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Biography

Dr. Jeffrey Roberts is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Technology at the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business. He brings a mix of industry and academic experience to Duquesne.

Dr. Roberts’ industry career includes service with several leading technology firms including Texas Instruments and IBM’s Advanced Workstation Division. 
  
His research interests focus on questions related to the processes and organizational impacts of the development and deployment of information technology (IT) and systems.

One research area in this stream is open source software OSS projects (for example, the Linux operating system or the Firefox Web browser). These studies represent some of the earliest scholarly explorations of the open source software phenomenon and have garnered more than one thousand citations.

Another research area in this stream explores diminished IT system quality due to semantic and syntactic dependencies between product components and organizational factors such as project team location, size, and patterns of communication.

Lastly, in alignment with the strategic focus of the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business, Dr. Roberts has published articles in the areas of business ethics and sustainability. 

 

Education

  • Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
  • M.S., Carnegie Mellon University
  • M.B.A., The University of Texas
  • B.S., Miami University

School

Articles in Journals

  • Roberts, J.A., Hann, I., & Slaughter, S. A. (2013). All Are Not Equal: An Examination of the Economic Returns to Different Levels and Types of Participation in Open Source Software Communities. Information Systems Research, 24 (3), 520-538.
  • Roberts, J.A., Baird, P. L., & Geylani, P. C. (2012). Corporate Social and Financial Performance Re-examined: Industry Effects in a Linear Mixed Model Analysis. Journal of Business Ethics, 109 (3), 367-388.
  • Roberts, J. A. & Wasieleski, D. M. (2012). Moral Reasoning in Computer-Based Task Environments: Exploring the Interplay between Cognitive and Technological Factors on Individuals' Propensity to Break Rules. Journal of Business Ethics, 110 (3), 355-376.
  • Roberts, J.A., Cataldo, M., Mockus, A., & Herbsleb, J. D. (2009). Software Dependencies, Work Dependencies, and Their Impact on Failures. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 35 (6), 864-878.
  • Roberts, J. A., Hann, I., & Slaughter, S. A. (2006). Understanding the Motivations, Participation and Performance of Open Source Software Developers: A Longitudinal Study of the Apache Projects. Management Science, 52 (7), 984-999.

Articles in Proceedings

  • Roberts, J.A., Hann, I., Slaughter, S. S., & Fielding, R. (2002). Why Do Developers Contribute to Open Source Projects: First Economic Evidence? International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).
  • Roberts, J.A., Hann, I., Slaughter, S. S., & Fielding, R. (2002). Economic Incentives for Participating in Open Source Software Projects. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Atlanta, GA: Association for Information Systems.
  • Roberts, J. A. & Wasieleski, D. M. (2011). The Contemporary Plagiarist: The Roles of Technology and Moral Development. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Atlanta, GA: Association for Information Systems.
  • Roberts, J.A., Herbsleb, J. D., & Mockus, A. (2006). Collaboration in Software Engineering Projects: A Theory of Coordination. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Association for Information Systems.
  • Roberts, J.A., Hann, I., & Slaughter, S. S. (2004). Why Developers Participate in Open Source Software Projects: An Empirical Investigation. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2004/66: Association for Information Systems.
  • Roberts, J. A. & Wasieleski, D. M. (2011). The Contemporary Plagiarist: The Roles of Technology and Moral Development. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Atlanta, GA: Association for Information Systems.
  • Roberts, J.A., Herbsleb, J. D., & Mockus, A. (2006). Collaboration in Software Engineering Projects: A Theory of Coordination. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Association for Information Systems.
  • Roberts, J.A., Hann, I., & Slaughter, S. S. (2004). Why Developers Participate in Open Source Software Projects: An Empirical Investigation. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2004/66: Association for Information Systems.

Paper Presentations

  • Roberts, J.A., Baird, P., & Geylani, P. C. (2010, June). Corporate Social Responsibility and Shareholder Wealth. Pennsylvania Economic Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, United States of America.
  • Roberts, J.A., Baird, P., & Geylani, P. C. (2010, May). Corporate Social Responsibility and Shareholder Wealth-A Longitudinal Mixed Models Analysis. Alliance for Research on Corporate Social Responsibility Second Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Roberts, J.A., Hann, I., Slaughter, S., & Fielding, R. (2004). Economic Returns to Open Source Participation: A Panel Data Analysis. Workshop on Information Systems Economic (WISE), Washington, D.C.
  • Roberts, J.A., Hann, I., Slaughter, S., & Fielding, R. (2004). An Empirical Analysis of Economic Returns to Open Source Participation. Workshop on Information Systems Economics (WISE), San Diego, CA.
  • Roberts, J.A., Hann, I., & Slaughter, S. (2002). Explaining Participation in Open Source Software Projects: For the Love, the Money, or Both? Workshop on Information Systems Economics (WISE), Barcelona, Spain.
  • Roberts, J.A., Hann, I., Slaughter, S., & Fielding, R. (2002). Delayed Returns to Open Source Participating: An Empirical Analysis of the Apache HTTP Server Project. Workshop on Open Source Software: Economics, Law, and Policy, Toulouse, France.

Chapters

  • Roberts, J.A., Hann, I., & Slaughter, S. (2006). Communication Networks in an Open Source Software Project. In E. Damiani, B. Fitzgerald, W. Scacchi, M. Scotto, & G. Succi, Open Source Systems (pp. 297-306). New York: Springer-Verlag.