Blake Ives
C.T. Bauer Chair in Business Leadership
Bio
Blake Ives holds the C.T. Bauer Chair in Business Leadership at the C.T. Bauer School of Business in the University of Houston. He is also Director of the Information Systems Research Center (ISRC). Dr. Ives received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems at the University of Minnesota and was a tenured member of the faculty at Dartmouth College. Prior to joining the Houston faculty, he was the Ourso Family Distinguished Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Center for Virtual Organization and Commerce at the E.J. Ourso College of Business Administration at Louisiana State University. At LSU, Dr. Ives served on the University Planning Council chaired by the Provost and was also a member of the Chancellor Search Committee. He previously held the Constantine Distinguished Chair in Management Information Systems at Southern Methodist University. At SMU, Dr. Ives was the faculty director of the Executive MBA program and spearheaded an initiative to transform the MBA program from a one-year to a two-year program.
Dr. Ives is the immediate past President of the Association for Information Systems. He previously served on the Board of Directors for the Society of Information Management International and has twice won an award in that organization's best paper contest. He is on the board of advisory Fellows at Templeton College, Oxford University. In addition to his Fellowships at Harvard and Oxford, Dr. Ives was, in 1999-2000, the Schmidt Visiting Distinguished Professor at Tulane University. He has also held visiting appointments at University College Dublin, London Business School, University of Georgia and Queens University in Canada. He also served on the Board of Directors of St. Joseph's Academy, a high school of young women in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Dr. Ives has played a leadership role in the development of electronic infrastructure for the information systems academic discipline. This involvement includes founding MISQ Discovery and ISWorld Net, helping to establish the AIS electronic journals (Communications of the AIS and Journal of the AIS) as well as playing a key role in establishing the ISWorld Discussion list that links some 2,000 information systems, faculty and researchers from around the world. He also played an advisory role in the development of IS’s electronic faculty directory, the AIS eLibrary and the development of the online version of the Management Information Systems Quarterly. He was also recognized for "exceptional service in building a world wide IS academic community."
Dr. Ives' research has been published in Sloan Management Review, IBM Systems Journal, Management Information Systems Quarterly, Management Science, Information Systems Research, Communications of the ACM, Decision Sciences, Academy of Management Executive, DataBase, Journal of MIS, Communications of the Association for Information Systems and so on. His publications include several of the most highly cited papers in the field of information systems. These include work in information satisfaction, user involvement in information systems development and the customer service life cycle.
Dr. Ives is past editor-in-chief of MIS Quarterly, one of the IS's most well respected journals. He now serves as chair of MIS Quarterly's Policy Committee. He is a current or past member of the editorial board of many journals and was recently the Senior Editor for the Americas for The Journal of Strategic Information Systems. He currently serves on the Senior Editorial Board for the Association for Information Systems (AIS) publications. At AIS, he also served as Vice President for Communication, President-Elect, and President.
Dr. Ives was one of the first people to be elected Fellow of the Association for Information Systems and has been selected as 2003 Educator of the Year by the Education Special Interest Group of the Association for Information Technology Professionals. He also is the first recipient of the Management Information System Quarterly's award for distinguished scholarship and has had held prestigious Fellowships at Harvard Business School and Templeton College, Oxford University.
Dr. Ives' research, teaching and consulting expertise is in electronic commerce, virtual organizations, customer service and the reengineering of management scholarship and education.
Dr. Ives has consulted for many firms and is the author of numerous case studies on the use of information systems in organizations. Many of these cases are available in a virtual case study book. He has designed and participated in a variety of executive management programs. He has fostered a number of innovations in education including one of the first case studies to be distributed over the World Wide Web [Digital Equipment Corporation: The Internet Company], a worldwide learning exercise [The Mondex Global Lesson], and a virtual doctoral seminar held with faculty and students from Harvard Business School, Indiana University, Louisiana State University, MIT, Minnesota and the University of Texas.
Dr. Ives has long been involved in the International Conference on Information Systems, serving as a co-chair for conferences in Dallas in 1992 and New Orleans in 2001, as Chair of the ICIS executive committee in 1993 and as doctoral consortium chair for the first international consortium held in Copenhagen in 1990. He is currently serving his eighth year as a member of the ICIS Executive Committee.
Research Interests
- Electronic Commerce
- Virtual Organizations
- Customer Service
- The reengineering of management scholarship and education
Areas of Expertise
- Electronic Commerce
- Virtual Organizations
- Customer Service
- The reengineering of management scholarship and education
Publications
- Ives, Blake and G. Piccoli. “STA Travel Island: Marketing First Life Travel Services in Second Life.” (CAIS) Communications of the Association for Information Systems. [October 2007]
- Junglas, Iris A. and Blake Ives. “Managing IT in a Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina.” MISQ Executive. [June 2007]
- Ives, Blake and Dennis Adams. “Multi-User Virtual Environments: Vaulting from Virtual to Valuable.” Cutter Benchmark Review. [May 2007]
- A Powell, B Piccoli, B Ives "Virtual Teams: A Review of Current Literature and Directions for Future Research", Vol. 35/1, pp. 6-36, Data Base, [2004]
- G Piccoli, A Powell, B Ives "Virtual Teams: team control structure, work processes, and team effectiveness", Vol. 17/4, pp. 359-379, Information Technology and People, [2003]
- B Ives, K Wash, H. Schneider "The Domino Effect of Password Reuse", Vol. 47/4, pp. 75-78, Communications of the ACM** (post 1992), [2004]
- B Ives, M.S. Parks, J. Porra, L. Silva "Phylogeny and Power in the IS Domain", Vol. 5/3, pp. 108-124, JAIS (Journal of the Association of Information Systems),[March 2004]
- Piccoli, G. and B. Ives "Trust and Unintended Effects of Behavior Control in Virtual Teams", Vol. 27/3, pp. 365-396, MIS Quarterly [Sept 2003]
- Piccoli, G.; B. Bass; B. Ives "Custom Made Apparel at Lands' End", Vol. 2/2, pp. 74-85, MISQ Executive, [Sept 2003]
Contact Info
- Phone:
- 713-743-4697
- Email:
- blake.ives@uh.edu
- Room:
- 270C
- Website:
- Visit Web Site
Education
Ph.D.
University of Minnesota