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A/PROF MICHAEL DAVERN



Contact Details

Organization: Accounting and Business Information Systems
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.abis.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/who/staff/michael_davern.html
Work: 61383443413
Fax: 61393492397
Room: 08.059
Level: 08
Building: The Spot, 198 Berkeley St
Campus: Parkville

Biography

Michael Davern is Associate Professor in Accounting and Business Information Systems, and Director of the Master of Business and IT program in the Melbourne GSM. Prior to joining the University in 2003 he spent a decade in the USA, including academic appointments at Stern School of Business, New York University and the University of Minnesota. His research is funded by both the corporate sector and the Australian Research Council and appears in the Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, and The International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, among others. An internationally known speaker, Michael has delivered invited research presentations in six countries and regularly presents to executive audiences both locally and internationally. His teaching experience spans both Information Systems and Accounting across all levels (Undergraduate, MBA/Masters, PhD and Executive). Prior to entering academia, Michael held appointments with Price Waterhouse, Comalco, and Coles Myer in both business/accounting and IT roles. He is currently director of a privately held investment company and trustee of a superannuation fund.

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Information valuation and use Behaviour in information environments, Decision technologies, Revenue yield management Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) University of Tasmania 31-Dec-1992
Bachelor of Commerce University of Tasmania 31-Mar-1990
Doctor of Philosophy University of Minnesota 31-Dec-1998

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Decision support systems for accounting Chief Investigator ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND AFAANZ/CPA Australia/ICAA PhD Scholarships 01/01/2004
Modelling the adoption and use of virtual services technologies for rural and regional healthcare: Economic and quality of care perspectives Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2007

Additional Grant and Contract Information

ARC Linkage Grant 2007-2009, Chief Investigator.  Modelling the adoption and use of virtual services technologies for rural and regional healthcare: Economic and quality of care perspectives.

Southwest Alliance of Rural Health, 2006. Seed Grant.

Faculty of Economics and Commerce Seed Grant, 2003-2004, Decision Technologies (~$180,000)

Establishment of Cognitive Research Workshop, Association for Information Systems, 2001.

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Why did they do that? Variability in routine transactions
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Information Technology and People
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 78-88
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Diagnosing Decision Quality


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Decision Support Systems
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 123-139
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  • Measuring the effects of business intelligence systems: The relationship between business process and organizational performance


    Year: 2008
    Journal: International Journal of Accounting Information Systems
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 135-153
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  • Evolving Innovations Through Design and Use
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Association for Computing Machinery. Communications
    Volume: 51
    Page numbers: 133-137
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  • Personalization and Choice Behavior: The Role of Personality Traits
    Year: 2008
    Journal: The Database for Advances in Information Systems
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 31-47
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Leveraging Business Intelligence: Organizational Assimilation of Value-chain Strategic Information Systems
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Fourth Asia/Pacific Research Symposium on Accounting Information Systems. Auckland, New Zealand.
    Conference Publication: Fourth Asia/Pacific Research Symposium on Accounting Information Systems. Auckland, New Zealand.
    Page numbers: 383-428
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Towards a Unified Theory of Fit: Task, Technology and Individual
    Year: 2007
    Book: Information Systems Foundations: Theory, Representation and Reality
    Publisher: ANU E Press(Acton)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Transaction-Driven Personalization: The Moderating Effects of Personality Traits
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 185-199
    Publisher: Association for Information Systems(Texas)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Decision Making in Insolvency
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Insolvency Journal
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 29-31
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • An Exploratory Model of Decision Quality and its Antecedents for Category Novices Using Multiple-Stage Shopping Engines
    Year: 2005
    Journal: e-Service Journal
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 3-27
    Publisher: Indiana University Press(Bloomington)
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  • The Pervasiveness of Information and Communication Technology: Its Effects on Business Models and Implications for the Accounting Profession
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Accounting Review
    Volume: 15.3
    Issue: Supplement to Issue 37
    Page numbers: 39-43
    Publisher: CPA Australia(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2004

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Innovation with information systems: An appropriation perspective
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2004
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2004)
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: School of Information Systems, The University of Tasmania(Hobart)
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  • Knowledge Matters: Performance with Decision Support
    Year: 2004
    Event name: The Fourth Annual SIG IS Cognitive Research Workshop
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Annual Information Systems Cognitive Research Workshop
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Association of Information Systems(Atlanta)
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  • Personalizing to product category knowledge: Exploring the mediating effect of shopping tools on decision confidence
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences(HICSS'04)
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(California)
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