School of Business
Clark’s School of Business faculty are actively engaged in conducting, presenting, and publishing research that advances our knowledge of important financial, social, economic, and environmental issues relevant to management best practices. Our faculty includes investment market experts, portfolio managers, analysts, applied researchers, and executives whose research aims to advance management theory and practice.
Submissions from 2025
A decision support framework for misstatement identification in financial reporting: A hybrid tree-augmented Bayesian belief approach, Serhat Simsek, Ali Dag, Kristof Coussement, Eyyub Y. Kibis, Abdullah Asilkalkan, and Srinivasan Ragothaman
Submissions from 2024
Consumer financial planning in the post-Covid-19 era: The role of emotional and economic vulnerability, Khulood M. Allanjawi, Atefeh Yazdanparast Ardestani, and Yasser Alhenawi
Helping consumers weather the storm: the impact of consumer-targeted resiliency programs on firm value, Navid Bahmani and Atefeh Yazdanparast Ardestani
Optimal selection and investment-allocation decisions for sustainable supplier development practices, Chunguang Bai, Kannan Govindan, and Dileep G. Dhavale
Identifying NFT consumer segments: a consumption value theory and luxury perspective, Jacqueline Eastman, Atefeh Yazdanparast Ardestani, and Seth Ketron
Assessing the Circular Economy Funds: Performance, Fees, Risks, and Sustainability, Fei Fang and Sitikantha Parida
Climate policy regime change and mutual fund flows: Insights from the 2020 US election, Fei Fang and Sitikantha Parida
Private financing and the circular economy, Fei Fang, Sitikantha Parida, and Joseph Sarkis
Why do insiders sell stocks after receiving options?, Fei Fang, Zhenyang Tang, and Parianen Vereen
Applying the theory of consumption values to representational and nonrepresentational images in marketing: propositions and research directions, Seth Ketron, Kelly Nalatelich, and Atefeh Yazdanparast
CEO Religion and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Socio-behavioral Model, Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, Danny Miller, Zhenyang Tang, and Xiaowei Xu
Giving up learning from failures? An examination of learning from one's own failures in the context of heart surgeons, Sunkee Lee and Jisoo Park
Vibrotactile feedback in m-commerce: Stimulating perceived control and perceived ownership to increase anticipated satisfaction, Jiayun Li, Kirsten Cowan, Atefeh Yazdanparast Ardestani, and Jake Ansell
Provincial economic growth and firm excess investment: Evidence from China, Jianhua Liu, Jingjun Liu, Zhenyang Tang, and Yue Xu
Do corporate site visits by analysts and institutional investors increase labor investment efficiency?, Wenfei Li, Zhenyang Tang, and Chufen Chen
Entrepreneurial intention development: The contribution of specialized entrepreneurship academic programs, Carolina Llorente-Portillo, John Alver Dobson, Niyan Kwame Omari Fraser, and Laura Gómez-Urquijo
The impact of salient fees: Evidence from the mutual fund market, Sitikantha Parida
Submissions from 2023
Predicting in-hospital mortality after transcatheter aortic valve replacement using administrative data and machine learning, Theyab Alhwiti, Summer Aldrugh, and Fadel M. Megahed
Streamlining patients’ opioid prescription dosage: an explanatory bayesian model, Abdullah Asilkalkan, Asli Z. Dag, Serhat Simsek, Osman T. Aydas, Eyyub Y. Kibis, and Dursun Delen
Will the reddit rebellion take you to the moon? Evidence from WallStreetBets, Ryan G. Chacon, Thibaut G. Morillon, and Ruixiang Wang
Environmental Regulation, Smart Meter Adoption, and Carbon Emission: An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach, Yue Gao, Chunjie Zhao, and Jing Zhang
Societal Spillovers of TV Advertising: Social Distancing During a Public Health Crisis, Ayan Ghosh Dastidar, Sarang Sunder, and Denish Shah
Communication networks and team performance: selecting members to network positions, Jerry Guo, Linda Argote, Jonathan Kush, and Jisoo Park
Founder versus agent CEOs: Effects of founder status and power on firm innovation and cost of capital, Rangapriya (Priya) Kannan-Narasimhan, Ruixiang Wang, and Pengcheng Zhu
Guest editorial: Public value creation through information technologies in government, Luis F. Luna-Reyes and Jing Zhang
Managing the content of LinkedIn posts: Influence on B2B customer engagement and sales?, Roberto Mora Cortez, Wesley J. Johnston, and Ayan Ghosh Dastidar
Effect of color lightness on anticipated product comfort: the role of the lightness-softness-cross-modal correspondence, Atefeh Yazdanparast Ardestani
The impact of opacity on bank valuation during the global financial crisis: A channel analysis, Yi Zheng and Da Wu
Formalizing organizational product deletion through strategic cross-functional evaluation: A Bayesian analysis approach, Qingyun Zhu, Dileep G. Dhavale, Joseph Sarkis, and Xuan Wang
Submissions from 2022
An interpretable decision-support systems for daily cryptocurrency trading, Hamidreza Ahady Dolatsara, Eyyub Kibis, Musa Caglar, Serhat Simsek, Ali Dag, Gelareh Ahadi Dolatsara, and Dursun Delen
Households' intentions under financial vulnerability conditions: is it likely for the COVID-19 pandemic to leave a permanent scar?, Yasser Alhenawi and Atefeh Yazdanparast
Success through failure: Towards a problem-based approach to entrepreneurship education, John Alver Dobson and Lisa Dobson
Evaluating the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education on students’ entrepreneurial intention: case study from Malaysia, John Alver Dobson and Nik Maheran Nik Muhammad
Sustainable mutual fund performance and flow in the recent years through the COVID-19 pandemic, Fei Fang and Sitikantha Parida
A Spatial Analysis of Smart Meter Adoptions: Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Data, Yue Gao, Chao Fang, and Jing Zhang
Educate to innovate: STEM directors and corporate innovation, Tien Shih Hsieh, Jeong Bon Kim, Ray R. Wang, and Zhihong Wang
How do the content, format, and tone of Twitter-based corporate disclosure vary depending on earnings performance?, Jongkyum Kim, Jee Hae Lim, and Kyunghee Yoon
Haptic information impacts online purchase behavior: The role of price framing and consumer characteristics: An abstract, Monika Kukar-Kinney and Atefeh Yazdanparast
Are Socially responsible firms associated with socially responsible citizens? A study of social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic, Danny Miller, Zhenyang Tang, Xiaowei Xu, and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller
A longitudinal study of B2B customer engagement in LinkedIn: The role of brand personality, Roberto Mora Cortez and Ayan Ghosh Dastidar
From customer readiness to customer retention: the mediating role of customer psychological and behavioral engagement, Samaneh Torkzadeh, Mohammadali Zolfagharian, Atefeh Yazdanparast, and Dwayne D. Gremler
Do birds of a feather flock together? An exploration of why consumers follow beauty influencers on social media: An abstract, Gina A. Tran, Atefeh Yazdanparast, and David Strutton
Responses to SEC comment letters on cybersecurity disclosures: An exploratory study, Tawei Wang, Ju Chun Yen, and Kyunghee Yoon
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on household financial decisions: A consumer vulnerability perspective, Atefeh Yazdanparast and Yasser Alhenawi
The effect of product touch information and sale proneness on consumers' responses to price discounts, Atefeh Yazdanparast and Monika Kukar-Kinney
Predicting hotel reviews from sentiment: a multinomial classification framework, Ahmet Yucel, Musa Caglar, Hamidreza Ahady Dolatsara, Benjamin George, and Ali Dag
Submissions from 2021
Classifying the contents of cybersecurity risk disclosure through textual analysis and factor analysis, Arion Cheong, Kyunghee Yoon, Soohyun Cho, and Won Gyun No
Consequences of moral transgressions: How regulatory focus orientation motivates or hinders moral decoupling, Kirsten Cowan and Atefeh Yazdanparast
Analyst talent, information, and insider trading, Chongyu Dang, Stephen Foerster, Zhichuan (Frank) Li, and Zhenyang Tang
Success through failure: Towards a problem-based approach to entrepreneurship, John Alver Dobson, Yovani Castro Nieto, Lisa Dobson, and Andreina Moros Ochoa
Criteria determination of analytic hierarchy process using a topic model, Jin Fang and Fariborz Y. Partovi
Studying the impacts of federal funding on residential smart M=meter adoption and utilities' performance in the U.S.: A simultaneous equation approach, Yue Gao and Jing Zhang
CEO Turnover and the Engagement Quality Reviewer’s Audit Effort, Yoo Chan Kim, Jongkyum Kim, and Inshik Seol
Religion, risk aversion, and cross border mergers and acquisitions, Min Maung, Zhenyang Tang, Craig Wilson, and Xiaowei Xu
Dividends and financial health: Evidence from U.S. bank holding companies, Niranjan Tripathy, Da Wu, and Yi Zheng
A methodology for the sport industry to capture public perceptions and responses in the time of COVID-19, Yen Yao Wang, Tawei Wang, and Kyunghee Yoon
Smartphone experience, satisfaction, and referral: an ecosystem perspective, Atefeh Yazdanparast and Gina A. Tran
Design and evaluation of an advanced continuous data level auditing system: A three-layer structure, Kyunghee Yoon, Yue Liu, Tiffany Chiu, and Miklos A. Vasarhelyi
Green it perceptions and activities of internal auditors in australia, canada, and the united states, Kyunghee Yoon, Won Gyun No, Glen L. Gray, and Peter J. Roebuck
Can substantive analytical procedures with data and data analytics replace sampling as tests of details?, Kyunghee Yoon and Timothy Pearce
Submissions from 2020
A two-stage machine learning framework to predict heart transplantation survival probabilities over time with a monotonic probability constraint, Hamidreza Ahady Dolatsara, Ying Ju Chen, Christy Evans, Ashish Gupta, and Fadel M. Megahed
Liberal education across continents: Transfer elasticity and US influence, Mary Ellen Boyle
Religion and the Method of Earnings Management: Evidence from China, Guilong Cai, Wenfei Li, and Zhenyang Tang
Student-centred action learning, John Dobson
Entrepreneurs' facial trustworthiness, gender, and crowdfunding success, Yang Duan, Tien Shih Hsieh, Ray R. Wang, and Zhihong Wang
A HITS-based model for facility location decision, Jin Fang and Fariborz Y. Partovi
Optimized wavelet-based satellite image de-noising with multi-population differential evolution-assisted Harris Hawks Optimization Algorithm, Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz, Mirpouya Mirmozaffari, Tayyebeh Asgari Gashteroodkhani, Liaqat Ali, Hamidreza Ahady Dolatsara, Azam Boskabadi, and Mohammad Yazdi
Seeing is believing? Executives' facial trustworthiness, auditor tenure, and audit fees, Tien Shih Hsieh, Jeong Bon Kim, Ray R. Wang, and Zhihong Wang
Shareholder wealth effects of audit data analytics announcements, Joung W. Kim, Jee Hae Lim, and Kyunghee Yoon
Return Synchronicity and Insider Trading Profitability*, Claire Y.C. Liang, Zhenyang Tang, and Xiaowei Xu
Value-Enhancing Social Responsibility: Market Reaction to Donations by Family vs. Non-family Firms with Religious CEOs, Min Maung, Danny Miller, Zhenyang Tang, and Xiaowei Xu
Religion and venture investing: A cross-country analysis, Min Maung, Zhenyang Tang, and Xiaowei Xu
A novel machine learning approach combined with optimization models for eco-efficiency evaluation, Mirpouya Mirmozaffari, Maziar Yazdani, Azam Boskabadi, Hamidreza Ahady Dolatsara, Kamyar Kabirifar, and Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz
Does parasocial interaction with weight loss vloggers affect compliance? The role of vlogger characteristics, consumer readiness, and health consciousness, MD Nazmus Sakib, Mohammadali Zolfagharian, and Atefeh Yazdanparast
Support for economic inequality and tax evasion, William E. Shafer, Zhihong Wang, and Tien Shih Hsieh
The questions we ask: Opportunities and challenges for using big data analytics to strategically manage human capital resources., William Sodeman and Ralph Hamilton
Olympic sponsorships and brand value: An empirical analysis, Atefeh Yazdanparast and Omer Bayar
Comparing service, product, and process innovations: Insights from the internal supply chain network of a European steel manufacturing firm, Atefeh Yazdanparast, I. L.A. Manuj, Michael Plasch, Markus Gerschberger, and Daniela Freudenthaler
Submissions from 2019
Global liberal education: Theorizing emergence and variability, Mary Ellen Boyle
Moral foundations and judgment: conceptualizing boundaries, Kirsten Cowan and Atefeh Yazdanparast
Corporate social responsibility exposure and performance of mutual funds, Xi Dong, Shu Feng, Sitikantha Parida, and Zhihong Wang
Does XBRL disclosure management solution influence earnings release efficiency and earnings management?, Tien Shih Hsieh, Zhihong Wang, and Mohammad Abdolmohammadi
Factors associated with companies’ choices of xbrl implementation strategies: Evidence from the u.s. market, Tien Shih Hsieh, Zhihong Wang, and Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi
Asset pricing with liquidity risk: A replication and out-of-sample tests with the recent US and the Japanese market data, Eiichiro Kazumori, Fei Fang, Raj Sharman, Fumiko Takeda, and Hong Yu
Loan relation with foreign banks and information asymmetry: evidence from earnings management by local firms in Korea, Sangwook Lee, Sang Hoo Bae, and Inshik Seol
Uncertainty, momentum, and profitability, Claire Y.C. Liang, Zhenyang Tang, and Xiaowei Xu
Innovating in IS: A pharmaceutical case study into modelling creative climate, Michael Meighu, John Alver Dobson, and A. Trevor Wood-Harper
Impact of competition on fund disclosures and consumer search costs, Sitikantha Parida
Investigating the marketing impact of consumers’ connectedness to celebrity endorsers, Gina A. Tran, Atefeh Yazdanparast, and David Strutton
Industry peer firms' earnings quality and IPO underpricing, Ji Yu, Ling Tuo, and Da Wu
Immediacy pandemic: consumer problem-solving styles and adaptation strategies, Mohammadali Zolfagharian and Atefeh Yazdanparast
Submissions from 2018
Introduction to “ICT4D: ICTs and sustainable development” minitrack, Mathias Hatakka, Devinder Thapa, and Jing Zhang
Do STEM-educated boards contribute to innovation activities in large companies?, Tien Shih Hsieh, Jeong Bon Kim, Ray R. Wang, and Zhihong Wang
Overconfidence and tax avoidance: The role of CEO and CFO interaction, Tien Shih Hsieh, Zhihong Wang, and Sebahattin Demirkan
Competition and collusion between government and businesses in pollution management: analysis based on stochastic differential game, Danlu Jiang and Jing Zhang
The effect of the owner CEO on the relation between CEO compensation and firm performance: Korean case, Yong Shik Kim, Sun A. Kang, and Inshik Seol
A study on the earnings response coefficient (ERC) of socially responsible firms: Legal environment and stages of corporate social responsibility, Yoo Chan Kim, Inshik Seol, and Yun Sik Kang
Creating a distinctive business career outcome programme, Sethlyn Morgan, Atefeh Yazdanparast, and Greg Rawski
Impact of competition on mutual fund marketing expenses, Sitikantha Parida
Price competition in the mutual fund industry, Sitikantha Parida and Zhenyang Tang
