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Peter N. MesoDepartment of Computer Information Systems,Email id: pmeso Email domain: cis.gsu.edu |
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I am Dr. Peter Meso. I
serve as a member of faculty in the Computer Information
Systems Department of Georgia State University’s J Mack Robinson College of Business,
located in I earned my PhD degree
in Information Systems from Kent State University, and
hold a Bachelor of Science (Information systems) and a Master of Business
Administration (MBA) degree from the United States
International University - Africa. My research activity
has remained focused in two core area of Information Systems scholarship,
namely global information technology (IT) and information systems
(IS) development respectively. My work, to date, appears in a number of
journals, among them: The Communications of the ACM, Information Systems
Research, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Systems and Software,
Information Systems Management, Journal of Global Information Management,
IEEE Transactions on Information Systems in Biomedicine, Electronic Journal
of Information Systems in Developing Countries, Journal of Knowledge
Management, and the Journal of Information Systems Education, among
others. I have also published numerous articles as conference proceedings and
a handful of book chapters. Within the global
information technology area, I have concentrated on studying IT in the
developing countries. I am particularly interested in how information
technologies are transforming the managerial, organizational and
socio-economic systems within these countries – and the implications of these
transformations on global business. Specifically, my research has
investigated impacts of IT on development and issues pertaining to the
adoption and diffusion of IT in the context of the least developed countries,
especially those in Sub Saharan Africa. My research in the
area of IS development, has focused on the conceptualization of IS systems,
theory-based impacts of IS development on organizational outcomes, and the
pedagogy of IS development. The failure rate of IS development endeavors has
been an issue of major concern for many researchers over the past few
decades. While some scholars have sought to address the issue from the
perspective of effective project management, others have sought to understand
the role and effects of information systems design methods, techniques and
artifacts in enabling a development team to reach the right solution for a
particular information systems development problem as encapsulated in an IS
development project. My research in the stream of information systems
development falls in the latter group.
The experience and knowledge
that I have acquired in over fifteen years of professional service as a
systems analyst, manager, trainer and scholar of information systems
contributes richly to my teaching. I teach courses in the areas of
information systems analysis design, web applications development and
computer programming languages. My delight is in working with students in
deriving information technology solutions for real business problems. I use a
hand-on approach to instruction that exposes students to emerging technologies
and methods for developing and managing business information systems, to
enable my students explore the possibilities that IT accords present-day
entrepreneurial and corporate business ventures. |