Dr. Ronnie Jia
University of North Texas
Information Technology and Decision Sciences
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Education

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

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
BCIS 5120, Information Systems Development, 5 courses.
BCIS 5660, Organizing and Managing IT Projects, 1 course.
DSCI 5900, Special Problems, 1 course.

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.
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 and 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).

Awards and Honors

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

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).