Research - Neil Ramiller
Editorial Board
Information & Organization
Information, Technology, and People
Journal of the Association for Information Systems
Expertise
- Management of information technology
- Management of technological innovation
- Language, rhetoric, and management
Honors
Winner of the 2010 Confluence Award for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Writing by Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs (for the paper “Understanding new technologies in the Great War: Disruptive innovation, system building, and institutional barriers”).
Named 2009 Reviewer of the Year by the Journal of the Association for Information Systems.
Recipient of the “Best Published Paper Award” from the Academy of management’s Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) division for the paper titled “Community Learning in Information Technology Innovation” (With P. Wang, published in MIS Quarterly in 2009).
Selected Recent Activity
Refereed Journal Articles
Research
Ramiller, N. C. “Understanding New Technologies in the Great War: Disruptive Innovation, System Building, and Institutional Barriers,” Confluence, The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, 16, 1, 2010. Received 2010 Confluence Award for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Writing, of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs.
Wang, P., and Ramiller, N.C., "Community learning in information technology innovation," MIS Quarterly, 33, 4, 2009, 709-734. Received "Best Published Paper Award" from the Academy of Management's Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) Division, 2010.
Ramiller, N.C., and Pentland, B.T., "Management implications in information systems research: The untold story," forthcoming in the June 2009 issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems.
Ramiller, N.C., and Wagner, E.L., "The element of surprise: Appreciating the unexpected in (and through) actor networks," Information Technology & People, 22, 1, 2009, 36-50.
Ramiller, N.C., and Chiasson, M., "The service behind the service: Sensegiving in the Service Economy," in M. Barrett & E. Davidson (eds.), IT and Change in the Service Economy: Challenges and Possibilities for the 21st Century, Springer, 2008, 117-126.
Ramiller, N.C., Swanson, E.B., and Wang, P., "Research directions in information systems: Toward an institutional ecology," Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 9, 1, 2008, 1-22.
Ramiller, N.C., "Virtualizing the virtual," in K. Crowston, S. Seiber. E. Wynn (eds.), Virtuality and Virtualization, Springer, 2007, 353-366.
Ramiller, N.C., "Constructing Safety: System designs, system effects, and the play of heterogeneous interests in a behavioral health care context," International Journal of Medical Informatics, Volume 76, Supplement 1, June 2007, 196-204.
Ramiller, N.C., "Applying the sociology of translation to a system implementation in a lagging enterprise," Journal of Information Technology Theory & Applications, 7, 1, 2005.
Swanson, E.B. and Ramiller, N.C., "Innovating mindfully with information technology," MIS Quarterly, 28, 4, 2004, 553-583. Named "Paper of the Year, 2004" by the MIS Quarterly editorial board.
Ramiller, N.C. and Swanson, E.B., "Organizing visions for information technology and the I.S. executive response," Journal of Management Information Systems, 20, 1, 2003, 13-50.
Ramiller, N.C., "Bedtime reading for technologists: Elaborations on a theme of Mitroff's," Journal of Information Technology Theory & Applications, 3, 3, 2001, 8-20.
Ramiller, N.C., "Airline magazine syndrome: Reading a myth of mis-management," Information Technology & People, 14, 3, 2001, 287-303.
Ramiller, N.C., "The ‘textual attitude' and new technology," Information & Organization (formerly Accounting, Management & Information Technologies), 11, 2001, 129-156.
Swanson, E.B. and Ramiller, N.C., "The organizing vision in information systems innovation," Organization Science, 8, 5, 1997, 458-473.
Ng., H.A. and Ramiller, N.C., "The role of culture in the diffusion of information technology innovations: Exploring country values," Accounting & Business Review, 4, 2, 1997, 319-338.
Ramiller, N.C., "Perceived compatibility of information technology innovations among secondary adopters: Toward a reassessment," Journal of Engineering & Technology Management, 11, 1994, 1-23.
Swanson, E.B. and Ramiller, N.C., "Information systems thematics: Submissions to a new journal, 1987-1992," Information Systems Research, 4, 4, 1993, 299-330.
Swanson, E.B., Fuller, M.K., Nidumolu, S., Ramiller, N., Ward, S.G., "Illusive effects on the diffusion of an innovation: A comment," Management Science, 37, 11, 1991, 1500-1502.
Refereed Journal Articles
Pedagogical Innovation and Practice
Ramiller, N.C., "Making the case: The systems-project case study as storytelling," Journal of Information Systems Education, 14, 2, Summer 2003, 153-165.
Ramiller, N.C., "The Virtual Interactive Project: Teaching analysis and design through narrative and drama," Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 9, 1, 2002, 1-34.
Ramiller, N.C., "Animating the concept of business process in the core course in information systems," Journal of Informatics Education & Research, 3, 2, 2001, 53-66.
Non-refereed publications
Myers, M. D., Baskerville, R. L., Gill, G., & Ramiller, N. (2011). Setting our research agendas: Institutional ecology, informing sciences, or management fashion theory? Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 28, article 23.
Ramiller, N.C., and Swanson, E.B., "Mindfulness routines for innovating with information technology," Journal of Decision Systems, 18, 1, 2009, 13-26.
Ramiller, N.C., "Review of Information Systems and Global Diversity by Chrisanthi Avgerou," Information Technology & People, 16, 2, 2003, 235-240.
Conference Presentations
“Extending govern-mentality: Knowledge, ideology, and control in colonial Taiwan.” Presented at the 2010 symposium of the Western Schools of Graduate Liberal Studies, Reed College.
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