Research & Initiatives
College of Business Research & Initiatives
We're not just teaching cutting-edge discoveries. We are helping to create them.
Our faculty and students are actively involved in research projects that directly impact the theory, practice, and teaching of business. Explore the breadth of research happening within the walls of Dwire Hall, in categories ranging from cybersecurity management and business analysis to organizational behavior and business ethics.
Center for Entrepreneurship
The Center for Entrepreneurship is dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship, venture creation, and economic development in the Southern Colorado region. It achieves these objectives through its extensive research, teaching, and service activities. The Center for Entrepreneurship faculty members are active scholars and authors, presenting their work in venues around the world.
Cybersecurity Programs
As the business landscape continues to digitalize, the possibilities for cybercrime and hacking have increased exponentially. Data breaches and hacks can cause irreparable damage to companies - both big and small. How do businesses protect their information while attacks are happening every single day? The answer is Cybersecurity Management.
Olympic Sport Research Lab
The Olympic Sport Research Lab advances research, innovation, and collaboration at the intersection of sport, business, and the Olympic and Paralympic movements. Through applied research, industry partnerships, and student engagement opportunities, the lab explores issues shaping the future of sport while supporting organizational excellence across the global sport ecosystem. Faculty and student researchers contribute to projects that generate meaningful insights for sport organizations, athletes, and industry leaders.
UCCS Economic Forum
The UCCS Economic Forum is the premier resource for local economic information - provided for and supported by local business and government partners. The Forum provides an opportunity to learn about the trends and dynamics occurring nationally, statewide, in the Colorado Springs community- and how they will impact your business.
UCCS Ethics Initiative
The UCCS Ethics Initiative promotes principle-based ethics education and ethical leadership across the university and throughout the Southern Colorado community. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, applied learning opportunities, and engagement with educators, students, and industry professionals, the initiative equips individuals with practical tools for ethical decision-making in today's complex professional environments. The initiative advances ethical awareness through research, education, outreach, and leadership development programs.
Research Spotlights
Dr. Gary Klein, Couger Professor of Information Systems, and Dr. Gurvirender Tejay, Associate Professor of Information Systems, launched a new academic journal, the Organizational Cybersecurity Journal: Practice, Process, and People (OCJ). The journal’s mission is to publish advances in scientific knowledge directly related to cybersecurity management. The OCJ will be a peer-reviewed, open-access publication of Emerald Publishing. Dr. Klein and Dr. Tejay will serve as editors in-chief for the journal and Dr. Morgan Shepherd, Professor of Information Systems, will serve as one of the editors.
Dr. Sonnier’s research focuses on legal issues related to federal and state taxation, including real estate taxation, taxation of investments, limits on state taxation imposed by the U.S. Constitution, and the protection of tax workpapers and advice by the attorney-client and work product privileges. In addition, Dr. Sonnier writes a regular column on state and local taxation entitled “SALT Block” for Taxes, a leading journal for tax professionals. He is also the Senior Editor of The Journal of Legal Tax Research published by the American Taxation Association. Prior to entering academics, Dr. Sonnier practiced commercial and tax law for 21 years and brings that experience to his research and teaching.
In the past five decades, Dr. Donald Warrick has worked with more than 150 Fortune 500 and international companies as well as medium and small size organizations, government agencies, universities and non-profit organizations. He has published nine books and more than 90 articles, book chapters and professional papers. In 2018, Dr. Warrick was awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award by the Organizational Development Network. The award is presented to individuals with “significant and lasting impact on the field and practice of organizational development.”
Dr. Spencer Harris authored “Sport Participation and Olympic Legacy: A comparative analysis,” co-authored with Mathew Dowling, senior lecturer in the Cambridge Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University. The book was published by Routledge in 2021. The book focuses on the legacies associated with the summer Olympic games from the ’96 games in Atlanta to the delayed 2020 Tokyo games. By examining the changes in mass sport participation before, during and after the games in each host city, Harris examines the opportunities and problems of comparative analysis across nations in a sport-related context.
Dr. Ying Fan’s research focuses on the strategic and operational factors that influence the improvement of service operations. She has worked on a stream of research investigating the impact of social media on service operations. Her studies explore service recovery strategies using social media and how online review management practices impact service operation and performance. Dr. Fan published two papers and has a forthcoming article to identify the key categories of online review management practices and compare the different practices in different countries. Moving forward, Dr. Fan is working on exploring the institutional drivers for online review management and its impact on performance based on survey data collected from the hospitality industry.
More Info
Business Research Corner Articles
Read a bi-monthly research series in the Colorado Springs Business Journal featuring UCCS College of Business faculty. Every other month, faculty address key questions concerning local businesses in the region with applicable, research-based recommendations.
The College of Business Behavioral Lab conducts psychological and behavioral research that is relevant to the fields of management, organizational behavior, strategy, and marketing. Their projects consistently bring students and faculty together for cross-disciplinary behavioral research.