Management Information Systems Research Group (MISRG)

Management Information Systems Research Group focuses on managerial, behavioral, and social psychological issues of IT. It aims at creating new knowledge involving the application of Information Systems to build strategic and operational capabilities in organizations. It also intends to understand issues related to usage and impacts of IT at individual level. The research of this MISRG covers a number of different areas, including Strategic Information Management and Decision Making, Social Networking, and Knowledge Management.

IT Sourcing

This research area focuses on strategic and operational issues of IT sourcing decisions in organizations. It investigates how IT sourcing decisions are made in organizations, the types of impact these decisions have on different stakeholders, and the implementation plans following an IT sourcing decision. It also explores the topics of IT sourcing from the perspectives of service providers. Among the specific research topics are relational issues between service providers and their customers and contractual engagement between the two parties.

Social Networking

This research area focuses on individual and organizational aspects of social networking site usage. From an organizational perspective, the research investigates the strategy of incorporating social networking sites in long-term organizational plan. From an individual perspective, it uses the lens of psychological, social, and behavioral theories to explore how would usage (and potentially addiction) of social networking sites bring benefits but also create adverse effects on individual users.

Database

Database research can be applied to various domains ranging from the technological field to the business oriented areas. This research area focuses not only on the technical aspects but also blend into managerial aspects of exploring effective data warehousing for better decision making. Investigations on effective data management, issues in transaction management system as well as maintenance of data consistency and integrity towards developing efficient query processing algorithms are among some of the database research topics.

Team Members:

• Associate Professor Dr. Leow Soo Kar (coordinator)
  Research areas: Mathematical Programming, Evolutionary Algorithms
• Associate Professor Dr. Lim Tong Ming
  Research areas: P2P and Object-Oriented Database Computing, Social Networking
• Dr Lim Say Ying
  Research areas: E-Business, Database
• Dr Wong Siew Fan
  Research areas: IT Sourcing Strategy, Impacts of Social Networking Usage
• Angela Lee Siew Hong
  Research areas: Knowledge Management, Text Mining, Data Mining, Social Media
• Jaya Krishna
  Research areas: Information Systems
• Mohana Sunthari
  Research areas: Information Systems
• Yeap Boon Han
  Research areas: Information Systems, Social Networking Analysis
• Mr Choong Yong Liang (Postgraduate Student)
• Mr Vicky Lim Min How (Research Assistant)
• Mr Ten Vee Kie (Research Assistant)