Lutgert Faculty Achieve Record 21 Top Tier Research Awards
April 13, 2026 / Lutgert News / Tags: Academic Journals, Research, 2025, LCOB Top Tier Award
The Lutgert College of Business is proud to recognize a record-breaking 21 Top Tier Research Awards in 2025, honoring faculty whose work has been published in some of the most competitive and highly ranked academic journals in the world.
This milestone reflects the depth of expertise, innovation, and dedication across our faculty, with research spanning artificial intelligence, global economics, leadership, supply chain, workplace behavior, and more. These awards are reserved for publications in journals recognized by leading rankings such as ABDC, JCR, ABS, and ARES, reinforcing the level of excellence required to earn this recognition.
We celebrate the following faculty and their contributions:
- Khaled Aboulnasr & Sunny Song. Emotional Responses to Digital Resurrections: Consumer Reactions to AI‐Generated Dead Celebrity Endorsements. Journal of Consumer Behaviour.
- Meagan Baskin, Jennifer Manegold, & Ashley Mandeville. Should HR redesign practices to suppress narcissism or develop humility instead? Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
- Meagan Baskin. Prioritizing organizational success and the pursuit of victory: Understanding the feelings of exclusion in the workplace. Acta Psychologica.
- Vivek Bhargava, Mukesh Chaudhry, Daniel Huerta. Executive stock ownership, debt choice, and the moderating effect of institutional owners. Global Finance Journal.
- Vivek Bhargava, Mukesh Chaudhry, Daniel Huerta. Executive ownership and the choice between secured and unsecured debt. Applied Economics.
- Amelia Biehl & Amir Borges Ferreira Neto. The effect of retail chain expansions on local small businesses: The case of Dollar General in Florida. Economic Modelling.
- Amir Borges Ferreira Neto. Regional economic impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns and mitigation effects of stimulus checks and unemployment insurance. Economic Analysis and Policy.
- Amir Borges Ferreira Neto. Localization Economies and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Football Teams in São Paulo, Brazil. Southern Economic Journal.
- Eric Dent, Stephanie Torrico, Craig Randall. Japanese Postwar Success: The Impact of Moral Re-Armament. Enterprise & Society.
- Kang Hsu. Strategic operational response to newcomers: A longitudinal analysis. Journal of Business Research.
- Kang Hsu. Regeneration and Supply Chain Complexity: Insights from the Forest Sector. Journal of Supply Chain Management.
- Jin Lee. Auditors’ decision-making aid for going concern audit opinions through machine learning analysis. International Journal of Accounting Information Systems.
- Stephanie Torrico, Ashley Mandeville, Joseph Liu, & Jennifer Manegold. Increasing Leadership Self-Efficacy Through Experiential Learning in Student Groups. Journal of Management Education.
- Jennifer Manegold. Gender Differences in Perception of Gender Inequity in Human Resource Management Practices. Human Resource Management Journal.
- Peter Meso. Including Individuals' Sense of Self in Digital Information Privacy. Journal of Global Information Management.
- Jase Ramsey. The experience dilemma: A nonlinear exploration of antecedents to entrepreneurial alertness. Journal of International Management.
- Krishna Regmi. Baby steps to success? The impact of paid maternity leave on children’s long-term outcomes in the United States. Journal of Population Economics.
- Daniel Rottig. The Role of Mindfulness in Entrepreneurship: An Ethical Perspective Through the Phronesis Framework. Journal of Business Ethics.
- Piyush Shah. 3 Types of Silos That Stifle Collaboration—and How to Dismantle Them. Harvard Business Review.
- Thant Syn. Social Inclusion/Exclusion in Information Systems: A Review and Roadmap for Research. Information Systems Journal.
- Gina Tran, Khaled Aboulnasr, & Sunny Song. The Rise of the Deinfluencers: Perceived Similarity and Anticipated Emotions in Advocating Mindful Consumption on Social Media. Psychology & Marketing.
