Ourso College Information :

	Rudolf A Hirschheim Ourso Family Distinguished Professor of Information Systems PhD Advisor, Department of Information Systems & Decision Sciences Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences - Professor Flores MBA Program - Professor 2221 Business Education Complex Nicholson Extension Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Phone: 225-578-2514 Fax: 225-578-2511 Email: rudy@lsu.edu
Education
Ph D Information Systems, London School of Economics, 1985 BCom Business Administration, University of Toronto, 1975 MS Computer Science, University of Toronto, 1974 BA Economics, State University of New York College, 1972
Courses Taught
BADM 7050 - INFOR SYST MBA STDNT ISDS 7080 - SURV INFO SYST RES ISDS 7081 - CRT ANLSYS I S RES ISDS 7950 - RES SEM INFO SYST TO ISDS 8900 - PREDISSERT RESEARCH ISDS 9000 - DISSERTATION RES
Awards
Louisiana State University 'Rainmaker Award' 2012, LSU, 2013 Honorary Doctorate, University of Bern, 2012
Interests
Teaching Interest: Research Methods in Information Systems; Philosophical Issues of Information Systems; Critical Analysis of Research
Research Interest: Outsourcing; Management of Information Systems; Research Methods; Philosophical Issues of Research
Selected Research Publications
Managing the Human Cloud. Kagner, E., Car, E., Hirschheim, R., and Olsen, T. (2013). Sloan Management Review MIT, 23-32. The Design Construct in Information Systems Design Science. McKay, J., Marshall, P., and Hirschheim, R. (2012). Journal of Information Technology, 27, 125-139. A Glorious and Not-So-Short History of the Information Systems Field. Hirschheim, R., and Klein, H. (2012). Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 13(4), 1-48. Witty Invention or Dubious Fad? Using Argument Mapping to Examine the Contours of Management Fashion. Hirschheim, R., Pena, S., and Murungi, D. (2012). Information and Organization, 22(1), 60-84. Special issue on the Kleinian approach to information system research – foreword. Hirschheim, R., Lyytinen, K., and Myers, M. (2011). European Journal of Information Systems, 20(4), 418-421. Service Oriented Architecture Maturity. Welke, R., Hirschheim, R., and Schwarz, A. (2011). IEEE Computer, 44(2), 66-72. Houston we’ve had a problem …. Offshoring, IS employment and the IS Discipline: Perception is not reality. Hirschheim, R., and Newman, M. (2010). Journal of Information Technology, 25(4), 1-15. Service Oriented Architecture: Myths, Realities and a Maturity Model. Hirschheim, R., Welke, R., and Schwarz, A. (2010). MIS Quarterly Executive, 9(1), 203-213. A Conjoint Approach to Understanding IT Application Sourcing. Schwarz, A., Jayatilaka, B., Hirschheim, R., and Goles, T. (2009). Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 10(10). Offshoring and the New World Order. Hirschheim, R. (2009). Communications of the ACM, 52(11). A Conjoint Approach to Understanding IT Application Outsourcing. Schwarz, A., Jayatilaka, B., Hirschheim, R., and Goles, T. (2009). Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 10(10), 748-781. To the memory of our friend and colleague Heinz K. Klein. Hirschheim, R., and Lyytinen, K. (2009). Information and Organization, 19(1), 59-62. An Integrative Model of Trust on IT Outsourcing: Examining a Bilateral Perspective. Lee, J., Huynh, M., and Hirschheim, R. (2008). Information Systems Frontiers, 10(2), 145-164. The Role of IT Flexibility in Mediating the Impact of Alignment on Organizational Performance. Franke, J., Schwarz, A., Hirschheim, R., and Weitzel, T. Information Systems Research. Determinants of ASP Choice: an Integrated Perspective. Jayatilaka, B., Schwarz, A., and Hirschheim, R. (2003). European Journal of Information Systems, 12(3), 210-224.
Books
Tracing the History of the Information Systems Field. Hirschheim, R., and Klein, H. In R. Galliers and W. Currie (Eds.), Handbook of Information Systems. A Knowledge-based view of Information Systems Planning and its Consequences: Review and Propositions. Sabherwal, R., Hirschheim, R., and Jayaraj, A. (2009). In W. King (Eds.), Management Information Systems: Planning for Information Systems. New York: M. Sharpe.
Professional and Service Activities
Promotion and Tenure Committee, Committee Member
Biographical Summary
Professor Hirschheim is the Ourso Family Distinguished Professor of Information Systems in the E.J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University. He has previously 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), University of Jyvaskyla (Finland), University of Warwick (UK), and University of Paris-Dauphine (France). He is on the editorial boards of the journals: Journal of the Association for Information Systems; Information and Organization; Information Systems Journal; Journal of Strategic Information Systems; Journal of MIS; and Journal of Information Technology. He was VP for Publications for the Association for Information Systems. In 2006, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Oulu (Finland). And in 2007, he was made “Fellow” of the Association for Information Systems
Employed by LSU since:
2003

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