Research and Instructional Development Working Papers

Listed below are the Research Working Papers and Instructional Development Papers of the Center for Business and Economic Development, Sam Houston State University.

They can be ordered from the Center for Business Research and Economic Development free of charge by email to CBED@shsu.edu.

1991-2007 Reseach Working Papers

No. 07-03MG/April 2007: “Cluster Concentrations: A Typology Developed and Tested from the Macro Perspective” by Pamela Zelbst, Gregory Frazier, and Victor Sower.
No. 07-02MIS/April 2007: “Information Technology Customer Service: ‘Best Practice' Processes for Operations” by M. Keith Wright and Charles J. Capps III.
No. 07-01MIS/January 2007: “The Development of a Theory of Learning Performance” by David Taylor.
No. 06-15M/October 2006: “Benchmarking in Hospitals: When you Need More than a Scorecard” by Victor Sower.
No. 06-14M/August 2006: “Starbuck's: Enhancing Marketing Efforts with Geography Information Systems” by John J. Newbold, Sanjay Mehta, and Mark Leipnik.
No. 06-13M/August 2006: “Sam Houston State University Campus Parking Focus Groups” by John J. Newbold and Sanjay Mehta.
No. 06-12M/August 2006: “Developing Service Learning Marketing Projects” by John J. Newbold.
No. 06-11M/August 2006: “Implementing Service-Learning for a Marketing Capstone Course” by John J. Newbold.
No. 06-10M/August 2006: “VistaCare Healthcare Case” by John J. Newbold and Victor Wayhan.
No. 06-09M/August 2006: “Hometown Hardware Embryo Case” by John J. Newbold, Sanjay Mehta, and Irfan Ahmed.
No. 06-08M/August 2006: “Harnessing the Synergy Between Marketing Students and the Local Community: Writing Marketing Plans for Small Businesses” by John J. Newbold and Sanjay Mehta.
No. 06-07M/August 2006: “The Role of Marketing in an Emerging Healthcare Sector: The Case of For-Profit Hospices” by John J. Newbold, Sanjay Mehta, and Irfan Ahmed.
No. 06-06M/August 2006: “The Macromarketing Implications of the Entrance of For-Profit Firms in a Traditionally Non-Profit Industry: The Case of the US Hospice Industry” by John J. Newbold, Sanjay Mehta, and Irfan Ahmed.
No. 06-05/August 2006: “Dogwood Kennel: An Old Dog Learns New Tricks” by John J. Newbold, Sanjay Mehta, and Irfan Ahmed.
No. 06-04M/August 2006: “Sam Houston State University Bearkat OneCard Focus Groups Final Report” by John J. Newbold and Sanjay Mehta.
No. 06-03M/January 2006: “Perceptions of Emergency Department Care by the Elderly” by Victor Sower, Gerald Kohers, and Jo Ann Duffy.
No. 06-02M/January 2006: “Odyssey Heathcare Case” by John J. Newbold and Victor Wayhan.
No. 06-01M/January 2006: “Is Civic Engagement the Key to Bridging the Town-Gown Divide?” by John J. Newbold and Tamara Waggener.
No. 05-04MG/December 2005: “Softlifting: Exploring Determinants of Attitude” by Tim Goyles, Bandula Jayatilaka, Beena George, Linda Parsons, David Taylor, and Rebecca Brune.
No. 05-03A/December 2005: “Government Grants for Primary Research: Influences on University Facilities and Administrative Rates” by Martha L. Sales and Alice A. Ketchand.
No. 05-02MG/July 2005: “Medical, Scientific and Commercial Uses of Roentgen’s X-Rays Today” by Charles J. Capps III.
No. 05-01MG/July 2005: “Empowering Employees in the 21st Century” by Justin M. Prine, Frank A. Ritter, and Charles J. Capps III.
No. 05-04MG/December 2004: “Softlifting: Exploring Determinants of Attitude” by Tim Goyles, Bandula Jayatilaka, Beena George, Linda Parsons, David Taylor, and Rebecca Brune
No. 04-04A/June 2004: “Accounting Educators Prepare to Meet New Texas Ethics Course Requirement” by Taylor Klett, Phillip Morris, and Carl Brewer.
No. 04-03MG/April 2004: “Strategic Planning in the 21st Century: Future Global Realities CEOs Need Junior Executives to Comprehend” by Charles J. Capps III, Keith Jenkins, and Samuel Hazen.
No. 04-02MG/April 2004: “77 Management: Functions, Goals, Habits, Virtues, Sins, Insights, and States” by Charles J. Capps III and Patricia J. Capps.
No.04-01A/February 2004: “Current Status and Considerations of Hobby Losses” by Taylor S. Klett.
No.03-05MG/December 2003 : “There Is More To Quality Than Continuous Improvement: Listening To Plato” by Victor E. Sower and Frank K. Fair.
No.03-04MG/October 2003: “Integrating Patient Feedback into the Continuous Improvement Process in Hospitals: A Tale of Three Hospitals” by Victor E. Sower, Jo Ann Duffy and Gerald Kohers.
No.03-03AC/June 2003: “Using Mini-Cases to Teach Ethics to Accounting Students” by Carl W. Brewer.
No.03-02MG/March 2003: “Cost of Quality: Why More Organizations Do Not Use It Effectively” by Victor E. Sower and Ross Quarles.
No.03-01AC/March 2003: “Overview, Coordination of, and Updates on Existing Programs Including A New But Limited Tax Break Opportunity for Educational Expenses as a Result of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001” by Taylor Klett.
No.02-11AC/December 2002: “Unpatriotic Tax Traitors or Rational Tax Avoiders? Corporate Inversions in the Oil Field Services Industry” by Phillip W. Morris
No. 00-03G/November 2000: “Protecting Children on the Internet – Warning for Webmasters!” by Charles Stowe and Keith Jenkins.
No.02-10MG/November 2002: “Cost of Quality Usage and It's Relationship to Quality System Maturity” by Victor E. Sower and Ross Quarles.
No.02-09M/October 2002: “Social Class Redux: Subjective Relative Income Clarifies Role of Social Class and Privilege Groups in Understanding Consumer Behavior” by John J. Newbold.
No.02-08G/October 2002: “Entrepreneurship Education in the United States” by Charles R.B. Stowe.
No.02-07AC/June 2002: "Can You Trust What You Hear About Trusts?" by Taylor S. Klett.
No.02-06G/May 2002: "Reform of the Financial Services Industry- Analysis of Gramm-Bliley-Leach Act" by Charles R. B. Stowe and G. Keith Jenkins.
No.02-05G/May 2002: "Promoting Legal Services-The Texas Approach to Ethics and Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct" by G. Keith Jenkins and Charles R. B Stowe.
No.02-04G/May 2002: "In Trusts We Should Trust-Trust Planning" by Martin L. Griffin and Charles R. B. Stowe.
No.02-03Mg/May 2002: "SWOTing the Organization's Psyche: Commitment, Consciousness and Psychopathology" by Charles J. Capps III and G. Keith Jenkins.
No.02-02Mg/May 2002: "Motivation of the Volunteer" by Marilyn M Butler, Jo Ann Duffy, and John Miller.
No.02-01Mg/May 2002: "Cost of Quality Distribution and Quality System Maturity: An Exploratory Study" by Victor E. Sower, Ross Quarles, and Susan Cooper.
No.01-08G/July 2001: "Tax Incentives for International Trade Now Available for Entrepreneurs-The Extraterritorial Income Exclusion a Primer for Small Business Engaging in International Trade" by Taylor S. Klett and Charles R. B. Stowe.
No.01-07Mg/May 2001: "How Mergers and Acquisitions Affect Healthcare Employees" by Kim Krueger and Jo Ann Duffy.
No.01-06G/April 2001: "Electronic Signatures Act-Federal Law of Contracts?" by Charles R. B. Stowe and G. Keith Jenkins.
No.01-05G/April 2001: "Effects of /Exclusionary zoning: Sunnyvale , Texas Case Study" Martin Griffin and Charles R. B. Stowe.
No.01-04G/April 2001: "Time to Reorganize Universities for the Information Era?" by Charles R. B. Stowe.
No.01-03G/April 2001: "Taming the Wild West-Legal Issues for Web Site Operators" by Charles R. B. Stowe and G. Keith
No.01-02Mg/April 2001: "Using Manufacturing Techniques to Improve Scheduling and Resource Allocation for Repetitive Projects" by Dana L. Grant and Victor E. Sower.
No. 01-01Mg/March 2001: "Preliminary Scanning of the Strategic Environment: 2015-2050" by Charles J. Capps III, G. Keith Jenkins, and Samuel Hazen.
No. 00-06G/December 2000: "Intellectual Capital - Implications for Management Education" by Charles Stowe and Sara Hart.
No. 00-05G/December 2000: "The Regulation of Electronic Contracts" by Keith Jenkins and Charles Stowe.
No. 00-04G/December 2000: "Protecting Children on the Internet - Warning for Webmasters!" by Charles Stowe and G. Keith Jenkins.
No. 00-03G/December 2000: "Adventures in Estate Planning: Use of Family Limited Partnerships" by Martin Griffin and Charles Stowe.
No. 00-02MIS/November 2000: "Exploring the Need for Node Biases in Time Series Forecasting with Artificial Neural Networks" by Douglas Kline and Gerald Kohers.
No. 00-02MIS/November 2000: “Exploring the Need for Node Biases in Time Series Forecasting with Artificial Neural Networks” by Douglas Kline and Gerald Kohers.
No. 00-01Mg/Feburary 2000: "The Case of Rhonda" by Joe Kavanaugh, Paul Reed and Carol Cumber.
No. 99-07Mg/November 1999: "Employee Satisfaction: Strong Benefits Are Important But May Not Be Enough" by Joe Kavanaugh and Jo Ann Duffy.
No. 99-06Mg/November 1999: "The Impact of Job Tenure/Plateauing on Health Care Workers' Job Satisfaction" by Joe Kavanaugh and Jo Ann Duffy.
No. 99-05Mg/November 1999: "Utilization of Service Quality in Strategic Management" by Cindy Bihm and Jo Ann Duffy.
No. 99-04 MIS/October 1999: "Evaluating Methodologies for Neural Network Multi-Step Time Series Forecasting" by Douglas Kline and Gerald Kohers.
No. 99-03Mg/September 1999: "Important Considerations for Conducting Cross-Cultural Ethics Research: The Case of Israel" by Victor Sower and Judith Sower.
No. 99-02M/June 1999: "CeeBee's Furniture Outlet: A Case in Strategic Management of Small Business" by Ronald Earl, Olga Thomas, Joe Kavanaugh and Paul Reed.
No. 99-01 Mg/June 1999: “Ethical Orientations of Upper Level American and Mexican Business Students in Secular Catholic Universities” by Jennifer Spencer, Victor Sower and Mitchell Muehsam.
No. 98-03M/October 1998: "The Dimensions of Service Quality for Hospitals: Development and Use of the KQCAH Scale" by Victor Sower, Jo Ann Duffy, William Kilbourne, Gerald Kohers and Phyllis Jones.
No. 98-02MIS/October 1998: "Optimization Models for Creating Reduced Reading Lists" by Douglas Kline.
No. 97-07A/December 1997: "A Primer on the Financial Accounting and Federal Income Tax Rules for Consolidation" by Linda Duvall and Kevin Duvall.
No. 97-06A/September 1997: "Silence is not Golden: Further Evidence of Oral Communication Apprehension in Accounting Majors" by Elsie Ameen, Cynthia Jackson and Daryl Guffey.
No. 97-04Mg/September 1997: "TQM Implementation in Small Business Service Settings" by Jo Ann Duffy and Ronald Earl.
No. 97-03G/September 1997: "Identifying and Quantifying Hidden Private Environmental Costs" by Ross Quarles.
No. 97-02G/August 1997: "Negotiation Processes in Legal Transactions" by Keith Jenkins and Charles Stowe.
No. 97-01Mg/January 1997: "DRP & Contract Logistics: Alternatives for Distribution Efficiency" by Richard Schrader and Victor Sower.
No. 96-03G/October 1996: "Analyzing the Implications of Legal Environment on Economic Transition of Eastern European Countries into the International Market" by Charles Stowe.
No. 96-02G/October 1996: "Toward Developing a Model for Analyzing Venture Capital Potential in Eastern Europe" by Charles Stowe.
No. 96-01M/June 1996: "A Cross-Cultural Study of the Ethical Orientations of Potential Retail Managers" by Victor Sower.
No. 95-20A/October 1995: "Antecedents and Consequences of Job-Related Tension Among Information Systems Auditors" by Ross Quarles.
No. 95-19A/September 1995: "How Much Does It Really Cost to be Green? The Need for an Environmental Cost Classification System" by Ross Quarles.
No. 95-18Mg/September 1995: "Quality Circles in the University Classroom: An Evolutionary Study" by Victor Sower and Ross Lovell.
No. 95-17G/August 1995: "Economic Value Added" by Robbie Lewis and Hadley Leavell.
No. 95-16G/August 1995: "Community Reinvestment Act" by M. Jay Garrison, Angela Lawrence and Hadley Leavell.
No. 95-15G/May 1995: "Bank Regulation: A Cost Comparison" by Hadley Leavell and Russell Barnett.
No. 95-14Mg/Feburary 1995: "New Product Development Teams: A Pilot Study" by Paul Gentry, Thomas E. Taylor III and Roger Abshire.
No. 95-13Mg/March 1995: "A Comparison of Structural Equation Models of Service Satisfaction" by Jo Ann Duffy and Alice Ketchand.
No. 95-12A/Feburary 1995: "The Philosophy of History Compared to Audit Inquiry" by Carl Brewer.
No. 95-11A/Feburary 1995: "Theory of Audit Reporting" by Carl Brewer.
No. 95-10M/January 1995: "Green Marketing: Salvation or Oxymoron?" by William Kilbourne.
No. 95-09M/January 1995: "Postmodern Consumption and Ecology: Are They Compatible in a Global Order?" by William Kilbourne.
No. 95-08M/January 1995: "Consumption Ideology and the Ecological Crisis: Is Demarketing Consumption the Solution?" by William Kilbourne.
No. 95-07M/January 1995: "From Polemics to Discourse: A Preliminary Examination of the Ideological Character of Advertising" by William Kilbourne and Stephen Grove.
No. 95-06M/January 1995: "Rational consumption: A Brief Historical Analysis" by William Kilbourne and Floyd Rudmin.
No. 95-05M/January 1995: "On the Role of Critical Theory in the Analysis of Consumpion" by William Kilbourne.
No. 95-04M/January 1995: "Consumption and the Ecological Crisis: Historical Roots" by William Kilbourne.
No. 95-03G/January 1995: "Getting Ready for 2000! For Solo/Small Business Firms" by Charles Stowe.
No. 95-02Mg/March 1995: "Wisconsin Central 1994: Continuing Success in the Railroad Industry" by Paul Reed and Otto Dobnick.
No. 95-01Mg/January 1995: "Effects of Advanced Manufacturing Technology Implementation on Product Value: A Cross Sectional Survey" by Victor Sower and Roger Abshire.
No. 94-11M/October 1994: "Metaphors and Marvels: The Rise of the Mechanical World and the Demise of Nature" by William Kilbourne.
No. 94-10M/October 1994: "Technology and Gender: A Socio-Economic Perspective" by William Kilbourne and Susan Weeks.
No. 94-09A/August 1994: "The Recent State of the Quasi-Reorganization" by Ennis Hawkins and Don Goff.
No. 94-08G/July 1994: "Residential Real Estate Valuation: Economic Forces and the Issue of Redlining" by Andrew Holmes and Joe James.
No. 94-07A/July 1994: "The Environmental Timebomb: Disclose, Recognize or Disregard?" by Ennis Hawkins and Don Goff.
No. 94-06E/BA/June 1994: "Another Look at Import Structure and Economic Growth" by George Samuels.
No. 94-05E/BA/May 1994: "Adventures in Macroland" by David Townsend and William Green.
No. 94-04A/May 1994: "The Mathematical Basis of Debit and Credit-An Educational Tool" by Carl Brewer.
No. 94-03A/May 1994: "Origins of the Accounting Revolution" by Carl Brewer.
No. 94-02Mg/May 1994: "Consequences of Implementing Statistical Process Control: An Exploratory Field Study" by Victor Sower, Charles Bimmerle and Fredrick Williams.
No. 94-01E/BA/April 1994: "The United States in a Global Economy" by Vernon Sweeney.
No. 93-11Mg/December 1993: "The Human Elements of JIT and Service Sector Sales Professionals' Customer Orientation and Job Satisfaction" by Roger Abshire and Victor Sower.
No. 93-10Mg/ November 1993: “Dakota Minnesota and Eastern: A Regional Railroad” by Paul R. Reed, and Carol J. Cumber.
No. 93-09Mg/September 1993: "A Study of Employee Empowerment in Small Business" by Jo Ann Duffy, Bob Barragan and Brenda Riley.
No. 93-08G/September 1993: "Complying with the Truth in Savings Act" by Charles Stowe, G. Keith Jenkins and Donald Brown.
No. 93-06G/May 1993: "An Investigation into the Shareholder Wealth Effects of Targeted and Open-Market Common Stock Repurchases" by Claudia Denker, Hadley Leavell and Mark Cross.
No. 93-05E/May 1993: "Teaching the Relationships Between Production and Costs" by Bill Green.
No. 93-04G/May 1993: "An Investigation of the Shareholder Wealth Effects of Changes in the S&P 500 Index (Finance)" by Claudia Denker, Hadley Leavell and Mark Cross.
No. 93-03G/ May 1993: “Corporate Executives Express Need for Better Communication between the Business World and Academia” by Shirley H. Tucker, Sara A. Hart, and Mitchell J. Muehsam.
No. 93-02E/BA/May 1993: "Improving the Teacher Effectiveness of an Economics Department" by Mitchell Muehsam and Vernon Sweeney.
No. 93-01G/April 1993: "A Primer on the Financial Institution Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989" by Charles Stowe and G. Keith Jenkins.
No. 92-09Mg/December 1992: "Perceived Service Quality and Satisfaction Within U.S.A. Long-Term Health Care" by Jo Ann Duffy, Michael Duffy, Kevin Rowell and Karen Claridge.
No. 92-08G/December 1992: "An Examination of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991" by Charles Stowe, Keith Jenkins and Donald Brown.
No. 92-07Mg/August 1992: "Quality Circles in the University Classroom" by Ross Lovell and Victor Sower.
No. 92-06Mg/August 1992: "Longitudinal Study of the Use of Statistical Process Control Among Plastics Molders in the State of Texas : Interim Report on Year Two of a Five Year Study" by Victor Sower.
No. 92-05G/May 1992: "Texas Creates Two New Business Forms: Implications for Strategic Planning" by Charles Stowe.
No. 92-03G/May 1992: "Preserving the Residential Neighborhood: The Enforcement of Restrictive Covenants" by Charles Stowe and G. Keith Jenkins.
No. 92-02Mg/ May 1992: "Wisconsin Central Limited: A Regional Railroad" by Paul R. Reed and Otto P. Dobnick.
No. 92-01/Mg/May 1992: "A Comparison of Nursing Home Residents' and Administrators' Judgment of Service Quality" by Jo Ann Duffy, Michael Duffy and William Kilbourne.
No. 91-03 Mg/ November 1991: "Use of Stimulation for Determining Optimum Level of Buffer Inventories in a JIT Environment: A Strategic Perspective" by Victor E. Sower, Michael J. Savoie, and Jaideep G. Motwani.
No. 91-02G/ November 1991: "SPC Implementation in the Plastic Molding Industry" by Victor E. Sower.
No. 91-01G/November 1991: "The Ethics of Practice Development Strategies" by Charles Stowe.

Key: A = Accounting; G = General Business and Finance; E/BA = Economics, Business Analysis; M = Marketing; Mg = Management; MIS = Management Information Systems

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