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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Unveiling barriers to the integration of blockchain-based circular economy and Industry 5.0 in manufacturing industries: A strategic prioritization approach

Description: The authors assert that industry 5.0 insists on combining technology with human values to achieve sustainable development goals. Therefore, the integration of CE and Industry 5.0 leads to sustainable synergy in various industries, especially in manufacturing industries. This study identifies a set of barriers in the electric vehicle battery production industry from the financial, technical, supply chain, cultural, and regulatory and processes perspectives through a deep literature review.
Date: July 31, 2024
Creator: Kannan, Devika; Amiri, Alireza Shamekhi; Shaayesteh, Mayssam Tarighi; Nasr, Arash Khalili & Mina, Hassan
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Self-serving attribution and managerial investment decision

Description: This study examines whether managerial overconfidence coupled with self-attribution bias distorts the investment decisions of firms. To this end, the authors investigate the impact of overconfidence on asymmetric investment cash flow sensitivity.
Date: April 2, 2024
Creator: Chung, Chune Young; Choi, Changhwan & Fard, Amirhossein
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Purpose is the new branding: understanding conscientious purpose-driven marketing and its impact on brand outcomes

Description: This study aims to better understand what the key drivers of a successful conscientious purpose-driven branding strategy are and what is its impact on key brand outcomes. The authors' study contributes to a better understanding of how and when conscientious purpose-driven branding can be effective. Its findings further advance prior research, by providing an alternative path anchored on cause-brand authenticity to explain positive effects of conscientious purpose-driven marketing on brand outco… more
Date: June 17, 2024
Creator: Fernandes, Teresa; Guzmán, Francisco & Mota, Mafalda
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Reliability Assessment of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Networks through Headway Distribution and Information Propagation Delay

Description: This paper studies the effect of space-headway distribution on information propagation delay in assessing the reliability of the V2V communication networks. The study of the results show that the effect of headway distribution when the vehicle's transmission range is smaller than the road segmentation is not negligible, especially when cars are very distant.
Date: February 29, 2024
Creator: Khakifirooz, Marzieh; Fathi, Michel & Du, Lili
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Community markets and entrepreneurship: A primer

Description: In this articles the authors highlight farmer’s markets, festivals, art walks, night markets, and other community-based entrepreneurial gatherings. They further present a graphic depiction of the culturally vibrant community of Denton, Texas and offer future research ideas surrounding emerging community events and the entrepreneurs that contribute to these phenomena worldwide.
Date: February 21, 2024
Creator: Short, Jeremy C.; Chandler, Jeffrey A. & Wolfe, Marcus
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Explainable artificial intelligence and agile decision-making in supply chain cyber resilience

Description: This paper proposes a research model to address how explainable artificial intelligence can impact decision-making processes. Using an experimental design, empirical data is collected to test the research model. This paper is one of the pioneer papers providing empirical evidence about the impact of explainable artificial intelligence on supply chain decision-making processes. This authors propose a serial mediation path, which includes transparency and agile decision-making.
Date: March 14, 2024
Creator: Sadeghi R., Kiarash; Ojha, Divesh; Kaur, Puneet; Mahto, Raj V. & Dhir, Amandeep
Partner: UNT College of Business

The Johari Window: A Strategic Tool For Managing Work-Life Balance In Modern Workspaces

Description: This poster explores how the Johari window framework can be applied to improve work-life balance by addressing the challenges posed by hybrid and remote work environments, providing insights on managing work habits and personal boundaries, and utilizing survey data to understand the impact of different work models on employee well-being. It was presented at the UNT Research Day on October 4, 2024 in Denton, Texas.
Date: October 4, 2024
Creator: Jadav, Arpana Daksha
Partner: UNT College of Business
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When expectation fails and motivation prevails: the mediating role of awareness in bridging the expectancy-capability gap in mobile identity protection

Description: Article describes how identity theft poses a significant threat to mobile users, yet mobile identity protection is often overlooked in cybersecurity literature. This study adopts a mixed-methods approach and draws on expectancy-value theory to address these gaps and explore the impact of expectations, capabilities, motivational values, technical measures, and awareness on individuals' intentions to achieve mobile identity protection.
Date: September 19, 2023
Creator: Alhelaly, Yasser; Dhillon, Gurpreet & Oliveira, Tiago
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Error and optimism bias regularization

Description: Article describes how in Machine Learning, prediction quality is usually measured using different techniques and evaluation methods. This paper will introduce a simple regularization term to manage the number of over-predicted/under-predicted instances in a regression model.
Date: January 28, 2023
Creator: Sohaee, Nassim
Partner: UNT College of Business
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