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About

Dr. Joseph Rottman is the associate dean, the director of the International Business Institute, and a professor of information systems at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is also a past research fellow in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Center for International Studies. He earned his Doctor of Science in information management from Washington University in St. Louis. He has conducted research and spoken internationally on global sourcing, innovation diffusion, and public-sector IT. He has conducted case studies in over forty firms and has been engaged by Fortune 500 firms to analyze and improve their offshore strategies. 

He has published three books and over twenty-five articles and book chapters. His publications have appeared in Sloan Management Review, MIS Quarterly Executive, Information Systems Frontiers, Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal, IEEE Computer, the Journal of Information Technology, the American Review of Public Administration, and Information and Management as well as leading practitioner outlets such as CIO Insight and the Cutter Consortium. He was the 2006 recipient of the Anheuser-Busch Excellence in Teaching award and is on the editorial board of MIS Quarterly Executive.

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Education/Academic qualification

Engineering and Policy, DSc, Washington University in St. Louis

… → 2002

Management Information Systems, MS, University of Missouri-St. Louis

… → 1995

College of Business Administration, BS, University of Missouri-St. Louis

… → 1992

Research Interests

  • Offshore IT Outsourcing
  • Business Process Outsourcing
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Cost-benefit Analysis
  • Global Sourcing
  • Innovation Diffusion
  • Offshore Strategies
  • Public-sector IT
  • Prison Sourcing
  • Rural Outsourcing

Disciplines

  • Business