faculty achievements

David Amico (School of Arts and Humanities) has a show at the Ace Gallery in Beverly Hills, California.

Michelle Bligh (School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences) published “It Takes Two to Tango: An Interdependence Analysis of the Spiraling of Perceived Trustworthiness and Cooperation in Interpersonal and Intergroup Relationships” in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, with D.L. Ferrin and J.C. Kohles, and “Negotiating Gender Role Expectations: Rhetorical Leadership and Women in the U.S. Senate” in Leadership, with J. C. Kohles. She also presented The Influence of the Romance of Leadership in Daily Work Contexts at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Anaheim, California; and, with A. Gaffney, M. Schlehofer, and B.J. Casad, “Media and Political Identification Influence Perceptions of Female Politicians” at the seventh Biennial Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues in Chicago.

Samir Chatterjee (School of Information Systems and Technology) coauthored “A Design Science Research Methodology for Information Systems Research,” published in the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS). He also coauthored “A Framework for ICT Standards Creation: The Case of ITU-T Standard H.350,” published in Information Systems. Along with doctoral student Kevin Williams, he coauthored “Design of Emerging Digital Services: A Taxonomy.” It was nominated for best student paper award at third DESRIST conference held in Atlanta, Georgia. Chatterjee and his students from NCL lab published and presented three papers at the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) held in Toronto, Canada.

Ingolf U. Dalferth (School of Religion) published the following articles: “Die Selbstverkleinerung des Menschen” in ZThK; “Unbedingter Sinn und absolute Transzendenz” in DZPh; and “Glaube ist kein Arsenal zeitloser Werte” in Reformatio. Dalferth was the chair of the conference on “Anthropology in Cultural Studies” in Zurich, Switzerland, coorganizer of the International Symposium Foundations of Human Social Behavior in Zurich, codirector of “Philosophy of Religion Today in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and keynote speaker at the 17th European Conference on Philosophy of Religion on “Sacrifice” in Oslo, Norway.

Jenny Darroch (Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management) edited a special marketing journal on Drucker.

Cornelis “Kees” de Kluyver (Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management) released the third edition of his textbook Strategy: A View from the Top, written with John A. Pearce II.

Stewart Donaldson (School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences) had several articles published: “In search of the blueprint for an evidence-based global society” and “A practitioner's guide for gathering credible evidence” in What Counts as Credible Evidence in Applied Research and Evaluation Practice?, S.I. Donaldson, C.A. Christie, and M.M. Mark, editors; and “ HYPERLINK "http://adh.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/10/1/104.pdf" \t "_blank" coauthored with H. Preskill, in Advances in Developing Human Resources. Donaldson also made several presentations: keynote speaker at the Evaluation Training Workshop of the Missouri Foundation for Health, “Practical Program Evaluation” at the Inaugural Summer Evaluation Workshop, Arkansas Evaluation Center; “Positive organizational psychology: A theory-driven, evidence-based perspective,” with I. Ko, at the Fourth European Conference on Positive Psychology in Opatija, Croatia; and taught three workshops at the annual CGU Professional Development Series in Applied Research and Evaluation.

Lori Anne Ferrell (School of Arts and Humanities) was one of nine people chosen to attend the Intensive Shakespeare Acting Course run by the Theatricum Botanicum, an equity repertory theater based in Topanga Canyon, California. She was the only one in the cohort who was not currently a working professional actor. The course covered voice, Elizabethan dance, and stage fighting with swords, as well as learning scenes and monologues. Ferrell also gave a lecture at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on “Illustrating Protestant Books in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England,” part of a series entitled The British Printed Image to 1700.

Delacy Ganley (School of Educational Studies) is the director of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing’s Alternative Certification/Internship Grant that will provide up to $434,000 in 2008-2009 programmatic funding.

Eunyoung Ha (School of Politics and Economics) published “Globalization, Veto Players, and Welfare Spending” in Comparative Political Studies.

Michael Hogg (School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences) organized and ran two conferences with the assistance of Danielle Blaylock, an SBOS psychology student: the ninth annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, pre-conference on group processes and intergroup relations in Albuquerque, New Mexico; and the Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology, “Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty,” in Claremont. Hogg was appointed a fellow of the Western Psychological Association. He attended the INSEAD/Wharton Research Conference on Leadership, in Fontainebleau, France, where he gave an invited paper entitled “From group conflict to social harmony: Leading across diverse and conflicting social identities.” The fifth editions of his two introductory social psychology texts were published: Social Psychology and Introduction to Social Psychology, with G. M. Vaughn. Hogg also published: “Why do people join groups? Three motivational accounts from social psychology,” with Z.P. Hohman and J.E. Rivera, in Social and Personality Psychology Compass; “Social identity and attitudes,” with J.R. Smith, in Attitudes and Attitude Change, W. Crano and R. Prislin, editors; “Social identity processes and the empowerment of followers” in The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizations, R. E. Riggio, I. Chaleff, and J. Lipman-Blumen, editors; and “Personality, individuality, and social identity” in Personality and Social Behavior, F. Rhodewalt, editor.

Ira Jackson (Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management) moderated a KCET podcast, “Economics for a Crowded Planet.”

Jean Lipman-Blumen (Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management) published “Following Toxic Leaders: In Search of Posthumous Praise” in The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizations, Ronald E. Riggio, Ira Chaleff, and Jean Lipman-Blumen, editors; “Dissent in Times of Crisis” in Dissent and the Failure of Leadership, Stephen P. Banks, editor; and “Toxic Leaders and the Fundamental Vulnerability of Being Alive” in Follower-Centered Perspectives on Leadership, Boas Shamir, Rajnandini Pillai, Michelle C. Bligh, and Mary Uhl-Bien, editors.

Joseph Maciariello (Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management) had his revision of Management, the Peter Drucker classic, reviewed in USA Today. Maciariello was also invited to tape an interview with Connie Martinson, host of cable's award-winning program, Connie Martinson Talks Books.

Hedley Morris (School of Mathematical Sciences) published several articles: “Compact Models of the Quantized Sub-Band Energy Levels for MOSFET Device Application,” from the IEEE UGIM Proceedings, Louisville, Kentucky, with E. Cumberbatch, H. Abebe, and V. Tyree; “Compact Models for Double Gate MOS-FET with Quantum Mechanical Effects using Lambert Function,” technical proceedings of the 2008 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference, with E. Cumberbatch and H. Abebe; and “Density Gradient Quantum Surface Potential,” technical proceedings of the 2008 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference with E. Cumberbatch, H. Abebe, V. Tyree, and D. Yong.

Craig Pearce (Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management) had an article published in the Wall Street Journal. In the article, Pearce advocates for the implementation of shared leadership, citing research that has shown that teams perform much higher when decisions are made by many, rather than from the top down.

Jay Prag (Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management) was selected by students as professor of the year for the Drucker School, in both the executive management and financial engineering programs.

Sue Robb and Deb Smith (School of Educational Studies) presented information about the outcomes of their projects at the annual Council for Exceptional Children’s meeting, held in Boston, and at the Annual Office of Special Education Programs’ Annual Project Directors’ Meeting in Washington, DC. Smith was just appointed to the advisory board of the nation’s technical assistance center for issues related to response-to-intervention, which is a new strategy to assist young children who are struggling to learn how to read. A 2008 Portuguese edition of her introductory textbook about special education and special needs learners, Introducao a Eduacao Especial, was recently released.

Jean Schroedel (School of Politics and Economics) was on three different radio programs: commentator on the presidential election on Intersection of Faith and Reason, hosted by Frank Pastore on July 29, 2008, which was broadcast throughout Southern California; commentator on the women’s vote in the upcoming presidential election on the Intersection of Faith and Reason on June 6, 2008; and commentator on Barack Obama wrapping up the Democratic nomination on Baxter in the Morning, hosted by Dennis Baxter and Paul Lane, on KCAA on June 4, 2008. Schroedel also participated in “Roundtable: Madam President in 2008? Assessing Hillary Clinton’s Candidacy” at the American Political Science Association Meetings in Chicago.

James Wallace (Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management) ad an article published in Applied Corporate Finance. The article is on the topic of his book Value(s)-Based Management.

Hideki Yamawaki (Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management) wrote “What Determines the Profitability of Foreign Direct Investment,” with M. Sakakibara, which was published by Managerial and Decision Economics.