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2025 Research Summary Report | | A Note From Dean Bertie Greer | | |
Dear Manning Community:
It is my pleasure to share the Manning School of Business 2025 Research Summary Report, celebrating another strong year of scholarship, intellectual contribution, and impact across our academic community.
What stands out in this year's report is not only the productivity of our faculty and doctoral students, but the relevance of the questions they are asking. Across disciplines, Manning scholars are examining many of the forces reshaping business and society—from artificial intelligence and digital transformation to climate risk and sustainability, entrepreneurship, financial markets, consumer behavior, workforce development, and the changing nature of work.
There is an important common thread across this work. Our researchers are exploring how organizations and individuals make decisions in an environment increasingly shaped by technological change, uncertainty, globalization, and evolving societal expectations. They are examining AI as an emerging organizational actor, the implications of climate risk for businesses, the intersection of remote work and housing affordability, new forms of financial technology, and the ways entrepreneurship and social ventures can address poverty and inequality. Other research extends beyond
traditional business boundaries into healthcare, higher education, and workforce policy.
The quality and reach of this scholarship are equally noteworthy. Manning faculty published in highly regarded academic journals while also contributing applied scholarship to outlets such as the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Brookings Institution. Our doctoral research also earned competitive recognition, reflecting the strength of both our students and the faculty mentorship supporting their development.
Taken together, this work reflects the research culture we are continuing to build at Manning—one grounded in rigor, relevance, collaboration, and impact. We value scholarly excellence, but our aspiration extends beyond publication. We want to ask important questions, advance our disciplines, inform business practice and public policy, enrich our students' education, and contribute to solving problems that matter.
That commitment also strengthens our classrooms. Our students learn from faculty who are not simply teaching what is already known, but who are actively questioning assumptions, creating knowledge, and helping shape what we will know next.
I invite you to explore the 2025 Research Summary Report and discover the breadth of scholarship taking place across the Manning School. Congratulations to our faculty and doctoral students, and thank you for your curiosity, persistence, and commitment to producing research that matters.
With sincere appreciation,
Dean Greer
| | Peer/Editorial Reviewed Journal Publications | | |
The Real Effect of the Investor State: Evidence From China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Chen, S., Kong, X., Lin, Karen Jingrong, & Liu, X.
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting
December 2025
Book-tax difference consistency and audit pricing
Choi, H., Hu R., Karim, K. & Robin A.
Accounting and Business Research
August 2025
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Climate Adaptation Risk and Capital Structure: Evidence From State Climate Adaptation Plans
Kovacs, Tunde, Latif, Saira, Yuan, Xiaojing, & Zhang, Chi
Financial Management
September 2025
Inalienable Human Capital and Inevitable Corporate Payouts
Cai, S., John, K., Ni, X., & Zhang, Chi
Financial Management
September 2025
Social Media Analysts, Investor Attention, and IPO Underpricing
Han, Y. & Zhang, Chi
British Accounting Review
September 2025
The Fear Z Function: Modeling Asymmetric Volatility Decay Across Market Shock Categories
Kim, Sangphill
Review of Behavioral Finance
December 2025
Effort, Risk, and Retention: A Behavioral Model of Human Auditors and Their AI Rivals
Kim, Sangphill
Pan-Pacific Journal of Business Research
Spring 2025
Fear in Motion: Modeling the VIX as a Behavioral Wave under Economic Uncertainty
Kim, Sangphill
Journal of Quantitative Finance and Economics
June 2025
Legal Liability and Stock Price Crash Risk: Evidence From a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Cao, H., Phan, Hieu & Arena, M.
Financial Review
November 2025
Shaping Strategy in the Digital Age: The Impact of Consumer Electronic Word of Mouth on Firm Strategic Emphasis
Nguyen, Hang T.; Holle, Brandon Z. & Phan, Hieu V.
Journal of Interactive Marketing
October 2025
Price Discovery through Wrapped Tokens
Johnson, William & Scharnowski, Stefan
Economics Letters
December 2025
Valuing Cryptocurrencies: A Model of Price and Hashrate
Johnson, William
Finance Research Letters
December 2025
Fintech Practices and Banking Regulation
Johnson, William
Journal of Banking Regulation
December 2025
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How Nesting Changes Platform Strategy
Altman, Elizabeth J., Tripsas, M., Buganza, T. & Trabucchi, D.
MIT Sloan Management Review (FT50)
December 2025
The Dark Side of Family Embeddedness: Family Firms Engagement in Private-Sector Corruption
Godinez, Jose, Batas, S., & Bruton, G.
Business & Society
May 2025
When AI Becomes an Agent of the Firm: Examining the Evolution of AI in Organizations Through an Agency Theory Lens
Humberd, Beth K. & Latham, Scott F.
Journal of Management Studies (FT50)
August 2025
The Signaling Effect of Biophilic Job Posts: Do Applicants Trade Green for Green?
Merriman, K., Kostanski, S., Ebrahimi, N., & Montag-Smit, T.
Human Resource Management (FT50)
May 2025
The Hidden Pitfalls of Flexibility: How Work Flexibility Can Promote Strain and Work–Family Conflict Through Telepressure
Smit, B.W., Ebrahimi, N., Montag-Smit, T., Boyar, S.L., & Maertz, C.
Journal of Managerial Psychology
October 2025
Extending the Geographic Scope of Corporate Social Responsibility: Remote Work and Housing Affordability
Obal, M. & Merriman, K.
Journal of Business Ethics
October 2025
Inter-Partner Differences in Globalization Exposure and National Culture and IJV Termination: A Comparison of Emerging Versus Developed Market Host Countries
Talay, Berk, Akdeniz, M.B., Geleilate, JM & Newburry, W.
International Business Review
December 2025
| | MARKETING, ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION | | |
The Ethics of Proximity: Enrolling Patients in Emergency Department Hallway Beds for Suicide Research
Palmer, B., Arias, S., Dunlap, Denise, Gould, G., Rahmoun, M., Boudreaux, E., & Nebeker, C.
Academic Emergency Medicine
April 2025
Evolving Perceptions of Point-of-Care-Technologies: Results from a Nationwide Survey of Healthcare Professionals
Vigeant, T., Riddell, R., Ofosuhene, B., White, G., Montenario, M., Wang, Z., Orwig, T., Tatere, H.Y., Buchholz, B., Dunlap, Denise, McManus, D.D., Gaba, A., & Hafer, N.
Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
September 2025
Can Digitalization Transform Conventional Governance to Curb Supplier Opportunism in Emerging Markets?
Wang, L., Zhang, C., & Huang, Ying
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
December 2025
Extending the Geographic Scope of Corporate Social Responsibility: Remote Work and Housing Affordability
Obal, M. & Merriman, K.
Journal of Business Ethics
October 2025
From Risk-Taking to Innovation: Managerial and Policy Insights on Risk Management in Dual-Purpose Ventures
Liu, Y., Sun, Sunny Li, & Im, J.
Journal of the International Council for Small Business
August 2025
Leveraging the Influences of Domestic B2B Turbulence on Radicalness of Product and Export Intensity: The Contingency Role of Firm Size and Access to NPD Technology
Liu, Yuerong & Obal, Michael
Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice
June 2025
The Subscription Business Model and New Venture Viability During a Crisis
Zhou, W.C., Sun, Sunny Li, & Jia, P.
Journal of Business Research
November 2025
Financial/Social Trade-Offs in Dual-Purpose Companies
Wang, F., Guo, C., Chen, J., & Sun, Sunny Li
Journal of Management Studies (FT50)
June 2025
Problemistic Search for a Better World: Risk-Taking of Microfinance Ventures in Alleviating Poverty
Im, J. & Sun, Sunny Li
Journal of Small Business Management
March 2025
Global Value Chain Envelopment: How Do Emerging Multinational Enterprises Innovate and Compete in Green Transitions?
Sun, Sunny Li & Zhou, C.
AIB Insights
January 2025
Shaping Opportunity Structures: How Transport Infrastructure Fuels Social Ventures and Reduces Income Inequality
Sun, Sunny Li, Jia, P., Qi, J., & Guo, C.
Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
March 2025
Foreign Venture Capital as Channels of Cross-Border Knowledge Flows: Empirical Evidence from US Critical Industries
Santos, R. & Yang, Yi
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
April 2025
Cost-effectively leveraging digital capital to develop means for effectual decision-making
Park, H., Luo, Y. & Yang, Yi
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (FT50)
May 2025
Enhancing Consumer Trust in Displayed Information Through Digital Price Tags in Retail Marketing
Yim, Mark Yi-Cheon & Yoon, S.
Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
September 2025
How Does CEO Narcissism Impact the Effectiveness of Advertising on Firm Performance? A Study in the Restaurant Industry Context
Seo, J.H., Yim, Mark Yi-Cheon, Ahn, J.S., & Yu, L.
Journal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising
March 2025
Inter-Partner Differences in Globalization Exposure and National Culture and IJV Termination: A Comparison of Emerging Versus Developed Market Host Countries
Talay, Berk, Akdeniz, M.B., Geleilate, JM & Newburry, W.
International Business Review, 34(4)
December 2025
| | OPERATIONS & INFORMATION SYSTEMS | | |
A New Super-Efficiency Directional Distance Function Model in the Presence of Negative Data
Chen, Yao, Zhu, W., Bai, Z., & Yu, Y.
INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research
February 2025
R&D and Operational Efficiency in China’s Innovative High-Tech Enterprises: Empirical Analysis with Two-Stage Slack Based Measure Data Envelopment Analysis and Threshold Regression
Liang, N., Shi, Y., & Chen, Yao
Omega
October 2025
Unraveling Digital Temptations: A Meta-Analysis of Online Impulse Buying Behavior
Chauhan, S., Goyal, S., Kumar, P., & Motiwalla, Luvai
Information Systems Management Journal
September 2025
The effect of flexibility on the execution and adaptation of organizational processes in a dynamic environment
H Bala, AV Deokar, J Barlow
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
2025
Analysis of Consumer Response to Online Same-Day Grocery Delivery Service: The Case of South Korea
An, H., Park, A., Song, Ju Myung, & Chung, C.
Digital Business
December 2025
The Implementation of Blockchain Technology in a Joint Sustainability Development
Yoon, J., Song, Ju Myung, Choi, J., Jung, K., & Talluri, S.
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
June 2025
Risk Assessment Framework Development for Mobile Banking Systems
Mahmud, I., Wei, J., & Summerfield, Nichalin
Journal of Computer Information Systems
May 2025
Customer Acquisition via Profile Construction
Li, Xiaobai
Information Technology and Management
November 2025
Applying Text Mining to Identify Critical Factors Contributing to the Retention Rate of First-Year Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Li, Xiaobai
Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice
May 2025
From Rants to Raves: Unraveling Movie Critics’ Reviews with Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Talaei, N.M., Oztekin, Asil & Motiwalla, L.
Annals of Operations Research
April 2025
GrantCheck—An AI Solution for Guiding Grant Language to New Policy Requirements: Development Study
Shi, Q., Oztekin, Asil, Matthew, G. et al.
JMIR Formative Research
November 2025
Leveraging Online Reviews to Decode Quality-Induced Customer Dissatisfaction: From Perception to Product Discouragement
Kumar, R., Talaei, N.M., Kumar, A., Coussement, K. & Oztekin, Asil
Decision Sciences
December 2025
Transforming Informed Consent Generation Using Large Language Models: Mixed Methods Study
Shi, Q., Luzuriaga, K., Allison, J. Oztekin, Asil et al.
JMIR Medical Informatics
February 2025
Optimising Parcel Count in E-Commerce Fulfilment with Mixed-Split Order Picking
Zhu, Wen
International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering
May 2025
| | Teaching Research (Case Studies, Textbooks) | | |
Organizational Behavior Today: Practical Insights and Real-World Opportunities (Preliminary ed.)
Catherine Rymsha
Cognella
2025
Leadership: Self-Advocacy
Catherine Rymsha
SAGE Business Skills, SAGE Publications
2025
| | Competitive Research Awards | | |
Counterfactual Explanations for AI Decision Systems
Nolan Talaei, with Asil Oztekin (Dissertation Chair), Luvai Motiwalla, and Harry Zhu
2025
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Best Overall Conference Paper Award, 54th Annual Northeast Decision Sciences Institute (NEDSI) Conference;
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Runner-Up (2nd place), Best Paper Competition, INFORMS 19th Workshop on Data Mining & Decision Analytics
Top Contributing Reviewer, Journal of Business Ethics
Kimberly Merriman
Named a Top Contributing Reviewer for 2025 in recognition of outstanding service to the journal and the academic community.
2025
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