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Yoo, Wattal, and Zhang receive $275,000 NSF grant to study organizational genetics

Organizational GeneticsProfessors 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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Gordon Burtch, Yang Yang, Sunil Wattal, Pei-yu Chen, Paul Pavlou, and Youngjin Yoo to present at ICIS 2011

ICIS 2011Fox School MIS faculty and doctoral students to present their research at the 2011 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Shanghai, China, December 4-7, 2011.

 

PANEL
Human Capital of IT Professionals: A Research Agenda
Soon Ang; Rajiv Banker; Ravi Bapna; Sandra Slaughter; Sunil Wattal (Chair)

PAPER
Digital Technology and the Variation in Design Routines: A Sequence Analysis of Four Design Processes
(Nominated for best paper)
James Gaskin; Veeresh Thummadi; Kalle Lyytinen; Youngjin Yoo

Winner Determination of Open Innovation Contests in Online Markets
Yang Yang; Pei-yu Chen; Rajiv Banker

Herding Behavior as a Network Externality
Gordon Burtch

An Empirical Examination of the Antecedents of Contribution Patterns in Crowdfunded Markets
Gordon Burtch; Anindya Ghose; Sunil Wattal

RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS
Nurturing Sales Entrepreneurship in Consumer-to-Consumer Marketplaces
Carol Ou; Wing Sze Poon; Paul Pavlou; Robert Davison

MIS faculty and students honored for research and teaching excellence!

MIS faculty and students were honored at the Thirteenth Annual Fox School of Business, Research Roundtable and Teaching Awards, October 28, 2011. Congratulations to all the recipients!

Dean’s Research Honor Roll for 2009-2010

Doctoral Research Competition

  • Zhewei Zhang, 1st year research proposal (1st Runner-up)
  • Gordon Burtch, 2nd year research paper (Winner)

Dean’s Outstanding Publication Award

Fox Crystal Apple Awards

Professor Youngjin Yoo receives major grant to establish Urban Apps Studio

Youngjin YooCenter for Design + InnovationThe Center for Design + Innovation, led by Professor Youngjin Yoo, and the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreunership has received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA)  to establish the Urban Apps & Maps Studio. In collaboration with Temple University’s Computer & Information Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Geography and Urban Studies, and Tyler School of Arts, Urban Apps & Maps will become a platform for urban digital entrepreneurship.

Over the next five years, the Interdisciplinary team of faculty members of the Urban Apps & Maps will work with graduate student fellows, undergraduate student fellows and high school fellows to teach how to build apps to address urgent human needs in urban environments and launch new businesses based on those apps. Urban Apps & Maps studio will work closely with Code for America. The ultimate goal is establish a vibrant urban ecosystem for digital entrepreneurship in North Philadelphia.

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Youngjin Yoo receives NSF grant to study virtual work in design projects

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Dr. Youngjin Yoo was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study how organizations working on design projects virtualize their work using a mix of virtual and physical elements. The $127,260 award is titled Collaborative Research:  Virtualization of work capabilities in project based organizations.

As part of the project, Professor Yoo will conduct longitudinal analysis of four organizations (Intel, Parker Hannifin, Mortenson Construction, and Ford) through interviews, surveys, and observations. Using the data, he will develop a new notation that captures how virtual and physical elements are intermixed in forming design practices in these organizations and further show how those these practices evolve over time.