Speaker : Stefan Tams, Professor of Information Technologies, HEC Montréal, Former director and current member of HEC Montreal’s research group on Information Systems (GReSI), Brand-new member of the Quebec Network for Research on Aging
This presentation will provide an overview of how aging is studied in the management literature and, in particular, in the management information systems literature. It will discuss the types of questions that are examined (e.g., how aging affects performance on IT-enabled job tasks), the types of research models that are used to examine them (e.g., variance-based mediation models), and the types of methods and measures of cognitive aging that are employed (e.g., large-scale surveys that include mental rotation tasks). Then, it will illustrate these concepts by means of several published articles. Finally, it will discuss common implications for researchers and practitioners. The presenter seeks feedback on how to improve knowledge creation in this area theoretically and methodologically.
Bio : Stefan Tams holds the Professorship in Technology and Aging at HEC Montréal, where he is a professor of management information systems. His current research interests focus on the roles of age and stress in IT use at organizations. He has consistently been ranked among the top five researchers in his field in terms of published articles as lead author in the field’s premier journals. His research has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the Globe and Mail, El Pais, and other outlets. He loves listening to Latin American music and sledding with his 4-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter.
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