Detmar W. Straub

 J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor of Information Systems, CIS Department (Joint appointment with IIB)

How To Reach Me

Office: Room 904, 35 Broad Street
Office Hours: Business hours
Email: dstraub@gsu.edu
Voice: 404/413-7378
Personal Website: http://www.detmarstraub.com

Areas of Experitse

International and cultural issues and IT diffusion.

Education:

  • DBA (Doctor of Bus. Admin.),MIS, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1986
  • MBA, MIS, Gannon University, Erie, PA, 1982
  • PhD, English, Penn State University, 1970
  • MA, English, City University of New York (CUNY), 1967
  • BA, English, Hobart College, 1965

Courses Taught:

BUSA 3000 Globalization and Business Practices; MIT 8210 Global Sourcing of Systems; IB 8710 International IT Issues and Policy; MBA 8000 Managing in the Global Economy

Honors and Awards

  • Alumni Distinguished Professor Award, Georgia State University, AY2008.  This award is given annually to the one faculty member who has demonstrated high achievement in the areas of research, teaching and service in a faculty of over 1,050 persons.
  • Keynote speaker, “Pursing New Directions at MIS Quarterly,” Conference on Information Resource Management (Conf-IRM), Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2008.
  • Northrop-Grumman Distinguished Speaker,“Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Protection of IT Assets,” William & Mary College, April 2008.
  • Finalist for Best Paper of the Year Award, Decision Sciences Journal, 2007.
  • Best Service Award, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, AY2007.  This award is given annually to the two faculty members who have performed the best service in a faculty of roughly 190 persons.
  • Invited speaker in Walton Distinguished Speaker Series. “Strategic Control and IT Outsourcing,” University of Arkansas, November, 2006.
  • Inducted as Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (FAIS), 2005.
  • Best Teacher Award, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, AY2006.  This award is given annually to the two best teachers in a faculty of roughly 190 persons.
  • Keynote Speaker. “Business Continuity Planning and the Protection of IT Assets,” Annual Conference of the Association of Information Systems for Portugal, Bragenca, Portugal, October, 2005.
  • Appointment, Academic Partner, Center for Process Innovation (CEPRIN), Robinson College of Business, November, 2005.
  • Board of Advisors Research Award, Robinson College of Business, August, 2004.
  • Keynote Speaker. “Just Another IS Crisis?” ISOneWorld Conference, Las Vegas, April, 2004.
  • Best Researcher Award, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, AY2003 and AY1998.  This award is given annually to the two best researchers in a faculty of roughly 180 persons.
  • Invited speaker in IS Distinguished Speaker Series. “Measuring Success in e-Commerce and Net-Enhancement,” University of Cincinnati, April, 2003.
  • Annual Miller Lecture Invited Speaker.  “The Role of Culture and IT Policy in the Developing World: The Case of Egypt and the Arab Culture,” Iowa State University, April, 2002.
  • Keynote Speaker. “Measuring Success in e-Commerce,” European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2002, Gdansk, Poland, June, 2002.
  • Keynote Speaker. “Studying Bits throughout the World,” BITWorld 2001, Cairo, Egypt, June, 2001.
  • ANBAR Electronic Intelligence's “Highest Quality Rating” for the Straub and Karahanna paper, “Knowledge Worker Communications and Receipt Availability: Towards a Task Closure Explanation of Media Choice,” published in Organizational Science in 1998.
  • Election to Membership, Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars, 1995
  • Award for Outstanding Reviewer of the Year 1994, Management Science
  • Best Research Paper Award, “The Implementation and Evaluation of an Integrated Information Center in an Academic Environment,” ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) Research Paper Competition, 1995
  • Best Research Paper Award, “Integrated Information Centers in Academic Environments,” ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) Research Paper Competition, 1990
  • IBM Fellow in Information Systems, Indiana University, 1984‑85 
  • Best Dissertation Award, Alpha Kappa Psi Foundation, 1986
  • Honorable Mention, Dissertation Competition, ICIT (International Center for Information Technologies), 1987
  • Best Doctoral Student Paper Award, “Instrument Validation in the MIS Research Process,” Proceedings of the ASAC (Administrative Sciences Association of Canada) Conference, Whistler, BC, June, 1986
  • Election to Membership, Beta Gamma Sigma, Honorary Scholastic Business Fraternity, 1987

Grants

NSF Grant
$ 30,000   (2003-2004)       

 

“Forum on Advancing Theory on National IT Policy in Egypt and Developing Countries” (NSF #  INT-0322501)

Co-Principal Investigator/Writer of grant along with Karen Loch and Galen Sevcik (PI).  
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GSU International Strategic
Initiatives Grant   $ 9,000   (2004) 

 

“Transfer of Information Technology to Developing Countries: Studies in South Africa and Tanzania”

            Principal investigator on grant along with Karen Loch and Galen Sevcik.
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NSF Grant
$ 390,000   (2000-2003)     

 

“IT Transfer to Egypt: A Process Model for Developing Countries” (NSF # DST-0082473)

Co-Principal Investigator/Writer of grant along with Karen Loch (PI) and Galen Sevcik.  
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GSU International Strategic
Initiatives Grant
$ 15,000   (2002)        

 

“GSU in the Middle East -- Extending Our Reach in Egypt”

 

            Principal investigator on grant along with Karen Loch and Galen Sevcik.
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Georgia State Legislature Grant
$ 1.15 million   (1997-1999)  

 

“A Proposal to Georgia Research Alliance for a Research Center in Digital Commerce”

Co-Principal Investigator/Writer on grant along with Richard Welke (PI), James Senn, Vijay Vaishnavi, and other CIS faculty members.
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Sun MicroSystems, EDS,
(and others) Research Grant
$ 60,000   (1997)        

 

“Electronic Commerce in Insurance: A Research Proposal”

Recent Publications and Presentations

  • “Chronism Theory, Culture, and Systems Delay: A Longitudinal Study of Post-apartheid South Africa,” Journal of Global Information Management, 2008 forthcoming (3rd author with Gregory Rose and Carina DeVilliers).
  • “Stakeholders and National ICT Policies: Theorizing about Policy Impacts in Egypt,” Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Global Information Technology Management Association (GITMA) World Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2008 (5th author with Ricardo Checchi, Karen Loch, Sherif Kamel, and Galen Sevcik).
  • “Development of An Instrumentation for Measuring ICT Policies Outcomes and Culture, ” Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Global Information Technology Management Association (GITMA) World Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2008 (5th author with Ricardo Checchi, Karen Loch, Sherif Kamel, and Galen Sevcik).
  • “Examining Trust in IT Artifacts: The Effects of System Quality and Culture on Trust,” Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Vol. 24, No. 4 (Spring,  2007), 73-100 (3rd author with Tony Vance and Christophe Elie-dit-cosaque). 
  • “Cultural and Globalization Issues Impacting the Organizational Use of Information Technology,” in: Human-Computer Interaction and Management Information Systems: Applications, P. Zhang and D. Galletta (eds.), M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, 2006, 200-246 (4th author with Geoff Hubona, Duane Truex, Jijie Wang).
  • “Knowledge Spheres and the Diffusion of National IT Policies, ”Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries, Vol. 23, No.3 (January, 2006), 1-16 (5th author with Peter Meso, Ricardo Checchi,  Galen Sevcik, and Karen Loch).
  • “Creating and Developing a Program of Global Research,” Journal of Global Information Management, Vol. 14, No. 2 (2005), 1-28 (1st author with Karen Loch).
  • “Global Programs of Research: Maintenance and Extensibility,” Journal of Global Information Management, Vol. 14, No. 2 (2005), 29-51 (1st author with Karen Loch).
  • “Transferring Technology to the Developing World,” In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, M. Khosrow-Pour (ed.), Idea Group Publishing, Harrisburg, PA, 2005, 2846-2850 (3rd author with Stacie Petter and Galen Sevcik).
  • “Public IT Policies in Less Developed Countries: A Critical Assessment of the Literature and a Reference Framework for Future Work,” Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2003, 45-64. (3rd author with Ricardo Checchi and J.J. Po-An Hsieh).
  • “Bounded Rationality and Sectoral Differences in Diffusion of National IT Policies,” Proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.4 – 2003 Conference, Athens, April, 2003  (5th author with Peter Meso, Ricardo Checchi, Galen Sevcik, and Karen Loch).
  • “Development of an Instrument to Measure the Impact of Government ICT Policies and Cultural Beliefs on Economic and Social Outcomes,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology, Communications & Development, December, 2002, Kathmandu, Nepal (4th author with Ricardo Checchi, Galen Sevcik, and Karen Loch).
  • “Culture and Consumer Responses to Web Download Time:  A Four-Continent Study of Mono and Polychronism,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 50, No. 1 (February, 2003), 31-44 (3rd author with Gregory Rose and Roberto Evaristo).
  • “Diffusing the Internet in the Arab World: The Role of Social Norms and Technological Culturation,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 50, No. 1 (February, 2003), 45-63 (2nd author with Karen Loch and Sherif Kamel).
  • “Toward a Theory-Based Measurement of Culture,” Journal of Global Information Management, Vol. 10, No. 1 (January-March, 2002), 13-23 (1st author with Karen Loch, Roberto Evaristo, Elena Karahanna, and Mark Srite).  A similar version published as: Srite, Mark, Detmar W. Straub, Karen D. Loch, Roberto Evaristo and Elena Karahanna, "Inquiry into Definitions of Culture in IT Studies," In Advanced Topics in Global Information Management, F. Tan (Ed.), 2, Idea Group, Hershey, PA USA, 2003, 30-48.
  • “Transfer of Information Technology to Developing Countries: A Test of Cultural Influence Modeling in the Arab World,” Journal of Global Information Management, 9, 4, (2001), 6-28 (1st author with Karen Loch and Carole Hill).  Reprinted as: Straub, Detmar W., Karen Loch and Carole Hill, "Transfer of Information Technology to the Arab World: A Test of Cultural Influence Modeling," In Advanced Topics in Global Information Management, F. Tan (Ed.), 2, Idea Group, Hershey, PA USA, 2003, 141-172.

Bio

The J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Georgia State University, Detmar studies international IT, computer security, Net-enhanced organizations (e-Commerce), and IS research methods.  Over the years, Dr. Detmar Straub has been studying the differential effects of culture on the use of information systems by organizations.  His work has been documenting the ways in which culture can both encourage and inhibit use.  He has studied these effects throughout the Arab world (but with particular emphasis on Egypt) as well as in Finland, Switzerland, Brazil, South Africa, and Japan. In the fall of 2009, he began publishing his findings on the effects of cultural chronism on responsiveness to computer systems.  Some cultures are said to be mono-chronic in that individuals in these cultures process information serially and accordingly are, it is posited, more irritated by long download delays on Web pages.  A prolific publisher, Detmar has over 150 publications in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of International Management, Management Science, Organization Science, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, the Sloan Management Review, and a host of other top journals.  Detmar is currently Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly and Associate Editor for the Journal of International Management.  He is the recipient of the Alumni Distinguished Professor Award at Georgia State University (2008), an award given to the faculty member in a 1,000 plus member faculty with the highest achievements in research, teaching, and service.