Dean's Club Grants
The Walker College of Business Dean's Club funds research grants each academic year to assist faculty in conducting research.
Grants are available to tenured and tenure track faculty for research expenses in increments of $1,000. Awards greater than $1,000 may be considered under special circumstances.
These grants are designed to reimburse faculty for out of pocket type expenses necessary for conducting research. The types of research projects that will be considered are new research projects (i.e., this is not research that has already been conducted) and a new direction of a current research project (i.e., the researcher has conducted research in a subject area and now wishes to extend the study in a new direction).
Each recipient will be asked to participate in a poster session or presenting event. More information about dates and presentation format will be provided to grant recipients. Apply and learn more about the Walker College of Business Dean's Club Research Grant.
2021-2022 Dean's Club Research Posters
Title of Research | Researcher(s) |
| What makes a Good Audit Hire, and How has that Changed Post-COVID? | Pennie Bagley, Kevin Eller, Brian Hasson |
| The Impact of Coastal Groundwater Issues on the Coastal Tourist Economy of North Carolina | John Whitehead |
| Consumer Improvisation, Vulnerability and Resilience | Pia Albinson, Kesha Coker, Jessica Zeiss |
| Collateral Enforcement in Public Goods Games | Brock Stoddard |
| Newcomer Socialization: Investigating the Role of Cultural Values | H. Kristl Davison |
| Consumer Responses to Legality Framing About Medical Canabis in Social Media | Jeff Foreman |
| Air Transport in the COVID Era: A Fear and Satisfaction Analysis using a Best-Worst Scale | Steven Leon |
| Healthcare User Generated Content (HUGC) and COVID Vaccination Hesitancy and Resistance | Wei Xie |
| Is the Influencer I Follow Human or Robot: A Case of Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) Influencers and Brands | Lubna Nafees |
| Personality and Ethical Choice | David Dickinson |
| How Online Gambling Impacts Probability Judgements in a Bayesian task environment | Parker Reid |
| Collateral Enforcement in Small Groups | Brent Johnson |
| Between-group inequality and cooperation | Abhijit Ramalingam & Sarah Brodin |
2020-2021 Dean's Club Research Posters
Title of Research | Researcher(s) |
| Between-group Inequality & Cooperation | Abhijit Ramalingam |
| Political Ideology Does Not Predict Self-control in Stroop Task Performance | David Dickinson |
| A Survey of the Internal Control Environment of Charter Schools & Stakeholder Suggestions for Improvement | Scot Justice, Alex Helms(Louisiana State University) & Dana R. Rummell (Kennesaw State University) |
| Proactive De-Energization: The Implications of Electricity Scarcity on Consumer & Community Wellbeing | Pia Albinsson |
| Factors Related to Consumer Hoarding During Covid-19? | Christy Cook, Pia Albinsson & Jim Stoddard |
| Estimating the Economic Value of the Crab Bank Seabird Sanctuary | John Whitehead |
| Experimental (Re)analysis of the House-Money Effect in a Public Place | Brock Stoddard & Abhi Ramalingam |
| Trust, Consensus, & Emergence of Cryptocurrency Under COVID-19 | Jason Xiong |
| A Comparison of Real & Hypothetical Lab Experiments | Tanga Mohr & John Whitehead |
| In or Out: Understanding Inclusion & Exclusion Experience | Jacqueline Tilton & William Northington |
| Consumers' Perceptions of the Environmental & Public Health Benefits of Last Mile Drone Delivery | Steven Leon, Charlie Chen & Aaron Ratcliff |
| A Temporal Perspective of Food Waste Reduction Behavior | Lubna Nafees |
| Refining the Appreciative Intelligence Construct & Assessment | Brian Whitaker |
| Voluntary Redistribution & Cooperation | Abhi Ramalingam |
| Causes of Inequality & the Choice of Enforcement in a Voluntary Contributions Mechanism | Brock Stoddard & Abhi Ramalingam |
| Investigating How Nonprofit Donors Evaluate Low Financial Sustainability Separately from High Financial Reporting Accountability & Positive Reputation in the Community | Scot Justice, Janice E. Rummell (Shippensburg University) & Tonya D. W. Smalls (Emory University) |
| How Checkout Charity Creates Bounds for Preference Regarding a Roundup Donation Request | Neel Das, Lubna Nafees, Unal Boya & Anindita Das |
| Cross-Cultural Investigation of Collaborative Consumption Users' Behavioral Intentions | Pia Albinsson, Lubna Nafees, Yasanthi Perera (Brock University) & Lucy Matthews (Middle Tennessee State University) |
| Online Consumer Activism: Youth Activism at the Forefront of the Climate Crisis | Pia Albinsson |
| Sea-Level Rise, Groundwater Quality, & the Impacts on Coastal Homeowners | Dennis Guignet, Ash Morgan & John Whitehead |
| Creativity is in the Mind of the Beholder: The Role of Thinking Style | Ilgim Benoit |
| Discomfort at the Holiday Dinner Table: Politics, Religion, & the Confirmation Bias | David Dickinson |
| Another Buzz Word or a New World? How Blockchain Ethics Impact the IT Industry | Jason Xiong |
| Can Social Media Influencer (SMI) Power Influence Consumer Brand Attitudes? The Mediating Role of Perceived SMI Credibility. | Lubna Nafees, Jim Stoddard, Nik Nikolov & Christy Cook |
| The Impact of Social Psychological Distance on Information Adoption in Consumer Reviews | Jeffrey Kaleta & Cheryl Aasheim (Georgia Southern) |
| The Forward Discount Anomaly & the Risk Premium: A Survey Based Analysis | Onur Ince & Tanya Ince |
| The Impact of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Volatility of Professional Exchange Rate Forecasts | Onur Ince & Tanya Ince |
Between-group inequality and cooperation | Abhijit Ramalingam & Sarah Brodin |
2018-19 Dean's Club Research Posters
Title of Research | Researcher(s) |
| The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on Political Information Search Outcomes | Dr. David Dickinson and John Holbein who is at University of Virginia (Political Science Department) |
| Collaborative Consumption in India | Drs. Pia Albinson, Lubna Nafees, and Yasanthi Perera at Brock University |
| Perceived Risk Related to Commercial Drone Deliveries: An investigative Study | Drs. Dawn Medlin and Sandra Vannoy |
| Risk Taking Behaviors in Using Public Wi-Fi | Dr. Hoon Choi, Dr. Carrell Carpener (Longwood Univeristy) and Dr. Myung S. Ko (University of Texas at San Antonio) |
| Insights on Carbon Tax Acceptability: Evidence from Washington's 2016 and 2018 Referenda Collaboration with Steffen Kallbekken (CICERO-Norway and Stefan Callceti (Georgia State Univ.) | Dr. Todd Cherry |
| Bee Data Visualization with the United Nations FAO Office | Dr. Joseph Cazier |
| The Effects of Collegiate Amenities and Conference Change on Student Quantity and Quality at a University | Drs. Austin Eggers and Pete Groothuis |
| Economic Impact of Hemlock Woody Adelgid (HWA ) in Western North Carolina: The Effect of Payment Schedule and Attribute Nonattendance on Benefit Estimates | Dr. John Whitehead |
| Strategic Thinking in Contests | Drs. Bruner, McEvoy and Stoddard |
| Differences in Social Media Use by Generational Cohort | Drs. Nafees and Jim Stoddard, Christy Cook |
| Does Reducing Inequality Increase Cooperation? | Drs. Brock Stoddard and Abhijit Ramalingam |
| Virtual Exchange in Mareting Research Education: the Influence of personality and socialization on Consumers Willingness to Share on Social Media | Drs. Pia Albinson and Unal Boya, Caroline Ducarroz from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium |
| The experience of inequality and the persistence of low cooperation | Drs. Brock Stoddard and Abhijit Ramalingam |
| How Blockchain based Electronic Invoicing Revloutionizes Business Process and Delivers Business Value | Dr. Jason Xiong and Dr. Yong Tang from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China |
| Electronic Word-of-Mouth: An Investigation into Business Responses to Online Reviews | Dr. Steve Leion |
| Adapting the BuyGrid Business to Business Framework to International Markets | Dr. Nik Nikolov |
| The Evolution of the Social Accounting Movement and Steps Towards the Future Success of CSR | Dr. Mary Stolberg and Sirisha Karra |
2017 Dean's Club Research Posters
Title of Research | Researcher(s) |
| Altruists or Propagandists: Understanding the Prolific Online Reviewers Adopting Big Data | Hoon Choi |
| Customer's Perspectives of Air Drone Delivery Services | Charlie Chen |
| Collaborative Consumption - An Examination of Consumers' Willingness to Share not Own | Pia Albinsson |
| Sleepiness, Time-of-Day & Legal Judgements | David Dickenson |
| Trends in Hospital Acquisitions in the United States | Betty Coffey, David Williams |
| Using Technology for Good Texting and Driving: The Lethal Effect | Hoon Choi, Dawn Medlin, Jason Xiong |
| An Empirical Study of Satisfaction, Loyalty and WWOM in the Health Insurance Industry | Steven Leon, Makoto Nakayama |
| A Comparative Study of the Competitiveness of Impact Investing in Financial Performance | Tammy Kowalczyk |
| Public Perception of American Veterinary Medical Association Animal Product Standards | Carol Kline, Bob Fischer, Hassan Tajalli, Jeff Johnson, R. Cody Rusher |
| ICT for Sustainable Development: Interventions with Economically Disadvantaged Small Business | Jason Xiong |