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Darren Meister
Associate Professor
Faculty Director, HBA Program
Faculty Director, MSc Program
Darren Meister is
the Faculty Director of the HBA and MSc Programs and an
Associate Professor of Information Systems at
the Richard Ivey School of Business. His
interests focus on the role of technology in
enhancing organizational effectiveness,
specifically as it concerns innovation
processes. He investigates this question
primarily within three settings: technology
adoption, knowledge management and interorganizational systems. His research work
is conducted within companies in close
cooperation with practitioners.
Through research
and consulting opportunities, Darren has worked
with Accenture, Bank of Montreal, Industry
Canada, Intel, Nortel, and Siemens. His work has
appeared in Management Science, MIS Quarterly
and other leading journals and conferences. He
is the immediate past-Chair of the Special
Interest Group on the Adoption and Diffusion of
Information Technology, within the Association
for Information Systems.
Before joining
Ivey, Darren taught at Queen's University and
Carleton University, where he was one of the
architects of an Information Systems
concentration in the Bachelor of Commerce
program. He has taught in all of Ivey’s
programs. His current teaching responsibilities
are the core Information Systems Management
course within the HBA program as well as MBA and
Executive Education courses.
He was a Rotary International
Foundation scholar, attending the University of
Cambridge. Subsequently, he earned his PhD at
the University of Waterloo, Canada.
PROGRAM
TEACHING
Information
systems
RESEARCH/COURSE DEVELOPMENT
Adoption of
technology by professionals
Knowledge management
Interorganizational IT
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
- Compeau,
D.R., D.B. Meister and C.A. Higgins (2007)
“Perceived Characteristics of Innovating: A
Reconceptualization”, Journal of
Association of Information Systems,
forthcoming.
- Meister,
D.B. and C.M. Gronski (2006) “Action
Research in a Virtual Setting: Cautions from
a Failed Project”, in Information Systems
Action Research: An Applied View of Emerging
Concepts and Methods, Ned Kock (Ed.),
Springer.
- Gray, P.H.
and D. B. Meister, (2006) “Knowledge Sourcing
Methods”, Information &
Management, vol. 43,
no. 2, pp. 142-156.
- Street, C.
and D.B. Meister (2004) “Small Business
Growth and Internal Transparency: The Role
of Information Systems”, MIS Quarterly,
vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 473-506.
- Gray, P.H.
and D.B. Meister (2004) “Knowledge Sourcing
Effectiveness”, Management Science,
vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 821-834.
- Ford, D.P.,
C.E. Connelly and D.B. Meister, (2003) “IS
Research and Hofstede’s Culture’s
Consequences: An Uneasy and Incomplete
Partnership”, IEEE Transactions on
Engineering Management, vol. 50, no. 1,
pp. 8-25.
EXPERIENCE
Carleton
University
Queen's University
Consulting and research work with
high-technology organizations and government
departments
EXPERTISE
Technology
adoption
Knowledge sourcing practices
Internet commerce
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