Design & Innovation Faculty, Staff, Student Scholarship
This collection holds the creative and scholarly works of the Department of Design & Innovation's faculty, staff, and students. It includes scholarly content such as journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, etc.
Submissions from 2005
The Rx For Electronic Medical Records: A Research Proposal, Edward W. Wright
Submissions from 2004
Where Potential Leads, Stephen S. Brand
Parish Vibrancy: A Reflection of Pastoral Leadership on Parishioner Support and Parishioner Satisfaction, Terrence J. Brizz
A Tale of Two Colleges: The Fiscal Crisis of the 1990's Strategies For Managing In Uncertainty, Penelope Wheeler Stohn Brouwer
Environmental and Organizational Influences on Corporate Responses to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Richard R. Clune
Institutionalism and Transformational Leadership: Exploring Linkages Between the Two Perspectives, Margaret L. Drugovich
Corporate Governance in the Era of Sarbanes-Oxley, Larry W. Ettner
Health Alert: Underreported Medical Errors, Anna H. Gibson
Investigating Factors That Influence Trial Court Judges' Adoption of Technology, James L. Hill
Training and Coping Strategies: Reducing Expectation Gaps to Improve Perception of Job Performance, Job Satisfaction and Decrease Intent to Turnover in Nursing Work, Lori A. Holtzworth-Brohm
Regarding Historic Preservation: Historic Neighborhood Preservation Associations and Success, Brian W. Kenny
Incentives for Pragmatic Collaborations: Factors for a Win-Win-Win Scenario for Managers, Firms and the Automotive Product Development Industry, Surendra S. Khambete
Social Capital, Organizational Legitimacy, and Transformational Leadership: Implications for Nonprofit Fundraising and Board Relations, Nancy Koury King
Commitment and Cognitive Reinforcement in Workplace Values-Oriented Ethics Programs, Robert M. Krug
Preferable Leadership Outcomes in Adolescent Boys: The Role of Authoritative Parenting, Teaching & Guidance Strategies, and Psychological Autonomy, Franklin T. Kudo
ESOP Accounts, Age, and Seniority: Effect on Work Related Behavior at Four Small Companies, Raymond A. Lancaster
Accounting for Differences in Factory Performance When Adopting Flow Based Production Techniques: A General Purpose Conceptualization, Michael R. Lopez
Privatization, Liberalization, and Regulatory Reform: The Case of Telecommunications, Amit K. Maitra
Relational Governance: An Evolving Model Responding to Evolving Needs!, Joseph Mandato
Jan'l passe li passe: The Haitian Organization in the American Landscape, Nesly Metayer
"Educate Only the Bright Ones" Education and Social Capital in Jamaica, 1950-2000, Beverley J. Morgan
End-of-Life Decision-Making Through Advanced Directives and Pallative Care, Beth Lada Morse
A Journey with the End in Mind: An Examination of How Advance Planning May Influence End-of-Life Decisions, Elizabeth Lada Morse
Change on the Frontlines: A Perspective from the Trenches, Manoj Nakra
Career System Practices: A Pallative or Strategic Approach to Managerial Internal Labor Market Choices?, Schalon Harrison Newton
Career System Practices: A Pallative or Strategic Approach to Managerial Internal Labor Market Choices?, Schalon Harrison Newton
Rethinking the Differential in Precautionary Savings Between Blacks and Whites, Benjamin K. Ofili
Nigerian Immigrants Utilizing Ethnic Affiliation to Create and Transfer Social and Economic Capital to Develop Their Home Communities, James B. Ogundele
Low Entrepreneurship Activities Among the African-Americans Who Live in the Cleveland Inner City, Daniel Musungu Oruoch
Commitment, Trust and manager and employee disagreement on the terms of the employment relationship, Efrain Rivera
The Role of Trust Between Project Managers and Project Sponsors in Information Technology Projects, Patricia A. Sahm
Community Coalitions: Understanding Volunteer Dynamics in a Complex System, Carmen Simmons
Free at Last?, Adekunle Solaru
Everywhere Execept on Top: Women Executives in the Nonprofit Sector, Jane A. Van Buren
Subtle Effects - Significant Consequences: A Field Study of Mutual Fund Selection Behavior, Gary A. Walker
The Effect of Term Limits on State Legislative Effectiveness, Susan B. Waters
Building Blocks for More Responsible Nonprofit Boards of Trustees in Higher Education, Susan Williams
Building Blocks for More Responsible Nonprofit Boards of Trustees in Higher Education, Susan Williams
Toward an Interpretive Evaluation of Electricity Markets: Comparing Western U.S. and Northern Europe - Whether Common Knowledge of Rationality Results in Correlated Equilibrium, Eric Charles Woychik
Submissions from 2003
Parish Vibrancy, Terry Brizz
The Nursing Debut: The Work Entry Transition, Lori Brohm
Complex Unfamiliar Entries in the Airport Context, Bill Brunger
Risk Management Effectiveness (RME): How does a British Multi-national Company go about achieving RME in its US Subsidiary?, Richard R. Clune
A Reflection of Trust: Analyzing the Role of Customers and Sales Manager on Salesperson Trust-Building Behaviors, Daniel Cohen
Emotional Intelligence Competencies in Physician Leaders: An Exploratory Study, Michael J. Deegan
Out of the Mouths of Leaders...A Comparative Study of Nonprofit and For-Profit Leadership Approaches as Manifested in Annual Management Letters, Susan McTiernan Gillen
A Collective Action to Protect the Great Lakes St. Lawrence River Basin By Building a Multijurisdictional Governing Regime, Bruce C. Gockerman
Social Networks and Information Technology, James L. Hill
Cooperation and Defection in the Commons Certified Local Governments and Historic Preservation Commissions, Brian W. Kenny
The Role of Residual Income Management Systems (EVA) in Shaping the Outcome of Businesses in Cyclic Markets – Part 2 Quantitative Research, Gregory F. Milzcik
What's Really Going On? The Jamaican Policy Environment and Small Exporting Firms, Beverley J. Morgan
Inter-cultural Service Encounters: the Mechanism Underlying the Effect of Cultural Distance on Customer Service Satisfaction, C. Fritz Reichert
Enron and Sarbanes-Oxley as Engines of Cultural Change In a Theory of Movement, Teresa Schmid
Motion Without Movement: The Struggle for Workforce Outcomes That Matter, Adekunle O. Solaru
Internet Adoption in the Public Sector, Demo Solaru
Leadership in the Context of a Corporate Restructuring, Howard S. Steinberg
Balancing the Dynamic Tension Between Traditional Nonprofit Management and Social Entrepreneurship, Michael G. Stull
Philanthropy Ventures with Social Entrepreneurs: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Progressive Grantee-Grantor Collaborations, Kwardua Vanderpuye
Deconstructing The Pervasive Adequate Disclosure Debate, Gary A. Walker
The Role Social Capital Plays in Building Effective Nonprofit Boards, Susan Williams
Submissions from 2002
Exploring Office Space Synergy -- Under the Radar, Stephen Brand
A Priest in Transition, Terry Brizz
Between Labor and Art: Service Industry Craftsmanship Defined, Bernard John Brunsman
The "Shop" Around the Corner: How Do Leadership Attitudes Effect An Organization? An Ethnographic Study, Barbara Clemenson
"Like Visions in my Head: Understanding the Formulation of Student Perceptions of the Value of the Liberal Arts Experience, and the Impact of this Process on College Choice, Margaret L. Drugovich
Strangers in the Commons: Collective Action in Aging Policy, R. Robertson Hilton
How Nonprofit Organizations Develop and Leverage Social Capital, Nancy K. King
An Investigation of the Direct and Ripple Effect of an Environmental Jolt on the Airline Industry, Leonard Lane
Vojvodina, Serbia: Cornerstone of Democratization and Multi-ethnic Collaboration, John N. Lauer
World Class Manufacturing Best Practices; Do they play in Peoria? An Ethnographic Study of a Locally Based Production Facility, Michael R. Lopez
The Nonprofit Board of Trustees: Maximizing Its Effectiveness in a Brave New World, Joe Mandato
A Comparison of the Network Strategies of Successful Entrepreneurial and Professional Women, Barbara Mistick and Karie Willyerd
See Jane and Samantha Lead: An Ethnography of a Chair/Chief Executive Pair in a Nonprofit Organization, J. Bart Morrison
Newtown Stationary: Getting Communities Back Into the Economic Development Game, Charles T. Moses
Study of Direct Internet Selling by Airlines in the U.S. Air Travel Distribution Industry, Sowmyan Raman
The Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Work Team Cohesiveness and Performance, Brigette Ann Rapisarda
Putting Socks on an Octopus: A Qualitative Understanding of the Transformation to Customer Relationship Management, Patricia A. Sahm
Large Fries, Two Apples Pies: Rotational Leadership - An Ethnographic Investigation into the Assimilation of Corporate Values, A. Damos Solaru
The Connected Celebrity and Nonprofit Advertising, Robert T. Wheeler
Painting the Canvas of Silence: Vision Enriched Through Voice, Karie Willyerd
Performance and Commitment of Practitioner/Volunteer Leader Partnerships, Donald Zeilstra
Submissions from 2001
Workforce Development in a Small Manufacturing Organization, Agustin V. Arbuluc
A Study of the Impact of Ohio's Instructional Support Funding Process on Institutional Behavior at Two-Year Colleges, Morries W. Beverage Jr.
Lessons in Ethical Capital Asset Management: The Challenges of a Local School Board, Susan McTiernan
The Strength of Strong Ties: The Role of Integrity in Efficiency, Gregory Milzcik
A Smile and a Handshake are Not Enough: Moving Toward the Need, Patricia J. Mintz
In Area 10 Overload: The Great Vacation-Less Class: Cooperation and Coping Strategies of Women Entrepreneurs, Barbara K. Mistick
Essays in Distribution Channel Management Under Demand Uncertainty, Rakesh Kumar Niraj
Ten Thin Slices: A Study of Customer Satisfaction in Retail Business Transactions Wherein Service Providers and Customers Have Different Primary Languages, C. Fritz Reichert
More Than Directing Money: Theories in Use for Helping Distressed Communities as Practiced by Independent Foundations, Sally Austen Tom
Learning Together: Volunteer/Practitioner Interactions In Effective Communities of Fundraising Practice, Donald Zeilstra
The Contribution and Status of Women Inside Directors in Fortune 1000 Companies, Deborah Dahlen Zelechowski
Submissions from 2000
Money and Theology -- It's Not an Oxymoron, Valerie Kay Brown
Toward a Theory of Technological Change, John Rodney Franklin
Parental Choice of Elementary Schools Within the Cleveland Catholic Diocese and Its Implications for the Financial Policies of Diocesan Schools, Thomas Edward Garvey
Business is War: An Investigation into Metaphor Use in Internet and Non-Internet IPOs, Michael W. Grieves
Business is War: An Investigation into Metaphor Use in Internet and Non-Internet IPOs, Michael W. Grieves
Back to the Future: A Search for Economic Progress or Roots? A Comparison of Experiences Between African American Entrepreneurs in South Africa and in the United States, Melinda Dowell Harris