University of Colorado Denver

UC Denver CIBER funded research

International business faculty research includes

• International entrepreneurship
• The global dispersion of work and its impact on the management of people
• The Philippines, Vietnam and China outsourcing industries
• International outsourcing in information technology
• CIT International Outsourcing Study
• Oil/commodity prices and their linkages to globalization
• Foreign divestment behaviors of multinational corporations
• Firm characteristics and MNC’s intra networks knowledge sharing
• Global e-Commerce
• Global networking of R&D
• Differences in economic performance between companies and countries having higher ethical standards

   

Human resources faculty research includes

• Challenges associated with managing a global workforce
• Costs and benefits of global human resources
• International discrimination

   

Management faculty research includes

• Application of performance management systems around the world
• Work-life programs and the bottom line in Southeast Asia
• The need for Japanese managers to retain control over marketing production and R&D
• Micro loans for people in underdeveloped countries
• Autocratic rulers and whether they are inside traders

   

Marketing faculty research includes

• How the use of self-service technologies in emerging markets drives down the cost
  structure of international marketing programs and enhances the competitive advantage of US firms
• How the opportunities for control and the capability to effectively use that control interact to moderate the amount of perceived risk that managers associate with various entry-mode strategies
• How Chinese consumer perceptions of services compare against perceptions of services in other Asian environments
• Customer perceptions of service dimensions from American versus Asian perspectives
• How buyers of luxury cars react to design changes in the European Union

   

Accounting faculty research includes

• How culture and business practices affect the development of accounting guidelines in emerging markets
• Liabilities defined by the International Accounting Standards Board

   

Finance faculty research includes

• Long-term debt financing in China and India
• Sovereign wealth funds
• Euro and Japanese yen exchange rates in foreign exchange markets
• Monetary policy related to intraday currency futures
• International stock index ETFs
• Time-varying stock-bond correlation over macroeconomic conditions

   

Health faculty research includes

• Hospital administration training applicability in developing nations
• The socio-economic impacts of medical tourism in India
• Western Nations’ development of hospitals in China

   

Information technology faculty research includes

• International copyright infringement in China, Taiwan and the US
• New models for optimally addressing identified data mining problems
• Risk analysis and its applications in China

   

Architecture faculty research includes

• The architecture of globalization
• Emergent models for international business practices in architecture
• Metropolitan development through the study of shopping centers

   

Political science research includes

• The impact of institutionalized corruption and new public management across countries

History faculty research includes

• The crisis in coffee prices and strategies Latin American farmers have adopted to confront the declining incomes for producers
• The Russian pharmaceutical industry

Anthropology faculty research includes

• How the economic impact of conservation impacts people in undeveloped versus developed countries
• International institutions governing structures and their economies

Geography faculty research includes

• China sustainability issues

Public affairs faculty research includes

• Credit markets and the supporting regulatory and institutional systems in developing countries
• Changes in implementation of fiscal responsibility laws in Brazil
• US versus Korean telephone industry business practices

Spanish faculty research includes

• Links between international business chambers of commerce with local universities and K-12 system
• Social equity in Latin America and the role of micro businesses and micro lending
• Sustainable tourism in Costa Rica
• Ties between China and Latin America and implications for studying business language and culture

Cross-disciplinary faculty research includes

• China’s two new sovereign wealth funds and their roles in China’s financial institution reforms (finance and political science)
• China’s bond market (finance and political science)
• International bio-clusters (international business and health)
• Dialogue on Globalization (multi disciplines)
• Annotated Bibliography on Globalization (multi disciplines)

Cross-institutional faculty research includes

• Offshoring from a host country perspective (UCD and Stanford University)