Management and Marketing Faculty

Management and Marketing Faculty

Wei Chen

Associate Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2009

Expertise
Strategy, International Business, Entrepreneurship

Courses Taught
Strategic Management, Environment of International Business, Entrepreneurship Practicum, Entrepreneurial Venture Creation

Degree(s)
Ph.D., Texas Tech University

Select Recent Publications
Chen, W., Guo, X., Yu, A., Huang, Y. M., & Deosthali, K. (2025). Harmonizing Future Time Orientations: Moderated Impact on Team Performance. Small Group Research, 56(2), 277-306.

Guo, X., Chen, W. & Iurchenko, D. (2022). Impact of College Education on Incorporated and Unincorporated Self-Employment: Variations among African Americans and Hispanics. New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, 25(1), 70-90.

Honors/Awards
Highly Commended Paper Award, Journal of Management History
Best Paper Award,  Journal of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Kanchan Deosthali

Associate Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2013

Expertise
Organizational behavior, Employee training and development activities, Citizenship behaviors, Employee attitudes and motivation

Courses Taught
Organizational Behavior, Organizational Development & Change Human Resources Management & Development

Degree(s)
Ph.D., Organizational Studies, University at Albany

Select Recent Publications
Deosthali, K. & Johnson, R. (2022). Empirical Examination of Voluntary Development Activities of Employees,” IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review, 11(1), 75-91.

Potnis, D., Gala, B., & Deosthali, K. (2020). Investigating “Message Forwarding Behavior” of Mobile Phone Users: Exploring the Link Between Message Content, User Sentiment, and User Intention to Forward Messages on Social Media-based Instant Messaging Behaviors, First Monday, 25(8).

Alexandra Dunn

Associate Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2017

Expertise
Perceived organizational support; Recruitment, onboarding, and socialization of newcomers; management pedagogy

Courses Taught
Principles of Management, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Management and Films, Life & Career After UMW

Degree(s)
Ph.D., UNC Charlotte

Select Recent Publications
Williams, C., Thomas, J., Bennett, A. A., Banks, G., Toth, A., Dunn, A.M., McBride, A., & Gooty, J. The role of discrete emotions in job satisfaction: A meta-analysis. Journal of Organizational Behavior. In press.

Dunn, A. M & Fallah, S. (2023). The Future Is Scary!: A Job Search Scenario Planning Exercise to Encourage Student Resilience Capacity and Reduce Stress. Journal of Management Education. In press.

Toth, A., Dunn, A.M., Shanock, L., Kavanagh, K., Sergent, A., & Leonard, S. (2022). You being new can be hard on me too: Considering the veteran employee’s perspective on newcomer socialization. Human Performance, 35(3-4), 261-277. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959285.2022.2111432

Honors/Awards
Society for HR Management Certified Professional (SHRM-CP)

Samira Fallah

Assistant Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2020

Expertise
CEO succession, Strategic leadership, Strategic decisions, Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Courses Taught
Strategic Management, Strategic Leadership, Leadership Strategy & Policy

Degree(s)
Ph.D., Louisiana State University

Select Recent Publications
Dunn, A. M., & Fallah, S. (2023). The Future Is Scary!: A Job Search Scenario Planning Exercise to Encourage Student Resilience Capacity and Reduce Stress. Journal of Management Education (Part of the Forthcoming Special Issue “Teaching About Contemporary Careers.”)

Honors/Awards
VIVA Open Adopt Grant, Academic Library Consortium of Virginia, 2024-2025
▪Jepson Fellowship, University of Mary Washington, 2024-2025
▪Early Educator Institute Scholarship, Management and OB Teaching Society, 2022
▪Paul R. Lawrence Fellowship, Case Research Foundation, 2020

Christopher Garcia

Professor and Director of Accreditation and Graduate Programs

Year Joined the College of Business
2011

Expertise
Machine Learning & AI, Operations Research, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, and Transportation

Courses Taught
Analytics I: Predictive Models, Applied Machine Learning; Quantitative Business Modeling

Degree(s)
Ph.D., Old Dominion University

Select Recent Publications
Garcia, C., Rabadi, G., Abujaber, D., and Seck, M. (In Press), “Supporting humanitarian crisis decision making with reliable intelligence derived from social media using AI”, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

Garcia, C. (2023), “The synchronized multi-assignment orienteering problem”, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 1790-1812.

Honors/Awards
Sabbatical, Fall 2022

Lance Gentry

Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2013

Expertise
Marketing, Market surveys, Ecotourism, Market strategy

Courses Taught
Principles of Marketing, Ecotourism, Market Strategy, Practicum in Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy & Applied Supply Chain Management

Degree(s)
Ph.D., Michigan State University

Lulu Huang

Assistant Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2024

Expertise
Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, and International Business

Courses Taught
Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship

Degree(s)
Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio

Select Recent Publications

Thornton-Lugo, M. A., McCarter, M. W., Clark, J. R., Luse, W., Hyde, S., Heydarifard, Z., & Huang, S. R. L. (2022). Makeup Calls in Organizations: An Application of Justice to the Study of Bad Calls. Journal of Applied Psychology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/apl0001026

Zahra Heydarifard and Lulu S. R. Huang contributed equally.

Xu, K., Hitt, A. M., Brock, D., Pisano, V., & Huang, S. R. L. (2021). Country Institutional Environments and International Strategy Research: A Review and Analysis. Journal of International Management, 27(1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2020.100811

Lewis, C. A., Cardy, R. L, & Huang, S. R. L. (2019). Institutional Theory and HRM:  A New Look. Human Resource Management Review, 29(3), 316-335.

This article was one of the two finalists for “Best Article of the Year” published in Human Resource Management Review in 2019.

Mark Jacobson

Visiting Instructor

Year Joined the College of Business
2024

Expertise
Business, Management, Marketing, International, IT/MIS Planning/Strategy

Courses Taught
BUAD 105, BUAD 473A, MIST 201, MKTG 460 (UMW Fall 2024); many similar courses taught at the Carey Business School at Hopkins and as a Lecturer at Towson University (University of Maryland System)

Degree(s)
MAS, The Johns Hopkins University

Select Recent Publications

Various IT Strategic Planning and related publications on behalf of Big 4 Clients, including the IMF, Deutsche Bank, and U.S. DOT

Recent Honors/Awards
Non-profit Community Service Award (Hopkins); President’s Award – National Kidney Foundation of Maryland, FMCSA (U.S. DOT) Customer Service Award, DOT Secretary’s Partnering for Excellence Award, DOT Secretary’s Team Award, DOT Presidential Transition Award

Kimberley Kinsley

Senior Lecturer

Year Joined the College of Business
2007

Expertise
Law

Courses Taught
Business Law, Commercial Law, Cybersecurity Law

Degree(s)
J.D., University of Detroit College of Law, Detroit, MI

Select Recent Publications
Kinsley, Kimberley, 2023. Environmental, Social and Governance Investments: Regulating Greenwashing, Journal of Business Law and Ethics, ISSN 2372-4862 (Print) 2372-4870 (Online)) DOI: 10.15640/jble, Vol. 15, 1-25. (September 2023).  

Kinsley, Kimberley, June 2021. “Civil Law Access” In Inequality in America: Causes and Consequences, edited by Kimberley Kinsley and Robert S. Rycroft. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, pages 193 – 199. 

Kinsley, Kimberley and Robert Rycroft, June 2021. “Wealth Inequality”, In Inequality in America: Causes and Consequences, edited by Kimberley Kinsley and Robert S. Rycroft. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, pages 57 – 66.

Kashef Majid

Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2013

Expertise
Marketing

Courses Taught
Marketing Research, Digital Marketing, Principles of Marketing, Marketing for Social Good, Marketing Management

Degree(s)
Ph.D., George Washington University

Select Recent Publications
Dogru, T., Majid, K., Laroche, M., Mody, M., & Suess, C. (2021). Communicating quality while evoking loss–How consumers assess extra charges in the Airbnb marketplace. Tourism Management, 87, 104376.

Majid, K. A., Kolar, D. W., & Laroche, M. (2021). Support for small businesses during a health crisis. Journal of Services Marketing, 35(5),
671-683.

Majid, K. A. (2020). Effect of interactive marketing channels on service customer acquisition. Journal of Services Marketing, 35(3), 299-311.

Honors/Awards
Mary Pinschmidt Award, by the graduating class of 2021

Smita Jain Oxford

Senior Lecturer

Year Joined the College of Business
2003

Expertise
Communication, Negotiation

Courses Taught
Business Communication, Negotiation

Degree(s)
MBA, Columbia University

Honors/Awards
Mary Pinschmidt Award

Durgesh Pattanayak

Assistant Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2024

Expertise
Marketing Strategy, Marketing Analytics, B2B Marketing, Supply Chain Management and Marketing-finance interface

Courses Taught
Marketing Analytics, Analytics II-Optimization Model, Marketing Management

Degree(s)
Ph.D. University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Recent Honors/Awards

1. Fellow, AMA Sheth Doctoral Consortium, BI Norwegian Business School at Oslo, 2023.
2. Recipient, Department of Marketing Baker Award for Excellence in Service by a Graduate Student, College of Business, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2023.
3. Nominated for COB’s PhD student Research award, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2024
4. Nominated for COB’s PhD student Distinguished Teaching award, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2024

Distinguished Research Award, Papers presented ICBE-2018, Seoul National University, Seoul.

Mukesh Srivastava

Professor and Department Chair

Year Joined the College of Business
2004

Expertise
Innovation Diffusion of Information Technologies, Cybersecurity and IT governance, AI, and Community Development

Courses Taught
Managing and Leading Sustainable Business, Workforce      Enterprise Resource Planning, Knowledge Management of Information Systems, Business Information Systems

Degree(s)
Ph.D., University of Surrey, England, United Kingdom; Cambridge Commonwealth Fellow, University of Cambridge.

Honors/Awards
Keynote Address (2021 and 2022) COVID-19 pandemic and its medical, social, and economic impacts at International Conference on Innovation Management, Education, and Technology (ICIMET 2022), Bangkok, Thailand, July 30, 2022.

Keynote addresses on Digital Transformation at the International Conference on Innovation, Management, Economics, and Innovation (ICIMESS 2021) Bangkok, Thailand, March 27-28.

Filiz Tabak

Dean and Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2023

Expertise
Organizational Behavior, Leadership, Employee work engagement, Entrepreneurial passion

Degree(s)
Ph.D., Oklahoma State University

Select Recent Publications
Tabak, F., Shkoler, O., Lebrón, M., and Rabenu, E.  2023. Team-Member and Leader-Member Exchange, Engagement, and Turnover Intentions: Implications for Human Resource Development.  Human Resource Development International, 1-26.

Sanford, D., & Tabak, F.  2023.  Personality and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in Management Education. Organization Management Journal, 20, 3, 107-119.

Qian, S. Brannon, D., & Tabak, F.  2022. Exploring Mechanisms in Entrepreneurial Passion-Entrepreneurial Behavior Relationship: Mediating Role of Growth-Oriented Intentions. Journal of Career Development, 49, 4, 922-933.

Chris H Willis

Assistant Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2024

Expertise
Entrepreneurship, Governance, and Social Impact

Courses Taught
MGMT/MKTG 421  – Entrepreneurial Venture Creation
BUAD 457  – Practicum in Entrepreneurship

Degree(s)
Ph.D., Old Dominion University

Select Recent Publications
Willis, C. H., Merriman, C., Nair, A., Fournet, A., (2024).  Social Innovation Solutions Driving Student Engagement, The Community Problem Solving Challenge. Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy.

Nair, A., Sharifi, M., Guldiken, O., Oksoy, A., Willis, C. H., (2023). A Review of Strategic Management Research in India. Asia Pacific Journal of Management.

Irwin, K. and Willis, C.H., (2023). The Reciprocal Relationship Between M&A Strategic Decision-making and Well-being”, Harms, P.D. and Chang, C.H.(D). (Ed.) Stress and Well-being at the Strategic Level. Research in Occupational Stress and Well Being, Vol. 21

Zhang, F., Monod, E., Beenen, G., Jiang, Y., and Willis, C. H., (2023). Socio-economic management theory related to BPM: a case study of dysfunctions in the digital transformation strategy operation. Revue Française de Gestion Industrielle.

Koala, K. Nair, A. Brown, S. Willis, C. H., (2023) Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority: A Success Story.

Oksoy, A., Nair, A., Willis, C. H., (2022). Potential Power in a Quasi-Competitive Market. Negotiation Journal.

Willis, C. H., Wilson, S., Zhang, J., (2021). Will Venture Capitalists Invest at a Distance During and After a Major Crisis? Evidence from the 2008 Financial Crisis.

Recent Honors/Awards
Navigating Resource Acquisition as a Minority Entrepreneur in the Global South: The Role of Storytelling and Social Identity. (2024) from Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation [distributed through ODU] $9,000

“Adaptive Capacity Stemming from the Board of Directors” (2022) from ODU $7,500

“The Impact of Environmental Jolt on the Geographical Component of Cross-Border VC and PE Investment Strategies” (2021) China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) Cathay Cross-border Private Equity Research Fund $10,000

“E. M. Kauffman Foundation Knowledge Challenge Diversity of Entrepreneurship Researcher” (2020) from Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation $400,000

Xiaofeng Zhao

Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2007

Expertise
Business Analytics, Quantitative Modeling, Service Operations, and Supply Chain Management

Courses Taught
Analytics—Optimization Models, Quantitative Business, Modeling Operations Management, and Service Operations Management

Degree(s)
Ph.D., University of Tennessee

Select Recent Publications

Zhao, Xiaofeng, and Jianrong Hou. “Applying the theory of constraints principles to tourism supply
chain management.” Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research 46.2 (2022): 400-411

Hou, Jianrong, and Xiaofeng Zhao. “Using a priority queuing approach to improve emergency
department performance.” Journal of Management Analytics 7.1 (2020): 28-43

Hou, Jianrong, and Xiaofeng Zhao. “Toward a supply chain risk identification and filtering framework
using systems theory.” Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 33.6 (2021): 1482-1497.