Loretta Cochran

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Associate Professor of Management

Arkansas Tech University

Also affiliated: Southern Arkansas University Tech (2023–2025)

Faculty Researcher

2 h-index 4 pubs 8 cited

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Loretta Cochran is an associate professor of management at Arkansas Tech University. Her academic background includes a BS in Business and Behavioral Science from Erskine College, an MS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Clemson University, and a PhD. in Operations Management with a doctoral minor in Statistics, also from Clemson University. Cochran holds credentials as a Quality Matters (QM) Master Reviewer and has completed a QM Online Teaching credential. She also serves as a Peer Reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission (HLC).

Her research interests include the impact of education on student ethical reasoning, with a recent publication on developing an assessment for engineering and business students. She has also published on corporate governance and the choice of capital structure. Cochran's scholarly metrics include an h-index of 2, with 4 total publications and 8 total citations. She collaborates with several colleagues at Arkansas Tech University, including Tracy L. Cole, Kim Troboy, David Roach, and Cheng-Wen Wu, with whom she shares publications.

Metrics

h-index: 2
Publications: 4
Citations: 8

Selected Publications

Does Education Have an Impact on Student Ethical Reasoning? Developing an Assessment of Ethical Reasoning for Engineering and Business Students (2025)

5 citations DOI OpenAlex
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND CHOICE OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE (2023)

Journal of International Finance and Economics 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Efficiency in Assessment: Can Trained Student Interns Rate Essays as Well as Faculty Members? (2012)

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 2 citations DOI OpenAlex