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Temple sweeps AIS international competition!
May 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
FOX MIS students (again) swept the 2nd Annual AIS International Competition receiving first, second or third place in the categories they entered. The competition was held as part of the 2013 Walmart IT Summit and AIS Student Chapter Conference, Bentonville, Arkansas, April 18-20, 2013. Read more…
MIS awards honor students, faculty, and staff
April 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Thirteenth Annual FOX IT awards on April 16, 2013 honored the following students, faculty and staff.
MIS STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARD
Given annually to a student who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Ryan Oliveira
MIS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Given to graduating MIS students for academic excellence.
Iris Kapo
Elias Hessler
MIS RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Given to a faculty member for excellence in research.
Paul Pavlou
MIS FACULTY LEADERSHIP AWARD
Given to a faculty member who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Richard Flanagan
MIS TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Given to a faculty member for excellence in teaching.
David Schuff
MIS ADJUNCT OF THE YEAR AWARD
Given to a faculty member for excellence in teaching.
Dina Lichtman
MIS ADMINISTRATIVE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Given annually to a MIS or IBIT administrative employee for outstanding performance.
Joseph Allegra
MIS ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP AWARD
Given to an administrator who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Cynthia Smith
IBIT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP
Jennifer O’Malley
NIRAJ AND CARA PATEL SCHOLARSHIP
Rachael Jill Voluck
JOHN H. SHAIN SCHOLARSHIP
Paula L. Kozak
ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS (AIS) AWARDS
AIS Outstanding Officer
Czarina Agravante
AIS Outstanding Member
Gabrielle Lopez
David Schuff wins Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching
April 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
With 50 letters of support from students and faculty, Fox School of Business Associate Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) David Schuff was selected for this year’s Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching from Temple University.
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Yoo, Wattal, and Zhang receive $275,000 NSF grant to study organizational genetics
April 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Professors Youngjin Yoo, Sunil Wattal, Bin Zhang, and Temple Biology Professor Rob Kulathinal were awarded a $275,000 NSF grant to study organizational genetics. This is the third NSF grant the researchers have received, since a grant from French research foundation CIGREF. In total, the research has received about $675,000 in grant funding. The organizational genetics project is titled “The structure and dynamics of generative innovations: An organizational genetics approach.”
The project will focus on how organizational ecosystems are built and evolve over time. For example, success and failure of digital products, such as smartphones, is determined by the size and scope of various apps that are built by third-party developers in the ecosystem.
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Professor Pavlou explains how swift guanxi can facilitate online transactions
March 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Professor Paul Pavlou explains that “guanxi” is “a close and pervasive interpersonal relationship” which has received little attention in e-commerce theory and practice, perhaps due to impersonal nature of online markets that assume that no interpersonal relationships exist or are necessary for online transactions to take place. He proposes that computer-mediated-communication (CMC) technologies can mimic traditional interactive face-to-face communications and enable a form of guanxi in online contexts, what he and his colleagues call in this research swift guanxi – consumer’s perception of a swiftly-formed interpersonal relationship with a seller that consists of mutual understanding, reciprocal favors, and relationship harmony.
In the research, they develop a model that explains how a set of CMC technologies (instant messaging, message box, feedback system) facilitate repeat transactions with sellers by building swift guanxi by mimicking interactivity and presence with sellers. Longitudinal data from 338 buyers in TaoBao (www.taobao.com), China’s leading online marketplace show that the effective use of CMC tools helps build swift guanxi by enhancing the consumer’s perceptions of interactivity and presence with sellers. In turn, swift guanxi predicts consumers’ actual repurchases from sellers on Taobao in the future, supporting the ability of IT-enabled CMC technologies to build guanxi and facilitate online transactions.
The research is forthcoming in Ou, Carol, Paul A. Pavlou, and Robert Davison (2013), “Swift Guanxi in Online Marketplaces: The Role of Computer-Mediated-Communication Technologies,” MIS Quarterly, (forthcoming).
Professor Pavlou was recently ranked number 1 in the world for research productivity, learn more…
New Business Analytics Minor in Collaboration with Statistics
March 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Management Information Systems department is pleased to announce a new Business Analytics Minor in collaboration with the Fox School’s Department of Statistics. The coursework exposes students to hands-on, cutting edge tools and techniques in predictive modeling, forecasting, association mining, cluster analysis, decision trees, unstructured “big” data, sentiment analysis, and experimental design. Students will develop skills in these areas and learn to apply them, enhancing their knowledge and marketability. The Business Analytics Minor is appropriate for all business majors who want to be at the forefront of using data effectively in their discipline.
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MIS faculty ranked first globally for research in top journals
February 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The research output of the Fox School of Business’ Management Information Systems (MIS) Department has been ranked No. 1 in the world in the 2012 update of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) publications survey. The department was ranked first for the period 2009-12, maintaining the leading position it has held for three years.
The analysis also ranked Professor Paul A. Pavlou, director of the Fox School’s PhD program in business administration, as the top MIS researcher in the world for the same three-year period. Fox Associate Professor of Marketing and MIS Angelika Dimoka, director of Temple’s Center for Neural Decision Making, was ranked No. 2.
MIS Professor Youngjin Yoo, who directs Temple’s Center for Design+Innovation and is co-principal investigator on the university’s Urban Apps and Maps Studios, ranks ninth. MIS Associate Professor David Schuff, Fox’s director of innovation in learning technologies, is also on the top 100 individual list, at No. 85.
These scholars explore a wide range of research interests, from e-commerce and big data, to uses of neuroscience in information systems and marketing, to the processes driving the evolution of new IT tools and systems, to the influence of Web 2.0 on politics.
“This distinction for Paul, Angelika, Youngjin and David once again demonstrates the Fox School’s commitment to excellence in research productivity, particularly in top journals,” Dean M. Moshe Porat said. “We congratulate these faculty – and our MIS Department as a whole – as our school and university join in celebrating this remarkable accomplishment.”
The rankings were generated in February 2013 using a database created by the AIS, the premier global organization for academics specializing in MIS, and based on an analysis of publications in the top two journals in the field, MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research. Full rankings are at http://www.vvenkatesh.com/isranking/index.asp.
“MIS at Fox is a special place; we have the best researchers in the world, the most innovative curriculum and awesome students who continue to excel in a very supportive environment,” founding Chair Munir Mandviwalla said.
In addition to the Fox MIS Department’s research rankings, U.S. News & World Report ranks the Fox School’s undergraduate MIS program No. 17 in the nation and its graduate MIS programs No. 22.
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