Friday Research Workshops

Each Friday afternoon during the school year, the IDSc Department and the MISRC host Friday Research Workshops. These are discussion seminars for PhD students, university faculty and interested Corporate Partners that focus on new research and research-related topics. The presenter typically provides a working paper two weeks in advance. We post the paper online so that it is available for attendees to read during the week of the workshop. The workshops usually begin with presentations of their work by the speaker, followed by a lively discussion. Doctoral students are asked to prepare a three questions in advance. Professor Gordon Davis coordinated the Friday Research Workshops for many years, prior to his retirement. Professor Fred Riggins is the current Friday Research Workshop Coordinator. If you would like to visit to present your research, please contact Fred at friggins@csom.umn.edu.

Friday Research Workshops Spring 2005 Calendar
12:15 - 1:30 PM, Location: CSOM L-110 (1/21), CSOM 1-143 (1/28 to 3/4), and CSOM 2-233 (3/11 to 5/6).

Date	Speaker	Paper
1/21	Nicholas L. Ball Doctoral Program University of Minnesota nball@csom.umn.edu	Operationalizing IS/ IT Functional Structure
1/28	Angsana Techatassanasoontorn Doctoral Program University of Minnesota angsana@csom.umn.edu	A State-Based Theory of Technology Diffusion: Examining Drivers of Wireless Growth
2/4	Michael J. Olesen Digital Technology Center University of Minnesota
2/11	Arun Sundararajan Assistant Professor Stern School, NYU asundara@stern.nyu.edu	Dynamic Pricing of Network Goods with Boundedly Rational Consumers Local Network Effects and Network Structure
2/18	Robert J Kauffman Mani Subramani Frederick Riggins Carlson School of Management University of Minnesota	Panel Discussion of MISRC Research Projects Making the 'MOST' Out of RFID Technology: A Research Agenda for the Study of the Adoption, Use, and Impacts of RFID
2/25	Ravi Bapna Associate Professor School of Business University of Connecticut rbapna@sba.uconn.edu	Consumer Surplus in Online Auctions
3/4	Balaji Padmanabhan Assistant Professor Wharton School University of Pennsylvania balaji@wharton.upenn.edu	On the Discovery of Significant Statistical Quantitative Rules GHIC: A Hierarchical Pattern Based Clustering Algorithm for Grouping Web Transaction
3/11	Laura Kornish Assistant Professor Duke University kornish@duke.edu	Deliberation with a Deadline: The Influenza Vaccine Composition Decision
3/18	----- No Workshop due to Spring Break -----
3/25	Maytal Saar-Tsechansky Assistant Professor University of Texas at Austin maytal.saar-tsechansky@mccombs.utexas.edu	Active Learning for Decision-Making
4/1	Julie Rennecker Assistant Professor Case Western Reserve University jar27@case.edu	Reconstructing the Stage: An Exploratory Study of Instant Messaging Use to Restructure Meeting Interaction  <abstract>
4/8	Vernon Richardson Associate Professor University of Kansas	The Financial Performance Effects of IT-Based Supply Chain Management Systems in Manufacturing Firms
4/15	Amrit Tiwana Assistant Professor Iowa State University tiwana@istate.edu	Knowledge Partitioning in Outsourced Information Systems Development Online Supplement
4/22	Kevin Zhu Assistant Professor University of California, Irvine kzhu@uci.edu	Migration to Open-Standard Interorganizational Systems: Network Effects, Switching Costs, and Path Dependency Supplementary Reading: Information Transparency of Business-to-Business Electronic Markets: A Game-Theoretic Analysis
4/29	Ryan Sougstad Doctoral Program University of Minnesota rsougstad@csom.umn.edu	Value-At-Risk in Systems and Technology Investments: A Framework for Managing Project Portfolio Uncertainties  <contact author for manuscript>
5/6	Rachna Shah Assistant Professor Carlson School of Management University of Minnesota	Inventory, IT Investment, and Profitability: Empirical Evidence using Industry Groups

Workshop schedule for previous semesters