Publications and Awards

Ph.D. Current Student Publications and Awards

(Note: The following is an alphabetical list of select student research and achievements based on inputs received from our Ph.D. students. This will be updated continuously as we receive more information.)

JAMES CAO

Operations & Decision Technologies

Research

Cao, J., K. So, S. Yin. "Impact of an Online-to-Store Channel on Demand Allocation, Online Pricing and Profitability." Under revision, Management Science
Cao, J., K. So. "Optimal Component Procurement Strategy in Assemble-to-Order Systems with Demand Forecast Updates." Working paper. To be submitted within a few weeks.
Cao, J. "Coordinating the Supply Chain under Asymmetric Information and Demand Updates." Work in progress.
Cao, J., K. So. "Optimal Release of an Innovative Product over Different Regions with Correlated Demand." Work in progress.

Awards & Honors:

2011- Informs Future Academician Colloquium - Charlotte, NC
2007-2011- Graduate Research Assistant, UC Irvine
2010- Outstanding Teaching Assistant (a.k.a. Best TA Award)
2009- Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2006- The University of California Regents Fellowship
2005- Undergraduate Research Fellowship

JESSE CATLIN

Marketing

Paper Title & Status:

Transforming Consumer Health (with Punan Ananad Keller, Debra L. Scammon, Pia A Albinsson, Shalini Bahl, Kelly L. Haws, Jeremy Kees, Tracey King, Elizabeth Gelfand Miller, Ann M. Mirabito, Paula C. Peter, and Robert M. Schindler [forthcoming in Journal of Public Policy & Marketing]

Grants:

UCI Newkirk Graduate Fellowship (co-researcher with Yitong Wang)

Awards, grants, positions held etc.:

Outstanding TA Award - HCEMBA class of 2011

PENG-CHIA CHIU

Accounting

Awards, grants, positions held etc.:

Best Paper Award at the Center for Corporate Reporting & Governance (CGRG) Conference
Deloitte Doctor Consortium Fellow

MAJOR COLEMAN

Finance

Selected Research:

“Subprime lending and housing buble: Tail Wags dog?” Accepted at Journal of Housing Economics, 2008, by Kerry Vandell, Michael LaCour-Little (CSU Fullerton), and Major Coleman

Abstract: Significant policy attention and concern has been focused recently upon the extent, degree, and duration of the “housing bubble” associated with the sharp rise and then drop in home prices over the period 1998-2007. The widespread availability of subprime and other alternative mortgage products during this period, while arguably increasing homeownership rates, has been broadly blamed for these market outcomes. In this paper we empirically investigate the validity of this proposition against a number of alternative explanations. After a theoretical discussion framing alternative mechanisms possible for generating observed house price patterns, we specify a model of house price dynamics. A cross-sectional time series data base across metropolitan areas over the period 1998-2006 is used for estimation. Beyond traditional economic variables, we consider measures of the density of subprime and other alternative mortgage originations, investor home purchase mortgage activity, and measures of supply side constraints. Results suggest that subprime credit activity does not seem to have had much impact on subsequent house price returns, although there is strong evidence of a price-boosting effect by investor loans. Alt-A and Jumbo origination activity tend to have cyclical effects on subsequent house price returns over a year duration, but in different directions, so the overall picture is unclear. Evidence also supports the importance of land use regulatory restrictiveness on the supply side in driving up house price returns. Most significantly, the changing credit regime that took place in late 2003, as the GSE’s pulled back from the market for political and regulatory reasons, is suggested to be a primary factor reducing the dominance of market fundamentals in affecting house price returns and creating the price-momentum conditions characteristic of a “bubble.”

Research topics worked on:

Investor Sentiment and Consumption
Overconfidence, Investor Sentiment and the Equity Premium

Paper title and status:

“Tail Wags Dog: Subprime Lending in the Housing Bubble.” Published in Journal of Housing Economics December 2008. 25 Cities on google scholar.
“What Role Did Diversification Play in the RMBS Meltdown? A Post-Mortem using Bear Stearns Alt-A Sercuritizations”-Presented at American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association annual meeting Atlanta January 2010

Awards, grants, etc.:

TA of the Year for the Full Time MBA program

JENNIFER M CORDERO

Marketing

Awards & Honors:

Academy of Marketing Science MDSA Sheth Foundation Award—Granted to attended conference – 2007 & 2009
American Market Association Foundation Valuing Diversity Scholarship – August 2008
PhD Student Camp for Research in Business-to-Business Markets – Grant to attend conference –2007 University of California/Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship – 2006 & 2007
AMS Sheth Foundation MDSA Conference Grant, 2007
SBM Business-to-Business PhD Student Research Camp Scholarship

YUHONG HE

Operations and Decision Technologies

Research paper worked on:

Joint selling of Complementary Products under Down Stream Competition

Paper Titles and Status:

Joint selling of Complementary Products under Down Stream Competition—submitted.

FEI KANG

Accounting

Awards:

AAA Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Lake Tahoe, 2010

SANG-JOON KIM

Organization and Management

Conference paper accepted:

Kim, S-J, & Schoonhoven C.B “From Science & Technology Creation to Emergence of Dedicated Nanotechnology Population 1970-2004,” presented at the 2010 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX.

Abstract:

Drawing on institutional & ecological theory, we investigated the new science and human resource precursors of de novo population emergence. Data are from a larger study (Schoonhoven, 2009) of first generation dedicated nano-science firms. We found a negative effect of scientific knowledge growth on birth rates, but U-shaped effects on technology & human resource growth on birth rates. Over 75% of first generation firms were founded before the US NNI formalized the science’s legitimacy.

Kim, S-J, & Kim, J-J. “Impression Management Strategies over Structural Supports by Working Experiences in Korea and the U.S.,” presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of Academy of Management (IM division) Chicago, IL.

Abstract:

This study examines contextual factors regarding women’s impression management. Arguing that impression management is not always caused by personal traits, but more importantly by context, we consider the dominance of impression management (IM) over structural support (SS) as contextual variability. For analysis, we designed an IM-SS index to measure the dominance of impression management strategies over structural supports, next, we hypothesized the following: (1) there is different dominance of impression management strategies over structural supports depending on work experience, tenure, and turnover, and (2) cultural difference between Korea and the U.S can moderate the relationship between work experience and the IM-SS index. We survey 245 women employees who have worked for at least 5 years in financial institutions – 160 in Korea 85 in the U.S. Our analyses show that more experienced women experienced women employees in organizations are unlikely to show dominated impression management tactics over structural support that these relationships are different between different national cultures. In particular, work experience have significant impact on the dominance of supervisor-focused impression management tactics over informal network benefits. American women are more likely than Korean to change their attitudes depending on their work experience.

Research topics worked on:

Entrepreneurship:
Technology entrepreneurship
Community evolution
Boundary expansion with resources
Technological embeddedness
Diffusion processes
Network resonance and theorization
Rhetorical strategies for de-institutionalizations
Minorities at work – women and immigrants

Papers titles and status:

Legitimization of Organizational Foundings through Theorization: The Role of Scientific Collaboration in Emergence of a Nanotechnology community
-Presented at the OMT Doctoral Consortium in 2010 AOM annual meeting
-Collecting data
Technological embeddedness as a Determinant of Organizational Forms.
-Idea development
-Collecting data
Socially Constructed Economic Resources: Intellectual, Financial, and Human Resources for the Emergence of New Organizational Forms
-Having two illustrations with nanotechnology firms and jazz hybrid forms
-Focusing on boundary expansion with jazz data and then expanding to new form emergence phenomena
-Collecting data
Saving master kim: two rhetorical strategies for de-institutionalization
-Analysis done
-Revising the theory part with some concepts of social movement theories
Social Construction Perspective of Influence Tactics: The Impact of Cohort-Specific Turnover and Career Satisfaction of the Recursive Relationship Between Women’s Impression Management Tactics and Structural Supports
-Analysis done with US data
-Previous version with Korea data was submitted to Korean Management Review (Oct. 2010)
-Writing up
-Next step will be a comparative study between U.S and Korea
In group exclusion v out-group Inclusion: the impact of marginalized ethnicity on perceived discrimination Pilot test done
Finding an opportunity to expand this idea to ethnic relationship.

KENJI KLEIN

Organization and Management

Selected Research:

"The Effects of Governments on Management and Organization." The Academy of Management Annals (2009), 3:503-541.

Abstract: We review and integrate existing research from organization theory, strategy, organizational behavior, economics, sociology and political science on the effects of governments on organization and management, with a focus on how governing ideology and government capability influence independent organizations' forms, strategies, and their participants' behavior. When brought together these works suggest significant research opportunities in the fields of management and organization, as well as new perspectives on public policy challenges. Several avenues of potentially profitable empirical research include more attention to the influence of government on corporate strategies, more research on the strategies of pursuing corruption and government capture for competitive advantage, the role of government in fostering innovation and the growth of entrepreneurial organizations, and extra-organizational contextual effects on managerial and employee organizational behavior. Possible public policy implications are illustrated with an application to the role of organizations in national wealth generation and dispersion.

Awards & Honors:

Finalist INFORMS - Org Science Dissertation Proposal Competition - 2011
Beal Center Disseration Grant -2011
Finalist, Best Doctoral Student Paper Award, Western Academy of Management Meeting, March 2010 for paper titled “Organizational Community Interaction and Novel form Generation.”
Ray Watson Doctoral Fellowship, University of California-Irvine, 2009
Best Reviewer Award, IM Division. Academy of Management Conference, 2009.

JAMES LEONHARDT

Marketing

LAUREN LOUIE

Marketing

Research paper worked on:

Symbolism as 2nd year paper & beyond topic
Perceptions of Water with Professor Venkatesh
For class project: Ownership & Tangibility, Cynicism

SARAH LYON

Accounting

Recent papers, publications, etc.:

Hosted "Sustainabilty at a Crossroad" workshop in October with member of the 2010 Sustainabilty Science Team

FRANK MACCRORY

Information Systems

Selected Research:

“Information Asymmetry in Information Systems Development Efforts”, to be presented at the 2011 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC

Abstract: Existing theoretical models of moral hazard assume that all members are substitutes or all members are complements, but we show that for multi-function information systems development teams such an assumption is unwarranted and introduces an economically significant bias into estimates of moral hazard losses. We present a model that allows for some team members to be substitutes to some teammates (namely those with the same job title) and simultaneously to be complements to other teammates (namely those on the same project but with different job titles). Our results take this mixed substitute-complement structure into account and show that increasing the number of functions on a multi-function team has two contradictory effects: (1) it increases complementarity which mitigates losses due to moral hazard, but (2) it also reduces the manager’s ability to monitor workers. Balancing these two results, the optimal multi-function team design in our focal firm has two functions. We explore some implications for managing multi-function teams of knowledge workers, specifically related to task design elements such as substitutability between team members and complementarity between functions.

“Designing Promotion Tournaments to Mitigate Turnover of IT Professionals”, to be presented at the 2011 ICIS Conference, Shanghai, China

Abstract: Chronic excessive turnover among IT professionals has been costly to firms for decades with annual turnover rates as high as 30% even among Computerworld’s “100 Best Places to Work in IT,” and two key antecedents of turnover identified in the IS literature are boundary-spanning roles and low promotability in one’s current firm. Extant studies measure promotability as a single value but we use tournament theory to develop a theoretical model with two distinct dimensions of promotability – likelihood of promotion and benefit from the promotion – which have independent effects on turnover. Higher likelihood of promotion reduces turnover, but counter-intuitively higher benefit from the promotion increases turnover. Our model shows that a firm can lower turnover without weakening incentives by designing a tournament with smaller, more frequent promotions. We validate our model on a detailed dataset covering 5704 IT professionals over a five year period, and we confirm that likelihood of promotion and benefit from the promotion have the predicted effects on turnover of IT professionals. A one-standard-deviation increase in likelihood of promotion decreases turnover by over 99%, while a one-standard-deviation increase in benefit from the promotion increases turnover by 276% consistent with prior literature and our model. We also find that jobs characterized by boundary-spanning activities are more sensitive to the tournament’s side-effect on turnover.

“Global Sourcing Choice and Firm Performance: Impacts of Firm Characteristics, Nature of the Activity and Strategic Motivation”, presented at the 2011 Global Sourcing Workshop, Courchevel, France

Abstract: Offshore sourcing of IT development has grown rapidly in the past decade. Yet some firms are much more active than others in offshore sourcing, and some report greater success in offshore performance. This raises two questions. First, how can we explain differences in firm sourcing choices, even among firms operating in the same industry? Second, what factors influence the impact of offshore sourcing on firm performance?
We use data from a 2010 survey of U.S. software companies to analyze the factors that influence global sourcing decisions and the impacts of offshore sourcing on firm performance. We first examine the factors that shape sourcing choices for all firms, those that offshore and those that do not. We then focus on only those firms that offshore, examining both the determinants of offshoring and the performance outcomes of offshoring for firms with different strategies. The most important contribution of this analysis is the finding that there are two types of offshoring strategic motivation, as identified through factor analysis. One is operational improvement and the other is international market expansion. These differences in strategy are significantly associated with the choice of sourcing options, and with the cost savings achieved from offshoring. It appears that firms motivated by cost reduction are more likely to use the outsourcing option rather than setting up their own captive development centers, while those motivated by market expansion are more likely to use captive development. Firms that go offshore for operations reasons report greater cost reduction than those that go for market access.

“Strategies for Managing the Onshore Workforce in Offshoring Environment”, presented at the 2008 Society for Information Management Academic Workshop, Paris, France.

Awards & Honors:

Most Promising Future Faculty Member Dissertation Fellowship, 2011-2012
Justice Stephan K. Tamura fellowship, 2010-2011
Selected for ICIS Doctoral Consortium 2010

OFER MINTZ

Marketing

Selected Research:

"Consumer Search and Propensity to Buy: A Study of Internet Shoppers on a Popular Hi-Tech Website," Working Paper.

Abstract: This article investigates the association between consumers’ pattern of information search and their propensity to buy in a field setting. We expect that a consumer whose information search pattern is skewed towards alternative-based search will have a greater propensity to buy than a consumer whose search pattern is skewed towards attribute-based search. In addition, we examine whether the price range selected by a consumer influences their subsequent pattern of search. To address these questions, we consider several empirical models that allow us to account for endogeneity and simultaneity in the relationship between pattern of information search and propensity to buy. Unlike standard simultaneous equation models, our models are intended to account for the discrete nature of the dependent variables, such as the binary purchase decision and the censored search pattern variable. We provide a Bayesian simulation-based estimation methodology that overcomes the analytical intractability of the likelihood function in this class of models. The results confirm our expectations. The implication is that a manager can now identify a consumer who has a higher propensity to buy while that consumer engages in information search prior to a purchase commitment, an important first step in targeting decisions.

Extremeness Seeking in Choice: Theory and Implications,” Working Paper.

Abstract: In this paper, through a series of empirical studies, we further extend the choice literature by showing evidence of and developing an underlying theory for why decision makers choose the extreme option in specific multi-attributed product scenarios. Specifically, we prove that when decision makers are faced with two equally attractive options and a third extreme or “dissimilar” option, they are more likely to select the extreme option and in comparison to those who did not select an extreme option: a) process information in more alternative-based patterns, b) compare fewer products, and c) expend less effort in making their decision. Although past studies have examined how consumers react to different context situations, the majority of these studies have been limited to experimental situations with alternatives described by only two attributes (i.e., price and quality), which may have simplified the purchasing scenarios that consumers face in the real world. However, by analyzing real consumer purchases, we are able to investigate consumer behavior from purchasing scenarios where multi-attributed product descriptions are prevalent.

Conferences:

Mintz, Ofer, Imran Currim, and Ivan Jeliazkov (October 2009) “Consumer Search Behavior and Propensity to Buy: A Study of Internet Shoppers on a Popular Hi - Tech Website,” presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, California
Mintz, Ofer, Imran Currim, and Ivan Jeliazkov (May 2009) “Consumer Search Behavior and Propensity to Buy: A Study of Internet Shoppers on a Popular Hi - Tech Website,” presented at the 7th Annual Institute of Mathematical Behavioral Sciences (IMBS) Graduate Student Conference, University of California, Irvine
Mintz, Ofer, Imran Currim, and Ivan Jeliazkov (January 2009) “Consumers’ Search Behavior and Their Propensity to Buy: A Study of Internet Shoppers on a Popular Hi - Tech Website,” presented at the 47th Annual Edwards Bayesian Research Conference, California State University, Fullerton
Mintz, Ofer, Imran Currim, and Ivan Jeliazkov (November 2008) “Consumers’ Search Behavior and Their Propensity to Buy: A Study of Internet Shoppers on a Popular Hi - Tech Website,” presented at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, Brown Bag Series

Awards & Honors:

Summer Fellowship, Institute of Mathematical Behavioral Sciences (IMBS), UCI, 2008
President, PhD Student Association, Paul Merage School of Business, UCI, 2008-2009

WENTING PAN

Operations and Decision Technologies

Research Publications

"Optimal Product Pricing and Component Production Quantities for an Assembly System Under Supply Uncertaintly", with Prof. Rick So, Operations Research, November -December 2010, 58: 1792-1797.
"Optimal Sourcing Strategies for an Assembly System Under Supply Uncertainty", to be submitted.
"Optimal Product Pricing and Component Production Quantities for a Decentralized Assembly System", research in progress.

Honors and Awards

UCI Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, 2011
INFORMS Future Academician Colloquium Participant, 2010
Ray Watson Fellowship, 2010
Fellowship from Paul Merage School of Business, 2006-2010
Scholarship from Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2001-2004

PENG PENG

Finance

Reserch Topics worked on:

Mutual funds
Game theories
Investors behaviors

TODD PEZZUTI

Marketing

Awards, grants, positions held, etc.:

Selected as the 2011 AMA Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow

IHSAN “SEAN” SALLEH

Operations & Decision Technologies

Recent Papers, Publications, etc.:

Presentation at the Annual INFORMS 2011 conference on social network advertising optimization

Selected Research:

“Optimal pricing in the general concentrator location problem with contiguous networks constraints”

“Two Stage Workforce Allocation with Contiguous Networks Constraints.”, Working paper; began write-up; conducting computational experiments.

Abstract: The allocation of a workforce to well-designed zones often seeks zones that satisfy a combination of potential value, size, balance, proximity, compactness, and contiguity requirements or objectives. The literature contains a variety of exact and heuristic models that seek to optimize one or two objectives while addressing other items, but many of the exact models do not guarantee the essential contiguity requirement. A zone is defined as contiguous if the spatial units that comprise it are connected via a path contained in the zone. In the context of salesforce and homecare planning problems, this paper presents the following novel methods: i) a flexible two-stage mixed integer programming approach to address multiple objectives using ii)contiguity constraints models based on network flows and graph-distance. Computational experiments suggests that the two-stage approach is useful in satisfying multiple objectives, and its execution time is significantly reduced when used with new contiguity constraint models instead of a recent network flows based contiguity model.

“K-vertex guarding simple polygons,” Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, July 2008, by I. Salleh.

Abstract: A polygon P is called k-vertex guardable if there is a subset G of the vertices of P such that each point in P is seen by at least k vertices in G. For the main results of this paper, it is shown that the following number of vertex guards is sufficient and sometimes necessary to k-vertex guard any simple n-gon P without holes: floor(2n/3) are needed for k = 2 if P is any n-gon and floor(3n/4) are needed for k = 3 if P is any convexly quadrilateralizable n-gon. The proofs for both of the results yield algorithms with O(n^2) runtimes.

KRISTEN SAN JOSE

Marketing

Selected Research:

International Marketing Textbook, 15th edition (ed. John Graham) “Seeds of Fashion: Eastern vs. Western Counter-Culture Movements and A Look at the Gothic Lolita of Harajuku, Japan”.

Conferences:

Consumer Culture Theory Conference—2010 “Visual Analysis: Application of an Emerging Tool for Visual Research”

Consumer Culture Theory Conference—2010 “Reception of Restructured Cultural Goods: How Meanings Transformed in the Re-Diffusion Process”

ARSENIO STAER

Finance

Dissertation:

"Asset Pricing in Exchange Traded Funds"

Research area:

Fund Flows and Returns
Asset Comovement
Trading Volume and Returns

Working Papers:

"Equivalent Volume and Comovement", Job Paper, 2011
"ETF Flows and Underlying Returns", 2011