Research and Consulting Interests
UNIBusiness faculty and staff have experience and expertise that lend to insightful commentary on and analysis of business news, research and current events. Browse the online directory below.
Contact Rebecca Schultze, communications and public relations manager, at 319-273-3309.
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| Bauman, Christine (Chris) | Accounting for income taxes and related financial reporting effects. Inventory methods. Tax regulation. Low-income tax issues. | ||
| Bauman, Mark P. | Usefulness of accounting data to investors, creditors, and financial analysts. | ||
| Christ, Leroy (Rick) | Pedagogy in accounting; issues in financial accounting; implications of tax laws. | ||
| Christ, Mary | Issues associated with financial reporting; pedagogy in accounting; auditing | ||
| Lindquist, Tim | Influence of culture, gender and generation on judgment & decision-making; Impact of procedural and distributive justice/injustice in the workplace; cooperative learning and outcome feedback in accounting education | ||
| Mpundu, Heminigild | Capital Markets: Financial Reporting | ||
| Schmidt, Dennis | Computer Self-Efficacy; Service Learning Benefits; Accounting Education | ||
| Smith, A. Gerald | Accounting and auditing education, Accounting literature using citation analysis | ||
| Wartick, Marty | Behavioral responses to tax law changes; interaction of psychological and economic theory as it relates to taxpayer reporting decisions | Business and Community Services |
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| Angel, Cindy | Community and Economic Development Research. | ||
| Bolick, Michael (Joe) | Painting and coating industry trends, training course development, simulation training, marketing and sales strategy, design principles | ||
| Cota-Uyar, Katherine | Entreprenuership, small business | ||
| Ebensberger, Jason | Virtual Reality, Standards Compliant Web Design, IT Security | ||
| Gedlinske, Brian | Water resources (surface water and groundwater hydrology); groundwater contaminant fate & transport; site remediation technologies; environmental GIS applications; biofuel environmental implications; and surface finishing technologies | ||
| Giblin, Tom | Efficient and effective paint methods | ||
| Hensel, Lea | Consumer behavior, internet marketing, design principles | ||
| Honary, Lou | Lubricants, Biobased Products, Technology Transfer, Biofuels | ||
| James, Wes | Biolubricants; Biofuels; BioProducts; Agricultural Bio-Economics; Agricultural Policy; Manufacturing Operations; Mechanical Systems | ||
| Lampe, Chris | Effectiveness of water borne paint coatings; Efficacy of various cure technologies for curing water dispersible CARC coatings | ||
| Treloar, Jeremiah | Efficacy of new types of coating technologies and application equipment; Effectiveness of virtual reality training in the application of coating | Economics |
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| Abraham, Fred | Public Finance; Forensic Economics. | ||
| Alam, Imam M. | International Trade, Economic Growth, Stock Market, Applied Econometrics | ||
| Amin, Shahina | Child labor in developing countries, impact of education on earnings; Employment of women in developed and developing countries | ||
| Brown, Ken | Applied Microeconomics | ||
| Hakes, David | Monetary Policy, Central Banking, Financial Markets, Macroeconomics. | ||
| Isakson, Hans | Housing markets, Land subdivision, Impact of externalities on housing values, Property rights | ||
| Jepsen, Lisa | Economic demography, labor economics, and law and economics | ||
| Kanago, Bryce | Macroeconomics and monetary economics especially in the areas of inflation and the business cycle. | ||
| Lukasiewicz, Chris | Data Analysis, Consulting, Problem Solving Techniques. | ||
| McCormick, Ken | Philosophy and economics. Bounded rationality. Club theory. | ||
| Nota, Fungisai | Fiscal Federalism and Multi-agency; Economical Regional Stability; Taxation of Exhaustible Resources | ||
| Surdam, David | Economics of professional sports leagues. Economics of the American Civil War. | ||
| Uyar, Bülent | Housing markets. | Finance |
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| Cox, Arthur T. | Development impact fees; Tax burden of public open space; Housing trends in Iowa; Mortgage financing | ||
| Followill, Richard A. | Investments, Market Efficiency, and Derivatives | ||
| Olsen, Brett C. | Corporate Governance; Boards of Directors; Securities Issuance; Ownership; Young Firms. | ||
| Rappaport, Allen | Credit Union financial and regulatory issues; Securities Investor Protection Corp. Policies; Tracking Financial Scams | ||
| Stokes, Jeff | Credit Risk Measurement and Migration, Mortgage-backed Securities, Securitization. | ||
| Thompson, A. Frank | Managerial Finance, Commercial Banking, Futures and Options, Control Theory, Contingent Claims Valuation, Risk Theory, Actuarial Science | ||
| Zaman, Mir A. | Investments and market microstructures. | Management |
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| Connerley, Mary | Diversity; Recruitment; Leadership | ||
| Cyphert, Dale | Cross-cultural rhetorical theory with respect to variations in decision-making norms across cultures and socio-economic levels | ||
| Jin, Haihao | Supply chain operations, including collaborative decision making; global supply chain design and integration; database integration, security, and data mining | ||
| Kaparthi, Shashidhar | Decision Support Systems, Internet Technologies, Bibliometric Analyses, Neural network models and applications in management. | ||
| Karsten, Rex | Information Systems Pedagogy; Information and Communications Technology Literacy; Computer Self-efficacy; Information Systems Professional - End User Interaction; Training | ||
| Langley, Ronelle | Career development; development of assessments for non-cognitive skills associated with college and workplace performance; work values. | ||
| Lee, Gabe (Younghwa) | Website and Virtual Worlds Usability, Acceptance of Innovative Information Technologies, and Computer Security & Ethics | ||
| Mattingly, James | Organization Culture, Stakeholder Management, Corporate Social Action | ||
| McAdams, Tony | Managerial Accountability. Ethics. Employment Law. | ||
| Mehta, Anju | HR challenges of off shore IT-outsourcing; Work outcomes under continuous change, team characteristics and effectiveness; knowledge flow in organizations; developing an ethical organizational culture | ||
| Mehta, Nikhil | IT enabled knowledge management, strategic IT outsourcing partnerships, and pedagogical issues in IS education. | ||
| Mitra, Atul | Efficacy of various employee compensation systems; Compensation issues associated with international, cross-cultural, outsourcing environments | ||
| Power, Daniel J. | Design and development of computerized decision making and planning aids, especially Decision Support Systems (DSS). | ||
| Rosol, Sarah | Organizational trust. Cross-cultural studies. Burnout. Unemployment. | ||
| Roth, Roberta | Teaching programming via the Web. | ||
| Santana, Adele | Corporate social strategy; Motivations for use of social practices by companies; New organizational structures with a social objective as their mission | ||
| Smith, Gerald (Jerry) F. | Managerial problem solving; decision making; critical thinking; the teaching of thinking; quality and process improvement. | ||
| Spencer, Michael | Knowledge, identification of cost drivers in repetitive systems, production planning and control. | ||
| Wartick, Steven | Corporate Social Performance/Issues Management, Strategic Issues Analysis, and Business-Government Relations | ||
| Wood, Donna | Business ethics, global business citizenship, corporate social responsibility and performance, stakeholder theory. | ||
| Wurtz, M. Susan | Interface between individuals and organizations; Meaning and philosophies of work. | Marketing |
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| Bunker, Matthew | Customer service failure and recovery, consumer powerlessness, consumer grudge-holding, internet marketing, service quality, and customer satisfaction. | ||
| Clayson, Dennis | Measurement, Psychometrics, Potlatch and Consumption | ||
| Corbin, Steven B. | Classroom Assessment Techniques; Quality of Teaching and Learning; Marketing Education; Building a Learning-Centered Marketing Community | ||
| Iyer, Karthik | Supply Chain Capabilities, Interfirm Relationships, Supply Chain IT, Strategic Alliances, Organizational Learning | ||
| Klassen, Mike | Shopping and Comparison Shopping on the Internet, Nutritional Advertising and Marketing for Church Leaders. | ||
| Rajendran, K.N. (Raj) | Issues surrounding product pricing; Consumer price and value perceptions; Perceptions of quality for domestic and foreign products | ||
| Rawwas, Mohammed | Consumer and business ethics; cross-cultural studies; distribution channel analysis | ||
| Schrage, Christine | International management and marketing; Entrepreneurship and Micro-credit operations in underdeveloped countries. | ||
| Wilson, Matthew | Digital video analytics; Marketing automation; Social and mobile marketing. | ||
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