Category:
Faculty
Phone: (765) 494-9851
Location: Matthews Hall 318
Selected Presentations & Publications:
Fitzgerald, M., Haynes, G., Schrank, H., & Danes, S. (in process). The community social responsibility of family businesses in the United States: An exploratory study of how small and medium sized businesses contribute to their communities.
Probable taget journal: Journal of Community Development.
Heck, R., Danes, S., Fitzgerald, M., Haynes, G., Jasper, C., Schrank, H., Stafford, K., & Winter, M. (in press). The family's cynamic role within family business entrepreneurhsip. Book chapter for Family Business Research Handbook, Elgar Publishing Company.
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Yilmazer, T. & Schrank, H. (in press). Itermingling of household and business finances in small and family businesses.
Journal of Business Venturing..
Zody, Z., Sprenkle, D., macDermid, S., & Schrank, H. (in press). Drawing the line: Do boundaries make a difference in the strengths and performance of the family and business systems?
Journal of Family & Economic Issues..
Fitzgerald, M., Haynes, G., Schrank, H., & Danes, S. (2005). The social responsibility of family business.
paper presented at the IFERA-FBN Joint meeting in Brussels, Belgium. Septmenber
Owen, A. & Schrank, H. (2004). Family types. Chapter in Heck, Ramona H.K.Z. (Ed). A Toolkit for Homebased Entrepreneurs,
Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship and Small business, New York: New York: Baruch College, CUNY.
Huang, W., Schrank, H., & Dubinsky, A. (2004). Effect of brand name on consumers' risk perceptions of online shopping.
Journal of Consumer Behavior. 4:1, 40-50
McCann, G., Hammond, C., Keyt, A., Schrank, H., & Fujiuchi, K. (2004). A view from afar: A rethinking of the director's role in university-based family buiness programs.
Family Business Review. 17:3, 203-219
Current Research Interests:
Business social responsibility (esp. generosity, philanthropy, community)
Business and disaster (planning, managing risk, response, recovery)
Business and disaster (planning, managing risk, response, recovery)
Teaching Philosophy:
Learning comes through a combination of doing, reading, hearing, and seeing. It is my task as a teacher to design a course that enables students to understand what is presented and utilize the information. I use a variety of strategies, including visuals that synthesize ideas and information and help make it easy to remember. We all learn differently, so I try to "mix it up a little".
Teaching Interests:
Retail location--a graduate course developed to provide a working knowledge of the theoretical basis for literature and practical applications of current retail location strategy
Family business
Small business retailing--a course that introduces the nature of small business start-up and business plan development to undergraduate students
Professional Organizations:
United States Association of Small Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE)
International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA)
