Affiliated Faculty

Samer Faraj Assistant Professor Department of Decision and Information Technologies Phone: (301) 405-7053 E-mail: sfaraj@rhsmith.umd.edu

Education

• Ph.D., Management Information Systems, Boston University
• M.S., Technology and Policy, MIT

Interests

Expertise coordination and team effectiveness, operation of software and technology development teams, online knowledge exchange and community, role of technology in supporting fast response organizing, e-commerce strategies

Professional Activities / Affiliations

Member, Academy of Management, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), INFORMS

Current Research Projects

• Investigation of IT and coordination in medical trauma centers
• Investigation of software development team leadership and coordination in 69 teams at IBM
• Investigation of software development teamwork in 66 teams in 15 organizations

Selected Consulting Activities

Executive Development Programs: AMS Inc., RMIT (Australia), Lodz U. (Poland), Research Triangle Institute

Selected Publications

Yun, S., Faraj, S., Xiao, Y., & Sims, H. P. (forthcoming) "Leadership and coordination in a trauma resuscitation team" Advances in the Interdisciplinary Study of Work Teams, Vol. 8. JAI Press.

Faraj, S. and Sproull, L. (2000). “Coordinating expertise in software development teams.” Management Science, 46: 1554-1568.

Wasko, M. and Faraj, S. (2000) "'It is What One Does': Why People Participate and Help Others in Electronic Communities of Practice." Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 9: 155-173.

Palmer, J., Bailey, J. and Faraj, S. (March 2000) “The Role of Intermediaries in the Development of Trust on the WWW.” Journal of Computer Mediated Communication.

Guinan, P.J., Cooprider, J. and S. Faraj, "Enabling Software Development Team Performance During Requirements Definition: a Behavioral Versus Technical Approach," (1998), Information Systems Research, 9: 101-125.