Lloyd J. F. Southern, Ph.D.
Professor of Management and Information Systems
Business & Education Academic Building, Office 226
(678) 547-6234, Fax (678) 547-6160
southern_l@mercer.edu

EDUCATION:

· Ph.D. Business Administration, Georgia State University, 1977

· M.B.A. Management with a Minor in Marketing, Georgia State College, 1968

· B.S.I.M. Industrial Management with a Minor in Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1965

· A. A. Liberal Arts, Reinhardt College, 1958

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

· 1989-Present Professor of Management and Information Systems, Mercer University

· 1983 – 1989 Associate Professor of Management, Kennesaw State University

· 1977 – 1983 Associate Professor of Business Adm., State University of West Georgia

· 1972 – 1977 Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Floyd College

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

· Journal of Diversity Management, Third Quarter 2007, Vol. 2, Number 3, pp.37-44, “Team Approach or Individual Approach: A Statistical Analysis of the Impact of Socioeconomic Heterogeneity on Students’ Preference in Writing Term Papers in Management Courses.” (Co-author) Yu, Johnson, and Zhang.

· Journal of American Academy of Business, Cambridge, Vol. 5, Number 1, September 2004. “An International Comparative Study of Economic Development: The Recent Evidence.”  (Co-author) Yu, Zhang, and Joiner.

· Presented to and published in the proceedings of the 4th Global Conference on Business and Economics, Oxford, England, June 2005: "Team Approach or Individual Approach: A Statistical Analysis of the Impact of Socioeconomic Heterogeneity on Students' Preference in Writing Term Papers in Management Courses."

· Presented to and published in the proceeding of the 2004 Hawaii Conference on Business, June 2004: "Marketing At The Entrepreneurship Interface Continues Relatively Unabated: E-Commerce 2003 – 2004."

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:

· Academy of Management

· Southern Management Association

· National Decision Sciences Institute

· Secretary for SSBE Chapter of Bata Gamma Sigma, 2006 – Present.

· Sunday School Teacher, FBC, Carrollton, GA, 2002 - Present

· Business Group, University Center in Georgia.

· Member of Working Families for Walmart.

· Paper reviewer for The Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, August, 2004.

HONORS AND AWARDS:

· Alpha Kappa Psi, Beta Gamma Sigma, and Industrial Management Honorary Society

· Who's Who In The South and Southwest, 23 rd. Edition, August 1992 and 24th. Edition, August 1994.

· Biography listed in Who's Who in America, 48th Edition, 1993 and 49th Edition, 1994.