Coles Seminar Series

Coles Research Seminar Series is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas within and across Coles College disciplines. Each semester, we invite speakers from top research institutions and within Coles College to give presentations on their ongoing and most recently completed research projects.

The Seminar Series provides the faculty an excellent opportunity to directly interact with leaders in their research areas, get valuable feedback on their ongoing work from peers and also creates possibilities for high impact collaboration.

All seminars will be from 2:00-3:30 pm in Burruss Building, Room 269, unless otherwise notified. Click here for a campus map.

Spring 2021

January 22nd, 2021
Stefan Sleep
Assistant Professor of Professional Sales
Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University

Topic: Can Marketing and IT Be Friends?:  The Impact of Information Strategy, Structure, and Processes on Business Performance
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February 12th, 2021
Weiwei Chen
Assistant Professor of Economics
Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University

Topic: Marijuana Laws and Traffic Fatalities
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March 5th, 2021
John Abernathy
Associate Professor of Accounting
Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University

Topic: Is Pension Plan Information Risk Relevant to Credit Ratings? Level 3 Fair Value Pension Assets and Pension Plan Audit Quality
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March 19th, 2021
Graham Lowman
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management
Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University

Topic: Psychological Network Analysis: A Novel Approach to Modeling Cognitive Structures
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April 9th, 2021
Dominic Thomas
Associate Professor of Information Systems
Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University

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Fall 2020

September 4th, 2020
Aaron French
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University

Topic: Social Outcomes Related to the Intentional and Unintentional Sharing of Fake News
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September 18th, 2020
Robert Randolph
Research Director Cox Family Enterprise Center
Assistant Professor of Family Business Management
Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship and Hospitality
Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University

Topic: Family and Non-Family Sources of Knowledge Diversity in Family Firms
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October 16th, 2020
Gregory Phelan
Assistant Professor
Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University

Topic: Do State Higher Education Incentives Lead to Improvements in Student Performance? Texas's Push for Carnegie R1 Universities
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November 6th, 2020
Armen Tashchian
Professor
Marketing & Professional Sales
Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University

Topic: Effectiveness of Brand Placements in Music Videos on Viewers’ Brand Memory, Brand Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions
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Seminar Coordinator

Jomon A. Paul
Phone: 470-578-6086
Email: jpaul17@kennesaw.edu

Department Representatives

David Burns (Marketing & Professional Sales)
Divesh Sharma (School of Accountancy)
Reza Vaezi (Information Systems)
Michael Maloni (Management & Entrepreneurship)
Aniruddha Bagchi (Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis)