Robert
G. Fichman
Dr. Fichman
received BS and MS degrees in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the
Dr. Fichman’s
research examines the assimilation and diffusion of IT innovations, and draws
implications for adopters and suppliers about how to better manage the
introduction of new technologies. Current areas of interest include applying
real options to the evaluation and management of innovative IT investments, IT
and healthcare, Web 2.0/social media, and understanding the linkage between IT
investments and realized business value. He has published broadly on these topics
in Communications of the ACM,
California Management Review, Decision Sciences Journal, Harvard Business Review, IEEE Computer, Information Systems Research, Journal
of the Association of Information Systems, Management Science, MIS
Quarterly, Sloan Management Review
and other scholarly journals.
Dr. Fichman
currently serves on several editorial boards, including Associate Editor at Information Systems Research, and Senior
Editor at Journal of the Association of
Information Systems.
Full Curriculum Vitae (Microsoft Word format)
Course materials:
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MI
720 Information Technology for Management
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MI
815 Management of Technology and Innovation
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Robert G. Fichman(Note: links below are to final working paper versions of the manuscripts in .doc or .pdf format. Page images of the actual published papers are available upon request.)
Kane, G.C., Fichman, R.G., Gallaugher, J. and Glaser, J. “Community Relations 2.0,” Harvard Business Review, forthcoming November 2009.
Fichman, R. G. and Nambisan, S. “Deriving
Business Value from IT Applications in Product Development: A
Complementarities-Based Model” in Information Technology and Product
Development, Satish Nambisan (Ed.), Annals of Information Systems
Series, Vol. 5, Springer, forthcoming 2009.
Kane, G.C. and Fichman R.G. “The Shoemaker’s Children: Using Wikis for Information Systems Teaching, Research, and Publication,” MIS Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 1, 1-17, 2009.
Tiwana, A., Keil, M., and Fichman, R. G., (2006) “IS Project Continuation in Escalation Situations: A Real Options Model,” Decision Sciences Journal, 37(3) 357-391. (Best Paper Award, 2006.)
Fichman R. G., Keil M. and
Tiwana, A. (2005) “Beyond
Valuation: ‘Options Thinking’ in IT Project Management”, California
Management Review, 47(2) 74-100.
Fichman, R. G., (2004) “Going Beyond the
Dominant Paradigm for IT Innovation Research: Emerging Concepts and Methods”,
Journal
of the Association for Information Systems, 5(8).
Fichman, R. G, (2004) "Real Options
and IT Platform Adoption: Implications for Theory and Practice",
Fichman, R.G. and Cronin, M., (2003) "Information-Rich Commerce at a Crossroads: Business and Technology Requirements," Communications of the ACM, 46, (9) 96-102.
Fichman, R.G. and Kemerer, C.F., (2002) "Activity Based
Costing for Component-Based Software Development,"Information
Technology and Management, 3(1-2) 137-60 .
Fichman, R.G., (2001) "The Role of Aggregation in the Measurement of IT-Related Organizational Innovation", MIS Quarterly, 25(4).
Fichman, R.G. and Kemerer, C.F., (2001) "Incentive Compatibility and Systematic Software Reuse,"Journal of Systems and Software, 57(1) 45-60.
Fichman, R.G, (2000) "The Diffusion and Assimilation of Information Technology Innovations" in Framing the Domains of IT Management: Projecting the Future Through the Past, Robert Zmud editor, Pinnaflex Publishing.
Fichman, R.G. and Kemerer, C.F., (1999) "The Illusory
Diffusion of Innovation: An Examination of Assimilation Gaps,"
Fichman, R.G. and Moses S. M, (1999) "An Incremental Process for Software Implementation" Sloan Management Review, 40(2), Winter, 39-52.
Fichman, R.G. and Kemerer, C.F., (1997) "The Assimilation of Software Process Innovations: An Organizational Learning Perspective," Management Science, 43(1), 1345-1363.
Fichman, R.G. and Kemerer, C.F., (1997) "Object Technology and Reuse: Lessons from Early Adopters," IEEE Computer, 30(10, 47-59.
Fichman, R.G. and Kemerer, C.F., (1993) "Adoption of Software Engineering Process Innovations: The Case of Object-Orientation," Sloan Management Review, 34(2), 7-22.
Fichman, R.G. and Kemerer, C.F., (1992) "Object-Oriented and Conventional Analysis and Design Methodologies: Comparison and Critique," IEEE Computer, 25(10), 22-39.
Fichman, R.G., (1992) "Information
Technology Diffusion: A Review of Empirical Research," Proceedings
of the Thirteenth International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS),
December,