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Welcome to the Ph.D. program in Information Systems at the Walton College

If you are thinking of an academic career, you might be interested in the following:

• Our department ranks highly in terms of the number of publications in the best IS journals, and our researchers are among the most highly cited in those journals.
  
  
• Our Ph.D. students actively collaborate on faculty research projects and have a great record of publications while in the program.
  
  
• We have some strong candidates currently on the job market and some promising new students in the program.

Look here for more program information and contacts.

The objective of the Ph.D. in business administration with an emphasis in information systems is to prepare students to conduct quality research in information systems as a faculty member at a research-oriented university school of business. The program is designed to produce a graduate with an understanding of the necessary subject matter required to contribute educational and research expertise to the field of information systems. In addition to preparing students to be world-class researchers, the program seeks to prepare students to teach effectively in an information systems curriculum.

Ph.D. Students Publications

Walton doctoral students in Information Systems have been active researchers while still in the program, publishing in refereed journals. Recent articles by student authors are listed below in reverse chronological order:

  Publications

People on the Job Market

Sandeep Goyal is a doctoral candidate in the Information Systems Department at Sam M. Walton College of Business.  His research stream seeks to understand user perceptions and behavior by theorizing the use, characteristics, and impact of new technologies.  In addition, he is working on a variety of projects that aim to understand the strategic role of a new technology to build a competitive advantage.  His work is forthcoming at premier Information Systems journals such as MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research.  He has worked on various sponsored research grants aimed at improving supply chain visibility with major corporations, such as Wal-Mart Inc.  One of his recently completed studies is now under review at Production and Operations Management.  Sandeep has been invited to participate in the Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference on Information Systems 2009, in Phoenix AZ.  Recently, he was presented with Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award for the year 2008-2009.  This award is presented only to one doctoral student in the entire college.

Pam J. Schmidt is a PHD candidate in information systems with a supporting field in accounting. Her dissertation investigates the influence of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) simulation-based learning on knowledge structures and change management. She has a paper in review at the Journal of Information Systems, and has presented her research at the American Accounting Association Conference and the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. Her nine years of university teaching experience covers accounting and IS courses, MBA and MIS graduate courses, online courses, and student-industry consulting projects. She has over fifteen years of industry experience in business management, new product development and software development projects. For two years she was the associate director of the Walton College of Business’s Information Technology Research Institute which links research to industry practice.  Her vita is available at http://waltoncollege.uark.edu/faculty/search.asp?type=profile&id=147276&letter=s

Tracy Sykes has successfully defended her dissertation and will graduate from the University of Arkansas in December 2009.  During the last year of the PhD program, she worked as a Science Assistant at the National Science Foundation in Washington D.C.  Her research leverages social network theory, methods, and analyses to understand technology-related phenomena.  Specifically, her work focuses both on organizational and societal diffusion of technologies in developed and developing countries, and the healthcare industry.  Her work has been published or is forthcoming in MIS Quarterly and Production and Operations Management.  Many of her papers are under review (including advanced rounds of review) at various journals.

Xiaojun Zhang’s primary research stream focuses on understanding the impacts of technology on performance outcomes.  A paper incorporating technology into the social network theory in explaining job performance is currently under the 2nd round of review at MIS Quarterly.  His secondary stream of research explores culture in different contexts, such as technology adoption/use and IT project management.  His works in this stream have been published or are forthcoming in European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Global Information Technology Management and Information Systems Frontiers.

Contacts

Doctoral Students

Omar Alunaimi Office: WCOB210 Phone: 479-575-6089 Email: olanuaimi@walton.uark.edu	Bryan Hammer Office: WCOB 217A Phone: 479-575-4974 Email: bhammer@walton.uark.edu	Jaime Newell Office: WCOB 209 Phone: 479-575-4874 Email: jnewell@walton.uark.edu
Rick Brattin Email: rbratti@uark.edu	Martin Hassell Office: WCOB 217D Phone: 479-575-8615 Email: mhassell@walton.uark.edu	Pamela Schmidt Office: WCOB 217B Phone: 479-575-4028 Email: pschmidt@walton.uark.edu
Christopher Conway Office: WCOB 217A Phone: 479-575-4974 Email: cconway@walton.uark.edu	Supreet Joglekar Office: WCOB 217D Phone: 479-75-8615 Email: sjoglekar@walton.uark.edu	Sankara Srinivasan Office: WCOB 217C Phone: 479-575-4210 Email: ssrinivsan@walton.uark.edu
Mary Dunaway Office: WCOB 209 Phone: 479-575-4874 Email: mdunaway@walton.uark.edu	Richard Kumi Office: WCOB 223 Phone: 479-575-6961 Email: rkumi@walton.uark.edu	Tracy Sykes Email: tsykes@uark.edu
Sandeep Goyal Office: WCOB 223 Phone: 479-575-6961 Email: sgoyal@walton.uark.edu	Dmitriy Nesterkin Email: daneste@uark.edu	Xiaojun Zhang Office: WCOB 217C Phone: 479-575-4210 Email: xzhang@walton.uark.edu

For more program information: Ph.D. in Business Administration (ISYS) Brochure Graduate School of Business (GSB) Student Organization: Information Systems Graduate Student Association (ISGSA)