Nigel Melville

Nigel Patrick Melville is an American sociotechnical scientist, associate professor of information systems at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and Design Science Program Director. His primary areas of study are digital transformation, energy informatics, and AI affordances. Professor Melville’s main scientific contributions are in the information systems field of technology-enabled change, seeking to explain how organizations employ digital technologies to enhance operations and achieve strategic objectives. This research includes seminal theoretical and empirical analyses, which have laid the groundwork for extensions and new research streams (over 8000 Google Scholar citations). His service to the scientific community includes editorial board membership, chairing tracks at leading conferences, and membership in the UN Environment Program’s Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES). Professor Melville consults for large organizations as they seek to digitally transform for leadership in the fourth industrial revolution.

Education

• PhD University of California Irvine 2001
• MS ECE University of California Santa Barbara 1990
• BS EE University of California Los Angeles 1988

Companies

• Program Director, Design Science University of Michigan College of Engineering (2019)
• Associate Professor of Information Systems University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business (2012)
• Visiting Scholar Indian School of Business (2014 — 2014)
• Assistant Professor of Information Systems University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business (2005 — 2012)
• Assistant Professor of Information Systems Boston College (2001 — 2005)

Books

• Blog, not book: "INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: IT, Resource Productivity, Environmental Preservation, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution" (> 63000 hits) Melville, N., 2019, Wordpress

Articles

• Introduction to the Special Issue on AI Fairness, Trust, and Ethics
  Robert, L.P., Bansal, G.B., Melville, N., Stafford, T., 2020, AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction Volume: 12 Issue: 4 Pages: 172-178

• Digital Innovation: A Review and Synthesis
  Rajiv Kohli, Nigel Melville, 2019, Information Systems Journal Volume: 29 Issue: 1 Pages: 200-223

• Systems Enabling Low-Carbon Operations: the Salience of Accuracy
  Melville, N., Saldanha, T., and Rush, D., 11/2017, Journal of Cleaner Production Volume: 166 Issue: Nov Pages: 1074-1083

• The Sustainability Imperative in Information Systems Research
  Seidel, S., Bharati, P., Fridgen, G., Watson, R., Albizri, A. Boudreau, M., Butler, T., Kruse, C., Guzman, I., Karsten, H., Lee, H.; Melville, N., Rush, D., Toland, J., and Watts, S., 2017, Communications of the AI S Volume: 40 Issue: 3 Pages: 40-52

• Energy and Carbon Management Systems: Organizational Implementation and Application
  Melville N, Whisnant R., 12/2014, Journal of Industrial Ecology Volume: 18 Issue: 6 Pages: 920-930

• How IT Innovation Posture-Profile Misalignment Diminishes Returns to IT Innovation: Conceptual Development and Empirical Demonstration
  Fichman R, Melville N, 07/2014, Journal of Management Information Systems Volume: 31 Issue: 1 Pages: 203-240

• Information Systems for Collaborating versus Transacting: Impact on Plant Performance in the Presence of Demand Volatility
  Terence Saldanha, Nigel Melville, Ron Ramirez, Vernon Richardson, 09/2013, Journal of Operations Management Volume: 31 Issue: 6 Pages: 313-329

• Spurring Impactful Research on Information Systems for Environmental Sustainability
  Malhotra, A., Melville, N., Watson, R., 12/2013, Management Information Systems Quarterly (MIS Quarterly) Volume: 37 Issue: 4 Pages: 1265-1273

• Theories Used in Information System Research: Insights from Complex Network Analysis
  Lim S., Saldanha T., Malladi S., and Melville N., 06/2013, Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA) Volume: 14 Issue: 2 Pages: 5-46

• Generating Shareable Statistical Databases for Business Value: Multiple Imputation with Multimodal Perturbation
  Nigel Melville, Michael McQuaid, 06/2012, Information Systems Research Volume: 23 Issue: 2 Pages: 559-574