Rate My Professor Stuart Dillon

Professor Stuart Dillon is a Professor and the Executive Head of the Waikato Management School at the University of Waikato. He earned his BSc, Postgraduate Diploma in Management Systems (PGDipMgtSys), Master of Management Studies (MMS), and PhD from the University of Waikato, with his doctoral thesis titled "Understanding decision problem structuring by executives" completed in 2002. His career at the University includes roles as Associate Professor since February 2015, Head of the School of Management and Marketing since June 2017, and Chairperson of the Department of Management Systems from May 2008.

Stuart Dillon's research focuses on the broad area of emerging digital business technologies, particularly how businesses adopt contemporary digital tools such as social media, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things. His interests also extend to digital business, project management, and decision making, as indicated on his Google Scholar profile, where his work has garnered over 2000 citations across 55 publications documented on ResearchGate. Key publications include "Focus and diversity in information systems research: Meeting the dual demands of a healthy applied discipline" (Taylor, van Wingen, & Dillon, 2010, MIS Quarterly); "Authorship patterns in information systems" (Cunningham & Dillon, 1996); "e-local government in New Zealand: The shifting policymaker view" (Dillon, 2006); "Perceived risk and online shopping intention: a study of online consumers in New Zealand" (Dillon, 2014); "The relationship between face to face social networks and knowledge sharing" (Al Saifi, Dillon, & McQueen, 2016); and "Towards the Web in Your Pocket: Curated Data as a Service" (Dillon, Stahl, & Vossen, 2012). He supervises postgraduate theses on topics such as inhibitors to the organisational adoption of gamification (2017), social media adoption by microbusinesses (2015), regional e-government readiness in Saudi Arabia (2012), and using gamification to support positive health behaviour change (2023).