James Courtney

James F. Courtney is professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He formerly was Tenneco Professor of Business Administration in the Information and Operations Management Department at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration (with a major in Management Science) from the University of Texas at Austin (1974). His papers have appeared in several journals, including Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, the Journal of Management Information Systems, Database, Interfaces, the Journal of Applied Systems Analysis, and the Journal of Experiential Learning and Simulation. His present research interests are knowledge-based decision support systems, ethical decision making, knowledge management, inquiring (learning) organizations and sustainable economic systems.

Publications

On the Study of Complexity in Information Systems
On the Study of Complexity in Information Systems
James Courtney, Yasmin Merali, David Paradice, Eleanor Wynn. © 2010. 12 pages.
This article addresses complexity in information systems. It defines how complexity can be used to inform information systems research, and how some individuals and organizations...
On the Study of Complexity in Information Systems
On the Study of Complexity in Information Systems
James Courtney, Yasmin Merali, David Paradice, Eleanor Wynn. © 2009. 13 pages.
This article addresses complexity in information systems. It defines how complexity can be used to inform information systems research, and how some individuals and organizations...
On the Study of Complexity in Information Systems
On the Study of Complexity in Information Systems
James Courtney, Yasmin Merali, David Paradice, Eleanor Wynn. © 2008. 12 pages.
This article addresses complexity in information systems. It defines how complexity can be used to inform information systems research, and how some individuals and organizations...
Inquiring Organizations: Moving from Knowledge Management to Wisdom
Inquiring Organizations: Moving from Knowledge Management to Wisdom
James Courtney, John D. Haynes, David Paradice. © 2005. 373 pages.
Inquiring Organizations: Moving from Knowledge Management to Wisdom assembles into one volume a comprehensive collection of the key current thinking regarding the use of C. West...
An Empirical Comparison of Collective Causal Mapping Approaches
An Empirical Comparison of Collective Causal Mapping Approaches
Huy V. Vo, Marshall Scott Poole, James F. Courtney. © 2005. 32 pages.
Recently, capturing and evaluating group causal maps has come to attention of IS researchers (Tegarden and Sheetz, 2003; Lee, Courtney & O’Keefe, 1992; Vennix, 1996; Kwahk and...
Ethical Management of Consumer Information: Solving the Problem of Information Externality Using the Coasian Approach
Ethical Management of Consumer Information: Solving the Problem of Information Externality Using the Coasian Approach
Christopher M. Cassidy, Bongsug Chae, James F. Courtney. © 2005. 23 pages.
Society has focused on privacy solutions to problems related to consumer information, yet the problem has not gone away. Why is this? One answer is that privacy, a regulatory...
Information Technology and Hegelian Inquiring Organizations
Information Technology and Hegelian Inquiring Organizations
Bongsug Chae, James F. Courtney, John D. Haynes. © 2005. 24 pages.
This chapter demonstrates how Hegelian inquiring systems may be applied to wicked problem situations and knowledge work and how Hegelian inquiring organizations are well suited...
The Internet, Sustainable Development and Ecosystems Management
The Internet, Sustainable Development and Ecosystems Management
James F. Courtney, Sandra M. Richardson, David Paradice. © 2002. 13 pages.
Sustainable development promotes the idea that development should be capable of meeting the needs of today without sacrificing the resources needed by future generations. This...