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Ellis Garners Prestigious NACRA Award
Jeffery Ellis, Management, has received the Curtis E. Tate Jr. Award, the most prestigious award of the North American Case Research Association (NACRA). In particular, this recognizes some of his work in Brazil. In a book length manuscript of a seven part case study and analytic manual Ellis examines important issues of strategy and structure for companies facing globalization in emerging nations. Ellis focused on four separate businesses within one corporation to provide a research control so that he could observe the differential impacts of globalization on businesses in different industries. The work compared actions and performance for three time frames: (1) before globalization, (2) the period of rapid growth induced by globalization, and then (3) the point when the post-globalizing Brazilian economy first turned down. This design revealed the favourable and adverse impacts of globalization on the corporation as a whole and separately on its businesses. Case users can infer the consequences of managerial decisions before, during, and after globalization. The case study component of the work was published in the Case Research Journal in 2005 and will enter the Babson, European Case Clearing House, and Harvard collections shortly.

NACRA is a collaborative organization of approximately 500 case writers and teachers, mostly in the business disciplines, who support each other's research and writing efforts.

New Textbook from Bygrave and Zacharakis
Publisher John Wiley & Sons says: “Entrepreneurship relates actual experiences while combining concepts and cases to present the latest theories. The concepts cover what "would-be entrepreneurs" need to know to start and grow their businesses. Additionally, the cases illustrate how real entrepreneurs have gone out and succeeded. … Any student, "would-be entrepreneur" or not, will benefit from the lessons in this text.

“Performance Characteristics of Individual vs. Team-managed Mutual Funds,” co-authored by Mark Potter and Richard Bliss, both of the Finance Division, and Chris Schwarz of the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, was just accepted for publication in the Journal of Portfolio Management. This paper was supported, in part, by a grant a couple years ago from the Board of Research.

Lisa Colletta’s book, Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O'Brien, has been nominated for the Robert Rhodes Prize for a Book on Literature. The award is sponsored by the American Conference for Irish Studies. The American Conference for Irish Studies is a multidisciplinary scholarly organization with approximately 1500 members in the United States, Ireland, Canada, and other countries around the world.

The paper Donna Kelley, Entrepreneurship, will be presenting at her April 4 Research Chat, “Adaptation and Organizational Connectedness in Corporate Radical Innovation Programs,” was just accepted for presentation at the Academy of Management conference this summer.

“Entrepreneurs and Corporate Managers Do Not Think Differently: Empirical Implications for Corporate Venturing, Entrepreneurship Pedagogy, and Public Policy,” by Andrew Corbett, RPI, and Heidi Neck, Entrepreneurship, was given the award for “Best Paper for the Corporate Entrepreneurship Division” at the USASBE 2007 Wide World of Entrepreneurship Conference, January 2007 in Orlando. USASBE (United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship) is an eclectic group of government officials, directors of small business development centers, and academics in fields like finance, marketing, management, and economics united by their common interest in entrepreneurship and small business. Their mission is to advance knowledge and foster business development through entrepreneurship education and research.

Moss Produces Numerous Publications

Laurence Moss, professor in the Economics division, is the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, which publishes 5 issues a year and is entering its 67th year of continuous publication. The AJES is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes articles from a variety of disciplines in the social sciences but especially from economics and sociology. Last year, it was chosen to be archived by the JSTOR archive system and the journal is available electronically on a global basis now.

In 2006, Moss had two books published by Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, U. K. Talcott Parsons, Economic Sociologist of the 20th Century and Natural Resources, Taxation & Regulation: Unusual Perspectives on a Classic Topic. Both books were edited by Moss and grew out of special issues of the AJES. In 2006-07, Moss published the following articles, encyclopedia entries and book review:

• “Ethnic Conflict and the Economics of Social Cooperation: Reflections on a Difficult Problem.” In Roger Koppl, ed. 2006. Money and Markets: Essays in Honor of Leland B. Yeager. 2006. New York: Routledge, pp. 221-241.
  “Public Policy and Enhancing Entrepreneurial Capitalism” 2007.  In Mark R. Rice and Timothy Habbershon, eds.  Entrepreneurship the Engine of Growth. 3 vols. Praeger Publishers. Westport, Connecticut, 3:191-214. 
• “Corporate Entrepreneurship: Schumpeter’s Entrepreneur and Firm Architecture.”  In S. Pressman, ed. Festschrift in Honor of Ingrid Rima on her 70^th Birthday. 2007 (London: Routledge Publisher).
• “Secrecy,” in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2007 (Blackwell Publishers: Malden, MA. and Oxford, England), 11 vols. 11: 4132-4135.
• Review of Margaret Schabas, “The Natural Origins of Economics,” in EH.NET (August 2006).

In March of 2006, Moss was invited to serve as a scholar-in-residence at the L'Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan outside Paris. He worked with the Ph.D. candidates on their respective theses to help sharpen their arguments. He also presented two seminar papers; "Problems of Archivist Historians of Economics: Reflections on the Crat," and "Reflections on the Public Choice School of Economics."

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