Jeffrey Wall

Contact

jdwall@mtu.edu
906-487-1707
Academic Office Building G010

Associate Professor of Management Information Systems & Analytics, College of Business

PhD in Information Systems, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
MS in Public Administration (minor in IS), Brigham Young University
BA in Organizational Communication, University of Utah

Biography

Prior to joining the Michigan Tech College of Business in 2015, Jeffrey Wall taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he also received his PhD in information systems. Dr. Wall is passionate about entrepreneurship and has worked for and launched small businesses. He has also been involved in the design and development of proprietary e-commerce systems and an ERP system. Dr. Wall currently manages two open-source software projects that he develops with students through course projects.

Teaching Interests

Business Process Automation
AI and Machine Learning for Business
Systems Analysis and Design
Programming for Business Analytics

Research Interests

AI and Machine Learning for Finance/Accounting
Simplification of AI Workflows
Information Security Behavior
Power and Control

Selected Publications

Kosireddy, Tagore, Wall, Jeffrey D., and Lucas, Evan (2024). Exploring the Readiness of Prominent Small Language Models for the Democratization of Financial Literacy. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Customizable NLP (Miami, FL).
Wall, Jeffrey D. and Palvia, Prashant (2022). Understanding employees’ information security identities: An interpretive narrative approach. Information Technology and People, 35(1).
Wall, J. D., & Warkentin, M. (2019). Perceived argument quality's effect on threat and coping appraisals in fear appeals: An experiment and exploration of realism check heuristics. Information & Management, 56(8).
Jiang, Ling, Mirkovski, Kristijan, Wall, Jeffrey D., Wagner, Christian, and Lowry, Paul Benjamin (2018). Proposing the Core Contributor Withdrawal Theory (CCWT) to Understand Core Contributor Withdrawal from Online Peer-Production Communities. Internet Research, 28(4).
Wall, Jeffrey D. and Singh, Rahul (2018). The Organization Man and the Innovator: Theoretical archetypes to inform behavioral information security research. The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, 49(SI).
Wall, Jeffrey D. and Buche, Mari W. (2017). To fear or not to fear? A critical review and analysis of fear appeals in the information security context. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 41(1), p. 277-300.
Wall, Jeffrey D. and Singh, Rahul (2017). Contextualized meaning extraction: A meta-algorithm for big data text mining with pragmatics. International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence, 7(3), p. 15-29.
Wall, Jeffrey D., Lowry, Paul Benjamin, and Barlow, Jordan (2016). Organizational violations of externally governed privacy and security rules: Explaining and predicting selective violations under conditions of strain and excess. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 17(1),p. 39-76.
Wall, Jeffrey D., Stahl, Bernd C., and Salam, A.F. (2015). Critical discourse analysis as a review methodology: An empirical example. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 37(1),p. 257-285.
Wall, Jeffrey D., Knapp, Janice (2015). Learning computing topics in undergraduate information systems courses: Managing perceived difficulty. Journal of Information Systems Education, 25(3), p. 245-259.
Nemati, Hamid, Wall, Jeffrey D., and Chow, Anthony (2014). Privacy coping and information sharing behaviors in social media: A comparison of Chinese and U.S. users. Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 17(4), p. 228-249.
Wall, Jeffrey D., Palvia, Prashant, and Lowry, Paul Benjamin (2013). Control-related motivations and information security policy compliance: The role of autonomy and efficacy. Journal of Information Privacy and Security, 9(4), p. 52-79.