PRIMARY TEACHING/RESEARCH INTEREST
SPECIFIC RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. IS Strategy
2. Technology and Innovation
3. Management of IS
SPECIFIC TEACHING INTERESTS
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy (Business Administration - Business Process Innovation, CIS), January 2011Master of Business Administration (Concentration: Finance), 2005
Graduate Certificate (Concentration: Management and Technology), 2000
Bachelor of Arts (Production and Operations Management), 1993
WORK EXPERIENCE
2012-present, Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA, USA
2012-present, Research Consultant, NSF-funded project on Organizational Participation in Open Source Communities, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
2011-2012, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI, USA
2011-2012, Adjunct Professor, Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
2005-2011, Ph.D. Research Assistant, Center for Process Innovation, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
2003-2004, MBA Research Assistant, Center for Process Innovation, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
1996-2002, Principal Consultant, Technology Solutions Company, New York, NY, USA
1994-1996, Quality System Manager, Shaw Industries, Inc., Valley Head, AL, USA
COURSES TAUGHT
MGMT4650, International IT for Managers, 1 semester (1 section)
MGMT4620, Systems Analysis and Design, 1 semester (1 section)
BUSA3600, Telecommunications and Network Design, 4 semesters (5 sections)
BUSA3100, Introduction to Management Information Systems, 7 semesters (8 sections)
CIS8300, Software Quality Assurance (online course), 1 semester
CIS4700, IT Project Risk Management (online course), 1 semester
CIS2010, Information and Communication Technology: Social Implications for the 21st Century, 1 semester
PERS2002, Introduction to Management Information Systems, 1 semester
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
1. Germonprez, Matt; Kendall, Julie; Kendall, Ken; Young, Brett (2014). "Born Free: How the Origins and Advancement of Open Source Software through Sharing will Uphold the Values of Free." Decision Line (45:1), pp 16-19, January 2014.
2. Germonprez, M., Kendall, J., Kendall, K., and Young, B. (2014). Collectivism, Creativity, Competition, and Control in Open Source Software Development: Reflections on the Emergent Governance of the SPDX Working Group, International Journal of Information Systems and Management, Accepted.
3. Lewis, Mark; Young, Brett; Mathiassen, Lars; Rai, Arun; and Welke, Richard. (2007) "Business process innovation based on stakeholder perceptions," Information, Knowledge, Systems Management (6:1), pp 7-27.
Book Chapters
1. Borders, Aberdeen, L.; Johnston, Wesley J.; Young, Brett; and Morpurgo, Johnathan. (2008) "E-CRM Marketing Intelligence in a Manufacturing Environment," in: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, M. Khosrow-Pour (ed.), Idea Publishing Group, Hershey, PA.
2. Kasi, Vijay and Young, Brett (2005) "Understanding the Context and Concept of Web Services," in: Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government and Mobile Commerce, M. Khosrow-Pour (ed.), Idea Publishing Group, Hershey, PA (pp 151-156).
Peer-refereed conferences and workshops
1. Kendall, Julie; Kendall, Ken; Germonprez, Matt; and Young, Brett (2014) "Expressing the Domestication of Open Source: How the Ecosystem Metaphor Illuminates and Obscures Understanding of Organizational Participation in Open Communities." Presented at the Forty-Third Annual Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, Napa, CA (April 2014)
2. Kendall, Ken; Kendall, Julie; Germonprez, Matt; and Young, Brett (2014) "On the Rationality of For-Profit Corporations Participating in Open Source Software Communities." Presented at the Forty-Third Annual Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, Napa, CA (April 2014)
3. Allen, J.P.; Germonprez, Matt; Young, Brett; Kendall, Ken; and Kendall, Julie (2013). "Managing the Boundary Between Commerce and Commons" presented at the SIG2013 Workshop on Openness and Transparency Research, Milan, Italy (December 15, 2013)
4. Young, Brett and Lars Mathiasssen (Eds.). (2013) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Engaged Scholarship Management.
5. Hirotoshi Takeda, Michael Cuellar, Brett Young, and Robert Sainsbury, (2013) "Online Community Influence: A Study Using the Hirsch Metric and Social Network Analysis. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Chicago, Illinois, August 15-17, 2013. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013/VirtualCommunities/RoundTablePresentations/6/
6. Germonprez, Matt; Young, Brett; Mathiassen, Lars; Kendall, Julie E.; Kendall, Ken E.; and Warner, Brian, "Risk Mitigation in Corporate Participation with Open Source Communities: Protection and Compliance in an Open Source Supply Chain" (2012). International Research Workshop on IT Project Management 2012 (IRWITPM 2012). Paper 3. http://aisel.aisnet.org/irwitpm2012/3
7. Hirotoshi Takeda, Michael Cuellar, Brett Young, and Robert Sainsbury, "What Drives User Contribution in an Online Community? A Study in Contributor Influence and User Status" (July 29, 2012). In AMCIS 2012 Proceedings. Paper 23. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2012/proceedings/VirtualCommunities/23
8. Cuellar, Michael J.; Young, Brett; and Takeda, Hirotoshi, "Online Community User Influence: A Study Using User Status" (2012). SAIS 2012 Proceedings. Paper 10. http://aisel.aisnet.org/sais2012/10
9. Takeda, Hirotoshi; Young, Brett; Cuellar, Michael. (2011) "All Contributions are Not Created Equal: Measuring User Influence in Online Communities with Hirsch Indices." IFIP 8.2 OASIS Workshop, Shanghai, China.
10. Young, Brett and Kalle Lyytinen (Eds.). (2011) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Engaged Scholarship Management.
11. Young, Brett; Takeda, Hiro; Cuellar, Mike. (2011) "Investigating the Impact of Offline Events on Group Development in an Online Sports Community," in SAIS 2011 Proceedings, Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Southern Association of Information Systems, Atlanta, GA. Paper 27. http://aisel.aisnet.org/sais2011/27
12. Young, Brett; Mathiassen, Lars; and Rai, Arun. (2008) "A Model for Digitally-Enabled Business Process Innovation: The Case of the U.S. Minority Business Network," Paper presented at the 16th European Conference on Information Systems, Galway, Ireland. Paper 248. http://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2008/248
13. Kasi, Vijay; Young, Brett; and Poddar, Amit. (2005) "Threats to Silent Commerce: A Delphi Study," in SAIS 2005 Proceedings, Ninth Annual Conference of the Southern Association of Information Systems, Savannah, GA. http://aisel.aisnet.org/sais2005/41
SPECIAL AWARDS and HONORS
1. Nominated, GGC Faculty Outstanding Student Engagement Award, 2014
2. Nominated, GGC Faculty Teaching Award, 2013
3. ICIS Doctoral Consortium, 2009
4. The Outstanding Senior in Industrial Management,University of Alabama, 1993
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Additional information about Brett Young is available: http://www.BrettWYoung.org