College of Business Administration Research and External Funding

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College of Business Administration Research and
External Funding

• Funding data 2001-2004

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Data in three categories

• Pedagogical/Education Initiatives
• Basic/Disciplinary Specific Research
• Applied Research/Consulting

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Pedagogical/Education Initiatives

• FUNDED
• 2,329,890
• 92 Entrepreneurship
• 7 International Business
• 1 Accounting

• PROPOSALS NOT FUNDED
• 698,657
• 58 Entrepreneurship
• 31 International Business
• 7 Finance
• 4 Accounting

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Basic/Disciplinary Specific Research

• FUNDED
• 76,189
• 42 Information Systems
• 58 Health related from Tobacco Funds

• PROPOSALS NOT FUNDED
• 617,613
• 29 Economics
• 29 Human Resources
• 22 Information Systems
• 20 Marketing

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Applied Research/Consulting

• FUNDED
• 188, 075
• 44 Economic Modeling/Impact
• 34 Training
• 20 Community Development
• 2 Gift

• PROPOSALS NOT FUNDED
• 1,171,367
• 80 Training
• 17 Information Systems
• 3 Economic Modeling

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CBA Most Successful in...

• 1st - Entrepreneurship/Educational Efforts
• 2nd - Applied Research/Consulting
• Highest Need Basic Research Funding

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Inherent Problem

• The place and purpose of research or other grants
  in educational institutions is not usually
  emphasized in doctoral programs in business.
  Thus, it is not in the culture of most business
  colleges.
• The availability of grants for business research
  or education is relatively minimal (there are
  some exceptions

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Strategies

• Appoint a motivated faculty member to lead
  effort to develop a college culture that
  encourages obtaining grants identify grant
  sources available to business faculty and work
  with faculty to prepare proposals.

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Strategies

• Adopt a College-wide merit review system that
  explicitly rewards grant-writing and grants
  awarded to faculty.

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Strategies

• Encourage/reward pairing of senior and junior
  faculty on grant writing initiatives that have a
  research component
• Support release time in grants