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Management Research ColloquiumManagement Research ColloquiumEstablished in 2011, the Management Research Colloquium showcases research presentations by Bloch School faculty, doctoral candidates, and visiting scholars in the management arena. Presentations may focus on completed research as well as research-in-progress. During the Fall 2012 semester, the colloquium meets on Thursdays from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm in Levitt Lounge, Room 301, at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management, 5110 Cherry St., Kansas City, MO 64110. Presentations are open to the UMKC community, visiting scholars, and interested management practitioners. Upcoming colloquia: Determinants of Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment in Private Equity versus Public Equity
Bloch School, Levitt, Room 301 Past colloquia: Workshop: IRB Training: New Online Submissions System Bloch School, Levitt, Room 301 FACET Program Evaluation and Analysis
Bloch School, Levitt, Room 301 Bad Apples in a Bad Basket? Context and Personality Factors in Business School Cheating
Bloch School, Levitt, Room 301 Open Forum and Fall 2012 Organizational Meeting Bloch School, Levitt, Room 301 Which tool under uncertainties?: Control mechanisms of MNEs
Bloch School, Room 114 Control often becomes challenging to an MNE (multi-national enterprise), as international business environment is inherently uncertain hindering MNE managers from fully understanding the situation in the host country and effectively managing subsidiaries. Although different control mechanisms for MNEs have been put forward in past studies, it has not been fully unveiled how these control mechanisms are related to each other. Thus, this study examines whether expatriates and intra-trade, respectively, substitute or complement equity ownership as a control mechanism. We further investigate those relationships under four uncertainty factors, including cultural distance, political instability, geographical distance, and ownership restrictions. This study found from data analysis of Korean FDIs that the use of expatriates and intra-trade are positively influenced by the level of equity ownership, indicating complementary relationships. In the equity ownership-expatriates relationship, cultural distance and geographical distance had positive moderation effects, but political instability and ownership restrictions had negative moderations. In the relationship between equity ownership and intra-trade, geographical distance revealed positive moderation, while political instability and ownership restrictions had negative moderation effects. Dynamic social norms: Culture persistence in the presence of demographic churn
Bloch School, Room 114 CEO Compensation and Risk
Bloch School, Room 114 Volunteer Patterns of Mid-Life American Couples: Implications for Business Managers and Not-for-profit Volunteer Coordinators (and the Couples Themselves!)
Bloch School, Room 114 Society’s expectation for older people to volunteer has increased, and married Americans are more likely to volunteer. Drawing on life course and couple decision-making theories, this research examines midlife American couples’ volunteer patterns. Multinomial logistic regression is able to predict couple patterns. For example, couples with no volunteers are more likely to report lower joint marital satisfaction and at least one spouse out of the labor force than couples where one spouse volunteers. Caregiving has no impact on couple volunteering. This paper addresses implications for volunteer recruitment. Workshop: Feedback on a Survey Instrument
Bloch School, Room 114 This is a workshop session. Dr. Smedley is seeking feedback on a survey instrument aimed at managerial accountants. Anecdotal evidence points to the existence of specific behavior by managerial accountants. The study is designed to determine whether this behavior is systemic. Faculty with expertise in survey development as well as those interested in learning more are encouraged to attend.
Ahead of the Curve: Board with Female Directors During an Economic Crisis
Bloch School, Room 114 Based on an attention-based view of the firm and group decision theory, we develop an attention model in board decision making process, claiming that the interaction between knowledge distribution and attention processing among male and female directors will influence board decision quality. Integrated with the glass cliff hypothesis, our model predicts that male directors as majority in the board will shift their attention on the gender differentiation to teh common goal, reduce status, discussion, and evaluation biases, and increase communication frequency with female directors during an economic crisis. (Paper available on MRC Blackboard site.)
Organizational Environmental Uncertainty and Attitudes towards Information Systems Issues among Managers in Nepal
Bloch School, Room 114 This study presents the results of a survey of 200 managers in a variety of organizations in Nepal. Managers' perceptions of the environmental uncertainty in which the organization operates were collected as well as their attitudes towards the importance of information systems issues faced by the organization. The results of preliminary data analysis will be presented. Implications hold for managers in Nepal as well as management researchers examining issues in the Nepal context. co-authors: Binod Srestha, Associate Professor, Kathmandu University School of Management and Roger Pick, Professor of MIS, Henry W. Bloch School of Management.
Introduction to the IRB for Management Research
Bloch School, Room 114 This session will be an opportunity to meet Rebekah Barreth, a representative from UMKC's Institutional Review Board and to hear more about conducting management-related research with human subjects at UMKC.
New Technology and Research Methods
Bloch School, Room 114 This session will focus on new technologies available at the Bloch School that can be used to conduct research. Dr. Kulkarni and Dr. Self will provide overviews of Media Lab and Qualtrics, both of which can be used in many ways to collect data. They then will lead a discussion of how these and other technologies may be used to enhance research programs.
Location Strategy and Firm Value Creation: The Case of Chinese MNEs
Bloch School, Room 114 There has been a surge of FDI from China both to developing and developed countries. However, we have limited understanding of the impact of the internationalization on firm value creation. In this paper, we draw on organizational learning theory to explore the impact of different types of FDI (i.e., exploitative and explorative FDI) and MNEs’ FDI location choice on firm value creation. Using event study methodology, we find that FDI types affect value creation in Chinese MNEs. In addition, we empirically demonstrate that positive value is created when Chinese MNEs aligned their location choice with international expansion strategy. Our study provides insights into the performance implication of internationalization of Chinese firms. co-authors: Yang Yang, Renmin University of China and University of San Francisco and Barry W. Doyle, University of San Francisco. (Paper available on MRC Blackboard site.)
Food, Inglorious Food: Food Safety, Food Libel and Free Speech
Bloch School, Room 114 Recently, the movie Food, Inc. exposed issues about the food production industry in the United States. That Oscar-nominated documentary included a scene in which a mother, whose child had died from food-borne illness, explained that she could not criticize the food industry without risk of being sued. The risk stems from special legislation against criticism that agriculture and food production enjoy in 13 U.S. states. In the late 20th century, Oprah Winfrey successfully defended one such case[1] under the Texas food libel law[2] based on a show she aired on cattle management. The other states with food libel laws are Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Dakota.[3] Of these, only Colorado criminalizes food disparagement.[4] The rest establish civil liability and are the focus of this analysis.[5]
Footnotes [1] Engler v. Winfrey, 201 F.3d 680 (5th Cir. 2000). [2] Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. §§ 96.001 - 96.004 (2010). [3] Ala. Code §§6-5-620 - 6-5-625 (2011); Ariz. Rev. Stat.§ 3-113 (2011); Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-31-101 (2010); Fla. Stat. §865.065 (2011); Ga. Code Ann. §§2-16-1 - 2-16-4 (2011); Idaho Code §§ 6-2001 to 6-2003 (Michie 2011); La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 4501 – 4504 West 2011); Miss. Code Ann. 69-1-251, 69-1-253, 69-1-255, 69-1-257 (2010); N.D. Cent. Code §§ 32-44-01 to 32-44-04 (2011); Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2307.81 (Anderson 2011); Okla. Stat. Ann. tit. 2, §§ 5-100-102 (2011); S.D. Codified Laws §20-10A-1 to §20-10A-4 (2011). [4] As a criminal law, the Colorado law differs in numerous respects from the other twelve state laws. It targets restraints of trade, and does not seem to be motivated to protect agribusiness from criticism, as the other states’ statements of legislative purposes reveal. For this reason, this paper only focuses on the states creating civil liability, not Colorado. [5] See supra notes 20 through 103 and accompanying text. (Paper available on MRC Blackboard site.) |
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For more information please contact the Management Research Colloquium Coordinators: Nancy Day, Ph.D. dayn@umkc.edu Future Colloquia: Mediating Effects of Coping Strategies on Auditor Burnout Topic TBD Fear Assets Topic TBD Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement TBD |
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