Knowledge Center

• Kogod School of Business, American University 

o Associate Professor of IT Management

o Director, Center for IT and the Global Economy

 

• Ph.D. in Business Administration, University of Minnesota, 2004

• 2001 Juran Fellow, Joseph M. Juran Center on Leadership in Quality

• M.S. in Industrial Engineering, Seoul National University, 1993

• B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Seoul National University, 1991

 

• Web 2.0 and open collaboration and innovation; managing agility and complexity in software development; managing globally dispersed software development; CIO leadership; technology adoption and acceptance.

 

• “Towards Agile: An Integrated Analysis of Quantitative and Qualitative Field Data on Software Development Agility,” Gwanhoo Lee and Weidong Xia, MIS Quarterly, 34(1), 2010, pp. 87-114.

• “Understanding the Flexibility Gap of Information Systems Development: An Empirical Study,” Weidong Xia and Gwanhoo Lee, Journal of Information Technology Management, 20(2), 2009, pp. 11-21.

• “Why Consumers (Don’t) Adopt Smart Wearable Electronics,” Gretchen Anderson and Gwanhoo Lee, IEEE Pervasive Computing 7(3), Jul-Sept, 2008, pp. 10-12.

• “Organizational Size and IT Innovation Adoption: A Meta-Analytic Review,” Gwanhoo Lee and Weidong Xia, Information & Management, 43(8), 2006, pp. 975-985.

• “Global Boundaries, Task Processes and IS Project Success: A Field Study,” J. Alberto Espinosa, William H. DeLone, and Gwanhoo Lee, Information Technology and People, 19(4), 2006, pp. 345-370.

• “Flexibility and Rigor: Ambidextrous Coping Strategies in Globally-Distributed Software Development Projects,” Gwanhoo Lee, William H. DeLone, and J. Alberto Espinosa, Communications of the ACM, 49(10), 2006, pp. 35-40.

• “Complexity of Information Systems Development Projects: Conceptualization and Measurement Development,” Weidong Xia and Gwanhoo Lee, Journal of Management Information Systems, 22(1), 2005, pp. 45-83.

• “The Ability of Information Systems Development Project Teams to Respond to Business and Technology Changes: A Study of Flexibility Measures,” Gwanhoo Lee and Weidong Xia, European Journal of Information Systems, 14(1), 2005, pp. 75-92.

• “Grasping the Complexity of IS Development Projects,” Weidong Xia and Gwanhoo Lee, Communications of the ACM, 47(5), 2004, pp. 68-74.