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Chun-Da ChenView profile

Associate Professor

• International Finance
• Stock Market Analysis
• Derivatives and Risk Management
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Dr. Chun-Da Chen serves as Associate Professor of Finance in the School of Accounting, Finance and Economics at Lamar University, where he has been faculty since 2015. His academic journey began in Taiwan with positions at multiple universities before transitioning to Tennessee State University (2006-2015) and ultimately Lamar University. Dr. Chen's research focuses on international finance, stock market dynamics, derivatives, and risk management with particular emphasis on emerging markets. His work frequently examines cross-market linkages between U.S., European, and Asian financial markets, investigating volatility transmission, herding behavior, and macroeconomic impacts on asset prices. He employs advanced econometric techniques including GARCH models and time-series analysis to study phenomena such as the B-share discount puzzle in China, oil-stock market relationships, and financial distress prediction. His publication record shows consistent output in reputable finance journals including Tourism Management, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Energy Economics, and Managerial Finance. Recent research trends indicate growing interest in sustainable finance (hospitality industry sustainability), fintech (mobile payment behaviors), and international market integration. Provost's Summer Research Award (2018) Multiple Tennessee State University Summer Research Grants (2009-2012) National Science Council (Taiwan) Research Grants (2005-2007) Dr. Chen maintains active research funding and serves in significant academic roles including Associate Editor for Academy of Economics and Finance Journal and membership on multiple editorial boards. He regularly reviews for over 20 finance journals and participates in major finance conference program committees. His teaching portfolio spans undergraduate to MBA levels with specialization in derivatives, risk management, and investments.

ÜMİT AYDINView profile

Lecturer

• Civil Aviation Management
• Airline Economics
• Cabin Crew Training
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Ümit Aydın serves as a Lecturer at Bingol University's Social Sciences Vocational School within the Transportation Services Department, specializing in Civil Aviation Cabin Services. With academic appointments since 2017 including roles at Istanbul Aydın University and Bingol University since 2020, he maintains active industry connections across Turkish and European aviation sectors. His educational background includes a Business Administration undergraduate degree from Süleyman Demirel University (2011), dual master's degrees in Business Administration (Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, 2017) and Aviation Management (Kocaeli University, 2023), with ongoing studies in Aviation Management at Anadolu University. Industry experience spans Flight Operations at Antalya Airport, sales management, and U.S. quality control roles. Research focuses on civil aviation economics during crises, cabin crew training, and customer satisfaction dynamics. His work bridges academic theory with practical industry applications, particularly analyzing pandemic impacts on airlines and airspace management. Recent publications examine snow removal economics, in-flight atmospheric effects on passenger behavior, and financial fraud detection. Scientific recognition includes a Bingol University Rectorate Certificate of Appreciation for establishing the mock-up cabin classroom. His research output shows concentrated activity in 2021 with multiple conference papers addressing urgent aviation industry challenges during the pandemic. As a student mentor, he emphasizes practical skill development through industry partnerships that secured employment for students at international airports. His administrative roles include Deputy Directorship of Bingol University's Continuing Education Center (2023) and prior teaching coordination at Istanbul Cerrahpasa University. The mock-up cabin classroom represents his key infrastructure contribution, providing hands-on training in aircraft cabin environments. This facility supports his teaching philosophy centered on practical competency development through simulated real-world scenarios.

Chen YaruView profile

Professor

• Cultural Interactions
• Global Negotiations
• Status and Power in Organizations
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Dr. Chen Yaru serves as Nicholas H. Noyes Professor of Management and Professor of Global Business at Cornell University's Johnson School of Management, concurrently holding a Visiting Professorship at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). Her interdisciplinary research integrates organizational behavior and cross-cultural psychology to examine how cultural contexts shape negotiation dynamics, status hierarchies, and power structures in global organizations. Dr. Chen earned her PhD in Psychology from Columbia University, establishing the foundation for her empirical approach to cultural phenomena in management. Her educational trajectory reflects the methodological rigor evident in her experimental and field studies across multiple cultural settings. Her research program centers on Cultural Interactions, Global Negotiations, and Status and Power in Organizations, with particular emphasis on how cultural frameworks influence fairness perceptions and interpersonal dynamics. She investigates mechanisms like self-construal and relational models to explain cross-cultural variations in organizational behavior, employing both laboratory experiments and field studies to validate theoretical propositions across Western and East Asian contexts. Analysis of her 15 most recent publications reveals a consistent scholarly trajectory from foundational work on individualism-collectivism to contemporary investigations of status dynamics. Key thematic threads include the cultural contingency of procedural justice, guanxi practices in Chinese business contexts, and cross-national differences in feedback-seeking behaviors. Her methodological approach frequently combines social psychological theory with organizational applications, yielding insights relevant to multinational management practice. Dr. Chen's research excellence has been recognized through numerous awards including: 2008 Best Micro Paper Award from the International Association of Chinese Management Research 2002 Best Paper Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management Multiple research awards from Stern School of Business and Rutgers Business School Sustained grant support from Columbia University and other institutions since the 1990s As an active academic citizen, Dr. Chen serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review and Management and Organization Review, having chaired the AMR Best Paper Selection Committee and guest-edited a special issue on status in Organization Science. Her research program has received continuous funding through competitive grants, enabling longitudinal investigations into cultural and structural determinants of organizational behavior. While specific lab structures aren't documented, her extensive co-authorship network across U.S. and Chinese institutions indicates robust collaborative research partnerships.

John Robert LedgerwoodView profile

Associate Professor

• Financial Accounting
• Managerial Accounting
• Taxation
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John Robert Ledgerwood serves as Associate Professor of Accounting in the Department of Accounting, Economics, Finance & Information Sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's O'Maley College of Business, where he has taught since 2006. His instructional responsibilities include core undergraduate courses in Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Federal Taxation, and Personal Financial Planning, building on prior academic roles at Bethune-Cookman University and Daytona Beach Community College. His educational foundation includes a Master of Science in Accounting from the University of Central Florida, complemented by four professional certifications: CPA (Florida), CMA, CFM, and CGMA. Professional memberships span the American Institute of CPAs, Florida Institute of CPAs, and Institute of Management Accountants, where he served as Campus Advocate. Professor Ledgerwood's research program bridges academic rigor with practical application across five interconnected domains: Financial/Managerial Accounting (examining executive succession and non-profit systems), Taxation (S-corporation compensation and return-free filing), International Business (trade flows, tourism economics, and African development), Disaster Management (business continuity frameworks), and Aviation Industry Ethics (highlighted by his award-winning 2016 case study). His work consistently addresses operational challenges faced by small firms and resource-constrained organizations. His scholarly impact is recognized through multiple awards including the Lybrand Certificate of Merit (2013) and IMA Ethics Competition Honorable Mention (2016). The 2010-2011 Outstanding Faculty Member award from Embry-Riddle's College of Business underscores his teaching excellence, while the Florida Institute of CPAs Chairman's Honor Roll (2011-12) reflects community engagement. Professor Ledgerwood maintains active professional practice through his CPA firm (operating since 1993), providing students with direct exposure to real-world accounting scenarios. His directorship at Enright Foundational Ministries enables applied research on non-profit financial management in Central Africa, creating unique opportunities for student involvement in international development projects. This practitioner-scholar model ensures his teaching remains grounded in contemporary industry challenges while advancing accounting knowledge through contextually relevant research.

Nektarios TzempelikosView profile

Professor

• Business-to-Business (B2B) Marketing
• Key Account Management
• Relationship Marketing
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Nektarios Tzempelikos serves as Professor of Marketing at Anglia Ruskin University's School of Management within the Faculty of Business and Law. His academic leadership includes Deputy Directorship of the Centre for Intelligent Supply Chains and extensive teaching responsibilities across undergraduate and postgraduate marketing programs. His research focuses on business-to-business marketing with specialization in key account management, relationship marketing, and customer value creation. Additional interests span tourism and hospitality marketing, managerial relevance of marketing research, and technology applications in B2B contexts. His work bridges academic theory and practical business applications through consultancy projects and knowledge exchange initiatives. Tzempelikos has published in premier journals including Industrial Marketing Management , Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing , and International Journal of Hospitality Management . His recent publications explore sustainable branding, metaverse adoption in hospitality, cross-cultural account management, and corporate foresight integration. Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) Multiple awards for research excellence Multiple awards for PhD supervision Member of Association for Key Account Management's Academic Advisory Board Editorial board member for Industrial Marketing Management and Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing His research supervision covers sales management, customer value, and relationship marketing in B2B contexts. Funded projects include the BRONZE Project on business resilience for net-zero carbon Essex and Innovation Bridge initiatives supporting SMEs through European Regional Development Fund. He leads knowledge exchange through consultancy for organizations like Vertical Evolution and Dermatonics.

Amy JusticeView profile

Professor

• HIV/AIDS Research
• Aging
• Chronic Disease
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Dr. Amy Justice is the Peter N. Herbert Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine) and Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) at Yale School of Medicine. She holds primary appointment in the Department of General Internal Medicine with secondary appointments in Biomedical Informatics & Data Science and Health Policy & Management. Dr. Justice is also affiliated with Yale School of Public Health, Yale Cancer Center, and VA Connecticut Healthcare. Dr. Justice earned her BA from Harvard University (1982), MD from Yale University School of Medicine (1988), MSc from University of Pennsylvania Medical School (1994), and PhD from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1996). As a clinical epidemiologist, Dr. Justice has developed multiple large national cohorts based on data from the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. The centerpiece of her work is the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS), an ongoing longitudinal study of over 170,000 United States veterans with and without HIV infection that has been continuously funded by NIH since 1996. She has developed and validated widely used clinical indices including the VACS Index for prognosis and the HIV Symptom Index. Her research spans HIV/AIDS epidemiology, aging with HIV, chronic disease management in veterans, and health policy implications for HIV care. Dr. Justice has published over 600 peer-reviewed manuscripts with recent work focusing on alcohol treatment among people with HIV, hepatotoxicity scoring, anemia associations with survival in HIV, multiomic analysis of opioid addiction, liver injury, fatty liver disease identification using NLP, pain genetics, epigenetic markers of aging, and health disparities among marginalized populations with HIV. 2025: John M. Eisenberg National Award for Career Achievement in Research from Society of General Internal Medicine 2022: William S. Middleton Award, the highest honor from Medical Health Broad Portfolio to senior VA biomedical research scientists Dr. Justice advises numerous researchers through the Veterans Aging Cohort Study and has secured continuous NIH funding since 1996. Her work has been presented at the United Nations, International AIDS Society, Royal Medical College in London, the White House, and Congress. She serves on the International Advisory Boards of Lancet HIV and Journal of the International AIDS Society . Dr. Justice leads the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS), which has become a cornerstone resource for HIV research in aging populations. The VACS has enabled groundbreaking studies on the long-term effects of HIV, comorbid conditions in the modern treatment era, and the development of clinical tools that have shaped HIV care guidelines and practices.

• Management Systems
• Standardization
• Quality Management
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Matjaž Maletič serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Business and Production Systems Engineering at the University of Maribor. He concurrently holds positions as co-editor of the journal 'Organisation', reviewer for international publications, member of the Slovenian Institute of Standardization's Technical Committee (SIST), and representative on the Certification Management Board of the Slovenian Institute of Quality and Metrology (SIQ). His academic credentials include: Bachelor's in Wood Engineering, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Ljubljana (2003) Master's in Organization and Management, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor (2006) PhD in Quality Management, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor (2013) with thesis 'Influence of Sustainable Quality Management on Organizational Performance' Research focuses on management systems implementation, particularly ISO standards (9001, 14001, 55001, 56002, 26000), exploring intersections between quality management, innovation, and asset management within sustainable business frameworks. His work addresses practical challenges in standardization adoption and sustainability-performance linkages. Recent publications (2018-2023) demonstrate growing specialization in asset management systems, with dual emphasis on digital transformation barriers and sustainability-innovation practices. His empirical studies consistently examine how organizational context factors mediate relationships between management systems implementation and performance outcomes. Professional recognition is evidenced through editorial and peer review roles rather than formal awards. Active grant funding supports multiple research avenues: Erasmus+ projects (NEXTLOG on logistics competencies, QVCMP on maintenance certification), EU COST actions, bilateral international collaborations, and Programme Group P5-0018 in digital business decision support. These provide substantial opportunities for student involvement in applied management research. Research activities are coordinated through Programme Group P5-0018 and project teams rather than a dedicated laboratory, focusing on practical implementation of management systems in industrial and organizational contexts.

Karine LamiraudView profile

Professor

• Health Economics
• Health Insurance Markets
• Medical Technology Adoption
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Karine Lamiraud is a full Professor of Economics at ESSEC Business School, France, where she has held faculty positions since 2010, progressing from Assistant to Associate to full Professor. She concurrently serves as Full Professor of the Innovation and Health Chair (2016-2026) and Co-Academic Director of the Executive Master in Strategy and Management of Health Industries. Her academic affiliations extend to membership in THEMA research center at University of Cergy-Pontoise and multiple visiting professorships at Stanford University (2014, 2019, 2022), Harvard University, and University of Lausanne. Her educational foundation includes dual Ph.D. degrees in Economics from University of Lausanne and Paris School of Economics (2004), an M.A. in Economics from Paris School of Economics (1998), and dual M.Sc. degrees in Management from HEC Paris and International Management from Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (1997) through the CEMS program. Ph.D. in Economics, University of Lausanne & Paris School of Economics (2004) M.A. in Economics, Paris School of Economics (1998) M.Sc. in Management, HEC Paris (1997) M.Sc. in International Management, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (1997) Lamiraud's research program investigates critical intersections between economic theory and health system functionality. She examines how insurance market structures affect consumer behavior, particularly how supplementary insurance creates switching barriers in basic health plans. Her work on medical technology diffusion analyzes the causal relationship between payment reforms like DRG financing and diagnostic technology adoption, while her HIV adherence research reveals bidirectional relationships between treatment success and continued adherence. Recent publications increasingly explore behavioral dimensions, including gender composition effects on team decision-making using experimental business simulations. Her 15 most recent publications demonstrate consistent focus on European health systems (particularly Swiss and French contexts), with methodological strengths in microeconometric analysis of administrative data and experimental approaches. Key thematic clusters include insurance market competition (38% of recent work), technology adoption dynamics (27%), and behavioral health economics (35%), frequently appearing in top journals like Health Economics , Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization , and Health Policy . Her research impact is recognized through significant awards and funding: WILEY Best Paper Award in Health Economics (2009) Fulbright Fellowship and Swiss National Science Foundation grants (2005-2008) ANR-funded LySAIRI cancer research project (2021) Continuous grant support since 2005 from major European funders As an educator, she teaches core health economics courses at ESSEC while directing executive education for health industry leaders. Her academic service includes co-editing Health Economics journal and serving on the International Health Economics Association's Arrow Award Committee. She maintains active research collaborations across institutions including Stanford University, Harvard University, and Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, positioning her at the nexus of European health policy research and global academic networks.