Teaching Areas

• Entrepreneurship, Creativity & Innovation
• New Venture Creation
• Entrepreneurial Marketing
• Marketing Research

Teaching Areas Hochschule Worms

• Entrepreneurial Marketing
• International Entrepreneurship

Research Interests

• Entpreneurial Behaviour and Decisioin Making
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Social Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition
• Governmental Accountability

Current Projects

• Advising the Entrepreneur: Why good Advice Sometimes Falls on Deaf Ears.
  The characteristics and orientation associated with an entrepreneur's willingness and psychological ability to accept contructive criticism about her/his new venture, innovation, or idea.

Reviewer Activities

• Journal of Business Venturing
• Journal of Entrepreneurship & Ethics
• Marketing Education Review
• Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship

Selected Publications

• 2016, Who Audits America´s Local Governments?
  Government Clients Move Downstream to Regional and Local Audit Firms
  Deis, Donald and Byus, Kent (2016): SAM Advanced Management Journal, Vol. 81, Iss. 2, Pages 21-30.

Additional Information

• Chair of the Management and Marketing Department: College of Business: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
• Associate Director for Research and Education:Coastal Bend Business Innovation Center.
• Board of Directors: Society of Advancement of Management.