Draft:Jason Bennett Thatcher


Jason Bennett Thatcher

Jason Bennett Thatcher is an American information systems scholar whose research examines cybersecurity behavior, social media, digital work, technostress, strategic alignment, and digital leadership. He holds the Tandean Rustandy Esteemed Professorship at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder and is a Full Professor of Management Science at Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester.

Thatcher’s research focuses on individual decision-making, strategic alignment, and workforce issues related to the effective use of information technology in organizations. His more recent work has examined cybersecurity, social media, and digital upper echelons. His publications have appeared in journals including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, and the Journal of the Association for Information Systems.

Education

Thatcher earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in History and Political Science from the University of Utah. He later attended Florida State University, where he completed a Master of Public Administration in 1999 and a Ph.D. in Business Administration in 2002.

Academic career

Thatcher began his academic career at Clemson University, where he served as assistant professor, associate professor, full professor, and Trevillian Professor in the Department of Management. At Clemson, he also directed the Social Media Listening Center and the Social Analytics Institute.

He later joined the University of Alabama as MIS Endowed Faculty Fellow and then Temple University, where he served as the Milton F. Stauffer Professor in the Department of Management Information Systems at the Fox School of Business. In 2024, he joined the University of Colorado Boulder as Tandean Rustandy Esteemed Professor in Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics.

Thatcher has also held international appointments and fellowships at institutions including Alliance Manchester Business School, the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Technical University of Munich, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Baptist University, IT University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Dortmund, and the Weizenbaum Institute.

Research

Thatcher’s work can be grouped into four main research themes.

Cybersecurity and information security behavior

One stream of Thatcher’s research examines cybersecurity behavior, phishing, trust in technology, information security messaging, and employee security practices. His studies have examined how individuals respond to phishing attempts, how organizations design security messages, and how employees interpret cybersecurity controls.

Representative publications include “Influence Techniques in Phishing Attacks,” published in Information Systems Research, “Training to Mitigate Phishing Attacks Using Mindfulness Techniques,” published in Journal of Management Information Systems, and “Protecting a Whale in a Sea of Phish,” published in Journal of Information Technology.

Social media, online identity, and hiring

A second stream examines social media, online identity, digital stigma, political affiliation, and hiring decisions. This work includes studies of social media screening in employee selection, political affiliation and employment judgments, social networking site identity, online harassment reporting, and disclosures of post-traumatic stress disorder by veterans on social media.

Representative publications include “Social Media in Employee-Selection-Related Decisions,” published in Journal of Management, “Political Affiliation and Employment Screening Decisions,” published in Journal of Applied Psychology, “Social Media and Selection,” published in MIS Quarterly, and “Standing Up or Standing By,” published in Information Systems Research.

Technostress, digital work, and the IT workforce

A third stream examines technostress, interruptions, remote work, digital labor, and the information technology workforce. Thatcher’s work in this area has studied technology-related stress, IT mindfulness, telework, work-life conflict, professional identity among IT workers, and turnover among technology professionals.

Representative publications include “Mindfulness in Information Technology Use,” published in MIS Quarterly, “Deconstructing Technostress,” published in MIS Quarterly, “Cooking a Telework Theory with Causal Recipes,” published in Information Systems Journal, and “The Impact of Social Comparison on Turnover Among Information Technology Professionals,” published in Journal of Management Information Systems.

Strategic alignment, digital leadership, and artificial intelligence

A fourth stream examines strategic alignment, digital leadership, artificial intelligence, and digital platform ecosystems. This research addresses how organizations align business and information technology strategy, how senior leaders shape digital transformation, and how firms organize around artificial intelligence and platform-based business models.

Representative publications include “Looking Toward the Future of IT-Business Strategic Alignment Through the Past,” published in MIS Quarterly, “The Effect of Business-IT Strategic Alignment and IT Governance on Firm Performance,” published in MIS Quarterly, “Implementing AI Orientation in Firms,” published in MIS Quarterly, and “Mobilising New Frontiers in Digital Transformation Research,” published in Information Systems Journal.

Editorial and professional service

Thatcher has served in editorial roles at several information systems journals. His uploaded materials list senior editor roles at MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. Earlier materials also list service as senior editor at Decision Sciences and associate editor at Information Systems Research.

Within the Association for Information Systems (AIS), Thatcher served as president from 2015 to 2018 and vice president of membership from 2009 to 2015. He also served as president of AIS SIG-Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology.

His conference service includes serving as Program Co-Chair of the International Conference on Information Systems in 2024 and Co-Chair of AMCIS 2020.

Awards and honors

Thatcher was named an AIS Fellow in 2019 and an AIS Senior Scholar in 2018. His uploaded materials also list the AIS Sandra Slaughter Service Award, AIS Technology VISION Award, Technische Universität München Ambassador recognition, the KPMG Foundation’s Circle of Compadres, a Gambrinus Fellowship at TU Dortmund, and a Weizenbaum Institute Research Fellowship.

Selected publications Thatcher, J. B., & Perrewé, P. L. (2002). “An Empirical Examination of Traits as Antecedents to Computer Self-Efficacy and Computer Anxiety.” MIS Quarterly, 26(4), 381–396. https://doi.org/10.2307/4132314 Ahuja, M. K., & Thatcher, J. B. (2005). “Moving Beyond Intentions and Toward the Theory of Trying: Effects of Work Environment and Gender on Post-Adoption Information Technology Use.” MIS Quarterly, 29(3), 429–461. https://doi.org/10.2307/25148691 Wright, R. T., Jensen, M., Thatcher, J. B., Dinger, M., & Marett, K. (2014). “Influence Techniques in Phishing Attacks: An Examination of Vulnerability and Resistance.” Information Systems Research, 25(2), 385–400. https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2014.0522 Gerow, J., Grover, V., Thatcher, J. B., & Roth, P. (2014). “Looking Toward the Future of IT-Business Strategic Alignment Through the Past: A Meta-Analysis.” MIS Quarterly, 38(4), 1059–1085. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26627966 Roth, P. L., Bobko, P., Van Iddekinge, C. H., & Thatcher, J. B. (2016). “Social Media in Employee-Selection-Related Decisions: A Research Agenda for Uncharted Territory.” Journal of Management, 42(1), 269–298. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206313503018 Jensen, M., Dinger, M., Wright, R., & Thatcher, J. B. (2017). “Training to Mitigate Phishing Attacks Using Mindfulness Techniques.” Journal of Management Information Systems, 34(2), 597–626. https://doi.org/10.1080/07421222.2017.1334499 Thatcher, J. B., Wright, R., Sun, H., Zagenczyk, T., & Klein, R. (2018). “Mindfulness in Information Technology Use: Three Empirical Studies.” MIS Quarterly, 42(3), 831–847. https://doi.org/10.25300/MISQ/2018/11881 Wade, J., Roth, P., Thatcher, J. B., & Dinger, M. (2020). “Social Media and Selection: How Talking Guns, Doctors, and Mary Jane Influence Your Future.” MIS Quarterly, 44(3), 1301–1357. https://doi.org/10.25300/MISQ/2020/14119 Carter, M., Petter, S., Grover, V., & Thatcher, J. B. (2020). “IT Identity: A Key Determinant of Feature Use and Exploratory Behaviors.” MIS Quarterly, 44(3), 983–1021. https://doi.org/10.25300/MISQ/2020/14607 Wright, R., & Thatcher, J. B. (2021). “Phishing Tests Are Necessary. But They Don’t Need to Be Evil.” Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2021/04/phishing-tests-are-necessary-but-they-dont-need-to-be-evil Ashrafi, A., Constantinides, P., Mehandjiev, N., & Thatcher, J. B. (2025). “Mobilising New Frontiers in Digital Transformation Research: A Problematization Review.” Information Systems Journal, 35(1), 97–139. https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12531

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