Wayne State University School of Business Administration

Arik Ragowsky

Associate Professor of Information Systems Management;
Director, Manufacturing Information Systems Center

aragowsky@gmail.com
(313) 577-7837

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D., Tel-Aviv University, 1992
  • Graduate, Tel-Aviv University, 1987
  • Baccalaureate, Bar-Ilan University, 1982

Teaching Interests

  • Information Systems Analysis and Design
  • Information Systems Policy and Management
  • The Business Value of Information Systems
  • ERP Systems

Research Interests

  • The Business Value of Information Systems
  • Strategic Information Systems
  • ERP Systems
  • Trust in Information Systems

Publications & Presentations

Refereed Articles

  • “Some Ideas on Why Information Systems Management in Trouble and how to Save it: Lesson Learned in the Automotive Industry,”  (with Gefen), Forthcoming, Communications of the ACM.
  • “Leadership and Justice: Increasing non Participating Users’ Assessment of an IT through Passive Participation,” (with Gefen and Ridings), 2008, Information & Management.
  • “Give Me Information, Not Technology,” (with Licker and Gefen), 2008, Communications of the ACM.
  • “What Makes the Competitive Contribution of IT Strategic,” (with Gefen), 2008, Data Base for Advances Information Systems.
  • “Establishing Trust in Electronic Commerce through Online Word of Mouth: An Examination Across Genders,”  (with Awad), 2008, Journal of Management Information Systems.
  • “Assessing the Value Provided by ERP Applications Through Organizational Activities,” (with Somers and Adams), 2005, Communications of the Association for Information Systems.
  • “A multi-Level Approach to Measuring the Benefits of an ERP System in Manufacturing Firms,” (with Gefen), 2005, Information Systems Management.
  • “Enterprise Resource Planning,” (with Somers), 2002, Journal of Management Information Systems.
  • "Identifying the Value of Information From Using Information Systems", (with Mason), 2002, Information Technology and Management.
  • "Documenting the Benefits an Organization May Gain by Using Information Systems", (with Neumann), 2000, Communications of the ACM.
  • "Relating Benefits from Using IS to Organizational Characteristics: Comparing results from Two Countries", (with Stern and Adams), 2000, Journal of Management Information Systems.
  • "An Investigation of Inter-Industry IT Innovation" (with Adams), 1998, Production and Inventory Management Journal.
  • "Identifying IS Application Benefits Related to CIM", I998, International Journal of Industrial Engineering.
  • "Do Personal Computers Provide the Same Benefits as Larger Computers?", (with Lederer), 1997, Industrial Management.
  • "The Benefits of IS for CIM Applications: A Survey", (with Stern), 1997, International Journal of CIM.
  • "Identifying the Value and Importance of an Information System Application", (with Ahituv and Neumann), 1996, Information and Management.
  • "How to Select Application Software", (with Stern), 1995, Journal of Systems Management.
  • "Ranking the Benefits of IS Applications for Manufacturing Organizations", 1995, Journal of Systems Management.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

  • “Organizational IT Maturity: A New Look at an Aging Concept,” (with Licker and Gefen), December 2007, SIM Workshop, Montreal.
  • “Gaining More Benefits From Using the Organizational IT by Bridging the Gap Between Users and Managers and the IT Team,” December 2006, OASIS Workshop, Milwaukee.
  • “Transaction Processing Versus Decision Support: Understanding the Benefits from ERP,” (with Stern and Romm), December 2005, the Third Annual Pre-ICIS SIGDSS, Las Vegas.
  • "The Impact of System Complexity and Implementation Characteristics on Top IT Management’s Perceptions of Enterprise System Success,"  (with Somers, Nelson, and Stern), November 2004, annual conference of the Decision Sciences Institute.
  • “Downsizing as a Managerial Strategy Associated with ERP Implementation: A Cross-Cultural Perspective”, (with Romm), June 2003, In proceedings of the Fourth Annual Global Information Technology Management World Conference (GITM), Calgary, Canada.
  • “Managerial Use of ERP Applications,” (with Stern), December 2002,  In the Proceeding of the WITS conference in Barcelona, Spain.
  • “ERP Systems Selection and Implementation: A Cross Cultural Approach,” (with Romm), August 2002, Proceeding of the AMCIS Dallas, TX.
  • “Linkages between Manufacturing Firm Characteristics and How Well ERP Applications Support Organizational Strategies,” (with Stern), December 2001, In Proceeding of the WITS conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • “Who Do We Need to Motivate? Toward an Integrative Model of E-Education.”  (with Romm), December 2001, In Proceedings of the IAIM conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • “Searching for a Killer Application for On-line Teaching: Or are we?” (with Romm), August 2001, In proceedings of the AMCIS conference in Boston.
  • “Benefits an Individual Manufacturing Organization May or May Not Gain By Using ERP Systems,”  August, 2000, Special ICPR (International Conference of Production Research), Bangkok, Thailand.
  • “Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for the next Millennium: Development of an Integrative Framework and Implications for Research,” (with Somers and Nelson), August 2000, AMCIS Long Beach CA.
  • “Supporting Organizational Competitiveness by Using Information Systems,” October 1998, Conference for Competitiveness in the Global Market Place, American Society for Competitiveness, Boston.
  • "Estimating the Benefits Manufacturing Organizations Can Gain by Using Information Systems,” June 1998, TIMS XXXII conference in Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • "Identifying the Value of Information from Using Information Systems." (with Mason), Lanuary 1997, HICSS-30, Hawaii.
  • "The Benefit Derived From PCs Used as the Main Hardware Platform as Opposed to Other Computers." (with Lederer), November 1996, DSI Conference, Orlando.
  • "The Benefit Derived From PCs Used as the Main Hardware Platform as Opposed to Other Computers." November 1996, DSI Conference, Orlando.
  • "The Utility from Applications of Management Information Systems," (with Tishler and Lipovetsky), August 1993, ICSSSE (International Conference on Systems Science and Systems Engineering) in Beijing, China.

Professional Memberships

  • Association of Information Systems
  • Institute for Operations Research and Management Science