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Jason Bennett Thatcher

  • Fox School of Business and Management

    • Management Information Systems

      • Milton E. Stauffer Professor

Biography

Jason Thatcher is the Stauffer Professor in the Department of Management Information Systems. He joins the Fox School from Culverhouse College of Business at University of Alabama, where he was the MIS Endowed Faculty Fellow. Prior to Alabama, Thatcher was a Trevilian Fellow in the College of Business at Clemson University.

Thatcher studies individual decision-making, strategic alignment and workforce issues as they relate to the effective application of information technologies in organizations. His more recent projects focused on cyber security and social media.

Thatcher has been published in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Applied Psychology and others. He serves as a senior editor at MIS Quarterly, a senior editor at the Journal of the Association of Information Systems and an associate editor at the European Journal of Information Systems. He has also served as the president of the Association of Information Systems.

Thatcher earned both his PhD in business administration and MPA from Florida State University. He also received his BA in political science and BA in history from the University of Utah.

Research Interests

  • Individual decision-making
  • Strategic alignment
  • Effective application of information technologies in organizations

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

MIS 5801

Managing Information in the Enterprise

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Dinger, M., Wade, J.T., Dinger, S., Carter, M., & Thatcher, J.B. (2024). Affect and information technology use: the impact of state affect on cognitions and IT use. Internet Research, 34(2), 265-293. Emerald. doi: 10.1108/intr-01-2022-0024.

  • Maier, C., Thatcher, J.B., Grover, V., & Dwivedi, Y.K. (2023). Cross-sectional research: A critical perspective, use cases, and recommendations for IS research. International Journal of Information Management, 70, 102625-102625. Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2023.102625.

  • Susarla, A., Gopal, R., Thatcher, J.B., & Sarker, S. (2023). The Janus Effect of Generative AI: Charting the Path for Responsible Conduct of Scholarly Activities in Information Systems. Information Systems Research, 34(2), 399-408. Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). doi: 10.1287/isre.2023.ed.v34.n2.

  • Gangi, P.M.D., Howard, J.L., Goh, S.H., & Thatcher, J.B. (2023). Do you see what I see? A social capital perspective on microtask gig worker opportunity recognition within electronic networks of practice. International Journal of Information Management, 69, 102615-102615. Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2022.102615.

  • Nabity-Grover, T., Cheung, C.M., & Thatcher, J.B. (2023). How COVID-19 stole Christmas: How the pandemic shifted the calculus around social media Self-Disclosures. Journal of Business Research, 154, 113310-113310. Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113310.

  • Tarafdar, M., Shan, G., Thatcher, J.B., & Gupta, A. (2022). Intellectual Diversity in IS Research: Discipline-Based Conceptualization and an Illustration from Information Systems Research. Information Systems Research, 33(4), 1490-1510. Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). doi: 10.1287/isre.2022.1176.

  • Pu, W., Roth, P.L., Thatcher, J.B., Nittrouer, C.L., & Hebl, M. (2022). Post-traumatic stress disorder and hiring: The role of social media disclosures on stigma and hiring assessments of veterans. PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY. 10.1111/peps.12520

  • Compeau, D., Correia, J., & Thatcher, J.B. (2022). WHEN CONSTRUCTS BECOME OBSOLETE: A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO EVALUATING AND UPDATING CONSTRUCTS FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH. MIS QUARTERLY, 46(2), 679-712. 10.25300/MISQ/2022/15516

  • Maier, C., Laumer, S., Thatcher, J.B., Wirth, J., & Weitzel, T. (2022). Trial-Period Technostress: A Conceptual Definition and Mixed-Methods Investigation. INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH. 10.1287/isre.2021.1047

  • Salge, C.A.d.L., Karahanna, E., & Thatcher, J.B. (2022). ALGORITHMIC PROCESSES OF SOCIAL ALERTNESS AND SOCIAL TRANSMISSION: HOW BOTS DISSEMINATE INFORMATION ON TWITTER. MIS QUARTERLY, 46(1), 229-260. 10.25300/MISQ/2021/15598

  • Soomro, Z., Shah, M., & Thatcher, J. (2021). A framework for ID fraud prevention policies in E-tailing sector. Computers and Security, 109. doi: 10.1016/j.cose.2021.102403.

  • Li, J., Li, M., Wang, X., & Thatcher, J. (2021). Strategic directions for AI: The role of cios and boards of directors. MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems, 45(3), 1603-1643. doi: 10.25300/MISQ/2021/16523.

  • Wong, R., Cheung, C., Xiao, B., & Thatcher, J. (2021). Standing up or standing by: Understanding bystanders’ proactive reporting responses to social media harassment. Information Systems Research, 32(2), 561-581. doi: 10.1287/ISRE.2020.0983.

  • Thatcher, J. & Wright, R. (2021). Phishing Tests are Necessary. But They Don’t Need to Be Evil. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2021/04/phishing-tests-are-necessary-but-they-dont-need-to-be-evil8.

  • Buxmann, P., Hess, T., & Thatcher, J. (2021). AI-Based Information Systems. Business and Information Systems Engineering, 63(1). doi: 10.1007/s12599-020-00675-8.

  • Prommegger, B., Thatcher, J.B., Wiesche, M., & Krcmar, H. (2021). When your data has COVID-19: how the changing context disrupts data collection and what to do about it. European Journal of Information Systems, 30(1), 100-118. doi: 10.1080/0960085X.2020.1841573.

  • Maier, C., Laumer, S., Thatcher, J., Sun, H., Weinert, C., & Weitzel, T. (2021). Social networking site use resumption: A model of return migration. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 22(4), 1037-1075. doi: 10.17705/1jais.00688.

  • Burleson, J., Grover, V., Thatcher, J.B., & Sun, H. (2021). A Representation Theory Perspective on the Repurposing of Personal Technologies for Work-Related Tasks. JOURNAL of the ASSOCIATION for INFORMATION SYSTEMS, 22(6), 1556-1589. 10.17705/1jais.00707

  • Schuetz, S., Lowry, P., Pienta, D., & Thatcher, J. (2021). Improving the design of information security messages by leveraging the effects of temporal distance and argument nature. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 22(5), 1376-1428. doi: 10.17705/1jais.00697.

  • Nabity-Grover, T., Cheung, C.M., & Thatcher, J.B. (2020). Inside out and outside in: How the COVID-19 pandemic affects self-disclosure on social media. Int J Inf Manage, 55, 102188. Netherlands. 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102188

  • Chau, D.C., Ngai, E.W., Gerow, J.E., & Thatcher, J.B. (2020). THE EFFECTS OF BUSINESS IT STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT AND IT GOVERNANCE ON FIRM PERFORMANCE: A MODERATED POLYNOMIAL REGRESSION ANALYSIS. MIS QUARTERLY, 44(4), 1679-1703. 10.25300/MISQ/2020/12165

  • (2020). "Political affiliation and employment screening decisions: The role of similarity and identification processes": Correction to Roth et al. (2020). J Appl Psychol, 105(10), 1087. United States. 10.1037/apl0000845

  • Pienta, D., Thatcher, J., & Johnston, A. (2020). Protecting a whale in a sea of phish. Journal of Information Technology, 35(3), 214-231. doi: 10.1177/0268396220918594.

  • Wade, J.T., Roth, P.L., Thatcher, J.B., & Dinger, M. (2020). SOCIAL MEDIA AND SELECTION: POLITICAL ISSUE SIMILARITY, LIKING, AND THE MODERATING EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM. MIS QUARTERLY, 44(3), 1301-1358. 10.25300/MISQ/2020/14119

  • Carter, M., Petter, S., Grover, V., & Thatcher, J. (2020). Information technology identity: A key determinant of it feature and exploratory usage1. MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems, 44(3), 893-1022. doi: 10.25300/MISQ/2020/14119.

  • Schuetz, S., Lowry, P.B., Pienta, D., & Thatcher, J.B. (2020). The Effectiveness of Abstract Versus Concrete Fear Appeals in Information Security. Journal of Management Information Systems, 37(3), 723-757. doi: 10.1080/07421222.2020.1790187.

  • Tams, S., Ahuja, M., Thatcher, J., & Grover, V. (2020). Worker stress in the age of mobile technology: The combined effects of perceived interruption overload and worker control. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 29(1). doi: 10.1016/j.jsis.2020.101595.

  • Thatcher, J. (2020). Worker Stress in the Age of Mobility: A Moderated Mediation Model of Demands from Interruptions, Role-based Stress, and IT Use. Journal of Strategic Information Systems. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339116006_Worker_stress_in_the_age_of_mobile_technology_The_combined_effects_of_perceived_interruption_overload_and_worker_control.

  • Carter, M., Petter, S., Grover, V., & Thatcher, J. (2020). It identity: A measure and empirical investigation of its utility to is research. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 21(5), 1313-1342. doi: 10.17705/1jais.00638.

  • Tams, S., Dulipovici, A., Thatcher, J., Craig, K., & Srite, M. (2020). The role of basic human values in knowledge sharing: How values shape the postadoptive use of electronic knowledge repositories. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 21(1), 201-237. doi: 10.17705/1jais.00597.

  • Marsden, J., Pingry, D., & Thatcher, J. (2019). Perspectives on numerical data quality in IS research. Decision Support Systems, 126. doi: 10.1016/j.dss.2019.113172.

  • Craig, K., Thatcher, J., & Grover, V. (2019). The IT Identity Threat: A Conceptual Definition and Operational Measure. Journal of Management Information Systems, 36(1), 259-288. doi: 10.1080/07421222.2018.1550561.

  • Gupta, B., Loiacono, E., Dutchak, I., & Thatcher, J. (2019). A field-based view on gender in the information systems discipline: Preliminary evidence and an agenda for change. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 20(12), 1870-1900. doi: 10.17705/1jais.00588.

  • Rossi, M., Mueller-Bloch, C., Thatcher, J., & Beck, R. (2019). Blockchain research in information systems: Current trends and an inclusive future research agenda. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 20(9), 1388-1403. doi: 10.17705/1jais.00571.

  • Sun, H., Wright, R., & Thatcher, J. (2019). Revisiting the impact of system use on task performance: an exploitative-explorative system use framework. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 20(4), 398-433. doi: 10.17705/1.jais.00539.

  • Jones, M., Srite, M., Chandrasekaran, R., Iyer, L., Kayworth, T., & Thatcher, J. (2019). Getting information systems programs classified as stem: A u.s.-based perspective from an ais task force study and panel discussion. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 44(1). doi: 10.17705/1CAIS.04423.