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Education
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2008 (Major: Management Information Systems)
B.B.A., James Madison University, 1984 (Majors: Accounting, Finance, Management Information Systems)
Career Background
2008 - Present, Assistant Professor - Information Systems, Arizona State University
2002 - 2008, Consulting Director, Gartner Consulting
1992 - 2002, Partner/Manager/Senior Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Management Consulting Services (MCS)
1989 - 1992, Billing Manager, GTE Spacenet
1986 - 1989, Consultant, American Management Systems (AMS)
1984 - 1986, Consultant, Arthur Andersen
Research Interests
Information systems and management consulting, professional services firms, opportunism in consulting engagements, information systems leadership and executive tenure/survivability
Prior Consulting Clients (representative list)
Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, NASA, Microsoft, Amtrak, State of California (Franchise Tax Board, Department of Conservation, Department of Corrections, Department of Transportation, Economic Development Department, CALPERS, CALSTRS), International Union of Operating Engineers, New Jersey Department of Pension and Benefits, Ryland Homes, National Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security, City of New York, University of California - Santa Clara, Commonwealth of Virginia, State of Oklahoma, World Wildlife Fund, State of North Carolina, State of Georgia, State of Texas
Representative Publications
Published
Dawson, G., and Watson, R., “Uncovering and Testing Archetypes of Effective Public Sector CIOs”, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), March 2011
Dawson, G., Watson, R. and Boudreau, M., “Information Asymmetry in IS Consulting: Towards a Theory of Relationship Constraints”. Journal of Management Information Systems, Winter 2011
Dawson, G. and Watson, R., “Involved or Committed? Similarities and Differences in Advising and Mentoring in the Academic and Business World”, Communications of the AIS, 2007
Dawson, G. and Solarczyk, F.M., “Riding the Outsourcing Wave: Can your organization’s IS capability accept the challenge?,” Knowledge KnowHow: A Journal of Management Leadership, 1997
Dawson, G., “To Outsource or Not to Outsource: Make the business case,” Knowledge KnowHow: A Journal of Management Leadership, 1997
Works in Progress
Dawson, G., Karahanna, E. and Buchholtz, A., “Breach Spillover: A Study of Psychological Contract Breach in Multiple-Agency Relationships”
Dawson, G. and Kauffman, R. "Are CIOs Any Different? Analyzing the Job Tenures of C-Suite Executives in the Public Sector", (This paper has been presented at INFORMS 2009 and HICSS 2010)
Dawson, G. , Watson, R. and Boudreau, M.C.. “Empirical Validation of the Theory of Relationship Constraints”
Dawson, G. and Kauffman, R., Conducting Survival Analyses (book chapter) in Case Studies in Competitive Strategy and Information Technology: The Economics Perspective. Invited book chapter
Conference Proceedings and Presentations
Dawson, G. and Kauffman, R. "Are CIOS Any Different? Analyzing the Job Tenures of C-Suite Executives in the Public Sector", Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) January 2010, Kuaui, Hawaii
Dawson, G. and Watson, R., “All Effective CIOs are Strategic, Right? Disagreement in Defining Public Sector CIO Effectiveness”, Academy of Management (AOM) Conference August 2006, Atlanta, Georgia
Dawson, G, “The Role of Work Experiences in Developing Effective CIOs”, 12th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) August 2006, Acapulco, Mexico
Dawson, G. and Watson, R., “What Really Matters: A Empirical Study on the Relative Importance of the CIO and the Maturity of the IS Organization in Producing Effective IS Performance”, Southern Association of Information Systems (SAIS) 2005, Savannah, Georgia
Dawson, G. and Watson, R., “A Resource-Based View of the Impact of IS Maturity on Firm Performance”, Southern Association of Information Systems (SAIS) 2005, Savannah, Georgia
Awards
2007, Society for Management Information Systems (SMIS), Teacher of the Year, University of Georgia, Department of Information Systems
2000, Distinguished Service Alumni of the Year, James Madison University
Professional Service
Faculty Director, Department of Information Systems Club (DISC)
Co-Leader, Special Interest Group on IS Leadership (SIGLead)
Editorial Board Member (and Reviewer), International Journal of Social & Organizational Dynamics in Information Technology (IJSODIT)
Reviewer, European Journal of Information Systems, IEEE Transactions
Reviewer for numerous conferences including ICIS, AMCIS, HICSS, AOM and SAIS.
Other
I have run 19 marathons including Marine Corps (multiple times), Pittsburgh (multiple times), Shamrock Marathon (Virginia Beach, VA), Waynesboro Marathon (Virginia) and the Baltimore Marathon. I have also run a 50 miler (JFK 50 Miler in Virginia). In addition, I have done over 1000 other running races, swimming races and triathlons. I was on PwC's national sports team as both a runner and a swimmer for several years and our highest place was third in the nation. I still actively race but realize that my best times are behind me rather than in front of me!
