College of Business and Legal Studies faculty members enhance their teaching experience with a variety of scholarly activities. Recent examples of our faculty's intellectual contributions include an international presentation on global business education alliances, a journal article that examines a way to identify systems fraud risk associated with employee disgruntlement, and a public administration textbook suitable for undergraduate and first-year graduate MBA students.
Dr. R. Joseph Childs, Dean of the College of Business and Legal Studies
Professor of Management
October 2009. "Developing Global Business Education Alliances: A Case Study." Co-authored with J. Manolescu. International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE) European Conference, Skopje, Macedonia.
2010 Accepted: Childs, R. J. & Manolescu, A. Econometric model to assess the impact of sleep deprivation and sleep disorders on macroeconomic and firm-level output. Agora International Journal of Economical Science
October 2010 Miller, A. & Childs, R. J. The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Church Financial Management: An Empirical Analysis of a Major US Denomination. Accepted for presentation to the Christian Business Faculty Association.
October 2010 Tripp, C. L., Childs, R. J., & Kilpatrick, J. W. An examination of the integration of “business as mission” curriculum in the business colleges of Christian universities. Accepted for presentation to the Christian Business Faculty Association
Dr. William Hahn
Professor of Accounting
2011. "The Going-Concern Assumption: Its Journey into GAAP." Published in The CPA Journal, February 2011. <http://www.cpaj.com>
2011. "Mountain State Sporting Goods: A Case of Fraud? A Case Study Fraud Examination." Co-authored with R. Rufus. Issues in Accounting Education.
2011. "Outcomes Assessment: An Examination of the ETS Major Field Test and the Comprehensive Business Exam." Co-authored with L. Bowlin and T. Welch. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education.
March 2010. "Outcomes Assessment: An Examination of the ETS Major Field Test and the Comprehensive Business Exam." Co-authored with L. Bowlin and T. Welch. Presented by Bowlin at the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education Conference, Newport, R.I.2010. "Strategic Plan Quality, Implementation Capability and Firm Performance." Co-authored with T. L. Powers. Academy of Strategic Management Journal.
May 2009. Stupidomics. A Primer on the U.S. Economy: How Economic Folly Broke It--How Economic Wisdom Can Fix It. Co-authored with L. Bowlin. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
May 2009. "Mountain State Sporting Goods: A Case of Fraud? A Case Study in Fraud Examination." Co-authored with R. Rufus. Presented to the American Accounting Association--Ohio Chapter. Geneva, Ohio.
April 2009. "Representational Faithfulness, Mark-to-Market Accounting Standards, and Going-Concern-Modified Opinions: Something's Amiss." Co-authored with Ed Plastow. Presentation to the IACBE Annual Conference. Louisville, Ky.
October 2008. "Strategic Plan Quality, Implementation Capability and Firm Performance." Co-authored with T. Powers. Presented to the IBAM Conference. Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management Conference Proceedings. Orlando, Fla.
October 2008. "Strategic Plan Quality, Implementation Capability and Firm Performance." Co-authored with T. L. Powers. Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management Conference Proceedings. Orlando, Fla.
Dr. Mark Harrison
Associate Professor of Finance
March 2010. "Community Bank Failures in 2009: A Look at How Quickly Things Can Go Bad." Co-authored with James D. Tripp and Don T. Johnson. Presented to the Academy of Finance Conference. Chicago, Ill.
September 2009. "Innovative Web Techniques." Presented to the Marketing Management Association Conference.
Dr. Carolyn F. Holton
Associate Professor of Management Information Systems
2009. "Virtual Offices: A Solution for Remote, Special Needs, and Technology Junkie Students." Co-authored with B. Leslie. Presented to the IACBE Conference. Louisville, Ky.
2009. "Identifying Disgruntled Employee Systems Fraud Risk Through Text Mining: A Simple Solution for a Multi-Billion Dollar Problem." Decision Support Systems.
2008. "Unintended Consequences of Electronic Monitoring of Instant Messaging." Co-authored with R. Fuller. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.
2010. Providing our students with Web 2.0 shoes: Collaborative writing using a wiki in place of individual writing assignments. Christian Business Faculty Association Annual Meeting, Lakeland, Florida.
2009. Identifying Disgruntled Employee Systems Fraud Risk Through Text Mining: A Simple Solution for a Multi-Billion Dollar Problem. Decision Support Systems. 46(4). 853-864. doi: 8510.1016/j.dss.2008.11.013
2009. Holton, C. and Leslie, B. Virtual offices: a solution for remote, special needs, and technology junkie students. IACBE Conference, Louisville, Kentucky.
2008. Holton, C. and Fuller, R. “Unintended Consequences of Electronic Monitoring of Instant Messaging.” IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. 51(4). 381-395. doi: 10.1109/TPC.2008.2007866
2007. The Impact of Computer Mediated Communications Monitoring on Organizational Communications Content. Proceedings of the AMCIS 2007 Conference, Boulder, Colorado.
2007. Holton, C. and Edmondson, D. Gilding the Lie: Using Brand Ambassadors to Capitalize on Negative Rumors about Their Organizations, An Initial Test of the Attitude Learning Model. Proceedings of the 2007 Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference, Coral Gables, Florida.
2007. Selected to present dissertation work in process. ICIS Doctoral Consortium. Montreal, Québec, Canada.
2007. Selected to present dissertation work in process. Academy of Management OCIS Doctoral Consortium. Philadelphia, PA.
2007. Selected to present dissertation work in process. AMCIS Doctoral Consortium. Keystone, CO.
2006. Gill, G. and Holton, C. A Self-Paced Introductory Programming Course. Journal of Information Technology Education. 5. 95-105. http://www.jite.org/documents/Vol5/v5p095- 105Gill114.pdf
2006. Sophisticated Spreadsheet Features for Qualitative Data Analysis. ICIS 2006 International Symposium on Research Methods, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2006. Holton, C. and Fuller, R. The Impact of Electronic Monitoring on Hazard Communications. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'06), Kauai, Hawaii. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2006.467
2006. Presented dissertation proposal. Decision Sciences Institute Doctoral Consortium. San Antonio, TX
2005. Holton, C. and Gill, G. From Salvation to Damnation: A Case Study on the Role of a System Sponsor in Strategic Downfall. Proceedings of the AMCIS 2005 Conference. Omaha, Nebraska. Won best paper award. http://aisel.isworld.org/password.asp?Vpath=AMCIS/2005&PDFpath=SIGLEAD01-1128.pdf
Dr. Stephen M. King
Associate Professor of Public Policy
2010. "Reflections on Defining the Public Interest." Co-authored with Bradley S. Chilton and Gary E. Roberts. Administration and Society 41(8): 954-978.
2010. "Governing the 'Quango-Crats': NAMUDNO v. Holder (2009) and Public Oversight of Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organizations." Co-authored with Bradley S. Chilton. Presented to the Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 6-9.
2009. King, S. and Chilton, B. Administration in the Public Interest: Principles, Policies, and Practices. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
Book Review, Rediscovering Values on Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street: A Moral Compass for the
New Economy, by Jim Walls (New York, NY: Howard Books, 2010) for The Pneuma Review, Volume 14, Number 1 (Winter 2011): 61-66.
Beth A. Leslie
Assistant Professor of Business
2009. "Virtual Offices: A Solution for Remote, Special Needs, and Technology Junkie Students." Co-authored with Carolyn Holton. Presented to the IACBE Conference. Louisville, Ky.
Dr. Ed Plastow
Professor of Accounting
March 2009. "The Financial Meltdown: How the Auditors Reported." Presentation at the IACBE National Conference. Louisville, Ky.
April 2008. "Faith Integration in University Business Programs." Presentation to the IACBE Annual Conference. Newport Beach, Calif.
Fredric "Ric" Rohm
Assistant Professor of Management
October 2010. “3M under James McNerney: A Case Study in Servant Leadership.” Presentation at Christian Business Faculty Association (CBFA) Conference. Southeastern University, Lakeland, Fla.
September 2010. "American and Arab Cultural Lenses." Inner Resources for Leaders 2.3. Winner of graduate student writing contest for 2010 RU Global Roundtable: A Window to the Middle East.
January-February 2008. "Merging Army Information Operations and Psychological Operations Disciplines." Military Review.
May 2010. “Scouting and Servant Leadership.” Presentation at Regent Servant Leader Roundtable, awaiting publication in proceedings.
January 2010. “Deconstructing Information Operations.” Second place in the 2009 Information Operations writing contest for the US Army Combined Arms Center.
January-February 2008. “Merging Army Information Operations and Psychological Operations Disciplines.” Military Review. Second place in the 2007 Information Operations writing contest for the US Army Combined Arms Center.
David Royer
Assistant Professor of Marketing
March 2010. "The Role of Leadership, Culture, and Character in the Development and Provision of Ethical Business Entities." Presentation to the IACBE National Conference. Newport, R.I.
2008. "Age and the Relationship to Voluntary Turnover of Part-time Employees." The Journal of Business and Public Policy.
Dr. K. Alan Snyder, Chair of the Department of Historical, Legal, and Leadership Studies
Professor of History
2011. "Review of Richard M. Reinsch II, Whittaker Chambers: The Spirit of a Counterrevolutionary." Social Science and Modern Society.
2008. "Ronald Reagan on Franklin Roosevelt: The Significance of Style." First Principles.
2008. "The 'Higher' Education of Whittaker Chambers: Columbia University, Nihilism, and Despair." First Principles.
2008. "Was Whittaker Chambers Wrong?" First Principles.
Dr. Gordon Storholm
Professor of Marketing
2009. "The Edwin Moses Theory of Direct Sales." Journal of Selling & Major Account Management.
Carolyn L. Tripp
Professor of Marketing
2008. "An Empirical Exploration into the Relationships Between Aspects of the Worship Experience and Forms of Complaint Behavior." Co-authored with Scott William Hansen. Journal of Contemporary Business Issues.
2008. "Timeshare versus Vacation Home Ownership: An Examination of the Benefits and Costs." Co-authored with James D. Tripp, Paula Schulte, and Jacob Croxton. Academy of Finance Annual Conference (MBAA), Chicago, Ill.
James D. Tripp
Professor of Finance
March 2010. "Community Bank Failures in 2009: A Look at How Quickly Things Can Go Bad," with Mark Harrison and Don T. Johnson. Presented at the Academy of Finance Conference, Chicago, Ill.
April 2008. "Timeshare Versus Vacation Home Ownership: An Examination of the Benefits and Costs." co-authored with Carolyn L. Tripp, Paula Schulte, and Jacob Croxton. Presented at the Academy of Finance Conference (MBAA), Chicago, Ill.
April 2008. "An Assessment of the Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the Readability of CEO Letters to Shareholders." Co-authored with Don T. Johnson and Peppi M. Kenny. Presented at the Academy of Finance Conference (MBAA), Chicago, Ill.
Timothy Welch
Associate Professor of Legal Studies
Sam Walton Fellow for SIFE
2011."Outcomes Assessment: An Examination of the ETS Major Field Test and the Comprehensive Business Exam." Co-authored with L. Bowlin and T. Welch. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education.
March 2010. "Outcome Assessment: An Examination of the ETS Major Field Test and the Comprehensive Business Exam." Co-authored with L. Bowlin and W. Hahn. Presented by Bowlin at the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education Conference, Newport, R.I.
Leroy P. VanWhy
Assistant Professor of Business
October 2010. VanWhy, L. P. “Ethical Responsibility of a Christian Homeowner Having an Underwater Mortgage.” Accepted for presentation at the Christian Business Faculty Association conference. Lakeland, FL
