




2011
- November 3, 2011. M. Lynne Markus, keynote presentation entitled: Dans les Nuages? What Will "Cloud Computing" Mean for Information Transparency in Extended Supply Chains? 2eme journee thematique, SILOGIN, Ecole de Mines, Nantes.
- August 15, 2011. M. Lynne Markus. Keynote Presentation, "Mortgaged Future: IT and the Financial Crisis," OCIS Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
- July 12, 2011. Rolf T. Wigand, presented on "Diffusion and Adoption of Information Systems Standards in Industries", University of Macau, Macau, SAR, China.
- June 17, 2011. Rolf T. Wigand, presented on "Diffusion and Adoption of Information Systems Standards in Industries", Lodz International Electronic Commerce Conference, Lodz, Poland.
- June 14, 2011. Rolf T. Wigand, presented on "Diffusion and Adoption of Information Systems Standards in Industries", Bled International Electronic Commerce Conference, Bled, Slovenia.
- May 25, 2011. Rolf T. Wigand, presented on "Diffusion and Adoption of Information Systems Standards in Industries", University of Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany.
- May 16, 2011. Charles Steinfield moderated "The Commercial MISMO Summit" at the MBA Servicing and Technology Conference, Chicago.
- May 13, 2011. M. Lynne Markus presented "Governance: Archetypes and Forms," 2011 Boston College Social Media Workshop, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
- May 5, 2011. Rolf T. Wigand, presented on "Diffusion and Adoption of Information Systems Standards in Industries", University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
- April 12, 2011. Rolf T. Wigand, Mande, Dinah M. and Wood, Jerry D. Information Management and RFID Authentication of Drugs in Supply Chains within the Pharmaceutical Industry. Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG 2011), Las Vegas, NV.
- April 8, 2011. M. Lynne Markus. Panelist, Panel: Digital Business Strategy: Enablers and Inhibitors, Next Generation of Insights on Digital Business Strategy, A Workshop at the Fox School of Business - Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
- March 28, 2011. M. Lynne Markus presented "Mortgaged Future: IT's Supporting Role in the Real Estate Finance Crisis," The 11ths Social Study of ICT Workshop at LSE, London School of Economics, London, UK.
- March 24, 2011. Rolf T. Wigand, presented "The VISTA Project: Vertical Information Standards and Technology Adoption" to the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
- March 21, 2011. M. Lynne Markus presented "Mortgaged Future: Did IT Have a Role in Creating the Crisis in Real Estate Finance?" Claremont Graduate University School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont, CA.
- March 2, 2011. M. Lynne Markus presented "Mortgaged Future: Did IT Have a Role in Creating the Crisis in Real Estate Finance?" Fordham University, New York, NY.
- February 25, 2011. M. Lynne Markus presented "Mortgaged Future: Did IT Have a Role in Creating the Crisis in Real Estate Finance?" Boston University Organizations Seminar, Boston, MA.
- February 17, 2011. Rolf T. Wigand, presented on a panel, "Diffusion and Adoption of Information Systems Standards in Industries", Wirtschaftsinformatik 2011 (Conference on Business Informatics 2011), Zurich, Switzerland.
- January 4-7 21, 2011. Quang Neo Bui presented "Governing Public Sector Interorganizational Network Infrastructures - The Importance of Formal and Legal Arrangements" (with M. Lynne Markus), Proceedings of the 2011 Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Kauai, Hawaii January 5, 2011
- January 4-7, 2011. Charles Steinfield presented "Cooperative Advantage and Vertical Information Systems: An Automotive Supply Chain Case Study" at the 44th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Kauai, Hawaii.
2010
- November 12, 2010. Rolf T. Wigand, presented "Information Systems Standards Development in Industries," Panel on Information Quality Standards, International Conference on Information Quality, Little Rock, AR.
- October 28, 2010. Rolf T. Wigand, presented "The VISTA Project: Vertical Information Standards and Technology Adoption" to the University of Macau, Department of Computer and Information Science.
- October 26, 2010. Rolf T. Wigand, presented "The VISTA Project: Vertical Information Standards and Technology Adoption" to the City University of Hong Kong, Department of Information Systems, and Suzhou University of Science and Technology.
- October 14, 2010. Rolf T. Wigand, presented "The VISTA Project: Vertical Information Standards and Technology Adoption" to the University of Munich, Institute for Information, Organization and Management.
- August 19, 2010. Rolf T. Wigand and Dinah M. Mande. Interview (85 min.) with Ms. Pam Sweeney, Senior Vice President, Logistics Systems, Macy's Inc.
- June 23, 2010. Rolf T. Wigand and Dinah M. Mande. Interview (80 min.) with Mr. Grant Hunter, Vice President, Products and Solutions, EPCRFID, and Ms. Sue Hutchinson, Director, Product Management, both with EPCglobal.
- June 2, 2010. M. Lynne Markus, Invited Speaker, Governing Interorganizational Network Infrastructures, Knowledge in Organizations Conference, Monte Verita, CH.
- June 2, 2010. Rolf T. Wigand. Presentation on Vertical Industry Standards and Technology Adoption at the University of Frankfurt, Wirtschaftswissenfachtliche Fakultat, Frankfurt, Germany.
- May 26, 2010. Charles Steinfield. Presentation, "Cooperative Advantage and Vertical Information Systems: An Automotive Supply Chain Case Study" at the University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
- May 18, 2010. Rolf T. Wigand. Presentation on Vertical Industry Standards and Technology Adoption at the Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
- May 7, 2010. Rolf T. Wigand and Dinah M. Mande. Presentation to Gioacchino (Jack) Minelli, Real Estate and Mortgage Industry Consultant, La Spezia, Italy, on Vertical Industry Standards and Technology Adoption in the Mortgage Industry at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
- May 4, 2010. Rolf T. Wigand, Dinah M. Mande and Jerry Wood participated in the Webinar, "What would you ask Geoffrey Moore?," with Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, Dealing With Darwin and other books on the technology adoption life-cycle. The Webinar was organized by Mark Roberti, Editor, RFID Journal.
- April 2010. Reena Jain (undergraduate researcher mentored by Charles Steinfield). Vertical Industry Standards: How Collaboration with IT Can Help Solve an Auto Industry Crisis. Presented to the Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
- April 2010. M. Lynne Markus. Managing Business Commons: Information Infrastructures and Network Actors, 4/2/10, National Center for Digital Government, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA.
- March 18-19, 2010. Visited the RFID Lab and the Information Technology Research Institute and met with faculty at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, toured RFID Lab, observed demonstrations. Rolf T. Wigand, Dinah M. Mande and Jerry Wood attended.
- March 9, 2010. Rolf T. Wigand. Presentation on Vertical Industry Standards and Technology Adoption in three Industries. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR.
- February 3-5, 2010. Rolf T. Wigand. Panel member, presented on Vertical Information Systems Standards Development in the Automotive Parts Supply, Mortgage and Retail Industries, iSchools Conference, Champaign-Urbana, IL, University of Illinois.
- January 2010. M. Lynne Markus, Rolf Wigand,and Charles Steinfield. Presentation on Vertical Industry Standards and Technology Adoption to the MISMO Trimester Meeting, Jacksonville, Florida.
2009
- December 15-19, 2009. Rolf T. Wigand. Met with and compared notes with standardization researchers on IS standards development and adoption at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Phoenix, Arizona.
- November 6-8, 2009. Rolf T. Wigand. Met with and compared notes with standardization researchers on IS standards development and adoption at the International Information Quality Conference (ICIQ), Potsdam, Germany.
- October 21-23, 2009. Rolf T. Wigand. Met with, compared notes with standardization researchers and participated on a panel on IS standards development and adoption at the IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2009), Macau, China.
- October 9, 2009. Rolf T. Wigand. Met with IS standardization researchers and gave presentation on VIS Standardization at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.
- August 9-11, 2009. Rolf T. Wigand. Met with and compared notes with standardization researchers at the Academy of Management Annual Conference, Chicago.
- August 6-9, 2009. Rolf T. Wigand. Met with and compared notes with standardization researchers at the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), San Francisco.
- July 30, 2009. Rolf T. Wigand. Presentation on VIS development as an organization behavior issue in PADM 7303 Organization Theory, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
- July 2009. Rolf Wigand. Presentation on VIS Standardization at the Free University of Berlin, Germany.
- July 2009. Rolf Wigand. Presentation on VIS Standardization at the University of Munich, Germany.
- June 2009. Rolf Wigand. Presented on a panel, met with and compared notes with standardization researchers at the Bled International Conference on Electronic Commerce, Bled, Slovenia.
- June 2009. Rolf Wigand. Met with and compared notes with leading standardization researchers at the European Conference on Information Systems, Verona, Italy.
- May 2009. Rolf Wigand and Charles Steinfield. Met with standardization researchers at the International Communication Association conference in Chicago.
- May 2009. Charles Steinfield. Presented work on VIS standardization research to representatives from AIAG, Michigan State University, May 4, 2009.
- May 2009. M. Lynne Markus. Compared notes with leading standardization researchers in Singapore.
- May 2009. Rolf Wigand. Met with and compared notes with leading standardization researchers in Germany.
- April 2009. Charles Steinfield. Met with and compared notes on VIS standards project work with Joel West, visiting lecturer, at Michigan State University, April 24, 2009.
- April 2009. M. Lynne Markus. Conducted an external examination of a doctoral candidate whose research examined the consequences of adopting VIS standards.
- April 2009. Rolf Wigand. Met with representatives from the RFID Lab at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
- March 2009. During a visit to Nantes, France, M. Lynne Markus collected data about a leading French VIS standardization body.
- March 2009. Rolf Wigand. Presentation on VIS Standardization at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
- January 2009. Rolf Wigand. Presentation on VIS Standardization at the University of Graz, Austria.
2008
- December 2008. M. Lynne Markus wins The AIS LEO Award for Exceptional Lifetime Achievement in Information Systems.
- December 2008. M. Lynne Markus. Keynote presentation, "Going the Last Mile for Business Integration," CIO Symposium, ICIS 2008, Paris, France, 12/16/08.
- December 2008. Charles Steinfield. Keynote presentation on VIS standards at the annual meeting of the Danish Academy of Management, "Management Challenges of Information and Communication Technologies, Dec. 8, 2008.
- December 2008. Rolf Wigand. Met with and compared notes with leading standardization researchers at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Information Systems, Paris, France.
- September 2008. Rolf Wigand. Attended the annual RFID Forum at the RFID Lab, Fayetteville, AR.
- August 2008. M. Lynne Markus wins Bentley UniversityÕs Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award for our MISQ paper.
- August 2008. Rolf Wigand. Met with and compared notes with leading standardization researchers at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Electronic Commerce in Innsbruck, Austria.
- August 2008. Rolf Wigand. Met with and compared notes with leading standardization researchers at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Anaheim, CA.
- June 2008. Rolf Wigand. Presentation on VIS Standardization at the Bled International Electronic commerce Conference, Bled, Slovenia.
- June 2008. Rolf Wigand. Presentation on VIS Standardization at the Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
- May 2008. Charles Steinfield. Technology in business communities: Vertical industry standards and technology adoption. Michigan State University, Meet Michigan Seminar, Detroit, May 9.
- April 2008. M. Lynne Markus. Collective IT Governance: Trends and Issues in Organizational Information Technology Use, 4/11/08, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
- April 2008. Rolf Wigand. Interorganizational Information System Integration through Industry-wide Standardization: Technical Design Choices and Collective Action Dilemmas, presented to the Cyber Transportation Logistics: A Global Value Chain for Services Conference, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation Resort at Petit Jean Mountain, Morrilton, AR, April 4, 2008.
- March 2008. Rolf Wigand gave a presentation on VIS Standardization at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.
- March 2008. Rolf Wigand. Vertical IS Standards Development in a Supply Chain Context: Experiences from the US Home Mortgage Industry, presented to the EMIM Program, University of Amsterdam, Marquette Castle, Heemskerk, The Netherlands, March 13, 2008.
- March 2008. Rolf Wigand. Evolution and Impacts of Vertical IS Standards: Past and Current NSF-funded Research in the US Mortgage, Footwear and Apparel and Automotive Parts Supply Industry, presented to the Primavera Network, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 12, 2008.
- March 2008. Rolf Wigand. Evolution and Impacts of Vertical IS Standards: Experiences from the US Home Mortgage Industry, presented to the Faculty of the Free University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 11, 2008.
- March 2008. M. Lynne Markus. Collective IT Governance: Trends and Issues in Organizational Information Technology Use, 3/17/08, CIS/IPM Seminar Series, Bentley College.
- February 2008. Rolf Wigand. Evolution and Impacts of Vertical IS Standards: Experiences from the US Home Mortgage Industry, presented to the Faculty, Fogelman College of Business and Economics, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, February 15, 2008.
- January 2008. Rolf Wigand attended the annual VICS RFID Conference at the RFID Lab in Fayetteville, AR.
2007
- December 2007. M. Lynne Markus. Keynote Speaker, Future Requirements for Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Interorganizational Data and Process Standardization, 2nd Enterprise Systems Pre-ICIS 2007 Workshop, Montreal, CA, 12/9/07.
- November 2007. M. Lynne Markus. Interorganizational Data and Process Standardization: Collective Action and Performance Outcome, 11/20/07, Information Systems Department, Faculty of Business, City University of Hong Kong, SAR, CH.
- November 2007. M. Lynne Markus. Interorganizational Data and Process Standardization: Collective Action and Performance Outcomes, 11/16/07, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) /City University of Hong Kong Joint Research Center, Suzhou, CH.
- November 2007. M. Lynne Markus. Interorganizational Data and Process Standardization: Collective Action and Performance Outcomes, 11/9/07, Information Management Research Centre (IMARC), Nanyang Business School, Singapore.
- October 2007. M. Lynne Markus. Interorganizational Data and Process Standardization: Collective Action and Performance Outcomes, 10/3/07; IT-Enabling Supply Chains for Superior Business Performance, 10/5/07, Sheffield Management School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
- August 2007. New NSF Grant awarded from Human Centered Computing program: Collaborative Research: Interorganizational Information Systems Integration Through Industry-wide IS Standardization: Technical Design Choices and Collective Action Dilemmas (NSF award numbers: 0704629, 0704978, 0705186)
- August 2007. MISQ paper receives 2006 Best Paper Award
- August 2007. M. Lynne Markus. Keynote presenter, Standardization as Collective Action, GS1 France Université d' été, 8/31/07, Nantes, France
- June 2007. Rolf Wigand. Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology: The Case of Electronic Commerce and Interorganizational Standardization. Invited keynote presentation to DIGIT, European Conference on Information Systems, St. Gallen, Switzerland, June 6, 2007.
- January 2007. Rolf Wigand. Wertschaffung durch Informationssysteme und Technologie im Bankwesen: Erfahrungen, Vergleiche und Bemerkungen von verwandten Industrien und Prozessen [Adding Value through Information Systems and Technology in the Banking Industry: Experiences, Comparisons and Observations from Related Industries and Processes]. Invited Keynote Presentation to the Semiannual Meeting of eFinance Lab, Darmstadt, Germany, January 23, 2007.
2006
- December 2006. Rolf Wigand. IS Vertical Industry Standardization: Experiences and Lessons Learned. Presentation to the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, December 7, 2006.
- November 2006. Rolf Wigand. Diffusion of Standardization and Electronic Commerce Practices in Industries. Invited Presentation to the IT Summit, Little Rock, AR, November 1, 2006.
- June 2006. Rolf Wigand. Value-Adding Standardization Processes: Experiences from Recent NSF Research. Presentation to the Annual INFORMS Conference, Hong Kong, China, June 27, 2006.
- June 2006. M. Lynne Markus. Encoding Knowledge: Automated Underwriting in the US Home Mortgage Industry, 6/2/06, Workshop on Management Knowledge in Action, Bentley College, Waltham, MA.
- May 2006. Rolf Wigand presented "IS Standardization as Collective Action in the U. S. Mortgage Industry." Presentation to the Institute for Business informatics, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, May 22, 2006.
- March 2006. M. Lynne Markus. Tight Connections: Using Information Technology to Link Business Processes Across Organizations, 3/28/06, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
- March 2006. M. Lynne Markus. Building Complex Infrastructures for Interorganizational Information Sharing, HEC Montreal, Montreal, 3/17/06.
2005
- December 2005.. The special issue of Electronic Markets on Vertical Information Systems Standards and Standardization appeared in December 2005 as volume 15, number 4. M. Lynne Markus, Rolf Wigand, and Charles Steinfield co-edited this special issue, and prepared the preface article.
- November 2005. M. Lynne Markus. Invited participant and presenter, Designing Interorganizational Relationships and Information Systems with a Positive Lens, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, Conference on Designing Information and Organizations with a Positive Lens, 11/12/05.
- October 2005. The Computerization Movement in the US Home Mortgage Industry, 1980-2004, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 10/28/05.
- September 2005. Charles Steinfield presented "Achieving Industry Wide E-Commerce Standards as a Collective Action Problem," at the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, September 20, 2005.
- May 2005. Charles Steinfield, M. Lynne Markus
and Rolf Wigand participated in " Collective Action in
an Internet Age: Contributions of Communication Researchers
to Collective Action Theory," at the International
Communication Association Annual Conference, New York City,
New York, May 29.
- March 2005. M. Lynne Markus presented "The
Computerization Movement in the US Home Mortgage Industry,
1980-2004," at the Conference on Extending the
Contributions of Professor Rob Kling to the Analysis of
Computerization Movements, UC Irvine, Irvine, California,
March 12.
2004
- September 2004. Rolf Wigand, M. Lynne Markus,
and Charles Steinfield issued a Call for Papers for a
special issue of the journal Electronic Markets
dealing with vertical information system standards. The
special issue focuses on the growing importance of
industry-wide initiatives to develop e-business standards,
stimulated by the increasing popularity of XML over the
Internet. The
call for papers can still be viewed, but is now closed.
- August 2004. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
published a special edition of the
Chicago Fed Letter on the economics of standards that
features the work presented by Steinfield, Wigand, Markus,
and Minton at the earlier May conference on "Standards and
Public Policy."
- July 2004. M. Lynne Markus presented our project
in a talk on "Knowledge and Innovation Issues for Chief
Executives - Industry IS/IT Collaborations" at City
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, July 6, 2004.
- July 2004. M. Lynne Markus presented
"Interorganizational Coordination Infrastructures: Problems
and Prospects," National Technological University of
Singapore, Singapore, July 20, 2004.
- June 2004. Charles Steinfield presented
"Promoting E-Business Through Vertical IS Standards:
Lessons from the US Home Mortgage Industry" at Roskilde
University, Roskilde, Denmark, June 9, 2004.
- June 2004. Rolf Wigand presented "Vertical IS
Standards Evolution in the US Home Mortgage Industry."
Munich, Germany, University of Munich, June 17, 2004.
- June 2004. Charles Steinfield presented
"Developing vertical IS standards as a means toward
e-business," at the Center
for Tele-Information, Technical University of Denmark,
Lyngby, Denmark, June 21.
- May 2004. Charles Steinfield, Rolf Wigand, and
Lynne Markus presented "Promoting e-business through
vertical IS standards," at the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank
conference on
Standards and Public Policy, May 13-14. (pre-publication draft available
below)
- March 2004. M. Lynne Markus presented
"IT-Enabled Transformation in the US Home Mortgage Sector"
at ESADE in Barcelona, Spain, March 4, 2004.
- February 2004. M. Lynne Markus presented "The
Ambient Industry: IT-Enabled Transformation in the US Home
Mortgage Sector," at the Copenhagen Business School,
Copenhagen, Denmark Conference on "The Future Role of IT in
Strategizing: How Companies Transform Themselves To Become
'Ambient Organizations' Capable of Competing in the Digital
Age", February 26, 2004
- January 2004. Rolf Wigand presented "The
Evolution of Vertical IS Standards: Electronic Interchange
Standards in the US Home Mortgage Industry." Frankfurt,
Germany, University of Frankfurt, January 20, 2004.
2003
- December, 2003. "The Dark Side of Information
and Communication Technologies: View from the Industry
Level of Analysis," International Conference on
Information Systems (ICIS), Seattle, Washington,
December14-17, 2003. Insights from the mortgage industry
study were be presented. Panelists included: Kevin Crowston
of Syracuse University, Ken Kraemer of UC Irvine, M. Lynne
Markus of Bentley College, Steve Sawyer of Pennsylvania
State University, Charles Steinfield of Michigan State
University, and Rolf Wigand of the University of Arkansas
at Little Rock.
- December 2003. Markus, M. L., Steinfield, C.,
and Wigand, R. The evolution of vertical IS standards:
Electronic data interchange standards in the home mortgage
industry. Presented to the MISQ Special Issue Workshop on
"Standard Making: A Critical Research Frontier for
Information Systems," Seattle, December 12-14, 2003.
(working paper available
below)
- November 2003. Rolf Wigand presented "E-commerce
Business Models in the US Home Mortgage Industry," STAR
Research Conference, Milan, Italy. (working paper available
below)
- October 2003. M. Lynne Markus gave keynote
presentation on "IT Standards and the Adoption of
Interorganizational Systems in the US Home Mortgage
Industry," IFIP 8.6 Working Conference on The Diffusion and
Adoption of Networked Information Technologies, Copenhagen,
Denmark, October 6, 2003.
- October 2003. Rolf Wigand presented "Evolving
eBusiness Models: Lessons Learned from Two Industries," e-
Challenges Conference of the European Union in Bologna,
Italy, October 22-24.
- March 2003. Rolf Wigand presented an overview of
the project at the Vrije University of Amsterdam in the
Netherlands.
- February 2003. M. Lynne Markus presented "Essays
on Impacts: Grappling with IT Impacts in the US Home
Mortgage Industry." Presented at the University of Central
Florida, City University of Hong Kong, and Bentley
College.