Dr. James R. Marsden
Head of Department of Operations and Information Management
School of Business
Room 374
2100 Hillside Road, U-1041 IM
Storrs, CT 06269-1041
Phone: 860.486.4065
James.Marsden@business.uconn.edu

Dr. James R. Marsden came to the University of Connecticut in 1993 as Professor and Head of the Department of Operations and Information Management, School of Business. Dr. Marsden developed and implemented the Treibick Electronic Commerce Initiative that is funded through a generous gift provided by Richard Treibick and the Treibick Family Foundation. Dr. Marsden also serves as Director of the OPIM/SBA MIS Research Lab and is a member of Advisory Board and Steering Committee of CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research). He was a member of the Edgelab development team and currently serves on the Edgelab Steering Committee, which selects and resources projects and oversees operations. Dr. Marsden is a two-time winner of the Chancellor's Award for IT Excellence and a co-winner of the Team Connecticut Program Award from the Office of Economic Development. He has a lengthy research publication record in market innovation and analyses, economics of information, artificial intelligence, and production theory. His research work has appeared in Management Science; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; American Economic Review; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of Political Economy; Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems; Decision Support Systems; Journal of Management Information Systems, and numerous other academic journals. He was part of the IT Visioning and IT Planning Groups for the University and has played a leading role in developing the School of Business Administration as both a campus and national leader in IT education and research.

Dr. Marsden received his A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa, James Scholar, Evans Scholar) from the University of Illinois and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. Having completed his J.D. while at the University of Kentucky, Dr. Marsden has been admitted to both the Kentucky and Connecticut Bar. He is an Area Editor of Decision Support System, editor of the Journal of Organization Computing and Electronic Commerce, and serves in a frequent external evaluator for major U.S. and international universities. He has held visiting positions at the University of York (England), University of Arizona, Purdue University, and the University of North Carolina. Dr. Marsden was an Invited Lecturer at two NATO Advanced Study Institutes on Decision Support Systems and has given keynote addresses and university seminars throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

Dr. Marsden's Publications