Friday Research Seminar Series:
2008
MIS Distinguished Speaker Series
Visit and Presentation:
Friday, April 18, 2008
Dr. Rudy Hirschheim,
Louisiana State University
Ourso Family Distinguished
Professor of Information Systems Department of Information Systems &
Decision Sciences
Louisiana State University
E.J. Ourso
College of Business
Ph.D., Information Systems, University of London
M.S., Computer Science, University of Toronto
B.A., Economics, State University of New York College at Buffalo
Biographical Sketch:
Rudy Hirschheim is the Ourso Family
Distinguished Professor of Information Systems in the E.J. Ourso College
of Business, Louisiana State University.
Professor Hirschheim has been on the faculties of the University of
Houston, Templeton College - Oxford (UK), London School of Economics
(UK) and McMaster University (Canada). He has held visiting appointments
at Monash University (Australia), University of New South Wales
(Australia) University of Bayreuth (Germany) and University of
Paris-Dauphine (France). He and Richard Boland are the Consulting
Editors of the John Wiley Series in Information Systems.
Among Dr. Hirschheim's 15 books, are three on the topic of
outsourcing: Information Systems Outsourcing: Myths, Metaphors and
Realities (co-authored with Mary Lacity, and published by John Wiley &
Sons in 1993); Beyond the Information Systems Outsourcing Bandwagon
(also co-authored with Mary Lacity and published by John Wiley & Sons in
1995); and Information Systems Outsourcing in the New Economy: Enduring
Themes, Emergent Patterns and Future Direction co-edited with A. Heinz
and J. Dibbern, published by Springer-Verlag in Berlin, Germany in 2002
(2nd edition published in 2006).
Professor Hirschheim is currently a Senior Editor for the Journal
of the Association for Information Systems and on the editorial boards
of the journals: Information and Organization; Information Systems
Journal; Journal of Strategic Information Systems; Journal of MIS; and
Journal of Information Technology; and has previously been on the boards
of: European Journal of Information Systems and MIS Quarterly. He was VP
for Publications for the Association for Information Systems.
Contact Information:
Todd Hall 442
PO Box 644729
Washington State University
Pullman, WA U.S.A. 99164-4729
Office hours: M-F 8-12 a.m., 1-5p.m.
Phone: 509-335-5319 (outside U.S.: 011-1-509-335-5319)
Mark A. Fuller, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Information Systems
Philip L. Kays Distinguished Professor in MIS
Administrative Assistant: Lael Gatewood
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