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Dr. Ronnie Jia

Associate Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Information Technology and Decision Sciences

Email: Ronnie.Jia@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, Southern Illinois University, 2008
    Major: Business Administration
    Dissertation: IT Service Climate: An Extension to IT Service Quality Research

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • BCIS 5120 - Information Systems Development, 6 courses.
  • BCIS 5660 - Organizing and Managing IT Projects, 2 courses.
  • DSCI 5900 - Special Problems, 1 course.

Awards and Honors

  • Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper of the Year, ACM-SIGMIS. (June 2023).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Conference Proceeding

  • Jia, R., Steelman, Z., Jia, H. (2023). An Integration of Cognitive Absorption and Interruption Overload Through the Lens of Neurodiversity: Some Preliminary Results. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
  • Jia, R., Jia, H. (2023). Understanding Employee Work Exhaustion Through the Lens of Neurodiversity. ACM-SIGMIS Computers and People Research Conference [Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper of the Year].
  • Jia, R., Jia, H. (2019). What Makes Us IT People? Autistic Tendency and Intrinsic Interests in IT. ACM-SIGMIS Computers and People Research Conference, 153-156.
  • Jia, R., Steelman, Z. (2018). Autistic Tendency, Attachment Insecurity, and Intrinsic Interest in IT. Americas Conference on Information Systems.

    • Journal Article

  • Jia, R., Steelman, Z., Jia, H. (2022). What Makes One Intrinsically Interested in IT? An Exploratory Study on Influences of Autistic Tendency and Gender in the U.S. and India. MIS Quarterly. 46 (3) 1603-1634.
  • Jia, R., Steelman, Z., Jia, H. (2019). Psychometric Assessments of Three Self-Report Autism Scales (AQ, RBQ-2A, and SQ) for General Adult Populations. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 49(5), 1949-1965. 49 (5) 1949-65.
  • Jia, R., Steelman, Z., Jia, H. (2017). Using Mechanical Turk Data in IS Research: Risks, Rewards, and Recommendations. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. 41 301-318.
  • Jia, R., Reich, B.H., Jia, H. (2016). A commentary on: Creating agile organizations through IT: The influence of IT service climate on IT service quality and IT agility. Journal of Strategic Information Systems. 25 (3) 227-231.
  • Jia, R., Jia, H. (2016). Maybe you should blame your parents: Parental attachment, gender, and problematic Internet use. Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 5 (3) 524-528.
  • Jia, R., Jia, H. (2016). Service climate in knowledge-intensive, internal service settings. International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences. 8 (4) 462-477.
  • Jia, R., Jia, H. (2015). An individual trait-based investigation of employee cyberloafing.. Journal of Information Technology Management. 26 (1) 1-17.
  • Jia, H., Jia, R., Karau, S. (2013). Cyberloafing and personality: The impact of the Big Five traits and workplace situational factors.. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies. 20 (3) 358-365.
  • Jia, R., Reich, B.H. (2013). IT Service Climate, Antecedents and IT Service Quality Outcomes: Some Initial Evidence. Journal of Strategic Information Systems. 22 (1) 51-69.
  • Jia, R. (2012). Computer playfulness, Internet dependency and their relationships with online activity types and student academic performance. Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 1 (2) 74-77.
  • Jia, R., Reich, B. (2011). IT service climate – An essential managerial tool to improve client satisfaction with IT service quality. Information Systems Management. 28 (2) 174-179.
  • Jia, R., Jia, H. (2009). Factorial validity of problematic Internet use scales.. Computers in Human Behavior. 25 (6) 1335-1342.
  • Jia, R., Reich, B.H. (2008). IT Service Climate: An Extension to IT Service Quality Research. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 9 (5) 294-320.

Presentations Given

    Paper

  • Steelman, Z. (Author), Jia, R. (Author), Americas Conference on Information Systems, Remote Work Overload: The Differential Effects of Neurodiversity (TREO), United States of America. (2022).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Jia, R., "Individual Characteristics, Well-being, and Workplace Outcomes," sponsored by ISU, Other, $3000 Funded. ( - 2022).
  • Jia, R., "Autistic Tendency in the IT Field and Its Implications," sponsored by ISU, State, $5000 Funded. ( - 2021).

Service

University Service

  • Committee Member, Academic Integrity Committee. (2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, BS BCIS Working Group. (2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, PAC. (2023 - Present).

Professional Service

  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, ACM SIGMIS Conference. (2023).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, AIS Transactions on Replication Research. (2023).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, International Conference on Information Systems. (2023).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems. (2023).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of AIS. (2023).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. (2023).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, AIS Transactions on Replication Research. (2022).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, International Conference on Information Systems. (2022).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Transactions on Social Computing. (2022).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Current Psychology. (2021).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems. (2021).