Rudy Hirschheim

Welcome to my home page. I am the Ourso Family Distinguished Professor of Information Systems in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department of the E. J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University. I have moved to LSU from the University of Houston where I was the Tenneco/Chase International Professor of Information Systems in the Bauer College of Business and former Director of the Information Systems Research Center (which I ran from September 1989 through August 1997). My involvement in the Center continues, however, as Senior Research Fellow. I have previously been on the faculties of McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario), the London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), and Templeton College, Oxford (University of Oxford). I have also worked as a Senior Consultant with the National Computing Centre in Manchester, (U.K.). My Ph.D is in Information Systems from the University of London. In 2006, I was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Oulu, Finland.

While on sabbatical in 1996, I was the Sir Walter Scott Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Fujitsu Centre for Managing Information Technology in Organisations, Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, Sydney. I also have a long involvement with the School of Information Management and Systems at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. During the summer of 2001, I was the Ludwig Erhard Professor in the Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universitat Bayreuth in Germany. And in 2006, I spent the summer as a Visiting Professor at the Centre de Recherche en Management & Organisation, Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine

Richard Boland and I are the Consulting Editors of the Wiley Series in Information Systems published out of Wiley's office in Chichester, England. The Series began in 1984 and has sought to publish scholarly works which reflect the best research and practice in the information systems community. I am on the editorial boards of the journals: Journal of the Association for Information Systems; Information and Organization (formerly Accounting, Management and Information Technologies); Information Systems Journal; Journal of Strategic Information Systems; Journal of Management Information Systems; and Journal of Information Technology; and have previously been on the boards of: European Journal of Information Systems and MIS Quarterly.

In 1998, I was the Program Co-chair of ICIS'98 in Helsinki. In 2005, I was the Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair for ICIS in Las Vegas. I was also the Vice President - Publications for the Association for Information Systems.

My consulting has been with numerous organizations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, Argentina and South Africa. I have also been a principal investigator on a number of research projects in the U.S. and Europe, as well as acting as an "expert examiner" for the European Commission on a number of their funded research projects in the ESPRIT program.

My research interests include: the managerial and organizational aspects of new information technology; systems development methodologies; social impacts of information technology; philosophical issues of IS research; and the evolution and management of the IS function.. My most recent focus of attention has been on the sourcing of the IS function, see in particular the books Information Systems Outsourcing: Myths, Metaphors and Realities, Beyond the Information Systems Outsourcing Bandwagon: The Insourcing Response (both co-authored with Mary Lacity) and Information Systems Outsourcing in the New Economy: Enduring Themes, Emergent Patterns and Future Direction co-edited with A. Heinz and J. Dibbern.

Here is how to reach me.

Room: CEBA 3197

Tel: (225) 578-2514

Fax: (225) 578-2511

Postal address:

Rudy Hirschheim

ISDS Department

E.J. Ourso College of Business

Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, LA. 70803

U.S.A.

This home page is maintained by Rudy Hirschheim and was last modified on July 13, 2006