LARS MATHIASSEN
GRA Eminent Scholar, Regents Professor
Center for Digital Innovation
Computer Information Systems
Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University
Email: lmathiassen@ceprin.org
Lars Mathiassen is Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and Regents Professor at the Computer Information Systems Department and Co-Founder of Center for Digital Innovation at Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. His research focuses on digital innovation, on health informatics, and on IT development & management. He approaches innovation initiatives with a strong focus on people skills and collaboration while at the same time emphasizing adoption of state-of-the-art technologies and methods. The philosophy underlying much of his research is discussed in Reflective Systems Development (see icon below).
Lars has published extensively in leading academic journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, Organization Studies, Research Policy, Journal of Business Ethics, Health Services Research, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Information Technology, and Journal of Strategic Information Systems. He has also co-authored several books, including Professional Systems Development, Computers in Context: The Philosophy and Practice of Systems Design, Object Oriented Analysis & Design, and Improving Software Organizations: From Principles to Practice. Lars was a co-founder of Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, he has served as senior editor for MIS Quarterly, Journal of Information Technology and Information & Organization and he currently serves as senior editor for Engaged Management ReView.
Lars has supervised more than 55 doctoral dissertations. He has served as visiting scholar at several institutions, including Warwick Business School (UK), London School of Economics (UK), Institute Theseus (France), IT-University Gothenburg (Sweden), Oslo University (Norway), Aalborg University (Denmark) and Umeå University (Sweden). He was awarded honorary doctor in science at Copenhagen University (Denmark) in 2011 and honorary doctor in philosophy at Umeå University (Sweden) in 2016. In 2021, he received the Fellow Award from the Association for Information Systems. In 2008, Lars founded the Executive Doctorate Program at Robinson College of Business and served as its Academic Director until 2023.
Lars’ research has for the most part been carried out in close collaboration with practicing professionals and their organizations. That has led to development of Collaborative Practice Research, a practice-oriented methodology grounded in the action research tradition. As such, his research is based on partnerships with professionals and organizations within a variety of industries, including hospitals, manufacturing, banking, pharmaceuticals, insurance, security, communications, information technology and software.
