Fall 2008 Newsletter

Fall quarter is now well under way and off to a good start. As Dean Fuller mentioned at our Fall Retreat, the College enrollments are up for the second consecutive year. We are planning for a budget reduction in the next biennial budget (2009-10, 2001-11). Earlier this month Provost Mason and his staff met with faculty and staff to discuss and seek comments about ways the university can meet the requested 5% budget reduction. If you have ideas or suggestions concerning this issue, please pass them along to Dean Fuller.

The Accounting and Information Systems department has placed ads for the assistant professor of accounting position and has begun to receive applications. The search committee for the E. C. Daniels and Entrepreneurship professorships has been finalized and will be working to complete the recruitment bulletins and other aspects of these positions so that recruiting can begin. If you know of individuals who would be interested and are qualified for any of these three positions, please contact them and urge them to apply. Full job descriptions are and will be posted on the College and Academic Personnel’s Web site.

The annual fall Chili Cook Off sponsored by the faculty, staff, and students of the Urban and Regional Planning unit, will take place on Friday, November 7, 6 pm, on the Cheney Campus in Monroe Hall. This annual event has great chili as well as other delicious dishes. Enter the cook off by contacting Rose Morgan and come and enjoy this fun evening with your colleagues and students.

EWU Career Services has been busy this fall with on-campus interviews by accounting firms and other recruiters for our students. They also have a Weekly Workshops Series for students that cover interviews, resumes, meetings with companies, and other helpful information. Career Services will be holding a CBPA Career and Internship Fair on Wednesday, November 5, 4-7 pm in the Phase 1 lobby for students. They currently have 30 companies who will be here to meet with students. On Friday, Nov. 14, from 12-2 pm at the Glover Mansion, Dr. Pam Weigand will be hosting the Fall Etiquette Luncheon. Students can participate in this educational luncheon for $15 by contacting Career Services. Check out their web site at www.ewu.edu/careerservices for more details on these and other events.

Banner Payroll is scheduled to go “live” December 18, 2008. All faculty and staff are requested to go to EagleNet to ensure the information you have in the Payroll system is accurate. Click on the “employee” link and follow the login instructions. Verify your personal information; review information and make necessary changes. For more information, see the yellow slip that is included with your pay stub.

There will be three Banner Town Hall Meetings to help answer questions about how you will be getting information on your bi-monthly paycheck, W-2’s and other information relative to Payroll. Dates, times and locations of the meetings are:

Oct. 30: 2:30-4:30 p.m. SCLS 115, Riverpoint (Phase 1)

Faculty News

David Terpstra was promoted to full professor effective September 2008. Congratulations, Dave!

The Washington State Business Education Association awarded Pam Weigand the Distinguished Service award at their October conference. It is the highest award the association gives to educators. Pam also received for the third year in a row, the Western Business and Information Technology Educators, Newsletter Recognition Award “For high standard of excellence in publications,” given at the 2008 regional conference in Arizona. Congratulations, Pam!

Harm-Jan Steenhuis and his co-author, Erik deBruijn, had two presentations at the IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology in Bangkok, Thailand in September. The articles were also published in the proceedings and were titled, “Innovation and Technology Based Economic Development: Are there Short-cuts?” and “Achieving Sustainability Three Dimensionally.”

Students in Damon Aiken’s marketing classes performed several different studies for the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture spring quarter including on-site customer satisfaction, market and campus surveys.

“Data Transparency in Collaborative Commerce,” authored by Duanning Zhou, Ta-Tao Chuang and Kazuo Nakatani was published and presented at the China Summer Workshop on Information Management this past June.

In August, Kodo Yokozawa, Harm-Jan Steenhuis, and Erik deBruijn had their article, “Current Issues for Internationalization of Japanese Manufacturing Companies,” presented and pubished in the conference proceedings at the Third World Conference on Production and Operations Management, in Tokyo, Japan.

“Dimensions of Internet Communications Trust,” authored by Damon Aiken, Robert Mackoy, Ben Shaw-Ching Liu, Richard Fetter, and Gregory Osland, was published in the Journal of Internet Commerce, in Vol. 6, #4 2007 edition.

Bill Kelley received notice that his study, “National Scenic Byways: Diversity Contributes to Success,” was published in the monograph, Energy and Environmental Concerns 2004 of the Transportation Research Record #1880, Energy and Environmental Concerns.

The Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems, published by IGI Global in June 2008 has included a chapter by Mary Ann Keogh Hoss and Harm-Jan Steenhuis, titled “A Model for the Discussion of Medical Tourism.”

At the Research Symposium on Marketing and Entrepreneurship held in June, “Marketing at the Entrepreneurship Interface: Historical Perspective Derived from the Early Years of the First US Non-Defense Based Mass Production Industry: Clock Manufacturing 1807-1850,” was presented and published in the conference proceedings. The article was co-authored by Vince Pascal, Brian Grinder, and Bob Schwartz. They also presented and had published in the proceedings at the 2008 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference their article, “Entrepreneurial Lessons from the Early American Clock Industry (1807-1850).”

Harm-Jan Steenhuis was a co-author with Abouazoum Alafi and Erik deBruijn for their article, “Changes in Business Structures: Challenges for Management of Libyan Industry,” which was presented and published in the proceedings of the June 2008 International Management Development Research Yearbook, on Shared Responsibilities: Management Challenges in an Environment of Increasing Global Concerns.

Harm-Jan, Brian Grinder, and Erik deBruijn also co-authored “Tracking of Learning with Clickers in an Operations Course,” which was published at the Tradition and Innovation in Operations Management (June 2008) in the Book of Abstracts.

Harm-Jan, Brian and Erik also had their paper, “The Use(lessness) of Online Quizzes, Experiences in an Operations Management Course,” presented at the May 2008 Production and operations Management Society Conference.

“An Investigation of the Impact of Degree of IFRS Implementation on the Comparative Accuracy and Bias of Equity Securities Analysists Asian Pacific Rim Firms Earnings Forecasts,” authored by Arsen Djatej, Grace Gao, Robert Sarikas, and David Senteney, was published in the Summer 2008 journal, The Business Review, Cambridge.

Arsen, and co-authors Joe Dowd, Kati Pajunen, and Robert Sarikas, had their paper, “The Internationalization of Finnish and Russian Financial Accounting: 1989 to Present” accepted for the July 2008 12th World Congress of Accounting Historians.

Sandra Christensen presented, “Product Liability Law Reform: What Does Justice Require,” at the at the May 2008 Hawaii International Conference on Business.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation published Vince Pascal and Daniel Stewart’s article, “The Effects of Location and Economic Cluster Development on Native American Entrepreneurship,” in its Vol. 9, No. 2, 2008 edition.

Marty Johnston received a mini-grant of $1,250 from the Eastern Washington University Foundation to cover her study on Long-Term Care Organizations this past spring.

In April 2008, Bruce Teague had two articles that were published in the Business Research Yearbook that he presented at the 20th Annual Conference of the International Academy of Business Disciplines. Bruce was sole author on “Work Stress from Unexpected Sources: The Novelty of the Mundane,” and a co-author with, George Watson, on “The Importance of Moral Hypocrisy as an Organizational Research.”

Bruce and Damon had a paper accepted at the Society of Business, Industry, and Economics entitled, “Exploring the Link Between Internal Branding and Employee Satisfaction and Loyalty,” which was presented in Florida, April 2008.

Damon’s paper, “Old School Values in a New School Consumption Environment: A Study of the Arena Football League,” was accepted at the Academy of Marketing Science conference which was held in Vancouver, May 2008. His co-authors were Rich Campbell and Ajay Sukhdial.

Articles and presentations that were conducted in 2007 but were not listed in the newsletters for 2007-08 included the following:

Jonathan Deacon, Vince Pascal, and Bob Schwartz, “Entrepreneurs and Marketing: A New Look at Linguistic Interpretations,” The Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 9, 2007.

Harm-Jan Steenhuis and Erik DeBruijn, “Exploring the Impact of National Culture on the Outcome of International Technology Transfer Projects,” International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, Vol. 6, Nos. 2/3/4, 2007.

Harm-Jan Steenhuis, Erik deBruijn, and Hans Heerkens, “Technology Transfer and Catch-up: lessons from the Commercial Aircraft Industry,” International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, Vol. 6, Nos. 2/3/4, 2007.

As a reminder, please make sure the Dean’s Office has copies of your papers and presentations and enter them into Sedona. When it comes time to do these newsletters, it is so helpful to have copies to let your colleagues know about your accomplishments and achievements. This information is also forwarded to the President and Provost so that they are aware of the activities of our College faculty.

Have a great rest of the Fall term!

Dean’s Office
College of Business & Public Administration