E. Burton Swanson

E. Burton Swanson (born 1939) is an American information scientist, and Professor Emeritus of Information Systems at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Biography Swanson received his BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering in 1962 from San Jose State University, his MBA in 1964 from the University of Michigan and his PhD in Business Administration in 1971 from University of California, Berkeley.

Swanson had started his career at IBM, where he worked in the system development of applications. He returned to the academia in 1974 to the University of California, Los Angeles, where he became Professor of Information Systems at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he directed the Information Systems Research Program. He has held visiting positions in England, Belgium and Germany. Books: Lientz, Bennet P., and E. Burton Swanson. Software maintenance management: a study of the maintenance of computer application software in 487 data processing organizations. (1980). Swanson, E. Burton, and Cynthia Mathis Beath. Maintaining information systems in organizations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1989.

Articles, a selection: Swanson, E. Burton. "Management information systems: appreciation and involvement." Management Science 21.2 (1974): 178-188. Swanson, E. Burton. "The dimensions of maintenance." in Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Software engineering. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1976. Swanson, E. Burton. "Information systems innovation among organizations." Management Science 40.9 (1994): 1069-1092. Swanson, E. Burton, and Neil C. Ramiller. "The organizing vision in information systems innovation." Organization science 8.5 (1997): 458-474. Swanson, E. Burton, and Neil C. Ramiller. "Innovating mindfully with information technology ." MIS Quarterly (2004): 553-583.