Featured Research

How Should Companies Best Staff the Teams That Perform Software Maintenance on Their Systems?

With some 80% of a system’s cost over its life cycle stemming from maintenance, this can easily be a million-dollar question, especially for larger companies spending sizable sums on maintenance every year. Whitman Professor Michel Benaroch and his colleagues provide some answers in a paper recently published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

Can Fintech Mortgage Lenders Fill Credit Gaps Left by Traditional Mortgage Lenders?

Fintech lenders have burst onto the scene, disrupting traditional lending in the residential mortgage market. But can fintech mortgage lenders fill credit gaps left by traditional mortgage lenders when the mortgage market faces unanticipated and temporary demand pressure?

Digital Platform Owners Face Unusual Challenges in Managing Their Categories

Digital platform owners face unusual challenges in managing their categories, a topic Associate Professor of Management Cameron Miller and colleagues are tackling in a series of papers. The first article was recently published in Strategic Management Journal.  

Does the Risk of Employees Leaving a Firm Affect a Firm’s Propensity to Adopt New Technologies?

General-purpose technologies — e.g., electricity, the internet or, more recently, AI and machine learning — spur a process of innovation as they spread through different industries that figure out how to put them to use. “At the core, a lot of that innovation is human capital-related, as it’s people who go through the learning and integration processes and gain experience working with the technology,” says Natarajan Balasubramanian.

Professor of Accounting Susan Albring and Associate Professor of Accounting Willie Reddic, are co-pis on a project funded by a $65,000 grant from the 2023 Lender Center for Social Justice Grant Program supported by MetLife Foundation, titled “Do Underserved and Underrepresented Communities Pay a Higher Rate Premium in Employer-Sponsored Healthcare Coverage?”

Joel Carnevale, assistant professor of management, was elected to serve as director of outreach for the Network of Leadership Scholars at the 2022 Academy of Management meeting.

David Lucas, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, received the 2022 Lazaridis Award for best paper of the year in the Journal of Business Venturing. “Made to be Broken? A Theory of Regulatory Governance and Rule-Breaking Entrepreneurial Action” (with Fuller, C.S. and Packard, M.D.) Journal of Business Venturing, 2022 37(6).

Maria Minniti, chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises and the Bantle Chair in Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, received the Academy of Management ENT Division’s Mentor Award for her work with doctoral students. Minniti also received a 2023 Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award from the Graduate School at Syracuse University. 

Cristiano Bellavitis, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, was interviewed on Nasdaq’s “TradeTalks” series for the episode “Why Crypto Is Here to Stay, but Recent Events Are a Warning to Regulators” (Nov. 16, 2022), and was quoted in the Forbes article “Joe Biden Leads ‘Critical’ Call For Game-Changing, Global Bitcoin And Crypto Rules After Shock FTX Collapse” (Dec. 5, 2022).

Joel Carnevale, assistant professor of management, was quoted in the Bloomberg News story “Musk’s About-Face on Remote Work Latest Example of WFH Whiplash” (Dec. 1, 2022).

Patrick Penfield, professor of supply chain practice, was featured on WGRZ Buffalo and in Fortune Magazine’s “‘Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’: How a mass lockdown at the world’s biggest iPhone factory is India’s big chance to beat out China as Apple’s favorite supplier” (Nov. 15, 2022), Penfield was also interviewed for, The Washington Post story “Don’t lose your credit card. A new one could take months” (Feb. 21, 2023), a Forbes story, “Autoworkers Score Record Contracts But Industry Costs Up For Debate,” (Oct. 30, 2023), and the Washington Examiner story “Historic UAW strike likely slowed GDP — but only a little.” (Nov. 17, 2023).

Lynne Vincent, associate professor of management, was featured on the “DriveThru HR” podcast (Feb. 15, 2023). She was also quoted in the CBS story “UAW widens strike against GM and Stellantis, but spares Ford” (Sept. 23, 2023) and “How UAW contracts changed with new Ford, GM and Stellantis deals,” (Oct. 30, 2023)

Ray Wimer, professor of retail practice, was interviewed for the USA Today article “Don’t wait on returns. Many stores will have a stricter return policy this holiday season” (Jan. 11, 2023), shared his expertise with CNN in the story “Stores say shoplifting is a national crisis. The numbers don’t back it up” (Jan. 31, 2023), and was featured in the CNN article “Why Walmart is closing half its stores in Chicago” (April 17, 2023).