This award recognizes outstanding scholarly research conducted by faculty members in the College of Business and Economics. The awards are named in honor of Dr. Dennis Murphy, long-term Dean of the College of Business and Economics.
2014-2015 Recipients
- Catherine Armstrong-Soule
- Earl D. Benson
- Sophie X. Kong
- John Krieg
- Edwin Love
- J. Christopher Sandvig
- Sharon Shewmake
- Anca-Ioana Sirbu
- Mark Staton
- Paul Storer and Steve Globerman
- Daniel Warner
2013-2014 Recipients
- Earl Benson and Sophie Kong, "Correlations and Covariances Over Time and Across Markets: The Comovement of U.S. Equity Returns with the Developed and Emerging Markets of Australasia and Asia"
- Jongwook Kim and Marko Madunic, "Distinguishing Between Spinouts and Non-spinouts: Allocating Control Rights in Biotechnology Alliances"
- George Zhang (with co-authors), "On the Downs-Thomson Paradox in a Self-Financing Two-Tier Queuing System," Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (Spring 2014)
- Skylar Powell, "From M-P to MA-P: Multinationality Alignment and Performance," Journal of International Business (February 2014)
- Edwin Love (with co-authors), "Construal Marketing Tactics for High Quality versus Low Price Market Segments"
- Brandon Dupont, "Father Knows Best: Using Adam Smith to Teach Transaction Costs," Journal of Economic Education (September 2013)
- Kristi Tyran and Joseph Garcia, "Reciprocal Learning and Management Education: The Example of Using University Alumni and Other Business Executives as 'Virtual' Mentors to Business Students"
2012-2013 Recipients
- Earl Benson and Julia Hansen, "The Value of a Water View: Variability Over 25 Years in a Coastal Housing Market," The Coastal Business Journal (March 2013)
- Brandon Dupont (with co-author), "Variability in Overseas Travel by Americans, 1820 to 2000," Cliometrica (September 2013)
- Yvonne Durham (with co-authors), "The Effects of Income Source, Context, and Income Level on Tax Compliance Decisions in a Dynamic Experiment," Journal of Economic Psychology (February 2014)
- Steve Henson and John Krieg (with co-authors), "Collective Bargaining and Job Satisfaction," Industrial Relations (July 2012)
- Jongwook Kim, "Formal and Informal Governance in Biotechnology Alliances: Board Oversight, Contractual Control, and Repeated Deals," Industrial and Corporate Change (August 2014)
- Shawn Knabb (with co-author), "Bounded Rationality, Expectations and Child Labor," Canadian Journal of Economics (August 2013)
- Ozan Sula (with co-author), "The Effect of Ability on Young Men's Self-Employment Decision: Evidence from the NELS," Industrial Relations (October 2012)
- George Zhang (with co-author), "Strategic Queuing Behavior and Its Impact on System Performance in Service Systems with the Congestion-Based Staffing Policy," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (Winter 2013)
2011-2012 Recipients
- Earl D. Benson (with co-author), "Determinants of Private Sector Insurance Premiums on Municipal Debt Issues," Municipal Finance Journal (October 2011)
- Steven Globerman, "Investigating Abroad and Investing at Home", Multinational Business Review (August 2012)
- Steve Henson and John Krieg (with co-author), "Collective Bargaining and Community College Faculty: What Is the Wage Impact?," Journal of Labor Research (March 2012)
- Edwin Love, "Divide and Prosper? When Partitioned Prices Make Sense," Journal of Product and Brand Management (January 2012)
- Steve Ross, Mark Springer, and Craig Tyran, "Assessing the Quality of a Decision Support E-Service," International Journal of E-Business Research
- Ozan Sula, "Demand for International Reserves in Developing Nations: A Quantile Regression Approach," Journal of International Money and Finance (September 2011)
- Zhe George Zhang (with co-authors) "Optimal maintenance policy for a system subject to damage in a discrete time," Reliability Engineering & System Safety (July 2012)
2010-2011 Recipients
- Earl D. Benson and Sophie X. Kong (with co-author), "Stock Return Expectations and P/E 10," Journal of Portfolio Management (Fall 2011)
- Brandon Dupont (with co-author), "The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel by Americans, 1820-2000," Economic History Review (February 2012)
- Yvonne Durham and Mathew R. Roelofs, "A Laboratory Study of Auctions with a Buy Price," Economic Inquiry (April 2013)
- Steven Globerman, "The Social Responsibility of Managers- Reassessing and Integrating Diverse Perspectives," Business and Society (Winter 2011)
- Jason Kanov (with co-author), "Understanding Compassion Capability," Human Relations (July 2011)
- Jongwook Kim, "Alliance Governance and Technological Performance: Some Evidence from Biotechnology Alliances," Oxford Journals: Industrial and Corporate Change (August 2011)
- John M. Kreig, "Which Students are Left Behind? The Racial Impacts of the No Child Left Behind Act," Economics of Education Review (August 2011)
- Edwin A. Love (with co-author), "New Product Pricing Strategy Under Customer Asymmetric Anchoring," International Journal of Research in Marketing (December 2011)
- Mathew R. Roelofs, "Heterogeneous Preferences for Altruism: Gender and Personality, Social Status, Giving, and Taking," Experimental Economics (November 2011)