Mike Chiasson

Professor

Faculty of Management

Currently on leave
Office: EME 4103
Phone: 250.807.8248
Email: mike.chiasson@ubc.ca

Biography

Dr. Chiasson is a Professor at the Faculty of Management at the Kelowna campus of UBC. Prior to joining UBC in 2014, he was a Professor of Information Systems, and an Advanced Institute for Management Research (AIM) fellow, at Lancaster University’s Management School, in the Department of Management Science.  Before joining Lancaster University, he was an Associate Professor in the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary (1999 to 2006).

His research examines how the social context (broadly speaking) affects and is effected by IS development and implementation, using a range of social theories.  In studying these questions, he has examined various topics including: system development (public policy, user involvement, agile development, outsourcing, packaged software, deconstruction, conflict), and the effects of IT (entrepreneurial capabilities, diffusion and infusion, organizational change, client-patient outcomes, privacy, professional work, cybercrime), with particular types of IT (enterprise resource planning, eHealth, electronic health records), within medical, legal, entrepreneurial, and governmental settings.  His empirical work mixes both quantitative and qualitative data, with typically a strong emphasis on “participant” observation, resulting in various contributions to social theory (ANT, Habermas, pragmatism, structuration theory, entrepreneurial opportunities), action research, research methods and ethics.

Degrees

Post Doctoral Fellow – Institute for Health Promotion Research, UBC
Ph.D. in Management Information Systems, UBC Faculty of Commerce
B.Com. (with Distinction)(Finance/Accounting) University of Alberta, Faculty of Business

Selected Publications & Presentations

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Selected Grants & Awards

Outstanding Reviewer Award, Emerald Literati Network Award of Excellence, 2012..  Presented at the Academy of Management (AoM), Boston, 2012.

Visiting Shidler Fellow.  University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, 2012

MISQ (Management Information Systems Quarterly) Reviewer of the Year, 2006.  Presented at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Montreal, 2007.

AIM (Advanced Institute for Management Research) Innovation Fellow – Service Sector Innovation, and Diabetes Care Using Information Technology.  Lancaster Management School – Lancaster University, Sept 2007 – Sep 2009.

Emerald Group Publishing Limited Award for Information Technology and People paper, titled “Do the Means Justify the Ends?”, 2008. 

Future Fund Grant (Awarded for 4A Category on SSHRC Grant). Haskayne School of Business — University of Calgary, Jun 2001 – Jun 2004.

Outstanding Scholar Award (Honourable Mention). Haskayne School of Business – University of Calgary, Jun 2001.

NSERC (Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada) Postdoctoral Fellowship. Institute of Health Promotion Research – University of British Columbia, Sep 1997 – Jun 1999.

NCIC (National Cancer Institute of Canada) Postdoctoral Fellowship. Institute of Health Promotion Research – University of British Columbia, Sep 1996 – Sep 1997.

SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Doctoral Fellowship. Faculty of Commerce – University of British Columbia, Sep 1993 – Sep 1996.

Full University Graduate Fellowship. Faculty of Commerce – University of British Columbia, Sep 1992 – Sep 1994.

Heart and Stroke Foundation Research Traineeship (Relinquished). Faculty of Commerce – University of British Columbia, Sep 1993.

Dean Earle D. MacPhee Memorial Fellowship. Faculty of Commerce – University of British Columbia, Sep 1993.