A paper written by Kevin J. O'Mara, professor of management, Gary R. Palin, director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, and Kathy Cort, associate professor at North Carolina A&T, received the "The Best Paper Award" at the recent ABWIC conference in Nashville, Tenn.
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“A Cross-National Empirical Study Investigating the Role of Purchasing Purpose has on the Country-of-Origin Effect” will be published in an upcoming issue of the International Journal of the Academic Business World.