Presenting Sawyer Business School faculty expertise—direct from the intersection of the private, public, and non-profit sectors. Nearly 40% of the faculty bring international backgrounds and experiences to the school and their research.
In this episode of "The On-Ramp," Marketing Professor Andrew Smith shares his research on social media influencers: who they are, what they do, and how they make money.
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In this episode of “The On-Ramp,” Marketing Professor Mujde Yuksel introduces our X-Lab, a neuromarketing lab and course of study that's the first of its kind in Massachusetts.
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Sawyer Business School faculty publish research that has achieved more than 38,000 Google citations. They also serve as editors of some of the world’s leading academic publications.
Nancy Feng
Associate Editor, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management
Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue of Accounting, Accountability, and Governance in Nonprofit Organizations and Government-owned Enterprises
Lin Gao
Associate Editor, China Finance Review International
Katerina Gonzalez
Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue of International Journal of Human Resource Management
Sepideh Kaffash
Associate Editor, Decision Analytics Journal at Elsevier
Aroon Manoharan
Editor, Occasional Paper Series of the ASPA-Section on International and Comparative Administration (SICA)
Anne Schnader
Associate Editor, Accounting and the Public Interest, Journal of Theoretical Accounting Research
Andrew Smith
Associate Editor, Journal of Consumer Marketing
I-Chen Wang
Associate Editor, Technology Forecast & Social Change
Shari Worthington
Associate Editor, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Engineering Management Review (EMR)
Mujde Yuksel
Editor, Journal of Consumer Marketing
Ariel Markelevich
Should Accountants be Afraid of AI? Risks and Opportunities of Incorporating Machine Learning into Accounting and Auditing. Accounting Horizons. 1-7.
Christine Nolder, Tracy Riley, and Andrew Stuart
Self-Concept Priming and Message Framing as Strategies for Improving Individuals' Compliance: A Case Study of Bicultural Taxpayers' Tip Reporting. Accounting and the Public Interest. 1-19.
Irene Guannan Wang and Ariel Markelevich
Using Accounting Information to Identify Corporate Acquisition Motives: Implications on Post-Acquisition Performance. Advances in Accounting.
Mengyao Cheng
The JOBS Act and IPO Issuance Rate. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. 42 (5), 107120
Nancy Feng
Walden Conservatory of Music: A Case of Nonprofit Financial Analysis and Strategic Planning. Issues in Accounting Education 38 (3) 105-118
Stephen Fuller, Tracy Riley, and Andrew Stuart
Antecedents and outcomes of auditor identities: evidence from the behavioral literature and directions for future research. Behavioral Research in Accounting, 35 (2): 73–92
Mahed Maddah
Expecting the unexpected: Effects of data collection design choices on the quality of crowdsourced user-generated content. MIS Quarterly, 43(2), 623-648
Yuanxiang Li
Should firms pay for online brand communities: Using lead user theory in analyzing two contrasting cases? Decision Support Systems, 155.
Sepideh Kaffash
Big data algorithms and applications in intelligent transportation system: A review and bibliometric analysis. International Journal of Production Economics, 231
Sepideh Kaffash
A survey of data envelopment analysis applications in the insurance industry 1993–2018. European Journal of Operational Research, 284 (3)
Yurong Yao
E-participation decision across different channels. Information Technology & People, 35 (3), 956-976.
Kaushik Ghosh
Using secondary data to tell a new story: A cautionary tale in health information technology research. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 47(1), 41.
Chengguang Shang
Business seasonality and stock liquidity. Journal of Financial Markets, vol. 67(C)
Abu Jalal
Pandemics and cash. Journal of Business, Finance, and Accounting
Karen Simonyan
Top Management Team Quality and Innovation in Venture-Backed Private Firms and IPO Market Rewards to Innovative Activity. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 46(4), 920–951
Chenguang Shang
Social capital and individual ethics: Evidence from financial adviser misconduct. Journal of Business Ethics, 181, 495–518
Nataliya Zaiats
Short seller attention. Journal of Corporate Finance 72, 102149.
Saeid Hoseinzade
The Unintended Consequences of Corporate Bond ETFs: Evidence from the Taper Tantrum. The Review of Financial Studies, 35(1), 51–90
Lin Guo
Foreign shareholding, corporate governance and firm performance: Evidence from Chinese companies. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 31.
Amanda Patel
Many roads to success: Broadening our views of academic career paths and advice. Journal of Management. 50(4), 1186-1197.
Bari Bendell
Tourist Crossing: Examining the Intersection of Wildlife Tourism Attractions & Animal Welfare in Costa Rica. Journal of Ecotourism. 1–11.
Chaim Letwin
Passion and attractiveness on display: an examination of gender bias in crowdfunding. Small Business Economics, 1-28.
Gregory Beaver
Individual outcomes of employee resource group membership. Personnel Review, 52(5), 1420-1436.
Jordan McSweeney
Passion drove me here: Exploring how types of entrepreneurial passion influence different entrepreneurial intentions. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 18, e00352.
Katerina Gonzalez
“AI can’t steal my soul”: In the age of AI, the human touch is paramount for the craft of managing change. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 109(10):1635-1658.
Andrew Wilson
Winning the Battle but Losing the War: Ironic Effects of Training Consumers to Detect Deceptive Advertising Tactics. Journal of Business Ethics.
Cristian Chelariu
Digitization of interorganizational relationships: direct effects of benefit magnitude and indirect effects of benefit asymmetry on reseller profit. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 38 (9), 1794-1805.
Ereni Markos
Are B2B data breaches concerning? Consequences of buyer’s or firm’s data loss on buyer and supplier related outcomes. Industrial Marketing Management, 119, 43-61.
Li Chen
Social Media Influencer Endorsement: The Conditional Effects of Product Attribute Description in Sponsored Influencer Videos. Journal of Marketing Management, 40(9–10), 675–703.
Li Chen and Andrew Smith
What drives digital engagement with sponsored videos? An investigation of video influencers’ authenticity management strategies. Journal of Academy of Marketing Science.
Ming Cheng and Jane Zhu
Consumer Click Responses to Paid Ad Set Strategies of Search Platform. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly.
Aroon Manoharan
Public administrators as storytellers: Nurturing narrative competence to enrich their professional identity. Administrative Theory and Praxis, 45(2), 158-169.
Saerim Kim
Social Equity for Wicked Problems: Reducing Racial Disparities in Homeless Services. Public Management Review.
Erin Sullivan
An Exploratory Study of Dynamic Capabilities and Performance Improvement in Hospitals. Journal of Healthcare Management
Peter F. Martelli
Health Care in Times of War. Academy of Management Perspectives, 36, 744–767
Brenda Bond-Fortier
Public Perceptions of Police Agency Fairness and the Willingness to Call Police. The American Review of Public Administration, 51(5), 360–373.
Aroon Manoharan, Marc Holzer
Digital governance: An assessment of performance and best practices. Public Organization Review, 23, 265-283.
Aimee Williamson
Abrupt policy reversal amid Black Lives Matter: Starbucks’ grande employee dress code problem. The CASE Journal, 17(5), 673-690.
I. Kim Wang, Russell Seidle
Ambition in innovation: Vicarious learning in the nascent electric scooter market in Taiwan. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 12
Sokol Celo, Mark Lehrer
Modeling serendipity in opportunity search by born-global firms: Performance implications from a computer simulation of evolutionary drift using NKC methodology. International Business Review
Maria Lapeira
Women in Latin American family businesses: an institutional logics perspective. Management Decision, 61 (3), 720-745
I. Kim Wang
Innovation behind the frontier: Strategies of technological laggards. International Journal of Technology Management 86 (1), 1-24
Linda Melconian, Public Service and Healthcare Administration, published Lay It on the Table, which chronicles an important part of our national history: the time when Speaker Tip O'Neill led the U.S. House of Representatives to end the Vietnam War.
Bob Cargill, Marketing, published his new book, Twenty Jobs, Twenty Lessons — A Long, Strange Career in Marketing, from Junk Mail to Social Media. Chronicling the professional career of a copywriter who has learned a lot on the way...and wants to share it.
In Organizational Change in an Urban Police Department, Brenda Bond-Fortier, Public Service and Healthcare Administration, analyzes the community and organizational forces that stimulated change in the Lowell Police Department.
Alexis Montecinos Bravo, Finance, published Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models, which provides a thorough exploration of macroeconomic modeling. The book presents both theoretical and empirical insights, with a focus on practical applications for analyzing economic policy.
Laurie L. Levesque, Management and Entrepreneurship, authored People Management: Skills in Practice, an essential resource for managing teams in today's complex global environment. It offers strategies blending theoretical concepts with real-world applications to enhance team productivity and employee well-being.
Jodi Detjen, Management and Entrepreneurship, co-authored The Next Smart Step, a guide to dismantling gender stereotypes and creating more inclusive organizations. Through actionable insights, the book empowers leaders to drive change and build equitable workplaces.
Learn about past and upcoming events as well as faculty participation in conferences worldwide.
In September 2024, Deans Amy Zeng, Jodi Detjen, Pelin Bicen, and Tracey Riley attended the Northeast Business Dean Association (NEBDA)’s annual conference.
In October 2024, the Sawyer Business School hosted the Academy of International Business Northeast (AIBNE)’s Annual Conference on Global Connections and Artificial Intelligence.
In October 2024, Professor Brenda Bond will be presenting at the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Annual Conference and Exposition.
