Research Productivity


RCVCOBE faculty engage in high quality and impactful research that contributes to the mission of the College and advances scholarly understanding of contemporary business issues. Indeed, our faculty research on important issues facing the business community and society at large including climate change, artificial intelligence, inclusive governance, corporate social responsibility, sustainability and impact of social media usage to name a few.

  • Abebe, M., & Dadanlar, H. (2021). From tokens to key players: The influence of board gender and ethnic diversity on corporate discrimination lawsuits. Human Relations, 74(4), 527-555.

  • Abebe, M. A., Getachew, Y. S., & Kimakwa, S. (2022). Entrepreneurs’ ethnic and political identity alignment as determinants of access to government support in Africa: A conceptual framework. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 46(2), 449-476.

  • Bachrach, D. G., Lewis, K., Kim, Y., Patel, P. C., Campion, M. C., & Thatcher, S. (2019). Transactive memory systems in context: A meta-analytic examination of contextual factors in transactive memory systems development and team performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104(3), 464–493.

  • Campion, M. C., Campion, E. D., & Campion, M. A. (2019). Using practice employment tests to improve recruitment and personnel selection outcomes for organizations and job seekers. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104(9), 1089–1102.

  • Kim, I., Wan, H., Wang, B., & Yang, T. (2019). Institutional investors and corporate environmental, social, and governance policies: Evidence from toxics release data. Management Science, 65(10), 4901-4926.

  • Campion, M. C., Schepker, D. J., Campion, M. A., & Sanchez, J. I. (2020). Competency modeling: A theoretical and empirical examination of the strategy dissemination process. Human Resource Management, 59(3), 291-306.

  • King, D., Auschaitrakul, S., & Lin, C. W. J. (2022). Search modality effects: merely changing product search modality alters purchase intentions. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 50(6), 1236-1256

  • Arnold, J. D., Van Iddekinge, C. H., Campion, M. C., Bauer, T. N., & Campion, M. A. (2021). Welcome back? Job performance and turnover of boomerang employees compared to internal and external hires. Journal of Management, 47(8), 2198-2225.

  • Campion, E. D., Campion, M. A., & Campion, M. C. (2022). A human capital‐based framework of career, well‐being, and social information reasons for managerial lateral job assignment preferences. Human Resource Management, 61(4), 423-447.

  • Sharma, B., Adhikari, B. K., Agrawal, A., Arthur, B. R., & Rabarison, M. K. (2022). Unintended Consequences of the Dodd–Frank Act on Credit Rating Risk and Corporate Finance. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 57(6), 2286-2323.

  • King, K. K., Wang, B., Escobari, D., & Oraby, T. (2022). Dynamic effects of falsehoods and corrections on social media: A theoretical modeling and empirical evidence. Journal of Management Information Systems, 38(4), 989-1010.

  • Chen, C., Gotti, G., Kang, T., & Wolfe, M. C. (2018). Corporate codes of ethics, national culture, and earnings discretion: International evidence. Journal of Business Ethics, 151, 141-163.

  • Amiri-Moghadam, S., Javadi, S., & Rastad, M. (2021). The impact of stronger shareholder control on bondholders. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 56(4), 1259-1295.

  • Javadi, S., Nejadmalayeri, A., & Krehbiel, T. L. (2018). Do FOMC actions speak loudly? Evidence from corporate bond credit spreads. Review of Finance, 22(5), 1877-1909.

  • King, D., & Auschaitrakul, S. (2020). Symbolic sequence effects on consumers’ judgments of truth for brand claims. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 30(2), 304-313.

  • Chadwick, C., & Li, P. (2018). HR systems, HR departments, and perceived establishment labor productivity. Human Resource Management, 57(6), 1415-1428.

  • Magnusson, P., Westjohn, S. A., & Sirianni, N. J. (2019). Beyond country image favorability: How brand positioning via country personality stereotypes enhances brand evaluations. Journal of International Business Studies, 50, 318-338.

  • Westjohn, S. A., Magnusson, P., Peng, Y., & Jung, H. (2021). Acting on anger: Cultural value moderators of the effects of consumer animosity. Journal of International Business Studies, 52, 1591-1615.

  • Sun, G., Cavusoglu, H., & Raghunathan, S. (2022). Value of membership‐based free shipping in online retailing: Impact of upstream pricing model. Production and Operations Management, 31(11), 4131-4153.

  • Singh, R., Zhang, Y., Wan, M., & Fouad, N. A. (2018). Why do women engineers leave the engineering profession? The roles of work–family conflict, occupational commitment, and perceived organizational support. Human Resource Management, 57(4), 901-914.

  • Zhang, Y., Sun, J. M., Shaffer, M. A., & Lin, C. H. (2022). High commitment work systems and employee well‐being: The roles of workplace friendship and task interdependence. Human Resource Management, 61(4), 399-421.

Elite Articles by Year (2018-22)

Year Elite
2018 4
2019 6
2020 7
2021 10
2022 7
Total 34

RCVCOBE SCOPUS Citations (2018-22)

Year SCOPUS Citations
2018 2442
2019 3156
2020 3811
2021 4571
2022 6008
Total 19,988