Glenn J. Browne

Associate Professor of Commerce

Office phone: 434-243-4241
e-mail: gbrowne@virginia.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Business Administration, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
M.A., Journalism, Ohio State University
J.D., Law, Ohio State University
A.B., Sociology, University of Michigan

Areas of Expertise:

Professor Browne is a specialist in information requirements determination, business process analysis, systems development, and managerial decision making. His current research focuses on information search, information filtering, and decision support problems on the World Wide Web and cognitive and behavioral issues in information requirements determination. He teaches courses in project management, systems analysis, and decision making.

Professional Activities:

Professor Browne has been the director of two research institutes and has consulted with numerous organizations. He is active in the special interest groups on both systems analysis and design & cognitive research within the Association for Information Systems and has served as a member of the program committees for the groups’ annual meetings for the last several years. Professor Browne is a regular reviewer for leading information systems and decision making journals and is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Database Management. He has received high honors for his teaching.

Selected Publications:

“Cognitive Stopping Rules for Terminating Information Search in Online Tasks.” MIS Quarterly, 2007 (with M.G. Pitts and J.C. Wetherbe).

“An Empirical Investigation of Web Site Use Using a Commitment-Based Model.” Decision Sciences, 2006 (with D. Li and P.Y.K. Chau).

“Why Do Internet Users Stick with a Specific Website? A Relationship Perspective.” International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 2006 (with D. Li and J.C. Wetherbe).

“Overcoming the Barriers Associated with Disruptive IT Innovations: The Case of Software Reuse.” MIS Quarterly, 2006 (with K. Sherif and R.W. Zmud).

“A Broad View of Systems Analysis and Design: Implications for Research.” Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2005 (with S. Alter).

“Stopping Rule Use During Information Search in Design Problems.” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2004 (with M.G. Pitts).

“Stopping Behavior of Systems Analysts during Information Requirements Elicitation.” Journal of Management Information Systems, 2004 (with M.G. Pitts).

“An Empirical Investigation of User Requirements Elicitation: Comparing the Effectiveness of Prompting Techniques.” Journal of Management Information Systems, 2001 (with M.B. Rogich).

“Normative and Descriptive Analyses of Simpson’s Paradox in Decision Making.” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2001 (with S.P. Curley).

“The Effects of Subject-Defined Categories on Judgmental Accuracy in Confidence Assessment Tasks.” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 1999 (with S.P. Curley and P.G. Benson).

“Evoking Information in Probability Assessment: Knowledge Maps and Reasoning-Based Directed Questions.” Management Science, 1997 (with S.P. Curley and P.G. Benson).