Robert Fichman
Professor
Biography
Rob Fichman’s main research interests concern digital innovation, including the factors affecting the diffusion and assimilation of new IT, and the transformative effects that digital innovations have on individuals, organizations, markets, and society. He has published broadly on these topics in Communications of the ACM , California Management Review, Decision Sciences Journal, IEEE Computer, Harvard Business Review, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association of Information Systems , Management Scienc e, MIS Quarterly , Sloan Management Revie w and other scholarly journals. His more recent work examines emerging digital platforms and technologies that facilitate labor matching (e.g., job boards, professional SNS, online labor markets, internal talent marketplaces) and the implications of these technologies for hiring and staff deployment.