The Department of Decision Sciences, Operations Management, and Information Systems at the School of Management and Entrepreneurship (SME) enthusiastically supports multidisciplinary research activities and initiatives that bring together faculty, supervised/mentored students, and staff with the breadth of experience and expertise necessary to tackle complex and challenging research problems.
The faculty in this department are actively investigating problems in agency-structure integration in industrial supply-chain and related transaction-linked operations; intra- and inter-organizational systems; corporate finance based on board interlocks and governance structures of firms; system dynamics of knowledge and information production; econometric studies of large-scale social systems including higher-education economics and welfare; IT workers’ cultural and social dimensions; the changing nature of supply chains with growing digitalization, and the logistical implications of experimental forms of transport like drones and airships.