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Awards and Achievements

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AUS provides a number of funding opportunities such as non-competitive seed grants for new faculty, Faculty Research Grants for all faculty, and sabbatical leaves. SBA faculty who have received Faculty Research Grants are listed in the tables below:

2011–2012 Faculty Research Grants Recipients

Department

Faculty

Project Title

Finance

Dr. Chazi Abdelaziz

Individual Investor's Behavior in an Emerging Market: The Case of Stock Market Participants in the UAE

Accounting

Dr. Ashraf Khallaf

Connected Boards and Firm Performance

Management

Dr. Joseph Wallis

Impact of Culture on UAE Residents' Uptake of egovernment Services

Accounting

Dr. Feras M. Salama

Global Diversification, Firm Risk, and Hedging: The Impact of CEO Compensation Design

Management

Gary Gold

Unequal Pay for Equal Work in the GCC: Discrimination or Real Socioeconomic Theory?

Management

Dr. Linzi Kemp

Female Business Leaders in the States of the Gulf Cooperation Council; An Investigation of their Presence, Value, Characteristics and Experiences

Marketing and IS

Dr. Sameh Al Natour

Understanding the Multi-level Impacts of ICTs on Performance and Productivity

Management

Dr. Fang Zhao

 

 

2012–2013 Faculty Research Grants Recipients

Department

Faculty

Project Title

Marketing and IS

Dr. Nicholas Ashill

The Impact of Upward and Downward Extensions on Core Brand Dilution and Consumer Acceptance in a Luxury Brand Context: A Multicultural Analysis (UAE, US and France)

Finance

Dr. Anis Samet

Does Public Private Status Affect Bank Risk Taking? A Cross-Country Analysis

Marketing and IS

Dr. Rania Semaan

“You Don’t Say!” The Persuasive Impact of Mandated Versus Voluntary Disclosure and Body-Image Idealization in Digitally Manipulated Advertising

Accounting

Dr. Ashraf Khallaf

Improving the Content and Delivery of the First Course in Accounting

Marketing and IS

Dr. Xiabo Xu

The Moderating Effects of Culture and Ethical Ideology on Ethical Decision Making in Software Piracy: An Empirical Cross Country Study

Economics

Dr. Javed Younas

Does Poverty and Lack of Education Cause an Individual to Engage in Acts of Terror? A Micro Level Analysis of Pakistan

Management

Dr. Fang Zhao

Impact of Culture on eGovernment Diffusion Through a Cross-Country Comparative Study

 

2013–2014 Faculty Research Grants Recipients

Department

Faculty

Project Title

Marketing and IS

Dr. Norita Ahmad

Development and Application of a Web-based Benchmarking Tool and Database for SMEs

Management

Dr. Linzi Kemp

Women in Leadership; Leadership Theory to Powerful Practice

Marketing and IS

Dr. Nicholas Ashill

 

 

 

2014–2015 Faculty Research Grants Recipients

Department

Faculty

Project Title

Accounting

Dr. Ashraf Khallaf

Users’ Perceptions of the Quality of Financial Statements under IFRS. Cases of Italy, Poland and Emirates.

In addition, SBA provides its faculty with an opportunity to apply for a Summer Research Grant that provides the equivalent of teaching two courses in summer school, and thus pushes our professors to spend their time writing during that summer period. Five recipients are selected from each department, with a sixth grant awarded to the best runner-up. The projects that are funded must be aimed to be published in academic journals with a JCR one-year impact factor of 1.5 or higher. Recent recipients of the Summer Research Grant are listed below:

2016 Summer Research Grant Recipients

Department

Faculty

Project Title

Accounting

Dr. Abed Abdullah

Ownership Structure, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Investment in Gulf Cooperative Council Countries

Economics

Dr. Dina Tasneem

An Experimental Investigation into the Effect of Formal Religious Education on Moral and Social Capital

Finance

Dr. Anis Samet

Short-termism and Liquidity Commonality Risk

Management

Dr. Virginia Bodolica

A Grounded Model of Process Formalization for Conciliating the Formal-Informal Debate in Small Business Settings

Marketing and IS

Dr. Abdelkader Daghfous

Knowledge Loss: An Under-explored Risk in Supply Chain Management

Sixth Award

Dr. Mohsen Saad

Liquidity Tail Risk and the Implied Cost of Equity Capital

 

2015 Summer Research Grant Recipients

Department

Faculty

Project Title

Accounting

Dr. Mahmud Hossain

Managerial Stock Ownership and Audit Fees

Economics

Dr. Khusrav Gaibulloev and Dr. Javed Younas

Are Grants and Loans Allocated Differently?

Finance

Dr. Osamah M. Al-Khazali and Dr. Ali Mirzaei

The Impact of Oil Prices on Banking Financial Stability: Islamic vs. Conventional Banking Systems

Management

Dr. Omar Belkhodja

Managing the Knowledge Value Chain in UAE Family Businesses: A Multiple Case-Study Approach

Marketing and IS

Dr. Narasimhaiah Gorla

Factors Affecting Comprehensibility in Software Development: Cognitive Style, Task Complexity, Representation Type, and Problem Size

 

2014 Summer Research Grant Recipients

Department

Faculty

Project Title

Accounting

Dr. Ashraf Khallaf

IT, Audit Quality, Cyber Security

Economics

Dr. Mohammad Arzaghi and Dr. Andrew Balthrop

Rents and Decentralization

Finance

Dr. Abdelaziz Chazi

Dividend Premium Theory

Management

Dr. John Katsos

MNCs and Conflict End

Marketing and IS

Dr. Jeff Baker

Tech Platform Adoption

 

Faculty are also honored for their teaching endeavors. The Teacher of the Year Award honors a member of the faculty who made the most significant contribution to the quality of instruction within the School of Business Administration in a given year.  Winners are nominated by students, then evaluated holistically by a committee of faculty. Items considered include evaluations by supervisors, colleagues and students; the number and diversity of courses taught; and other pedagogical contributions such as textbooks or teaching cases authored.

SBA Teacher of the Year

Year

Department

Faculty

2010–2011

Economics

Dr. Michael Malcolm

2011–2012

Marketing and IS

Dr. Mehmet Gumus

2012–2013

Economics

Dr. George Naufal

2013–2014

Management

Gary Gold

2014–2015

Economics

Dr. Ilker Kaya

2015–2016

Accounting

Dr. Ashraf Khallaf

2016 – 2017 Marketing and IS

Dr. Nicholas Ashill

2017 – 2018 

Marketing and IS Dr. Rania Semaan

2018 – 2019 

Finance Dr. Anis Samet

 

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