FREDS Research Publications
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Can you see me lying? Investigating the role of deception on gaze behavior
(Elsevier, 2023-06-01)Throughout the early part of this century, and especially during the peak of the global pandemic of 2020, the world has come to rely increasingly on computer-mediated communication (CMC). The study of computer-based media ... -
Improving imbalanced machine learning with neighborhood-informed synthetic sample placement
(Routledge, 2022-10-02)Machine learning is widely used in information systems design. Yet, training algorithms on imbalanced datasets may severely affect performance on unseen data. For example, in some cases in healthcare, fintech, or cybersecurity ... -
Estimating land values using residential sales data
(Elsevier, 2022-10-29)Land prices are at the heart of urban economics but are generally not observed directly. Though they are central to household and firm location choices, land-only sales in urban areas are rare and often outliers. Indeed, ... -
Serving up a slice of entrepreneurship on campus: The new Pizza Hut museum
(University of California Press, 2022-02-01)An interdisciplinary team at Wichita State University with individuals from the departments of Business, Communication, History, and Museum Studies worked with a design firm to rehabilitate the first Pizza Hut into a museum, ... -
Developing a small business educational program for growing rural businesses
(Small Business Institute, 2021-11-16)This paper elaborates on the development of a small business certificate program in rural Kansas. Researchers and local practitioners suggest that there are differences between rural and urban small businesses and that ... -
The transformative potential of artificial intelligence
(Elsevier Ltd, 2022-01-01)The terms ‘human-level artificial intelligence’ and ‘artificial general intelligence’ are widely used to refer to the possibility of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) with potentially extreme impacts on society. These ... -
Forecasting AI progress: A research agenda
(Elsevier, 2021-09-01)Forecasting AI progress is essential to reducing uncertainty in order to appropriately plan for research efforts on AI safety and AI governance. While this is generally considered to be an important topic, little work has ... -
Visualization analysis of OSPTE comments
(Wichita State University, 2021-04-02)The teaching evaluation instrument used by Wichita State University for Face-to-Face classes is called SPTE (Student Perception Teaching Evaluation). When WSU moved to online teaching, the social science lab at WSU developed ... -
A systematic literature review on supply chain operational disruption management for resilience
(Wichita State University, 2021-04-02)In the recent years, supply chain has become longer, larger, more complex, and more vulnerable to disruption. As a result, practitioners and researchers are paying more attention to supply chain risk management. COVID-19 ... -
Extending the Task-Technology Fit (TTF) model to e-textbook usage by students and instructors
(IGI Global, 2021)Companies produce increasing numbers of textbooks in electronic format (e-textbooks) for use by students and instructors. One would be remiss, however, to think that university bookstores are not filled with hard copies ... -
Tablets for problem-solving through a flow theory: the impact of navigation and visual appearance on perceived performance and efficiency
(Emerald, 2021-01-22)Purpose: The paper aims to investigate how a tablet's design features, namely, its navigation design and visual appearance, influence users' enjoyment, concentration and control, when using tablets for problem-solving, and ... -
Twitter sentiment analysis and visualization
(Wichita State University, 2020-05-01)Twitter is a social networking site where users interact by posting messages called "tweets". The tweets cover a wide range of topics including personal, business, and government tweets from all over the world in multiple ... -
Impact of commitment, information sharing, and information usage on supplier performance: a Bayesian belief network approach
(Springer Nature, 2019-12-19)Due to the proliferation of information systems and technology, supply chains have the capability of acquiring an enormous amount of supplier data in their databases. However, much of the useful supplier-specific insights ... -
Transparency regulation and stock price informativeness: evidence from the european union’s transparency directive
(American Accounting Association, 2019)We examine changes in stock price informativeness following the European Union’s Transparency Directive (TPD). The TPD, implemented by country between 2007 and 2009, enhanced corporate transparency through mandating regular ... -
Examining the impact of interorganizational systems on process efficiency and sourcing leverage in buyer-supplier dyads
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2005-10-02)Manufacturing firms are increasingly seeking cost and other competitive advantages by tightly coupling and managing their relationship with suppliers. Among other mechanisms, interorganizational systems (IOS) that facilitate ... -
Experiential marketing, social judgements, and customer shopping experience in emerging markets
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of experiential marketing modules, service quality and social judgement on experiential values of young customers. The paper also investigates the effects of ... -
How supply chain architecture and product architecture impact firm performance: An empirical examination
(Elsevier, 2019-01)In order to enhance performance, manufacturing firms are building various capabilities and utilizing supply chain networks that are geographically dispersed around the globe. This study examines how decisions related to ... -
The role of information usage in a retail supply chain: a causal data mining and analytical modeling approach
(Elsevier, 2019-06)This study utilizes both a resource-based view and organizational learning theory to present the need to distinguish information sharing from information usage. Our main research aim was to investigate the mediating role ... -
The de-federalization gamble: a workable anti-commandeering framework for states seeking to legalize certain vice areas
(Mid-Atlantic Academy for Legal Studies in Business, 2018)The states and the central government have endured over two centuries of a tenuous power-sharing arrangement. This debate has traditionally deferred to the national government and left little constitutional avenues of ... -
Effectiveness of capacity rationing heuristics in make to order environment
(Inderscience Publishers, 2015)This paper investigates the effectiveness of a dynamic capacity-rationing heuristic for order acceptance and rejection in a capacitated make-to-order manufacturing environment. The heuristics developed for managing capacity ...