Suzanne Rivard (born 1952) is a Canadian information technology scientist. She is a Full Professor in the Department of Information Technology at

HEC Montréal HEC Montréal (; English: ''High Commercial Studies of Montreal'') is a bilingual public business school located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1907, HEC Montréal is the graduate business school of the Université de Montréal and is ...

Early life and education

Rivard was born in 1952. She completed her MBA at

and her PhD in Information Systems at the

University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO; branded as Western University) is a Public university, public research university in London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by residential neighbourhoods and the Thame ...

. She was the first Canadian to earn her PhD in information systems management and wrote her thesis on the emerging use of computers outside the limited circle of programmers.

Career

Rivard joined the faculty at HEC Montréal in 1978. She co-authored ''A Keyword Classification Scheme for IS Research Literature: An Update'' with Henri Barki and Jean Talbot in 1993 which was subsequently adopted by the ''

Management Information Systems Quarterly ''Management Information Systems Quarterly'', referred to as ''MIS Quarterly'', is an online-only quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in management information systems and information technology. It was established in 19 ...

'' (MIS Quarterly) journal. Following this, Rivard became the director of the Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations (CIRANO) technology group. Rivard was appointed the Chair of Strategic Management of Information Technologies in 2002 "to contribute to the development and dissemination of knowledge on the capacity of companies to choose, deploy and implement information technologies in order to have a real impact on organizational performance." While serving in this role, Rivard was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; , SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguishe ...

and awarded the Marcel Vincent Award for her outstanding contribution to advancing scientific knowledge in her field. She continued to collaborate with Barki and Talbot and co-authored ''A multi-level investigation of information technology outsourcing''. Their paper, which won the Best Article of 2012 Award, proposed and tested a model of the information technology outsourcing decision. As a result of her academic accomplishments, Rivard was appointed an Associate Editor of the ''Journal of Strategic Information Systems'' and elected as a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. She was also recognized as being among the most prolific authors of ''MIS Quarterly'' and received the Pierre Laurin Award for excellence in research.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rivard, Suzanne Living people 1952 births Academic staff of HEC Montréal HEC Montréal alumni University of Western Ontario alumni Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada