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Dr. Sharon Tan is an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Information Systems at The National
University of Singapore (NUS). She received her Ph.D. and M.Sc.
degrees in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University,
and her M.Sc. and B.Sc. Honours degrees in Information Systems
from NUS.
Her research interests includes knowledge management and work interruption, and Healthcare Information Technology.
Her work has been published in MIS Quarterly, the proceedings of the International Conference
of Information Systems (ICIS), the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative
Work (CSCW), and the America's Conference of Information Systems (AMCIS). Her papers have won several awards including the Emerald Management Review Citation of Excellence award (for being one of the top 50 articles out of 15,000 articles published in the top 400 business and management journals in 2008) and the Best Paper (Runners' Up) Award of the 2002 International Conference
on Information Systems (ICIS).
Dr. Tan is serving on the editorials board of the Journal of AIS special issue on Healthcare IT, and the Journal of Database Management. She has served or will be serving on the program committees of international conferences such as ICIS and PACIS. She is also a member of the newly formed Alliance for Clinical Excellence (ACE) that promotes collaborative work (amongst industry, academia and governments) for the benefit assessment of Healthcare IT. |
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Knowledge Management
Work
Interruptions
Healthcare Information Technology
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- Understanding the mediating mechanisms of knowledge contribution
- Adoption & Use of Clinic Management Systems by General Practitioners
- Use of Healthcare IT in Singapore hospitals
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| Selected Publications
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Fernando, O., Goodman, P.S. and Tan, S.S.L. "Contribution Behaviors in Distributed Environments," MIS Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 23-42, March 2008. |
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| Zhang, W, Tan, S.S.L. and Tan, B.C.Y. "Effectiveness
of Knowledge Acquisition for Newcomers: The relationship between
acquisition channels and knowledge types," Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh
Annual International Conference on Information Systems (Milwaukee),
2006. |
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Dabbish, L. and
Tan, S.S.L. “Interruption
timing, performance and negative affect”, Extended Abstracts on ACM
Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2004),
Chicago, IL, Nov. 6-10. |
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Tan, S.S. L and Fichman, M. “Adoption
of Web-based Transactional Banking: Efficiency-choice and Neo-institutional
Perspectives”, Proceedings
of the Twenty-Third Annual International Conference on Information
Systems, 2002, pp.137-146. (Awarded Runners-up for Best Conference
Paper Award). |
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Tan, S. S. L., Teo, H. H., Tan,
B. C. Y. and Wei, K. K. "Developing
a Preliminary Framework for Knowledge Management in Organizations,” Proceedings of
the Fourth Annual Association for Information Systems Americas
Conference, 1998, pp. 629-631. |
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Tan, S. S. L., Teo, H. H., Tan,
B. C. Y. and Wei, K. K. "Environmental
Scanning on the Internet," Proceedings of the Nineteenth
Annual International Conference on Information Systems,1998,
pp.76-87. |
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CS4264: E-Commerce: B2C Applications
CS5253: Knowledge Systems and Management |
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| TAN
Swee Lin, Sharon |
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Assistant Professor
BSc (Hons), MSc (NUS)
MSc, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University)
Tel: (65) 6516-4866,
Fax: (65) 6779-7365.
E-mail: [tansl@comp.nus.edu.sg]
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