David E. Pingry

Contact Information

• 520.621.4106 office
• 520.621.8450 fax
• pingry@eller.arizona.edu
• McClelland Hall 430L

Personal Website and CV

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McClelland Professor of MIS

• Ph.D., Purdue University, 1971

Courses

• MIS 425/525 Models for Decision Support
• MIS 505 IT Strategy

Research Interests

• Evaluation and management of information
• Decision support systems
• Economics of patent policy

Publications and Working Papers

• Cha, H., Pingry, D., and Thatcher, M., "Determining a Firm’s Optimal Outsourcing Rate: A Learning Model Perspective", 2009, under review for a special issue of the Journal of Management Information Systems
• Thatcher M., Pingry D., “A Model of Optimal Software Patent Policy", Journal of Management Information Systems, August 2008
• Cha H., Pingry D., Thatcher M.,“What Determines IT Spending Priorities”, Communications of the ACM, forthcoming
• Cha, H., Pingry, D., and Thatcher, M., “Managing the Knowledge Supply Chain: An Organizational Learning Model of Information Technology Offshore Outsourcing”, Management Information Systems Quarterly, Volume 32, Number 2, June 2008, Pages 281-306
• Thatcher M, Pingry D.,"Software Patents – The Good, the Bad, and the Messy", Communications of the ACM, Volume 50, Issue 10, October 2007, Pages 47 – 52
• Cha H., Pingry D., Thatcher M.,"Modeling the ‘IT Value Paradox’”, Communications of the ACM, Volume 50, Number 8 (2007), Pages 41-45
• Thatcher, M., Kim T., Pingry D., Thatcher M.,"Welfare Analysis of Alternative Patent Policies for Software Innovations", Decision Support Systems, Volume 41, May 2006, pp 803-823
• Thatcher M., Pingry D.,"Understanding the Business Value of IT Investments: Theoretical Evidence from Alternative Market and Cost Structures", Journal of Management Information Systems, Volume 21, Number 2, Fall 2004, pp. 61-85
• Thatcher M., Pingry D.,"An Economic Model of Product Quality and IT Value", Information Systems Research, Volume 15, No. 3, September 2004, pp. 268–286
• Marsden J., Pingry D., "IT Reference Disciplines - Andy Whinston, A Case Study", Business Modeling: Multidisciplinary Approaches-Economics, Operational, and Information Systems Perspectives (in Honor of Andrew B. Whinston), Edited by Clyde Hosapple, Varghese Jacob, and H. Raghav Rao, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002