Search Results

open access

Constructing Authenticity in Digital Landscapes: Deion Sanders’s Social Media Presence and Its Impact on Fan Perceptions

Description: Article explores the relationship between social media, personal branding, and perceived authenticity in sports figures, focusing on Deion Sanders’s online presence as head football coach at the University of Colorado. Using qualitative methods, the study examines how Sanders presents authenticity on social media and how audiences perceive it. The findings show that digital charisma plays a key role in shaping his perceived authenticity.
Date: May 14, 2025
Creator: Singer, Mara F. & Jones, Olivia E.
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

Decision support system for waste management: fuzzy group AHP-CoCoSo

Description: Article presents a comprehensive decision‑making framework that integrates Fuzzy‑AHP and Fuzzy‑CoCoSo to optimize site selection for urban waste disposal facilities, using evaluations from ten experts to rigorously assess criteria and alternatives. By synthesizing expert judgments, the study demonstrates how this structured, multi‑criteria approach can guide cities toward more equitable and effective waste management strategies that reflect diverse stakeholder perspectives and complex urban dyn… more
Date: January 31, 2025
Creator: Yazdani, Morteza; Ye, Chenchui; Tarighi Shaayesteh, Mayssam Tarighi & Zaraté, Pascale
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

AI-Enhanced Stock Market Prediction: Evaluating Machine Learning Models for Financial Forecasting in the USA

Description: Article evaluates the effectiveness of several machine learning models in forecasting U.S. stock market trends using historical prices, trading volumes, financial indicators, and market‑relevant news. Article finds that Logistic Regression delivers the highest predictive accuracy, while Random Forest and Gradient Boosting also perform strongly, offering valuable tools for investors seeking data‑driven strategies and improved risk management.
Date: July 25, 2023
Creator: Sizan, Mir Mohtasam Hossain; Das, Bimol Chandra; Shawon, Reza E Rabbi; Rana, MD. Sohel; Montaser, Md Abdullah Al; Chouksey, Anchala et al.
Partner: UNT College of Business

Sequential Timeline Model: Investigating the Impact of Response Timeliness, Strategy, and Breach Type on Post-Breach Market Recovery

Description: This poster presenting a study aimed at understanding how firms can strategically manage the cybersecurity breaches to mitigate financial damage. It was presented at UNT's University Research Day event on October 2, 2025 in Denton, Texas.
Date: October 2, 2025
Creator: Majumder, Arindam & Kim, Dan J.
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

Reenvisioning Family-Supportive Organizations Through a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Perspective: A Review and Research Agenda

Description: Article analyzes how diversity, equity, and inclusion constructs are incorporated into family‑supportive organization research, revealing that although diversity and equality are most frequently examined, key concepts such as intersectionality, equity, inclusion, and belonging are often omitted, misapplied, or weakly conceptualized. Article argues that stronger DEI integration is essential for advancing FSO scholarship by broadening who is recognized as needing family support, addressing power … more
Date: January 24, 2025
Creator: Kossek, Ellen Ernst; Bozorg, Hoda Vaziri; Perrigino, Matthew B.; Lautsch, Brenda A.; Pratt, Benjamin R. & King, Eden B.
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

Crowdfunding: A Theory-Centered Review and Roadmap of the Multidisciplinary Literature

Description: Article synthesizes findings from 268 multidisciplinary studies to examine how crowdfunding research challenges, extends, and enriches theoretical understanding of key management and organizational phenomena. Article identifies ten dominant topic areas across the crowdfunding landscape, highlights how each advances organizational theory, and outlines future research opportunities to guide the next decade of theory‑driven crowdfunding scholarship.
Date: April 24, 2024
Creator: Escudero, Stephanie B.; Anglin, Aaron H.; Allison, Thomas H. & Wolfe, Marcus T.
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

Environmental Implications of Drone-Based Delivery Systems: A Structured Literature Review

Description: Article reviews 59 academic studies examining the environmental implications of drone‑based delivery systems across transportation, logistics, and sustainability, highlighting how this emerging technology intersects with environmental science and operational research. Article synthesizes insights from multidisciplinary journals to outline the ecological benefits, operational challenges, and research gaps surrounding drone logistics, providing a foundation for future work on sustainable integrat… more
Date: March 11, 2025
Creator: Kumar, Abhijeet; Prybutok, Victor R. & Sangana, Vikas Kumar Reddy
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

Theory of AI-driven scheduling (TAIS): a service-oriented scheduling framework by integrating theory of constraints and AI

Description: Article introduces the Theory of AI‑driven Scheduling (TAIS), a new framework that integrates the Theory of Constraints with advanced AI technologies to transform service‑oriented scheduling in dynamic, customer‑focused environments. Article expands the traditional TOC model with continuous monitoring, lifecycle governance, and security layers, enabling predictive, adaptive, and scalable scheduling solutions that address the complexity and rapid change inherent in modern service‑manufacturing o… more
Date: November 2, 2024
Creator: Khakifirooz, Marzieh; Fathi, Michel & Dolgui, Alexandre
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

The big circle (conceptual space) of vulnerability

Description: Article examines the concept of focal vulnerability in trust research, expanding on recent theoretical work to explore how vulnerability shapes trust relationships and outcomes. It highlights the relational, dynamic, and evolving nature of vulnerability, emphasizing the importance of understanding “felt vulnerability” and its fluctuations in predicting trust-related behaviors and interactions.
Date: January 24, 2025
Creator: Schoorman, F. David; Ballinger, Gary A. & Sharma, Kinshuk
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

Bankruptcy Prediction for US Businesses: Leveraging Machine Learning for Financial Stability

Description: Article develops machine learning models using financial statement data to predict bankruptcy risk in U.S. businesses, aiming to improve early detection of financial distress. Results show that advanced algorithms like Random Forest and XGBoost outperform traditional methods, offering valuable insights for risk management and decision-making.
Date: January 6, 2025
Creator: Sizan, Mir Mohtasam Hossain; Chouksey, Anchala; Miah, Mohammed Nazmul Islam; Pant, Laxmi; Ridoy, Mehedi Hasan; AL Sayeed, Abdullah et al.
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

Citizen Developers: The New Accelerators for Digital Transformation

Description: Article explores the growing role of citizen developers—non-IT professionals using low-code/no-code platforms—in addressing business application needs and driving digital transformation. It proposes a conceptual model identifying individual, organizational, and technological factors that influence the effectiveness and productivity of citizen developers.
Date: December 31, 2024
Creator: Muhammad, Shakeel; Prybutok, Victor R. & Sinha, Vikas
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

The GCSE attainment gap: Assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion

Description: Article examines the impact of permanent school exclusion on academic attainment in the UK, highlighting how socioeconomic disadvantage significantly influences outcomes. While excluded pupils show lower GCSE performance, the findings reveal that exclusion primarily intensifies existing disadvantages rather than acting as the sole cause, underscoring the need for targeted policy support.
Date: February 4, 2025
Creator: Hills, Stephen; Walker, Matthew; Guinn, James & Kent, Aubrey
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

Sentiment analysis of social media data: Business insights and consumer behavior trends in the USA

Description: Article analyzes consumer sentiment and behavior in the USA using data from major social media platforms, including X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. By applying machine learning models such as Logistic Regression, Random Forest, and XGBoost, the research identifies real-time trends and provides actionable insights to improve marketing strategies and customer engagement.
Date: January 9, 2025
Creator: Montaser, Md Abdullah Al; Ghosh, Bishnu Padh; Barua, Ayan; Karim, Fazle; Das, Bimol Chandra; Shawon, Reza E Rabbi et al.
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

Emerging Agency in Border Communities During Pandemics

Description: This dissertation uncovers the complex natural and social histories of two Texas border counties, El Paso and Hidalgo, to explain how these counties became highly susceptible to the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. This work argues that humans engaging with natural resources throughout history created a rhetoric of exploitation and social hierarchy along the Texas/Mexico border. Rhetoric from Spanish and Anglo colonists coupled with environmental phenomena across time displaced Latinx/e bodies living… more
Date: December 2024
Creator: Ordeman, William
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

Ready, set, go! Deploying the social listening stoplight activity to teach marketing analytics using qualitative techniques

Description: The authors of this article created the Social Listening Stoplight Activity to teach students how to qualitatively gather marketing analytics insights for actionable recommendations that can be used to adjust social media strategies for increased engagement. This research finds that students exhibit more difficulty with qualitative versus quantitative strategic social media marketing analysis skills, further justifying the need for an activity like this in marketing analytics and social media c… more
Date: March 30, 2024
Creator: Bryant, Morgan M.; Riley, Jen; Turner-Henderson, Tiffanie & Purnell, Dexter
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

Predicting operative time for metabolic and bariatric surgery using machine learning models: a retrospective observational study

Description: This article is aimed to develop machine learning models to predict the operative time for metabolic and bariatric surgery and to compare each model. The authors' findings can be useful in managing the operating room scheduling and in developing software tools to predict the operative times of MBS in clinical settings.
Date: January 25, 2024
Creator: Kang, Dong-Won; Zhou, Shouhao; Niranjan, Suman; Rogers, Ann & Shen, Chan
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Adoption of Patient-Generated Health Data

Description: This article analyzes the incentives and optimal strategies of two healthcare providers, a monopoly platform, and consumers using stylized game-theoretic models and solve for potential equilibria with the aim to examine the conditions under which providers would adopt PGHD and possibly sign on with a platform.
Date: February 8, 2024
Creator: Akçura, M. Tolga; Ozdemir, Zafer D. & Tarakci, Hakan
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

Initial Margin Requirements and Market Efficiency

Description: The authors of this article examine the association between margin requirements and the market’s efficiency in incorporating firm-specific and market-level public news. Furthermore, the authors draw similar conclusions when they analyze the Hou and Moskowitz (2005) price delay measure, as well as indirect measures of leverage constraints over recent years.
Date: August 31, 2024
Creator: Akbas, Ferhat; Ay, Lezgin & Koch, Paul D.
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

Simultaneous Consideration of System Design and Post-Production Support Network Decisions in the Context of a Performance-Based Contract

Description: This research leverages the tenets of performance-based contracting, especially its foundation in transactional cost economics and management control theory, and agency theory, to develop and test an analytical model. This research proposes a novel, analytical model that maximizes the profit margin of a large-scale, complex system simultaneously considering its design and post-production support network.
Date: August 12, 2024
Creator: Zavala, Areceli; Nowicki, David & Ramirez-Marquez, Jose Emmanuel
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

Unfaithful brands: How brand attachment can lead to negative responses to influencer marketing campaigns

Description: This article asserts that the use of influencer marketing campaigns has increased exponentially in recent years as brands have embraced such campaigns in order to capitalize on the relationships that social media influencers (SMIs) have built with their followers as a means of increasing brand awareness and sales. Across five studies, the authors show that social media posts originating from an SMI, as opposed to the brand, lead to lower purchase intentions and willingness to pay for consumers … more
Date: July 17, 2024
Creator: Bentley, Kara; Rajagopal, Priyali & Kulow, Katina
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

Exploring the impact of punishments on employee effort and performance in the workplace: Insights from England's premier league

Description: The authors assert that despite the prevalence of punishment as a method of enforcing organizational policies, management literature provides little guidance on the impact of punishment on individuals' work performance. A sample of 412 professional soccer players in England's Premier League was utilized to collect unobtrusive, longitudinal data to better understand how individuals react to punishments in their workplace.
Date: March 25, 2024
Creator: Gligor, David; Gölgeci, Ismail; Garg, Vipul; Idug, Yavuz; Ekezie, Uchenna; Abadi, Javad Feiz et al.
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

How workplace identities and team management practices affect distributed team auditors' willingness to speak up

Description: The authors investigate upward communication (i.e., raising issues to supervisors), a key communication dimension related to audit quality. The results of the investigation provide insights into why distributed team communication suffers, refine audit voice theory, and provide regulators, practitioners, and researchers with multiple paths to improve audit quality.
Date: September 26, 2023
Creator: Proell, Chad A.; Ricci, Michael A.; Trotman, Ken T. & Zhou, Yuepin
Partner: UNT College of Business
open access

The joint effects of litigation risk and regulation on non-GAAP reporting

Description: This article examines the joint effects of litigation risk and regulation in shaping firms’ financial reporting decisions. The authors employ a plausibly exogenous shock to litigation risk based on a US circuit court ruling to explore how litigation risk influences firms’ non-GAAP earnings disclosures.
Date: November 22, 2023
Creator: Cazier, Richard A.; Christensen, Theodore E.; Merkley, Kenneth J. & Treu, John S.
Partner: UNT College of Business
Back to Top of Screen