Marion G. Sobol Ph.D.

Areas of Expertise
Statistics
Management Information Systems
MIS in Health Care Organizations

Editorial Boards
Book Review Editor - Interfaces
Book reviews for all the ORSA and TIMS journals (1982-1988)
Editorial Board - Case Research Journal (1980-1982)
Editorial Review Board - Journal of Managerial Issues (1988 - present)
Editorial Review Board - IEEE Software (1988 - present)
Editorial Review Board - Southwest Business Review (1991)
Associate Editor (Public Policy) - Management Science (1982-1991)
Associate Editor - Decision Science (1984 - 1992)

Recent Publications
Sobol, M. G. and Prater E., "Differences in Computer Usage of U.S. Group Medical Practices: 1994 vs. 2003, International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Infomatics, Vol. 1, January-March, 2006.

Howard, M.W. and Sobol, M. G. "Combining Economic and Conjoint Analysis to Determine Optimum Academic Services," Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education 2004,. Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 27-44.

Sobol, M. G. and Newell, M. K. "Barriers to and Measurements of the Diffusion of Technology from the University to Industry." Comparatve Technology Transfer and Society, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 255-278, 2004.

Sobol, M. G. and Smith, G. "The Impact of IT Adoption on Hospital Staffing and Payroll," International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2001.

Jiang, J. J., Sobol, M. G. and Klien, G. "Performance Ratings and Importance of Performance Measures for IS Staff", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 47, No. 4, Nov. 2000.

Sobol, M. G. "Segmenting HMO's to Study Productivity and Profitability", Journal of Healthcare and Finance, Vol. 26, No. 4, Summer 2000.

Sobol, M. G. and Winniford, M. A., "Factors Affecting the Uses of Groupware." Informatica, V17, 2000.

Griffith, T. and Sobol, M. G., "Negotiating Medical Technology Implementation: Overcoming Power and Stakeholder Diversity."  International Journal of Healthcare Technololgy and Management, Vol X, 2000.

Sobol, M. G. and Woods, J., "A Ten-Year Update the Marketing Life Cycle for Hospital Information Technologies," Health Marketing Quarterly, Vol 18, 1/2, 2000.

Klein, G., Jiang, J. J., Sobol, M. G., "A New View in Personnel Performance Evaluation," Communications of the ACM, forthcoming.

Sobol, M. G., Alverson, M. and Lei, D. T., "Barriers to the Adoption of computerized Technology in Healthcare Systems," Topics in Health Information Management, May 1999, 19:4, pp. 1-19.

Apte, U., Sobol, M. G., Hanaoka, S. et al., "IS Outsourcing Practices in the USA, Japan and Finland:  A comparative Study," Journal of Information Technology, December 1997, Vol. 12, No. 4.

Klein, G. and Sobol, M. G. "Bias in Computer Assisted Surveys," I.E.E.E. Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, September 1996, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 566-571.

Sobol, M., G., Albert Kagan and Hirohisa Shimura, "Performance Criteria for Relational Databases in Different Normal Forms," Journal of Systems and Software, Spring 1996.

Puelz, A. and Sobol, M. G.  "Statistical Cross Validation:  A Simulation Study," Proceedings, Decision Sciences Institute, 1995, pp. 1042-1044.

Sobol, M. G. and Apte, U., "Efficient Company's Views of Domestic and Global MIS Outsourcing," Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 10, 1995, pp. 269 - 280.

Consulting Experience

Grants, Honors, & Awards

• SMU Distinguished University Citizen Award, May 2005
• Joint Appointment, Engineering Management and Information Systems, 2002
• Maura Award, Spring 2001, Women's Center
• Aaron Sartain, Distinguished Faculty Award, 1997
• Presidents Partners Research Award – Spring 1997
• University Research Award - Fall 1996
• Fellow - Decision Science Institute - Fall 1992
• Rotunda Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award 1991
• SMU Excellence in Teaching Award, Spring 1991
• Interfaces Award for Outstanding Service - December 1986
• Syracuse University Honors Scholarship
• Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Gamma Mu (Social Science Honorary)
• Chi Eta Sigma (Economics Honorary)
• Brown University tuition scholarship and special scholarship
• Scholarship to London School of Economics (tuition, room and board and travel) Institute of International Education, 1953
• New Mexico-Wyoming Fellowship, American Association of University Women, '57-'58
• University of Michigan, Graduate Grant for Dissertation, 1959
• Omicron Delta Epsilon - Rider College 1971
• Rider College Research Award, Summer 1972
• Phi Chi Theta - honorary member, Rider College, June 1973
• Alpha Iota Delta - National Decision Science Honor Society, 1974
• Southern Methodist University - Research Fellowship, Summer 1976
• Research Proposal Award, Secretary of Labor's Invitational Conference on the Pre-retirement Years, February 1976
• Southern Methodist University - Research Fellowship, 1979-80
• Semi-Finalist - AIDS Innovative Instruction Award, 1979
• SMU Research Fellowship, Summer 1982
• Beta Gamma Sigma, Spring 1987
• Omega Rho, Spring 1992