Dr. Qing Cao

Dr. Qing Cao is the Jerry Rawls Endowed Professor of Management Information Systems at the Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University. He holds a Ph.D. from the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska (2001) and he also earned an MBA (University of Wisconsin System) and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Shanghai JiaoTong University). Dr. Cao has combined 8 years of industrial experiences in engineering, operations management and IT consulting before entering the academic field in 1997. Before joining Texas Tech fall, 2008, he was an associate professor of Management Information Systems at University of Missouri - Kansas City. Dr. Cao has also served as a business consultant to multi-national corporations and healthcare systems (e.g., Sprint, Honeywell, YRC Worldwide Inc., and St. Luke's Hospital Systems).

Dr. Cao has taught courses in Management Information Systems, Systems Analysis, Design & Engineering, Quantitative Methods, and Operations Management at both graduate (e.g., Executive MBA & MBA) and undergraduate levels. Dr. Cao is the recipient of the University of Missouri - Kansas City Teaching Award (2007). He is currently teaching Information Technology for Managers (ISQS 5231) for both traditional and working professional MBA programs and Doctoral Seminar in Managerial and Organizational MIS/OM Research (ISQS 7347). Dr. Cao's research interests include IT governance, IT diffusion and adoption, supply chain information management, strategic alignment and artificial intelligence applications. Dr. Cao is a member of Association for Computing Machinery, Association for Information Systems, and Decision Sciences Institute. Dr. Cao is the recipient of the University of Missouri - Kansas City Trustee's Faculty Research Award (2005). Dr. Cao has published more than 39 research papers in top business journals such as Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Journal of Association for Information Systems, Communications of ACM, International Journal of Production Research, Decision Support Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Information and Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Operations Research, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Production and Innovation Management, International Journal of Project Management, Journal of Database Management, International Journal of Production Economics, and among others. He also has written and presented more than 60 conferences papers (referred).

Dr. Cao is an Assistant Director of the Center for Internet Buyer Behavior at the Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University.

Dr. Cao serves as a member of the editorial review board at Journal of Information Technology Management, Computer & Operations Research, International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management, International Journal of Service Sciences, International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education, and International Journal of Information Technology and Management.

Dr. Cao served as the Associate Program Chair at 2008 Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting.

Dr. Cao co-authored a scholarly book titled "E-commerce operations and information systems management" and three scholarly book chapters on software complexity metrics, IT vendor selection, and IT outsourcing.

Qing Cao, Ph.D.