Marie-Claude (Maric) Boudreau

Dr. Marie-Claude (Maric) Boudreau is an Associate Professor of MIS at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. She held the position of MIS Department Head from 2012 to 2024. She received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Information Systems from Georgia State University, a Diplôme d’Enseignement Supérieur Spécialisé from l’École Supérieure des Affaires de Grenoble (France), and an M.B.A. from l’Université Laval in Québec (Canada).

Her research focuses on how information technologies and information systems (IT/S), including integrated software packages and open-source software, can bring about organizational change.  She has explored how IT/S drives organizational change, the consequences of IT/S implementation, and the interaction between human agency and technology in organizational settings. Additionally, she has explored the role of IT/S in promoting environmental sustainability, often referred to as Green IS or Energy Informatics. Within that stream of work, she has engaged in many interdisciplinary collaborations and secured numerous grants.

Dr. Boudreau’s scholarly work has been published in many journals, including Organization Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, The Academy of Management Executive, Information Technology & People, Journal of the AIS, and many conference proceedings.

Her teaching interests include the design and management of databases, business process management, and qualitative research.

• PhD, Business / Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University, 2001
• MBA, Management Information Systems, Laval University (Quebec, Canada), 1995
• DESS, Management Information Systems, Ecole Superieure des Affaires (Grenoble, France), 1994
• BBA, Management Information Systems, Laval University (Quebec, Canada), 1993

• Organizational Change
• Workplace Digitization
• Energy informatics
• Green IS
• Identity

Journal Articles

• Sesay, A., Ramirez, R., Boudreau, M.-C., and Kane, G., “Bureaucratizing the Clan: An Affordance Perspective on Technology-Based Control in Organizations.” Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 41 No. 1, pp.5–38, 2024, 2024.
• Cardoso, A., Boudreau, M.-C., and Carvalho, J., “Organizing Collective Action: Does Information and Communication Technology Matter” Information and Organization, 29(3), 2019.
• Watson, R. T., Dawson, G. S., Boudreau, M.-C., Li, Y., Zhang, H., Huang, W. W., and Al-Jabri, I. “Constraining Opportunism in Information Systems Consulting: A Three Nation Examination,” Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 20(7), 2019.
• Watson, R. T., Boudreau, M.-C., and van Iersel, M. W. “Simulation of Greenhouse Energy Use: An Application of Energy Informatics,” Energy Informatics, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2018.
• Seidel, S., Bharati, P., Fridgen, G., Watson, R. T., Albizri, A., Boudreau, M.-C., Butler, T.; Kruse, L. C.,  Guzman, I., Karsten, H., Lee, H., Melville, N., Rush, D., Toland, J., and Watts, S. “The Sustainability Imperative in Information Systems Research,” Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 40, Article 3, 2017.

Book Chapters

• Boudreau, M.-C., Watson, R. T., and Jeszke, N. “Energy Informatics: origins, emergence, and future thoughts on data and process management,” in Research Handbook on Information Systems and the Environment, Cooper, V., Kranz, J. J., Mathew, S. K., and Watson, R. T., Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2023
• Safadi, H., Boudreau, M.-C., and Faraj, S. “One Picture to Study One Thousand Words: Visualization for Qualitative Research in the Age of Digitalization” in Cambridge University Press Handbook of Qualitative Research in the Age of Digitalisation. 2020.

Books

• Watson, R. T. and Boudreau, M-C., “Energy Informatics,” Green ePress; 1 edition, 2011. Available on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005HW4MAA.  

• 2023: Inducted into UGA Teaching Academy
• 2023: Selected as a UGA Senior Teaching Fellow
• 2022: AIS Doctoral Student College’s Faculty Mentor Award
• 2022: Selected as a UGA Sustainable Writing Practice Fellow
• 2021: AIS Distinguished Member Award (Cum Laude Designation)
• 2021: AIS Sandra Slaughter Service Award
• 2021: AIS Technology VISION Award
• 2017-2018: Selected as a UGA Women Leadership Fellow
• 2012: Teacher of the Year (attributed by Alpha Kappa Psi)
• 2009: First prize winner (with R. Watson, S. Li, and J. Levis) of SIM case competition
• 2009: Highly Commended Winner at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence (for a paper published in the Journal of Systems and Information Technology) (Chen et al., 2009)
• 2007: Highly Commended Winner at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence (for a paper published in the journal Internet Research) (Boudreau and Watson, 2006)
• 2004: Recognized at the UGA Honors Day Reception for teaching effectiveness.
• 2003: Best Paper Award (in the Organizational Track) for a paper published at the HICSS Conference (Boudreau, 2003)