Photograph (L-R): Dr. Jean Cushen, Dr. Lorraine Morgan, Prof. Joseph Coughlan and Dr. Ruifang Wang
The School of Business would like to extend a warm welcome our four new faculty members. You may have seen our new faculty members teaching on campus since the beginning of term - Prof. Coughlan & Dr. Cushen teaching on our 1st year undergraduate programmes, Dr. Wang teaching our 2nd year undergraduate students, and Dr. Morgan teaching on our new postgraduate programme MSc IT Enabled Innovation.
Overview of New Faculty:
Jean Cushen earned her PhD from Trinity College Dublin, her MA in European and Social Policy Analysis from our very own Maynooth University, and her BA in HRM from the University of Glamorgan. Jean’s research explores financialization, knowledge work, HRM and labor processes, exploring the HRM impacts and challenges wrought by the current era of globalized financial capitalism. She has published in journals such as Accounting, Organisations and Society, and New Technology, Work and Employment amongst others. Jean is a regular contributor to conferences such as the International Labor Process Conference, European Sociological Association amongst many others. Jean teaches in the areas of Organizational Behavior, HRM, Business & Society and Leadership on undergraduate and postgraduate programs (including online). Jean has a reputation as an excellent educator, including winning the Dublin City University President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. She has held appointments as a Lecturer in OB and HRM in Dublin City University and Queens University Belfast and as an external examiner at National College of Ireland. Prior to academia she worked as a consultant at Towes Watson and Digital Channel Partners, in both Dublin and Toronto.
Lorraine Morgan earned her PhD from University College Cork, in addition to an MSc in Technology Management from UCC. Lorraine’s research interests are primarily in the area of open innovation, crowd sourcing, open business models, value networks, the business value of cloud computing, agile methods and open source software. Lorraine has published in journals such as Journal of Strategic Information Systems, IEEE Computer, and the European Journal of Information Systems, amongst others, in addition to 30 conference proceedings papers. Her research seeks to deeply connect industry to research projects. She is currently the co-investigator on three research projects, obtaining €2.32 million in funding from Science Foundation Ireland and the Irish Research Council for these projects, in addition to being part of European research consortia that have attracted over € 20 million. Lorraine has a wide range of Information Systems and Innovation Management teaching experience on undergraduate and postgraduate programs, in addition to PhD supervision. She has previously been employed as a Senior Research Fellow with LERO and also as a Lecturer in Business Information Systems (both NUI Galway) and as a Post-doctoral researcher and Lecturer of Information Systems (both at University of Limerick).
Joseph Coughlan is our new Professor of Marketing. His career is a fascinating blend of marketing, accounting and operations education. This background enables Joe to focus leading edge methods (including SEQ, Data Envelopment Analysis, Multilevel Modeling) to gain insights into marketing issues that are of interest to practice. The world of marketing practice is moving towards the development and exploration of large scale datasets from which to gain insights into the customer and markets: marketing analytics is a key capability in the field at present. The research capabilities of Joe lie at the center of this analytics revolution. His research currently focuses on three themes: relationship marketing; services marketing; corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. Joe’s recent work on the area of relationship marketing provides insights into banking relationships and the role of financial analysts post crisis. His services marketing research focuses on the fascinating issues of servicescape (color, light and music) and the effect of technology in services marketing. His corporate governance work has explored the role that relationships shape the professional identity of boards of directors. Ever the practical research educator, Joe has also undertaken research on the determinants of final year marketing student’s performance amongst others. His research has been published in journals such as Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of International Management, and the Journal of Operational Research Society amongst many others. His contribution to our understanding of how to use analytics is exemplified by his early work on SEQ which has received over 1400 Google citations. Joe brings with him a wealth of education and leadership experience, having contributed to the development of many undergraduate and postgraduate programs at Dublin Institute of Technology, with for example his International Selling postgraduate program generating over € 10 million in revenue for DIT. Joe earned his PhD from Warwick University Business School, his MSc from University College Dublin Smurfit Graduate School of Business and his BComm from UCD. He has the distinction of ranking joint 13th in the worldwide ACCA final accounting examinations. He has been the Head of the School of Accounting at DIT, with 29 academic faculty and 15 programs, whilst continuing to be an active marketing teacher and researcher, including supervising to completion 8 PhD students. Joe was given the title of Honorary Professor at DIT in 2015, having risen through DIT from lecturer, research fellow, to head of school. He has held visiting Professor appointments at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and the Financial University, Moscow.
Ruifang Wang earned her PhD from University College Dublin, Smurfit Graduate School of Business, where she also obtained an MSc in Project Management. She earned her BEng from Beijing Jiaotong University. Ruifang’s research focuses on the understudied role of middle managers in the strategy process and organizational innovation. She uses longitudinal datasets of the managerial characteristics, strategic and networking behaviors and career data to explore middle managers ability to engage in ambidextrous behaviors (combining exploration and exploitation activities) and role based performance. She is also undertaking participant observation and case research that explores planning processes of service firms. Her work has been presented at conferences including the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society and the British Academy of Management. Ruifang has held appointments at University College Dublin lecturing in the Quinn School of Business, including modules on Business in Society and Global Business amongst others. Prior to entering academia Ruifang worked as a Project Manager at China Railway 17th Bureau Group No. 4 Engineering Group.