Fred D. Davis
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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.