UCA faculty news

Tim Bisping, an assistant professor of economics at UCA, recently had an article entitled “An Empirical Assist in Resolving the Classification Dilemma of Workers as Either Employees or Independent Contractors” accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Business Research. The article is co-authored with Ted Englebrecht and Steven Hanke of Louisiana Tech University, and Teresa Webb of the University of Arkansas.

Dong Xie, an assistant professor in UCA’s Department of Psychology and Counseling, published an article entitled “A Successful Conversion or Double Refusal: A Study of the Process of Refusal Conversion in Telephone Survey Research” in The Social Science Journal, Volume 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 434-446. The article was co-authored with Kana Fuse of Ohio State University.

Victor A. Puleo, Jr., CFP?, assistant professor of insurance and risk management and CFP? program director in UCA’s College of Business, recently had an article entitled ?Dividend Policy and Corporate Governance: A Research Note? accepted for publication in the May 2008 issue of the Journal of Corporate Governance and Control. The paper is co-authored with Mike Casey, professor of Finance and chair of UCA’s EFIRM Department, and Frank Smith, visiting assistant professor at Henderson State University.