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Dominic Thomas

Dominic Thomas
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management
Email: Dominic_Thomas@bus.emory.edu
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Phone: 404-727-7903
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Goizueta Business School
Emory University
1300 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30322 USA

Biography

Dominic Thomas joined the Goizueta Business School in 2005 after receiving his PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Georgia. Prior to pursuing his PhD, he worked in education, education system reform, and international development in the US, Russia, Japan, and Nepal. He has personally managed large, multi-national projects in Nepal and Japan. He has also consulted with US AID to design a small grants funding program and USDA to implement a highly sensitive research program focusing on rainwater stream buffer management and involving negotiations between environmentalists and farmers. Though he speaks English, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, and Nepalese, he sometimes wonders if the language differences between the environmentalists and the farmers were not more challenging to translate.

His work in systems development projects has focused on small and medium business development and implementation of transaction processing, accounting audit and analysis, and collaboration solutions. He has served as an advisor for two large-scale information systems projects, one involving implementation of an enterprise resource planning system in a global energy company and one involving re-engineering the core processes and systems with an object-oriented architecture at a government agency. He applies his background in international development and information systems specialties and deep experience in multi-organizational, cross-cultural project management and execution in pursuing his research interests in knowledge worker productivity and project management, information and communication technologies, outsourcing and new forms of organizing work using emerging technology.

Publications

  • "Vital Signs for Virtual Teams:  A Five-Factor Model for Technology Adaptation Intervention" (forthcoming) Management Information Systems Quarterly, with R. Bostrom.
  • "A Meta-Theory for Understanding IS in Socio-Technical Systems" (forthcoming) Journal of Management Information Systems, with R. Bostrom and S. Gupta.
  • "Limits to Effective Leadership Style and Tactics in Critical Incident Interventions" (forthcoming) Project Management Journal, with E. Bendoly.
  • Building Trust and Cooperation through Technology Adaptation in Virtual Teams: empirical field evidence (2008) Information Systems Management, with R. Bostrom
  • Virtual Team Leader as Technology Facilitator: The Missing Role (2008) in Virtual Leadership: An Introduction, with R. Bostrom
  • Making Knowledge Work Successful in Virtual Teams via Technology Facilitation (2007) Communications of the ACM, with R. Bostrom and M. Gouge
  • The Role of a Shared Mental Model of Collaboration Technology in Facilitation Knowledge Work in Virtual Teams (2007) Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, with R. Bostrom.
  • The Web as a Digital Reflection of Reality (2006) Communications of the AIS, with D. Bray, L. Chidambaram, M. Epstein, T. Hill, S. Venkatsubramayan, and R. Watson.
  • Data Warehousing ROI: Justifying and Assessing a Data Warehouse (2004) Business Intelligence Journal, with R. Bostrom and C. Kadlec. In: Implementing Collaboration Technologies in Industry: Case Examples and Lessons Learned, edited by B. E. Munkvold.
  • "Implementation and use of collaboration technology in e-Learning: The case of a joint university-corporate MBA," with R. Bostrom and C. Kadlec. In: Implementing Collaboration Technologies in Industry: Case Examples and Lessons Learned, edited by B.E. Munkvold, 2003.
  • "Q-sorting for Exploring Attitudes in MIS Research 2002," Communications of the AIS, with R. Watson.

Areas of Specialization

  • Global, Distributed "Virtual" Collaboration
  • Information and Communication Technologies
  • Project Management
  • Knowledge Worker Productivity and Work Design

Achievements and Honors

  • Best Paper Finalist, Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, 2008
  • Dooley Week Spirit Award, Student Government, Emory University, 2006
  • Teaching Excellence Award, MIS Department, Terry College of Business, 2004
  • Presidential Graduate Leadership Scholar, University of Georgia, 2001-04
  • Best Paper Finalist, Fourth Annual Conference of the Southern Association for Information Systems, 2001
  • Eagle Scout, 1990

Professional Memberships and Activities

Academic Background

PhD, Management Information Systems, University of Georgia, 2005
BA, English and American Literature, Brandeis University, 1994