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Incorporating Online Simulated Environments Into An Mis Curriculum To Accommodate For Disruptions Caused By The Covid-19 Pandemic, Richard Taylor, Marion Smith

Southwestern Business Administration Journal

The Covid-19 pandemic has become a major disruption to colleges and universities around the world with most institutions moving to online-only instruction. As a result, the use of controlled environments to deliver hands-on experiences in typical MIS curriculum courses, such as programming, database management, network administration, information security, and web design was no longer available. This paper discusses a variety of simulated environments where students get hands-on experiences to replace the traditional learning environment in a classroom or computer lab setting.

Fostering Engagement And Learning In Students Through Assignment Modifications During Covid-19, Madhu Bala Sahoo

Southwestern Business Administration Journal

Critical thinking and innovative problem solving are two crucial skills for management students to develop in this fast-changing business world. These skills are even more relevant in today’s turbulent times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Case analysis and simulation games are popular pedagogical tools to develop these skills in a classroom setting. Remote learning due to COVID-19 has made it challenging for instructors to use these tools effectively. While working within the same course timeframe and budgets, an instructor in a national southern university, opportunistically used the current context of COVID-19 to modify a written assignment for an introductory HR course …

Covid-19: Impact On Business Students' Transition From Face-To-Face To Online Instructional Delivery, Beverly A. Bryant, Cynthia R. Mayo, Keisha M. Williams, Danielle Colbert-Lewis

Southwestern Business Administration Journal

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its proverbial core with institutions for higher learning caught in the crosshairs. Consequently, every facet of higher education has been indelibly affected. Traditional classroom instruction immediately changed, and a nontraditional delivery method emerged inclusive of both hybrid and online instruction. This delivery method was new to many students as all instruction shifted from face-to-face to virtual. To mitigate the spread of the virus, immediate action was required and campuses had to determine the probability of closing. This was a challenge for many reasons, some students did not have the resources to …

Going Glocal In A Pandemic: Can Japan Offer Lessons For Others?, Masaaki Takemura

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

This Dialogue contribution draws some lessons from the Japanese countermeasures against the COVID-19 pandemic. It approaches this issue from a social point of view. Specifically, it focuses on social and cultural understanding process of an uncertainty event – in this case the COVID-19 pandemic, but also early instances – by the Japanese.

Consumption Behavior Of Algerians During The Period Of The Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis, Kamel Chikhi

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

This Dialogue contribution is a reflection on the impact of crises and in particular that of Covid-19 on the behavior of Algerian consumers: before, during and post-crisis. It is recognized that during crises, consumers adopt unusual and more rational behaviors: buy basic necessities; save more to deal with possible difficult situations; place more importance on nutrition, health, food quality characteristics, price, psychological and socio-demographic characteristics; have purchasing and consumption intentions based on their cultural background and prefer to adopt planned behaviors. Observed events during the Covid-19 pandemic allows us to illustrate the evolution of consumption behavior of Algerians and to …

Pandemic, Human Precarity And Post-Pandemic Metaverses, Tracy Harwood

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

With the global COVID-19 pandemic and its continuing impacts, we have reached a nexus which places new emphasis on our understanding of ourselves and our relationship with others – other nations, other species, other worlds. A critical question is: Does this mean that our transition into the posthuman is complete? It is therefore with some interest that this Dialogue contribution approaches the review of Francesca Ferrando’s book (2019) titled Philosophical Posthumanism. Prior to and after the detailed review of the book, this Dialogue essay reflects on the precarity induced by the pandemic and possible socio-technological ways out of the current …

Fasten: An Iot Platform For Supply Chain Management In A Covid-19 Pandemic Scenario, Fernando Lemos, Thays Do Nascimento, Gustavo Dalmarco

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

This paper points out the major disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It proposes an automated Internet-of-Things (IoT) based manufacturing and supply chain system, termed FASTEN, that can deal with such severe disruptions.

Rethink Everything 3: Markets, Globalization, Development, Nikhilesh Dholakia, Deniz Atik

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

No abstract provided.

2021-June-25-Dr. Stacey Williams Lgbtq Research, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (June 25, 2021) — When Dr. Stacey Williams, an East Tennessee State University psychology professor, began to research the societal experiences of Appalachia’s LGBTQ community, she was already focused on her own study concerning the social stigmas encountered by these groups. But when a student expressed greater local interest in the subject, Williams took a deeper look at LGBTQ life in Appalachia and, today, devotes much of her time to promoting a better understanding of those regional issues. 

“Once I started, there was no looking back, because there is such a demand for knowledge about this population particularly …

2021-June-24-Hospitality And Tourism Certificate, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (June 24, 2021) — Registration is now open for the Hospitality and Tourism Management Certification Program, a partnership with the East Tennessee State University Office of Professional Development and Northeast Tennessee Tourism Association (NETTA). The certification is a regional first, having grown over the past two years to include more than two dozen graduates.

Classes will be held each Tuesday, Aug. 17-Nov. 16, from 6-9 p.m., at the Hands On! Discovery Center, located in Gray at the ETSU Natural History Museum and Gray Fossil Site. Registration is required.

Certification is for anyone interested in expanding their skills …

Improving Environmental Protection: One Imagined Touch At A Time, Luke Ingalls Liska

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Can imagined touch of flora and fauna (i.e., the plants and animals of the natural world) make you more willing to support environmental protection efforts? Across seven studies, I demonstrate that by asking consumers to imagine touching fauna, marketers can encourage consumers to become more engaged in environmental protection efforts. This effect occurs because imagined touch generates haptic imagery, which enhances a consumer’s emotional attachment to fauna. I demonstrate that emotional attachment to fauna induced via imagined touch enhances individual’s willingness to share Facebook posts, improves their willingness to support increased fines for environment-related offenses, and increases the number of …

2021-June-23-Grant To Accelerate Regions Behavioral Health Workforce, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (June 23, 2021) – Two faculty members at East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine received a grant to develop, implement and evaluate a program for training and retaining a behavioral health workforce in Northeast Tennessee.

Dr. Jodi Polaha, project director, and Dr. Matthew Tolliver, co-director, were awarded $1,855,118 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for their project titled “Integrated Care Appalachia: A Model Training Program to Accelerate the Behavioral Health Workforce in Northeast Tennessee.” 

 “We have a profound workforce need in this region across the gamut of mental health providers,” said Tolliver, a clinical …

2021-June-22-Strong Brain Institute Update, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (June 22, 2021) – Over the past year, leaders of the East Tennessee State University Ballad Health Strong BRAIN Institute have worked to develop its infrastructure, deliver training and education opportunities, and expand research activities with a goal of promoting a trauma-informed citizenry and workforce throughout the region.

The Strong BRAIN (Building Resilience through ACEs-Informed Networking) Institute was established in 2020 by Ballad Health and ETSU to promote awareness of and research on ACEs, or adverse childhood experiences, which can have a profound effect on individuals’ mental and physical health throughout life.

The Strong BRAIN Institute is led …

2021-June-22-Ted Olson Eths Award, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (June 22, 2021) — Dr. Ted Olson, a professor of Appalachian Studies and Bluegrass, Old-Time and Country Music Studies at East Tennessee State University, has received the East Tennessee Historical Society’s (ETHS) Ramsey Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Dr. Ted Olson

The Knoxville-based society’s most prestigious honor, named for ETHS founder Dr. J.G.M. Ramsey, is reserved for one individual annually, who, over the course of a …

2021-June-22-Dr. Kiana Johnson Named To Maxine Smith Fellows Leadership Program, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (June 22, 2021) – Dr. Kiana Johnson from East Tennessee State University is among the 21 faculty and staff members from colleges and universities across Tennessee selected to participate in the 2021-22 Class of the Maxine Smith Fellows program.

The Maxine Smith Fellows program provides professional development, training and advancement opportunities for participants from traditionally underrepresented groups at Tennessee’s locally governed public universities and the community and technical colleges governed by the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR). Members meet monthly for a year, starting this month. 

Johnson is an associate professor in the Division of Academic Pediatrics in …

Does Relevant Information Exchange Create Relationships Between Buyers And Sellers That Affect Sales?, Christopher Hansen

College of Business Theses and Dissertations

This study quantitatively and qualitatively tests the influence of sales-deployed relational marketing material using an ongoing information stream (OIS) of relevant literature, and measures the impact on a buyer’s likelihood to purchase in the future, the allocation of dollars to a purchase, and the development of relationship, trust, expertise, and reduction of uncertainty in decision making. The study produces generalizable results from a large cross-section sample of 400 buyers under specific conditions that included both imminent and no imminent sale conditions, and varying levels of deployment of the OIS. It was found that relevant information exchange by itself does not …

2021-June-18-Karsai Coauthors Book On Mathematical Biology, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (June 18, 2021) — Dr. Istvan Karsai, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at East Tennessee State University, along with former ETSU Basler chairholders George Kampis and Thomas Schmickl, hope to spur discussions about the ways in which mathematics can help researchers better understand ecology, how ecology can provide new ways of thinking in mathematics, and how all of that as mathematical biology relates to such events as climate change and their effect on the world’s organisms.

In their new book, a monograph titled “Resilience and Stability of Ecological and Social Systems,” the trio of researchers …

2021-June-17-Ev Charging Stations, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – (June 17, 2021) East Tennessee State University and BrightRidge celebrated the installation of eight electric vehicle (EV) charging stations on campus today.  The project marked the 100th installation by Seven States Power Corporation in the Tennessee Valley.

The stations are funded through student fees and powered by BrightRidge, which is providing the electric fuel.  Seven States Power Corporation, an energy solutions company, is serving as project manager.

According to Seven States, these eight Level 2 Clipper Creek EV charging stations are capable of providing 25 miles of range per hour for any electric vehicle manufactured for North …

2021-June-16-Students Gain High-Demand Technology Skills Through Innovation Lab Member, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (June 16, 2021) – Cloud Wise Academy, an East Tennessee State University Innovation Lab affiliate member, recently concluded a six-week-long course designed to teach valuable coding skills and train students for technology professions.

The Website Coding for Beginners course was the first coding experience for most students, and they learned to create websites with HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Through this course and others, Cloud Wise Academy’s mission is to train and equip the region’s workforce with online marketing and technology skills. Additionally, the course aligns with the Innovation Lab’s mission to champion entrepreneurs and promote innovation.

“The way …

2021-June-16-Spring 2021 Deans List, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

The Oversharenting Paradox: When Frequent Parental Sharing Negatively Affects Observers’ Desire To Affiliate With Parents, Sona Klucarova, Jonathan Hasford

Marketing & Entrepreneurship Faculty Publications

Modern-day parents increasingly engage in sharing of their children’s information and photos on social media. However, when parents post about their children on social media with high frequency, the phenomenon of “oversharenting” occurs. This research explores the impact of oversharenting on others’ desire to affiliate with parents. While parents post about their children to socialize with others, three experimental studies conducted with U.S. residents recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk demonstrate that parents who oversharent are viewed as less desirable acquaintances than parents who do not. This effect is mediated by observers’ perception that oversharenting constitutes a social norm violation (Study …

Corporate Sociopolitical Activism And Nonprofit Identity Orientation On An Individual's Likelihood To Support, Tara Duenas

University Honors Theses

The purpose of this study aims to identify whether corporate sociopolitical activism (CSA) as a marketing strategy impacts individual stakeholders and their likelihood to support (time, money, or for-profit partnership) a nonprofit who may have different identity orientations (collectivistic or relational). The two nonprofits that inspired this study are Portland State University (PSU) and SNACK BLOC. Both organizations vary greatly in size and have implemented CSA in response to police abolition within the past year and currently receive public funding. There are various organizational differences between these nonprofits but there has been a suggested link in research that an organization’s …

2021-June-11-Harrison Coauthors Marketing Analytics Textbook, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (June 11, 2021) — Dr. Dana Harrison, assistant professor of marketing, director of MBA programs and Stanley P. Williams Faculty Fellow at East Tennessee State University, has co-authored “The Essentials of Marketing Analytics,” a textbook that will be utilized by students throughout the industry to gain insights into the most frequently applied marketing analytics techniques in today’s changing business landscapes. 

Having written the text with fellow scholars Dr. Joe F. Hair of the University of South Alabama and Dr. Haya Ajjan of Elon University, Harrison said it aims to help marketing students grasp the complex and ever-evolving …

2021-June-11-New Advisement Leader, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – (June 11, 2021) Megan Roberts has been named Executive Director for Academic Advisement at East Tennessee State University.

The Executive Director for Academic Advisement, a newly created role at ETSU, is the university’s principal leader of undergraduate advisement.  Her office will work in close partnership with advisors and other student success professionals at ETSU to create and carry out initiatives to promote student success, retention and graduation.  This includes fostering the application of national best practices in advising and serving as an advocate for ETSU’s advising professionals across campus.

Roberts has been with ETSU since 2012.  She …

2021-June-09-Broadway Bucs Virtual Workshops, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (June 9, 201) — The inaugural Broadway Bucs Workshop for high school students, grades 10-12, will be presented virtually via Zoom on July 20-21. The event, for which a total of 20 student applicants must be pre-screened and accepted, will offer eight master classes instructed by nine, seasoned Broadway performers along with special guest, Broadway musical director Mary-Mitchell Campbell, and four East Tennessee State University professors.

Topics covered will include intermediate to advanced singing, acting, and dance techniques, as well as pre-professional and entrepreneurship master classes. The application deadline is June 15, and those accepted into the workshops …

2021-June-09-Radiologic Science Program Pass Rate And Job Placements, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (June 9, 2021) – Garrett Hall, a May 2021 graduate of East Tennessee State University’s Radiologic Science Program, is still celebrating his academic and professional achievements more than a month after commencement.

Within weeks of receiving his diploma from ETSU, he took and passed the national certification examination administered by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT). In addition, he has already begun a full-time job as a radiologic technologist at Johnson City Medical Center. (Hall pictured above)

His classmate, Madison Triebel (pictured left), also passed her registry exam and will begin a …

2021-June-07-Etsu Health Llevará La Vacuna Covid-19 A Eventos Y Reuniones De Verano, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (7 de junio de 2021) – ETSU Health continuará ofreciendo oportunidades para que los miembros de la comunidad mayores de 18 años reciban la vacuna COVID-19 de Janssen Johnson & Johnson de una dosis gratuita en varios lugares en la región.

“Este verano, utilizaremos algunos ubicaciones no tradicionales para llegar a tantas personas como podamos con la vacuna”, dijo Donna Noland, gerente de la ETSU Health COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic. “Mientras que hemos tenido una buena respuesta a nuestras clínicas de vacunas en el campus de la East Tennessee State University y continuaremos ofreciéndolas al público, nos damos cuenta …

2021-June-03-Etsu To Partner In New Tennessee Heart Health Network, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (June 3, 2021) – East Tennessee State University’s Center for Cardiovascular Risks Research is collaborating with researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and other key academic partners across the state to create a statewide network to identify, develop and implement patient-centered approaches to improve quality of care and outcomes for people with cardiovascular disease.

The UT-led research proposal received a $4.5 million grant over three years from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to lead the Tennessee Heart Health Network, which will identify evidence-based interventions to aid primary care providers across the state …

Honours Bachelor Of Commerce Degree (Digital Marketing) - Pac Minutes- June 2, 2021, Meghan Jennings

PAC Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Covid-19 On Utah Women And Work: Childcare And Homeschooling, Chris Hartwell, Jared Hansen, Susan R. Madsen

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020–2021 has impacted workers across the globe. Women have been disproportionately impacted during this time. At one point during the pandemic, a publication from the National Women’s Law Center reported that women dropped out of the workforce at a rate four times that of men. Utah has seen similar negative impacts on working women. The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah reported that from 2019 to 2020, jobs held by women declined at a rate more than double that of men, and unemployment rose more for females than males. One major reason …