Awards and Achievements
AUS provides a number of funding opportunities, including 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:
Faculty Research Grants (FRG)
|
FRG No |
Dept |
Faculty |
Co-Investigators |
Project Title |
|
FRG2019 |
Accounting |
Yass Alkafaji |
Kimberly Gleason |
Transformative Entrepreneuring and the Warlord Effect: Evidence from Mosul, Baghdad, and Basra |
|
FRG2019 |
Economics |
Ramon Cobo-Reyes |
|
Anticipated Discrimination and Wage Negotiation: An Experimental Analysis |
|
FRG2019 |
Economics |
Sanket Roy |
|
Employee-Side Discrimination: Evidence from Job Seekers in India |
|
FRG2019 |
Economics |
Khusrav Gaibulloev |
Dina Tasneem, |
Disentangling the Impact of Financial Literacy on Behavior: Does Financial Literacy Increase Patience and Risk Tolerance? |
|
FRG2019 |
Finance |
Ali Mirzae |
Narjess Boubakri |
Bank Prudential Regulations and Economic Activity |
|
FRG2019 |
Finance |
Kimberly Gleason |
Rebecca Beamer |
Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Bricolage: Combining Paradigms From the Arts and Business |
|
FRG2019 |
Finance |
Abdelaziz Chazi |
|
The Impact of Islamic Banking on Economic Growth |
|
FRG2019 |
Finance |
Iness Aguir |
|
Institutional Regimes and their Impact on Information: Evidence from Cross-Listed Emerging Growth Companies |
|
FRG2019 |
Finance |
Ilias Visvikis |
|
Risk Management in the Natural Gas Market: A Novel Model Combination Approach |
|
FRG2019 |
Finance |
Osamah AlKhazali |
|
Do Islamic Small Firms Outperform Islamic Large Firms? |
|
FRG2019 |
Management |
Stefania Mariano |
Savita Kumra |
Remembering to forget: An investigation of Intentional Forgetting in Diversity Management Practices of Professional Services Organizations |
|
FRG2019 |
Management |
Rodrigo Basco |
|
Family Business in the Arab World Observatory |
|
FRG2019 |
Marketing & IS |
George Christodoulides |
Rania Semaan |
Consuming Luxury in the Sharing Economy |
|
FRG2019 |
Marketing & IS |
Nicholas Ashill |
Rania Semaan |
Development and Validation of a Luxury Brand Charisma Scale |
|
FRG2019 |
Marketing & IS |
Kichan Nam |
|
Investigation of Blockchain Technology for Smart Tourism: Trends, Adoption, and Success Factors |
|
FRG2020 |
Economics |
Ajalavat Viriyavipart |
|
Optimal Design and Framing in Prize-Linked Savings |
|
FRG2020 |
Economics |
Hamid Baghestani |
|
Do Federal Reserve and Private Forecasts of Residential Investment Contain Consumers’ Assessments of Housing Market Conditions? |
|
FRG2020 |
Economics |
Khusrav Gaibulloev |
Dina Tasneem |
Food Labeling and Demand for Healthy Food: Experimental Evidence from the UAE |
|
FRG2020 |
Economics |
Ilker Kaya |
|
Perceived Social Roles and Differences in Burnout Among Working Women. |
|
FRG2020 |
Economics |
Adrian Lopes |
|
Controlling Crop Residue Burning: Testing the Long-Term Impact and Scalability of Experimental Interventions |
|
FRG2020 |
Economics |
Ozgur Kaya |
Ilker Kaya |
Climate Change: Investigating Public Attitudes and Perceptions in the GCC—the case of the UAE and Saudi Arabia |
|
FRG2020 |
Economics |
Javed Younas |
|
Information Gaps and Financial Duress: Understanding Demand for Vaccination Services of Pakistani Households |
|
FRG2020 |
Finance |
Iness Aguir |
|
Gender Differences and the Efficiency of Bankruptcy Reorganizations |
|
FRG2020 |
Finance |
Abdelaziz Chazi |
|
Investors’ Preference for Payout Form and taxes |
|
FRG2020 |
Finance |
Ali Mirzaei |
|
Capital Inflows and Growth in Developing Countries: Do Flows Affect Capital Goods Imports? |
|
FRG2020 |
Marketing & IS |
Norita Ahmad |
|
FRG20-S: Internet of Things and the Pursuit of Happiness |
|
FRG2020 |
Marketing & IS |
Aaron Gazley |
|
The Effect of Outsourcing and Offshoring Service Recovery Processes |
|
FRG2020 |
Marketing & IS |
George Christodoulides |
|
Consumer Addiction Toward Luxury |
|
FRG2020 |
Marketing & IS |
Xiaobo Xu |
|
The Moderating Effect Of Societal Individualism-Collectivism and Uncertainty Avoidance on the Relationship Between Antecedents and Sustainable Use of Car Sharing |
|
FRG2021 |
Economics |
Emin Gahramanov |
|
Nexus between Bequest Motives, Public Pensions, Saving, and |
|
FRG2021 |
Management |
Rodrigo Basco |
|
Undergraduate Entrepreneurial Education in the UAE |
|
FRG2022 |
Economics |
Emin Gahramanov |
|
Optimal Irrational Behavior and Inequality |
|
FRG2022 |
Economics |
Adrian Lopes |
|
Indigenous Communities and Species Conservation: Examining the Role of Nature-Based Practices in Promoting Ecosystem Services |
|
FRG2022 |
Economics |
Ajalavat Viriyavipart |
Adrian Lopes |
Addressing Crop Residue Burning in Thailand: An Experiment Comparing Targeted and Group-Based Incentives |
|
FRG2022 |
Finance |
Abdelaziz Chazi |
Zaher Zantout |
Is the Finance Discipline in a Research Silo? |
|
FRG2022 |
Marketing & IS |
Norita Ahmad |
Vian Ahmed |
Social Media Analytics for Understanding Students’ Learning Experiences |
|
FRG2022 |
Marketing & IS |
Kichan Nam |
Jeffrey Baker |
Virtual Reality in Tourism: An Investigation of Authenticity, Activity Type in Heritage and Non-Heritage, and Economic and Social Activities |
|
FRG2023 |
Accounting |
Feras Salama |
|
The Coinsurance Effect of Diversification and Earnings Management: The Impact of Auditor Industry Expertise |
|
FRG2023 |
Economics |
Ozgur Kaya |
Ilker Kaya |
Valuing IQ Losses Due to Exposure to Chemicals in the Gulf Region |
|
FRG2023 |
Economics |
Ajalavat Viriyavipart |
|
Formal Insurance and Informal Risk Sharing: Theory and Experiment |
|
FRG2023 |
Finance |
Efe Cotelioglu |
|
Epidemic Risk and Asset Prices |
|
FRG2023 |
Management |
Rodrigo Basco |
|
Entrepreneurial and Family Business Ecosystem: The Case of Sharjah |
|
FRG2023 |
Marketing & IS |
Rania Semaan |
|
The Impact of Advertising Retouching Disclosure and Body-Image Idealization |
|
FRG2023 |
Marketing & IS |
Mona Mrad |
Rania Semaan |
“Give Me a Second Life! “ Extending the Life-Span of Luxury Products Through Repair |
|
FRG2023 |
Marketing & IS |
Norita Ahmad |
|
Motivation of Women Undergraduate STEM Majors: The Role of Course Design and Pedagogy |
|
FRG2023 |
Marketing & IS |
Abroon Qazi |
|
Risk-Based Decision Support Tool (RDST) for Engineering Safer Healthcare |
|
FRG2023 |
Marketing & IS |
Aaron Gazley |
|
Measuring Service Value in Young Consumers |
|
FRG2024 |
Accounting |
Eid Alotaibi |
Ashraf Khallaf |
Environmental Risk Management in Accounting Information Systems: A Project of Greenhouse Gas Emission Factors in the UAE |
|
FRG2024 |
Economics |
Dina Tasneem |
Khusrav Gaibulloev |
Mobile Financial Services Usage for International Remittances: Opportunities and Challenges |
|
FRG2024 |
Economics |
Ilker Kaya |
|
Empowerment of Working Women in the GCC: Exploring the Impact on Occupational Burnout |
|
FRG2024 |
Finance |
Mohsen Saad |
|
Ownership Structure, Board Characteristics, |
|
FRG2024 |
Management |
Hasnan Baber |
|
“Let the Young Take Over!” A Study of Sustainable Behaviour Among Generation Z in UAE |
|
FRG2024 |
Marketing & IS |
Abroon Qazi |
|
Developing an Integrated Risk Management Decision Support System (IRM-DSS) for Oil and Gas Construction Projects: A Case of UAE |
|
FRG2024 |
Marketing & IS |
Mona Mrad |
|
Customer Value for Secondhand Luxury Products: Conceptualization and measurement |
|
FRG2025 |
Marketing & IS |
Abroon Qazi |
|
Navigating the Risk Landscape of Digital Transformation in Project Management: Insights from the United Arab Emirates |
|
FRG2025 |
Marketing & IS |
Kichan Nam |
M. Sajid Khan |
Generative AI-Powered Evolution: Three Critical Research Directions in the Smart Tourism |
|
FRG2025 |
Finance |
Kimberly Gleason |
Omar Belkhouja |
Tribalism, Social Capital, and Entrepreneurial Intentions: Evidence from Tribal Leaders in Papua New Guinea |
|
FRG2025 |
MSE |
Rodrigo Basco |
|
Universities’ Role in the Entrepreneurial and Family Business Ecosystem: The case of the University City of Sharjah |
|
FRG2025 |
MSE |
Stefania Mariano |
|
The Intertwined Relationship Between Individual Explicit Knowledge and Organizational Professionalization Trajectories: An Inductive Study |
Faculty are also recognized for their research endeavors. The Researcher of the Year Award is presented to a faculty member who has made the most significant contribution to the School of Business Administration’s research mission in a given year.
|
SBA Researcher of the Year Award |
||
|
Year |
Department |
Faculty |
|
2018 – 2019 |
Marketing and Supply Chain Management |
Dr. Kichan Nam |
|
2020 – 2021 |
Marketing and Supply Chain Management Management, Strategy & Entrepreneurship |
Dr. Abroon Qazi Dr. Rodrigo Basco |
|
2022 – 2023 |
Accounting and Information Systems Economics Finance Management, Strategy and Entrepreneurship Marketing and Supply Chain Management Marketing and Supply Chain Management |
Dr. Feras Salama Dr Ismail Genc Dr. Ali Mirzaei Dr. Stefania Mariano Dr. George Christodoulides Dr. Norita Ahmad |
Faculty are also honored for their contributions in teaching innovation and service.
The Innovation in Teaching Award recognizes faculty members who demonstrate exceptional creativity and dedication in enhancing the learning experience. In 2023, the School of Business Administration forwent the nomination process to directly honor two faculty members whose proactive work significantly advanced SBA’s commitment to online education.
The award was presented to Dr. Jeff Baker (Marketing and Supply Chain Management) and Dr. Iness Aguir (Finance) for their leadership in preparing two MBA courses to be delivered fully online in the upcoming academic year. During the fall and spring semesters, both worked closely with the instructional designer, contributing their time and expertise to ensure high-quality, engaging course design. Their efforts reflect SBA’s continued investment in innovative, technology-driven teaching.
The Service to the School Award was introduced in 2023 to recognize a faculty member who has made a meaningful impact through outstanding service that supports the school’s mission.
The inaugural recipient is Dr. Jay Squalli (Economics), honored for his effective and efficient leadership of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, one of the most intensive and essential service assignments within SBA. His contributions ensured smooth coordination of curriculum development and academic quality across programs.
