Researchers' Impact on and
Service to the Field

          
 Fred Davis                                     Viswanath Venkatesh

• U of A's Researchers Highly Cited in Elite Journals
  
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• Number of Publications in Key Journals
  The University of Arkansas (Sam M. Walton College of Business) ranks number 6 world wide based on MISQ and ISR research contribution 2006-2008.
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Leadership/Impact in
Emerging Technologies and Industry

• RFID Research Lab

The RFID (radio frequency identification) Research Center at the University of Arkansas has been listed by Network World in the top "10 really cool university networking labs."
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10 Really Cool University Networking Labs

• Enterprise Systems
  Enterprise systems are the types of large-scale information technology systems that are in use today at the world's largest companies. Not only are they used at these companies, but also they are actively in use in graduate and undergraduate curricula at the Sam M. Walton College of Business.

Featured Researcher

Pankaj Setia
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Michigan State University,
IT and Management, 2008

PGPM MBA, Management Development Institute, India
Information Management, 2000

B.S., University of Delhi, India, Physics, 1997

In 2007, he received the PhD Student Excellence in Research Award from the Accounting and Information Systems Department at Michigan State and was Chan Hahn Best Paper Award finalist at the Academy of Management conference that same year.

His key area of interest is to study the process of creating and leveraging IT capabilities for superior organizational performance.

Pankaj's work has been presented at conferences such as

• Workshop on Information Systems Economics (WISE),
• Academy of Management (AOM) and Informs’ Conference on Information Systems Technology (CIST),
• International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), and Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS).

His research has been published in Information Technology and Management, and is under review at leading Information systems journals such as MIS Quarterly (MISQ) and Information Systems Research (ISR).

Recent Research Activities

• Department Colloquium Sessions-Fall 2009
  

Andrew Burton-Jones                            Anandhi Bharadwaj

• Fall 2009 Visiting Speakers:
  
  • Nicole DeHoratius, University of Portland
  
  • Andrew Burton-Jones, Management Information Systems, University of British Columbia
  
  • Lars Matthiessen, GRA Eminent Scholar, Professor and Co-Founder of Center for Process Innovation, Georgia State University
  
  
• During the Fall 2008-Spring 2009 semesters, the Information Systems department hosted an active series of invited workshops conducted by Visiting Scholars including:
  
  • Dr. Hillol Bala, Indiana University
  
  • Dr. Anandhi Bharadwaj, Goizueta Business School, Emery University
  
  • Dr. Shuk Ying Ho, (Susanna), School of Accounting and Business Information Systems, College of Business and Economics, The Australian National University
  
  • Dr. Nicholas Romano, Management Science and Information Systems, Oklahoma State University, William S. Spears School of Business
  
  • Dr. Ilze Zigurs, College of Information Science and Technology, The Peter Kiewit Institute, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  
  • Dr. Imed Boughzala, Institut TELECOM/T&M Sud Paris France

Resources

• Behavioral Business Research Lab
  The lab is dedicated to the study of behavior as it relates to business and economics. Through observing choices in a controlled setting, researchers can test current theories and develop new hypotheses about how people behave. Studies typically involve reading a set of direction and then making a series of choices. The choices may be presented as a survey or it may be a series of interactions between participants. While most of the studies are computerized, some involve a written component and some involve minimal physical activity.
  

• Interdisciplinary Collaborators In Other Departments

• Hardware/Software

• Industry Partnerships
  
  

Featured Recent Visiting Scholar

   Dr. Imed Boughzala
   Institut TELECOM/T&M Sud Paris, France

   Website: http://www.boughzala.com/

In May 2009, Dr. Imed Boughzala visited the Information Systems Department for the second time.  He first visited us in Fall 2008.

In the continuity of the research projects that he is carrying out with some of our Faculties and PhD students, this time he came, among others, to present the recent results of a study conducted in France with our colleagues on the mediating process dynamics across technologies such as virtual worlds and their impacts on team performance.

Dr. Imed Boughzala is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems, Institut Telecom in Paris, France.

He is currently visiting the Department of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

His current research interests include collaboration science, knowledge management and social virtual worlds.