Outstanding faculty research contributes to the overall quality and excellence of the College of Business Administration. Six College faculty members have been awarded funds to conduct research this summer.

The College is pleased to announce the following professors are recipients of the CBA 2008 Summer Research Awards. They are listed with their departments and proposed research topics.

Congratulations go to these excellent scholars as they contribute to their fields of expertise as well as to the student learning in the classrooms!

Dean of the College of Business Administration, Rodney Rogers, praises the professor’s success. “Dr. Nicolaou has an outstanding research record and has been extremely involved in his profession and his department. We are very proud to have Professor Nicolaou as a part of our faculty.”

Dr. Nicolaou received both his Ph.D. and his master’s in accountancy from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He earned his undergraduate degree from Athens University of Economics and Business in Greece.

A legal studies professor has earned another prestigious honor for her teaching excellence. Each year the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) recognizes one faculty member from each college who has demonstrated outstanding teaching in the classroom.  This year, USG named Dr. Sue Mota as the College of Business Administration’s recipient of the USG Faculty Excellence Award.

Dr. Mota has already received the distinction of being designated as Distinguished Teaching Professor by the BGSU Board of Trustees and has received the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award by the MBA Student Association.  

Over the past 23 years at BGSU, Dr. Mota has taught at all levels, from undergraduates to graduate and executive students, and she has published more than 50 journal articles in the last 10 years.  During the 2007-08 academic year, Dr. Mota has been dividing her time between the classroom and responsibilities as the associate dean of executive and MBA programs.

This newest award reaffirms that the College has outstanding faculty that excel in the classroom and our students continue to benefit from their expertise.

The College of Business Administration is very proud of Dr. Mota’s many accomplishments!

Dr. Lord is Selected as Fulbright Scholar

The College of Business Administration is proud to announce that Dr. Alan Lord, professor of accounting, has been accepted in the Fulbright Scholar Program and will be teaching in Romania during the spring of 2009.

Dr. Lord, who is currently the Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting, has had previous teaching experience in other countries. He was a visiting professor for the Universite Robert Schuman Graduate School of Management in Strasbourg, France, and for the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India.

Dr. Lord joined the BGSU faculty in 1995 as an associate professor. He was promoted to full professor in 2001. He earned his Ph.D. at Case Western Reserve University and is a Certified Public Accountant (Ohio) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor.

Scholarly contributions have been published in such publications as Accounting Organizations and Society, Journal of Accounting Literature, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and Auditing - A Journal of Practice and Theory.

Each year the Fulbright Scholar Program selects 800 faculty and professionals from across the U.S. to lecture and conduct important research abroad.

Dr. Lord joins four other College of Business Administration faculty members who are Fulbright scholars.

A renowned human resource expert from Austria will be a visiting professor for the College of Business Administration’s management department this summer.  Dr. Herbert Gölzner is professor and department head for Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour and Social Skills Training at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences in Austria. 

Dr. Gölzner is an accomplished scholar, co-authoring numerous articles on diversified communication and management for the stakeholder, network partners, employees, and customers. He also has published a management book entitled Success Despite Leadership – The Systemic-integrative Leadership Model in Theory and Practice: An Approach to Increased Performance.

The visiting professor completed his doctoral studies in business administration at the Linz University/Austria and Munich University/Germany. He also earned a diploma in team development and coaching through a three-year program with the Austrian Psychologists Organisation in Vienna.

The College is proud to welcome Dr. Gölzner as a faculty member and looks forward to the insight he will be sharing with his classes this summer!

College Faculty Members Publish Notable Textbooks

Faculty members in the College of Business Administration continue to excel as published scholars. A professor from the legal studies department and a Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus from the economics department have team up with several other legal experts and professors to publish a textbook called Dynamic Business Law. In addition, Dr. John Hoag, chair and professor of economics, has published a mathematical economics textbook.

Dr. Nancy Kubasek, legal studies, and Dr. Neil Browne, economics, co-authored a book that is a “comprehensive and readable” text that examines all the “relevant questions, concepts, and legal rules of business law” and teaches students to think critically in this market economy. It is a 1st edition, published by McGraw-Hill Irwin with a 2009 publication date.

What distinguishes this 1200+ page textbook from other texts is the chapter integration of essential components needed in business today, such as E-commerce, comparative laws on a global scale, critical thinking, and ethical reasoning.

Dr. Hoag has published a new text entitled Calculus and Techniques of Optimization with Microeconomic Applications, published by World Scientific Publishing in 2008. It applies mathematics to the study of economics and includes the mathematical tools required for the study of microeconomics at the graduate level. This textbook provides clearly explained theorems and definitions to help students better understand and master the principles of mathematical economics.

Economics Professor Selected to Edit New International Publication

Regional Science Policy and Practice is a new international journal to be published in 2009 by the Regional Science Association International (RSAI).  Dr. Michael Carroll, associate professor of economics and director of the Center for Regional Development at BGSU, has been chosen to edit this regional planning and development publication.

Dr. Carroll’s research interests are in the areas of urban and regional economics, the history of economic thought, political economy and macroeconomic theory.

RSAI is a community of noted scholars interested in tackling regional problems.  It is at the cutting edge of research for regional analysis and impact assessment on a global basis.

Read more about Dr. Carroll’s selection as editor at http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/mc/news/2008/news46167.html.

Statewide Radio Show Features BGSU Economics Professor

With the wild ups and downs of the stock market lately, along with continuing reports of a mortgage crisis and a possible recession, people are wondering what is happening with the economy and what the future holds. To address those issues, the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation turned to BGSU economics professor, Dr. Timothy Fuerst, as a guest on its Town Hall Ohio series, aired by affiliated radio stations and now available online at the Town Hall Ohio Web site.

Dr. Fuerst presented his economic expertise, along with another guest of the program, the senior vice president of customer rights and analytics from Nationwide, Mr. Paul Ballew. Dr. Fuerst’s research interests are in monetary theory and policy as well as business cycle theory. He has gained nationwide acclaim for his research.

The Ohio Farm Bureau produces the Town Hall Ohio program weekly, with sponsorship from Nationwide. To download the podcast program featuring Dr. Fuerst, go to www.townhallohio.org.

Prestigious Teaching Award Goes to Management Professor

A College of Business Administration professor has been awarded the 2008 Distinguished Educator Award by the Southwest Academy of Management (SWAM). Dr. Sherry Sullivan, associate professor of management, was selected by her colleagues worldwide as an outstanding educator and role model.

According to Scott Douglas, program chair of SWAM, “This award is highly competitive and highly coveted.” He adds that the person chosen to receive this award has contributed to the teaching profession in an exemplary way.

The Distinguished Educator Award will be presented to Dr. Sullivan on March 5, during a Federation of Business Disciplines Recognition Banquet.

Congratulations go to Dr. Sullivan for her outstanding award! We are very proud to have such excellent faculty members!

Dr. Janet Hartley, professor and chair of management, has been inducted into Beta Tau Circle of Omincron Delta Kappa at BGSU. ODK is the nation’s most prestigious leadership honor society and recognizes college students, faculty, staff, administrators, and alumni for their superior scholarship, leadership, and exemplary character.

In addition to being chair of the management department for the past five years, Dr. Hartley also holds the Owens-Illinois Endowed Professorship in Business Administration. She is extensively involved in the supply chain management program as a teacher, scholar, and researcher. Dr. Hartley arrived at BGSU more than 12 years ago and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati.

Congratulations go to Dr. Hartley, another outstanding faculty member of the College of Business Administration who has been recognized for her significant accomplishments!

Congratulations!

Research by Economics Faculty Earns Top Ranking

BGSU’s economics department is ranked 3rd among Ohio colleges and universities for its faculty research, according to IDEAS which uses Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) Author Services. This top 3 finish in research is lead by BGSU professor of economics, Dr. Timothy Fuerst, who is among the top 4% of more than 14,500 authors throughout the country.

RePEc is the largest bibliographic database of economics research which maintains and disseminates articles.

Dr. Brent Nicholson, Legal Studies