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2022-September-01-On The Scent: Etsu Researchers Exploring Treatments For Loss Of Smell, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Sept. 1, 2022) – The smell of rain or the scent of a fresh pie baking are luxuries that not all people are able to experience.

The loss of the sense of smell has drawn attention in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this problem can occur as a result of injury, certain disorders or aging, affecting the quality of life for millions of people.

A pair of researchers at East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine have received a grant totaling more than $1.8 million over the next five years to study how the …

2022-09-00 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress newsletter from September of 2022.

Revisiting Institutional Voids: Advancing The International Business Literature By Leveraging Social Sciences, Marleen Dieleman, Stanislav Markus, Tazeeb Rajwani, George White Iii

Faculty Publications

Institutions are vital for solving collective action problems and enabling functioning markets. Based on this notion, the institutional voids literature has offered a dynamic research agenda for international business scholarship. In this perspective article, we leverage work from political science, development economics, legal studies, and anthropology to: (a) expose hidden assumptions about institutional voids in the management literature; (b) propose new directions for research based on our revised assumptions; and (c) provide direction-specific theoretical constructs from other social sciences to stimulate theory-building and empirical inquiry into institutional voids. We develop a framework that identifies four revised assumptions about institutional voids …

Singapore Public Sector Ai Applications Emphasizing Public Engagement: Six Examples, Steven M. Miller

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This article provides an overview of six examples of public sector AI applications in Singapore that illustrate different ways of enhancing engagement with the public. These applications demonstrate ways of enhancing engagement with the public by providing greater accessibility to government services (access anywhere, anytime) and speedier responses to public processes and feedback. Some applications make it substantially easier for members of the public to do things or make choices, while others reduce waiting time, either across an entire public infrastructure, or for an individual transaction. Some provide highly individualized coaching to guide a person through the process of doing …

The Impact Of Fear Of Losing Out (Folo) On College Students’ Performance Goal Orientations And Learning Strategies Insingapore, Haelim Choi, Chi-Ying Cheng, Sheila Xi Rui Wee

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The current research investigated the influence of the Fear of Losing Out (FoLO) mindset on learning strategy via performance goal orientation and its interaction with social comparison amongst Singaporean college students. In Study 1, a positive relationship between FoLO and performance goal orientations (i.e., avoidance and approach) was found. Study 2 replicated this finding and further revealed a downstream effect of FoLO on surface learning via performance goal orientations. In addition, social comparison moderated the link between performance goal orientation and surface learning in the mediation model. Specifically, in downward social comparison conditions, FoLO facilitated high performance-avoidance goal orientation, which …

Trusting The Stock Market: Further Evidence From Ipos Around The World, Kiridaran Kanagaretnam, Kiat Bee Jimmy Lee, Chee Yeow Lim, Gerald J. Lobo

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

Using an international sample of IPO firms from 36 countries and a country-level index for societal trust, we find strong evidence that societal trust is negatively associated with the degree of IPO underpricing. In cross-sectional analyses, we find that the effect of societal trust in reducing IPO underpricing is more pronounced when the information environment is less transparent, when the stock market environment is less robust, and when legal institutions are weaker, settings where the effect of trust is likely to be more salient. Our study contributes to and extends the literature by providing strong evidence that an informal institution …

2022-September-01-Graduate Program In Geosciences Earns National Recognition, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

East Tennessee State University’s Geosciences Department, known for offering students valuable field experience and professors excelling in both research and teaching, has added a national recognition. 

The master’s degree in geosciences, geospatial analysis concentration, received an honorable mention for the 2022 American Association of Geographers Award for Master's Program Excellence. 

“This is a wonderful honor for ETSU,” said Dr. Ingrid Luffman, an associate professor who helped prepare the award application. “This concentration was established in 2011 and is already helping fill a rapidly growing industry.”  

Geosciences offers potential graduate students an option to concentrate in either geospatial analysis …

Taking Flight, Georgia Southern University

College of Business: News & Publications

• Taking Flight- September 2022
• Message from the Dean

2022-September-01-Etsu Rotc Commissioning Graduates As Second Lieutenants, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – Cadets in the Army ROTC Program at East Tennessee State University will be commissioned as second lieutenants this week. 

The 11 a.m. ceremony is at the ETSU Millennium Center auditorium, room 137b, on Friday, Sept. 9. 

Speaking at Friday’s event is retired U.S. Army Col. Brunilda E. Garcia, a decorated veteran with a range of commendations. She holds degrees from the University of Puerto Rico, Webster University and Air University, and she served in Jordan during Operation Iraqi Freedom.    

The ETSU cadets who will be commissioned are:  

Noah Bailey Honeycutt, who held the rank of cadet …

2022-September-01-Meet Leo Williams, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

First-generation college student Leo Williams was a junior at another school when he decided to transfer to ETSU. At his previous institution, he played football, but soon after arriving at ETSU, he learned about the opportunities with Greek life, particularly with ETSU’s National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC).

“I was at a cultural mix event and visited a table and talked with a guy about the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity,” Leo said. “I was really interested in the organization, especially all of the service work the organization does. I have always loved helping people and giving back to the community.”

The guy …

Avoiding Unfavorable Results Of The Favorable Tax Treatment Of Cares Act Withdrawals: An Unexpected Problem, Emily Cokeley, Michelle Freeman

ETSU Faculty Works

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2022-September-01-Equity And Inclusion Conference, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Sept. 1, 2022) – Registration for East Tennessee State University’s fourth annual Equity and Inclusion Conference is now open. The conference will be held Sept. 26-28, with a student track on Sept. 29.

This year’s conference is a hybrid event; some sessions are concurrent, with select presentations scheduled to be held in person, and others virtually. Total price for registration varies. Registration is free for full-time ETSU students; $60 for ETSU faculty and staff; $65 for community members; and $25 for non-ETSU students. To register, visit www.etsutickets.com.

“ETSU is arguably more diverse today than at any other point …

2022-September-01-Etsu Bluegrass Celebrating Years With Concert, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – Bluegrass, Old-Time and Roots Music Studies at East Tennessee State University will host a concert celebrating the program’s 40th anniversary on Friday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m. at the ETSU Martin Center for the Arts.  

This milestone anniversary concert will feature well-known and prominent artists who have direct connections to the university.

Program started in 1982

“I cannot wait to play music on stage again with some of my friends from 20 years ago,” said program director and ETSU alumnus Dan Boner. “And there will be some incredibly well-known artists at this anniversary concert, a couple of …

2022-September-01-Kingsport Alliance For Continued Learning Releases Fall Schedule, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Kingsport – The Kingsport Alliance for Continued Learning (KACL), in partnership with East Tennessee State University at Kingsport, will offer a series of informal in-person and virtual class options beginning Tuesday, Oct. 11, focusing on a variety of subjects from science, local history and literature to a personal safety course with an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force officer.

This six-week series of non-credit courses is open to anyone. Classes will continue through Thursday, Nov. 18, and will be held at the Kingsport Center for Higher Education (KCHE), 300 W. Market Street. The cost to participate is $30 and covers all …

2022-September-01-Summer 2022 Deans List, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – East Tennessee State University has announced the names of students who attained a grade point average qualifying them for inclusion in the dean’s list for the summer 2022 session. To receive this honor, students must successfully complete a minimum of 12 hours of undergraduate coursework with no grade below ‘B-’ in any course taken, and a grade point average of at least 3.5 on a 4.0 scale.

2022-September-01-Be Part Of The Divine Nine, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

The start of a new academic year provides opportunities for ETSU students to join new organizations – academic or sports clubs, honor societies, intramural teams, or Fraternity and Sorority Life.

Last week was Fall Primary Recruitment for Panhellenic sororities at ETSU – a big week, in fact, as the College Panhellenic increased its overall chapter size membership from 234 to 370 by the end of recruitment week.

Numbers are also up for ETSU men considering membership in Interfraternity chapters this week, with IFC rush registration up by 35% over last year.

Membership intake will also kick off this fall for …

2022-September-01-From Enrolled To Employed Bluesky Institute Inaugural Class - Bucwire, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Real-life job training, a college degree in less than two and a half years and an immediate job offer right after graduation in some of the most in-demand IT careers in the nation.

That is what the pivotal partnership between BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (BCBST) and East Tennessee State University will deliver for the inaugural class of 32 students in the BlueSky Tennessee Institute, and all those who follow. The groundbreaking collaboration will provide Tennessee students the opportunity to earn a bachelor’s degree in computing and a job offer from BlueCross in just over two years.

“The opportunity to …

Organizational And Team Culture As Antecedents Of Protection Motivation Among It Employees, Shwadhin Sharma, Eduardo Aparicio

College of Business Faculty Publications and Presentations

The rapid development of technology and information systems has led to higher information security-related issues in an organization. The age of remote working (i.e., telecommuting) has further increased information security related incidents that need to be adequately addressed. This paper extends the protection motivation theory by drawing insights from organizational and institutional theory literature to examine how organizational culture and subcultures such as team culture impact information security compliance. The primary objective of this study is to understand the impact of the dimensions of organizational culture and team culture on employees’ perceived threats and coping motivation associated with information security …

A Modern Guide To Tourism Economics, Chapter 1: Introduction, Robertico Croes, Yang Yang

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This Modern Guide captures the evolution of foundational tenets, theories, frameworks and models that buttressed tourism economics into an evolving discipline, shining light on both new and old approaches. It systematically examines current and future trends and issues related to new economic perspectives, consolidating the notion of tourism economics as a discipline.

Reducing Property Taxes For Agriculture: Diffusion Of Use-Value Assessment Policy Across The United States, John E. Anderson, Seth H. Giertz, Shafiun N. Shimul

Department of Economics: Faculty Publications

We analyze the spread across the fifty states of use-value assessment (UVA) programs applied to agricultural and rural land for property tax purposes. Taxing land based on the value associated with its current use in agriculture rather than its full market value can confer substantial tax savings for landowners, affecting land use patterns. Using time-to-event models, we find that the secular trend toward urbanization across all fifty states was a driving force behind the spread of UVA policies. In particular, increasing secular trends in agricultural land values (associated with urbanization) provide a strong motivation for agriculture to pursue UVA, and …

Strategizing Battery Swap Service: Self-Operation Or Authorization?, Zhaojun Yang, Quanlong Lei, Jun Sun, Xu Hu, Yali Zhang

Information Systems Faculty Publications

Electric vehicle (EV) charging is still time-consuming compared with traditional vehicle refueling, making many consumers hesitant to make the switch. As a solution, battery swapping allows EVs to get energized within minutes. As economies like China embrace the emerging battery swap market, relevant automakers face strategic choices between self-operation and authorization. This study establishes game-theoretic models of a duopoly EV market comprising two automakers and a battery swap market involving an additional third-party operator. Each automaker may run its own battery swap service entirely or license at least part of it to the third-party operator. The results suggest that authorization …

Secure Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet Supporting Stealth Address, Xin Yin, Zhen Liu, Guomin Yang, Guoxing Chen, Haojin Zhu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Over the past decade, cryptocurrency has been undergoing a rapid development. Digital wallet, as the tool to store and manage the cryptographic keys, is the primary entrance for the public to access cryptocurrency assets. Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet (HDW), proposed in Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 32 (BIP32), has attracted much attention and been widely used in the community, due to its virtues such as easy backup/recovery, convenient cold-address management, and supporting trust-less audits and applications in hierarchical organizations. While HDW allows the wallet owner to generate and manage his keys conveniently, Stealth Address (SA) allows a payer to generate fresh address (i.e., …

Antecedents Of High Performance Work Practices In Smes: An Attention-Based View, Javier Martínez-Del-Río, Pingshu Li, James P. Guthrie

Management Faculty Publications

Relative to the large body of work in the broader strategic HRM (SHRM) literature, knowledge about determinants of SMEs’ approaches to HRM remains limited. We argue that heterogeneity in the use of high performance work practices (HPWPs) is influenced by top managers’ exposure and attention to information obtained via environmental scanning. Invoking an attention-based view (ABV), we develop hypotheses suggesting that competition tracking, participation in trade associations, and social network embeddedness will be associated with greater use of HPWPs. We also propose direct and moderating roles for top managers’ perceptions of competitive intensity. We test our hypotheses using a database …

Can You Escape? Using Mobile App Escape Games To Create A Holistic Experiential Learning Process Online, Mai P. Trinh

Management Faculty Publications

Mobile app escape games are excellent tools to create an experiential learning process in online contexts. Through the act of solving puzzles to escape the rooms, students experience a process in which they need to discover new information and clues, adjust their strategies repeatedly, and become more aware of the way they learn. Their emotional and behavioral reactions when they encounter difficulties can shed light on their learning identity and learning flexibility. The experiential learning cycle is complete with the addition of after-game reflection, debrief, and discussion. Escape games are versatile and can be used to teach a variety of …

The Economic Impact Of Buying And Redeveloping Ellis Park By Churchill Downs, Thomas E. Lambert

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Churchill Downs’ acquisition of Ellis Park Racing and Gaming in Henderson, Kentucky reflects the growing number of mergers across the US among racetracks, racetracks and casinos, and casinos with other casinos. Some years back, Ellis racetrack closed for one year due to declining profitability, yet after new ownership took over and a gaming center was added, it began a rebound in earnings (Courier and Press 2008). The $75 million that Churchill Downs plans to spend to transform Ellis Park (Schulz 2022) will have a much bigger impact than the construction, revamping, and expansion of park facilities. This is in addition …

Insider Trading Restrictions And Real Activities Earnings Management: International Evidence, Yuanto Kusnadi, Yuanto Kusnadi, Jiwei Wang, Yujie Wang

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

We examine the implications of insider trading restrictions on firms’ real activities earnings management in an international setting. Using a sample of 28 countries over the period from 1992 to 2007, we find evidence that is supportive of the substitution hypothesis, in that managers have incentives to substitute accruals earnings management for real activities earnings management. This effect is found to be more pronounced for firms in countries with more restrictive insider trading regulation. Our result is robust to alternative measures of real activities earnings management and insider trading restrictions, alternative sub-samples, alternative regression specifications, and controlling for endogeneity. In …

Contextualizing The Organizational Mindset, Joseph A. Carpini, Burak Oc

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Although Schneider and Pulakos (2022, p. 2) call for scholars to adopt an “organizational mindset,” which includes “an increased organizational frame of reference on variables of interest,” the authors have overlooked the importance of contextualizing such a mindset. Contextualizing “entails linking observations to a set of relevant facts, events, or points of view that make possible research and theory that form part of a larger whole” (Rousseau & Fried, 2001, p. 1). Contextualizing is essential because it provides a common vernacular that facilitates the valid and reliable extension of the industrial-organizational (I-O) mindset to the study of organizational differences and …

Employer Image Within And Across Industries: Moving Beyond Assessing Points-Of-Relevance To Identifying Points-Of-Difference, Greet Van Hoye, Filip Lievens, Bert Weijters, Saartje Cromheecke

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This study draws from brand positioning research to introduce the notions of points-of-relevance and points-of-difference to employer image research. Similar to prior research, this means that we start by investigating the relevant image attributes (points-of-relevance) that potential applicants use for judging organizations' attractiveness as an employer. However, we go beyond past research by examining whether the same points-of-relevance are used within and across industries. Next, we further extend current research by identifying which of the relevant image attributes also serve as points-of-difference for distinguishing between organizations and industries. The sample consisted of 24 organizations from 6 industries (total N = …

Distinctive Features Of Nonverbal Behavior And Mimicry In Application Interviews Through Data Analysis And Machine Learning, Sanne Rogiers, Elias Corneillie, Filip Lievens, Frederik Anseel, Peter Veelaert, Wilfried Philips

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This paper reveals the characteristics and effects of nonverbal behavior and human mimicry in the context of application interviews. It discloses a novel analyzation method for psychological research by utilizing machine learning. In comparison to traditional manual data analysis, machine learning proves to be able to analyze the data more deeply and to discover connections in the data invisible to the human eye. The paper describes an experiment to measure and analyze the reactions of evaluators to job applicants who adopt specific behaviors: mimicry, suppress, immediacy and natural behavior. First, evaluation of the applicant qualifications by the interviewer reveals …

Corporate Actions And The Manipulation Of Retail Investors In China: An Analysis Of Stock Splits, Sheridan Titman, Chi Shen Wei, Bin Zhao

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We identify a group of “suspicious” firms that use stock splits, perhaps along with other activities, to artificially inflate their share prices. Following the initiation of suspicious splits, share prices temporarily increase, and subsequently decline below their presplit levels. Using account level data from the Shanghai Stock Exchange, we find that small retail investors acquire shares in firms initiating suspicious splits, while more sophisticated investors accumulate positions before suspicious split announcements and sell in the postsplit period. We also find that insiders sell large blocks of shares and obtain loans using company stock as collateral around the initiation of suspicious …