University of Pittsburgh

Faculty

Chris F. Kemerer

David M. Roderick Professor of Information Systems and Professor of Business Administration

Office: 278A Mervis Hall
Phone: 412-648-1572
E-mail: ckemerer@katz.pitt.edu
Homepage: www.pitt.edu/~ckemerer/kemerer.htm

Degrees

PhD in Systems Sciences (Information Systems), Carnegie Mellon University
BS magna cum laude, Economics and Decision Sciences, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Courses Recently Taught

BMIS 3022 Economics and Information Systems (PhD)
BMIS 2801 Information Systems: IT and Business Value (EMBA)
BMIS 2679 Technology Innovation, Adoption, and Diffusion (MBA)

Interest Group

Management Information Systems

Profile

Before accepting the Roderick Chair at the Katz School, Chris Kemerer was an associate professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a former principal of American Management Systems Inc., the Arlington, Va.-based software development and consulting firm. He continues serving industry through applied research, consulting, executive education, and expert testimony.

His current research interests include management and measurement issues in information systems and software engineering, and he has published more than sixty articles on these topics in a number of professional and academic journals, including Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, IEEE Software, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Information and Software Technology, Information Systems Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Sloan Management Review, and others, as well as editing two books.

He has been invited to address audiences in a dozen different countries and numerous cities throughout the United States. He is the winner of numerous Katz Excellence in Teaching awards, and was voted the Distinguished Professor by the 2006-7 Executive MBA class at the University of Pittsburgh.

He has been invited to address audiences in a dozen countries as well as numerous cities throughout the United States. His research on software evolution has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and from IBM.

Dr. Kemerer serves or has served on the editorial boards of the Annals of Software Engineering, Communications of the ACM, Empirical Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Information Systems Research, the Journal of Organizational Computing, the Journal of Software Quality, and MIS Quarterly, and is a member of INFORMS, ACM, and the IEEE Computer Society. He is a past Departmental Editor for Information Systems at Management Science, immediate past Editor-in-Chief of Information Systems Research, and is currently a Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly.

Research Interest Areas

Management of Information Systems
Software Engineering Measurement and Modeling
Accounting and Economic Issues in Information Systems
Technology Adoption and Diffusion

Recent Publications

Barry, E., C. Kemerer, and S. Slaughter, "On the Uniformity of Software Evolution Patterns", (with E. Barry and S. Slaughter), Proc. of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering, Portland, Oregon, May 2003.

MacCormack, A., C. Kemerer, M. Cusumano, and B. Crandall, "Exploring trade-offs between productivity and quality in the selection of software development practices" IEEE Software, v. 20, n. 5, pp. 78-85, September/October 2003.

Cusumano, M, MacCormack, A., Kemerer, C., Crandall, B., "Software Development Worldwide: The State of the Practice", IEEE Software, v. 20, n. 6, pp. 28-34, November/December 2003.

Ramasubbu, N., Mithas S., Krishnan M.S, and C. Kemerer, "Empirical Analysis of Quality Management Practices in Distributed Custom Software Development", Proc. of the Academy of Management, August 2004.

Darcy, D. and C. Kemerer, "OO Metrics in Practice", IEEE Software, v. 22, n. 6, pp. 17-19, November/December 2005.

Darcy, D., C. Kemerer, S. Slaughter, and J. Tomayko, "The structural complexity of software: An experimental test", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v. 31, n. 11, pp. 982-995, November 2005.

Barry, E., C. Kemerer, and S. Slaughter, "Environmental Volatility, Development Decisions and Software Product Volatility: A Longitudinal Study", Management Science, v. 52, n. 3, pp. 448-464, March 2006.

Barry, E., C. Kemerer, and S. Slaughter, "How Software Process Automation Affects Software Evolution: A Longitudinal Empirical Analysis", Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution, v. 19, n. 1, pp. 1-31, January-February 2007.

Ramasubbu, N., S. Mithas, M.S. Krishnan, and C. Kemerer, "Work Dispersion, Process-Based Learning and Offshore Software Development Performance" MIS Quarterly, v. 32, n. 2, pp. 437-458, June 2008.

Working Papers

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Awards and Honors

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External Services and Assignment

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Consulting Activities

Significant experience as an expert witness, including the Microsoft antitrust litigation.

Personal Interests

Golf