Information Systems Professor Named Senior Editor of Journal

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Fred D. Davis

Fred D. Davis, distinguished professor in the department of information systems at the Sam M. Walton College of Business and holder of the David D. Glass Chair in Information Systems, has been appointed senior editor of the scholarly journal Information Systems Research, beginning January 2012.

Davis earned his doctorate at MIT's Sloan School of Management in 1986 and served on the business school faculties at University of Michigan, University of Minnesota and University of Maryland before joining the Walton College in 1999.

Davis served as chair of the department of information systems from 1999 to 2007, leading the department’s advancement to become among the top 20 worldwide for research productivity.

Davis is well-known for introducing the Technology Acceptance Model, a leading research model explaining adoption of technology. 

Davis’s research has had a deep impact. His 1989 articles in the leading journals MIS Quarterly and Management Science are the most highly cited articles in those journals. Davis is listed in ISI HighlyCited.com, which features “the world's most influential researchers.”

In addition to his ongoing work on technology adoption, Davis has been conducting research on “NeuroIS,” an information systems research stream that draws upon cognitive neuroscience literature. He and his coauthors have a forthcoming Information Systems Research paper identifying a set of seven opportunities that researchers can use to investigate information systems phenomena and following this up with an illustrative study from electronic commerce.

His forthcoming MIS Quarterly paper discusses the role of commonly used tools such as eye tracking and EEG in information systems research. It also identifies research topics in three broad areas that can benefit from the use of neurophysiological data: development and use of systems, information systems strategy and business outcomes and group work and decision support.