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Chuck Munson, professor of operations management, is the Ph.D. program director. During his 21 years on faculty in the college, he has regularly been a Dean’s Excellence Fellow for outstanding research, teaching, and service as well as a recipient of WSU’s highest teaching award. Munson has served as the Ph.D. coordinator for the operations and management science program for many years. Read the director’s message.

Ph.D. Corner

# of Ph.D. Students

# of Ph.D. Faculty

Our Ph.D. Students Come From 15 Countries

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Bangladesh
China
Columbia
Greece
India

Iran
Japan
Korea
Lebanon
Macao

Saudi Arabia
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
U.S.A.

92%

of graduating Ph.D. students recommend the program to others

100%

of graduating Ph.D. students are employed within six months of graduation

Student Spotlight

Meet Yoonsoo Nam, doctoral student and teaching assistant
in the Department of Finance and Management Science

Recent Ph.D. Graduate Placements
at Peer or Aspirant Universities

Aishajiang Aizezikali
Operations and Management Science
Ivey Business School

Scott Connors
Marketing
University of Western Ontario

Shinhye Kim
Marketing
University of Missouri

Brett Josephson
Marketing
George Mason University

Lu Lu
Hospitality Business Management
Temple University

L. Emily Hickman
Accounting
University of New Mexico

Jenni Sandstrom
Hospitality Business Management
Washington State University

Gulnara Zaynutdinova
Finance
West Virginia University

Current Ph.D. Student Achievements

John Correia, information systems, was selected to attend the doctoral consortium at the International Conference on Information Systems, a highly competitive consortium with only 40 invited participants from around the globe.

Vicky Luo, operations management science, was selected to attend both the competitive INFORMS Doctoral Colloquium and the competitive Decision Sciences Institute Post-Proposal Consortium.

Yoonsoo Nam, finance, was awarded the Shinhan Bank and KAFA Scholarship for Ph.D. students.

Current Ph.D. Students with Accepted Publications

Yoonsoo Nam, finance, and coauthors Scott J. Niblock, Elisabeth Sinnewe, and Keith Jakob, published “Do Corporate Managers ‘Heap’ Dividends? Evidence on Dividend Heaping and Information Uncertainty in Australia?” in the 2018 issue of the Australian Journal of Management.

Nam and coauthor Assistant Professor DJ Fairhurst had a paper “Corporate Governance and Financial Peer Effects” accepted for publication in Financial Management.

Jakob, Keith and Yoonsoo Nam, “Heaping on Dividends: The Role of Dividend Size and Information Uncertainty” Journal of Behavioral Finance, forthcoming, 2018;

Jakob, Keith and Yoonsoo Nam, “Do Cultures Influence Abnormal Market Reactions before Official Sovereign Debt Rating Downgrade Announcements?.” Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money 47, 2017: 65-75.

Guanzhong Pan (finance), recently published “Biases in CAPM Beta Estimation,” with Linda H. Chen, George J. Jiang, and Kevin X. Zhu, Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, 2017, 8, 83-103.

Hui-Heng Cheng (finance) recently published two papers:

Wang, J. L., Huang, H. C., Chen, Y. C., & Cheng, M. H. H. (Forthcoming) “The Financial Impacts and Intergenerational Equity of the Pension Reform in Taiwan,” NTU Management Review.

Wang, J. L., Huang, H. C., Yang, S. S., Chen, Y. C., & Cheng, M. H. H. (2017) “Pension Reform and Building a Sustainable Pension System in Taiwan,” Taiwan Economic Forecast and Policy, 48(1), 1-39.

John Correia (information systems) and coauthors Assistant Professor Robert Crossler, M. Curry, B. Marshall, and recently published a paper “InfoSec Process Action Model (IPAM): Systematically Addressing Individual Security Behavior,” ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, 49(1), 49-66.

Curry, M., Marshall, B., Correia, J., Crossler, R. E., “InfoSec Process Action Model (IPAM): Targeting Insider’s Weak Password Behavior,” Journal of Information Systems, forthcoming.

Yafang Li (MIS) and Xuemei Huang (MIS) recently published:

Jing Fan, Mingxing Shao, Yafang Li, Xuemei Huang, (2018) “Understanding Users’ Attitude Toward Mobile Payment Use: A Comparative Study Between China and the USA,” Industrial Management & Data Systems, Vol. 118 Issue: 3, pp. 524-540.

Yuan Wen (Marketing) recently published:

Nikolov, Atanas Nik., & Wen, Yuan, “Does Family Involvement Matter Post IPO? Adding Value through Advertising in Family Firms,” Journal of Family Business Management, Vol. 8 Issue: 3, pp. 218-234.

Zhang Shanshan, Kangtao Ye, Yijing Cui, and Wenjiao Zang. “Large Shareholder Incentives and Auditor Choice.” Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. Forthcoming.

Zhe Ouyang, (hospitality) and coauthors Professor Dogan Gursoy and B. Sharma, published “Role of Trust, Emotions and Event Attachment on Residents’ Attitudes Toward Tourism” in the 2017 issue of Tourism Management, 63, 426-438.

Ouyang and coauthors Professor Christina Chi, and X. Xu had a paper “Changing Perceptions and Reasoning Process: Comparison of Pre and Post-event Residents’ Attitudes,” Annals of Tourism Research, 70, 39-53.

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Ph.D Corner – Director’s Message – March 2019 March 1, 2019 justin.hope

Dear friends:

I’m a native U.S. citizen. When I attend professional conferences held in the United States and attended primarily by faculty from U.S. universities, more often than not I am a “minority” in the room. Without exaggeration—if there was not a hefty level of international participation, business education in the United States would crumble.

For whatever reasons, U.S. citizens are not pursuing Ph.D.’s in business at anywhere near the rate needed to fill business faculty positions at U.S. colleges and universities. As a stark example, this year the Carson College advertised for a new faculty position in my field of operations management. We received approximately 130 applications, and exactly 3 of those were from native U.S. citizens.

While Ph.D. programs train students from all around the world, the majority are coming from Asia, especially China and India. These scholars produce a tremendous amount of quality research, and they teach thousands of U.S. citizens from coast-to-coast.

In line with most of the rest of the country, fewer than 25 percent of current students in the Carson College Ph.D. program are from the United States. We currently welcome scholars from four continents. The diversity of experiences and cultures benefits everyone. As difficult as a Ph.D. program is to begin with, these international scholars should be commended for navigating those waters while studying in another culture—many times using a language that is not their own.

WSU offers support services as well as several international student organizations to try to help the foreign students assimilate and share time with other students in the same position. Some of our international students return home after their studies have completed, but most find faculty positions in the United States. Most eventually obtain permanent residency status, and many become U.S. citizens. As fully integrated members of society, they mold future generations of college students. They introduce diversity, culture, and a global perspective to everyone in the college community. It all starts with a dream and an application to study in a little town in America surrounded by wheat fields.

We can’t wait for next year’s class of new international scholars to arrive!

Chuck Munson,
Ph.D. Program Director