Faculty Profile

Jan Kietzmann

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. MIS/ Innov. (London School of Economics, UK); MEC (Dalhousie); B. Comm. (Victoria)

Surrey Phone: 778-782-5187
Segal Phone: 778-782-9689
Surrey Office: SUR 5028
Segal Office: Segal 3980

Email Address:

Biography

Assistant professor Jan Kietzmann received his PhD in 2007 from the London School of Economics and joined the Beedie School of Business at SFU in 2008.

Jan’s research interests involve the intersection of mobility of work and wireless computing. Of particular interest are “smart” technologies such as mobile Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) that surpass the basic affordances of mobile telephony.

As objects gain an increasingly loud and clear voice in organizational information flows, Jan aims to understand the changing “role of the artifact” as well as the transformation of the individual and the relationships of the mobile worker, his or her colleagues, superiors and customers.

Jan further studies the participatory innovation processes that connect organizations with the mobile communities that form their future target audiences, both users and customers.

Jan, who has a passionate interest in teaching, now teaches Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Surrey campus, where he likes to incorporate emerging technological inventions and innovations into the classroom experience.

Selected Publications

McCarthy, I. P., B. S. Silvestre, et al. (forthcoming). Understanding outsourcing contexts through information asymmetry and capability fit. Production, Planning & Control.

Kietzmann, J., Silvestre, B.S., McCarthy, I.P., Pitt, L., (2012). Unpacking the social media phenomenon: Towards a research agenda. Journal of Public Affairs 12(2): 109-119.

Kietzmann, J.H., K. Hermkens, et al. (2011). Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media.  Business Horizons 54(3): 241-251.

Kietzmann, J.H. & H. Tsang (2010). Minding the gap: Bridging computing science and business studies with an interdisciplinary innovation challenge. Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education, Kelowna, Canada, ACM and SIGCSE.

Kietzmann, J.H. & I. Angell (2010). Panopticon revisited.  Communications of the ACM 53(6): 135-138.

Kietzmann, J.H. (2009). For those about to tag... In M. Head and E. Li (Eds.), Mobile and Ubiquitous Commerce: Advanced E-Business Methods, (pp. 1 - 14). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Sørensen, C., A. Al-Taitoon, et al. (2008). Exploring enterprise mobility: Lessons from the field. Information, Knowledge, Systems Management, 7(1): 243-271. 

Kietzmann, J.H. (2008). Interactive innovation of technology for mobile work. European Journal of Information Systems, 17(3): 305-320.

Angell, I. & J.H. Kietzmann (2006). RFID and the end of cash? Communications of the ACM, 49(12): 90-96.