 10, 2006


Irene Hurst, Director of Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at COBA, has received funding totaling $80,684 from the University of West Florida for Procurement Technical Assistance Center.


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Dant Appointed Co-editor of JR

August 22, 2006


 

Rajiv Dant, Frank Harvey Distinguished Professor of Marketing, has been appointed co-editor of the Journal of Retailing along with Jim Brown of West Virginia University, effective September 1, 2006. Journal of Retailing, published by Elsevier, is one of the top journals in marketing that publishes leading edge research in retailing.


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Study Finds Diversification Helped Tobacco Companies

June 8, 2006


A recent study co-authored by Nathan Stuart, Assistant Professor of Accounting, finds diversification helped tobacco companies build “political capital” and made them less attractive targets of regulation and litigation. The study also finds that diversification protected $5.7 to $15.3 billion (of 2001) in tobacco shareholder value through delayed or reduced expropriation. For more details, down load working paper by clicking here.


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ISDS Faculty Members Awarded Grant from HP

May 30, 2006


A team of ISDS faculty members lead by Grandon Gill (PI) along with Co-PIs Stan Birkin, Robert Fuller, and Diane Williams (USF Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence) have been awarded a grant from Hewlet-Packard (HP) under the HP Technology for Teaching grant initiative for their project titled: "Incorporating Technology-Enabled Collaboration into an MBA MIS Course". As part of this project, the PI's will redesign ISM-6021, a required MBA course, and move it towards a more collaborative case discussion format using TabletPCs and wireless technologies.This is a competitive grant from HP that is meant to support the development of innovative uses of technology in the classroom. The award which is worth $69,000, includes $15,500 in cash and HP technology valued at approximately $53,000.


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Hevner to Join NSF

May 30, 2006


Alan Hevner, Citigroup/Hidden River Chair of Distributed Technology and Professor of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, has accepted a two-year appointment at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate in Arlington, VA. He will participate in the strategic development of U.S. national research policy in the fields of software engineering and information systems. Hevner will coordinate the Science of Design program in CISE.


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Picone Awarded NIH Research Grant

December 6, 2005


Gabriel Picone, Professor of Economics, has been awarded a research grant recently from the National Institute on Aging, one of the National Institutes of Health. Picone has been awarded the grant jointly with Frank Sloan of Duke University for their research project titled “Visual Impairment, Treatment and Effects on the Elderly.” The USF portion of the grant totals $ 223,000 for the period 2005 to 2009.


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CEDR Completes Study on Free Trade Agreement

October 18, 2005


The Center for Economic Development Research (CEDR) completed a research study on the potential economic effects of free trade agreements on the state of Florida. The study was sponsored by the Center for Globalization Research. The two research reports from this study can be found at http://cedr.coba.usf.edu/projects.htm


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Hevner's Article Receives Top Rating

October 4, 2005


A paper co-authored by Alan Hevner, Professor of Information Systems & Decision Sciences, titled: “Design Science Research in Information Systems,”  that  appeared in the March 2004  issue of  Management Information Systems Quarterly, was selected by Thomson ISI Essential Science Indicators as the October 2005 Fast Breaking Paper in the field of Economics and Business.


Alan Hevner's interview can be found at http://www.esi-topics.com/fbp/2005/october05-AlanRHevner.html


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COBA Doctoral Student Wins NSF Grant

September 2, 2005

Barbara J Caldwell, a doctoral student in the Economics department, has been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant in July 2005. This is a big achievement for a COBA doctoral student considering the fact that doctoral dissertation improvement grants are highly competitive.  Professor Gabriel Picone of the Economics department is guiding Barbara in her grant-winning dissertation work titled: “Certificate of Need Regulation in the Nursing Home Industry: Has it Outlived its Usefulness?”  In her dissertation work, Barbara is developing models for access to care, quality of care and cost of care for Medicaid certified nursing homes. The money from the grant will allow Barbara to buy data for her research.


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Picone Awarded NIH Research Grant

September 2, 2005

Gabriel Picone, Professor of Economics, has been awarded a research grant recently from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, one of the National Institutes of Health.   Picone has been awarded the grant jointly with Frank Sloan of Duke University for their research project titled “Determinants and Consequences of Alcohol Consumption.” The USF portion of the grant totals $ 225, 976 for the period 2005 to 2009.

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COBA Researchers Work on SEI Research Project 

September 2, 2005


Alan Hevner and Rosann Collins, faculty members in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department, are working as Research Scientists and Co-Principal Investigators on an IRAD Research Grant. This grant titled: "Development of Ultra-Large Scale (ULS) Software Systems" is sponsored by CERT Coordination Center, Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie-Mellon University.


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