SIS Research Area - Information Systems & Management

Overview

We work at the intersection of Information Systems and Management to explore the relationships between system design, economic incentives, and organisational challenges.

Our research advances theory and informs practice on the development, deployment and impact of systems that support today's complex, information-intensive business processes. Drawing from a range of theoretical perspectives in the economic, behavioural, and design sciences, we investigate how teams, firms, and societies at large create and harness value from IT innovations.  

We embrace field research, econometric and analytical modeling, and computational simulation to study phenomena that span the traditional boundaries of management and technology scholarship.

Current Research Themes

1. Learning and Innovation Processes in Organisations

2. Strategic Design of Software-Based Products and Systems

3. Market Dynamics: Pricing, Competition, and Welfare

4. ICT-mediated social behaviour of consumers, communities, and societies

SIS Faculty

Ilse BAUMGARTNER, Assistant Professor (Practice)
Robert KAUFFMAN, Visiting Professor
Youngsoo KIM, Assistant Professor
MA Dan, Assistant Professor
Alan MEGARGEL, Senior Lecturer
Steven MILLER, Professor (Practice)
Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU, Professor (Practice)
Narayan RAMASUBBU, Assistant Professor
C. Jason WOODARD, Assistant Professor

Collaborating Carnegie Mellon Faculty
Ramayya KRISHNAN, Collaborating Carnegie Mellon Professor
Tridas MUKHOPADHYAY, Collaborating Carnegie Mellon Professor

Affiliated External Research Collaborating Faculty

Vijay MOOKERJEE, Charles & Nancy Davidson Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas and Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, SMU SIS

Research Staffs and Students

Jeyaraj CHANDRALEKHA, Research Engineer
HONG Min Teck Jeff, PhD Student
HUANG Jianhui, PhD Student
LIU Jun, PhD Student

Affiliated SMU & SIS Laboratory, Centres & Institutes

SMU Institute for Innovation and Enterprise

Sample of Visitors

1. Vijay S. MOOKERJEE, University of Texas at Dallas (June 2008)
2. Amit MEHRA, Indian School of Business (June 2008)
3. Vallabh SAMBAMURTHY, Michigan State University (April 2008)
4. Pankaj JALOTE, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (April 2008)
5. Giri Kumar TAYI, School of Business, University at Albany (January 2008)
6. Tridas MUKHOPADHYAY, Carnegie Mellon University (August 2007)
7. Anindya GHOSE, New York University (June 2007)
8. Anandhi BHARADWAJ, Goizueta Business School, Emory University (June 2007)
9. Ramayya KRISHNAN, Carnegie Mellon University (May 2007)
10. Ravi BAPNA, Indian School of Business (April 2007)
11. Hemant K. BHARGAVA, University of California at Davis (December 2006)
12. J. Christopher WESTLAND, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (July 2006)
13. J. Leon ZHAO, University of Arizona (March 2006)
14. Robert J. KAUFFMAN, University of Minnesota (January 2006)

Significant Partnerships

Centre for IT and the Networked Economy, Indian School of Business

• ISB faculty members are collaborating with SMU SIS faculty under a joint agreement to conduct research on issues of importance to the South Asian IT and IT-enabled services industries, including software development performance, platform migration, and shared-service computing.