Dr.Diane L. Ferry

Associate Professor of Management Department of Business Administration Website E-mail: ferrydudel [dot] edu

Education:

• AACSB Information Systems Faculty Development Institute, University of Minnesota, 1984
• PH.D. - University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, 1978, Major: Organizational Behavior, Minor: Research Methodology, Decision Science
• MBA - Shippensburg State College, 1974
• BA - Gettysburg College, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1969

Honors and Activities:

• Member of National Academy of Management
• Active participant as reviewer for Organization Behavior and Organization and Management Theory Divisions, session moderator for competitive paper sessions
• Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Business Research, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organization Science
• Member of Association for Computing Machinery
• Reviewer for Prentice-Hall, Inc., West Publishing Co., Scott, Foresman and Co., Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Dryden, and McGraw Hill
• Included in Who's Who of American Women; Who's Who in the East; Who's Who of Emerging Leaders; Personalities of America
• Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter of Delaware

Research Interests:

• Behavioral aspects of computer technologies
• Decision making processes regarding computer security
• Information systems and the use of information in organizations
• Applications of Organization Assessment Theory and instruments to private as well as public sector organizations
• Cognitive theory in the Management Information Systems and Organizational Behavior literatures

Teaching Interests:

• Management Information Systems
• Organization Design
• Macro-Organization Theory
• Principles of Management

Recent Publications:

• Van de Ven, Andrew H. and Ferry, Diane L. 1980. Measuring and Assessing Organizations. New York: John Wiley & Sons. This book is part of the Wiley-Interscience Series on Organizational Assessment and Change edited by Edward E. Lawler and Stanley E. Seashore.
• Kydd, Christine T. and Ferry, Diane L. 1994. Managerial Use of Video Conferencing. Information & Management, 27, 369- 375.
• Ferry, Diane L. and Kydd, Christine T. 1992. Decision Making in a Low Probability High Risk Setting: The Case of Computer Viruses. Omega: The International Journal of Management Science, 20(1), 117-126.
• Kydd, Christine T. and Ferry, Diane L. 1991. A Behavioral View of Computer Supported Cooperative Work Tools. The Journal of Management Systems, 3(1), 55-67.
• Ferry, Diane L. and Brown, Pamela C. 1992. Book review of The Nature of the Firm: Origin, Evolution, and Development by Oliver E. Williamson and Sidney G. Winter, Eds. Journal of Management, 18(3), 617-619.
• Ferry, Diane L. 1986. Book review of The Collected Works of Mary Parker Follett. Academy of Management Review, 11(2), 451-454.