At The University of Tulsa’s Collins College of Business, faculty continue to push the frontiers of knowledge and elevate UTulsa on the national and international stage. Their recent publications showcase scholarly excellence and real-world impact.
Titing Cui, Ph.D. (operations management), published in Operations Research, the premier journal in his field. His study develops pricing models – illustrated through the mortgage industry – to help firms improve revenue while preserving fairness for customers.
Shubha Sharma, Ph.D. (management), published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, a leading journal in organizational behavior. Her research shows how compassion shapes perceptions of leadership and workplace culture. The findings suggest that leaders known to be compassionate, not merely lenient, are perceived as stronger and more effective.
Alan Chen, Ph.D. (business information systems), published in the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, a top-five outlet in his field. Examining online Q&A communities where programmers and designers assist one another, his research shows that newer members who broker information across groups gain greater benefits than those who stay within a single community.
The college also applauds its department chairs – Saeed Samiee, Ph.D., Wen Chiang, Ph.D., and Li Sun, Ph.D. – who lead from the front as top scholars in their disciplines. Notably, Samiee and Chiang were recently recognized among the global top 2% most-cited researchers by Elsevier.
“Every study our faculty publishes does double duty,” said Genave King Rogers Dean Akhilesh Bajaj. “It advances rigorous, peer-reviewed knowledge while keeping our classroom instruction cutting-edge. Rigorous CCB research makes a real-world difference – informing business practice, creating stronger leaders and fairer markets, while raising UTulsa’s profile around the world.”