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Charting A Course To The Top: Insights From The Fortune 500 Cios And How They Differ From Other C-Suite Executives, Benjamin Richardson, Degan Kettles, Daniel Mazzola

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Reframing Commitment In Authentic Leadership: Untangling Relationship–Outcome Processes, Andrei A. Lux, Steven L. Grover, Stephen T. T. Teo

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Affective organizational commitment is theorized and empirically tested as a key mediator between authentic leadership and desirable employee outcomes. The results of a two-wave survey of 830 business people in Australia support a serial mediation model of authentic leadership efficacy. Followers' perceptions of authentic leadership behavior influence their personal identification and affect-based trust in the leader, which in turn are mediated by affective organizational commitment to positively influence their work engagement and job satisfaction. These findings reinforce previous work that positions personal identification and affect-based trust as the two primary mediating mechanisms of authentic leadership. This paper extends prior research …

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Syllabus College Now Ba11 - Introduction To Business, Erika Gershuni

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Personality, Self-Disclosure, And Envy In Maladaptive Social Media Engagement, Doreen E. Shanahan, Cristel A. Russell, Jillian R. Alderman

All Faculty Open Access Publications

Through online social networks, individuals establish and maintain social connections to satisfy their need to belong. Recent research suggests that taken too far, one’s need to belong can increase envy and lead to maladaptive social media behavior aligned with obsessive-compulsive disorder. This study examines the role of two personality traits, one’s intrinsic need to belong and trait reactance, on feelings of envy and the self-disclosure processes that lead to obsessive-compulsive disorder on social networks. A sample of 354 U.S. adult users of Facebook completed a survey measuring individuals’ need to belong, trait reactance, envy, self-disclosure, and online social network obsessive-compulsive …

The Role Of Social And Technological Predispositions In Participation In The Sharing Economy, Doreen E. Shanahan, Cristel A. Russell, Nelson Granados

All Faculty Open Access Publications

This study contributes to the growing body of research on drivers of participation in the sharing economy. We extend the well-established technology acceptance model and include layers of personality architecture related to the social nature of these markets (extraversion) and their technology intermediation (technology proclivity). Findings from a cross-sectional survey (n = 292) show that extraversion is related directly to the intention to use sharing economy applications, such as in-home gig services, and related indirectly to likelihood to use these technologies and to engage as a provider of such services, through technology proclivity and the technology’s perceived usefulness.

Models For Decision-Making - Second Edition, Steven Cosares, Fred Rispoli

Open Educational Resources

Decision-Making often refers to a multi-stage process that starts with some form of introspection or reflection about a situation in which a person or group of people find themselves. These ruminations usually lead to series of questions that need to be answered, or to a set of data that needs to be collected and analyzed, or to some calculations that need to be performed before someone can be in a position to make informed decisions and take appropriate actions.

We provide some simple examples of Quantitative Models, which are often found in a decision-making situation. We focus on the use …

2023-January-01-Dr. Richard Doc Sander Named Permanent Athletic Director At Etsu, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

At a press conference earlier today, East Tennessee State University President Dr. Brian Noland named Dr. Richard “Doc” Sander as the university’s permanent director of Intercollegiate Athletics. Sander had been serving as interim athletic director (AD) since August of last year.

Sander has a long history and close relationship with the ETSU athletic department. He served as director of Intercollegiate Athletics once before, from 2013 to 2017. During that time, he helped create the university’s Global Sport Leadership program and later joined the program as a faculty member and program director. Moving forward, he will continue teaching in the program …

2023-January-01-Etsu Music Hosting Isotone, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

make plans to attend the Isotone concert early next month.

The event is set for Monday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the East Tennessee State University Martin Center for the Arts.

“Isotone has a double meaning of importance to musicians and scientists. Isotone means a single tone. Isotone also refers to any of the nuclides that have the same number of neutrons but different numbers of protons,” said Dr. Sean Hawthorne, a cellist and assistant professor in the Department of Music at ETSU. “Come out for what will be an engaging and fun concert.”

Hawthorne will be joined by …

2023-January-01-Bucwire-Cessce- Making A Mark In The Field Of Sport Physiology And Performance, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – The Center of Excellence for Sport Science and Coach Education (CESSCE) at East Tennessee State University has achieved quite a bit of success lately in its numerous research, educational and service endeavors.

The Center, part of the Clemmer College at ETSU, aims to conduct and share cutting-edge research, provide service to various sports teams both at ETSU and beyond, and to increase the professional preparation of coaches.

It is heavily integrated with the master’s program in sport science and coach education and doctoral program in sport physiology and sport performance offered through the Department of Sport, Exercise, …

2023-January-01-Hargett Visits Etsu, Gives Award For Voter Registration, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett was at East Tennessee State University Wednesday to congratulate the university for its efforts toward voter registration. 

Hargett presented ETSU with an award for work completed during National Voter’s Registration Month in September 2022. 

 “Congratulations to East Tennessee State University and all the students who worked diligently on social media and in-person to get their fellow students registered to vote,” said Hargett. “In Tennessee, your vote matters. I hope all the newly registered students become active participants in our elections and go vote.”

ETSU promotes civic engagement

ETSU celebrated National Voter …

2023-January-01-Etsu Experts Offer Tips To Deal With Winter Stress, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – For some, the start of winter signals the holidays, a time marked by celebration and joy. Yet for others, the gray days and long nights are a period highlighted by increases in stress, anxiety or depression. 

To help, professionals at the East Tennessee State University Counseling Center have provided a range of tips to get through the cold weather months. 

“Everyone is different,” said Cynthia Millhorn. “So, pick and choose what feels right for you and your personality and preferences.” 

Up and going  

Bundling up and getting outside is a great step toward better mental health. 

“Sunshine …

The Competitive Environment Of U.S. Community Banking: A Nationwide Survey Of Rural And Metropolitan Community Bankers, Robert D. Morrison, Dave Jackson, Joo Y. Jung

Finance Faculty Publications

Prior empirical research found that in the United States, rural community banks earn higher profits than their metropolitan counterparts and have lower risk loan portfolios as well. Investigating community bank failures since 2000 we find support for the competition-fragility view that increased competition in banking correlates with an increase in bank failures based on the finding that preponderance of US bank failures are community banks in metropolitan areas where they face direct competition from multiple large banks. This study tests seven hypotheses using a nationwide survey of community bankers. The results indicate metropolitan bankers perceive an intense competitive environment where …

Choose-Your-Own Adventure In Marketing Education: Empowering Students To Increase Engagement And Rigor Through Mass Customization, Jonathan Ross Gilbert, Mario V. Gonzalez Fuentes

School of Business Faculty Research

The landscape of student tolerance for ambiguity and engagement, both in and out of the classroom, has changed markedly in recently years. Technology is simultaneously redefining the boundaries of learning and eroding tried and true pedagogical structures. Signs of change were present prior to recent global upheaval. However, against the backdrop of the pandemic, students connected with others online and consumed media in new and different ways that have arguably emboldened a do-it-yourself attitude toward learning. The authors argue that this learning breakdown, exacerbated by loosened course structures (if not standards), is rooted in psychological ownership. Empowerment theory is employed …

2023-January-01-Etsu Collects Second Fema Grant In Six Months, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY - East Tennessee State University has won an important Federal Emergency Management Agency grant, the second such award in the last six months. 

ETSU is the only university in the state to receive the FEMA grant, worth $160,000 and is part of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program. 

“We are thrilled to receive this honor,” said Dr. Andrew Joyner, an associate professor in the Department of Geosciences. “It means we can help improve the campus, making it an even safer place.”  

The funding allows ETSU to update its hazard mitigation plan. ETSU’s Geoinformatics and Disaster …

2023-January-01-Etsu's Reece Museum Hosting 'Southern Fiction', University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

p>JOHNSON CITY – “Southern Fiction,” an exhibition of photographs by East Tennessee State University photography professor Tema Stauffer, is now open to the public at the Reece Museum. The exhibition is on display through March 1. A reception will be held on Thursday, Feb. 2, from 5-7 p.m. The museum will also be open for special weekend hours on Saturday, Feb. 4, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

 

“Southern Fiction” explores the history of the American South using its literary tradition as a road map, focusing on environments that have shaped the imaginations of 20th century Southern writers during their …

An Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Drug Development Collaboration Stimulated By The Virginia Drug Discovery Consortium, John S. Lazo, Ruben M.L. Colunga-Biancatelli, Pavel A. Solopov, John D. Catravas

Bioelectrics Publications

The genesis of most older medicinal agents has generally been empirical. During the past one and a half centuries, at least in the Western countries, discovering and developing drugs has been primarily the domain of pharmaceutical companies largely built upon concepts emerging from organic chemistry. Public sector funding for the discovery of new therapeutics has more recently stimulated local, national, and international groups to band together and focus on new human disease targets and novel treatment approaches. This Perspective describes one contemporary example of a newly formed collaboration that was simulated by a regional drug discovery consortium. University of Virginia, …

Negotiation Practices Of Athletic Trainers Employed In The Clinical Setting, Julie M. Cavallario, Brianna L. Campbell, Bailey C. Jones, Cailee E. Welch Bacon

Rehabilitation Sciences Faculty Publications

Context

Athletic trainers (ATs) are comparatively underpaid relative to peer health care professionals. Whereas many factors contribute to the salary and benefits of a given employment position, negotiation is a factor of the final salary and benefits package that is achieved. It is unclear to what extent ATs negotiate salary or other terms of employment during the hiring process.

Objective

To explore the negotiation practices of ATs during the hiring process.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Web-based survey.

Patients or other participants

A total of 587 ATs employed in the clinical setting who previously held at least 1 full-time employment position. …

Applications Of Extended Plithogenic Sets In Plithogenic Sociogram, S. Sudha, Nivetha Martin, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

The theory of plithogeny developed by Smarandache is described as a more generalized form of representing sets of different nature such as crisp, fuzzy, intuitionistic and neutrosophic. Plithogenic set comprises degree of appurtenance and contradiction degree with respect only to the dominant attribute. This paper introduces extended plithogenic sets comprising degrees of appurtenance and contradiction with respect to both dominant and recessive attributes. The extension of the 5-tuple Plithogenic sets to a 7- tuple plithogenic sets helps in developing a more comprehensive kind of Plithogenic sociogram. The newly developed plithogenic sets and its implications in Plithogenic sociogram is validated by …

Intentionality, Not Just Agency: Bringing Intended Meaning Back Into The Micro–Macro Institutionalization Processes, Yuan Li

School of Economics and Business Administration Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

How Social Media Influencer Collaborations Are Percieved By Consumers, Veronica L. Thomas, Kendra Fowler, Faegheh Teheran

Marketing Faculty Publications

Within the social media community, influencers engage in a variety of collaborative practices such as tagging, reposting content from, or forming partnerships with other influencers and brands. While such collaborative efforts are a known practice, less is understood about how influencer collaborations affect consumers' perceptions of the partnering influencers, specifically when a status differential exists within the collaboration. We suggest that such collaborative practices, specifically those where the focal influencer has a higher status than the collaborating partner, may help to weaken consumers' perceptions that the influencer's actions are purely self‐focused. A pilot study, analyzing both influencer–influencer collaborations and influencer–brand …

Towards Smart Cities As Innovation Systems: The Case Of Macau Sar, Yujia He

Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce Faculty Publications

Smart cities are emerging as major engines for deploying intelligent systems to enhance urban development and contribute to the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The rise of smart city initiatives is not only seen in North America and Europe but also increasingly in Asia and across the developing world which faces rapid urbanization and technological change. Home to the UNU Institute in Macau, the city of Macau is a special administrative region (SAR) of China where “the East meets the West” in local governance, economy, and society. Our research article, recently published in the Journal of Urban Affairs, …

Constructing The ‘Public Interest’: (De)Legitimizing The Acquisition Of Aer Lingus By Iag, Joseph K. Fitzgerald

Articles

This article assesses how the ‘Public Interest’ was used to (de)legitimize the acquisition of a national airline. It does this by adopting a case study approach that analyses the acquisition of Aer Lingus by International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG). This acquisition is part of a broader trend of international consolidation that the aviation industry has experienced in recent years. The article also critiques whether the ‘Public Interest’ was constructed on valid grounds. Its analysis found that the public interest was constructed as the continuance of routes between Irish airports and London Heathrow as a means for Ireland to maintain international …

Entrepreneurial Competencies In Action: Online Fundraising Initiatives By University Students, Thomas M. Cooney, Martina Brophy

Articles

It has been argued that entrepreneurship educators are inclined to let students learn in a safe controlled environment, with no pressure except to pass the module. Students working in groups of three were given 12 weeks (Target 1) to develop a fundraising initiative, work with various stakeholders, and execute their online fundraising initiative to meet a target goal of €2000 (Target 2) per group. Employing approaches such as Effectuation, Lean Start-Up and the Business Model Canvas, a self-directed learning approach ensured students were able to take ownership of their learning journey with the lecturer acting as coach or facilitator. The …

Digital Energy Platforms Considering Digital Privacy And Security By Design Principles, Umit Cali, Marthe Fogstad Dynge, Ahmed Idries, Sambeet Mishra, Ivanko Dmytro, Naser Hashemipour, Murat Kuzlu, Aleksandra Mileva (Ed.), Steffen Wendzel (Ed.), Virginia Franqueira (Ed.)

Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

The power system and markets have become increasingly complex, along with efforts to digitalize the energy sector. Accessing flexibility services, in particular, through digital energy platforms, has enabled communication between multiple entities within the energy system and streamlined flexibility market operations. However, digitalizing these vast and complex systems introduces new cybersecurity and privacy concerns, which must be properly addressed during the design of the digital energy platform ecosystems. More specifically, both privacy and cybersecurity measures should be embedded into all phases of the platform design and operation, based on the privacy and security by design principles. In this study, these …

Jump To Platform Faster? Gender, Institutional Change, And Pre-Entrant Entrepreneurial Attempt, Lei Xu, K. Praveen Parboteeah, Chevy-Hanqing Fang

Business and Information Technology Faculty Research & Creative Works

Purpose: The authors enrich and extend the existing institutional anomie theory (IAT) in the hope of sharpening the understanding of the joint effects of selected cultural values and social institutional changes on women's pre-entrant entrepreneurial attempts. The authors theorize that women are culturally discouraged to pursue pre-entrant entrepreneurial attempts or wealth accumulation in a specific culture. This discouragement creates an anomic strain that motivates women to deviate from cultural prescriptions by engaging in pre-entrant entrepreneurial attempts at a faster speed. Building on this premise, the authors hypothesize that changes in social institutions facilitate the means of achievement for women due …

Explicating The Influence Of Religion In Forming Corporate Governance: Insights From The Philippines, Leveric T. Ng, John Paolo Rivera

Graduate School of Business Publications

Religion plays a role in shaping personal values and directing an organization’s moral filter. It is an avenue to impose social morality that may impact corporate governance. We examined the influence of religion in the formation and development of good corporate governance through ethical leadership in the Philippines – a country that has strong religious culture. Invalidating scholarly literature on religion and enterprise; we looked into the conception and interpretation of religion and corporate governance through a key informant interview of 30 executive directors from private corporations in the country.We found that corporate governance may arise from religious convictions; where …

Pricing And Green Promotion Decisions In A Retailer-Owned Dual-Channel Supply Chain With Multiple Manufacturers, Yaping Zhao, Wenjie Huang, Endong Xu, Xiaoyun Xu

Graduate School of Business Publications

This paper studies the pricing and green promotion effort decisions in a retailer-owned dual-channel supply chain consisting of multiple manufacturers and one retailer. Specifically, we consider the general version of the problem where multiple inter-correlated products are sold through both the online and the offline retail channels, and customer demands are jointly affected by product retail prices and green promotion efforts. With the objective of maximizing the members’ profits, game theoretic models are built to obtain the optimal decisions on wholesale prices, retail price markups and green promotion efforts under different power structures including manufacturer-Stackelberg, retailer-Stackelberg, Nash and integrated power …

It's All Personal - A Study On Consumer Attitudes Towards Data Collection And Usage, Publishers Clearing House, Tiffany Johnson, Daniela Molta, Evan Shapiro

Media Studies - Open-Access Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Showcasing College-Funded Databases: Collaborations Between College Of Business And Business Librarian, Sandy Kizer, Marina Narvaez

Faculty Scholarship

This visual represents a study that took place at University of Arkansas – Fayetteville regarding a collaboration between Walton School of Business, IT Director and the Millins Library, Business Librarian. Wanting to reevaluate the 30+ college funded databases, available only to the Walton community, Kizer and Narvaez implemented a series of two questionnaires which were designed in Qualtrics and distributed to the Walton Research Committee members consisting of representatives from each department; who then forwarded the surveys to their colleagues. Meanwhile, a web page showcasing the databases, primarily utilized by faculty and graduate students, launched on Walton’s website. As survey …