Summer 2007 Research Scholarship Activities

Several students have received a Summer research scholarship. As part of the requirements, students are required to meet the following deadlines:

June 11 - The title of the project, and the name(s) of the faculty with whom they will be working
July 14 - Please click on the following link one-page progress to see the progress report.
August 24 - A complete research report to be posted as a working paper on our website
Beginning Fall - A 15 minute presentation to our department

Name	Project Title	Faculty	Status
David Baker	Does the entropy function truly measure diversity?	Acar/Booth
Lihua Chen	An analysis of factors related to car sales in the US automotive market	Offodile
Jerry DeHondt II	Offshore systems development: Factors affecting success	Knapp
Suvankar Ghosh	Three essays: An Adoption Decision Model for Emerging Capital Budgeting Methodologies The Paradox of Overinvestment in Valuable IT – The Case of Enterprise Integration A Nested Real Options Approach to Cellular Manufacturing Investments	Troutt/Weinroth
Susan Horne	A Structural Equation Model of Supply Chain Information Quality	Troutt/Harvey (Geog)
Xiaolin Li	To identify key determinants of adoption of online direct sales channel among SMEs	Troutt/Brandyberry
Jino Mwaka	Investigating entrepreneurial transcience	Anokhin/Franquesa