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Working Paper Series

These working paper series are intended to facilitate discussion and encourage the exchange of ideas.

2010 Series

1. Integration of Artificial Intelligence by Nina Kajiji, Gordon Dash, and Elliot Krieger

2009 Series

1. Interactions and Engagement in Institutional Shaping by Silvia Dorado

2. Assessing a Business Course: Using an Online Course Management System to Prepare for AACSB Accreditation by Roy R. Twaddle

3. Efficient Neural Network Data Mining for Optimal Production of State-Wide Mathematics Achievement by Gordan H. Dash, Jr. and Nina Kajiji

4. Regulating Institutions Supporting Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies by Nir Kshetri and Nikhilesh Dholakia

5. On the Predictability of Chinese Stock Returns by Xuanjuan Chen, Kenneth A. Kim, Tong Yao, and Tong Yu

6. Franchise Value and Performance of Property Liability Insurance Firms by Xuanjuan Chen, Helen Doerpinghaus, and Tong Yu

7. Pension Underfunding, Analyst Experience, and Analyst Underreaction by Xuanjuan Chen, Tong Yao, Tong Yu, and Ting Zhang

8. Tax Relief, Or Lack Thereof, for the Long-Term Care Costs of the Aging Population in America by Cynthia Blanthorne and Mark Higgins

9. Electronic Globalization and Its Social Consequences by Nikhilesh Dholakia

10. Measuring the Information Environment of Biased Forecasts by Yaping Wang, Liansheg Wu, and Bingxuan Lin

11. EMH, Random Walk Theory, and Predicting Stock Returns for Firms Listed on the Korean Stock Market by Jeffrey Jarrett

12. Market Efficiency and Predicting Stock Returns by Jeffrey Jarrett

13. Do the Chinese Bourses Predict Economic Growth? by Jeffrey Jarrett, Xia Pan, and Shaw Chen

14. Improved Quality Control Chart Construction by Jeffrey Jarrett, and Xia Pan

15. Alternative Factors for Control Chart Construction by Jeffrey Jarrett, and Xia Pan

16. Multivariate EWMA Monitoring by Xia Pan, and Jeffrey Jarrett

17. Imptoved Methods for Construction of Control Charts for Location and Dispersion by Jeffrey Jarrett

18. Size of Firm and Market Returns in Six Asian Financial Markets by Jeffrey Jarrett, and Zhenzhen Sun

19. Health Care Monitoring and Improvement by Jeffrey Jarrett, and Xia Pan

20. Selecting Decision Tree Algorithms in the Presence of Noise by Roger Blake, and Paul Manigiameli

21. Optimal Product-Fusion and Offering Decisions of Fusion Products with N Functions by Yuwen Chen, Asoo J. Vakharia, Janice E. Carrillo, and Peter Sin

22. Product Diffusion Model for Single-Function and Fusion Products by Yuwen Chen and Janice E. Carrillo

23. The Newsvendor Problem: Review and Directions for Future Research by Yan Qin, Ruoxuan Wang, Asoo J. Vakharia, Yuwen Chen, and Michelle M. H. Seref

24. Competitiveness of Asian and American Ports: Implications for Global Supply Chain by Nikhilesh Dholakia, Douglas N. Hales, and Sung Woo Lee

2007-2008 Series

1. An Implementation of the Shingo System by Douglas N. Hales and Satya S. Chakravorty

2. Demand and Supply and their Relationship with Liquidity: Evidence from the S&P 500 Change to Free Float by David Lam, Bing-Xuan Lin and David Michayluk

3. Professional Associations in a Newly Emerging Sector of a Developing Economy: A Case Study of the NASSCOM Effect on the Indian Offshoring Industry by Nir Kshetri and Nikhilesh Dholakla

4. Multivariate Quality Control Charts and Its Use in Health Care Monitoring and Improvement: Decision Makers Perspective by Jeffrey E. Jarrett and Xia Pan

5. Improved Quality Control Chart Construction by Efficient Simulation via the Golden Ratio Search by Jeffrey E. Jarrett and Xia Pan

6. Do the Chinese Bourses (Stock Markets) Really Matter? by Jeffrey E. Jarrett and Xia Pan

7. The Fuzzy Logic Method For Simple Business Forecasting by Jeffrey E. Jarrett and Jeffrey S. Plouffe

8. The Association Among of Six Asian Financial Markets by Jeffrey E. Jarrett and Zhenzhen Sun

9. A Taxonomic Analysis Of Manufacturing Outsourcing Congruence by James R. Kroes and Soumen Ghosh

10. Impact of Outsourcing Congruence on Supply Chain and Business Performance by James R. Kroes and Soumen Ghosh

11. The Effects of Community Characteristics: The Antecedents of Member Retention of Virtual Communities by Kyung Woo Kang, Seung Kyoon Shin and G. Lawrence Sanders

12. Prediction of Information Sharing Behavior in China: Understanding the Cultural and Social Determinents by Jessica Pu Li, Seung Kyoon Shin and G. Lawrence Sanders

13. Implementing An Order Review And Release System In a 'T' Manufacturing Plant by Douglas N. Hales and Satya S. Chakravorty

14. The Aggressiveness of Tax Professional Reporting by Cindy Blanthorne, Hughlene Burton, and Dann Fisher

15. Asset Growth and Stock Returns by Shaw Chen, Tong Yao, Tong Yu, and Ting Zhang

2006-2007 Series

1. Running Head: BENEFIT OF MELATONIN SUPPLEMENTS by Douglas N. Hales, DeWayne Moore and Ana Rosedo-Feger

2. Observing Flow: A qualitative investigation of compelling web experiences and absorbing web environments by Detlev Zwick and Nikhilesh Dholakia

3. Brand as Mask by Nikhilesh Dholakia and Detlev Zwick

4. Why Do Customers Purchase from a Website? Customer Activity-based Web Presence Readiness Model by Kyung Woo Kang, Yong Jin Kim and Seung Kyoon Shin

5. The Guideline and Procedures for Constructing Quality Control Charts with VAR Models by Jeffrey E. Jarrett and Xia Pan

6. Constructing SPC Charts by Cumulative Square and Cumulative Variance Methodologies by Xia Pan and Jeffrey E. Jarrett

7. On Quality Control Charts and Management by Jeffrey E. Jarrett and Xia Pan

8. On the problem of selecting categories and model subsets in decision trees (Sep. 9, 2006) by Jeffrey E. Jarrett and Eric Kyper

9. On the problem of selecting categories and model subsets in decision trees (October 2006) by Jeffrey E. Jarrett and Eric Kyper

10. Multivariate Quality Control Charts and Its Use in Health Care Monitoring and Improvement: Decision Makers Perspective by Jeffrey E. Jarrett and Xia Pan

11. MEASURING B2B-EC IMPLEMENTATION by Douglas Hales, Lawrence D. Fredendall and V Sridharan

12. Hubris amongst Japanese Bidders by Bing-Xuan Lin, David Michayluk, Henry R. Oppenheimer and Sean F. Reid

13. A Tale of Two Markets: Stock Return Predictability in China and US by Xuanjuan Chen, Tong Yao and Tong Yu

14. Riding the Post Earnings Announcement Drift Evidence from Mutual Funds by Asiq Ali, Xuanjuan Chen, Tong Yao and Tong Yu

15. An Econometric Approach to Resolving How Consumers Form Perception of Economic Value by Sajeev Varki, Albert Della Bitta and Gerald Smith

2005-2006 Series

1. Shelf-Registration Revisited: Do the SEC’s Criteria Meet Their Objectives? by Stephen Moehrle, Jennifer Reynolds-Moehrle and Pamela S. Stuerke

2. Prudent Man or Agency Problem? On the Performance of Insurance Mutual Funds by Xuanjuan Chen, Tong Yao and Tong Yu

3. Do Mutual Funds Profit from Accruals and NOA Anomalies? by Ashiq Ali, Xuanjuan Chen, Tong Yao and Tong Yu

4. Engineering a Generalized Neural Network Mapping of Volatility Spillovers in European Government Bond Markets by Gordon H. Dash, Jr. and Nina Kajiji

5. Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions Using ADRs as Consideration by James E. Owers, Bing-Xuan Lin and Ronald C. Rogers

6. Detecting the Frequency and Magnitude of Earnings Management A Parametric Model and Empirical Analysis by Shaw Chen, Bing-Xuan Lin, Yaping Wang and Liansheng Wu

7. Vector Autoregression and Monitoring: Multivariate Autocorrelated Processes by Xia Pan and Jeffrey E. Jarrett

8. Do We Really Need Consultants? by Douglas N. Hales

9. The Upper-Echelons Effect on the ITC Development of the Andhra Pradesh State of India: A Historical Analysis by Nir Kshetri and Nikhilesh Dholakia

10. Global Outsourcing of Electronically Traded White Collar Services: Medical Transcription in India by Nikhilesh Dholakia and Nir Kshetri

11. Pricing Response Biases in Financial Products by Sajeev Varki, Albert Della Bitta, Sanjiv Sabherwal and Keith Moore

12. Addressing The Order Review And Release Paradox: A Multi-Method Approach by Douglas N. Hales and R. Lawrence LaForge

13. A Tail of Two Personalities: How our canine companions shape our relationships and well-being by Lisa A. Cavanaugh, Hillary A. Leonard and Debra L. Scammon

2004-2005 Series

1. Does Industry Affect the Quality of Seasoned Equity Issuers? by Tong Yu, LeRoy Brooks and Xuanjuan Chen

2. The Maturity and Externality Effects of Information Technology Investments on National Productivity Growth by Jungsoo Park and Seung Kyoon Shin

3. Effects of Online Store Attributes on Customer Satisfaction & Loyalty by Miao Zhao and Ruby Dholakia

4. Theoretical and Philosophical Implications of Postmodern Debates: Some Challenges to Modern Marketing by A. Fuat Firat and Nikhilesh Dholakia

5. Business Software as a General-Purpose Technology: Experience-Driven Design Innovation in ERP Systems by Mark Lehrer

6. Gender and Internet Use: Peeking Under the Covers by Ruby Dholakia

7. The Impact of Firm Franchise Value on Asset Allocation: An Analysis of Property-Liability Insurance Firms by Tong Yu, Bingxuan Lin and Henry R. Oppenheimer

8. Cognitive Biases and Sticky Price Endings in the Equity Market by Sajeev Varki, Sanjiv Sabherwal and Keith M. Moore

9. Catastrophic Losses versus Growth Potential: Analysis of Post-WTC Attack Earnings Forecasts of Insurance Industry by Xuanjuan Chen, Bingxuan Lin and Tong Yu

10. International Heterogeneity in Internet Diffusion: Evidence from Global Country-Level Data by Nir Kshetri, John P. Burkett and Nikhilesh Dholakia

11. The Performance of Difference: Mobilizing Heterogeneous Knowledge by Mary A. Hamilton

12. The Frequency of Financial Analysts' Forecast Revisions: Theory and Evidence About Determinants of Demand for Predisclosure Information by Craig W. Holden and Pamela S. Stuerke (Dean's Award Recipient for 2004-2005)

13. What do Options have to do with it? by Henry Y.K. Yip, David Michayluk, Laurie Prather and Li-Anne E. Woo

14. Comparative Nonlinear Modeling of FX Futures Options Volatility in Heterogeneous Markets by Gordon H. Dash, Jr., Choudary R. Hanumara and Nina Kajiji

15. Hedge Fund Index Return Asymmetries, Optimal Change-of-Direction Forecasting and Radial Basis Function Neural Networks by Gordon H. Dash, Jr., Nina Kajiji and Christopher D. Hunter

16. A Nonlinear Goal Programming Model for Efficient Asset-Liability Management of Property-Liability Insurers by Gordon H. Dash, Jr. and Nina Kajiji

17. Ensemble Strategies for Training Neural Network Classifiers by David West and Paul Mangiameli

18. The Working Mechanism of Online Trust: A Principal-Agent Perspective by Yajiong Xue and Huigang Liang