Andrew Urbaczewski

Andrew Urbaczewski, associate professor in the Department of Business Information & Analytics, came to Daniels in 2013 from the University of Michigan at Dearborn, where he spent 10 years on the faculty, including six as the chair of the department of Management Studies. Urbaczewski has written 23 articles published in refereed journals. His dissertation and early research examined electronic monitoring of Internet usage by employers. His research has now expanded to sports analytics as well as information security education and electronic health record implementation. He holds a BSBA (with Honors) in Finance from the University of Tennessee, an MBA from West Virginia University, and a PhD in Management Information Systems from Indiana University. Urbaczewski primarily teaches in the MSBA program, focusing on courses in Business Decision Making. Prior to being at UM-Dearborn, he was an assistant professor at Washington State University.

In 2019–2021 Andrew was away as a distinguished visiting professor at the United States Air Force Academy.

RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

• Toney, S., Light, J., and Urbaczewski, A. “Fighting Zoom Fatigue: Keeping the Zoombies at Bay,” Forthcoming at Communications of the Association for Information Systems.
• Elmore, R. and Urbaczewski, A. “Loss Aversion in Professional Golf,” Journal of Sports Economics, (22:2), February 2021, pp. 202-217.
• Urbaczewski, A. and Lee, Y.J. “Information Technology and the Pandemic: A preliminary analysis of the impact of mobile tracking technology on the COVID-19 contagion control,” European Journal of Information Systems, (29:4), Fall 2020, pp. 405-414.
• Bartelt, V., Urbaczewski, A., Mueller, A., and Sarker, S. “Denver Smart City Living Lab: Theoretical Insights for Improving Collaboration, Knowledge Sharing, and Innovation in the Public Sector,” European Journal of Information Systems, (29:4), Fall 2020, pp. 369-387.
• Urbaczewski, A. and Keeling, K. “From MIS departments to Analytics Departments,” Journal of Information Systems Education (30:4), December 2019, pp. 303-310.
• Freeman, L. and Urbaczewski, A. “Critical Success Factors for Online Education,” Communications of the Association for Information Systems (44:30), April 2019, pp. 630-645.
• Urbaczewski, A., and Elmore, R. “Big Data, Efficient Markets, and the End of Daily Fantasy Sports as we Know It,” Big Data (6:4), December 2018, pp. 239-247.
• Elmore, R, and Urbaczewski, A., “On the Hot Hand in Golf,” Journal of Sports Analytics, (4:4) (November 2018), pp. 275-284.
• Lee, Y.J., Keeling, K., and Urbaczewski, A. “The Economic Value of Online User Reviews with Ad Spending on Movie Box-Office Sales,” Information Systems Frontiers, pp. 1-16.
  
• Urbaczewski, A., and Beaver, P. “Learning and Education: A Paradigm Shift in the Age of Internet and Search Engines,” Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research (17:3), December 2015, pp. 124-129