Jeffrey Parsons
Professor
Faculty of Business Administration
Memorial University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Jeffrey Parsons joined Memorial University in 1993, where he served as associate dean (research) from 2003-2007 and 2008-2012. Dr. Parsons earned an undergraduate degree in business from Memorial and a PhD in information systems from the University of British Columbia. His research interests focus on representing information in ways that better match how humans think about objects in their physical or social environment. His research has been published in journals such as Nature, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He holds research grants from NSERC and SSHRC and has served on grant committees for both funding councils.
Research Interest
Information Systems
Publications
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Lukyanenko, Roman, Jeffrey Parsons and Yolanda Wiersma, Easier Citizen Science is Better, Nature, 2011, 471, 37.
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Browne, Glenn and Jeffrey Parsons, More Enduring Questions in Cognitive IS Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, December 2012, 13(12), 1000-1011.
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Parsons, Jeffrey and Yair Wand, Extending Principles of Classification from Information Modeling to Other Disciplines, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, April 2013, 14(4).
