Accounting and Management Information Systems Professor Receives Fulbright
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Nov. 1, 2005
Kathleen McPartland
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Accounting and Management Information Systems Professor Receives Fulbright
Kent Sandoe, professor of accounting and management information systems at California State University, Chico, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to do research at the University of Turku in Finland during the spring of 2006.
In his study, “Information Technology and the Choreography of Work,” Sandoe will focus on the interrelationship between the use of information technology and the timing and spacing of work activities within Finnish healthcare organizations.
Sandoe has more than 20 years of experience in information systems as a programmer, analyst, manager and consultant to a variety of industries with a focus on transportation and financial services. Before coming to Chico in the fall of 1998, he worked as a faculty-in-residence within the Internet Commerce Information Technology group at Cisco Systems. At Cisco, he conducted research on payment technologies.
Sandoe received his PhD in 1994 from Claremont Graduate University in management information systems. He did post-doctoral work at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand in 1994. He was an assistant professor at Fordham University in New York from 1995 to 1998.
His research interests include organizational mnemonics (how we use technology to help store group memory); technology integration; and information security. He published “Enterprise Integration” (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2001) with CSU, Chico business professors Gail Corbitt and Ray Boykin. An example of enterprise integration is CMS (common management system) at CSU, Chico that combines several separate programs - human resources, student information and financial management, for example - into one system.
At Turku, Sandoe will be conducting a qualitative research study focusing on the interrelationship between the use of information technology and the timing and spacing of work activities. The study will employ field intensive methods based upon current extensions to time geography. The setting for the study is a selected set of Finnish healthcare organizations. In addition to his research, he will be teaching a doctoral seminar in issues in computer surveillance.
“Finland is an economic and technology powerhouse,” said Sandoe. “The World Economic Forum has ranked Finland first among 117 national economies in terms of global competitiveness for the last two years. Finland has a strong healthcare industry with a high level of use of information technology.”
Sandoe says that he is honored to have the fellowship. “I’m looking forward to doing research that will make an important contribution to my field and working with international colleagues,” he said.
Sandoe says he is expecting a shipment of warm clothes from a catalogue company soon. “I’ve heard the high temperature for winter is 20 degrees Fahrenheit. He will be in Finland from January through May 2006. “At least in May there will be 12 to 15 hours of daylight. Maybe it will compensate for the long, cold winter.”
Sandoe is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries for the 2005-2006 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.
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