Welcome to the Doctoral Program in Information Technology Management at Michigan State University. We have designed our program to prepare individuals who demonstrate a high level of scholarship for a career in information systems research and teaching at the university level. We are proud of the program’s multidisciplinary orientation that draws upon the expertise of faculty in a variety of disciplines across the Broad College of Business. Indeed, world-class faculty who are reputed for their research, editorial positions, and information systems community leadership are the foundation of our program.
As a doctoral student in the ITM program at Michigan State University, you will be expected to be in residence on a full-time basis. While completing your coursework, you will be assigned a position as a teaching and/or research assistant. Upon completion of your coursework, you will sit for a comprehensive accounting examination and then complete your dissertation. Current research programs span a wide range of topics. Examples include:
- The individual acceptance and use of information technologies
- Organizational diffusion, adoption, and use of information technologies
- The role of trust in promoting technology-mediated inter-organizational relationships
- Role of routines and organizational work processes in IT-mediated transformations
- Organizational capabilities, structures, and skills for leveraging IT value
- Impacts of IT investments on customer relationship, supply chain, and knowledge management
- IT capabilities and the dynamics of competitive action
- Decision support tools and their organizational impacts
