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Brian S. Butler

Associate Professor of Business Administration

Office: 226 Mervis Hall
Phone: 412-648-1614
E-mail: bbutler@katz.pitt.edu
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Brian Butler

Degrees

PhD in Information Systems, Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Information Systems, Carnegie Mellon University
BS in Mathematics/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Courses Recently Taught

Current Topics in MIS:The Business of Blogs, Online Communities, and Social Networking (MBA/MS-MIS)
Current Topics in MIS: Business Continuity Management (MBA/MS-MIS)
Current Topics in MIS: Open Source Technologies (MBA/MS-MIS)
Communication: Structure, Behavior, Meaning, and Technology (PhD)

Area

Decision, Operations and Information Technology

Profile

Brian S. Butler's research interests include IT impacts on local food systems and other geographically-embedded markets, business continuity management, mindfulness and IT, the dynamics of online communities and other technology-supported groups, the politics of technology implementation in organizations, and the impact of electronic commerce on inter-organizational relationships.

Selected Publications

Bartos, C. E., Fridsma, D. B., Butler, B. S., Penrod, L. E., Becich, M. J., and Crowley, R. S. (2008). Development of an instrument for measuring clinicians' power perceptions in the workplace. J. of Biomedical Informatics 41, 6, 1041-1049.

Schleyer T, Spallek H, Butler BS, Subramanian S, Weiss D, Poythress ML, Rattanathikun P, Mueller G. (2008) Facebook for scientists: Requirements and services for optimizing how scientific collaborations are established, Journal of Medical Internet Research

Butler, B., Joyce, E., and Pike, J. 2008. Don't look now, but we've created a bureaucracy: the nature and roles of policies and rules in wikipedia. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 1101-1110.

Kim, Y.-G., Koh, J., & Butler, B. S. (2007). Virtual Community Stimulation: Linking Virtual Community Drivers to Virtual Community Activities. Communications of the ACM.

Butler, B.S. and Gray, P. Reliability, Mindfulness, and Information Systems. (2006) MIS Quarterly.

Jasperson, Jon; Carte, Traci; Saunders, Carol; Butler, Brian S.; Zheng, Weijun; and Price, Michael. (2002). Power and Information Technology in Organizations: A Metatriangulation Review. MIS Quarterly, Vol. 26, Issue 4, pp. 397–460.

Cummings, Jonathan; Butler, Brian S.; and Kraut, Robert E. "The Quality of Social Ties Online." Communications of the ACM. July 2002, Vol. 45, Issue 7, pp. 103–109.

Butler, Brian S. (2001). "Membership Size, Communication Activity, and Sustainability: The Internal Dynamics of Networked Social Structures." Information Systems Research, Vol. 12(4), pp. 346–362.

Awards and Honors

Microsoft University Outreach Grant, 2003 2004, 2005
MIS Quarterly Best Paper, 2002

External Service

Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly (2007 - Present)

Program Chair for OCIS Division of the Academy of Management (2009)

Editorial Board member for Information and Organization (2003 - Present)

Editorial Board member for Small Group Research (2008 - Present)

Associate Editor for Information Systems Research (2004 - 2006)

Personal Interests

Brian, his wife, Michelle, and their four children (Paul, Sam, Kate, and Mark), spend their free time working on their 110-year-old house in Highland Park.