Research

2021 Marguerite Howard Research Fellowship Recipient - Dr. Joseph Liu

May 14, 2021 / Joseph Liu / Tags: 2021, Marguerite Howard Research Fellowship

Dr. Joseph Liu began his career as a tax accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP before earning his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016. Prior to arriving at FGCU, he was a faculty member in the Department of Management at California State University Chico and a visiting professor for the University Studies Abroad Consortium in Turin, Italy, and Bilbao, Spain. He arrived at FGCU in Fall 2019 to teach upper-level courses in negotiation, global human resource management, and management of compensation. In the short time since earning his Ph.D., Dr. Liu has produced four ABDC A* and three ABDC A ranked journal publications, one of which appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, a premier journal in the management field. His research specialties include Organizational Justice, Ethics, and Human Resource Management. Last year his article in The International Journal of Human Resource Management, “Leveraging the employee voice: A multi-level social learning perspective of ethical leadership,” earned him a 2020 Top Tier Research Award from the College. Dr. Liu also serves as faculty advisor for the FGCU student chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management. Dr. Liu intends to use the professional development funds included in the Howard Research Fellowship to purchase data for a series of laboratory studies to examine the impact of employees’ non-work behavior and expressed attitudes (e.g., social media presence) on leaders’ resource allocation decisions. Insights gleaned from this research will help managers determine fair treatment of their employees' non-work behaviors and could potentially be provided as training to local business leaders through the Southwest Florida Leadership Institute.

2021 Marguerite Howard Research Fellowship Recipient - Dr. Jase Ramsey

May 14, 2021 / Jase Ramsey / Tags: 2021, Marguerite Howard Research Fellowship

Dr. Ramsey’s research specialties include international business travel, global strategy, Latin America, and cultural intelligence. In the past five years, he has produced 10 A-level or higher publications and coauthored the textbook, Navigating Commerce in Latin America. Last year’s research paper, “A Conservation of Resources Schema for Exploring the Influential Forces for Air-travel Stress,” appeared in the A* journal Tourism Management. His work regarding the relationship between stress and domestic and international air travel led to interviews with Fox News, NBC, and the Washington Post. In all, Dr. Ramsey’s work has been cited more than 1,400 times and ranks an h-index of 17 on Google Scholar. A 2020 refereed review article appearing in the European Journal of International Management named him as one of the most prolific researchers on cultural intelligence. “My research focuses on why some individuals innovate better than others when they are in a foreign country,” says Dr. Ramsey. “This guides my teaching in global strategy by shaping how students recognize problems in local businesses. They then work with those businesses to understand the problems deeply, and ultimately attempt to solve those problems.” Dr. Ramsey serves as the inaugural research coordinator in Lutgert’s Management Department, helping take research ideas within the department to fruition in terms of publication and impactful media citations. He also coordinates the Department’s Coffee with Colleagues series. Dr. Ramsey plans to use the Howard Research Fellowship to start new research with specific focus on the Southwest Florida region, including an investigation of the impact of cultural intelligence on acculturation, entrepreneurial alertness, and innovativeness in Southwest Florida. Dr. Ramsey came to FGCU in 2019 from St. Louis University, where he was a faculty member of International Business. Prior to that, he taught at the University of Alabama and Fundacao Dom Cabral in Brazil. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Bamberg in Germany. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina.

Too Cultured for your Own Firm's Good: The Dark and Bright Side of Cultural Intelligence

March 18, 2021 / Jase Ramsey / Tags: 2020, LCOB Top Tier Award, Management

Employees who possess cross-cultural capabilities are increasingly sought after due to unparalleled numbers of cross-cultural interactions. Previous research has primarily focused on the bright side of these capabilities, including important individual and work outcomes. In contrast, the purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the cross-cultural capability of cultural intelligence (CQ) can lead to both positive and negative outcomes. We propose that expatriates high in CQ excel in customer relationship performance, while simultaneously behaving opportunistically. We also suggest that ethical relativism moderates these relationships. Managerial implications of CQ for opportunism, customer relationship performance, and ethics are discussed.

How Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Saves a Company: The Role of Gratitude in Buffering Vindictive Consumer Behavior from Product Failures

March 18, 2021 / Taehoon Park / Tags: 2020, LCOB Top Tier Award, Marketing

We show that a priori company’s CSR engagement decreases consumers’ vindictive reaction toward a performance failure accident of the company. We demonstrate that a CSR engagement elicits feeling of gratitude that increases trustworthiness of the company, which in turn decreases vindictive behavioral intention of consumers after a performance failure.

High-risk Deviant Decisions: Does Neutralization Still Play a Role?

March 18, 2021 / Kalana Malimage / Tags: 2020, Accounting, LCOB Top Tier Award

In this paper, we test the reasons that auditors form intentions to falsify information concerning an information security issue with the accounting information system, thereby jeopardizing data integrity and security by modifying working papers to hide irregularities and, by doing so, violating their professional standards, which could result in career-ending sanctions. Our results show that sanctions play an important role in reducing employees’ intentions to violate policy, but that even under extreme boundary condition, employees might seek to rationalize their unethical behavior by denying responsibility for their actions, arguing that their supervisors pressured them into those acts.

Monetary Consequences of Environmental Regulations: Costs of Doing Business or Non-deductible Penalties or Fines?

March 18, 2021 / Daniel Fernandez, Wayne Cecil, and Alex Figares / Tags: 2020, Accounting, LCOB Top Tier Award, Law

The cost of doing business in the United States has increased significantly with the advent of environmental protection laws and regulations. Federal, state, and local governments are continually strengthening the laws and regulations protecting the environment. In light of the current regulatory climate, the paper analyzes the federal income tax consequences to businesses for compliance, or noncompliance, with environmental regulation. A threshold question is whether the cost or expense of complying with environmental regulations, or resolving alleged violations, is considered a cost of doing business, restoration of damage, or a penalty or fine.

Spatial Spillover of Transport Improvement on Tourism Growth

March 18, 2021 / Lan Jiang / Tags: 2020, LCOB Top Tier Award, Resort & Hospitality

Transport infrastructure plays an important role in moving tourists to and between destinations. The spatial spillover effects of transport improvements on regional tourism growth were investigated in this study. Using panel data, we estimated a spatial Durbin model to understand whether enhancements in road, air, railway, and highspeed rail transport stimulated tourism growth in nearby regions. Our empirical models confirmed transport spillover. High-speed rail services generated spillover to nearby regions’ domestic and inbound tourism growth. For domestic tourism, road transport and air transport yielded significant spillover, while only air transport generated significant spillover in tourism revenue from inbound tourism.