Richard Mason Ph.D.

Education
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley 1968
B.S., Oregon State University 1956

Areas of Expertise
Business Ethics and Philosophy
Management Information Systems
Strategy and Policy
Organization Theory
Digital Economy
Electronic Commerce
Information Management
IS Ethics
Internet and Culture
Management Information Systems

Consulting
President's Commission on Competitiveness, Washington, DC, June 2, 1997 Workshop on ethical and legal aspects of computer and network abuse, National Conference of Lawyers and Sciences sponsored by AAAS and American Bar Association, May 15-16, 1997.

Cathay Pacific Airlines, Hong Kong; Conven Corp., Phoenix, Arizona; AACSB; GMAT; J.C. Penney; G. E. Thompson; IBM and Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation; Xerox, General Motors; Dupont, Kodak, Wells Fargo Bank; U.S. Department of Energy, Washington; U.S. Census Bureau, Washington; NSF, Washington; U.S. Forest Service, Berkeley; Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles; City of Los Angeles.

Industry Experience
National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.:  Program Manager, 1975- 1976 (on leave from UCLA)

Burroughs Corporation:  Computer Specialist, 1956- 1965

King Concessions, Eugene and Corvallis, Oregon:  Concession Stand Operator, 1953- 1956

J. C. Penney Company, Corvallis, Oregon:  Salesman, 1955- 1956

Jarmin-Williamson Company, Portland, Oregon:  Machinist, 1951- 1952

Recent Publications
"A Tapestry of Privacy:  A Meta-Discussion", Privacy:  Looking Ahead, Looking Back (Connelly Program in Business Ethics, Georgetown School of Business).  Expected publication date, April 2000.

"Ethics of Genetic Research Overview", Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, November 17, 1999.

"Similarities, Connections, and Systems:  The Search for a New Rationality for Planning and Management," by Nirag Verma.  Reviewed by Richard O. Mason, Academy of Management Review, Vol. 24, No. 4 (October, 1999), pp. 865-867.

"Planning and Designing Effective Web Sites", Cambridge, MA:  Course Technology, 1998 (with Sue Conger).

"Japanese Language Edition of Ethics of Information Management", published by arrangement with Sage Publications, Inc. through Orion Literary Agency, 1998.

"Ethics of Brown Vs. DSC," Cox Today, Spring, 1998.

"Business ethics: Responsible behavior is more than control policy", published Plano Star Courier, July 5, 1998.

"Ethics issue in corporate world", The Daily Campus, SMU, August 26, 1998.

"Systems Analysis", revised Encyclopedia of Operations Research, (with Sue Conger) [Carl M. Harris and Saul I. Gass, Editors].  Kluwer Academic Publishers, Hingham, MA, 1998.

"Yield Management", revised Encycleopedia of Operations of Operations Research, (with Sue Conger) [Carl M. Harris and Saul I. Gass, Editors].  Kluwer Academic Publishers, Hingham, MA, 1998.

Editorial Boards
Information System Research: A Journal of the Institute of Management Sciences
Ad Hoc Reviewer for: Journal of Marketing, 1999
Ad Hoc Reviewer for: Human Systems Management, 1978- present
Ad Hoc Reviewer for: Journal of Management, 1979- present
Ad Hoc Reviewer for: California Management Review, 1969- present
Ad Hoc Reviewer for: Management Scienc , 1969- present
Associate Editor for: Information Society, 1997
Associate Editor for: Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 1997
Associate Editor for: MIS Quarterly, 1985-present
Associate Editor for: Administrative Science Quarterly, Referee, 1976-1978; Editorial Board, 1979-1987.  Reviewer 1987-present
Associate Editor for: Information Society:  An International Journal,  1978- present
Associate Editor for: Office:  Technology and People,  1980- present. 
Associate Editor for: Academy of Management Review, 1978-1982 

Grants, Honors & Awards

• SMU Research Grant to develop "The Ethics Companion" for use in Capstone 3391 and other courses, June-September 1995
• Fulbright Grant to teach and do research in Sweden - January-June, 1993
• International Center for Information Technology, "A study of the role of corporate strategy, organizational form and information technology in global financial markets with emphasis on London's Big Bang," 1987- 1991
• U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Forest Service, Summer, 1982
• Co-Investigator U.S. Forest Service Policy Analysis, $19,000, 1981- 1982
• Co-Investigator U.S. Census Bureau, A Study of the Policy Decisions in the 1980 Census, $50,000, 1980- 1981
• Co-Investigator NASA, $1,000,000 for the purpose of conducting the "Integrated Study of Earth Resources in the State of California Using Remote Sensing Techniques", 1970
• Flood Fellowship, University of California Berkeley Graduate Award, $3,600 for one year, 1967- 1968
• NASA Predoctoral Traineeship Scholarship, University of California Berkeley Graduate Award, $4,200 for three years, September 1964-September 1967
• Received Fulbright Grant to teach and do research in Sweden, January - June, 1993. Named member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Informatics and Cybernetics, 1992
• National Commission on Admission to Graduate Management Education (GMAC), 1987-1992
• Member, GMAC Research Advisory Board 1989-1994
• Named to Advisory Board Nanyang Technological University, Information Management Research Center, Singapore
• Selected for a Delegation to USSR to Review Soviet Plans for the "Informatization of Soviet Society"
• Fellow, Western Behavioral Science Institute, 1978-1997
• Named among the top 35 MIS Consultants in Information WEEK's survey of the top 50 MIS Consultants, 1988