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Faculty
Aloysius, John
Bright, Brittany
Bristow, Susan
Cronan, Paul
Davis, Christine
Davis, Fred
Douglas, David
Hardgrave, Bill
Hatch, Eric
Jones, Thomas
Launder, III, John
Lawless, Brad
Limayem, Moez Dept Chair
Maruping, Likoebe
McDaniel, Beverly
Mullins, Jeffrey
O'Leary-Kelly, Scott
Ouma, Everline
Robert, Lionel
Setia, Pankaj
Summerhill, Jeremi
Thompson, William
Venkatesh, Viswanath

Ph.D. Students
Alnuaimi, Omar
Conway, Christopher
Dunaway, Mary
Goyal, Sandeep
Hammer, Bryan
Hassell, Martin
Joglekar, Supreet
Kumi, Richard
Nesterkin, Dmitriy
Newell, Jaime
Schmidt, Pamela
Srinivasan, Sankara
Sykes, Tracy
Zhang, Xiaojun

Staff
Burleson , Jane
Dean, Christy
Wheeler, Suson


Thomas W. Jones
University Professor

Information Systems
WCOB212
(479) 575-6128
Tjones@walton.uark.edu

Degrees
  • BS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Statistics, 1969
  • MS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Statistics, 1970
  • Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Statistics/Industrial Engineering, 1973

Teaching Areas
  • Statistics
  • Management Science/Operations Research
  • Production and Operations Management

Research Interests

  • Applications of Statistical and Operations Research Techniques

Previous employers include Western Illinois University, Duke University Center for Demographic Studies, VPI Computing Center, and NASA (Goddard Space Flight Center). Dr. Jones has received numerous teaching awards and various teaching and research grants. His research interests focus on the applications of statistical and operations research techniques; publications appear in, among others, Decision Sciences; Journal of Accounting Research; Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation; Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance; Industrial Management & Data Systems; MIS Quarterly; Communications of the ACM; and International Journal of Services and Standards. Grants have been funded by the University of Arkansas; the Walton College of Business; the Teaching and Faculty Support Center (at U of A); the National Science Foundation; the Federal Office of Personnel Management; and the State of Arkansas.

Dr. Jones has served as an officer of four organizations: Decision Sciences Institute, Southwest Decision Sciences Institute, Federation of Business Disciplines, and Arkansas Swimming, Inc. He is a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute, was presented the Distinguished Service Award and the Outstanding Educator Award by the Southwest Decision Sciences Institute, was the recipient of the United States Swimming Phillips 66 Outstanding Service Award, and was elected to the Arkansas Swimming Hall of Fame.

Recent Research Articles

  • The Role of Individual Non-Response Bias in Team-Level Research: The Process of Non- Response and The Conditions Under Which The Non-Response Biases Team-Level Correlations

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