EIU Lumpkin College of Business and Technology

Faculty Research Interests

School of Business | Hospitality | School of Technology

School of Business

Gurkan Akalin

• Financial Supply Chain Management
• Supply Chain Risk Management
• Supply Chain Curriculum Development

Mark Bayer

• Group emergent states, processes, and effectiveness
• Group cognition (e.g., shared mental models, transactive memory, cross-understanding, etc.)
• Group creativity and innovation

David Boggs

• International Experience and Expatriates
• Global Collaborative Strategies
• Internationalization and Performance
• Managing Ethics and Cultural Differences
• Timing and Order-of-Entry Effects
• Emerging and Developing Markets
• ​Information Technology and Strategy

Chuck Chahyadi

• Corporate Finance
• Banking
• Financial Education
• Financial Capability
• Financial Inclusion

Ayse Costello

• Property Rights
• Multinational Corporations
• Coordination and Control in Multinational Corporations
• International Business
• Franchising
• Consumer Behavior
• Corporate Governance Relationships in Publicly Held Corporations​

Thomas Costello

• Property Rights
• Globalization and Multinational Corporations
• Consumer Behavior
• Franchising
• Corporate Governance

Michael Dobbs

• Strategic Management
• Small Business Strategy
• Coopetition
• Complementary Relationships
• Sports Management

Marko Grünhagen

• Franchising
• Retailing
• International Marketing
• Small Business Marketing

Abdou Illia

• Information systems security
• Information technology adoption and continuance
• Information quality and organizational performance
• eCommerce and mobile technology
• ICT and socio economic development

Menghistu (Stu) Sallehu

• The role of financial reporting and disclosure in valuations
• Effect of operational restructurings on subsequent performance
• Audit service pricing
• The relationship between product market competition and earnings informativeness
• Cost behavior
• Earnings misstatements

Jay Shinde

• Stress in Public Accounting
• Turnover in Public Accounting
• Depression & Anxiety in Public Accounting, University Employees, and Students
• Pressures during tax season
• Techniques to alleviating the high levels of stress in CPAs
• Worklife Balance for Public Accountants
• Applying Nicomachean Ethics to Public Accounting

Jeffrey Snell

• OB
• HR
• Strategy

Chao Wen

• Service Quality: Measurement and influence of quality in different industries, quality management
• Consumer Behavior: Consumer decision-making processes, factors affecting consumer behavior
• Information Systems: Adoption of information systems, e-commerce/e-business, social network sites
• Sustainable supply chain: green/closed-loop supply chain, triple bottom line analysis, life cycle assessment

Larry White

• Quantitative analysis & modeling for business, healthcare, and public policy
• Hierarchical production planning
• Regulatory Effects on Business Processes
• Regulatory effects on mortgage processing operations
• Regulatory effects on foreclosure sales processes
• Supply chain security and counterfeit good prevention
• Supply Chain Metrics
• Healthcare at all levels: basic research, clinical trials, system design and operation, and public policy
• Ethics and Leadership

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Hospitality

Richard Wilkinson

• Restaurant Manager Leadership Styles
• Restaurant Manager Work Environment
• Hospitality Student Work Aspect Preferences Hospitality and Tourism Advisory Boards

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School of Technology

Austin Cheney

• Industry-level technology roadmaps
• Effectiveness of bio-gasification ash by-product as an additive in cement-based applications
• Use of business marketing principles in higher education

Bruce Barnard

• Applications of strength-based approaches to leadership, coaching, and supervision.
• Designing, implementing, and evaluating community-based criminal justice and prisoner reentry programs to enhance public safety and reduce recidivism.
• Implementation of employee training and development programs in government and social service organizations

Kelly Best

• Instructional design
• Training and development
• Adult learning
• Experiential learning
• Career development
• Competency development
• Expertise development

Wutthigrai Boonsuk

• CAD/CAM
• Rapid prototyping
• Manufacturing systems
• User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) design
• Virtual reality
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

John Cabage

• Concrete and bridge material studies
• Engineering student enrichment studies
• Computerized techniques to undergraduate education

Rigoberto Chinchilla

• Cyber security
• Biometrics
• Data Telecommunications
• Applied Statistics
• System Simulation and Quality Design

Jerry Cloward

• Biomass gasification
• Pelletizing biomass

Karen Drage

• Secondary business education curriculum
• Out-of-field teaching
• Perceptions of business education

Gabriel Grant

• Impact of learning with dynamic graphics
• Authentic learning pedagogy
• Cross media development
• Analytics and 1-to-1 Marketing strategies
• Gaming, Animation, and Simulation

R. Lance Hogan

• DACUM (Occupational Training)
• Human  Performance Improvement
• Occupational Analysis
• Training Program Evaluation
• Training Transfer
• Statistics

Toqeer Israr

• Software Engineering – Modeling and analyzing systems with various software paradigms such as UML, UCM, etc.
• Modeling and analyzing the behaviour of a composite distributed system with several inputs and outputs
• Analyzing the distributed systems to calculate the performance of a global collaboration in terms of the performance of its sub-collaborations
• Developed a methodology to realize dependencies and measure delays between inputs and outputs of black-box systems
• Analyzing Web Services for the use of traditional/deep web-crawlers
• Developing methodologies for web crawling for Rich Internet Applications

Peter Ping Liu

• Renewable Energy
• Materials Recycling
• Failure Analysis
• Biomedical Materials and Devices
• Enterprise Computer Systems
• Database Development

David Melton

• History of technological development in yesteryear, today, and the future
• Computer-aided design and manufacturing
• Rapidprotytping
• Manufacturing systems (including Lean, DFMA, System Simulation, etc.)
• Quality and operations management with statistical process control

Sean Roberts

• 3D Printing/Rapid prototyping
• 3D scanning
• Virtual and augmented reality with CAD 

Isaac Slaven

• Strength degradation of life safety equipment and materials
• Energy efficiency

Luke Steinke

• Developing curriculum connected to the workplace
• Occupational and job analysis
• Mentoring instructors and teacher quality