Welker has been affiliated with the College of Business since 1980. He has also taught at University of Central Florida, Texas A & M University and Weber State College.

Welker’s teaching interests are employees’ tactical and emotional response to budgets and the budgeting process, and the psychology of audit decision making.

Welker earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Florida State University and a doctorate in accounting from Arizona State University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Financial accounting
• Behavioral Research Emphasis
• Employees’ tactical and emotional response to budgets and the budgeting process
• Behavioral and cognitive effects on audit decision making

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

L. Francis-Gladney, H. T. Little, N. R. Magner, and R. Welker, “Does Organization-Mandated Budgetary Involvement Enhance Managers’ Budgetary Communication with Their Supervisor? Advances in Management Accounting, Vol. 12, 2004.

J. Kingori, J. King, R. Welker, and I. R. Johnson, “Delegation and Auditor Effort in Searching for Information,” National Accounting Journal, Vol. 4 (1), Fall, 2004, pp. 21-31.

Rai, S. Lang, and R. Welker, “Assessing the Descriptive Validity of IS Success Models: An Empirical Test and Theoretical Analysis,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 13, March 2002, pp. 50-69.

T. Little, N. R. Magner, and R. B. Welker, “The Fairness of Formal Budgetary Procedures and Their Enactment: Relationships with Managers’ Behavior,” Group and Organization Management: An International Journal, Vol. 27, June 2002, pp. 209-225.

AWARDS

“Gender and Job Confidence,” Annual Meeting of the American Accounting Association, Atlanta, GA, August 2001. Co-authors: P. Dwyer and C. Lee. (Recipient of the Gender Section’s Best Manuscript Award).

“An Evaluation of the Effect of the 1986 Tax Reform Act on Risk-Adjusted Measures of Corporate Tax Equity,” Allied Academies 2000 International Conference, Maui, Hawaii (Recipient of “Honorable Mention” Award), Co-Authors: R. Lirely and H. Little.

“The Interaction Effect of Participation and Outcome Favorability on Turnover Intentions and Evaluations of Supervisors,” Midwest Meeting of Decision Sciences, St. Louis, MO, May 1995 (Recipient of “Best Paper” Award), Co-Authors: N. Magner and G. Johnson.