Maris Martinsons
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Maris Martinsons (Latvian: Māris Martinsons) is a professor of management currently associated with the City University of Hong Kong, the Stockholm School of Economics, and the University of Toronto. He received his B.A.Sc. in engineering science and MBA from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in industrial and business studies from the University of Warwick. He has served as editor for the following scholarly journals: IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, the Journal of Applied Management Studies, the Journal of Information Technology Management, the Journal of Management Systems, and the Communications of the ACM.
Martinsons has worked as a business consultant for companies including Ernst & Young, DRI/McGraw-Hill, and McKinsey & Co., and has served as an external advisor to the governments of Hong Kong and Latvia.
A Latvian-Canadian[citation needed] who was educated in both North America and Europe, Martinsons has been a visiting professor at universities on six continents and is now based in the Asia-Pacific region. He worked to internationalize the (U.S.) Academy of Management, primarily by bridging the East-West divide
According to Google Scholar, Maris Martinsons has authored 3 of the 10 most cited articles on Chinese management while his publications have received more than 7,000 citations. According to a Stanford University study, Professor Martinsons ranks among the Top 2% of the world's scientists.
Martinsons received the Distinguished Young Scholar Award from the International Association of Management in 1995
Martinsons has been involved in action research and e-learning.
Martinsons is also an accomplished athlete, having represented Canada, Latvia and Hong Kong in international sporting competitions .
Publications
[edit]Book
[edit]- Information technology and the challenge for Hong Kong / edited by Janice M. Burn and Maris G. Martinsons. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c1997. ISBN 962-209-420-1
Dissertation
[edit]- Strategic Intelligence in Hong Kong, How chief executives managed information/knowledge amidst the environmental uncertainty of pre-handover Hong Kong / University of Warwick
Scholarship
[edit]According to Google Scholar, the most cited peer-reviewed journal articles by Maris Martinsons are:
- Martinsons, M., Davison, R., Tse, D. (1999). The balanced scorecard: A foundation for the strategic management of information systems, Decision Support Systems, 25(1), pp. 71–88. Cited more than 900 times in English and 200 times in other languages.
- Davison, R.M., Martinsons, M.G., Kock, N. (2004). Principles of canonical action research, Information Systems Journal, 14(1), pp. 65–86. Cited more than 1000 times.
- Martinsons, M.G., Westwood, R.I. (1997). Management information systems in the Chinese business culture: An explanatory theory, Information and Management, 32(5), pp. 215–228. Cited more than 700 times in Chinese and 300 times in English.
- Martinsons, M.G. (2008). Relationship-based e-commerce: Theory and evidence from China, Information Systems Journal, 18(4), pp. 331–356. Cited more than 600 times, including 250 times in English.
- Martinsons, M.G., Chong, P.K.C. (1999). The influence of human factors and specialist involvement on information systems success, Human Relations, 52(1), pp. 123–151. Cited 300 times.
- Davison, R.M., Ou, C.X.J., Martinsons, M.G. (2013). Information technology to support informal knowledge sharing, Information Systems Journal 23(1), pp. 89-109. Cited more than 200 times.
- Martinsons, M.G., Davison, R.M. (2007). Strategic decision making and support systems: Contrasting American, Japanese and Chinese Management, Decision Support Systems, 43(1), pp. 284–300. Cited more than 150 times.
- Martinsons, M.G. (1993) Outsourcing information systems: A strategic partnership with risks, Long Range Planning, 26 (3), pp. 18–25. Cited more than 150 times.
- Martinsons, M.G. (2002). Electronic commerce in China, Information & Management, 39(5), pp. 71–79. Cited more than 100 times in English and 200 times in Chinese.
- Martinsons, M.G. (2004). ERP in China, Communications of the ACM, 47(7), pp. 65–68. Cited more than 150 times.
- Burrows, G.R., Drummond, D.L., Martinsons, M.G. (2005). Knowledge management in China, Communications of the ACM, 48(4), pp 44–48. Cited more than 50 times in English and 150 times in Chinese.
- Martinsons, M.G., Hempel, P.S. (1995). Chinese management systems: historical and cross-cultural perspectives, Journal of Management Systems, 7(1), pp. 1–11. Cited more than 60 times in English and 200 times in Chinese.
- Martinsons, M.G., Martinsons, A.G.B. (1996). Conquering cultural constraints to cultivate Chinese management creativity and innovation, Journal of Management Development 15(9), pp. 18–35. Cited more than 100 times.
- Martinsons, M.G. (1994). Benchmarking human resource information systems in Canada and Hong Kong, Information & Management, 26 (6), pp. 305–316. Cited more than 100 times.