Department of Management Sciences Faculty

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Richard S. Lytle, Ph.D. 
Dean and Professor, Marketing

B.B.A., Harding University, 1980
M.B.A., Oklahoma State University, 1983
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1994

Phone: 325-674-2503
Email: rick.lytle@coba.acu.edu

Research Areas:

  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Decision Making
  • Marketing Performance
  • Service Leadership
  • Service Quality
  • Services Marketing
  • Strategic Marketing Management

 

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Monty Lynn, Ph.D.
Associate Dean and Professor, Management

B.A., Harding University, 1981
B.S.W., Harding University, 1981
M.S., Cornell University, 1984
M.O.B., Brigham Young University, 1985
Ph.D., Brigham Young University, 1985

Phone: 325-674-2593
Email: lynnm@acu.edu

Research Areas:

  • International economic development
  • Integration of faith and business

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Don Pope, Ph.D.
Department Chair and Associate Professor, Management

B.S., Oklahoma Christian University, 1975
M.Engr., Texas A&M University, 1976
Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1980

Phone: 325-674-2786
Email: don.pope@coba.acu.edu

Research Areas:

  • Enterprise software systems education
  • Operations management applications in nonprofits

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Brad Crisp, Ph.D.
Director of the School of Information Technology and Computing Associate Professor of Information Systems

B.B.A., Abilene Christian University, 1993
M.B.A., University of Texas, 1998
Ph.D., University of Texas, 2003

Phone: 325-674-2077
Email: brad.crisp@acu.edu

Research Areas:

  • Use and impact of information technology in educational and workplace settings.
  • Social processes in distributed work groups, including the formation of control and trust among peers in virtual teams.

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Jozell Brister
Associate Professor, Economics

B.S.E., Abilene Christian University, 1961
M.Ed., Abilene Christian University, 1965
M.S., University of North Texas, 1973

Phone: 325-674-2596
Email: jozell.brister@coba.acu.edu

Research Areas:

  • Labor Economics

 


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Orneita Burton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Management and Information Systems

B.S., University of Arkansas, 1979
M.S., University of Central Texas, 1986
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2006

Phone: 325-674-2759
Email: oxb00a@acu.edu

Research Areas:

  • Business and Process Intelligence
  • Enterprise and Surveillance Systems Design
  • Health Care Information
  • Information Economics

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Malcolm Coco, D.P.A, PHR
Professor, Human Resource Management

B.S., University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1968
M.S., Central Michigan University, 1979
D.P.A., Nova Southeastern University, 1993

Phone: 325-674-2560
Email: malcolm.coco@coba.acu.edu

Research Areas:

  • Career Management
  • Compensation and Benefits
  • Employee Selection via Biodata
  • Ethics
  • Internships
  • Planning, Recruitment, and Selection
  • Violence in the Workplace

  

 

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Ryan Jessup, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Marketing

B.B.A., Abilene Christian University, 1997
M.S., Abilene Christian University, 2003
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2008

Phone: 325-674-2569
Email:  ryan.jessup@acu.edu


 

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Andrew Little, J.D.
Assistant Professor, Business Law (Management Sciences)

B.A., Abilene Christian University, 1997
J.D., Texas Tech University School of Law, 2000

Phone: 325-674-2768
Email: andrew.little@acu.edu

Research Areas:

  • Labor and employment law
  • Natural resources law
  • Law and religion

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Jim Litton, J.D.
Director of the Griggs Center for Entrepreneurship & Philanthropy
Assistant Professor, College of Business

B.B.A., Abilene Christian University, 2001
M.B.A., Vanderbilt University, 2005
J.D., Vanderbilt University, 2005

Phone: 325-674-2210
Email: jim.litton@acu.edu


 

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Laura Phillips, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Management

B.S., Abilene Christian University, 1988
M.S., Purdue University, 1989
Ph.D., Capella University, 2005

Phone: 325-674-2037
Email: laura.phillips@acu.edu

Research Areas:

  • Motivation in education and nonprofit organization

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Mark Phillips, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Management

B.S., Abilene Christian University, 1988
M.S., Purdue University, 1989
Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 2004

Phone: 325-674-2993
Email: mark.phillips@coba.acu.edu

Research Areas:

  • Corporate Strategy
  • Management Education
  • Mobile Learning
  • Not-for-profit Management

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Brent Reeves, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Information Systems

B.B.A., Abilene Christian University, 1982
M.A., Abilene Christian University, 1982
M.S., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1991
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1993
 

Phone: 325-674-2385
Email: brent.reeves@acu.edu

Research Areas:

  • Computer-supported Cooperative Work
  • Knowledge-based Systems
  • Realtime Systems

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Ian J. Shepherd, D.A.
Associate Professor, Management

B.Bus., University of Western Sydney, N.S.W., Australia 1987
M.B.A., Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee 1989
D.A., Middle Tennessee State University, 1998

Phone: 325-674-6151
Email: ian.shepherd@coba.acu.edu

Research Areas:

  • Iterative Learning Methodologies
  • Economic Impact Studies
  • Medical Models
  • Case Model Development

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Phil Vardiman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Management

B.S.Ed., Abilene Christian University, 1976
M.B.A, University of Mary-Hardin Baylor, 1992
Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2001

Phone: 325-674-2153
Email: phil.vardiman@coba.acu.edu

Research Areas:

  • Conceptual models of collaborative partnerships and the infusion of knowledge workers in the local IT sector
  • Environmental Factors that Impact Leadership Development, Dissertation 2001
  • Environmental Leadership Development: Toward a Contextual Model of Leadership Emergence and Effectiveness
  • Performance appraisals & assessment for Non-Profit organizations
  • Privacy, Safety & Liberty
  • Social Responsibility from a business perspective

 

 

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