New honorary doctor at the IT Faculty: Professor Sirkka Jarvenpaa
News: Jun 01, 2012
Professor Sirkka Jarvenpaa, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, has been appointed as 2012's honory doctors at the IT Faculty, University of Gothenburg. Professor Jarvenpaa is the James Bayless/Rauscher Pierce Refsnes Chair in Business Administration and is one of the most prolific scholars in the field of information systems.
After earning her PhD at University of Minnesota in 1986, Professor Jarvenpaa's research has been repeatedly published in top-notch information systems and management journals. Professor Jarvenpaa’s research impact is evident considering her grand total of nearly 15,000 citations and an H-index of 48.
Professor Jarvenpaa’s research on innovation, virtual collaboration, and virtual organizations relates excellent to the research conducted at Department of Applied IT. Professor Jarvenpaa is a true boundary-spanner and her inter-disciplinary profile and interests reach well beyond the IT Faculty.
Professor Sirkka Jarvenpaa will be awarded an honorary doctorate at the IT Faculty, University of Gothenburg, 19 October 2012.
Open seminar with Sirkka Jarvenpaa, 18 October 2012:
"Managing Tensions of Sharing and Protection in Inter-Organizational Collaborations: A Dynamic Interactional Perspective"
Contact Information
Catharina Jerkbrant, kommunikatör
IT Faculty, SE-412 96 Göteborg, SWEDEN
Visiting Address:
Lindholmsplatsen 1
Phone:
+46 (0)31 772 4898, +46 (0)766 18 27 48