Doctoral study in Information Systems

        Why study with us?
We’re the highest ranked university in New Zealand for global reputation amongst both academics and employers.
Our Business School is in the 1% of Business Schools worldwide to hold Triple Crown accreditation from the leading international bodies: AACSB International, EFMD-EQUIS and AMBA.

Typically, 75% of our business graduates are employed at the time of their graduation while a further 16% go on to postgraduate study.
Most innovative university in  New Zealand, ranked 35th, in the Reuters Top 75: Asia’s Most Innovative Universities ranking.

Research opportunities

Research in the Information Systems discipline concerns the development, use and impact of digital technology on people, organisations, business and society. We invite prospective PhD students to apply to work on topics related to digital transformation, and the use of new technologies and business models at the individual, firm, industry or country level. Recent trends such as intelligent automation, big data, and the increased use of social media open endless opportunities for cutting edge research.

You are welcome to propose your own topics of interest or to consult our academics about opportunities to conduct research at our department.

Our people

Pursue your topic with us and benefit from exceptional standards of support and supervision from internationally recognised researchers. Our people are based in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management and the Graduate School of Management at the Business School.

Associate Professor Fernando Beltrán: The economics of service competition in open-access Next-Generation platforms, the digital dividend, and the efficient sharing and allocation of radio spectrum

Associate Professor Lesley Gardner: Social media, e-learning innovation, hypermedia and heritage data handling

Professor Julia Kotlarsky: technology sourcing and innovation in knowledge-intensive business services; crowdsourcing; interface between artificial intelligence technologies and humans, and implications for design of work in organizations; social media and digital technology in emergencies and national disasters

Professor Michael Myers: Digital transformation, digital natives and ubiquitous information systems; how IT is transforming organisations and industries; qualitative research methods in information systems; social and organisational aspects of information systems; and success and failure of information systems

Professor Ilan Oshri: Understanding the governance of various models of strategic sourcing of services, IT innovation, robotic process automation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and their impact on operations and business models

Professor David Sundaram: The design and implementation of adaptive systems that are flexible and evolvable and support informational, decisional, knowledge and collaboration needs of organisations

Associate Professor Arvind Tripathi: E-commerce and online markets, social media/networks, open innovation and open-source software, demand forecasting and supply chain management

Dr Xinwei Wang: Mobile marketing promotion; cross-cultural study of information system design; IT policy compliance

Dr Randy Wong: IT and User Behaviours, Human-Computer
Interaction, and Implications of Digitalization

Dr Ying Zhang: Economics of Information Systems, Digital
Marketing, Electronic Commerce, Online Reputation and Regulation Mechanisms and
Digital innovations in Emerging Markets

Past research topics

'Te Reo Māori Revitalisation: A crowd sourced preservation, curation and learning approach using ubiquitous systems and devices' | Supervised by Professor David Sundaram, Professor Michael Myers and Associate Professor Manuka Henare
'Social Engineering – Emerging attacks, awareness and impact on online user attitudes and behaviours’ | Supervised by Associate Professor Lech Janczewski and Associate Professor Cecil Chua
'Purposeful Visualization Systems' | Supervised by Professor David Sundaram and David White
'Silicon Valley's Online, Social, Entrepreneurial Enterprise Startups (OSEES): A Critical Research Study' | Supervised by Professor Michael Myers and Professor David Sundaram
'Use of online social networks in decision making: the case of healthcare decision support networks' | Supervised by Professor David Sundaram, Associate Professor Arvind Tripathi and Professor Michael Myers
'Resilient Organisations in the Cloud' | Supervised by Associate Professor Lech Janczewski