Sandra Slaughter
Associate Professor in
Information Systems

B.A., Carroll College, 1980;
M.B.A., Indiana University, 1987;
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1995

E-mail: sandras@andrew.cmu.edu

Web Page: http://www.gsia.cmu.edu/andrew/sandras

Teaching and Research Interests:

Performance in software development and maintenance; employment outsourcing in information systems; compensation, mobility, and careers of information systems workers; software evolution.

Major Publications/Papers:

"Human Capital and Institutional Determinants of Pay for Information Technology Professionals," with S. Ang and K. Yee, Management Science, forthcoming;

"Work Outcomes and Job Design for Contract Versus Permanent Information Systems Professionals on Software Development Teams," with S. Ang, MIS Quarterly, 2001;

"The Moderating Effects of Software Structure on Volatility and Complexity in Software Enhancement," with R. Banker, Information Systems Research, 2000;

"Effects of Process Maturity on Quality, Cost and Cycle Time in Software Product Development," with D. Harter and M. Krishnan, Management Science, 2000;

"An Empirical Approach to Studying Software Evolution," with C. Kemerer, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1999;

"Software Development Practices, Software Complexity and Software Maintenance Performance: A Field Study," with R. Banker and G. Davis, Management Science, 1998;

"A Field Study of Scale Economies in Software Maintenance," with R. Banker, Management Science, 1997

Awards/Honors:

• Best Paper Award, Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research (SIGCPR), with S. Ang, 2002
• Best Paper Selection, Software Process Improvement Track, Association for Information Systems Americas Conference (AMCIS), with E. Barry and C. Kemerer, 1999
• Xerox Research Chair, GSIA, 1998-1999
• Best Paper Award, Human Resources Division, Academy of Management Conference, with S. Ang and N. K. Yee, 1998
• Best Paper Award, Organizational Systems Division, Hawaiian International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS), with S. Ang, 1998
• Department of Business Administration, Undergraduate Teaching Award, GSIA, 1998
• Best Dissertation Award, ICIS, 1995
• Second Best Overall Conference Paper, ICIS, December, 1994

Editorial Boards:

• Associate Editor, Information Systems Research, 2000-2002
• Associate Editor, MIS Quarterly, 2000-2002
• Associate Editor, Management Science, 2002-2004
• Associate Editor, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 2002-2004