Belk College PhD students’ papers presented at international conference

Muhammad Zaffar and Haya Ajjan, both students in the Ph.D. in IT program in the Belk College of Business,had co-authoredpapers presented at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), held in Paris last December.

CIS is the premier, selective, international conference on information systems. Only about 20 percent of the papers submitted are accepted.

UNC Charlotte was listed on the program along with major international research schools such as Carnegie Mellon, Copenhagen Business School, MIT, Wharton, Emory, London School of Economics, The University of Hong Kong, Fudan University & Manchester Business School.

The papers presented were:

• Diffusion Dynamics of Open-Source Software in the Presence of Upgrades: An Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) Approach. Zaffar, Muhammad, Ram L. Kumar, and Kexin Zhao;
• Minding The IS Skills Gap: Evidence of Discourse, Convergence and Institutional Field Structure. Zaffar, Muhammad and Susan Winter;
• Investigating Determinants of Project Portfolio Management Adoption. Ajjan, Haya, Ram L. Kumar, and Chandrasekar Subramaniam.

“Muhammad and Haya’saccomplishments reflect the high quality and growing prominence of our BISOM doctorial program,” remarked Dr. Christie Amato, interim associate dean for graduate programs.