Our research program has consistently been ranked among the top ten in the U.S. for more than a decade. Several of our faculty have won research grants (Aronson, Bostrom, Brohman, Goodhue, R. Watson) as well as awards for outstanding research (Bostrom, H. Watson, R. Watson). Many of our faculty have also won Fulbright awards (McKeown, Karahanna, Seila, R. Watson).

Our research is often interdisciplinary, encouraging joint projects with accounting, marketing, education, engineering, artificial intelligence, computer science, and child and family development. Our research also has a strong international flavor, with links to researchers in many other countries such as Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, Finland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Finland, and Singapore.

We currently have active research programs in:

1. Electronic commerce
2. Internet technologies
3. Data warehousing
4. Groupware
5. Facilitation
6. Information systems management
7. Parallel optimization
8. Artificial neural networks
9. Task-technology fit
10. Cluster analysis
11. Multicriteria decision making
12. Nonparametric statistics
13. Executive information systems
14. National culture and MIS
15. Technology-supported learning

MIS Faculty

• Three of our faculty have been ranked among the top 25 most productive researchers in MIS. (Bostrom, H. Watson, R. Watson).
• We have three chaired professors (Bostrom, H. Watson, R. Watson)
• The MIS Department was ranked among the top ten programs in the world by the Financial Times and sixth in the US in research productivity by an Academy of Management article earlier this year. It was one of only four departments included in the top ten in both rankings.
• It was also ranked in the top 20 in the United States this year by USWR.