Recent Faculty Recognitions
Dr. Grady Stanley (Stan) York, Assistant Professor of Management, Dr. Richard Churchman, Assistant Professor of Management, and Janet L. Jones, R.N., B.S.N., FAAMA, President & CEO of Alive Hospice, coauthored the article "Understanding the Association Between Employee Satisfaction and Family Perceptions of the Quality of Care in Hospice Service Delivery" for the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (volume 38, Issue 5).
Dr. Patrick Raines, Dean of Belmont University's College of Business Administration and Professor of Economics, received the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) "Most Supportive Dean of the Year" award at the 2009 SIFE USA National Exposition.
Dr. Sehyun (Sean) Yoo, Assistant Professor of Finance, coauthored two journal publications [Inter-temporal examination of the trading activities of foreign investors in the Korean stock market, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 17 (2009) and Market liberalization and foreign equity portfolio section in Korea, Journal of Multinational Finance Management 19 (2009)] and coauthored a book titled "Analysis of key issues on the Korean stock market's upgrade to the MSCI advanced market index" in 2009.
Dr. John Maslyn, Assistant Professor of Management, received a 2009 Outstanding Reviewer Award from the OB Division of the Academy of Management.
Dr. Del DeVries, Assistant Professor of Accounting and Information Systems, received a "Best Paper Award" at the 2009 AIS Educator Conference.
Dr. Mark T. Schenkel, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Dr. John Maslyn, Associate Professor of Management and Deborah V. Brazeal's co-authored article entitled Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Facilitating Effects of Creative Self-efficacy and Leader-Member Exchange received top placement in the Southern Journal of Entrepreneurship (v. 2, May 2009).
Dr. Susan Williams, Professor of Management, was named the 2009 Ned R. McWherter Leadership Award Winner by the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence (TNCPE).
Dr. John Gonas, Assistant Professor of Finance, was named the 2008 Tennessee Professor of the Year, an award selection determined by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
Dr. Jeff Cornwall, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, was selected as The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) 2009 President-Elect.
Associate Professor of Accounting Dr. Lee Warren and Assistant Professor of Accounting Dr. Marilyn Young were selected once again for honorable mention for the Bea Sanders/AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award in 2008.
Assistant Professor of Accounting and Information Systems Dr. Del DeVries was selected for honorable mention for the Mark Chain/Federation of Schools of Accountancy (FSA) Innovation in Graduate Teaching Award in 2008. Dr. DeVries was also the single recipient of the "Information Systems Section 2008 Outstanding Service Award," announced at the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association (AAA).
Dr. Patrick Raines, Dean of Belmont University's College of Business Administration and Professor of Economics, published his third book with Dr. Charles Leathers, titled Debt, Innovations and Deflation in 2008.
Assistant Professor of Business Law Wade M. Chumney received the 2008 "Distinguished Paper Award" from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB).
Dr. Brad Childs, Associate Professor of Accounting, and Dr. John Gonas, Assistant Professor of Finance, published an article titled "Are Donor-Advised Funds Always the Best Economic Choice?" in the Journal of Financial Planning with colleague Dr. Jeremy Thornton of Samford University.
Dr. John Maslyn, Associate Professor of Management, co-published an article titled "The Contribution of Positive Politics to the Prediction of Employee Reactions" in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
Dr. Susan Williams, Professor of Management, spoke at both the East and West Coast sessions of the 2008 Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Leadership Conference.
Dr. Jeff Cornwall released his fourth book about entrepreneurship and virtue titled Bringing Your Business to Life.
Dr. Beth Woodard, Assistant Professor of Management, contributed an editorial to The Tennessean concerning the Presidential Candidate's proposals for health care.
Dr. Jeff Cornwall was interviewed for an article in MyBusiness magazine titled "Mission Possible: Social entrepreneurs balance bottom lines with a desire to make a difference."
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship Dr. Mark Schenkel's research entitled "Awakening the Entrepreneurial Spirit: Exploring the Relationship between Organizational Factors and Perceptions of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Desirability in a Corporate Setting," was published in the New England Journal of Entrepreneurship.
Dr. Joe Alexander, Associate Dean of The Massey Graduate Business School, served as a keynote speaker for the Greater Greenville (SC) Chamber of Commerce Ethics in Business and Education conference in March of 2008. Alexander also served as keynote speaker for the University of the West Academic Excellence Symposium in Rosemead, California in December of 2007.
