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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., Riemenschneider, C., Jia, H. (2024). Neurodiversity, Emotional Labor, and Mental Wellbeing in IT Employees. International Conference on Information Systems.
  • 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

  • Jia, R. (Author & Presenter), JAIS Theory Development Workshop at ICIS, The Euphemism of “Prestigiously Stigmatized Technology Geeks”: A Research Agenda, Journal of AIS, Thailand. (2024).
  • 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. (Principal), "Enhancing DHS Threat Detection Through Identifying Pattern Recognition and Attention to Detail (PRAD) Traits in Job Applicants and Employees," sponsored by Dept of Homeland Security, Federal, $100000 Funded. (2025 - 2025).
  • Jia, R. (Principal), "Enhancing Threat Detection Through Identifying Job Applicants and Employees with Neurodiverse Traits of Pattern Recognition and Attention to Detail (PRAD)," sponsored by Dept of Homeland Security (via Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Eduction, ORISE), Federal, $20000 Funded. (2024 - 2024).
  • 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, Grade Appeal Committee. (2024 - Present).
  • Committee Member, BS BCIS Working Group. (2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Academic Integrity Committee. (2023 - 2024).

Professional Service

  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, AIS Transactions on Replication Research. (2024).
  • Session Chair, International Conference on Information Systems. (2024).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, MIS Quarterly. (2024).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems. (2024).
  • 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).