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Associate Professor of Information Systems Office: SBA 532
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Neil Ramiller is the Ahlbrandt Professor in the Management of Innovation & Technology and an Associate Professor in Information Systems Management. He joined the SBA faculty in Fall, 1999. Dr. Ramiller teaches the core courses in information technology management for the MBA+ and Masters of International Management programs. He also teaches the undergraduate core course in information systems and upper-division courses in Information Systems Management.
Dr. Ramiller holds a Ph.D. from UCLA's Anderson School of Management, an MBA from U.C. Berkeley, and undergraduate degrees (in anthropology and chemistry) from Sonoma State University. His primary research activities address the management of information-technology innovations, with a particular focus on the role that rhetoric, narrative, and discourse play in shaping innovation processes within organizations and across inter-organizational communities. He also conducts work on the social construction of information technology scholarship, and the implementation of the "linguistic turn"® in information technology studies.
Dr. Ramiller has presented his work at a variety of national and international conferences, and published articles in a number of journals, including Journal of the Association for Information Systems, MIS Quarterly, Information & Organization, Information Technology & People, Organization Science, Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the AIS, and Information Systems Research. His paper on exaggeration and hyperbole in information-technology innovation earned the Best Paper prize in the Organizational Communications & Information Systems (OCIS) Division at the 2006 national meeting of the Academy of Management. His article with UCLA's Burt Swanson, "Innovating Mindfully with Information Technology,"® won the 2004 Best Paper Award from MIS Quarterly.
Dr. Ramiller is a member of the editorial board of Information, Technology, and People and a past associate editor for MIS Quarterly. He has also served as an associate editor for a special issue of Journal of the Association for Information Systems and for sessions of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), and the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.2 (IFIP WG 8.2).