

David E. Pingry
McCelland Professor of Management Information Systems and Economics
- Ph.D., Economics, Purdue University, 1971
Research Interests
- Management of Information
- Decision Support Systems
- Software Patent Policy
Publications and Working Papers
- Cha H., Pingry D., Thatcher M.,“What Determines IT Spending Priorities,” Communications of the ACM, forthcoming
- Pingry D., Thatcher M.,“Software Patents – The Good, the Bad, and the Messy,” Communications of the ACM, forthcoming
- Pingry D., Thatcher M., “A Model of Optimal Software Patent Policy,” August 2007
- Cha H., Pingry D., Thatcher M.,“Disrupting the Management Supply Chain: An Organizational Learning Model of IT Offshore Outsourcing,” September 2007
- Kim T., Pingry D., Thatcher M.,"Modeling the ‘IT Value Paradox’”,Communications of the ACM, Volume 50, Number 8 (2007), Pages 41-45
- Pingry D., Thatcher M.,“Welfare Analysis of Alternative Patent Policies for Software Innovations,” Decision Support Systems, Volume 41, May 2006, pp 803-823
- Pingry D.,“Understanding the Business Value of IT Investments: Theoretical Evidence from Alternative Market and Cost Structures,” Journal of Management Information Systems, Volume 21, Number 2, Fall 2004, pp. 61-85
- Pingry D., Thatcher M.,“An Economic Model of Product Quality and IT Value,” Information Systems Research, Volume 15, No. 3, September 2004, pp. 268–286
- Marsden J., Pingry D., “IT Reference Disciplines - Andy Whinston, A Case Study,” Business Modeling: Multidisciplinary Approaches-Economics, Operational, and Information Systems Perspectives (in Honor of Andrew B. Whinston), Edited by Clyde Hosapple, Varghese Jacob, and H. Raghav Rao, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002