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P.M.A. Ribbers


Hoogleraar Information Management

Tilburg School of Economics and Management
Department of Information Management

 

Expertise

My research interests relate to the interaction between the 'business domain' and 'IS domain'. What requirements do specific organizations impose on information systems and how does modern IT enable new organizational forms? These themes are always related to the question how IT impacts organizational performance. Examples of specific research themes are: IT Governance, Alignment (including business case analysis), Sourcing and Information Quality.

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Publications

Principal publications
  • Cokky Hilhorst, Piet Ribbers, Eric van Heck, Martin Smits: Using Dempster-Shafer Theory and Real Options Theory to Assess Competing Strategies for Implementing IT Infratructures: A Case Study, Decision Support Systems (2008)
  • Erik Beulen, Pieter Ribbers: Governance of Complex IT outsourcing partnerships. In: S. Rivard, B. Aubert: Information Technology Outsourcing. M.E. Sharpe - Advances in Information Technology Outsourcing, 2008
  • Michael Papazoglou, Pieter M. Ribbers: e-Business - Organizational and technical Foundations. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2006 (pp 710)
  • P. Ribbers, E. Beulen: International examples of Large-Scale Systems ? Theory and Practice: A Case Study of managing IT outsourcing Partnerships in Asia. Communications of the AIS, volume 11, 2003
  • Mohammed Ibrahim, Pieter M. Ribbers; The impacts of competence-trust and openness-trust on interorganizational systems. European Journal of Information Systems (2009) 18, 223-234

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Education

Ph.D.: 1980, Tilburg University, "Planning and organization of the purchasing function in an industrial enterprise". (Cum Laude)

1971: Drs. (master) Economics (cum laude)

Career

Current positions

  • Full Professor of Information Management, Tilburg University
  • Chair of the Department of Information Systems and Management, Tilburg University
  • Academic Director of Master of Information Management program of TiasNimbas Business School
  • Director of the Erasmus Mundus programme IMMIT
  • Director of the Atlantis programme IBIM

Previous positions

  • Dean of the Faculty Economics and Business Administration
  • Affiliated Professor in Information Management, Washington University in St. Louis MO (1991-1995)
  • Member Executive Board Tias Business School (1990-1997)
  • Full Professor of Organization and Business analysis at Hasselt University Belgium
  • Guest professor Accounting Information Systems and Internal Control at Hasselt University Belgium (till 2009)
  • Scientific staff member, Economische Hogeschool Limburg, Hasselt (Belgium)

Publications

Principal publications
  • Cokky Hilhorst, Piet Ribbers, Eric van Heck, Martin Smits: Using Dempster-Shafer Theory and Real Options Theory to Assess Competing Strategies for Implementing IT Infratructures: A Case Study, Decision Support Systems (2008)
  • Erik Beulen, Pieter Ribbers: Governance of Complex IT outsourcing partnerships. In: S. Rivard, B. Aubert: Information Technology Outsourcing. M.E. Sharpe - Advances in Information Technology Outsourcing, 2008
  • Michael Papazoglou, Pieter M. Ribbers: e-Business - Organizational and technical Foundations. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2006 (pp 710)
  • P. Ribbers, E. Beulen: International examples of Large-Scale Systems ? Theory and Practice: A Case Study of managing IT outsourcing Partnerships in Asia. Communications of the AIS, volume 11, 2003
  • Mohammed Ibrahim, Pieter M. Ribbers; The impacts of competence-trust and openness-trust on interorganizational systems. European Journal of Information Systems (2009) 18, 223-234

Click here for the complete list of publications (Tilburg University Repository Publications only)

Direct and indirect funding

Economic Analysis of Privacay Enhancing Tools (project leader and researcher) PRIME project 2006 - 2008 https://www.prime-project.eu/

Collaboration

Within the framework of the Erasmus Mundus program, we collaborate with Turku School of Economic Sciences and with the business school of the university Ais Marseille III (Fr). Students from outside Europe have the possibility to acquire three Master degrees in Information Management. They spend one semester at each partner university and write a Master Thesis.

Within the framework of the Atlantis program we collaborate with Bentley University in Boston (USA) and Deusto University in Bilbao (Sp). Participating students spend one or two semesters at each partner university and acquire a bachelor degree in Information Management from Tilburg University and Bentley University

External accreditation

Prices

The KUBBIK-prize in 2007: The prize is awarded to a person from academia or business, coming from the either the Netherlands or Belgium who has (or has had) a significant impact on the development in the field of Information Management. The prize is awarded by committee consisting of representatives from academia and business.

Membership referee committees:

Editorial 'Board Informaton & Management, The International Journal '

Swiss National Science Foundation (2006)

Evaluatie Computer Science & Information Systems Manchester Business School (2006)

Accreditatie commissie Economie & Informatica (EUR) (2005)

European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)

International Coneference on Information Systems (ICIS)

Hawaiian International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS)


Lidmaatschap van wetenschappelijke commissies:

Adviesgroep Maatschappelijke vragen van ICTregie

Lid van wetenschapsraad van Civieltechnisch Centrum Uitvoering Research en Regelgeving/Land Water Milieu Informatietechnologie (CUR/LWI).

Research supervision

I supervised more than 25 PhD projects. As of 2000 these concern the following PhD thesisses

Barbara Fluegge: Is Standards in Designing Business-to-Government Collaborations - the Case of Customs.Promotion UvT 15 juni 2010

Gerd Van Den Eede: Two cases in High Reliability Organizing: A Hermeneutic Reconceptualization. Promotie UvT, 9 december 2009. Promotie UvT 18 december 2009 (samen met Dr. Bartel Van de Walle)  

Akos Nagy: Adoption of Interorganizational Information Systems: The adoption position model.

Cokky Hilhorst: Reacting to Risks with real options. Promotie UvT, 6 maart 2009 (samen met Prof.dr.ir. E. van Heck -EUR- en dr. M.T.Smits)

Robert van Wessel:Realizing Business Benefits from Company IT standardization. Promotie UvT, 11 novemeber 2008 (samen met Dr. ir.de Vries -EUR)

Hary Hendrickx: Governance in practice. Promotie UvT 11 december 2007 (samen met prof. dr. J. Rijsman)

Mohammed Ibrahim; Trust, Dependence and Interorganizational Systems. Promotie UvT, 20 december 2006 (samen met Dr.ir. B.Bettonvil)

Jacques Reijniers: Competent veranderen. Promotie Uvt 24 september 2004 (samen met Prof. dr.ir. A. de Schepper)

Dennis Abrazhevich: Electronic Payment Systems: a user-centered perspective and interaction design. Promotie TUE, 19 april 2004 (samen met Prof. Dr. G. Rautenberg - TUE)

Andreas Lincke: Electronic Business Negotiation -someexperimental studies on the intercaton between medium, innovation, context and culture. Promotie UvT, 17 september 2003 (samen met Prof. dr. J. Ulein - TUE- en Dr. H.Weigand)

Willem Jan van den Heuvel: Integrating Modern Business Applications with Objectified Legacy Systems. Promotie UvT 14 juni 2002 (same met Prof. dr. ir. M. Papazoglou)

Ryan Peterson: Information Governance. Promotie UvT 12 april 2002 (samen met Prof. dr.ir R. O'Callaghan)

Bas Vermeer: Data Quality and Data Aignment in E-Business. Promotie TUE 9 april 2001 (samen met Prof. dr. ir. A. Veth)

Erik Beulen: Beheersing van IT outsourcing relaties:een beheersingsmodel voor uitbestedende bedrijven en IT-levarnaciers. Promotie UvT 8 november 2000

M.J. Parker-Priebe: Theory and practice of Business/IT organizational interdependencies. Promotie UvT 8 november 2000.

Chad Ekering:De specificiteit van EDI. Promotie UvT 5 juni 2000 (samen met Dr. ir.E. van Heck)

As external examiner I participated in more than 40 PhD committees at different universities. The most recent ones include:

G.J.Heydenreich: A systematic approach to the implementation of e-commerce solutions in the ERP-environment - a new methodology. Univerity of Stellenbosch (South Africa), to be defended in 2009.

Geerten van der Kaa: Standards Battles for Complex Systems.Erasmus Universiteit 26 mei 2009. Selmar Meents: The influence of sellers and intermediaries on trust in C2C electronic marketplaces. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (8 mei 2009)

Nong Chen:Discovery Services in Information Rich Environments. TU-Delft (22 december 2008)

Johanna Habib: La Dynamique de creation de Connaisances dans les processus d'innovation - Etudes de cas et de simulation multi-agents. Universite Paul Cezanne, Aix Marseille III, France (22 november 2008)

D.E. Sofiane Tebboune: Investigating the Partnering Strategies in Application Service Provision: A Vnedor Perspective.Brunel University, London UK (3 March 2008)

R.Schimmel: veranderkundige interventies bij ERP-implementaties- veranderen als leerproces. Universiteit Twente, 14 november 2007

A. Norta: Exploring dynamic Inter-Organizatonal Business Process Collaboration. TU-Eindhoven, 22 maart 2007

Conferences

Speaker at international scientific meetings:

21 Januaryi 2009: 'Lessons from IM research"  Workshop Purchasing Research in the Netherlands(WION)

22 juli 2008: Business Case Analysis for Privacy Enhancing Tools - International case examples. Katholieke Univesriteit Leuven (PRIME)

8 juni 2007: research Methodologies in IS research. University of Sankt Gallen (ECIS)

26 september 2006: Economic Requirements and Evaluation of PETs. Karlstadt University, PRIME conference

6 february 2006: Economic approaches in Privacy Protection. Joint Research Center (JRC), PRIME

12 september 2006: Privacy protection in business processes. Budapest (PRIME)

11 july 2006: Economic drivers for adoption of PETs. European Commission Brussels (PRIME)

26 april 2006: PET adoption and Innovation. Hewlett Packard Bristol UK (PRIME)

7 february 2006: Economic approaches in PRIME. Joint Research Center (JRC), Arona (It)


 

Teaching

Together with Prof. Dr. ir van Heck (EUR), I organize the yearly Center/Erim workshop on Information Management research. The course consists of 8 modules. The first session is a 3-day session. After this session Ph.D. students will work on improving their individual Ph.D. proposal, which will be presented during the second session (2 day session).

At TiasNimbas Business School I am Academic Director of the Executive Master Programme in Information Management. My courses deal with "Management and Information Systems". I also teach for various open en in-comapny programmes modules on Information Management: e.g. for the programmes Management & Organization, Health Administration, Operational Excellence, Marketing, IT-auditing.


P.M.A. Ribbers teaches the following subjects:

Other activities

Member of the Advisory Council of Societal Problem of ICTRegie

Contact details
Room K 709
PO Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg 
Phone+31 13 466 2354
Secretary+31 13 466 2188
Fax +31 13 466 3069

Hoogleraar Information Management
Tilburg School of Economics and Management
Department of Information Management

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