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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


Fred D. Davis
Distinguished Professor
David D. Glass Chair in Information Systems

Information Systems
WCOB216
(479) 575-5980
fdavis@walton.uark.edu

Degrees
  • B.S., Wayne State University, Industrial Engineer, 6/1980
  • Ph.D., Mass Institute of Tech., Management, 6/1986

Teaching Areas
• Decision Support Systems
• Organizational Productivity with Information Technology
• Doctoral Research Seminar
• Business Problem Solving
• MBA Field Project

Research Interests
• User Acceptance of Information Technology
• Computer Training and Skill Acquisition
• Computer-Assisted Decision Making
• Managing Emerging Technologies

Fred Davis is Distinguished Professor and David D. Glass Chair in Information Systems at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Davis earned his Ph.D. at MIT's Sloan School of Management in 1986, and has served on the business school faculties at University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, and University of Maryland. He has taught a wide range of information technology (IT) courses at the undergraduate, MBA, PhD, and executive levels. Dr. Davis serves as Associate Editor for the scholarly journal Management Science, and has published extensive research on user acceptance of IT in the workplace and computer-assisted planning and decision making. Current research interests also include IT training and skill acquisition the motivation and retention of IT professionals, virtual teams, and technology-supported distance learning.

Recent Research Articles

  • E-commerce Design Characteristics and Intended Use: The Overlooked Mediating Roles of Affective Trust and Risk
  • Neuro-IS: The Potential of Cognitive Neuroscience for Information Systems Research
  • Dead Or Alive? The Development, Trajectory And Future Of Technology Adoption Research
  • Predicting Open Source Software Viability from Functional Appeal and Development Skill: An Agent-based Modeling Investigation

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