DR. ELLEN CHRISTIAANSE
Ellen Christiaanse is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Amsterdam Graduate Business School at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Professor Christiaanse has spent 3 years as a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School in the US, and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Free University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Dr. Christiaanse taught at Nyenrode University and Delft University in the Netherlands and at international institutions as a guest lecturer.
Professor Christiaanse’s research interests include on-line supply chains, (mobile) electronic channels and the leveraging of expertise and information as an asset in inter-firm settings, in particular B2B exchanges. She has been awarded several international prizes for her research by the Academy of Management, the EFMD, and the ECIS. Her work has been published in Management Information Systems Quarterly, E-Services Journal, the Journal of Global Information Management, the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, The European Journal of Information Systems, and The proceedings of ICIS, ECIS, and HICSS. Her teaching and consulting activities are focused on IT strategy and electronic channels. Dr. Christiaanse works as a consultant with many international organizations like ABNAMRO bank, KLM, Baan Company and KPMG and frequently acts as a speaker at international conferences. She is currently on on leave at Esade Business School Barcelona, Spain.