ECSU, Dept of Business Administration

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Accounting
Business
Bus. Information
Systems (BIS)

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Accounting
Organizational
Management
 

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Education:
PhD in Management and MIS, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, January 1986
MSc in Technical Cybernetics, Technical University Brno, Czech Republic, 1978

Short biography
Dr Petkov has taught at university level since 1987 and prior to that he worked in the IT industry for 9 years. He is a Professor and Coordinator of BIS at Eastern Connecticut State University since 2004. He is a senior associate editor for International Journal on Information technology and the Systems Approach (IJITSA, IGI Global), a co-editor in chief for International Journal on Computers, Signals and Systems (IJCSS) and is on the editorial boards of Systems Research and Behavioral Science (Wiley) and Scientific Inquiry. His papers have been published in Decision Support Systems, The Journal of Systems and Software, JITTA, Telecommunications Policy, Information Resources Management Journal, Kybernetes, JITCAR, International Journal on Technology Management, ISEDJ and elsewhere. His research interests and publications are in the area of software engineering, MCDM, IT management and organizational transformation through systems thinking. Dr Petkov has consulted on organizational learning and IT evaluation and strategy.

Teaching interests:
Systems Analysis and Design, Software Engineering, IS strategy, Database, Systems Thinking, MIS, Decision Support Systems, IS Applications, Business Process Reengineering and ERP,  Programming, IS Management, Decision Making, Critical Systems Thinking and Multimethodology, Research Methodology

Research areas:  
Software Engineering, Decision Support Systems, Technology Management, Web Development,  Software Development Productivity, Multicriteria Decision Analysis, Systems Thinking.

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