Elizabeth J. Davidson, Ph.D.

W. Ruel Johnson Distinguished Professor of Information Technology Management

 Chair, ITM Department
 
Shidler College of Business
University of Hawaii at Manoa 
Honolulu, HI 96822 
tel. (808)956-6657 

 


 email:  Elizabeth.Davidson@hawaii.edu

 

 

 

 

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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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