E. Burton Swanson (born 1939) is an American

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, and Professor Emeritus of Information Systems at the

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Biography

Swanson received his BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering in 1962 from

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, his MBA in 1964 from the

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and his PhD in Business Administration in 1971 from

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.E. B. Swanson
at anderson.ucla.edu. Accessed 21 November 2018. Swanson had started his career at IBM, where he worked in the system development of applications. He returned to the academia in 1974 to the

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, where he became Professor of Information Systems at the

, where he directed the Information Systems Research Program. He has held visiting positions in England, Belgium and Germany. Swanson was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the ''

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'' from 1987 to 1992. In 1980 he also co-founded the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). In 2009 he was awarded the LEO award for exceptional lifetime achievement by the

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. Swanson research interests are in the fields of Information Systems and Technology and Enterprise Systems, particularly Business Innovations and

organizing vision The organising vision (OV) is a term developed by E. Burton Swanson and Neil Ramiller that defines how a vision is formed, a vision of how to organize structures and processes in regards to an information systems innovation. Images and ideas a ...

; a term developed by Swanson and

Neil Ramiller Neil Clifford Ramiller (born 1952) is an American academic, and Professor of Management at the Portland State University School of Business Administration, known for his work with Swanson, E. Burton on the management of information-technology in ...

. His research is focused on "the life cycles of systems in organizations, addressing issues of innovation, implementation, utilization, and maintenance."

Selected publications

Swanson authored and co-authored many publications. Books: * Lientz, Bennet P., and E. Burton Swanson. ''Software maintenance management: a study of the maintenance of computer application software in 487 data processing organizations.'' (1980). * Swanson, E. Burton, and

Cynthia Mathis Beath Cynthia Mathis Beath (born 1944) is an American economist and professor emerita at the Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business.

. ''Maintaining information systems in organizations''. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1989. Articles, a selection: * Swanson, E. Burton. "Management information systems: appreciation and involvement." ''Management Science'' 21.2 (1974): 178-188. * Swanson, E. Burton.
The dimensions of maintenance
" in ''Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Software engineering. IEEE'' Computer Society Press, 1976. * Swanson, E. Burton.
Information systems innovation among organizations
" ''Management Science'' 40.9 (1994): 1069-1092. * Swanson, E. Burton, and Neil C. Ramiller. "The organizing vision in information systems innovation." ''Organization science'' 8.5 (1997): 458-474. * Swanson, E. Burton, and Neil C. Ramiller.
Innovating mindfully with information technology
." ''MIS Quarterly'' (2004): 553-583.

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External links

E. B. Swanson
at anderson.ucla.edu. {{DEFAULTSORT:Swanson, E. Burton Living people American industrial engineers American computer scientists Information systems researchers IBM employees San Jose State University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni UCLA Anderson School of Management faculty Ross School of Business alumni 1939 births