Rob Fichman, PhD
Associate Professor - Information Systems Department
Dr. Fichman received BS and MS degrees in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan (1982, 1983) and a Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management (1995). He joined the the Carroll School of Management in 1997. Prior to getting his PhD, he worked for several years as an IS applications development manager for a leading telecommunications company, and as an IT industry consultant.
Dr. Fichman’s research examines the assimilation and diffusion of IT innovations, and draws implications for adopters and suppliers about how to better manage the introduction of new technologies. Current areas of interest include applying real options to the evaluation and management of innovative IT investments, and understanding the linkage between IT investments and realized business value. He has published broadly on these topics in Communications of the ACM,
California Management Review, Decision Sciences Journal, IEEE
Computer, Information Systems Research, Journal of the
Association of Information Systems, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Sloan
Management Review and other scholarly journals.
Dr. Fichman currently serves on several editorial boards, including Associate Editor at Information Systems Research, and Senior Editor at Journal of the Association of Information Systems.
Selected recent publications include:
Fichman R. G., Keil M. and Tiwana, A. (2005) “Beyond Valuation: ‘Options Thinking’ in IT Project Management”, California
Management Review.
Fichman, R. G., (2004) “Going Beyond the Dominant Paradigm for IT Innovation Research: Emerging Concepts and Methods”, Journal of
the Association for Information Systems, 5(8).
Fichman, R. G, (2004) "Real Options and IT Platform Adoption: Implications for Theory and Practice", Information
Systems Research,15(2) 132-154.
Fichman, R.G., (2001) "The Role of Aggregation in the Measurement of IT-Related Organizational Innovation", MIS Quarterly, 25(4).
Fichman, R.G. and Kemerer, C.F., (1999) "The Illusory Diffusion of Innovation: An Examination of Assimilation Gaps," Information
Systems Research, 10(3), 255-275.
Fichman, R.G. and Kemerer, C.F., (1997) "The Assimilation of Software Process Innovations: An Organizational Learning Perspective," Management Science, 43(1), 1345-1363.
Carroll School of Management
Fulton Hall 452B
140 Commonwealth Ave
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
robert.fichman.1@bc.edu
phone: 617-552-0471
web site: http://www2.bc.edu/~fichman/
