Cynthia Mathis Beath (born 1944) is an American

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

and Professor Emerita at the Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management at the

McCombs School of Business The McCombs School of Business (McCombs School or McCombs) is a business school at The University of Texas at Austin, a public research university in Austin, Texas. In addition to the main campus in Downtown Austin, McCombs offers classes outsid ...

,Cynthia Beath
at mccombs.utexas.edu, 2013.

Biography

Beath obtained her BA in Psychology from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

in 1966, and later studied at

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

, where she obtained her MBA in Computer and Information Systems in 1975, and her PhD in Computer and Information Systems in 1986 Beath started her career in private industry, where she held positions in information systems development and in consultancy. She was appointed Professor at the Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business. She is also affiliated with the

MIT Center for Information Systems Research The MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) is a research center at the MIT Sloan School of Management founded in 1974. MIT CISR's research focuses on the use of information technology and management in complex organizations. Its missio ...

.Center for Information Systems Research: Faculty & Staff
Accessed November 19, 2013. Beath received a

Fulbright Scholar The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of ...

award in 1993; a Decision, Risk, and Management Science Program (DRMS) Program Grant of the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

in 1998; and an Advanced Practices Council (APC) grant from the

Society for Information Management Society for Information Management (SIM) is a professional organization of over 5,000 senior information technology (IT) executives, chief information officers, prominent academicians, selected consultants, and others. History The idea of SIM ...

(SIM) in 2006. Her research interests are in the fields of information system (development, implementation, management and maintenance) and information services, particularly the design of organizations and the management of vendor-client relationships.

Selected publications

Beath authored and co-authored many publications in her field of expertise. Books: *

Swanson, E. Burton E. Burton Swanson (born 1939) is an American information scientist, and Professor Emeritus of Information Systems at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Biography Swanson received his BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering in 1962 from San ...

, and Cynthia Mathis Beath. ''Maintaining information systems in organizations''. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1989. * Ross, Jeanne W., Cynthia Mathis Beath, and Martin Mocker. ''Designed for Digital: How to architect your business for sustained success''. MIT Press. 2019. Articles, a selection: * Beath, Cynthia Mathis. "Supporting the information technology champion." ''MIS Quarterly'' (1991): 355-372. * Ang, Soon, and Cynthia Mathis Beath.
Hierarchical elements in software contracts
" ''Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce'' 3.3 (1993): 329-361. * Beath, Cynthia Mathis, and Wanda J. Orlikowski. "The contradictory structure of systems development methodologies: deconstructing the IS-user relationship in information engineering." ''Information Systems Research'' 5.4 (1994): 350-377. * Silver, Mark S., M. Lynne Markus, and Cynthia Mathis Beath.
The information technology interaction model: a foundation for the MBA core course
" ''MIS Quarterly'' (1995): 361-390. * Ross, Jeanne W., Cynthia Mathis Beath, and Dale L. Goodhue.
Develop long-term competitiveness through IT assets
" ''Sloan management review'' 38.1 (1996): 31-42. * Ross, Jeanne W., Cynthia Mathis Beath. "Beyond the Business Case: New Approaches to IT Investment." ''Sloan Management Review'' 43.2 (2002): 51-59. * Ross, Jeanne W., Cynthia Mathis Beath, Anne Quaadras. "You May Not Need Big Data After All." ''Harvard Business Review'' 91.12 ''(''2013): 90-98.

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