UCA faculty news

Don B. Bradley III, Executive Director of UCA’s Small Business Advancement National Center, has been named Editor of the Small Business Institute Journal, a new journal that will launch on April 1, 2008.

Bradley previously co-founded the Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, which has been housed at Northwestern State University in Louisiana, New Mexico State University, and Southeastern Oklahoma State University. He also was instrumental in the start of the Journal of Small Business Strategy at Bradley University, and he served as editor for the Journal of Family Business at Western Carolina University. Currently Bradley serves as editor of the Small Business Advancement National Center weekly electronic newsletter (www.sbaer.uca.edu).

The primary purpose of the Small Business Institute Journal is to publish scholarly research articles and cases in the fields of small business management, entrepreneurship, and field-based learning. As one of the official journals of the Small Business Institute? (SBI), SBIJ is recognized as the applied and pedagogical instrument for projecting and supporting the goals and objectives of SBI?. The journal will be published electronically twice a year (April and October) to be available to its members, small business owners, entrepreneurs, government officials, and community/economic development officers, policy makers and researchers.

Michael Rubach, associate professor of Management and chair of the Marketing and Management Department, recently had an article entitled “Restricted Stock Transactions May Not Add Value” published in the Journal of Academy of Business and Economics. The article was co-authored with Armand Picou, an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi.