Michael G. Morris

Associate Dean for Graduate Programs
Associate Professor of Commerce
Area Coordinator—Information Technology

Office phone: 434-924-0776
e-mail: mmorris@virginia.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Management Information Systems, Indiana University
M.S., Information Resource Management, Air Force Institute of Technology
B.S., Education, Bowling Green State University

Areas of Expertise:

Professor Morris specializes in management information systems. His specific research interests include user adoption and acceptance of new technologies, user-centered systems development, usability engineering and measurement, and decision making using information technology.

Professional Activities:

Professor Morris is active in both the undergraduate IT and graduate MIT programs at the McIntire School of Commerce. He has published articles on socio-cognitive aspects of information systems development, implementation, and usage in many different academic and professional journals, including MIS Quarterly; Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; Personnel Psychology; Decision Sciences; and International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, among others. Professor Morris currently serves on the editorial boards at MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research, widely regarded as the top two journals in the field of information systems. He also received the Most Developmental Associate Editor award at MIS Quarterly in 2006. His research focuses on user acceptance, system usability and the organizational impact of new technology introductions. Before joining the McIntire School of Commerce, he served on the faculty at the Air Force Institute of Technology and served as a visiting professor at the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration in both Helsinki and Mikkeli, Finland.