Robert K. Plice

Associate Professor

Information and Decision Systems

College of Business Administration

San Diego State University

 

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Robert Plice is Associate Professor on the faculty of the Information and Decision Systems Department. His research deals with issues surrounding the economic impact of information systems on firms and industries.

 

Prior to joining SDSU, Dr. Plice worked in industry as an IT manager, designer and consultant. He acts as faculty adviser to the SDSU student chapter of the Association of Information Technology Professionals.

Office location: SSE 3366

Office phone: +1(619)594-6857

e-mail: rplice@mail.sdsu.edu

 

Recent Papers:

Plice, Robert K., N. Melville and O. Pavlov. “Toward an information-compatible anti-spam policy. Forthcoming in Communications of the ACM.

 

Pavlov, Oleg, N. Melville, R. Plice. “Toward a sustainable email marketing infrastructure: A system dynamics perspective.” Forthcoming in Journal of Business Research.

 

Pavlov, Oleg, N. Melville, R. Plice, “Mitigating the tragedy of the digital commons: the case of unsolicited commercial e-mail.” Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 16, 73-90 (2005).

 

Melville, Nigel, A. Stevens, R. Plice and O. Pavlov, “Unsolicited Commercial Email: Empirical Analysis of a Digital Commons.” International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 10(4) 143-168 (2006).

 

Plice, Robert K., B. Reinig, “Aligning the information systems curriculum with the needs of industry and graduates.” Journal of Computer Information Systems, 48(1), 23-30 (2007).

 

Plice, Robert K., O. Pavlov, N. Melville, “Spam and beyond: An information-economic analysis of unwanted commercial messages.” Forthcoming in Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce.

 

Plice, Robert K., B. Reinig, “Leveraging alumni and business community relations to assess the information systems curriculum.” Forthcoming in International Journal of Education for Business.

 

 

Plice, Robert K., K. Kraemer, “Measuring Payoffs from Information-Technology Investments: New Evidence from Sector-Level Data on Developed and Developing Countries,” Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations. I.T. in Business. Paper 270. (July 1, 2001). http://repositories.cdlib.org/crito/business/270

 

 

Selected Presentations:

“A Communication Model with Limited Information-Processing Capacity of Recipients.” 25th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society. Boston, MA. July 29- August 2, 2007. With O. Pavlov and N. Melville.

 

“Unsolicited Commercial Email: An Attention Resource Perspective.” Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society. Boston, MA. July 17-21, 2005. With O. Pavlov and N. Melville.

 

“An information-economic model of the spam industry,” presented at the San Diego International Systems Conference, San Diego, July  2005. With O. Pavlov and N. Melville.

 

“Mitigating the tragedy of the digital commons: The case of unsolicited commercial e-mail,” presented at Society for Computational Economics 11th Annual Conference on Computers in Economics and Finance (CEF), Washington, D.C., June 2005. With O. Pavlov and N. Melville.

 

“The Economic Impact of B2B Exchanges on Supplier-Manufacturer Relationships: The Interaction of Industry Structure and Exchange Design,” presented to the Fourteenth Annual Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Barcelona, December 2002. With V. Gurbaxani and K. Zhu.

 

“A Game-Theoretic Model of B2B-Exchange Participation,” presented to the annual meeting of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), San Jose, November 2002. With K. Zhu.

 

“Equilibrium Conditions Characterizing B2B-Exchange Participation in a Seller-Concentrated and Buyer-Unconcentrated Industry Setting,” presented to The Thirteenth Annual Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), New Orleans, December 2001. With V. Gurbaxani and K. Zhu.

 

Plice, Robert K., K. Zhu, V. Gurbaxani, “The Economic Impact of B2B Exchanges on Supplier-Manufacturer Relationships: The Interaction of Industry Structure and Exchange Design,” presented to the Fourteenth Annual Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Barcelona, December 2002.

 

Plice, Robert K., Zhu K. “A Game-Theoretic Model of B2B-Exchange Participation,” presented to the annual meeting of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), San Jose, November 2002.

 

Plice, Robert K., V. Gurbaxani, K. Zhu, “Equilibrium Conditions Characterizing B2B-Exchange Participation in a Seller-Concentrated and Buyer-Unconcentrated Industry Setting,” presented to The Thirteenth Annual Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), New Orleans, December 2001

 

Education:

University of California, Irvine; Graduate School of Management

            Ph.D. in Management, dissertation topic: “A coalitional analysis of B2B electronic commerce: the interaction of industry structure with B2B-exchange design choices”

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

            M.S. in Business Administration

University of Maryland, College Park, MD

            M.S. in Computer Science

American University, Washington, DC

            B.A. in Economics