Department of Business Administration

Dr. Mary Helen Fagan

Rank

Associate Professor of Management

Degrees

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Arlington

MBA, The University of Texas at Arlington

BA, The University of Texas at Arlington

Teaching and Research Interests

Electronic Business/Electronic Commerce

Management Information Systems

Adoption and Diffusioin of Information Technology Innovations, primarily in the area of E-Business/E-Commerce.

Adoption of Innovations Ranging from E-Government Applications to Organizational Web Sites.

Narrative Biography:

Selected Works:

The Influence of Creative Style and Climate on Software Development Team Creativity: An Exploratory Study, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Spring 2004 issue.

An Empirical Investigation into the Relationship between Computer Self-Efficacy, Anxiety, Experience, Support and Usage, with Neill and Wooldridge, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Winter 2003-2004 issue.

Global Information Technology Management: A Framework for Analysis, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Volume 4, No. 3, July 2001

Integrated Results Reporting: Moving Toward Electronic Health Records, with Kilmon and Belt, Issues in Information Systems, Vol. VII (October), 2006.

Exploring E-government initiatives: An East Texas Community Perspective, Business Process Management Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring), 2006.

Comparing Traditional and Agile Development Approaches: The Case of Extreme Programming, Issues in Information Systems, Vol. VI (October), 2005.

If You Build It, Will They Come? Challenges in E-learning Delivery System Choice, with Saber, Flores, Kilmon, Williams and Ibitayo, Issues in Information Systems, Vol. VI (October), 2005.

Exploring E-education Initiatives: A Framework for Analysis, Campus-Wide Information Systems, Volume 20(4), Fall, 2003, 129-136.

Support for Computer Users: Importance and Measurement, with Neill and Wooldridge, Issues in Information Systems, Volume 3 (October), 2002

Web-enabled Information and Referral Services: A Framework for Analysis, Informing Science, Volume 5, No. 1, January 2002

Piloting Pen-Based Computers: Field Assessments and Implementations, with Bijoy Bordoloi, Information Systems Management, Vol. 10(2), Winter 1993, 21-31.

Articles – under review:

Exploring the Behavioral Intention to Use Computers: An Empirical Investigation of the Role of Intrinsic Motivation, Extrinsic Motivation, and Perceived Usefulness, Accepted with Revisions by the Journal of Computer Information Systems.

Exploring the Adoption of a Course Management System among Faculty: Facilitators and Barriers, Accepted by the Campus Wide Information Systems Journal.

Working Papers – to be submitted:

Business Process Redesign and the Learning Organization: Exploring Single and Double Loop Learning at FoodCo, under review by Informing Science

Exploring the Factors that Influence Web Site Adoption: A Diffusion of Innovation Perspective, targeted for the Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications.

Exploring the Adoption of a Course Management System among Faculty: Facilitators and Barriers, targeted for the Campus Wide Information Systems Journal.

Applying Concepts from General Systems Theory to the Emergence of a Community Network, target journal to be determined.

Perceptions of Perceived Enjoyment while Learning to Use a Web Design Tool, target journal to be determined.

Key Factors in Business Process Design: A Grounded Theory Approach, target journal to be determined.

Scholarly peer reviewed publications in conference proceedings:

Global Information Technology Transfer: A Framework for Analysis, Global Information Technology Management World Conference, June 2001.

Software Tools in Business Process Reengineering: Enablers of Radical Change?, Proceeding of the Society for Information Management Conference on Practice-Oriented Research on Information and Technology Management, December 1997. 

Community and Non-Profits on the World Wide Web, Proceedings of the AIS Conference on Information Systems, August 1997.

Pen-Based Computing: Applications and Implementations (with Bijoy Bordoloi), Information Management: Strategy, Systems and Technology, 1996.

Global Information Technology Transfer: A Framework for Analysis, Proceedings of the Decision Science Institute, 1994.

Information Technology Innovation: A Review of the Literature, Proceedings of the Decision Science Institute, 1993.

Chapters in books:

Pen-Based Computing, Handbook of IS Management, Auerbach Publications, 1995.

Conference presentations:

Support for Computer Users: Concept Development and Measurement, Fagan, Wooldridge, and Stern, IACIS, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Oct. 2-5, 2002

The Role of Information Technology in Transforming Higher Education: Visions, Realities, and Actions, Maryland Information Systems Workshop (MISW), University of Maryland, Baltimore County, October 1996.

Some Practitioner-oriented Publications:

Electronic Commerce: What Your Business Needs to Know.  Lower Shore Business Review, January 1998.

Getting Up to Speed on the Information Superhighway: Non-Profits and the World Wide Web, Lower Shore Business Review, November 1996.

Technology Changes the Way We Do Business, Lower Shore Business Review, July 1995.