Part-Time Academic: BUSS 6502 Seminar in MIS Research - Winter 2025

at  Dalhousie University

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS OF POSITION

An MSc/MBA degree is required. Completion of a PhD or a PhD in progress is strongly recommended. Any evidence of research activity in the domain of MIS would be an asset. The successful applicant must have demonstrated knowledge of the subject matter and an established record of teaching effectiveness. The successful candidate must also be able to meet the Faculty’s accrediting body (AACSB) academic or professional qualifications requirements.
Duties include, but are not limited to:
The instructor will be responsible for all aspects of teaching and administering the class, including lectures, test and evaluation preparation and marking. They will deliver the in-person as a three-hour weekly seminar. They should also be available for two hours per week (either in person or online) for consultation with the students. The instructor reports to the Director of the MSc B program, Hélène Deval.

A Part-Time Academic is needed to teach the following course in the Winter term from January 2025 to April 2025. This course will be held in person.
BUSS 6502 – Seminar in MIS Research
This course examines the research foundations of the discipline of Management Information Systems (MIS). This course is offered to the Master of Science in Business which is a research program in the Faculty of Management. The class is conducted as a weekly seminar, where some seminal papers of the MIS research are discussed by participants, with an emphasis on applying the theoretical underpinnings to students’ thesis proposals. Topics of the class should include, but not limited to, the roles and impact of information technologies on various levels of analysis (e.g., individuals, groups, firms, countries, etc.), the adoption and implementation of information technologies by various levels of analysis, the economic values of information technologies, organizational information technology strategies and their outcomes, etc.