Diverse Interests Guide NSU Business Faculty’s Research and Presentations
From research on trade and exportation in Sub-Saharan Africa, the performance of the Lebanese banks during the 2019-2021 financial crisis, and Gen-Z Banking in France, to COVID-related work implications and a discussion on the political affiliations of Federal Reserve economists, NSU Business faculty deliver findings on a diverse array of topics.
  Professor of Finance and Economics Rebecca Abraham, D.B.A. and Professor of International Business Belay Seyoum, Ph. D. published the paper, US Trade Preference and Export Performance of Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from the African Growth and Opportunity Act, in the World Trade Review.
Dr. Abraham and colleagues authored two articles in the Journal of Risk and Financial Management: The Impact of Corporate Governance and Political Connectedness on the Financial Performance of Lebanese Banks During the Financial Crisis of 2019-2021 and Forecasting a Stock Trend Using Genetic Algorithm and Random Forest. |
  Assistant Professor of Management Tais Barreto Ph.D., Associate Professor of Marketing Selima Ben Mrad, Ph.D., and a colleague authored Reshaping the Bank Experience for GEN Z in France in the Journal of Marketing Analytics.
Assistant Professor of Management Tais Barreto Ph.D. gave two presentations at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Seattle, Washington: Alliance Engagement Speed and the Impact of Alliance Portfolio Size on Firm Performance and Leadership Under Threat: Charismatic Rhetoric, Follower Perceptions, and Selection Outcomes. |
 Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences Daniel M. Benjamin, Ph.D. collaborated with colleagues to publish the Conference Proceedings, Assessing Scientific Research Papers with Knowledge Graphs from the Association of Computing Machinery’s 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. |
 Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research published Assistant Professor of Accounting Julia Davidyan, Ph.D.’s work, Determinants of Distribution Decisions by Nonvested Employees: Does Employer’s Pension Funding Matter? Dr. Davidyan and colleagues published Two Truths and a Lie: Introduction to Deception Detection in Issues in Accounting Education. |
 Professors Baiyun Gong, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Management) and Randi L. Sims, Ph.D. (Professor of Management) collaborated on Psychological Contract Breach During the Pandemic: How an Abrupt Transition to a Work from Home Schedule Impacted the Employment Relationship, published in the Journal of Business Research.
Leveraging Resources to Improve Supervisors’ Vision in the Remote Workplace, published in Management Research Review, was authored by Dr. Gong and colleagues. |
    The article, Disciplinary Intersection of Medicine and Business – A Novel Population Health Management Premedical Pathway for Medicine and Other Healthcare Professions in Population Health Management is the work of faculty from NSU Business and the NSU Patel College of Allopathic Medicine.
Collaborators from the Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship are François Sainfort, Ph.D., FACHE (Chair of Management, Director of Complex Health Systems Program, and Professor) and Andrew Rosman, Ph.D. (Professor of Accounting and Dean of NSU Business). Collaborators from the Patel College of Allopathic Medicine are Katherine Cohen, Johannes W. Vieweg, M.D., FACS (Founding Dean and Professor of Surgery), and Julie Jacko, Ph.D. (Professor and the Founding Chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences, and a Professor at Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship). |
  Associate Professor of Finance Emre Kuvvet, Ph.D. and Professor of Finance Pankaj Kumar Maskara, Ph.D. published To Fight or Not to Fight: A Study on the Likelihood of Investor-State Disputes between Two Countries in Emerging Markets Finance and Trade.
Dr. Kuvvet also published a paper, Robinhood Investors and Corporate Misconduct in the Global Finance Journal, and an op-ed piece in The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, titled Political Affiliations of Federal Reserve Economists. |
 Adjunct Professor of Finance Stephen Metzger, Ph.D. writes the Beyond the Gated Community column for Golf Car Options Magazine. The Continuing Expansion of New Entrants in the PTV/LSV Market: On What is it Based, and Will it Continue? is his most recent article.
Dr. Metzger, a consistent contributor to Caribbean Maritime Magazine, published Free Registry in the US Virgin Islands: The Unanswered Questions. |
| Professor of Management Randi L. Sims, Ph.D. contributed content on Business Ethics and Fraud to the 2022 edition of the World Book Advanced Encyclopedia. |
 The research of Professor of Marketing Art Weinstein, Ph.D. and NSU students, Autumn Bishard, Rebecca Flack, and Kaeleigh Sturgeon, How Royal Caribbean Navigates Stormy Seas: A Customer Value Analysis in the Journal of Creating Value was published in the Journal of Creating Value. |
 Chair of Finance and Economics and Associate Professor Albert Williams, Ph.D.’s work, Are Credit Card Ownership and Usage Related to Demographic, Psychological, and Financial Factors? was published in the Journal of Academy and Business Economics.
Dr. Williams also was interviewed on WalletHub for expert insights on the Citi Simplicity Card. |
