Tag: economics and management

Kathy Lund Dean has published an article with co-author Jeanie Forray entitled, “The long goodbye: Can academic citizenship sustain academic scholarship?” in the Journal of Management Inquiry. In the article they argue that the response to that rhetorical question is firmly “No” and call for academic rewards systems to “count” peer reviewing work as the…

Vita Faychuk presented her paper “Credit Ratings Overreliance in Municipal Bonds Market” at the Southern Finance Association 2017 Annual Meeting.

Marta Podemska-Mikluch was interviewed for the article, “CMS cancels plans to expedite Medicare coverage on devices.”

Sheng Yang published an article “Exchange Rate Dynamics and Stock Prices in Small Open Economies: Evidence from Asia-Pacific Countries,” in The Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. The study investigates the short-run and long-run dynamics between exchange rates and stock prices and the path through which monetary policy shocks impact on these markets in four small open economies…

Marta Podemska-Mikluch’s “Entrepreneurship” chapter, written for the Encyclopedia of Law and Economics is now available on the Springer website. The essay explores the causes for the relative absence of entrepreneurship in the economics literature and reviews the key differences and commonalities of the three emerging approaches. In the spring semester Podemska-Mikluch worked with Emily Knutson…

Kathy Lund Dean has published two articles examining the increasing impact of the scholarship of teaching and learning on scholarly production as a whole. One was published in the Journal of Education for Business, the other in the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education. In addition, three of Lund Dean’s articles published in the Journal…

Kathy Lund Dean and her colleagues presented a paper at the OBTC Teaching Conference for Management Educators entitled, “Just because we can doesn’t mean we should: Ethics in experiential learning.” In the paper they make the argument that moving from passive to active learning techniques requires specific skills that are rarely taught and supported, and…

Kathi Tunheim has been selected to be a Thrivent Fellow for 2017-18. This is a year-long leadership development program for faculty and administrators at colleges and universities in Lutheran higher education.

Kathi Tunheim gave two invited seminars recently. The first was to ELCA Southwest Synod church leaders with Rev. Dr. Bill Nelson, “Strategic Visioning: Energizing and Mobilizing your Congregation,” on January 21, 2017. The second was to 40 high-potential women leaders at Federated Insurance in Owatonna on February 8, 2017 entitled, “Women in Leadership: Work/Life Balance…

Marta Podemska-Mikluch published a co-authored paper in Review of Political Economy entitled Economic Coordination across Divergent Institutional Frameworks: Dissolving a Theoretical Antinomy. The paper follows Albert Hirschman’s seminal “Exit, Voice, and Loyalty” in the search for a broader understanding of social coordination, beyond price coordination typically explored in economics. Specifically, Podemska-Mikluch and Wagner explore how…