Highlights

Listed below are recipients of research awards instituted by Coles College such as the Distinguished Scholarship Award, Outstanding Impact Journal Publication Award, Best Working Paper Award, to name a few.

Distinguished Scholarship Award

• James Meurs

Financial Times Top 50 Journal Publication Awards

• Birton Cowden for his paper "Straight OUTTA Detroit: Embracing Stigma as Part of the Entrepreneurial Narrative" published in the Journal of Management Studies.
• Divesh Sharma for his paper "Determinants and Consequences of the Severity of Executive Compensation Clawbacks" published in Contemporary Accounting Research.
• Duanping Hong for his paper "Losers of CEO Tournaments: Incentives, Turnover, and Career Outcomes" published in The Accounting Review.
• Hyunju Shin for her paper "CEO’s Childhood Experience of Natural Disaster and CSR Activities" published in the Journal of Business Ethics.
• Patrick van Esch for his paper "Who Cares More About the Environment, Those with an Intrinsic, an Extrinsic, a Quest, or an Atheistic Religious Orientation?: Investigating the Effect of Religious Ad Appeals on Attitudes Toward the Environment" published in the Journal of Business Ethics.
• Shelby Renee Meek for her paper "Entrepreneurship and Subjective vs Objective Institutional Performance: A Decade of US Hospital Data" published in Research Policy.

Distinguished Journal Publication Award

• Prachi Gala for her paper “Exploring the dark side of Integrity: Impact of CEO Integrity on Firms’ Innovativeness, Risk-taking and Proactiveness” published in the European Journal of Marketing.

Outstanding Impact Publication Award

• Dana Hermanson for his paper “The Effect of Alternative Fraud Model Use on Auditors’ Fraud Risk Judgments” published in the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. 

Community Engagement Award

• Dana Hermanson for his work “Letters to the Editor – Wall Street Journal, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Marietta Daily Journal”.

Summer Research Fellowship

• Joshua Palmer for his work "A Meta-Analytic Examination of the Impact of Leader Age on Leader Effectiveness".
• Yoon Hee Kim for her work "The Effects of GPO Relationships on Hospitals’ Purchasing Performance".
• Zhaoguo Zhan for his work "Misspecification and Weak Identification".

Competitive Grant Award

• Miloslava Plachkinova for her National Security Agency Grant on "Cybersecurity Basic Concept and Cyber Career Pathways: KSU GenCyber School Camp 2022-2024".

Coles Working Paper Awards

• Kelly Ha and Sunay Mutlu for their paper “Do SPAC Combinations Affect Their Peers’ Accounting Quality?”, FALL22-02, November 2022.
• Marcus Caylor, Duanping Hong, Hyungshin Park, and Hong Qu for their paper “Market Reactions to Innovative Firms’ Earnings News”, FALL22-05, November 2022.
• Sergey Lebedev for his paper “Subnational Institutional Differences, R&D-Performance, Relationship, and FDI Spillovers in Russia”, SPRING23-02, March 2023.
• Prachi Gala for her paper “CEO Pay Slice and Firm Value: Is Corporate Social Responsibility a Missing Link?”, SPRING23-03, March 2023.
• Filippo Occhino for his paper “The Macroeconomic Effects of Business Tax Cuts”, SPRING23-04, March 2023.

Coles Working Paper Series Best Reviewer Award

• Duanping Hong