Faculty News

Economics and Finance

Reid Cummings was featured recently in a USA News article on 8 Ways to Avoid Holiday Financial Stress (https://www.southalabama.edu/departments/publicrelations/pressreleases/112216debt.html). The article was also published in the Mobile Press Register and AL.com. 

Khandokar Istiak and co-author Apostolos Serletis have a paper titled "Monetary Policy and Leverage Shocks," forthcoming in the December 2016 issue of the International Journal of Finance and Economics.

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley has reappointed Dr. Reid Cummings to a second 5-year term as a Commissioner of the Alabama Real Estate Commission representing Alabama’s 1st Congressional District. The Commission serves the public through the licensing and regulating of real estate licensees, and works to ensure excellence in the real estate profession by providing excellence in stewardship, service, innovation, and integrity.

Marketing and Quantitative Methods

Matt Howard and co-authors: Gui, F., Benfield, M.R., Rose, J.R., Millard, L.A., Louis, E.J., Lizza, B.D. have a paper accepted to present at the 32nd annual conference for the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Orlando, in April, 2017. The title of their paper is “Creation of Training Self-Efficacy Scales and Analysis of the Construct.” 

Matt Howard, and co-authors: Lizza, B.C., Louis, E.J., Benfield, M.R., Gui, F., Millard, L.A., Rose, J.C. have a paper accepted to present at the 32nd annual conference for the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Orlando, in April, 2017. The title of their paper is “Creating three-dimensional task-technology fit scales.” 

Management 

Teresa Weldy and David Turnipseed presented a paper titled, “Factors Important for Transfer of Training: Differences Across Organizational Levels” at the Academy of Business Research in San Antonia Texas in November.

Doctoral Students to Present at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

Josh Cogswell and faculty advisor, Matt Howard will present at the April 2017 32nd annual conference for the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Orlando, FL. The paper presented is titled “Mediation of psychological capital between social courage and work outcomes.” 

Chad Marshall and faculty advisor, Matt Howard will present at the April 2017 32nd annual conference for the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Orlando, FL. The paper presented is titled “Development and analysis of a more concise feedback environment scale.”