Faculty
At Bentley, your research will probe some of the most compelling issues in business today, all under the umbrella theme of business, technology and society. You will be working with members of the Bentley faculty who are committed to disciplinary rigor in a trans-disciplinary environment focused on the individual student. Selecting faculty advisers at the very outset of your PhD studies establishes an early basis for a true partnership.
Your faculty team will comprise professors with national and international reputations in their respective fields — whether from business departments, or from the arts or sciences — experts who have distinguished themselves through teaching, research, and corporate leadership experience. For example, in exploring global outsourcing, you might employ sociological theory and research and consider different political and cultural contexts. Similarly, if your focus is comparing accountancy systems in different countries; you might include the study of a modern language. In these examples, your supervisory team might include faculty from both a business department and an arts and sciences department.
Bentley PhD Advisers and Mentors include
Accountancy
Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi
Jean C. Bedard
Jane Fedorowicz
James E. Hunton
Tracy Noga
Computer Information Systems
Wendy Lucas
Information and Process Management
Mary J. Culnan
Robert D. Galliers
M. Lynne Markus
Amy W. Ray
Management
Sue Newell
Anthony F. Buono
Linda F. Edelman
Hans Thamhain
Marketing
Pierre Berthon
Mathematical Sciences
Dominique Haughton
International Studies
Christine B. Williams
Sociology
Gary C. David
Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi (Ali) is the John E. Rhodes professor of accountancy at Bentley College. He has a doctorate in business administration from Indiana University and is a Certified Public Accountant. He has formerly taught at Indiana University, Boston University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. His teaching includes auditing and methods and practices of professional research. Having interest primarily in behavioral auditing research, Ali has published regularly in Accounting and Business Research, The Accounting Review, Advances in Accounting, Auditing: a Journal of Practice and Theory, Behavioral Research In Accounting, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, among others.
Jean C. Bedard is the Timothy B. Harbert professor of accountancy at Bentley College. Her research primarily focuses on improving audit efficiency and effectiveness, specifically in the areas of audit risk assessment, evidential planning, analytical procedures, and audit firm client portfolio management. Professor Bedard is a past President of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association.
Pierre Berthon is the Clifford F. Youse professor of marketing at the McCallum Graduate School of Business, Bentley College. His research is eclectic encompassing the themes of consumers and technology, electronic commerce, market information processing, organization and strategy, management decision-making, and marketing and ethics.
Mary J. Culnan is the Slade professor of management and information technology at Bentley College. She conducts research on the social, public policy and organizational impacts of information technology. Her current research addresses three areas: online communities, information privacy, and the impact of unsecured home PCs on critical infrastructure protection.
Jane Fedorowicz is the Rae D. Anderson professor of accounting and information systems at Bentley College. Her primary research area encompasses the technical, organizational, regulatory and environmental factors that promote and impede successful interorganizational information sharing and collaboration. Her work examines interorganizational systems across several public and
private sector domains, including supply chains, health care, and
digital government.
Robert D. Galliers is provost and vice president for academic affairs, and visiting professor at the London School of Economics. He has personally supervised over twenty PhD students. A former President of the Association for Information Systems and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, his research focuses in the main on information systems strategy and the management of change associated with the adoption and appropriation of IT-based systems within and between organizations.
Dominique Haughton is professor of mathematical sciences. Her research interests include data mining as applied to predictive modeling in database marketing, analysis of living standards survey data, notably from Vietnam, and data analysis in an international context as applied to the global digital divide. She is the editor-in-chief of the journal Case Studies in Business, Industry and Government Statistics (www.bentley.edu/csbigs). Her current PhD students are working on data mining applied to financial problems, web mining and statistical analysis of airline transaction data in China.
James E. Hunton is the Darald and Juliet Libby professor of accounting at the McCallum Graduate School of Business, Bentley College and research professor and accounting and information management research chair at the Universiteit Maastricht. He conducts basic and practice-oriented research on a wide array of topics that span the domains of accounting, information systems and psychology, such as the effect of financial accounting presentation formats on various user groups, assessment of risks and controls surrounding accounting information systems, establishment of enterprise-wide governance and control systems, audit of accounting information technologies, and conditions under which corporate managers tend to engage in earnings management strategies.
Wendy Lucas is an associate professor of computer information systems. Her research interests are in the areas of interface usability, with a current focus on systematically addressing usability issues inherent to ERP systems, and information visualization.
M. Lynne Markus is the John W. Poduska Sr. professor of information management at the McCallum Graduate School of Business, Bentley College and visiting professor at City University, Hong Kong and visiting research chair in the Management of Knowledge-Based Enterprises at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. She conducts practice-oriented research on the organizational and managerial issues associated with enterprise and inter-enterprise systems, knowledge management, and IT-enabled organization change.
Sue Newell is the Cammarata professor of management, Bentley College, and visiting professor of management at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research focuses on understanding the relationships between innovation, knowledge and organizational networking — primarily from an organizational theory perspective.
Her research emphasizes a critical, practice-based understanding
of the social aspects of innovation, change, knowledge management and inter-firm networked relations.
Tracy Noga is an assistant professor of accountancy with a specialty in taxation. Noga's primary research interests are in tax policy and its effects on different aspects of the economy as well as tax equity, corporate book-tax differences, information systems and taxpayer behavior, education, and ethics.
Amy W. Ray is a trustee professor in computer information systems
at Bentley College. Her two primary areas of research are information security and privacy risk assessment in distributed and mobile information sharing environments, and managerial change resulting from multi-organizational information integration efforts, especially in healthcare.
Anthony F. Buono is professor of management and sociology and coordinator of the Bentley Alliance for Ethics and Social Responsibility. His research interests include institutionalization of business ethics and corporate social responsibility programs, interorganizational strategies (including mergers, acquisitions, partnerships and alliances), organizational change and management consulting.
Gary C. David is an associate professor of sociology. His research focuses on the role that interpersonal interactions play in the formation of intergroup relations, as well as ethnographic studies of the workplace. He has conducted research primarily in workplace settings where intercultural/intergroup interactions take place on a regular basis. Present projects include examining globally distributed collaborative software development teams, focusing on the role
of information and communication technologies. Other workplace research includes examinations of enterprise system design and implementation, as well as the use of technology in developing
social relationships.
Linda F. Edelman is an associate professor of strategic management at Bentley College. She conducts theory-driven research primarily in the area of entrepreneurship. Specifically, she has examined the resources and strategies of entrepreneurial firms, nascent entrepreneurial cognition, social capital and networks in emerging organizations, and private equity funding of new ventures.
Hans Thamhain is a professor of management, Bentley College. His research is in the area of project management, technology and innovation management with focuses on the human side, especially team leadership.
Christine B. Williams is a professor of government in the International Studies Department. She currently serves as an associate editor and on the senior Editorial Board of the Journal of Information Technology and Politics and on the Meetup Politics and Governance Advisory Council. Her research area is political communication, with emphasis on new and emerging technologies. Current projects include two cross-disciplinary research collaborations, “Design Principles for Effective Interorganizational Public Safety Response Infrastructures,” and “The Challenge of Interagency Integration,” funded by the National Science Foundation, Digital Government Program and the IBM Center for the Business of Government, respectively.
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