Dale Louis Goodhue (born ca 1944) is an American

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researcher, and Professor Emeritus at the Management Information Systems Department of the

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

, known for his work on

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s and

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in large organizations.

Life and work

Goodhue was born in Pennsylvania, and grew up in Atlanta and Savannah. He received his BA at Brown University, his MA from

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

, and in 1988 his PhD at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

with a thesis entitled "Supporting Users of Corporate Data." Goodhue had started his academic career as researcher at the Center for Information Systems Research, MIT, where in 1986 with Judith A. Quillard, and John F. Rockart he had published his first working paper, entitled "The management of data: preliminary research results." In 1988 he participated in NIST workshop on Information Management Directions in 1988. In that year he also published his first article in the ''Data Base'' journal. After graduation in 1989 he was appointed assistant professor in Information and Decision Science at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

, where he joined the Management Information Systems Research Center of their Graduate School of Business Administration. In 1996 he moved to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and early 2000s he was appointed Professor at the Management Information Systems Department of the

, where he headed the department from 2003 to 2006, and from 2009 to 2012 . Around 2015 he became Professor Emeritus at the C. Herman & Mary Virginia Terry Chair of Business Administration. Goodhue has worked as business analyst and been senior editor for the ''

MIS Quarterly ''Management Information Systems Quarterly'', referred to as ''MIS Quarterly'', is an online-only quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in management information systems and information technology. It was established in 19 ...

'' journal. Goodhue research interests are in the field of "Data management in large organizations, Task-Technology Fit, User evaluations, and IS success, Management of IS"Dale L. Goodhue
at University of Georgia, 2004/2005

Selected publications

Goodhue has authored and coauthored numerous publications in his field of expertise. Books and papers, a selection: * Goodhue, Dale L., Judith A. Quillard, and John F. Rockart.
The management of data: preliminary research results
'' Sloan WP No. 1786-86. Center for Information Systems Research, MIT (1986). * D.L. Goodhue. ''Supporting Users of Corporate Data.'' Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, 1988 * Goodhue, D. L., Kirsch, L. J., Quillard, J. A., & Wybo, M. D. (1990).
Strategic data planning: lessons from the field
'' University of Minnesota MIS Research Center Working Paper No. 91-05. Articles, a selection: * Goodhue, Dale.
I/S attitudes: toward theoretical and definitional clarity
" ''ACM SIGMIS Database'' 19.3-4 (1988): 6–15. * Goodhue, Dale L., and Ronald L. Thompson.
Task-technology fit and individual performance
" ''MIS Quarterly'' (1995): 213–236. * Goodhue, Dale L.
Understanding user evaluations of information systems
" ''Management science'' 41.12 (1995): 1827–1844. * Ross, Jeanne W.,

Cynthia Mathis Beath Cynthia Mathis Beath (born 1944) is an American economist and Professor Emerita at the Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business,

, and Dale L. Goodhue.
Develop long-term competitiveness through IT assets
" ''Sloan management review'' 38.1 (1996): 31–42. * * Gattiker, Thomas F., and Dale L. Goodhue.
What happens after ERP implementation: understanding the impact of interdependence and differentiation on plant-level outcomes
" ''MIS Quarterly'' (2005): 559–585.

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Dale L. Goodhue
at University of Georgia {{DEFAULTSORT:Goodhue, Dale L. Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American business theorists American computer scientists Information systems researchers Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni University of Georgia faculty Brown University alumni Carnegie Mellon University alumni University of Minnesota faculty