Prior to his career in academia, Dr. Vitzthum has worked in different countries across a variety of industries such as the software and technology development, outsourcing, consulting, and music industries. For more information visit, http://www.iwu.edu/business/faculty/VitzthumS_bio.shtml.
Articles
EBAY’s Acquisition of Skype SA: Valuing the Voice of the Buyer (with Benn Konsynski), Communications of the Association for Information Systems (2009)
This set of teaching cases deals with the surprising acquisition of VOIP provider Skype SA...
Real Commerce in Virtual Worlds (with Abhishek Kathuria and Benn Konsynski), ICIS 2009 Proceedings (2009)
This teaching case considers the challenges and opportunities faced by an entrepreneur in Second Life,...
CHEP: The Net of Things (with Benn Konsynski), Communications of the Association for Information Systems (2008)
PART A: Forced by operational inefficiencies in its own business model, CHEP, the market leader...
Dissertation
Unpublished Papers
SSRN as an Initial Revolution in Academic Knowledge Aggregation and Dissemination (with David A. Bray and Benn Konsynski), Emory University (2008)
Within this paper we consider our results of using the Social Science Research Network (SSRN)...
Presentations
Influence of Structure Parameters on the Information Diffusion Process in Virtual Networks, ICIS 2008 Proceedings (2008)
This paper examines the effects of composition, size and structure of virtual networks on the...
Inter-Organizational Learning in Technology Acquisitions: Procuring More Than Knowledge (with Abhishek Kathuria, Astrid Fontaine, and Michael J. Prietula), ICIS 2008 Proceedings (2008)
The fifth wave of Merger and Acquisition includes an increasing amount of technology acquisitions. Large...