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Elias Awad •
A refereed paper by Elias Awad, “Is There a Potential in Knowledge Management? From the Field,” will be published by
Journal of Information Technology Management in the November 2005 issue. In addition, Awad completed the third edition of
E-Commerce: From Vision to Fulfillment (Prentice Hall, December 2005). Among the book’s new features are permission marketing, phishing, weblogging, identity theft technology and protection, customer relations management, and combating money laundering via specialized technology in compliance with the USA Patriot Act. Awad also completed a new textbook,
Building Web-Oriented Decision Support and Intelligent Support
Systems (Course Technology, April 2006), which addresses decision-making strategies and implementations in the e-world, data mining and data warehousing architecture for online decision making, and the use of intelligent agents for matching vendors and clients worldwide. He conducted a one-week seminar, “Anti-Money Laundering Technology via the Internet” to the executive MBA program at American University of Beirut in March 2005 and was an invited speaker at the Lebanese Bankers Association, in Beirut, Feb. 8, 2005, where he discussed “What Does It Take to Comply with the USA Patriot Act?”
Rob Cross •
Rob Cross was featured in the Oct. 3, 2005, BusinessWeek cover
story, “The Real Reasons You’re Working So Hard … And What You Can Do about It.”
A paper by Cross and Lee Sproull,
“More than an Answer: Information Relationships for Actionable
Knowledge,” published in the July-August 2004 issue of Organization
Science, was recently selected as the Best Paper of the Year for 2004 by the Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) Division of the Academy of Management. Cross also had the following manuscripts published: “Why Should I Trust You?: Predictors of Trust in a Knowledge Transfer Context” (with D. Levin and E. Whitener), in press at
Journal of Applied Psychology, and “A Relational View of Rapid On-Boarding: Getting Newcomers Connected and Productive Quickly” (with K. Rollag and S. Parise), in
Sloan Management Review. Finally, Cross was cited Sept. 25, 2005, in a Dow Jones News Service article headlined “The Real Reasons You’re Working So Hard ...”
Rich DeMong
• Rich DeMong was quoted Oct. 5, 2005, in a Examiner Washington article titled “Debit Card or Piggy
Banks?”
Adelaide Wilcox King
• Adelaide Wilcox King recently had a paper accepted in The Academy of Management
Review: “Disentangling Inter- and Intra-Firm Causal Ambiguity: A Conceptual Model of Causal Ambiguity and Sustainable Competitive Advantage.”
David LaRue •
In August 2005, David LaRue submitted written testimony to the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee that recommended changes to the rules governing the taxation of S corporations. This testimony was subsequently published in
Tax Notes.
David Mick • David Mick, President of the Association for Consumer Research, gave the presidential address at the 2005 North American Conference of the Association for Consumer Research,
held in San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 29 to Oct. 2, 2005, on the topic of “Meaning and Mattering through Transformative Consumer Research.”
(Click here to read his comments) In
addition, Mick participated on a panel of eight marketing leaders who debated a new official definition of marketing developed by the American Marketing Association and discussed at its public policy conference, held in May 2005 in Washington, D.C.
Mick was also notified this summer of his receiving an Outstanding Reviewer Award for 2005 by
Journal of Consumer Research. Three of his past articles have also been reprinted by Sage Publications in its
Business and Management Series.
Mike Morris •
A 2002 article by Mike Morris (with V. Venkatesh and C. Speier), “User Acceptance Enablers in Individual Decision Making About Technology: Toward an Integrated Model,” has been showcased as one of only seven “Highlight” articles on the home page of
Decision Sciences. (Click
here and scroll down to the “Highlights” section to view the listing.)
Ryan Nelson •
Ryan Nelson had an article titled “Project Retrospectives: Evaluating Success, Failure, and Everything In-Between” accepted for publication in the September 2005 issue of
MIS Quarterly Executive. The paper is based on the 72 retrospectives conducted in the MS MIT program to date and describes a framework for evaluating project success.
Bill Shenkir •
Bill Shenkir and Thomas L. Barton (McIntire ’71) are the co-authors of a
column, “Options Fix Needs Fixing,” in the June 20, 2005, issue of
Barron’s. Shenkir was also appointed, along with Paul
Walker, as Senior Contributing Editor of the Internal Controls and Risk Management practice in the Institute of Management Accountants Research Centre of Excellence. Finally, Shenkir was appointed for a fourth year to serve on the AICPA/NASB International Qualifications Appraisal Board.
Robert Testerman • Robert Testerman was recently recognized by the University’s P.U.M.P.K.I.N. Society for his selfless service every day at the McIntire School, his concern for others, and his commitment to the community. In addition, Testerman’s oldest daughter has been selected to the list “Who’s Who among American Teachers.”
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