Research in Business and Finance

RESEARCH FOCUS

Dr. Barry Lin	Corporate Finance Corporate Governance Corporate Risk Management and Performance
Dr. Gina Poncini	Innovation, entrepreneurship, and team meetings. Sports events and community engagement. Discourse and communication. Tourism safety and security. Ethnographic methods and multidisciplinary approaches.
Dr. Ricardo Archbold	Accounting Finance Management (comparative)
Dr. Robert Pech	Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ethics Leadership Human Resource Management Emiratization Organizational and Industrial Performance, especially with regard to mergers and acquisitions

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

C. Chen, B. Yi, and J. B. Lin, Director Compensation and Corporate Governance—An Unique Examination of Unpaid Corporate Boards in Taiwan, Journal of Applied Financial Research 1, (2015).
Mooney, Jane, and J. Barry Lin. ” Modeling CSR Project Costs and Benefits Using the Concept of Socially-responsible.” Mustang Journal of Business and Ethics, Vol. 6 (2014): 68.
Chen, Chia-Wei, Bingsheng Yi, and J. Barry Lin. “Media coverage, board structure and CEO compensation: Evidence from Taiwan.” Journal of Multinational Financial Management 23.5 (2013): 434-445.
Chen, Chia-Wei, Bingsheng Yi, and J. Barry Lin. Directors and Officers’ Liability Insurance and Managerial Compensation. working paper, 2012.
To pay or not to pay?–An Unique Examination of Unpaid Corporate Boards with Chia-Wei Chen and B. Yi, Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference Proceedings, 2013.
Liu, Chunhui, Xin Luo, Choon Ling Sia, Grace O’Farrell and Hock Hai Teo, 2014, “The Impact of XBRL Adoption in P. R. China”, Decision Support Systems, 59, 242-249, published by Elsevier.
Liu, Chunhui, Tawei Wang, and Lee J. Yao, 2014, “An empirical study of XBRL’s impact on analyst forecast behavior”, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 33(1), 69-82, published by Elsevier.
Liu, Chunhui, Lee J. Yao, Choon Ling Sia, Kwok Kee Wei, 2014, “The Impact of Early XBRL Adoption on Analysts’ Forecast Accuracy: Empirical Evidence from China”, Electronic Markets, 24(1), 47-55, published by Springer.
Liu, Chunhui, Chun Yi Yuen, Lee, J. Yao., Siew Chan, 2014, “Differences in earnings management between firms using U.S. GAAP and IAS/IFRS”, Review of Accounting and Finance, 13(2), 134-155, published by Emerald.
Liu, Chunhui, Grace O’Farrell, 2013, “The impact of XBRL on forecast accuracy across nations”, International Journal of Services and Standards, 8(3), 247-263.
Liu, Chunhui, Grace O’Farrell, 2013, “The role of accounting values in the relation between XBRL and forecast accuracy”, International Journal of Accounting and Information Management, 21(4), 297-313, special issued edited by Yiuman Tse, published by Emerald.
Liu, Chunhui, 2013, “XBRL: A New Global Paradigm for Business Financial Reporting”, Journal of Global Information Management, 21(3), 60-80, published by IGI Global.
Liu, Chunhui, Grace O’Farrell, Kwok Kee Wei, Lee J. Yao, 2013, “Ratio Analysis Comparability between Chinese and Japanese Firms”, Journal of Asia Business Studies, 7(2), 185-199, published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Pech, R.M. (2014), (Ed.), Great Innovators and Their Legacies – Inspiring Feats of Engineering and Their Impact on Consumer Markets, Saarbrucken, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.
Pech, R. (2014), “Chapter 1 – Introduction,” in Great Innovators and Their Legacies – Inspiring Feats of Engineering and Their Impact on Consumer Markets, Saarbrucken, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.
Kukunuru, S., Pech, R. and Askary, S. (January, 2014), “An Assessment of Employee Commitment To Work Among UAE Nationals”, International Journal of Business Excellence. Vol.7, No.1, pp.1 – 15
Lin, B. and Pech, R. (2014), “A Conceptual Model for Measuring the Potential Value of a Partnering Venture,” submitted to Academy of Business Research Journal on 23 November 2014.
Pech, R.M. (2013), Employee Handbook for Anon. Group of Companies, LLC, Abu Dhabi – An employee guide to policies, procedures, programs, values, rights and obligations, Abu Dhabi.
Pech, R. (2013), “Innovation and Change” Chapter 11 (Extensively Rewritten Revision), in Jones, G. (2013), Management, Middle Eastern Ed., McGraw-Hill, New York.
Pech, R. (2013), “Emirate and Expatriate Labour in the United Arab Emirates,” in Jones, G. (2013), Contemporary Management, Middle East Edition. McGraw-Hill, New York.