Susan Winter


 


EXPERTISE

Currently an associate professor of MIS at Portland State University with over 20 years of international managerial and consulting experience.  Expert in research methods and statistics in applied field settings.  Author of 18 publications, investigator on 7 grants, and presenter of over 25 refereed conference presentations (including 3 Best Paper awards). Currently serving on the editorial boards of the Journal of Information Technology, Information and Organization, and Group and Organization Management.  Formerly served as Associate Editor for IFIP 8.2, ICIS, and the OCIS Division of the Academy of Mangement.  Has served as Treasurer and as Member at Large for the OCIS Division of the Academy of Mangement and is currently a member of the Communications Committee.  Her research is published in the information systems and management journals and she works with top companies on various research and consulting projects.  She received her PhD from the University of Arizona, her MA from the Claremont Graduate University, and her BSci from the University of California, Berkeley.   


RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research focuses on understanding the social and organizational impacts of information and communications technology (ICT), issues surrounding its management and the ways that the social organization of ICT is influenced by social forces and common social practices. My work improves the likelihood of successful ICT implementations by ensuring that technical research and systems are relevant to people’s lives and to the social dynamics of the site in which they are deployed.  By identifying the functionality that people value, it can be used to set priorities for design and implementation. 

Specific research streams include the role of ICT in the changing organization and globalization of work and the ways in which organizations capitalize on the symbolic nature of ICT by adopting and using it to manage the impressions of important stakeholders.



SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


The Changing Nature of Work and the Role of ICT in its Organization

Winter, S.J., Stylianou, A.C., & Giacalone, R.A. (2004) “Individual differences in the acceptability of unethical information technology practices: The case of Machiavellianism and Ethical Ideology,” Journal of Business Ethics, 54(3), pg. 279-301.

Winter, S.J. & Gill, G. (2001) "OfficeTech®: A new paradigm in office services?," Journal of Information Technology, 16(1), pg. 23-32.
 


Winter, S.J., Chudoba, K. & Gutek, B. (1998) "Attitudes toward computers: When do they predict computer use?" Information and Management, 34, 275-284.

Winter, S.J., Chudoba, K. & Gutek, B.  (1997) “Misplaced resources?  Factors associated with computer literacy among end users," Information and Management, 32, 29-42.

Winter, S.J. & L.S. Taylor (1996) “The role of IT in the transformation of work: A comparison of post-industrial, industrial, and proto-industrial organization,” Information Systems Research, 7 1, 5-21. 

Reprinted in
- G. DeSanctis & J. Fulk (Eds.) Shaping Organization Form: Communication, Connection and Community, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

- J. Yates & J. Van Maanen (Eds) (2001) Information Technology and Organizational Transformation: History, Rhetoric and Practice, 7-34, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

      The Use of ICT for its Symbolic Value

Winter, S.J., Gaglio, C.M., & Rajagopalan, H.K. (accepted) “The Value of IS to SMEs:  ICT as Signal and Symbol of Legitimacy and Competitiveness,” International Journal of Electronic Business Research.



Winter, S.J. (2004) Impression management and the symbolic potential of personal computer technology: Differences among white-collar workers."  Beard, J. (Ed) Managing Impressions with Information Technology, Praeger Publishers, Westport: CT, pg. 31-54.


Winter, S.J., Saunders, C. & Hart, P. (2003) "Electronic window dressing? Users’ perceptions of website characteristics and web-based organizational impressions," European Journal of Information Systems, 12(4), pg. 309-322.


Winter, S.J. (1996) “The Symbolic value of computers: Expanding analyses of organizational computing.”  In J.W. Beard (Ed.) Impression Management and Information Technology.   Greenwood Publishing, 21-38.


 COURSES DEVELOPED AND DELIVERED

Undergraduate

Systems Analysis & Design  

            Introduction to Org. Behavior 


Introduction to MIS
Human Resource Management

MBA

            Strategic Information Systems  

            Strategic Planning for Information Systems


Management of IT

Doctoral

Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods        

Systems Analysis & Design 

Writing Grant Applications 

            Introduction to MIS


Descriptive & Inferential Statistics
Structural Equation Modeling
 Intro. to the IS Research Literature
Behavioral Issues in IS

Executive Education

Ethical Issues in e-Business

 
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