Allied Academies News
Number 19 - Fall 2006
Introduction | Internet Conference
| Reno
Conference
| Jacksonville Conference
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Journal News
| New Orleans Awards | Conference
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Introduction
The Fall Conference in Reno turned out
to be a great conference! We were all delighted by how nice the
Atlantis Hotel facilities and staff were. We even had a very good
turn out despite our fears of it being a very small conference.
The city of Reno is so nice and clean compared to Las Vegas. We
flew into Sacramento, CA and rented a car so we could drive over
Donner's Pass and recreate a trip we had taken ten years earlier.
The scenery was beautiful and we would have stopped at the historic
towns along the way to visit had we had more time to do so. Maybe
it's just because it reminds me of home, but in my humble opinion, Reno
is a beatiful town nestled in some beautiful mountains. The only
drawback it has is that direct flights in are not as easy to come by as
they are with a big city like Las Vegas. However, I highly
recommend flying into Sacramento and taking a leisurely drive over the
mountain so that you can really stop and appreciate the scenery.
You will also begin to appreciate how good we have it today compared to
when roads and railroads were cut in with men with picks and manual
labor was one of the few ways to make a living. After all, what
good is a business trip if you don't get to enjoy the scenery.
On another note, we are getting
ready to start Phase Two
of our multi phase web site project. We hope to be taking the
level of automation of our Journal submission process to a whole new
level never dreamed of before. This will be quite an endeavor and
the system designer is still trying to map out how much time it will
take and the costs involved. In the meantime, the temporary
Direct Submission form has quit working due to something I did, so just
email me your direct journal submissions and I will take care of them
for you. Just be sure the author contact information is on the
cover page of the paper and you indicate which Journal it's for.
There will
likely be some other unexpected bumps along the way due to the scale of
this project, so
please bear with us. The end result will be faster turnaround
times for review, no lost papers, and a more efficient way of tracking
papers through to publication.
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Spring 2007 International
Conference in Jacksonville
The Crowne Plaza Jacksonville
Riverfront was our second choice if New Orleans
did not recover,
so we have chosen them to be our location for the Spring
2007 International Conference. It is currently slated for
April 11-14,
2007. The hotel has been recently remodeled and converted into a
Crowne Plaza. It now offers a fitness center, gift shop, business
center, outdoor riverside pool,
two bars and two restaurants, including Ruth's Chris Steak House.
They have also offered us a guest room rate of $105
per night. It looks like a very nice hotel for a very reasonable
rate so we hope to see you all there as well. Be sure to tell them you are with Allied
Academies when you book. For reservations call
877-227-6963.
Summer
International Internet Conference
Our Summer
2007 International Internet Conference (July 16-31) has
been growing in
popularity among our members
and gives participants the ability to submit papers just as they would
for a normal conference without having to go anywhere. As many of
you know, submitting a paper for award consideration at one of our
conferences is a very effective way to get your paper considered for
Journal publication very quickly. Participation is as easy as
reading through the online proceedings, choosing those papers that
interest you, then sharing comments on the message board regarding
things you would like to share about your paper or other
peoples'. We will also post Power Point presentations to our web
site if you wish. We will be working on some added features to
increase the level of interactivity so stay tuned for more on that.
Fall 2007 International
Conference in ???
We are not sure
where the conference will be in October of 2007. However, we will
be striving for October 10-13 for those of you who like to plan way in
advance. We have been looking into options in Las Vegas and in
Reno (as well as a few other cities in the mid-west. If you have
a preference, feel free to share. I was hoping to put together a
survey to send out, but have been too swamped with emails to get that
done as of yet. We have several criteria involved and the prices
we can get affect our break even point to a great extent.
Journal
News
In addition to the new system being
implemented to speed up the processing of Journal submissions, we are
also planning on rolling out an improvement that should bring our
Journals some more exposure. We have not yet began pushing
indexing or library subscriptions because we were just not ready for
the increase in traffic and demand that might bring about. With
this new system, we will be able to post all of our Journals online,
password protect them for member/subscriber only access, and begin
pushing the subscriptions. I already have a stack of interested
libraries and subscriptioni agencies, but we have to make sure the web
site is ready before we do this. Make sure you have filled out a User
Registration Form so that we can keep you informed as this
project develops. We think it will be to the benefit of everyone
involved with our organization.
Allied
Academies Awards
Creative and
Innovative Teaching Awards
The Academy of Educational Leadership
sponsors special Awards
to recognize
innovative and creative teachers and educational
programs. To be eligible for
consideration, an individual must be nominated by a member of the
Allied Academies and undergo evaluation by the Teaching Awards
Committee. The following individuals have met the criteria and
have
been judged by the Committee to be worthy of the designation,
Distinguished Teachers. We extend to them our sincere
congratulations.
Donald English, Texas A&M
University-Commerce
Harriet Stephenson, Seattle University
Robert Webster, Ouachita Baptist University
Creative and
Innovative Education Awards
The Academy of Educational Leadership
sponsors special Awards
to recognize
innovative and creative teachers and educational
programs. The criteria for recognition include the on going
delivery of outstanding instruction and education, and, the
practice of innovative and creative education. Any academic unit
of a college or university is eligible for consideration, but a
unit may not win the award more than once. The following units
have met the criteria and have been judged by the Committee to be
worthy of the Distinguished Education Award. We extend our
sincere congratulations to:
The Akron University Barker
Center for Economic Education
Fred M. Carr, University of Akron
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
Elena Allison , Defense Language Institute
Andrei Aleinikov, Defense Language Institute
Fellow Award
These individuals have been supporters
of the Allied Academies for many years. They have encouraged
attendance at the conferences, worked as Referees and Editors, and have
taken on extra duties on our behalf and. They have been good
friends and colleagues, and are clearly worthy of Fellow status.
Pamela Johnson, California State
University Chico
Julie Indvik, California State University Chico
Claudia Rawlins, California State University Chico
The Larry R. Watts
Distinguished Service Award
Dr. Larry R. Watts extended extraordinary
service to the Allied Academies throughout the establishment and growth
of the organization and the development of its various Academies and
Journals. This award, named in his honor, is bestowed only upon
Academy Fellows who make outstanding contributions to the organization
above and beyond the normal call of duty.
For her unwavering support, involvement with the Journal of the
International Academy for Case Studies, and constant enthusiasm and
lasting friendship, we thank...
Inge
Nickerson, Barry University
Distinguished Research
Awards
We would like to congratulate the
Distinguished Research Award Winners. The competition was extremely
rigorous and intense. After extensive, double blind, peer review, the
journal referees distinguished research status to 25% of the
manuscripts. The authors of the following works will receive engraved
plaques, and the manuscripts will be published in a future issue of the
appropriate journal.
Academy of Accounting and Financial
Studies
Do Firms Manage Their Earnings Prior to Filing for
Bankruptcy?
Robert Leach, University of South Carolina-Aiken
Paul Newsom, Valparaiso University
The Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley on Earnings Forecasts
Ronald A. Stunda, Birmingham-Southern College
Managing Pension Expense for Managed Earnings: Why FASB is Rethinking
Pension Standards
Paula Diane Parker, University of South Alabama
Martha Lair Sale, Sam Houston State University
The Change in the Behavior of Odd-Lot Short Sellers
Barry R. Marks, University of Houston-Clear Lake
Joseph P. McCormack, University of Houston-Clear Lake
Academy of Commercial Banking and Finance
Inside Versus Outside Successions in the Banking
Industry
Thomas G. W. Williams, Fayetteville State University
M. Monica Her, California State University, Northridge
Patrick J. Larkin, Fayetteville State University
Academy of Economics and Economic Education
Internationalization of the Economics Major: A
“How To” with Case Studies
Nancy J. Burnett, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Ralph O. Gunderson, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
M. Ryan Haley, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
M. Kevin McGee, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Economic Action in Social Collectivities
Claus Nygaard, Copenhagen Business School
Academy of Educational Leadership
Contextual Applications-Based Learning or Traditional Knowledge-Based
Learning:
A Case for Higher Order Learning and Transfer
Patricia Murdock Miller, Rockhurst University
Leadership: Does Culture Matter?
Comparative Practices Between Argentina and the United States of America
Carlos Aimar, Centro Universitario San Isidro
Stanley Stough, Southeast Missouri State University
Integrating ICT into Higher Education:
A Study of Onsite vs Online Students’ Perceptions
Gérard Fillion, University of Moncton
Moez Limayem, University of Lausanne
Thérèse Laferrière, Laval University
Robert Mantha, Laval University
E-Learning: Attitudes and Behaviors of End-Users
Patricia C. Borstorff, Jacksonville State University
Keith Lowe, Jacksonville State University
Course Embedded Assessment and Assurance of Learning:
Examples in Business Disciplines
Cheryl McConnell, Rockhurst University
Gail Hoover, Rockhurst University
Gerald Miller, Rockhurst University
Academy of Entrepreneurship
“Who is an Entrepreneur?” Is it Still the
Wrong Question?
Brian McKenzie, California State University- East Bay
Entrepreneurial Profiling: A Decision Policy Analysis of the Influence
of
Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy on Entrepreneurial Intent
Jeff Brice, Jr., Texas Southern University
Sex Differences in Business Failure Rates,
Sherry Robinson, Penn State University
Academy of Health Care Management
Tobacco: The Trigger to Other High Risk Health
Behaviors
Marc Marchese, King’s College
Bernard Healey, King’s College
Academy of Entrepreneurship Education
Establishing a Campus-Wide Entrepreneurial Program in Five Years: A
Case Study
Kirk Heriot, Columbus State University
Leo Simpson, Western Kentucky University
Plagiarism and Business Plans: A Growing Challenge for Entrepreneurship
Education?
Robert J. Lahm, Jr., Middle Tennessee State University
Academy of Information and Management Sciences
The Impact of Fairness on User’s Satisfaction with the IS Department
Obyung Kwun, Emporia State University
Khaled Alshare, Emporia State University
Modeling the Academic Publication Pipeline
Steven E. Moss, Georgia Southern University
Xiaolong Zhang, Georgia Southern University
Mike Barth, Georgia Southern University
Academy of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues
Government Regulation of Accountants: The PCAOB
Enforcement Process
Jerry Wegman, University of Idaho
Preventing Employee Identity Fraud: Policy and Practice Issues for
Employers
Gerald E. Calvasina, Southern Utah University
Richard V. Calvasina, University of West Florida
Eugene J. Calvasina, Southern University
Ethics of U.S. Government Action and Inaction: Is Louisiana Being
Treated
Like a Colony of the United States? John Lambert, University of
Southern Mississippi
Academy of Marketing Studies
Spouse’s Joint Decision-Making: Is Level of Initial
Disagreement Important?
Cheryl B. Ward, Middle Tennessee State University
Do Not Call Lists: A Cause for Telemarketing Extinction or Evolution?
Connie R. Bateman, University of North Dakota
JoAnn Schmidt, University of North Dakota
Academy of Organizational Culture, Conflict and Communications
Discrimination: Women in Business
Dana Bible, Sam Houston State University
Kathy L. Hill, Sam Houston State University
Academy of Strategic E-Commerce
E-Commerce Disruptive Innovations in Charity and
Non-Profit Fund Raising
Chung-Shing Lee, Pacific Lutheran University
Eli Berniker, Pacific Lutheran University
Glenn Van Wyhe, Pacific Lutheran University
Academy of Strategic Management
Strategic Orientation, Organizational Structure, and
the Associated
Effects on Performance in Industrial Firms
Larry P. Pleshko, Kuwait University
Inge Nickerson, Barry University
Academy of Studies in International Business
An Examination of Structural Change and Nonlinear
Dynamics in Emerging Equity Markets
Vivek K. Pandey, The University of Texas at Tyler
International Academy for Case Studies
Tom Brown, Inc: Surviving in the Oil and Gas Industry
William T. Jackson, Dalton State College
Mary Jo Jackson, Dalton State College
Larry A. Johnson, Dalton State College
Hedging Foreign Currency Transaction Exposure
Benjamin L. Dow III, Southeast Missouri State University
David Kunz, Southeast Missouri State University
The Effect of Changes in Accounting for Defined Benefit Pensions and
Other Post-Retirement Benefit Plans on Companies’ Financial Statements
and Stakeholders
Marianne L. James, California State University-Los Angeles
Strayer Education, Incorporated: An Equity Valuation
James Stotler, North Carolina Central University
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