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Elizabeth
J. Davidson received her Ph.D. in Information Technologies from
MIT's Sloan School of Management. She is an associate professor in the
Department of Information Technology Management of the College of Business,
University of Hawaii Manoa.
She teaches courses in management information systems at the
undergraduate, MBA and Ph. D. levels. Her specialties are systems analysis
and project management, management of the IT function, IT and business
strategy, and IT-enabled teamwork.
In her
research, Dr. Davidson studies how organization members identify
opportunities for using information technology and orchestrate IT
initiatives. A special area of interest and focus is information
technologies and systems in healthcare organizations. Recent projects include a study of
teamwork processes in IT support settings and a study of the role of
information and communication technologies in scientific research
activities in academia and industry. A common theme in these projects is
the orchestration of complex, collaborative knowledge work in distributed,
global settings and the mediating role of IT in these settings.
Dr. Davidson has
extensive experience as a project manager and business analyst in the
information technology industry, having worked in several Fortune 250
companies in the U.S.
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