Professional Summary

Jonathan W. Palmer is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor at the Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems at Claremont Graduate University. As Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Dr. Palmer is responsible to a faculty of 60 and five academic programs including the BBA, Masters of Accounting, and three MBA programs – Residential, Flex, and Executive.

Dr. Palmer has a wide range of research interests within information systems, including the strategic use of information technology, electronic commerce, supply and demand chain management, the development of internetworked capabilities for competitive advantage, and the design of appropriate user interfaces.  He teaches courses in the agile enterprise, electronic commerce, supply chains, and information systems at the graduate and undergraduate level as well as to executive audiences around the world.  He also has extensive experience as an academic administrator in undergraduate, graduate, and executive education.

His work has appeared in Information Systems Research, Communications of the ACM, Journal of AIS, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of World Business, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, European Management Journal, The Information Society, MISQ Executive, Industrial Marketing Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, JASIS, Transportation Journal and in a number of international conferences including ICIS, AIS, Bled, HICSS, and INFORMS. Palmer serves on the editorial board of Journal of AIS, European Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Electronic Markets, and Electronic Journal of Organizational Virtualness. He has been quoted on business models and the Internet in The Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and Entrepreneur. His consulting assignments have included work with firms in retailing, food, mobile commerce, energy, construction, aerospace, and the U.S. government.

Teaching Positions and Experience

MASON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY
Associate Professor of Operations & Information Technology, 2002 -

SMITH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
Assistant Professor of Decision & Information Technologies, 1998-2002

PRICE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, University of Oklahoma
Assistant Professor of Management and MIS, 1996-1998.
Visiting Assistant Professor, 1995-96.

Graduate Institute for the Study of Management and Administration, Affiliated with Purdue University, Krannert School of Management (Hannover, Germany)

HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, FINLAND 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004

UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, SOUTH AUSTRALIA January 2000.

University of Southern California
Fall 1993, Summer 1994.

Administrative Experience

MASON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs 2006-

THE CLAREMONT GRADUATE SCHOOL 1990-95
The Peter F. Drucker Graduate Management Center
Director of Corporate Relations

Claremont McKenna College 1984-90
Associate Dean of Students

Tufts University 1982-84
The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
Assistant Dean, Director of Career and Student Services

Harvard University 1979-82
Graduate School of Business Administration
Director, Career Resources Center
Head, Circulation Services

Church Experience

The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, MA
Member since 1969, local member 1979-1980

Active branch church member in Massachusetts, California, Oklahoma, Maryland and currently in Williamsburg, Virginia

Class Instruction 1988