Doctoral Conference Papers

Current Ph.D. Students

JASON DEDRICK

Dedrick, Jason and Joel West (2004). An Exploratory Study into Open Source Platform Adoption," Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Waikoloa, Hawaii.

Zhu, Kevin, Sean Xu, and Jason Dedrick (2003). Assessing drivers of e-business value: results of a cross-country study, 24th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Seattle, Washington, December 14-17, 2003.

West, Joel and Jason Dedrick (2001). Proprietary vs. open standards in the network era: an examination of the Linux phenomenon, Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii, January 5, 2001.

DALE GANLEY

Ganley, D., Kraemer, K., and Wong, P.K. 2003. "Spillover Effects of Production of IT on Use of IT" 36th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS), January, 2003.

Ganley, D., Mooney, J., and Renduchintala, I. 2003. "Strategic Agility, Loose Coupling, and Web Services: Emerging models and practice." 8th Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), October, 2003.

TOM MOLITERNO

Wiersema, Margarethe F. & Moliterno, Thomas P. "CEO selection: The importance of human and social capital as market signals." 2003 Strategic Management Society meetings. Nominated for the McKinsey Best Conference Paper award.

Moliterno, Thomas P. & Wiersema, Margarethe F. "Human and social capital as market signals: Implications for CEO selection." BPS sponsored paper, 2003 Academy of Management meetings.

Beckman, Christine & Moliterno, Thomas P. "Firms, funds, and limited partners: A nested set of networks in the venture capital industry." OMT & BPS sponsored symposium paper, 2002 Academy of Management meetings.

Moliterno, Thomas P. & Beckman, Christine (Co-chairs). "Looking beyond individuals: Toward an understanding of structure in network analysis." OMT & BPS sponsored symposium, 2002 Academy of Management meetings.

Beckman, Christine & Moliterno, Thomas P. "A network system approach to theory building: The case of U.S. venture capital, 1996-2000." OMT sponsored paper, 2004 Academy of Management meetings.

LIANGYAN WANG

Wang Liangyan. 2004. "Who Depends on Whom? Co-residence with Adult Children among Older Immigrants in California, 2000." forthcoming in the proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on Social Science.

SEAN XU

Zhu, Kevin, Sean Xu, and Jason Dedrick. 2003. "Assessing Drivers of E-Business Value: Results of a Cross-Country Study," Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Seattle, Washington.

Zhu, Kevin, Ken Kraemer, and Sean Xu. 2002. "A Cross-Country Study of E-Business Adoption Using the Technology-Organization-Environment Framework," Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Barcelona, Spain.

GAIYAN ZHANG

Zhang, G. 2004. Intra-industry Credit Contagion: Evidence from the Credit Default Swap Market. Paper presented at the European Financial Management Association annual conference for presentation in Switzerland, June, 2004, and Annual Meeting of the Financial Management Association International to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana in October, 2004.

Recent Graduates

NIVEIN BEHAIRY

Behairy, N. and Graham, J. 2002. A Review of Medical Anthropology and Its Potential Contribution to Health Care Behaviors. Conference Presentation: Association for Consumer Research Conference.

MARIA KNIAZEVA

2002 Kniazeva Maria, "Studying television effects: unrealistic attempt?" Association for Consumer Research Conference (October 17-20, Atlanta, GE).

2002 Kniazeva Maria, "Naturalness as a frame of reference for consumer perception of food," American Marketing Association Summer Educators' Conference (August 3-6, San Diego, CA).

2002 Kniazeva Maria, "Symbols on the plate: food consumption in the time of frankenfood," The Cultural Dimension of Business Research: the Fifth Doctoral Seminar on the Cultural Embeddedness of Marketing, Consumer and Organizational Research (June 1-6, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark).

2002 Kniazeva Maria, "Between the ads: effects of non-advertising TV messages on consumer behavior," 21st Annual Advertising and Consumer Psychology Conference (May 16-18, New York, NY).

JOOSEOP LIM

"Consumer Heterogeneity in the Long-term Effects of Price Promotions: A Priori and A Posteriori Approaches", Marketing Science conference, June 2003

PING LIN

Lin, P., Ho, J. and Liao, W. 1999. The Joint-Effects of Accountability and a Decision Aid on Investing Decision-Making. Southern California Accounting Research Forum:

Lin, P., Ho, J., and Liao, W. 2002. The Effects of Pre-Instruction Business Experience on Knowledge Acquisition and Retention and Task Performance. Management Accounting Section Research and Case Conference:

PATRICIA MARTINEZ

Martinez, P.G., Gomez, C.B. & Griffith, R. 2004. Increasing work flexibility, decreasing organizational investment and the quality of the supervisory relationship under telecommuting. Academy of Management Meetings, New Orleans.

Martinez, P.G. 2004. Paternalism as a positive strategy for leadership and human resources management: Evidence from México. Academy of Management Meetings, New Orleans

Martinez, P.G. 2003. A Test of Organizational Benevolence and Paternalism in Contemporary employment relationships. Academy of Management Meetings, Seattle, Washington.

Martinez, P.G. 2002. You give and you get: Benevolence as an element of exchange in employment relationships. Western Academy of Management Meetings, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Martinez, P.G., Pearce, J.L., Porter, L.W. & Tsui, A.S. 2000. Organization-level measures and their consequences: Strategic investment in human resources management. Academy of Management Meetings, Toronto.

Martinez, P.G. 1999. Paternalism: An unfairly disparaged form of leadership. Iberoamerican Academy of Management International Conference Proceedings, Madrid, Spain.

NIGEL MELVILLE

Melville, N., and Ramirez, R. "Assessing IT Value Within Interfirm Business Processes" Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems, Tampa, Florida, August 2003.

Robins, J., and Melville, N. "A Critical Assessment of First-mover Advantage in Business-to-Consumer Electronic Commerce," Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2001.

KUNTARA PUKTHUANTHONG

Pukthuanthong, K. 2004 "IPO Misvaluation, Flipping and Long-Term Performance" European Finance Management Association. Pukthuanthong, K. 2004 "Why do insiders sell their stake after IPO?", European Finance Management Association. Pukthuanthong, K. 2003 "IPO Misvaluation, Flipping and Long-Term Performance" Midwest Finance Association. Pukthuanthong, K. 2003 "The Valuations of High-tech and Non-high-tech IPOs: How are they different?" Midwest Finance Association. Pukthuanthong, K. 2003. "SEOs and Timing of the Offering," University of California, Irvine, Brown Bag Series Pukthuanthong, K. 2003 ."Risk Management and the Uses of Derivatives," Washington University, Finance Seminar Series

RONALD RAMIREZ

Ramirez, R., Paul Chwelos, Landon Kleis, and Kenneth Kraemer, 2003. "Information Technology and Innovation: The Impact of IT Investment on Intangible Outputs," with Paul Chwelos, Landon Kleis, and Kenneth Kraemer, forthcoming Workshop in Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Seattle, WA.

Ramirez, R., and Nigel Melville 2003: "Assessing IT Business Value Within Inter-Organizational Processes,", Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Tampa, Florida.

Ramirez, R., Paul Chwelos and Kenneth Kraemer, 2002: "Business Value of Information Technology 1987-1999: New Data and New Evidence of Firm Level Returns," Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Barcelona, Spain.

CHAN-FONG (ERIC) SHIH

"International Diffusion of E-Commerce: Impacts of the Rule of Law and Access Costs," Electronic-Commerce Research Conference, Taichung, Taiwan, 2003.

"Brand Name and Consumer Inference Making in Multigenerational Product Introduction Context," Association of Consumer Research Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2003.

"Effect of Relationship Quality in High Technology Industry: The Moderating Role of Switching Barriers," Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference, Washington D.C., 2003.

"Determinants of IT Spending in Developed and Developing Countries," Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, Barcelona, Spain, 2002.

"Buy Now or Wait Later: Technology Adoption in Anticipation of New Product Introduction," Association of Consumer Research, Asia Pacific Conference, Beijing, China, 2002

"The Home of the Future: An Ethnographic Study of New Information Technologies in the Home," Association of Consumer Research Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, 2000

"Telepresence and Bricolage: A Conceptual Model of Consumer Experiences in Virtual Environments," Society for Consumer Psychology, Austin, TX, 1998

"How Smoking in Movies and Anti-smoking Ads before Movies May Affect Teenagers' Perceptions of Peers who Smoke," Association of Consumer Research Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 1997.

RODNEY SMITH

Smith, R., Carolyn M. Callahan, Marion J. McHugh, 2004. Regulatory Compliance Cost: SAB 101 and Revenue Management in the Airline Industry, presentation to American Accounting Association annual meeting.

Smith, R., Carolyn M. Callahan, Amanda McNeely, 2004. Transparency in Financial Reporting and MD&A Disclosures, with (pending revise and resubmit to Accounting Horizons)

Smith, R., Carolyn M. Callahan, E. Ann Gabriel 2003. Product Cost Systems: The Effects of Investment and External Market Information on Required Product Cost Accuracy and Firm Profitability, with (pending revise and resubmit to Management Science; presented at American Accounting Association annual meeting 2003)

Smith, R., Carolyn M. Callahan, Marion J. McHugh 2004. The Valuation Implications of Accounting-Based Measures of Relative Market Power in Buyer-Supplier Markets, presentation at the American Accounting Association annual meeting.

PAUL TALLON

Tallon, P. 2001. "The Appropriateness of Using Real Options to Evaluate Investments in Information Technology" (Organizer and Debate Moderator) International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), New Orleans, December 2001

Tallon, P. and Kenneth L. Kraemer, 2000. "Investigating the Relationship between Strategic Alignment and IT Business Value: The Discovery of a Paradox" European Conference on IT Evaluation, October 2000.

Tallon, P., Kenneth L. Kraemer and Charles Rieger 1999"Beyond the Productivity Paradox: Strategies for Realizing Value from Investments in Information Technology" SIM Conference, December 1999.

Tallon, P. and Kenneth L. Kraemer, 1999. "Executives' Perspectives on IT: Unraveling the Link between Business Strategy, Management Practices and IT Business Value" with AMCIS, 1999 (best paper award).

Tallon, P. and Kenneth L. Kraemer 1999. "The Impact of Technology on Economic Growth and Development: Insights into Ireland's Economic Miracle" , HICSS Conference, Hawai'i, January 1999.

Tallon, P. and Kenneth L. Kraemer 1998. "A Process-oriented Assessment of the Alignment of Information Systems and Business Strategy: Implications for IT Business Value" with, AMCIS, August 1998.

Tallon, P., Kenneth L. Kraemer, Vijay Gurbaxani and John Mooney 1997. "A Multidimensional Assessment of the Contribution of IT to Firm Performance", European Conference on Information Systems, June.

JOEL WEST

Joel West, "What are Open Standards?" Standards and Public Policy conference, Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago, May 14-14, 2004.

Joel West, "The Role of Standards in the Creation and Use of Information Systems," Standard Making: A Critical Research Frontier for Information Systems workshop, Seattle, Wash., Dec. 13, 2004.

Jason Dedrick and Joel West, "An Exploratory Study into Open Source Platform Adoption," Standard Making: A Critical Research Frontier for Information Systems workshop, Seattle, Wash., Dec. 13, 2004.

Joel West and Jason Dedrick, "Innovation and Industry Structure: The Effect of Open Source Software," Strategic Management Society, 23rd Annual International Conference, November 2003.

Joel West and Caroline Simard, "Knowledge Flows in New Firm Creation: Insights from San Diego's Wireless Cluster," Strategic Management Society, Knowledge & Innovation Interest Group pre-conference, November 2003.

Jason Dedrick and Joel West, "Adoption of Open Source Platforms: An Exploratory Study," HBS - MIT Sloan Free/Open Source Software Conference: New Models of Software Development, Cambridge, Mass., June 20, 2003.

Caroline Simard and Joel West, "The Role of Founder Ties in the Formation of San Diego's 'Wireless Valley'," DRUID Summer Conference on Creating, Sharing and Transferring Knowledge, June 14, 2003.

Joel West, "Digital Music: Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley," Western Casewriters Association, Palm Springs, Calif., April 10, 2003.

Joel West, "Should We Care About Standards?" Nature and Future of ICT Standardization conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., December 12, 2002.

Joel West, "The Use of Open Source Adoption Networks in Proprietary Platform Strategies," Academy of Management conference, Technology & Innovation Management division, Washington, D.C., August 12, 2002.

Joel West, "The fall of a Silicon Valley icon: Was Apple really Betamax redux?" Strategic Management Society 21st Annual International Conference, San Francisco, October 22, 2001.

Joel West, "Network externalities vs. switching costs: Which better explains buyer decisions on computer standards?" 2001 PDMA International Research Conference, Santa Clara, Calif., October 13, 2001.

Joel West, "Qualcomm's Standards Strategy," 2nd IEEE Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, Boulder, Colorado, October 4, 2001.

Joel West and Vladislav Fomin, "National Innovation Systems in the Mobile Telephone Industry, 1946-2000," Academy of Management conference, Technology & Innovation Management division, Washington, D.C., August 7, 2001.

Joel West, "Qualcomm's CDMA (B): China Market Entry" as part of the All-Academy session "Effective Teaching with Cases that Show How Governments Matter," Academy of Management conference, Washington, D.C., August 5, 2001.

Joel West and Jason Dedrick, "Proprietary vs. Open Standards in the Network Era: An Examination of the Linux Phenomenon," 34th Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii, January 5, 2001.

Matthew Liao-Troth and Joel West, "Statistical Software and Freeware for Data Analysis in Management," professional development workshop, Research Methods and Management Education Divisions, Academy of Management conference, Toronto, August 6, 2000.

Joel West and Vladislav Fomin, "Standards Divergence and the Locus of Innovation in the Cellular Industry," The Evolution of Standards and Standardization Practices, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, March 24, 2000.

Joel West, "Reconsidering the Assumptions for 'Tipping' in Network Markets," 1st IEEE Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology, Aachen, Germany, Sept. 1999.

Joel West, "Organizational Decisions for I.T. Standards Adoption: Antecedents and Consequences," 1st IEEE Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology, Aachen, Germany, Sept. 1999.

"The Techno-Institutional Development of Standards in the Evolution of Global Cellular Telephony," panel discussion, 19th Annual International Conference on Information Systems, Helsinki, Dec. 14, 1998.

Joel West and John L. Graham, "Language's Consequences: A Test of Linguistic-Based Measures of Culture Using Hofstede's Dimensions," Academy of Management 58th Annual Meeting, International Management Division, San Diego, Calif., Aug. 1998.

Joel West, "Pioneer Advantage Under Increasing Returns to Scale: A Conceptual Framework for Information Technology Industries," American Marketing Association Winter Educators' Conference, Austin, Texas, Feb. 1998.

Joel West and Jason Dedrick, "Competing Through Standards: DOS/V and Japan's PC Market," Strategic Management Society 16th International Conference, Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. 1996.

Joel West, Jason Dedrick and Kenneth L. Kraemer, "Back to the Future: Japan's NII Plans," National and International Initiative in Information Infrastructure conference, Harvard University, Jan. 1996.

Joel West, "Building the Information Superhighway: Japan's Reaction to U.S.," Association of Japanese Business Studies annual meeting, Ann Arbor, Mich., June 1995.

Invited Presentations

Session chairman and panelist, "Open Source Adoption: Trends and Obstacles," Open Source Business Conference (OSBC 2004), March 17, 2004.

Moderator, "Collaboration with Open Source Projects," SDForum Open Source Summit and Expo, Burlingame, Calif., Dec. 11, 2003.

"The Role of Founder Ties in the Formation of San Diego's 'Wireless Valley'," NorCOM Association, June 16, 2003.

"Development of Cellular Telephone Systems in the U.S., Europe and Japan," Institute for Continued Learning, UCSD Department of Extended Studies (Sept. 26, 1997).

"Competing Through Standards: DOS/V and Japan's PC Market," Association of Japanese Business Studies annual conference, Washington, D.C. (June 13, 1997); New York University Stern School of Business (Apr. 4, 1997); Asian Technology Information Program, Tokyo (Feb. 28, 1997).

"Back to the Future: Japan's NII Plans," RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. (Aug. 8, 1996). "Building the Information Superhighway: Japan's Reaction to the U.S.," UCSD Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (Oct. 4, 1995).

CHRISTOPHER ZATZICK

2004 Zatzick, Christopher D. & Iverson, Roderick D. High-Commitment Management and Workforce Reduction: Competitive Advantage or Disadvantage? Accepted for presentation at Academy of Management meetings, New Orleans.

Zatzick, Christopher D. & Elvira, Marta M. Channel richness and employee outcomes: The mediating role of justice. Accepted for presentation at Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) conference, Chicago.

2003 Zatzick, Christopher D. Communicating Change: The Effects of Media Richness on Employee Perceptions of Information Quality and Procedural Fairness in a Merger Setting. Presented at the Academy of Management Meetings, Seattle.

2002 Zatzick, Christopher D. Employee Responses to Mergers and Acquisitions: The Mediating Role of Perceived Threat to Self-Concept. Presented at the Academy of Management Meetings, Denver.

Iverson, Roderick D. & Zatzick, Christopher D. High-Performance Work Systems and Layoff Strategies: The "Tough Love" of Human Resource Management. Presented at the Academy of Management Meetings, Denver.

2001 Elvira, M. & Zatzick, C. Managerial Discretion as a Contextual Determinant of Employment Outcomes in a Racially Diverse Firm. Presented at the Academy of Management Meetings, Washington D.C.

Henderson, G. & Zatzick, C. The Governance of Employee Attitudes and Behaviors through Office Design. Presented at the Academy of Management Meetings, Washington D.C.

2000 Zatzick, Christopher D., and Marta M. Elvira. Who Lasts Longer? The Role of Race, Tenure, and Performance in Layoffs. Presented at Industrial Relations and Research Association (IRRA) Meetings, Boston.

Zatzick, Christopher D. Reconceptualizing Self-expression within an Organizational Context. Presented at the Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management Meetings, San Diego. Published in the Conference Proceedings. (refereed)

1998 Elvira, Marta M. and Christopher D. Zatzick. Racial Composition and Voluntary Turnover in a Multiracial Setting. Presented at the Academy of Management Meetings, San Diego.