Sandra Slaughter
Sandra Ann Slaughter (died November 3, 2014) was an American
Education and career
Slaughter worked in the information technology industry for ten years,[1] before returning to graduate study in management information systems, in which she earned a PhD through the University of Minnesota.[2] Her 1995 doctoral dissertation, Software development practices and software maintenance performance: A field study, was co-advised by Rajiv Banker and Gordon B. Davis.[4]
She became Xerox Research Chair in Carnegie Mellon University's Carnegie Mellon University,[1] and then in 2007 moved to the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech.[2]
Personal life and cycling
Slaughter was married to Ronald Gray Slaughter. Between her industry work and her return to graduate study, the two of them took a 19-month hiatus, touring the world on a tandem bicycle.[3] This tour earned them a Guinness World Record for the longest tandem bicycle tour,[1][3] and was documented in a book, published in 1996.[3]
Recognition
Slaughter was named a distinguished fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Information Systems Society in 2014. She was posthumously awarded the 2022 Information Systems Society President's Service Award.[5]
Selected works
Slaughter was the author or coauthor of two books:
- Tandem Times: A Bicycle Journey Around the World, Odyssey to the Limits (with R. Slaughter and K. Robinson, IME, 1996)[3]
- A Profile of the Software Industry: Emergence, Ascendance, Risks, and Rewards (Business Expert Press, 2014)[1]
She had over 100 publications, winning nine best paper awards.[1] Among these, Paulo Goes singles out four as being especially innovative and influential:[3]
- Ang, Soon; Slaughter, Sandra (2001), "Work outcomes and job design for contract versus permanent information systems professionals on software development teams", MIS Quarterly, 25 (3): 321–350, JSTOR 3250920
- Roberts, Jeffrey A.; Hann, Il-Horn; Slaughter, Sandra (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, S2CID 9916105
- Slaughter, Sandra; Levine, Linda; Ramesh, Balasubramaniam; Pries-Heje, Jan; Baskerville, Richard L. (2006), "Aligning software processes with strategy", MIS Quarterly, 30 (4): 891–918, JSTOR 25148758
- Joseph, Damien; Boh, Wai Fong; Ang, Soon; Slaughter, Sandra (2012), "The career paths less (or more) traveled: a sequence analysis of IT career histories, mobility patterns, and career success", MIS Quarterly, 36 (2): 427–452, JSTOR 41703462
References
- ^ S2CID 243625058
- ^ a b c "Remembering Sandra Slaughter", News & Press: InSider, Association for Information Systems, November 4, 2014
- ^ JSTOR 26628337
- ProQuest 304236251
- ^ "Sandra Slaughter", Award recipients, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), retrieved 2024-02-01
External links
- Sandra Slaughter publications indexed by Google Scholar