Research and Literature
Last Updated 08/25/03

"Everyone's Watching: The Remarkably Public Reorganization of the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety," Annals of Cases of Information Technology, 2001 (In press).

"Practical Issues in Global IT Management," Information Systems Management, Vol. 18, No. 1, Winter 2001, pp. 34-46 (with Fritz Grupe and William Kuechler).

"Transformation to Virtual Societies: Forces and Issues," The Information Society, Vol. 14, No. 2, April-June 1998, pp. 71-82 (with Carole Agres and Magid Igbaria).

"The Functional Placement of IT Workers: Not Always a Good Idea," Information Strategy: The Executive's Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3, Spring 1998, pp. 27-33 (with Fritz Grupe).

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A Balanced Scorecard for Software Development and Maintenance," Information Systems Management, Vol. 14, No. 2, Spring 1997, pp. 32-40.

"User-Developed Applications: An Empirical Study of Application Quality and Developer Productivity," Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 13, No. 1, Summer 1996, pp. 167-185 (with Brent Bowman).

"An Evaluation of CASE Productivity Using Function Point Analysis," International Journal of Computer Information Systems, Winter 1995, pp. 41-50 (with Fritz Grupe).

"Twelve Tips for Managing End User Expectations," Information Strategies, Spring 1994, pp. 39-47 (with Fritz Grupe).

"Tips for Effectively Managing User Expectations During Systems Development," End-User Computing Management, Auerbach Publications, 1994, pp. 1-11. (This was an enlargement of the prior "Twelve Tips…" article, published with Fritz Grupe.)

"Using a Fourth Generation Language to Create a Graduate Tracking System," Collegiate Microcomputer, 1986 (with William Newman).

 

Proceedings and other Publications

"Organizational Learning through the Process of Enhancing Software," published in the proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Maui, Hawaii, January 2001 (with Lorne Olfman).

"Making Changes to Software May Help an Organization Learn: Applying Organizational Learning to Software Development," publishing in the proceedings of the International Conference for Systems Development, Finland, August 2000 (with Lorne Olfman).

"Viewing Software Enhancement through an Organizational Learning Lens," dissertation, Claremont Graduate University, January 1999.

"MIS Implementation: An Investigation of Success Factors," presented and published in the proceedings of Western Decision Support Institute, Hawaii, Spring 1997 (with Carole Agres and Lara Preiser).

"Collaboration between Users and IS Practitioners: An Exploration of Software Enhancement as a Form of Organizational Learning," International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) Doctoral Consortium, Cleveland, December 1996.

"An Empirical Study of the Quality of Systems Created by End Users," presented and published in the proceedings of National Decision Support Institute, Washington D.C., 1993 (with Brent Bowman).

Wrote four chapters and a seventeen chapter running case on database management systems, end user computing and software engineering for Systems Analysis and Design Concepts, by John Burch, Boyd and Fraser, 1993.

Wrote two chapters on file organization and database management systems for Information Systems Theory and Practice, by John Burch and Gary Grudnitski, John Wiley, 1989.

"Benefits and Drawbacks of Implementing End-User Computing," paper presented and published in proceedings, ISECON, 1987.