Turner Business

Turner College faculty are continuing to excel in terms of garnering citations to their published research.  As the accompanying table indicates, the College’s 46 faculty have combined to exceed 15,000 Google Scholar citations for the first time in the organization’s history.  In fact, the College’s 46 faculty have garnered a cumulative total of 15,192 Google Scholar citations, for an average of 330 per faculty. Turner College Department Google Scholar Citations No. of Faculty Cites per Faculty Accounting & Finance 4,896 14 350 Management & Marketing 7,274 17 428 TSYS School 3,022 15 201 All 15,192 46 330 The Department of Accounting and Finance, which also includes economics faculty, has produced a total of 4,896 Google Scholar citations.  Wi...

Recent research by Turner College management professor Kirk Heriot and colleagues from the College of Charleston and Fresno State University examines the City of Columbus’ lawsuit (in 2006) over uncollected accommodation taxes against online travel agencies, such as Expedia and Orbitz.   As a result of the lawsuit, the companies delisted Columbus hotels from their websites, a situation that existed until the lawsuit was settled (after a few years).   As Heriot and his colleagues indicate in their 2018 publication in Cornell Hospitality Quarterly , the episode provided for a non-experimental “real life” exploration of the power balance between online travel agencies and municipalities.   That exploration indicates that online travel agencies have less power than is generally assumed, as the City of Columbus emerged victorious in their claim to associated accommodation taxes, while local hoteliers experienced an increase in revenues.   According to the authors, an impo...