During the first half of 1996 I was on sabbatical in Australia, and 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 continue to have a visiting arrangement with the Centre. I am also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Information Management & Systems at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. More recently, I spent the summer of 2001 as the Ludwig Erhard Professor in the Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universitat Bayreuth in Germany.
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 in the information systems community. I am on the editorial boards of the journals: Accounting, Management and Information Technologies; Information Systems Journal; 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. I am 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 and Beyond the Information Systems
Outsourcing Bandwagon: The Insourcing Response
Postal address:
Rudy Hirschheim Bauer College of Business University of Houston Houston, Texas, 77204-6282 U.S.A.