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D-Index
30
Citations
9906
World Ranking
9741
National Ranking
2776

Overview

E. Burton Swanson is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans several areas within business, management, and social sciences, with a primary focus on fields such as strategy and management, sociology and political science, information systems, management science and operations research, and computer science applications.

The scholar's recent publications reflect diverse interests surrounding digital platforms, innovation, and ethical considerations related to technology. Their notable papers include:

  • How information systems came to rule the world: Reflections on the information systems field (2020) published in The Information Society
  • Technology entrepreneurship is more than one might think (2024) published in Information and Organization
  • Organizing vision revisited and reimagined for a changing world (2025) published in Journal of Information Technology
  • Available to meet: advances in professional communications (2020) published in Information Technology and People
  • Understanding Platform-facilitated Interactive Work (2024) published in Communications of the Association for Information Systems

E. Burton Swanson's research covers main topics such as:

  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Auction Theory and Applications
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Open Source Software Innovations
  • Service and Product Innovation
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Swanson include Neil C. Ramiller and Ping Wang.

The researcher's work has been published across several academic venues, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of their studies. These venues are:

  • The Information Society
  • Information and Organization
  • Journal of Information Technology
  • Information Technology and People
  • Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Swanson's contributions intersect multiple subfields including strategy and management and sociology and political science, positioning the scholar at an interface of technological innovation, organizational strategy, and societal impacts.

Best Publications

  • Information systems innovation among organizations

    E. Burton Swanson

  • Software maintenance management

    Bennett P. Lientz;E. Burton Swanson

  • The Organizing Vision in Information Systems Innovation

    E. Burton Swanson;Neil C. Ramiller

  • Innovating mindfully with information technology

    E. Burton Swanson;Neil C. Ramiller

  • Management Information Systems: Appreciation and Involvement

    E. Burton Swanson

  • The dimensions of maintenance

    E. Burton Swanson

  • Characteristics of application software maintenance

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  • Information System Implementation: Bridging the Gap Between Design and Utilization

    E. Burton Swanson

  • Problems in application software maintenance

    Bennet P. Lientz;E. Burton Swanson

  • Information Systems Research Thematics: Submissions to a New Journal, 1987-1992

    E. Burton Swanson;Neil C. Ramiller

  • Maintaining Information Systems in Organizations

    E. Burton Swanson;Cynthia Mathis Beath

  • Software Maintenance Management: A Study of the Maintenance of Computer Application Software in 487 Data Processing Organizations

    Bennet P. Lientz;E. Burton Swanson

  • Implementation, Innovation, and Related Themes Over The Years In Information Systems Research

    Henry C. Lucas;E. Burton Swanson;Robert W. Zmud

  • Organizing Visions for Information Technology and the Information Systems Executive Response

    Neil C. Ramiller;E. Burton Swanson

  • Launching professional services automation: Institutional entrepreneurship for information technology innovations

    Ping Wang;E. Burton Swanson

  • System life expectancy and the maintenance effort: exploring their equilibration

    E. Burton Swanson;Enrique Dans

  • RFID in the healthcare supply chain: usage and application

    Sameer Kumar;Eric Swanson;Thuy Tran

  • Second-Wave Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Implementing for Effectiveness

    Graeme Shanks;Peter B. Seddon;Leslie P. Willcocks

  • Departmentalization in software development and maintenance

    E. Burton Swanson;Cynthia Mathis Beath

  • Emergent maintenance of ERP: new roles and relationships

    Sabine Gabriele Hirt;E. Burton Swanson

  • Measuring Business Value of Information Technologies

    P. Strassmann;P. Berger;E.B. Swanson;C.H. Kriebel

  • Adopting SAP at Siemens Power Corporation

    Sabine Gabriele Hirt;E Burton Swanson

  • Knowing why and how to innovate with packaged business software

    E Burton Swanson;Ping Wang

  • Reconstrucing the systems development organization

    E. Burton Swanson;Cynthia M. Beath

Frequent Co-Authors

M. Lynne Markus
M. Lynne Markus Bentley University
Robert W. Zmud
Robert W. Zmud University of Oklahoma
Daniel Robey
Daniel Robey Georgia State University
Kevin Crowston
Kevin Crowston Syracuse University
Izak Benbasat
Izak Benbasat University of British Columbia
Helmut Krcmar
Helmut Krcmar Technical University of Munich
Chris F. Kemerer
Chris F. Kemerer University of Pittsburgh
Ann Majchrzak
Ann Majchrzak University of Southern California
Jan Pries-Heje
Jan Pries-Heje Roskilde University
John Leslie King
John Leslie King University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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