November 25, 2024

EagleEye

A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff

UMW Co-Sponsors Yearlong Business Seminar Series

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The University of Mary Washington’s Center for Economic Development and College of Business are collaborating with the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce to present a yearlong seminar series on popular business topics. The Business 101 Seminar Series began on Friday, Jan. 18 with Accounting 101, presented by Gladys Gomez, lecturer of accounting in UMW’s College of Business. The series, taught by UMW faculty members, will continue on the third Friday of each month through the end of the year, focused on topics including marketing, customer service, social media, human resources, technology, finance and legal issues. The first six sessions will take place at the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber Office and the final six sessions will take place at UMW’s Small Business Development Center located in Eagle Village, all from 8 to 10 a.m. Registration for each session, limited to 25 participants, is $12, or $100 for the full series of 12 lectures. For a full schedule or to register, visit http://fredericksburgregionalchamber.chambermaster.com/Events/details/business-101-series-2430 or call (540) 373-9400.

College of Business Faculty to Present in Ireland

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Lou Martinette

Mukesh Srivastava and Lou Martinette’s co-authored paper entitled “Building a Sustainable Competitive Advantage” has been accepted for presentation at the11th World Congress of the International Federation of Scholarly Association of Management (IFSAM) 2012 to be held at the University of Limerick from June 26 to 29.

This research study focuses on the cross-industrial best practices in the context of the resource based competitive advantage model of the firm. It identifies managerial levers, tools and systems which all collectively combine to influence a firm’s ability to sustain its core competences and therefore its competitive advantage. Specifically, contemporary techniques are discussed that provide credible, accountable leadership, high performance recruitment, & employee rewards, retention of creative people, building a more engaged workforce, improved strategy definition and more balanced execution tools.

Mukesh Srivastava

Mukesh Srivastava Won Award at International Conference

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Mukesh Srivastava, associate professor of accounting and management information systems,  presented a blind reviewed co-authored paper on “Co-creation in Vendor-Customer Matrix Organizations: A Boundary Theory Approach” at the sixth Asian Business Research Conference held in Bangkok, Thailand from April 8 through 10. He won Best Paper Award at the international conference. He also was awarded a fellowship by the World Academy of Social Science on Tuesday, April 10.

College of Business Faculty Present at Research Colloquium

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Seven College of Business faculty members will present their work at the fourth faculty research colloquium on Friday, April 27. The presentations will take place in the Stafford Campus North Building from 1 to 3 p.m.

John St. Clair and Lou Martinette will present “Change Management for Higher Education Learning Management Systems Transitions,” Christopher Garcia will present “Robust Optimization Models for Volunteer Scheduling” and Bob Greene and Margaret Mi will present “A Systems Model for Teaching Human Resource (People) Management.”

Also, Mukesh Srivastava and Lou Martinette will present “Building a Sustainable Competitive Advantage” and Gladys Gomez will present “WISE Fraud Case.”

For presentation abstracts and information about the colloquium, read the full program.

Faleh Alshameri Attends IMF Meeting

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Faleh Jassem Alshameri, professor of computer and information systems, has been accredited to attend the 2012 Spring Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, which will be held in Washington D.C. from Friday, April 20 through Sunday, April 22. He also will participate in the Civil Society Policy Forum that will be held during the week of the meetings.

Faleh Alshameri Granted Patent

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On Tuesday, March 27, Faleh Jassem Alshameri, professor of computer and information systems, was granted a patent for “Automated Generation of Metadata for Mining Image and Text Data” from the U.S. Patent Trademark Office.

The patent, first filed in March 2008, is a tangible, computer-readable medium that is encoded with instructions for automatically generating metadata. It is an automated metadata system using digital objects to reduce the volume of the dataset and allowing users to perform a search easier and quicker.

Debra Hockenberry to Present Research in England and France

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Debra Hockenberry, visiting instructor of management and marketing, will present “The Ontological Phenomenon of the Unseen and the Unheard that Predicts the Propensity of Futuring™ within Creative Deviance, Intrapreneurship and Entrepreneurship” at the 21st Annual Conference of SC’MOI (The Standing Conference on Management and Organizational Inquiry) from Thursday, April 12 through Saturday, April 14.

Also, she will present “A Co-Posited Approach to Time, Space and Matter within Intrapreneurship” at the fourth International Conference of the Academy of Management and ISEOR Research Center on Organization Development and Change in Lyon, France in June.

In August, Hockenberry will present “Mother, Must I Start My Own Business? A Qualitative Socio-Economic View of Single Mothers in the United States” at the 2012 Ethnography Symposium at the University of Liverpool’s Management School in Liverpool, England.

Janet Cropp is Proposal Reader for Upcoming Conference

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Janet Cropp, assistant dean of advising services for the College of Business, is serving as a proposal reader for the Annual Conference for the Adult Learners Commission of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) to be held in Nashville, Tenn., in October 2012.

She attended the semi-annual meeting of the Association of Virginia Individualized Studies Administrators (AVISA) at the University of Virginia on Friday, March 9.

Six College of Business Faculty Presented at Conference

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Six University of Mary Washington faculty members in the College of Business presented papers at the 2012 International Conference on Global Management Studies on Monday, March 5 and Tuesday, March 6 in Cambridge, Mass. The conference, held at the Harvard Faculty Club, was organized by the Association of Global Management Studies.

Faleh Alshameri, visiting assistant professor of accounting and management information systems, and Debra Hockenberry, visiting instructor of management, presented “The Map is Not the Territory: The Missing Patient in the Electronic Medical Record.” Raul Chavez-Negrete, chair of management and marketing and associate professor of leadership, presented “Leading Multinational Teams in Global Projects: A Total Quality Management (TQM) Perspective Using Quality Circles and Internal Audits.”

Wei Chen, assistant professor of management and marketing, presented “Differences in Future Time Orientation and Team Performance.” Louis Martinette, associate professor of leadership, and Mukesh Srivastava, associate dean of the College of Business and associate professor of accounting and information systems, presented “Instrument Development: Perceived Customer Value.”

Of the 72 papers submitted, 26 from nine countries – Austria, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Pakistan, Taiwan, Tunisia and the U.S. – were accepted for presentation.

Association of Global Management Studies (AGMS) promotes research and advances the knowledge of global management educators, researchers and practitioners. Founded in 2009 by Srivastava, it publishes two journals, the “International Journal of Global Management Studies” and the “International Journal of Global Management Studies Professional.”

For more information about the conference and the Association of Global Management Studies, visit http://www.association-gms.org.

Five Faculty Presented at Conference

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Five UMW faculty members presented papers at the 2011 International Conference on Global Management Studies held Feb. 28 and March 1 in Las Vegas. The conference was organized by the Association of Global Management Studies and co-sponsored by the UMW College of Business.

Mukesh Srivastava, associate dean of the College of Business (COB) and associate professor, chaired the conference and presented the paper “Co-Creation Methodologies in a Matrix Organization: A Hermeneutic Approach.”

Faleh Alshameri, visiting assistant professor in the COB, presented his paper “Automated Metadata for Image Mining.”

Louis Martinette, associate professor in the COB, presented his co-authored paper “The Relationship Between Learning Orientation and Business Performance and the Moderating Effect of Competitive Advantage in Service Organizations.”

John St.Clair, director of distance and blended learning, presented his paper “Student Interest in Online Courses at a Liberal Arts University.”

Xiaofeng Zhao, assistant professor in the COB, presented his paper “A Queuing Theory Based Model to Estimate the Variability of Waiting Time in Supply Chain Operations.”

Of the 67 papers submitted, 22 from seven countries—Australia, Canada, China, Iran, New Zealand, Singapore and the U.S.—were accepted for presentation. Find more information about the conference and the Association of Global Management Studies (AGMS) at www.association-gms.org.

The AGMS promotes research and advances the knowledge of global management educators, researchers and practitioners. Founded in 2009 by Srivastava, it publishes the “International Journal of Global Management Studies” and the “International Journal of Global Management Studies Professional.” Both journals are listed in Cabell’s Directories of Publishing Opportunities and are available online via EBSCO’s Business Source Complete database.

To enhance global outreach, development of a regional AGMS chapter is underway in China. The chapter will be led jointly by a Chinese university and a member of the College of Business.

The 3rd international conference of the AGMS will be held in 2012 at the Harvard Faculty Club, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  The strategic direction for the conference will be “A Conference of Choice and Quality” for academics and practitioner scholars globally.