Katherine M. Chudoba is an Associate Professor of MIS at Utah State University. Dr. Chudoba's research interests focus on the nature of work in distributed environments, and how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are used and integrated into work practices. Her research has been published in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, and Journal of the Association of Information Systems (JAIS), and has been supported with research grants from Intel Corporation and Xerox. Dr. Chudoba is active in professional groups and conferences, and has presented her research to both academic and practitioner audiences. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona, and her bachelor's degree and MBA at the College of William and Mary. She has held prior academic appointments at the University of Virginia and Florida State University. Prior to joining academe, she worked for eight years as an analyst and manager with IBM.
Articles
ICT Road Warriors: Balancing Work-Family Conflict, Job Autonomy, and Work Overload to Mitigate Turnover Intentions (with Manju K. Ahuja, Charles J. Kacmar, D. Harrison McKnight, and Joey F. George), Management Information Systems Quarterly (2007)
This study examines the antecedents of turnover intention among information technology road warriors. Road warriors...
Do You Read Me? Perspective Making and Perspective Taking in Chat Communities (with Michael H. Dickey, Gary Burnett, and Michelle M. Kazmer), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (2007)
We present a study of synchronous, text-based chat communications between customers and customer service representatives...
IT Road Warriors: Balancing Work-Family Conflict, Job Autonomy and Work Overload to Mitigate Turnover Intentions (with Manju K. Ahuja, Charles J. Kacmar, Harrison McKnight, and Joey F. George), MIS Quarterly (2007)
This study examines the antecedents of turnover intention among information technology road warriors. Road warriors...
Do You Know What I Know? A Shared Understandings Perspective on Text-Based Communication (with Michael H. Dickey, Molly McLure Wasko, and Jason Bennett Thatcher), Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (2006)
This article illustrates how the hermeneutic analysis of text illuminates how shared understandings affect our...
Contributions to Books
High Tech - High Touch: A Challenge to the Use of ICT in SCM (with P. C. Ribeiro, D. Bailey, A. J. Scavarda, and M. O. Batalha), E-Supply Chain Management - Manging Today's Digitalized and Interconnected Business (2010)
Shared Communication Practices and Mental Models in the Virtual Work Environment (with M. B. Watson-Manheim), Exploring Virtuality within and Beyond Organizations: Social, Global and Local Dimensions (2008)
Prior research underscores the importance of building and maintaining shared expectations in order for individual...
Exploring the Virtual Work Environment: A Process Perspective (with Mary Beth Watson-Manheim), Handbook of Information Technology in Organizations and Electronic Markets (2007)
In the 20th century, the use of ICT allowed organizations to stretch themselves in time...