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The researchers at the KU School of Business are a community of scholars dedicated to producing high-impact fundamental and applied research. They pursue a diverse mix of topics, including uncertain reasoning, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, behavioral finance, venture capital, international finance, market microstructure, optimum methods of compensation, visual perception and its impact on designing commercial stimuli, economics of the auditing profession, effects of financial reporting rule changes, internet dissemination of financial information, audit and information security risk, information quality assessment, causes and effects of restating financial statements, processual theory of leadership, effects of CEO compensation and characteristics on the firm’s strategy and performance, international and cross-cultural management, human resource management, self-efficacy and well-being, professional career choice and change.
In addition to the University General Research Fund, our research is funded by grants from various public and private sources, such as National Science Foundation, Department of Education, Missile Defense Agency, Kauffman foundation, Kansas Action for Children, and Ernst and Young.
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Computing the decomposable entropy of belief-function graphical models
(Elsevier, 2023-07-13)In 2018, Jiroušek and Shenoy proposed a definition of entropy for Dempster-Shafer (D-S) belief functions called decomposable entropy (d-entropy). This paper provides an algorithm for computing the d-entropy of directed ... -
On conditional belief functions in directed graphical models in the Dempster-Shafer theory
(Elsevier, 2023-07-04)The primary goal is to define conditional belief functions in the Dempster-Shafer theory. We do so similarly to probability theory's notion of conditional probability tables. Conditional belief functions are necessary for ... -
Making inferences in incomplete Bayesian networks: A Dempster-Shafer belief function approach
(Elsevier, 2023-09)How do you make inferences from a Bayesian network (BN) model with missing information? For example, we may not have priors for some variables or may not have conditionals for some states of the parent variables. It is ... -
Injury Care: A Missing Piece in the December 15th, 2022 US-Africa Leaders’ Summit
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Discovery of associative patterns between workplace sound level and physiological wellbeing using wearable devices and empirical Bayes modeling
(Nature Research, 2023-01-13)We conducted a field study using multiple wearable devices on 231 federal office workers to assess the impact of the indoor environment on individual wellbeing. Past research has established that the workplace environment ... -
The Impact of Quality Perception and Consumer Valuation Change on Manufacturer's Optimal Warranty, Pricing, and Market Coverage Strategies
(Wiley, 2018-08-13)We consider a manufacturer who produces and sells a new product in a monopoly market. The new product quality is unobservable to consumers before purchase. Consumers make purchase decisions based on their perception of ... -
Managing Television Commercial Inventory under Competition: An Equilibrium Analysis
(Wiley, 2018-06-28)We develop a game theoretic model for managing prime time on-air ad inventory in the television industry. The ad inventory in this industry is priced based on rating points or the number of viewers that watch a commercial. ... -
Socially Optimal Contracting between a Regional Blood Bank and Hospitals
(Wiley, 2018-10-20)Motivated by the operational challenges faced by a Regional Blood Bank (RBB) in distributing the blood (and related products) among the hospitals in its service area, we study socially optimal contracting decisions of an ... -
Pipelines and Their Portfolios: A More Holistic View of Human Capital Heterogeneity Via Firm-Wide Employee Sourcing
(Academy of Management, 2019-06-11)Scholars use the term pipelines to encapsulate many ways that firms target talent sources. Yet pipeline scholarship is fragmented to date, so we have few answers for several salient questions: Why do pipelines exist? What ... -
Manufacturing in Lawrence, Kansas, 1854-1900
(University of Kansas, 1940-08-31)The plan of organization for this study is to set forth, for each major division, the background or special external developments and general business conditions affecting manufacturing enterprises in Lawrence, and then ... -
Depreciation Choice and Future Operating Performance
(Macrothink Institute, 2019-01-20)In this study we test the argument that information asymmetry and the problems of adverse selection provide incentives for managers to use accounting choices to signal relatively higher future prospects. Specifically, we ... -
Clipping Coupons: Redemption of Offers with Forward-Looking Consumers
(Economics Bulletin, 2019-07-07)Consumer redemption behavior pertaining to coupons, gift certificates, product sampling, rebates, and the like, has been the focus of much scholarly inquiry and the extant literature has documented two noteworthy empirical ... -
Introduction to Supply Chain and Operations Management – A Real World Perspective
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2020-09-01)This textbook looks at operations management and supply chain management from a real world perspective. The foundations of operations and supply chain are presented in a format that builds upon the theories found in most ... -
A Cluster Elastic Net for Multivariate Regression
(Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2018-07-01)We propose a method for simultaneously estimating regression coefficients and clustering response variables in a multivariate regression model, to increase prediction accuracy and give insights into the relationship between ... -
Leadership Development Practices and Organizational Performance
(Elsevier, 2017-11-30)Leadership development is receiving increasing attention from scholars and practitioners globally. In this study, utilizing a sample of 223 organizations in an emerging economy (India), we discovered positive relationships ... -
Fearlessly Swimming Upstream to Risky Waters: The Role of Geographic Entry in Innovation
(Wiley, 2018-05-02)We examine the puzzling geographic pattern that shows firms entering countries with weak intellectual property rights (IPR) protection with their research and development (R&D) activities. Geographic entry into weak IPR ... -
Examining the Connections within the Startup Ecosystem: A Case Study of St. Louis
(De Gruyter, 2017-01-01)We critically examine how an entrepreneurial ecosystem is structured using an exploratory and bottom-up approach. Past studies in this area have discussed the presence of elements in the system or captured the ecosystem ... -
Toward A More Comprehensive Model of Firms' Human Capital Rents
(Academy of Management, 2017)Strategic human capital research has recently expanded to encompass other types of labor market frictions in addition to those posed by firm-specific human capital. Labor market frictions inhibit trade in human capital, ... -
Effects of Employees' Positive Affective Displays on Customer Loyalty Intentions: An Emotions-As-Social-Information Perspective
(Academy of Management, 2017)Employees’ positive affective displays have been widely used as a strategic tool to enhance service experience and strengthen customer relationships. Companies have primarily focused their employee training programs on two ... -
Genome-wide approach identifies a novel gene-maternal pre-pregnancy BMI interaction on preterm birth
(Nature Research, 2017-06-09)Preterm birth (PTB) contributes significantly to infant mortality and morbidity with lifelong impact. Few robust genetic factors of PTB have been identified. Such ‘missing heritability’ may be partly due to gene × environment ...
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