E. B. Swanson

Professor and Area Chair

Phone: (310) 825-3654

Fax: (310) 825-5456

burt.swanson@anderson.ucla.edu

Biography

E. Burton Swanson is a Professor and Area Chair for Information Systems at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is also Director of the Information Systems Research Program. Professor Swanson began his academic career at UCLA in 1974. Earlier he worked with IBM, primarily in application system development. Since obtaining his doctorate, he has held visiting positions in Germany, Belgium and England.

Professor Swanson is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and also a recipient of its LEO award for exceptional lifetime achievement. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Information Systems Research, 1987-92. Earlier he was also a co-founder of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), in 1980. Professor Swanson's research examines the life cycles of systems in organizations, addressing issues of innovation, implementation, utilization, and maintenance.  He has authored more than one hundred scholarly articles.  His most recent work addresses organizing visions for innovating with IT.

Locally, Professor Swanson is a member of the Southern California chapter of the Society of Information Management (SIM), and also works with the Anderson School's Information Systems Associates, a group of senior practitioners that provides support for the School.

Education

Ph.D. Business Administration, 1971, UC Berkeley
MBA 1964, University of Michigan
B.S. Industrial Engineering, 1962, San Jose State College

Interests

Business Innovations, Enterprise Systems, Information Systems and Technology
  • Swanson, E. B.. (2012). The Manager's Guide to IT Innovation Waves. Sloan Management Review, 53, 2, 75-83. [ Link ]
  • Gorgeon, A., and Swanson, E. B.. (2011). Web 2.0 According to Wikipedia: Capturing an Organizing Vision. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62, 10, 1916-1932. [ Link ]
  • Swanson, E.B., King, J.L., Benbasat, I., and Kemerer, C.. (2010). The Early Years of ISR: Recollections of the Editors. Information Systems Research, 21, 4, 665-674.
  • Yamauchi, Y., and Swanson, E.B.. (2010). Local Assimilation of an Enterprise System: Situated Learning by Means of Familiarity Pockets. Information and Organization, 20, 187-206.
  • Swanson, E. B. (2010). Information Systems. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, M. Bates and M. Maack (Eds.), Taylor & Francis, 2635-2642.
  • Swanson, E. B. (2010). Consultancies and Capabilities in Innovating with IT. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 19, 1, 17-27.
  • Currie, W. L., and Swanson, E. B. (2009). Special Issue on Institutional Theory in Information Systems Research: Contextualizing the IT Artefact. Editorial. Journal of Information Technology, 24, 283-285.
  • Gorgeon, A., and Swanson, E. B. (2009). Organizing the Vision for Web 2.0: A Study of the Evolution of the Concept in Wikipedia. Proceedings of WikiSym 09.
  • Ramiller, N., and Swanson, E. B. (2009). Mindfulness Routines for Innovating with Information Technology. Journal of Decision Systems, 13, 1, 13-26.
  • Wang, P., and Swanson, E. B. (2008). Customer Relationship Management as Advertised: Exploiting and Sustaining Technological Momentum. Information Technology and People, 21, 4, 323-349.
  • Ramiller, N. C., Swanson, E. B., and Wang, P. (2008). Research Directions in Information Systems: Toward an Institutional Ecology. Journal of the AIS, 9, 1, 1-22. [ Link ]

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