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 Union's Newest Professor Publishes Cutting Edge Leadership Research
Sep 3, 2008 - In a study to be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Business Ethics, Union's newest business professor, Emily R. Lean, and the McAfee SOBA Director of Research, Darin W. White, found that perceived team leader integrity may influence subordinate ethical intentions towards fellow team members, the team itself, and even the organizational as a whole.
The study, as explained by Darin W. White, “involved over 240 MBA students who work and study together in...
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 Two Business School Scholars Publish in Prestigious Journal of Business Ethics
Sep 2, 2008 - Dr. Walton Padelford and Dr. Darin White have spent the last three years studying how people form an ethical economic worldview. Their work was recently accepted for publication in the prestigious Journal of Business Ethics.
According to the authors, the discussion of ethics and economics has a very long history across multiple disciplines. The founder of modern economics, Adam Smith, likewise had a keen interest in this topic. However, with the development of econ...
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 McAfee SOBA Study Reveals the Impact of Fair Treatment in Customer Service Encounters
Dec 22, 2007 - A recent McAfee SOBA study to be published in the Journal of Services Marketing provides answers to critical customer service questions. Do people form judgments of fair treatment during encounters with service providers? If so, do these perceptions of fairness have any impact on their assessment of the quality of the services they receive? William R. Nance, Jr., McAfee SOBA Department Chair, and Darin W. White, McAfee SOBA Director of Research, conducted a multi-country ...
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 Balanced Scorecard Application in the Health Care Industry: A Case Study
Nov 5, 2007 - Dr. A. David Austill, Professor of Legal Studies & Accounting, and his research colleague, Dr. Mehmet Kocakülâh, have recently had their article entitled Balanced Scorecard Application in the Health Care Industry: A Case Study published in the Fall 2007 edition of Journal of Health Care Finance.
Balanced scorecards became a popular strategic performance measurement and management tool in the 1990s by Robert Kaplan and David Norton. The balanced scorecard is a performance m...
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 Taxation of Personal Use of Corporate Aircraft: Should income Equal the Deduction?
Sep 21, 2007 - Business growth and ease of mobility have played a significant role in the increasing use of corporate aircraft through the 21st century. Along with the increased use of corporate aircraft, personal use of corporate aircraft has also been on the rise. With this increased use, the tax treatment of the personal use of corporate aircraft has become much more visible and controversial. Karen C. Miller, Union University Accounting Professor, tracks the changes in the law and focuses on the ...
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 Conducting Business in the Emerging Markets of Central & Eastern Europe
Jun 22, 2007 - After 14 years of transitioning from a centrally planned economic system to a capitalistic market system, eight Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) joined the European Union. According to Dr. Keith Absher, Dean of the McAfee School of Business Administration, the expansion of the European Union has "created immense challenges and opportunities for retailers as they seek to expand into the ne...
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 Is the Free Market System Ethically Superior?
Jan 3, 2007 - The morality of capitalism has been debated since Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776. Yet, according to Union University economist Dr. Walt Padelford, the modern business school has taken a strictly pragmatic approach in this debate.
“There is an interesting contrast between the self-consciously ‘non-ethical’ character of modern economics and the historical evolution of modern economics largely as an offshoot of ethics,” says Padelford.
“Not only wa...
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 Union students’ medieval quires praised by paleography expert
Jan 2, 2007 - Texts are cheap these days, according to Union University English professor Gavin Richardson. That’s why he wanted his students to appreciate the value of books from ages past.
“We don’t even have to buy a book anymore,” Richardson said. “You can get an e-book. You can get texts on your Palm Pilot, on your Blackberry. I want to make my students aware that texts meant more in the Middle Ages. Owning a deluxe manuscript in the Middle Ages is a status symbol. It’s like owning...
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