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Chris A. Higgins

Professor, Information Systems

Education

  • BMath, University of Waterloo
  • MMath, University of Waterloo
  • PhD, University of Waterloo

Contact Information

Profile

Chris A. Higgins is a Professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business. Prior to joining the Ivey Business School, Higgins taught at the University of Waterloo and McMaster University. He earned a B. Math in Statistics, an M. Math in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Management Sciences, all from the University of Waterloo.

Higgins' research focuses on the impact of technology on individuals, including such areas as champions of technological innovation, alternative work arrangements, and, most recently, work and family issues and their impact on individuals and organizations. Together with Linda Duxbury of Carleton University, they have conducted two national studies (one in 1990, the other in 2000) concerned with work and family issues.  They have also conducted in-house surveys of 25+ companies.  In total they have collected data from over 100,000 Canadians.

Teaching

  • Business statistics

Selected Publications

  • Duxbury, L.E., Higgins, C.A., Smart, R. Elder Care and the Impact of Caregiver Strain on the Health of Employed Caregivers. WORK-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation, 40, 1, 29-40, 2011.
  • Higgins, C.A., Duxbury, L.E. & Lyons, S. Coping with Overload and Stress: Men and Women in Dual-Earner Families. Journal of Marriage and Family, 72, 4, 847-859, 2010.
  • Lyons, S., Duxbury, L.E., Higgins, C.A. Work Values: Development of a New Three-Dimensional Structure Based on Confirmatory Smallest Space Analysis Work Values. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 31, 7, pp. 969-1002, 2010.
  • Cinite, I., Duxbury, L.E. & Higgins, C.A. Measurement of Perceived Organizational Readiness for Change in the Public Sector. British Journal of Management, 20, 2, 265-277, 2009.
  • Duxbury, L.E., Lyons, S. & Higgins, C.A. Dual-Income Families in the New Millennium: Reconceptualizing Family Type. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 9, 4, 472-486, 2007.
  • Compeau, D.R., Meister, D.B. and Higgins, C.A. From Prediction to Explanation: Reconceptualizing and Extending the Perceived Characteristics of Innovating. Journal of the Association of Information Systems, August, 8 (8), 409-439, 2007.
  • Howell, J., Shea, C. and Higgins, C.A. "Champions of Product Innovation: Defining, Developing, and Validating a Measure of Champion Behavior." Journal of Business Venturing, 20, 641-661, 2005.
  • Enns, H.G., Huff, S. and Higgins, C.A.. (2003). CIO Lateral Influence Behaviors: Gaining Peers' Commitment to Strategic Information Systems," Management Information Systems Quarterly, (27:1), pp. 155-176.
  • Compeau, D., Higgins, C.A. and Huff, S. "Social Cognitive Theory and Individual Reactions to Computing Technology: A Longitudinal Study." Management Information Systems Quarterly, 23, 2, 145-158, 1999.
  • Staples, D.S., Hulland, J.S. and Higgins, C.A., "A Self-Efficacy Theory Explanation for the Management of Remote Workers in Virtual Organizations," Organization Science, 10, 6, 758-776, 1999.
  • Vandenbosch, B.E. and Higgins, C.A. "Information Acquisition and Mental Models: An Investigation into the Relationship between Behaviour and Learning," Information Systems Research, 7, 1, 1-16, 1996.
  • Duxbury, L.E., Higgins, C.A. and Thomas, R. "Work and Family Environments and the Adoption of Computer-Supported Supplemental Work-at-Home," Journal of Vocational Behavior, 49, 1-23, 1996.
  • Compeau, D.R., and Higgins, C.A.. "Application of Social Cognitive Theory to Training for Computer Skills," Information Systems Research, 6, 2, 118-143, 1995.
  • Compeau, D.R., and Higgins, C.A. "Computer self efficacy: Development of a measure and initial test," MIS Quarterly, 189-211, June 1995.
  • Barclay, D.W., Higgins, C.A. and Thompson, R.L. "The Partial Least Squares Approach to Causal Modeling: Personal Computer Adoption and Use PLS as an Illustration. Technology Studies, Special Issue, Research Methodology, 2, 2, 285-324, 1995.
  • Vandenbosch, B. and Higgins, C.A. "Executive Support Systems and Executive Preferences: A Comparison of Information Channel Selection Theories," Information Systems Journal, 5, 2, 105-118, 1995.
  • Duxbury, L.E., Higgins, C.A. and Mills, S. "After-Hours Telecommuting and Work-Family Conflict: A Comparative Analysis," Information Systems Research, 3, 2, 173-190, 1992.
  • Higgins, C.A. and Duxbury, L.E. "Work-Family Conflict: A comparison of Dual-Career and Traditional-Career Men," Journal of Organizational Behavior, 13, 389-411, 1992.
  • Grant, R.A. and Higgins, C.A. "Computerized Performance Monitors: What Will Service Workers Accept?," IEEE Transactions, 38, 4, 306-315, 1991.
  • Duxbury, L.E. and Higgins, C.A. "Gender Differences in Work-Family Conflict," Journal of Applied Psychology, 76, 1, 60-74, 1991.
  • Howell, J.M. and Higgins, C.A. "Leadership Behaviors, Influence Tactics and Career Experiences of Champions of Technological Innovations," The Leadership Quarterly, 1, 4, 249-264, 1990.
  • Howell, J. and Higgins, C.A. "Champions of Technological Innovation," Administrative Sciences Quarterly, 35, 2, 317-341, 1990.

Research/Course Development

  • Developed practical statistics course for MBA and EMBA students
  • Developed high level statistics course for Ph.D. students

Experience

  • Professor, Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario
  • Associate Professor, Western Business School, The University of Western Ontario
  • Assistant Professor, Western Business School, The University of Western Ontario
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo

Expertise

  • Work/Family Issues in Canadian Workplace
 

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