Boh, Wai Fong

 

My research focuses on understanding how organizations can facilitate knowledge sharing between individuals, project teams, and department units. In particular, I examine the factors influencing how organizations can make use of various mechanisms to share knowledge between individuals and groups. The mechanisms can be formal, such as the use of repositories and technology, or informal, such as through social network. I also examine how management of knowledge workers' expertise affects performance and innovation. In a separate stream of work, I examine how organizations effectively make use of enterprise architecture and external industry standards to coordinate between and within organizations.

 

Publications

Joseph, D., W.F. Boh, S. Ang and S. Slaughter “Contemporary Careers in the Information Technology Workforce: A Longitudinal Study of Career Patterns, Transitions, Archetypes, and Success”, MIS Quarterly, Conditionally Accepted

 

Wong, Sze Sze and Boh, Wai Fong “Leveraging the Ties of Others to Build Managerial Peer Reputation for Trustworthiness”, Academy of Management Journal, Forthcoming

 

Boh, Wai Fong and Yellin, Daniel, 2010. "Enablers and Benefits for Implementing Service-Oriented Architecture: An Empirical Investigation" Special Issue on Service-Oriented Architecture and Firm Performance, International Journal of Information Technology and Management, 9(1): 3-29

 

Boh, Wai Fong. “Reuse of Knowledge Assets from Repositories: A Mixed Methods Study” 2008, Information & Management, 45(6): 365-375

 

Boh, Wai Fong, Slaughter, S. and Espinosa, J.A. "Learning from Experience in Software Development: A Multi-Level Analysis" 2007, Management Science, 53(8): 1315-1331

 

Boh, Wai Fong, Y. Ren, S. Kiesler, and R. Bussjaeger,"Expertise and Collaboration in the Geographically Dispersed Organization" 2007, Organization Science, 18(4): 595-612

 

Boh, Wai Fong, Soh, Christina, and Yeo, Steven. "Strategies for Successful Standards Development and Diffusion: A Case Study of RosettaNet" 2007, Communications of the ACM, 50(12): 57-62

 

Boh, Wai Fong "Mechanisms for Integrating Knowledge in Project-Based Organizations" 2007, Information & Organization, 17(1): 27-58 (Winner of the 2007 Top Five Information Systems Publications of the Year Award)

 

Slaughter, S., Ang, S. and Boh, W.F. "Firm-specific human capital and compensation organizational tenure profiles: An archival analysis of salary data for IT" 2007, Human Resource Management, 46(3):

 

Boh, Wai Fong and Yellin, Daniel, 2006, "Using Enterprise Architecture Standards in Managing Information Technology" 2006, Journal of Management Information Systems, 23(3): 163-207

 

Soh, Christina, Siew Kien Sia, Wai Fong Boh and May Tang.  "Misalignments in ERP Implementation: A Dialectic Perspective" 2003, International Journal of Human Computer Interaction, 16(1): 81-100.

 

Sia, Siew Kien, Tang, May, Soh, Christina, and Boh, Wai Fong. "Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems as a technology of power: empowerment or panoptic control?" 2002, ACM SIGMIS Database, 33(1): 23-37.

 

Kiesler, S., W. F. Boh, Y. Ren, S. Weisband. "Virtual teams: High tech rhetoric and low tech experience." 2007, In K. Kraemer, M. Elliott, eds. Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframe to Ubiquitous Computing. Information Today: Medford, NJ.

 

Conference Presentations

Espinosa, A., Wai Fong Boh and Frank Armour, “Enterprise Architecting and Coordination: A Research Framework for Large-Scale Collaboration,” Accepted for Presentation at HICSS 2010.

 

T. Thanh and Wai Fong Boh, “Knowledge Transfer across Dissimilar Cultures: A Study of Individual's Attitudes”, Presented at the 69th Academy of Management Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2009 (Finalist of OCIS Best Interactive Paper Award)

 

Espinosa, A., Wai Fong Boh and Frank Armour, “Coordination and Governance in Geographically Distributed Enterprise Architecting: An Empirical Research Design,” Presented at the 69th Academy of Management Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2009.

 

Boh, Wai Fong, Xu, Yun and Soh, Christina. “VIS Standards Deployment and Integration: A Study of Antecedents and Benefits,” Proceedings of the International Conference of Information Systems, Paris, 2009.

 

Xu, Yun., Boh, Wai Fong and Soh, Christina. “Post-Adoption of Vertical Information Systems Standards,” Presented at the 68th Academy of Management Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 2008. 

 

Wong, Sze Sze and Boh, Wai Fong. “Borrowing the trusted ties of others to build managerial peer reputation” Presented at the 68th Academy of Management Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 2008.

 

Boh, Wai Fong and Wong, Sze Sze. “Knowledge Sharing via Repositories, Personal Networks, versus Institutionalized Routines” Presented at the 68th Academy of Management Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 2008.

 

Boh, Wai Fong and Wong, Sze Sze. "Organizational Climate and Knowledge Sharing:  The Mediating Role of Individual Motivations" Presented at the 67th Academy of Management Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2007

 

Wong, Sze Sze and Boh, Wai Fong. "Are Managerial Networks Problem-driven or Personality-driven" Presented at the 67th Academy of Management Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2007.

 

Xu, Yun and Boh, W.F. "Adoption and Use of Vertical Information Systems Standards: Antecedents and Benefits" Presented at the Pre-ICIS Journal of Association Information Systems Theory Workshop, Milwaukee, WI, 2006

 

Boh, Wai Fong. "Organizational IT Flexibility: Impact of Enterprise Architecture" Presented at the Academy of Management Meeting, Atlanta, 2006

 

Boh, Wai Fong. "Mechanisms for Integrating Distributed Knowledge" Presented at Academy of Management, 2005

 

Boh, Wai Fong, Daniel Yellin. "Effective Management of Enterprise Architecture: Competencies, Maturity and Impacts" Presented at Academy of Management, 2005

 

Boh, Wai Fong. "Reuse of Intellectual Capital from Repositories: A Mixed Methods Study" Presented at Academy of Management, 2005. (Nominated for AoM Newman Award for Best Paper Based on Dissertation)

 

Boh, Wai Fong. "Learning in Project-Based Organizations" Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management, Singapore, 2004.

 

Boh Wai Fong, Daniel Yellin, Bob Dill and Jim Herbsleb. "Effectively Managing Information Systems Architecture Standards: An Intra-Organization Perspective" Proceedings of the MIS Quarterly Standards Workshop, Seattle, WA, 2003.

 

Boh, Wai Fong. "Knowledge Sharing Mechanisms in Project-Based Knowledge Work: Codification Versus Personalization" Proceedings of the International Conference of Information Systems, Seattle, WA, 2003.

 

Boh, Wai Fong, Sandra Slaughter and J. Alberto Espinosa "Organizational, Group and Individual Learning in Software Engineering: A Learning Curve Analysis" Presented at the 63rd Academy of Management Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2003.

 

Boh, Wai Fong, Ren, Yuqing and Kiesler, Sara. "Managing Expertise in a Distributed Environment" Proceedings of the International Conference of Information Systems, Barcelona, Spain, 2002 (Awarded Runner-Up to Best Theme-Related Paper)

 

Boh, Wai Fong, Sandra Slaughter and Soon Ang. "Is Information Technology a "Boundaryless" Profession? A Sequence Analysis of the Career Histories of IT Professionals from 1979-1998" Best Papers Proceedings of the 61st Academy of Management Meeting, Washington, DC, 2001.

 

Sia, Siew Kien, May T. Tang, Chrisina Soh, Wai Fong Boh. "A Contingency Analysis of Post-Bureaucratic Controls in IT-Enabled Change" Proceedings of the International Conference of Information Systems, Brisbane, Australia, 2000.