Ph.D. Dissertations Supervised

Ph.D. Dissertations Supervised (Chair/Co-Chair)

In Progress / Pre-Proposal Stage

  • Matthew Showman (Pre-Proposal)
  • Armaan Shovon (Pre-Proposal)
  • Elora Das (Pre-Proposal)

Completed Dissertations

2026

  • Steve De Lurgio – Coherence and Consequence: A Theory of Digital Twin Systems

2025

  • Syed Shuva – Digitalization of News: Shaping News Consumption Behavior

2024

  • Yaping Zhu – Essays on Algorithmic Control in Online Labor Platforms

2023

  • Jennifer Large – Understanding Multi-Platforming Behavior
  • Jia Wei – The Role of Platform Openness in Complementary Innovation
  • Iaroslava (Gloria) Dutchak – Digital Information Transparency and Satisfaction: Can We Have Too Much of a Good Thing?

2022

  • Sandip Sarkar – Agency of Technology on Usage: A Grounded Theory of Hooked

2021

  • Ali Balapour – User Performance and Engagement: The Role of Immersion, Immersive Systems, and Attention Distractors

2020

  • Hamid Reza Nikkah – Data Breach Consequences and Responses: A Multi-Method Investigation of Customers and Shareholders

2019

  • Jake London – Creativity and Information Systems: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of Creativity in IS

2018

  • Dan Jiang – Can IT Be Fashionable? Conceptualization, Instrument Development and Consequences of Perceived Fashionableness of IT

2017

  • Nikhil Bandodkar – Essays on IS and Value Creation in Organizations: The Case of Innovation Balancing Acquisitions, C-Level Technology Directors, and the Acquisition of Entrepreneurial Information Technology Firms

2015

  • Kevin Craig – The IT Identity Threat: Construct Definition, Development, and Tests of Its Effects
  • James Burleson – Organization-Stakeholder Interaction Through Social Media: A Tri-level Investigation, Categorization, and Research Agenda

2012

  • Michelle Carter – Information Technology (IT) Identity: A Conceptualization, Proposed Measures, and a Research Agenda

2011

  • Michael Dinger – Understanding the Role of Embeddedness in Shaping IT Worker Behavior
  • Jennifer Gerow – IT-Business Strategic Alignment: Meta-Analysis, Construct Development and Empirical Study

2010

  • Mohammad Al Marzouq – Toward a Theory on the Sustainability and Performance of FLOSS Communities
  • John Zimmer – Information Seeking Behavior: The Effects of Relationalism on the Selection of Information Sources
  • Stefan Tams – The Role of Age In Technology-Induced Workplace Stress

2009

  • Nick Roberts – Digital Drivers of Customer Agility and Competitive Activity: How Firms Use Information Technology to Sense and Respond to Market Opportunities in Hypercompetitive Environments
  • Ravi Narayanaswamy – Examining the Dynamics of Managing Business Technology Projects: View from a Control Perspective
  • Pamela Galluch – Interrupting the Workplace: Examining Stressors in an Information Technology Context

2007

  • C. J. Duan – Valuation Effects of Business Process Outsourcing: Making the Case for Selective Governance
  • Jaejoo Lim – The Consumer Choice of E-Channels As a Purchasing Avenue: An Empirical Investigation of the Communicative Aspects of Information Quality
  • Ramakrishna Ayyagari – What and Why of Technostress: Technology Antecedents and Implications

2004

  • Khawaja Saeed – Information Technology Antecedents to Supply Chain Integration and Firm Performance

2001

  • Gary Hackbarth – Web Revisitation

2000

  • Bonnie Glassberg – Individual Use of Web Technology: A Reconceptualization and Empirical Test of the Technology Acceptance Model
  • K.S. Im – Information Technology, Coordination Costs and Firm Size

1999

  • Michelle Hiene – The Dimensionality of Technology and Enablers of Effectiveness

1998

  • Mark McMurtrey – The Determinants of Job Satisfaction Among Systems Professionals: An Empirical Study of CASE Tool Usage and Career Orientations
  • Subo Guha – A Multi-company Examination of Business Process Change Outcomes: A Theory Building Approach
  • Ray Crepeau – Career Anchors and Orientations of IS Professionals (Pre-proposal status noted in record)

1997

  • Karen Papke-Shields – Examining a Framework for Manufacturing Strategy and Technology Structure

1996

  • Kathy Stewart – The Investigation of Individual Attitude Toward an IT-Enabled Information Practice: A Prescription for Corporate Information Policy

1995

  • Seung Jeong – Business Reengineering Implementation: An Exploratory Study

1994

  • Albert Segars – Strategic IS Planning: The Co-Alignment of Planning System Design With Organizational Context and Implications for Planning Success
  • Steven Simon – The Relationship of IS Training Methods and Cognitive Ability to End User Satisfaction, Comprehension and Skill Transfer: A Field Experiment

1993

  • Choong Lee – Impact of Computing and Communications Technology on Structural Adaptation to Environmental Change: An Information Processing Paradigm

1992

  • Connie Crook – Sensory Predicate Matching to Enhance Rapport and Comprehension in Electronic Mail Communication

Date Not Listed

  • Myung Cheon – Outsourcing of Information Systems Functions: A Contingency Model (Status: Final Defense)