Gary W. Rollins College of Business Excellence in Research Awards

Research Award Winners Spring 2026

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Navid Aghakhani

Title: "Social Media Engagement and Consumer Patronage: The Moderating Role of Business Operations and Competition Intensity

Journal: Journal of Business Research

Hyeyoon Jung

Hyeyoon Jung

Title: "Reexamining Consumers’ Foreign Bias Toward Service Providers: How International Conflicts Shape Consumer Healthcare Decision-Making

Journal: Journal of Service Research

Subin Im and Philip Roundy

Subin Im and Philip Roundy

Title: "My dad was a steelworker’ but we’re ‘trying to re-invent the Rust Belt’: Liminal places, lived experiences, and the leaders of transitional entrepreneurial ecosystems

Journal: Journal of Business Venturing Insights

Damitha Bandara

Title: "Reconsidering Compact Measures: A Multiobjective Framework for Ecological Reserve Design

Journal: Computers & Operations Research

Bhussar Manjot Singh

Manjot Singh Bhussar

Title: "Ready, Set, Go: CEOs’ Early Tenure Acquisitions and Post-Deal Performance

Journal: Journal of Business Research

Title: "Target CEOs’ Optimism, Acquisition Pricing and Completion

Journal: Long Range Planning

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Claudia Williamson and Daniel Sánchez-Piñol

Title: "Cultural Fallout? Immigration’s Effect on Individualism

Journal: Southern Economic Journal

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Philip Roundy

Title: "Tough’ Around the Edges: A Network-Based View of Resilience in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Journal: Journal of Business Venturing Insights

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Andrea Neely and Randy Evans

Title: "CSR Role Crafting: Bringing Corporate Social Responsibility Into Individual Work Roles

Journal: Journal of Business Research

Research Award Winners Spring 2025

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Md Rafayet Alam

Title: "Current versus forward-looking oil shocks and the asymmetric response of precious metal returns: evidence from daily and weekly data"

Journal: Applied Economics

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Derron Bishop

Title: "Growth Through Ethical Role Identity Work: The Case of Ethics and Compliance Officers"

Journal: Journal of Business Ethics 

Hyeyoon Jung

Hyeyoon Jung

Title: "Distance and Preference for Full vs. Shared Control: The Moderating Role of Decision-maker Self-construal"

Journal: Journal of International Marketing

 

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Philip T. Roundy

Title: "The entrepreneurial orientation of special district governments: a study of public entrepreneurship in local governments in Tennessee"

Journal: Local Government Studies

Co-Author: John Trussel

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Harry Van Buren

Title: "The Importance of Human Rights for Management and Organization Studies

Journal: British Journal of Management

Title: "Agonistic respect and the ethics of employment relationships

Journal: Journal of Business Ethics 

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Nishani Vincent

Title: "Robotic Process Automation at Top Accountants: An Adaptable Case Designed to Evaluate Processes and Create Bots with Various Levels of Complexity

Journal: Issues in Accounting Education

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