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Business and Management

D-Index
62
Citations
23604
World Ranking
462
National Ranking
210

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - AIS LEO Award, Association for Information Systems

Overview

Rudy Hirschheim is affiliated with Louisiana State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science, Social Sciences, and Business, Management and Accounting, with notable contributions across these interdisciplinary domains.

The scientist's work addresses several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems, Computer Science Applications, Management Information Systems, and Communication. Their research topics cover Open Source Software Innovations, Digital Marketing and Social Media, Knowledge Management and Sharing, Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management, Software Engineering Techniques and Practices, Software Engineering Research, and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence.

Rudy Hirschheim has contributed to the academic community through publications in multiple venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Journal of Information Technology
  • Communications of the Association for Information Systems
  • European Journal of Information Systems
  • Information Systems Journal
  • Behaviour and Information Technology

Among recent papers they co-authored are:

  • "Issues, challenges, and a proposed theoretical core of agile software development research," 2021, Information Systems Journal
  • "Collaboration in crowdsourcing contests: how different levels of collaboration affect team performance," 2021, Behaviour and Information Technology
  • "Idea crowdsourcing platforms for new product development: A study of idea quality and the number of submitted ideas," 2023, Decision Support Systems
  • "Robust Action Strategies in a Connected, but Unequal World: Revisiting American Pragmatism for Social Justice-Focused Research in Information Systems," 2020, Communications of the Association for Information Systems
  • "Utilizing expectation disconfirmation theory to develop a higher-order model of outsourcing success factors," 2022, Journal of Systems and Information Technology

The scientist has collaborated repeatedly with several colleagues including Boyka Simeonova, Hanieh Javadi Khasraghi, Jens Dibbern, Nan Liang, and Danli Chen.

Rudy Hirschheim has also contributed to academic literature through books published by reputable publishers such as Springer International Publishing and Cambridge University Press. Notable works include Information Systems Outsourcing (2020) and Cambridge Handbook of Qualitative Digital Research (2023).

In recognition of their contributions, Rudy Hirschheim received the AIS LEO Award from the Association for Information Systems in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Information systems outsourcing: a survey and analysis of the literature

    Jens Dibbern;Tim Goles;Rudy Hirschheim;Bandula Jayatilaka

  • Four paradigms of information systems development

    Rudy Hirschheim;Heinz K. Klein

  • Information systems outsourcing : myths, metaphors, and realities

    Mary Celia Lacity;Rudy A. Hirschheim

  • Information Systems Development and Data Modeling: Conceptual and Philosophical Foundations

    Rudy Hirschheim;Heinz K. Klein;Kalle Lyytinen

  • A Paradigmatic and Methodological Examination of Information Systems Research from 1991 to 2001

    WenShin Chen;Rudy Hirschheim

  • INFORMATION SYSTEMS EPISTEMOLOGY: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

    Rudy A. Hirschheim

  • Information systems research: contemporary approaches and emergent traditions

    H. E. Nissen;H. K. Klein;R. Hirschheim

  • The Dynamics of Alignment: Insights from a Punctuated Equilibrium Model

    Rajiv Sabherwal;Rudy Hirschheim;Tim Goles

  • Realizing emancipatory principles in information systems development: the case for ETHICS

    Rudy Hirschheim;Heinz K. Klein

  • A Paradigmatic Analysis Contrasting Information Systems Development Approaches and Methodologies

    Juhani Iivari;Rudy Hirschheim;Heinz K. Klein

  • Beyond The Information Systems Outsourcing Bandwagon: The Insourcing Response

    Mary Cecelia Lacity;Rudy Hirschheim

  • Information systems and user resistance: theory and practice

    R. Hirschheim;M. Newman

  • Analysing information systems evaluation: another look at an old problem

    S. Smithson;R. Hirschheim

  • Symbolism and Information Systems Development: Myth, Metaphor and Magic

    Rudy Hirschheim;Michael Newman

  • The myths and realities of information technology insourcing

    Rudy Hirschheim;Mary Lacity

  • Detours in the Path toward Strategic Information Systems Alignment

    Rudy Hirschheim;Rajiv Sabherwal

  • Crisis in the IS field? A critical reflection on the state of the discipline

    Rudy Hirschheim;Heinz K. Klein

  • Critical Issues in Information Systems Research

    Richard J. Boland;Rudy A. Hirschheim

  • Office automation : a social and organizational perspective

    R. A. Hirschheim

  • Exploring the intellectual structures of information systems development: A social action theoretic analysis

    Rudy Hirschheim;Heinz K. Klein;Kalle Lyytinen

  • REALIZING OUTSOURCING EXPECTATIONS Incredible Expectations, Credible Outcomes

    Mary Lacity;Rudy Hirschheim;Leslie Willcocks

  • A Dynamic Framework for Classifying Information Systems Development Methodologies and Approaches

    Juhani Iivari;Rudy Hirschheim;Heinz K. Klein

  • An extended platform logic perspective of IT governance: managing perceptions and activities of IT

    Andrew Schwarz;Rudy Hirschheim

Frequent Co-Authors

Heinz K. Klein
Heinz K. Klein Binghamton University
Mary C. Lacity
Mary C. Lacity University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Kalle Lyytinen
Kalle Lyytinen Case Western Reserve University
Juhani Iivari
Juhani Iivari University of Oulu
Rajiv Sabherwal
Rajiv Sabherwal University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Tim Weitzel
Tim Weitzel University of Bamberg
Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa
Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa The University of Texas at Austin
Robert D. Galliers
Robert D. Galliers Bentley University
Jae-Nam Lee
Jae-Nam Lee Korea University
Leslie P. Willcocks
Leslie P. Willcocks London School of Economics and Political Science

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