Management Information Systems
Fall 2014 Course Syllabus Class Times TTh 7:30 – 8:45 am (KRAN G018) and Location: TTh 9:00 – 10:15 am (KRAN G018) TTh Noon – 1:15 pm (KRAN G018) TTh 1:30 – 2:45 pm (KRAN G018) Instructor: Dr. Roy Dejoie
Office: KRAN 484
Phone: 496-6724 (24-hour voicemail)
Email: rdejoie@purdue.edu
Office Hours: TTh 10:30 – 11:45 am (I’ll be coming from my 9:00 am class, so please give me a few of minutes to arrive). Additional hours may be added around project assignments. Teaching Assistants: TBA Office Hours: TA office hours will be held around the weeks when the projects are due. Text: Management Information Systems for the Information Age by Haag and Cummings, McGraw Hill, 9th Edition. Required Readings:
1. Brynjolfsson, E., Hu,Y., & Smith, M.D. (2006). From Niches to Riches: The Anatomy of the Long Tail. Sloan Management Review, Summer 2006, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 67-71. http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~mds/smr.pdf or http://viewswire.eiu.com/report_dl.asp?mode=fi&fi=1740754759.PDF (if direct link doesn’t work, copy and paste the link in your browser’s address window) 2. Dranove, D. & and Gandal, N. (2004). Surviving a Standards War: Lessons Learned from The Life and Death of DIVX. In Advances in the economics of information systems. Kerem Tomak (ed.). Idea Group Pub. (Hershey, PA), 2005. http://www.tau.ac.il/~gandal/divx.pdf 3. Gallagher, S. & Barrett, L. (2003). McBusted: Case 077, McDonald’s. Baseline, July, 36-56. http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,1173624,00.asp or http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1173624,00.asp
4. Mason, R.O. (1986). Four Ethical Issues of the Information Age. Management Information Systems Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 5-12. http://www.gdrc.org/info-design/4-ethics.html or http://www.ida.liu.se/~TIMM32/docs/4etical.pdf 5. The Vasa Capsizes (original case developed by Richard Mason).