Weidong Xia

Professor, Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics

College of Business
Florida International University

Modesto A. Maidique Campus
11200 S.W. 8th St, RB 254A
Miami, FL 33199

Phone: (305) 348-1160
Email: xiaw@fiu.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Business Administration
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Master of Science in Information Systems and Management Science
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing , China

Bachelor of Science in Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacturing
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing , China

Areas of Expertise

Health IT management
Organizational and information strategy
Organizational and Project Agility

Professional Activities

Weidong Xia is a professor in the Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics in the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU). Prior to joining FIU, he was aon the faculty in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, a visiting assistant professor in the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh, and a lecturer and deputy director of the Information System Division at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He received his Ph.D. in information systems and strategic management from the University of Pittsburgh, Master of Science in information systems and management science and Bachelor of Science in computer aided design and computer aided manufacturing from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He received an executive certificate in information services from Harvard Business School and received a certificate of leadership six-sigma black belt from the Juran Center for Leadership in Quality at the University of Minnesota.

His research interests are studying management capabilities and organizational designs that are necessary for organizations to effectively evaluate and manage information technology (IT) innovation assimilation and utilization in order to improve IT project success, which in turn would enhance user satisfaction and business performance. He has published 28 refereed journal papers including 13 FIU Department A* and 9 Department A journals. The A* journal papers include three MIS Quarterly (UT Dallas, Financial Times, Department A*), one Journal of Operations Management (UT Dallas, Financial Times, Department A*), three Journal of MIS (Financial Times, Department A*), two Decision Sciences (Department A*), two Information and Management (Department A*), one European Journal of Information System (Department A*) and one Journal of Medical Internet Research (Department A*). The average journal impact factors are 3.25 (SJR/SCIMAGO) and 3.34 (JCR). His Google Scholar Citations are: total of 3943, journal citations of 3634. His Social Science Journal Citation Index is 956 and his PlumX Scopus Journal Citation Index is 1688. Post tenure, he has published 13 refereed journal papers including 3 FIU Department A* (including Journal of Operations Management which is on the lists of UT Dallas, Financial Times, and Department A* journals) and 7 Department A journals. He has one paper that was revised and resubmitted to European Journal of Information System (Department A*), three papers under review at Department A* journals, two completed papers to be submitted to Department A* journals, and six work-in-progress papers.

Weidong has taught in PhD, Executive MBA, MBA, Master of Science and undergraduate programs. At FIU, he has taught three PhD Program courses (Theoretical Foundations of IS; Philosophy of Science and Research Methods; Individual and Group Applications of IS Research); one Healthcare MBA (face-to-face and online) course (Organizational Information Systems); three Master of Science in MIS courses (Project Management; Enterprise Information Systems; Business Process Redesign); one Master of Science in Health Informatics and Analytics course (face-to-face and online) (Business Process Redesign); one Master of Science in International Business course (Project Management), and two Undergraduate Program courses (Accounting Information Systems; Business Process Analysis). His overall average teaching evaluation is 4.6/5.0 (where 4 = very good and 5 = excellent). He has won the Best Professor Award (8 times) and the Best Course Award (2 times) voted by Master of Science in Information Systems students and has won the Best Professor Award (3 times) and the Best Course Award (2 times)voted by Master of Science in Health Informatics and Analytics students. At the University of Minnesota, his teaching evaluations were consistently among the best faculty of the Carlson School of Management (average teaching evaluation 6.2/7, where 6 = outstanding and 7 = exceptional).

He has been actively engaging in all faculty services and activities at the University, College and Department levels. In particular, as the Director of the PhD Program in IS (2010-2016), he reinstated and redesigned the PhD Program in IS. In addition, he initiated and developed a joint healthcare MBA program between FIU and Southern Medical University in China and served as Faculty Director of the Program between 2011 and 2014 and brought 62 students from China to study in the FIU healthcare MBA program. He has served as major professor/committee chair to four PhD students, has co-chaired one PhD student’s dissertation committee, and has served on 11 other PhD student dissertation committees. At the University of Minnesota, he co-advised two doctoral students and served on four other doctoral students’ committees and served as MBA MIS program faculty director and undergraduate MIS program faculty director.

Weidong has been active in serving the profession in the roles of journal editorial board member and referees. He has served as an Associate Editor for Information Systems Research (an UT Dallas, Financial Times, and Department A* journal) and the Operations Editor of MIS Quarterly (an UT Dallas, Financial Times, and Department A* journal) and is on the Editorial Board of Journal of Database Management (a Department A journal). He served as a member of the Miami-Dade County Government Performance and Efficiency Commission (2010 – 2012) in the capacity to represent the higher education as recommended by FIU Dean of College of Business and approved by FIU Provost. This was a County Commission that oversaw the planning and budgeting process, and the performance assessment process and outcomes of all Miami-Dade County government departments and agencies.

As a part of his research efforts, he has been actively engaging in and collaborating with executives from major corporations including 3M, AG Edwards, Baptist Health South Florida, Best Buy, Blue Cross and Blue Shields, Cargill, Larkin Hospital, McDonald's, Medtronic, Musicland, Northwest Airlines, Pillsbury, Provider Network Solutions, ShopNBC, St Paul Cos., Royal Ahold, Target, Union Pacific, US Bank and US Cellular.

Courses Taught

Accounting Information Systems
Business Process Analysis
Business Process Design
Design and Management of Health Information Systems
Dissertation Preparation
Enterprise Information Systems
Healthcare Informatics & Analytics Capstone
Knowledge Management
Management of Information Systems
Organization Information Systems
Ph.D. Dissertation
Project Management
Project Management of Information Sciences
Research in Information Systems
Seminar on IS and Organizations: Design and Impact
Seminar on Strategy and Information Resource
Special Topics in Management Information Systems

Publications