Faculty & Research

Information systems, Quantitative Analysis, and Supply & Logistics Management

Lee Buddress, Ph.D.

Recent Activity
"Control System Approach to E-Commerce Fulfillment: Hewlett-Packard’s Experience," with Culbertson, S., and Burruss, J. in Journal of Business Forecasting, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 10-16, Winter 2000-2001.
"On-Line Negotiation," with Raedels, A., and Smith, M. in Proceedings of the 86 th National Association of Purchasing Management International Conference, May 2001.
Expertise

Negotiations
Supply chain management
E-Commerce
Inventory planning and control
Forecasting

David Gerbing, Ph.D.

Recent Activity
Relevant business statistics using excel with data disk (1998). Custom Publishing.
A large scale 2nd order structural equation model of the influence of management participation on organizational planning benefits (1994). Journal of Management, 20, 859-885, with J. G. Hamilton & E. B. Freeman.
Expertise

Structural Equation Modeling
Statistics

David Raffo, Ph.D.

Co-Editor
International Journal of Software Process: Improvement and Practice
Recent Activity
Co-PI, "Small Firm Collaborative R&D: Value-based Software Engineering for Small Business," National Science Foundation, 1999-2002. "Developing Rapidly Deployable Software Process Models," National Science Foundation, 2002-2003. "Optimizing IV & V Benefits Using Simulation," NASA.
"Application of a Hybrid Process Simulation Model to a Software Development Project," Journal of Systems and Software.
Expertise:

Management of Information Technology
Business Process Design and Analysis
Value Based Software Engineering
Simulation Modeling

Neil Ramiller, Ph.D.

Editorial Board
Information, Technology, and People
Recent Activity
Ramiller, N.C. (forthcoming) "Applying the sociology of translation to a system implementation in a lagging enterprise," Journal of Information Technoogy Theory & Applications.
Swanson, E.B. and Ramiller, N.C. (2004) "Innovating mindfully with information technology," MIS Quarterly, 28, 4, 553-583.
Ramiller, N.C. and Swanson, E.B., "Organizing visions for information technology and the I.S. executive response," Journal of Management Information Systems, 20, 1, 2003, 13-50.
Ramiller, N.C., "Making the case: The systems-project case study as storytelling," Journal of Information Systems Education, 14, 2, Summer 2003, 153-165.
Expertise

Management of information technology
Management of technological innovation
Language, rhetoric, and management

Rohit Rampal, Ph.D.

Editorial Board
Annals of Cases in Information Technology
Recent Activity
"Ensemble Strategies for a Medical Diagnostic Decision Support System: A Breast Cancer Diagnosis Application," with David West, Paul Mangiameli, and Vivian West, accepted for publication in European Journal of Operational Research.
"Choice of Information Communication Media: Development of a Theoretical Model in the Virtual Enterprise Context," in the Proceedings of the 34th Annual meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Washington, DC, November 2003.
Expertise