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Cryptocurrencies: A Craze Or Crazed?, Jesse L. Veenstra

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"The craze of Bitcoin and the headlines of massive gains test the diligence and patience of investors."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the benefits and pitfalls of cryptocurrencies from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/cryptocurrencies-a-craze-or-crazed/

The Statistics And Economics Of Sustainable Golf Course Design, Jordan Howell, Jordan Moore

Rohrer College of Business Departmental Research

No abstract provided.

Synergistic Effect Of E&D And Export On Performance, Jooh Lee

Rohrer College of Business Departmental Research

No abstract provided.

Improving Representation Over Time?, Shuang Wu, Nina Krey

Rohrer College of Business Departmental Research

No abstract provided.

Political Skill, Megan Paul

Umbrella Summaries

What is political skill?

Political skill refers to “the ability to effectively understand others at work, and to use such knowledge to influence others to act in ways that enhance one’s personal and/or organizational objectives” (Ahearn et al., 2004, p. 311). Unlike organizational politics, which involve selfserving and detrimental behavior, political skill involves positive, sincere, and effective influence (Ferris et al., 2005). The primary measure of political skill is the 18-item Political Skill Inventory, which assesses political skill through four factors: social astuteness, interpersonal influence, networking ability, and apparent sincerity. Example items from each factor, respectively, include “I always seem …

Recent Journal Article Publications, Edward J. Schoen

Rohrer College of Business Departmental Research

No abstract provided.

2022-March-30-Etsu To Host Medical Summer Camp For Rural Students, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Hands-on Learning

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (March 30, 2022) – Rural high school students already eyeing a career in medicine can get an early glimpse into the field by attending the free Rural High School Medical Camp hosted by East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine. 

Registration is now open for the camp, which is geared toward rising juniors and seniors or recent graduates of high schools from rural or underserved areas interested in becoming a primary care physician. The week-long camp will be …

2022-March-30-Enjoy Retirement, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Congratulations to the following member of the East Tennessee State University family who retired in March.  Thank you for your service!

Timothy Erwin – Instructor, University School, 24 years of service

Published March 30, 2022, as part of the Accent email newsletter for faculty and staff.

Online Computer Networking Degree Ranked Ninth, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

2022-March-30-Welcome To Etsu, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

East Tennessee State University welcomes the following faculty and staff members who recently joined the university:

Ben Carpenter is a transfer advisor in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. He comes to ETSU from Bushnell University, where he was an academic advisor. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Milligan University.

Olivia Dover is director of Clinical Education and assistant professor of radiologic science in the Department of Allied Health Sciences. She was previously a CT technologist at Blue Ridge Regional Hospital. She holds a Master of Science in Allied Health degree from ETSU.

Dr. Richard Hough is a professor …

2022-March-30-Student Pharmacists Help Serve Expectant Mothers In The Community, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (March 30, 2022) – An East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy student organization recently created care packages for women in the community.

The college’s Christian Pharmacists Fellowship International (CPFI) chapter earned a $450 Hands and Feet grant, which they used to create care packages in conjunction with Agape Women's Services in Johnson City to help expectant mothers through the process of pregnancy and early motherhood. The packages include diapers, wipes, vitamins, supplements, baby bottles, pacifiers, and Bibles. The student pharmacists had a drive at the college to help collect items, and local Walgreens leadership …

2022-03-30 General Education Council Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., General Education Council.

Faculty Senate Records

Meeting minutes of the General Education Council for the March 30, 2022.

2022-March-29-Quillen College Of Medicine Ranks High For Serving The Underserved, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (March 29, 2022) – U.S. News & World Report ranked East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine No. 3 in the country for “Medical Schools with the Most Graduates Practicing in Health Professional Shortage Areas.”

The “Best Graduate School Rankings” released today by U.S. News also ranked Quillen high in several other categories, including:

• No. 33 among “Medical Schools with the Most Graduates Practicing in Rural Areas;”
• No. 34 among “Medical Schools with the Most Graduates Practicing in Primary Care;” and
• No. 65 in the “Medical Schools: Primary Care” category.

“These rankings underscore the …

Profit Or Purpose: What Increases Medical Doctors’ Job Satisfaction?, Young Kyun Chang, Won-Yong Oh, Sanghee Han

Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology Faculty Research

This study integrates two competing views to examine whether medical doctors are satisfied with their jobs when they perceive their hospitals as being oriented toward profit (i.e., rational choice theory) or purpose (i.e., public service motivation). Using a sample of 127 doctors from 70 hospitals, this study tests these competing views. The results show that doctors who perceive their hospitals as purpose-driven are likely to experience job satisfaction, and this pattern still holds even if they also perceive their hospitals to be emphasizing profits. However, only the purpose-driven orientation results in job satisfaction via a sense of meaningfulness. Thus, this …

Sustainable Development In The Surveying Profession, Roisin Murphy Dr

Reports

The built environment sector provides the homes, workplaces, amenities and infrastructure to support everyday activity, and is a key contributor to economic growth and employment, but also to emissions and resource use. Construction, land and property surveyors are engaged throughout the built environment lifecycle and therefore, are uniquely positioned to lead and accelerate the transformational change required to ensure a sustainable built environment. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) provide a blueprint exhibiting social, economic and environmental goals to be considered as a system of interrelated objectives. Attainment of the SDGs requires a global approach, which is entrenched in …

Demystifying Entrepreneurial Name Choice: Insights From The Us Biotech Industry, Irina Stoyneva, Veselina P. Vracheva

Business Faculty Articles and Research

Purpose

Drawing from legitimacy and institutional entrepreneurship theory, this study assesses the naming patterns of entrepreneurial firms in the US biotechnology industry.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors use a mixed-methods design of content analysis and regression to analyze a sample of 441 entrepreneurial biotechnology firms, for which data were obtained from Net Advantage. The authors track changes to the proportion of firms with naming attributes, such as name length and type of name. The authors also examine variability in those characteristics during the industry's evolution, comparing freestanding to acquired start-ups.

Findings

Start-ups select names that are longer, more descriptive, begin with rare …

2022-March-28-Jc Female Eagle Has A Name, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (March 28, 2022) – The new lady American Bald Eagle residing in the Johnson City nest viewed by thousands via one of the East Tennessee State University Department of Biological Sciences’ Eagle Cams now has a name.

... and the winner is: Jolene!

The new female eagle who is currently incubating her first clutch of eggs at …

Organizational Silofication: Implications In Grouping Experts For Organizational Performance, Dave Silberman, Rob E. Carpenter, Elena Cabrera, Jasmine Kernaleguen

Human Resource Development Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper offers that organizational underachievement sourced to workplace expertise is a product of bounded perspective constructed by the agency of expertise. Embedded in any bounded perspective is limitations to what can be seen. Organizations that seek to leverage expertise solely on their agency risk organizational silofication. We conclude that recognizing organizational silofication is an opportunity for organizations to address organizational underachievement by addressing the perspectives that create the hidden impediments limiting their overall potential.

Influence Of Social Media Posts On Service Performance, Carol L. Esmark Jones, Stacie F. Waites, Jennifer Stevens

Marketing Faculty Research and Publications

Purpose

Much research regarding social media posts and relevancy has resulted in mixed findings. Furthermore, the mediating role of relevancy has not previously been examined. This paper aims to examine the correlating relationship between types of posts made by hotels and the resulting occupancy rates. Then, the mediating role of relevancy is examined and ways that posts can increase/decrease relevancy of the post to potential hotel users.

Design/methodology/approach

Within the context of the hotel industry, three studies were conducted – one including hotel occupancy data from a corporate chain – to examine the impact of social media posts on relevancy …

The Match-Up Hypothesis Revisited: Matching Social Judgments And Advertising Messaging In Celebrity Endorsements, Brittney C. Bauer, Brad D. Carlson, Clark D. Johnson

School of Business: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Purpose – Although endorsers are thought to be highly effective when they match-up with a product, our current understanding of endorser match-up offers little insight for distinctions between equally attractive and trustworthy endorsers who have equivalent expertise in the product category, yet still diverge in their performance. Therefore, the main purpose of this research is to understand how a match between social judgments (i.e., warmth vs. competence) of a celebrity endorser and specific advertising appeals (i.e., symbolic vs. utilitarian) can improve consumer responses to an endorsement.

Design/methodology/approach – A preliminary study empirically distinguishes perceptions of warmth and competence …

The Effects Of Carbon Emissions And Agency Costs On Firm Performance, Muhammad Nurul Houqe, Solomon Opare, Muhammad Kaleem Zahir-Ul-Hassan, Kamran Ahmed

All Works

Carbon emissions and agency costs can have an impact on firms' financial performance. However, limited attention has been paid to the combined and gradual effects of these two factors on firms' performance. We explore the separate and combined effects of carbon emissions and agency costs on firms' financial performance by utilizing data from 2323 US firms that disclosed their environmental information to CDP from 2007 to 2016. The results indicate that firms with higher carbon emissions experience lower performance as the market reacts negatively. Further, firms with both higher carbon emissions and higher agency costs have lower performance. We also …

How Apis Create Growth By Inverting The Firm, Seth G. Benzell, Jonathan Hersh, Marshall Van Alstyne

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

Traditional asset management strategy has emphasized building barriers to entry or closely guarding unique assets to maintain a firm’s comparative advantage. A new “Inverted Firm” paradigm, however, has emerged. Under this strategy, firms share data seeking to become platforms by opening digital services to third-parties and capturing part of their external surplus. This contrasts with a “pipeline” strategy where the firm itself creates value. This paper quantitatively estimates the effect of adopting an inverted firm strategy through the lens of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), a key enabling technology. Using both public data and that of a private API development firm, …

2022-March-26-In The News Department Of Pediatrics, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

(March 26, 2022) The faculty and staff at East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics have been busy publishing, writing grants and presenting research:

Creating Resources

• Karen Schetzina was awarded a Tennessee Department of Health grant for her project titled “Caring for Motherhood.” The purpose of the $19,971 grant is to continue engaging providers and community members in the region and beyond in maternal mortality prevention education and includes a new podcast series, called “Growing Stronger Together.” The grant …

An Empirical Study To Understand The Effectiveness And Scope Of Blockchain Technology In Indian Public Sector, Radhakrishnan Airy, Hritika Gajarlawar, Nilay Bajaria, Ganesh Joshi

Walden Faculty and Staff Publications

The Blockchain is a distributed database that is maintained as Blocks and contains all transactions or digital occurrences. These are the records of transactions that take place between parties.Blockchain blocks are kept as blocks and shared among participants. Each Block is examined, validated, and saved by the parties who are a part of the system/network, each brick is unique and contains the details of a single transaction as well as the transaction's hash key. The study offers insights to researchers about the opportunity threat and future use of blockchain in the public sector.

Diversify The Pride Week, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

2022-March-24-Student Pharmacists Earn National Honor For Drug Misuse Education, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (March 24, 2022) – A student organization at East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy finished among the top service organizations in the country for educating the community about prescription drug misuse.   

The college’s American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists Operation Substance Use Disorders (SUD) committee (formerly Generation Rx) was national first runner-up for the APhA-ASP Operation Substance Use Disorders Chapter Achievement Award in 2020-21.

This is the ninth consecutive year that the chapter has been recognized either nationally or regionally, and it has been named the winner four times in the category. Overall, the …

2022-03-24 Academic Issues Subcommittee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Academic Issues Subcommittee.

Faculty Senate Records

Meeting minutes of the Academic Issues Subcommittee for the March 24, 2022.

2022-March-23-Gatton Students Experience Future Of Pharmacy, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

When Abby Lopp, a first-year pharmacy student at East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, received the report back of how her body processes different pharmaceutical compounds, also called her pharmacogenomics (PGx) profile, it shined new light on her medical history.

“I used to take Zyrtec in high school and remember feeling tired and drowsy,” said Lopp, from Jefferson North Carolina. “After getting my PGx report back, I learned that I have increased adverse effects from Zyrtec, so now I take Allegra.”

Because all humans have slightly different genes, made up of DNA, people metabolize pharmaceutical drugs differently. …

How Inaccessible Retailer Websites Affect Blind And Low-Vision Consumers: Their Perceptions And Responses, Alex Cohen

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Alex Cohen, Marketing - How Inaccessible Retailer Websites Affect Blind and Low-Vision Consumers: Their Perceptions and Responses

2022-03-23 Pac-27 Tenure & Reappointment Review, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Draft of revisal for PAc-27 on tenure and reappointment review, submitted to the Faculty Senate on March 23, 2022.