From the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship…
July 2023 Research Highlights reported by the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship.
Jiao Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Accounting and Taxation
Dr. Jiao Li’s research focuses on R&D and corporate disclosure. One of her papers was published in Review of Accounting Studies, which is one of the top five accounting journals. The study shows that analysts help disseminate R&D information discreetly to the capital markets, enabling firms to avoid incurring high proprietary costs associated with public disclosures. Hence, analysts’ role as a private R&D disclosure channel helps facilitate firms’ R&D investment.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11142-023-09766-9
Daniel M. Benjamin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences
Dr. Benjamin applies decision theory to impactful, policy-relevant areas including human-computer interaction, misinformation, perceptions of climate change, and medical expert judgment. His inter-disciplinary research conducted in collaboration with biomedical experts, policy researchers, information scientists, and economists has been published in the top 10% of medical, psychology, environmental, and general science journals. Dr. Benjamin has participated in projects from national granting institutions and has served as a reviewer for the National Science Foundation. His successful collaboration with researchers from various disciplines contributes to furthering the NSU’s research excellence.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=qyByoxgAAAAJ
Suri Weisfeld-Spolter, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing
Dr. Weisfeld-Spolter’s co-authored award winning article, Pandemic Pedagogy for the New Normal: Fostering Perceived Control During COVID-19 received the 2021 honorable mention distinction for the Journal of Marketing Education’s Outstanding Article of the Year Award, and is currently listed as one of JME’s most cited articles. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jmd
This paper emphasizes the need and benefits of fostering students’ perception of control, with a focus on communication, flexibility, and adaptability. We found that enhancing perceived control is a possible approach for helping students cope with the psychological effects of the last few years. Bolstering students’ perceived control has great potential to increase enrollment and support retention, two critical issues for higher education today and more importantly, improve their overall mental health and well-being.