Kelley research is changing the way the world thinks about business
Our faculty members are international experts on a wealth of topics, and are authors of the No. 1 textbooks in sales management, operations and production management, decision support modeling, entrepreneurship, and managerial economics. The leading business journals are replete with Kelley names, so much so that we are ranked 7th in the nation on faculty scholarship by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Here's a sample of recent publications featuring faculty–student joint research.
Andrassy, J., Burke, J., and Stern, M. (2025). Not Walking The Talk: The Effect of Prioritizing Profit or ESG Impact on Employee Behavior Across ESG-Impact and Shareholder-Value Focused Mission Statements. Journal of Management Accounting Research, 37(2), 171–191. https://doi.org/10.2308/JMAR-2022-089
Coleman, B., Drake, M., Pacelli, J., and Twedt, B. (2023). Brokerage Relationships and Analyst Forecasts: Evidence from the Protocol for Broker Recruiting. Review of Accounting Studies, 28, 2075–2103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-022-09682-4
Coleman, B., Merkley, K. J., and Pacelli, J. (2022). Human Versus Machine: A Comparison of Robo-Analyst and Traditional Research Analyst Investment Recommendations. The Accounting Review, 97(5), 221–244. https://doi.org/10.2308/TAR-2020-0096
Jin, H., Merkley, K., Sharma, A., and Ton, K. (2025). Customers’ Response to Firms’ Disclosure of Social Stances: Evidence from Voting Reform Laws. Review of Accounting Studies, 30, 202–246. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-023-09816-2
Friedson, A., Li, M., Meckel, K., Rees, D. I., and Sacks, D. (2024). Exposure to cigarette taxes as a teenager and the persistence of smoking into adulthood Health Economics, 33,(9), 1962-1988. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4859
Friedson, A., Li, M., Meckel, K., Rees, D. I., and Sacks, D. (2023). Cigarette taxes, smoking, and health in the long run. Journal of Public Economics, 222, 104877. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.104877
Lin, H., and Wang, Y. (2025). The value of group purchasing: Evidence from the U.S. hospital industry. Journal of Public Economics, 247(5), 105380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2025.105380
Lin, H., Wang, Y., and Zhou, Y. (2026). Distributional effect of insurer concentration on premiums: Evidence from employer-sponsored health insurance. RAND Journal of Economics, accepted.
Carvalho, D., Ma, P., and Gao, J. (2023). Loan Spreads and Credit Cycles: The Role of Lenders' Personal Economic Experiences. Journal of Financial Economics, 148(2), 118-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2023.02.003
Chu, Y., Diep-Nguyen, H., Wang, J., Wang, Wei, and Wang, Wenyu (2025). Shareholder-Creditor Conflict and the Resolution of Financial Distress. The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 14(3), 804–838. https://doi.org/10.1093/rcfs/cfae005
Burnell, D., Neubert, E., and Fisher, G. (2023). Venture tales: Practical storytelling strategies underpinning entrepreneurial narratives. Business Horizons, 66(3), 325-346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2023.01.003
DeSimone, J. A., Brannick, M. T., O’Boyle, E. H., and Ryu, J. W. (2021). Recommendations for Reviewing Meta-Analyses in Organizational Research. Organizational Research Methods, 24(4), 694-717. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428120967089
Fisher, G., Neubert, E., and Burnell, D. (2021). Resourcefulness Narratives: Transforming Actions into Stories to Mobilize Support. Journal of Business Venturing, 36(4), 106122. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12584
Gonzalez-Mulé, E., Cockburn, B. S., McCormick, B. W., and Zhao, P. (2020). Team Tenure and Team Performance: A Meta-Analysis and Process Model. Personnel Psychology, 73(1), 151-198. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12319
Gonzalez-Mulé, E., Kim, M., and Ryu, J. W. (2021). A Meta-analytic Test of Multiplicative and Additive Models of Job Demands, Resources, and Stress. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106(9), 1391–1411. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000840
Guarana, C., Barnes, C., Ryu, J. W. (J.), and Crawley, R. (2021). A Chronotype Circadian Model of Charismatic Leadership Expressions and Perceptions. Leadership Quarterly, 32(6), 101509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101509
Guarana, C., Ryu, J. W., O’Boyle, E. H., Lee, J. W., and Barnes, C. (2021). Sleep and self-control: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Sleep Medicine Reviews, 59, 101514. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2021.101514
Kuratko, D. F., Burnell, D., Stevenson, R., Neubert, E., and Fisher, G. (2023). Enacting entrepreneurial hustle. Business Horizons, 66(2), 237-249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2022.06.007
Kuratko, D. F., Neubert, E., and Marvel, M. R., (2021). Insights on the Mentorship and Coachability of Entrepreneurs. Business Horizons, 64(2), 199-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2020.11.001
Mathias, B., Solomon, S., and Hutto, H. (2024). Passing the torch: Exploring how tradition and innovation influence coopetition among street performers. Journal of Management Studies, 61(7), 2919-2960. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12995
Mathias, B., Hutto, H., and Williams, T. (2024). Amish brain gain: Building thriving rural communities through a creation perspective toward work. Business Horizons, Special Issue Honoring Tim Baldwin, 67(2), 147-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2023.12.003
Mathias, B. D., Hutto, H., and Williams, T. (2024). Adaptive artisans? Maintaining authenticity amidst the inherent tensions of craft-based ventures. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, in press.
McMullen, J. S., Brownell, K. M., and Adams, J. (2021). What Makes an Entrepreneurship Study Entrepreneurial? Toward A Unified Theory of Entrepreneurial Agency. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 45(5), 1197–1238. https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258720922460
O'Boyle, E. H., Gotz, M., and Zivic, D. (2024). Increasing the practical relevance of management research: In honor of Timothy T. Baldwin. Business Horizons, 67(2), 161-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2023.12.004
O’Boyle, E. H., Götz, M., and Zivic, D. C. (2023). Gone Fishin’: Addressing Completeness, Accuracy, and Representativeness in the Search and Coding Processes of Meta-Analyses in the Organizational Sciences. Journal of Business and Psychology, 38, 723–742. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-023-09890-y
Ryu, J. W., Neubert, E., and Gonzalez-Mulé, E. (2022). Putting the team in the driver’s seat: A meta-analysis on the what, why, and when of team autonomy’s impact on team effectiveness. Personnel Psychology, 75(2), 411-439. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12468
Stevenson, R., Guarana, C., Lee, J., Conder, S., Bonani, C., and Arvate, P. (2024). Entrepreneurial identity and entrepreneurial action: A within-person field study. Personnel Psychology, 77(1), 197-224. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12611
Wang, S. L., Lee, Y., and Li, D. (2024). Smart Disclosure: An Enabler for Multinationals to Reduce Human Rights Violations in Global Supply Chains. Journal of International Business Studies, 55, 450–469. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00698-3
Fossen, B., and Kim, P. (2024). Effectiveness of Micro Ads on Television. Journal of Marketing, in press.
Fossen, B., Mallapragada, G., and De, A. (2021). Impact of Political Television Advertisements on Viewers’ Response to Subsequent Advertisements. Marketing Science, 40(2), 305-324. https://doi.org/10.1287/mksc.2020.1260
Whitler, K. A., Lee, B., Krause, R., and Morgan, N. A. (2021). Upper Echelons Research in Marketing. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 49(1), 198-219. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-020-00724-4
Attari, I., Helm, J., and Mejia, J. (2025). Hiding Behind Complexity: Supply Chain, Oversight, Race, and the Opioid Crisis. Production and Operations Management, 34(4), 725-743. https://doi.org/10.1177/10591478241242126
Bretthauer, K., Zhai, C., Mejia, J., and Pedraza-Martinez, A. (2023). Improving Drinking Water Access and Equity in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa. Production and Operations Management, 32(9), 2921-2939. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.14016
Dennis, A. R., Lakhiwal, A., and Sachdeva, A. (2023). AI Agents as Team Members: Effects on Satisfaction, Conflict, Trustworthiness, and Willingness to Work With. Journal of Management Information Systems, 40(2), 307-337. https://doi.org/10.1080/07421222.2023.2196773
Lakhiwal, A., Bala, H., and Léger, P.-M. (2023). Ambivalence is Better than Indifference: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Assessment of Ambivalence in Online Environments. MIS Quarterly, 47(2), 705-732. https://doi.org/10.25300/MISQ/2022/17123
Mayo, K., Webb, E., Ball, G., Bretthauer, K. (2024). Scheduling Smarter: Scheduling Decision Impact on Nurse-Aide Turnover. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 26(1), 182–196. https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2021.0533