Deborah (Debbie) Compeau
Professor
Director, PhD Program
MBA '83 Faculty Fellow

Dr. Deborah R. Compeau is Professor of Management Information Systems at the Ivey Business School. She holds both an HBA and PhD from Ivey.

Professor Compeau's research interests focus on the individual user of information technologies. She studies issues related to technology learning and adoption, in order to understand one of the critical mechanisms by which value is created through information technology. Specific interests include end user training and learning, and the adoption and implementation of new information and communication technologies. In particular she is interested in understanding what organizations can do to facilitate individual adoption of and learning about information and communication technologies. Recent research projects have focused on the adoption of laptop computers in the educational environment and the user support function in organizations, with a specific view to understanding support as a learning opportunity for users.

Her research has been published in leading journals including Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly, and has been recognized (Lowry et al 2007)¹ as among those with the highest impact of comparable IS research papers. She has served in editorial roles at MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research, and as a member of one the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada's grants adjudication committees.

Professor Compeau has worked in three Canadian Universities. She has also held visiting appointments in Canada and Hong Kong. She has consulted to business and government on issues related to her research. She currently serves as a member of the e-health steering committee of the Local Health Integration Network for Southwestern Ontario (LHIN 2).

PROGRAM TEACHING

Information Systems
Research Methodology (PhD)
Foundations of Management Teaching (PhD)

EXPERIENCE

Richard Ivey School of Business (2000-present)
University of Calgary (1998-2000)
Carleton University (1991-1998)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Qureshi, I. & Compeau, D. (2009). Assessing Between Groups Differences in IS Research – A Comparison of Covariance and Component based SEM. MIS Quarterly. 33(1), 199-216.
• Gravill, J. & Compeau, D. (2008). Self-regulated learning strategies and software training. Information and Management. 45(5), 288-296.
• Compeau, D., Meister, D., & Higgins, C. (2007). The perceived characteristics of innovating: A reconsideration. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 8(8), Article 1, 409-439, http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol8/iss8/26/.
• Tsai, P., Compeau, D., & Haggerty, N. (2007). Of races to be run and battles to be won: Technical skill-updating, stress and coping of IT professionals. Human Resource Management, 46(3), 395-409.
• Compeau, D., Gravill, J., Haggerty, N., & Kelley, H. (2006). Computer self-efficacy: A review. In P. Zhang & D. Galletta (eds.). Human-Computer Interaction in Management Information Systems: Foundations. Vol. 4, Advances in Management Information Systems. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 2006, 225-261.
• Gravill, J., Compeau, D., & Marcolin, B. (2006). Experience effects on the accuracy of self-assessed user competence. Information and Management. 43(3), 378-394.
• Thompson, R., Compeau, D., & Higgins, C. (2006). Intentions to use information technologies: An integrative model. Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, 18(3), 25-43.
• Heslop, Louise A., Papadopoulos, Nicolas, Dowdles, Melissa, Wall, Marjorie, and Compeau, Deborah, (2004). Who controls the purse strings: A study of consumers' and retail buyers' reactions in an Americas FTA environment," Journal of Business Research, 57(10), 1177-1188.
• Compeau, D. R. (2002) The role of trainer behavior in end user software training. Journal of End User Computing, 14(1), 21-30.
• Marcolin, B., Compeau, D., Munro, M., & Huff, S. (2000) Assessing user competence: Conceptualization and measurement. Information Systems Research, 11(1), 37-60.
• Compeau, D. R., Higgins, C. A., & Huff, S. (1999). Social cognitive theory and individual reactions to computing technology: A longitudinal study. MIS Quarterly, 23(2), 145-158.
• Munro, M., Huff, S., Marcolin, B., & Compeau, D. (1997) Understanding and measuring user competence. Information and Management, 33(1), 45-57.
• Webster, J., & Compeau, D. R. (1996) "Computer assisted versus paper-and-pencil administration of questionnaires." Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers. 28(4), 567-576.
• Compeau, D. R., & Higgins, C. A. (1995). Application of social cognitive theory to training for computer skills. Information Systems Research, 6(2), 118-143.
• Compeau, D. R., & Higgins, C. A. (1995). Computer self-efficacy: Development of a measure and initial test. MIS Quarterly, 19(2), 189-211. To view the self-efficacy measure used for this research, click here.

¹Lowry, P. B., Karuga, G.G., & Richardson, V.J. (2007) Assessing Leading Institutions, Faculty, and Articles in Premier Information Systems Research Journals, Communications of AIS, Volume 20, Article 16.