Mendoza faculty members have continued to publish research at a robust rate. Following are mentions of recent papers either published or accepted at some of the top academic journals:
- Brad Badertscher, Accountancy Professor
"Private versus public corporate ownership: Implications for future changes in profitability"
Journal of Management Accounting Research (accepted)
Managers have long debated the implications of public and private corporate ownership; however, little empirical research has provided insight into the issue. Among their findings, Brad and his co-authors discovered robust evidence that public firms are associated with significantly lower future changes in operating profitability compared to private firms matched on current profitability, size, growth and industry. The results provide insight for managers and investors into the differential future changes in profitability of public versus private firms and into the factors that drive the differential profitability.
- Emily Garbinsky, Marketing Assistant Professor
"Love, Lies, and Money: Financial Infidelity in Romantic Relationships"
Journal of Consumer Research (accepted)
This article introduces the construct of financial infidelity, defined as “engaging in any financial behavior expected to be disapproved of by one’s romantic partner and intentionally failing to disclose the behavior.” Emily and her co-authors develop and validate the Financial Infidelity Scale (FI-Scale) to measure individual variation in consumers’ proneness to financial infidelity. The work is the first to introduce, define and measure financial infidelity reliably and succinctly and examine its antecedents and consequences.
- Dean Shepherd, Management & Organization, Ray and Milann Siegfried Professor of Entrepreneurship
"Violence against women and new venture initiation with microcredit: Self-efficacy, fear of failure, and disaster experiences"
Journal of Business Venturing
Using primary data from rural Bangladesh in collaboration with a microfinance institution that provided small collateral-free loans to a group of married women, Dean and his co-authors found that women who experienced physical or sexual violence by their husband before receiving a loan are less likely to initiate a new business with their loan than those who did not experience such violence. The adverse impact of domestic violence is more detrimental for women who recently experienced another potentially traumatic event — an environmental disaster — than for those without such an experience.
- Daewon Sun, ITAO Professor
"Incentive‐Compatible in Dominant Strategies Mechanism Design for an Assembler under Asymmetric Information"
Production and Operations Management
An assembly system involves assembling various components sourced from multiple suppliers into a final product. Often, however, the assembler lacks complete information regarding the marginal cost of each supplier, which subsequently poses a challenge in designing contract mechanisms. In this study, Daewon and his co-authors proposed a contracting mechanism that can significantly outperform an alternative mechanism that was previously presented in the literature, especially when the uncertainty regarding customer demand is significant.
My thanks to all of the faculty members who contribute in important ways to a greater collective understanding of business and society through their research.
Also, as an early Christmas gift, copies of the book, "What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence," have been made available to faculty and staff members. You can pick up a copy in the Faculty Support Office before Friday (Dec. 13).
In Notre Dame,
Martijn