McCoy College hosts second annual Research Symposium

On Friday, April 14, the McCoy College of Business hosted its second annual Research Symposium, a day-long event with presentations from faculty members across all departments in the college. Dr. Alexis Stokes, Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, introduced Dr. Shreek Mandayam, Chief Research Officer at Texas State University, who provided opening remarks at the symposium. He provided updates on the university's path to R1 status.

Presentations from the McCoy College Research Symposium included:

• Dr. Iqbal Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Economics: “Measuring news shock to uncertainty and its impact on macroeconomic activities”

• Dr. Joni Charles, Associate Professor of Economics: “Social Engagement in Groundwater Governance”

• Dr. Josh Daspit, Associate Professor of Management, and Jason Silva, Assistant Research Fellow: “Insights on Minority-Owned Business Growth: Identifying Primary Challenges and Proposing Pathways for Advancement”

• Dr. Tahir Ekin, Associate Professor of Analytics: “Fraud Analytics”

• Dr. Li Feng, Professor of Economics: “Know Yourself, Get on the Right Bus, and Develop a Sustainable Research Agenda”

• Dr. Aditya Gupta, Assistant Professor of Marketing: “Choice of Flexiworkspace Design and Salesperson Performance”

• Dr. Binod Guragai, Assistant Professor of Accounting: “Merely Bookkeepers? Chief Accounting Officers and Firm-Level Performance”

• Dr. Yifan Liu, Assistant Professor of Finance: “The Impact of the Opioid Crisis on Local Credit Union Performance and Risk”

• Dr. Elissa Marek, Assistant Professor of Business Law: “Thinking Outside the Box: Incentivizing Sustainable Reclamations of Carceral Space”

• Dr. Masoud Moradi, Assistant Professor of Marketing: “The Impact of Textual and Visual Brand Prominence on Crowdfunding Success for Aftermarket Openings”

• Dr. Janet Payne, Professor of Finance: “Can Machine Learning Methods Predict Beta”

• Dr. Indu Ramachandran, Associate Professor of Management: “The role of the Top Management Team in enabling psychological contract during periods of uncertainty and strategic renewal”

• Dr. Steven Rayburn, Associate Professor of Marketing, and Dr. Sid Anderson, Associate Professor of Marketing: “To Do is to Be: Workplace Design to Support Employee Prosocial Motivation at the Organizational Frontline”

• Dr. Stephanie Solansky, Associate Professor of Management: “Responsible Leadership: Past, Present, and Future of Leading Beyond the Bottom Line”

• Dr. Holly Syrdal, Assistant Professor of Marketing: “Social religion: A cross-platform examination of the impact of religious influencer message cues on engagement – The Christian context”

• Dr. Jeff Todd, Associate Professor of Business Law: “Economics, Environmental Justice, and Energy Transition Laws”

• Dr. Emily Wang, Assistant Professor of Accounting: “CEO Connectedness and Corporate Tax Behavior”

• Dr. Garry White, Associate Professor of Information Systems: “Exploratory Study Comparing the Relationship Structure of Narcissism, Attitudes and Behavior across Social Media Platforms for Generation Z”

• Dr. Muxin Zhai, Assistant Professor of Economics: “Future Doctors at the Present Crossroad: Nudging College Major Choices toward Health Sciences”

• Dr. Emily Zhu Fainman, Assistant Professor of Information Systems & Analytics: “Delivering in the Time of Covid-19: A Population-Based Study of Childbirths in the U.S.”

For more information, email Twister Marquiss, manager of marketing and communications for the McCoy College of Business, at twister@txstate.edu.

About the McCoy College of Business
Established in 1970, Texas State’s business school officially became the McCoy College of Business in 2004 following a donation of $20 million by Emmett and Miriam McCoy. The college, which offers classes in both San Marcos and Round Rock, is accredited by AACSB in both business and accounting, and has graduated nearly 42,000 alumni.