Cynthia Mathis Beath (born 1944) is an American

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and Professor Emerita at the Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business,Cynthia Beath
at mccombs.utexas.edu, 2013.

Biography

Beath obtained her BA in Psychology from Duke University in 1966, and later studied at

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a Normal school, teachers colle ...

, where she obtained her MBA in Computer and Information Systems in 1975, and her PhD in Computer and Information Systems in 1986 Beath started her career in private industry, where she held positions in information systems development and in consultancy. She was appointed Professor at the Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business. She is also affiliated with the

MIT Center for Information Systems Research The MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) is a research center at the MIT Sloan School of Management founded in 1974. MIT CISR's research focuses on the use of information technology and management in complex organizations. Its missi ...

.Center for Information Systems Research: Faculty & Staff
Accessed November 19, 2013. Beath received a

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award in 1993; a Decision, Risk, and Management Science Program (DRMS) Program Grant of the

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in 1998; and an Advanced Practices Council (APC) grant from the Society for Information Management (SIM) in 2006. Her research interests are in the fields of information system (development, implementation, management and maintenance) and information services, particularly the design of organizations and the management of vendor-client relationships.

Selected publications

Beath authored and co-authored many publications in her field of expertise. Books: * Swanson, E. Burton, and Cynthia Mathis Beath. ''Maintaining information systems in organizations''. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1989. *

Ross, Jeanne W. Jeanne Wenzel Ross (born ca. 1952) is an American organizational theorist and principal research scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), specializes in Enterprise Architecture, ICT a ...

, Cynthia Mathis Beath, and Martin Mocker. ''Designed for Digital: How to architect your business for sustained success''. MIT Press. 2019. Articles, a selection: * Beath, Cynthia Mathis. "Supporting the information technology champion." ''MIS Quarterly'' (1991): 355-372. * Ang, Soon, and Cynthia Mathis Beath.
Hierarchical elements in software contracts
" ''Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce'' 3.3 (1993): 329-361. * Beath, Cynthia Mathis, and

Wanda J. Orlikowski Wanda J. Orlikowski is a US-based organizational theorist and Information Systems researcher, and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of ...

. "The contradictory structure of systems development methodologies: deconstructing the IS-user relationship in information engineering." ''Information Systems Research'' 5.4 (1994): 350-377. * Silver, Mark S.,

M. Lynne Markus M. Lynne Markus (born 1950) is an American Information systems researcher, and John W. Poduska, Sr. Chair of Information and Process Management, Bentley University, who has made fundamental contributions to the study of enterprise systems and int ...

, and Cynthia Mathis Beath.
The information technology interaction model: a foundation for the MBA core course
" ''MIS Quarterly'' (1995): 361-390. *

, Cynthia Mathis Beath, and

Dale L. Goodhue Dale Louis Goodhue (born ca 1944) is an American Information systems researcher, and Professor Emeritus at the Management Information Systems Department of the University of Georgia, known for his work on enterprise systems and data management in l ...

.
Develop long-term competitiveness through IT assets
" ''Sloan management review'' 38.1 (1996): 31-42. *

, Cynthia Mathis Beath. "Beyond the Business Case: New Approaches to IT Investment." ''Sloan Management Review'' 43.2 (2002): 51-59. *

, Cynthia Mathis Beath, Anne Quaadras. "You May Not Need Big Data After All." ''Harvard Business Review'' 91.12 ''(''2013): 90-98.

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