Annette Mills (academic)

Annette Marie Mills is a Jamaican–New Zealand academic, and is Professor of Information Systems in the business school at the University of Canterbury, specialising in the impacts of new technologies, especially relating to privacy.

Annette Mills
AwardsFellow of the Association for Information Systems
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Waikato, University of Technology, University of the West Indies, University of Otago
Thesis
  • Investigating the determinants of user sophistication: a perspective from social cognitive theory (1996)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Canterbury

Academic career edit

Mills completed her undergraduate training at the University of Technology and the University of the West Indies. Mills completed a PhD titled Investigating the determinants of user sophistication: a perspective from social cognitive theory at the University of Waikato in 1996.[1][2] She also has a postgraduate certificate in tertiary teaching from the University of Otago.[2] Mills is on the faculty of the University of Canterbury, where she is Professor of Information Systems.[3]

Mills is interested in how people and societies adapt to new and emerging technologies, and the positive and negative impacts of those technologies, including privacy concerns. She covers topics such as pervasive data collection, digital surveillance, automated decision-making, wearable technologies, and biometric data.[4] She has also examined how the increase in home-working has affected enterprise security.[5]

Mills is on the committee of the Privacy Foundation New Zealand, and convenes the working group on children's privacy.[4][6] Mills is an editor for several journals, including and IT & People, the Journal of Global Information Management, and the Australian Journal of Information Systems.[5]

In 2020 Mills was elected a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems.[2] In 1993 she was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to New Zealand.[7]

Selected works edit

  • Jenni Mehrtens; Paul B. Cragg; Annette M. Mills (December 2001). "A model of Internet adoption by SMEs". Information & Management. 39 (3): 165–176. doi:10.1016/S0378-7206(01)00086-6. ISSN 0378-7206. Wikidata Q125164805.
  • Annette M. Mills; Trevor A. Smith (22 February 2011). "Knowledge management and organizational performance: a decomposed view". Journal of Knowledge Management. 15 (1): 156–171. doi:10.1108/13673271111108756. ISSN 1367-3270. Wikidata Q125306551.
  • Lindsay H. Stuart; Annette M. Mills; Ulrich Remus (November 2009). "School leaders, ICT competence and championing innovations". Computers and Education. 53 (3): 733–741. doi:10.1016/J.COMPEDU.2009.04.013. ISSN 0360-1315. Wikidata Q125164804.
  • Luiz Mendes-Filho; Annette M. Mills; Felix B. Tan; Simon Milne (28 July 2017). "Empowering the traveler: an examination of the impact of user-generated content on travel planning". Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing. 35 (4): 425–436. doi:10.1080/10548408.2017.1358237. ISSN 1054-8408. Wikidata Q125167557.
  • Reza Vaezi; Annette Mills; Wynne Chin; Humayun Zafar (2016). "User Satisfaction Research in Information Systems: Historical Roots and Approaches". Communications of the Association for Information Systems. 38: 501–532. doi:10.17705/1CAIS.03827. ISSN 1529-3181. Wikidata Q125306555.
  • Judith Welschen; Nelly Todorova; Annette M. Mills (1 April 2012). "An Investigation of the Impact of Intrinsic Motivation on Organizational Knowledge Sharing". International Journal of Knowledge Management. 8 (2): 23–42. doi:10.4018/JKM.2012040102. ISSN 1548-0666. Wikidata Q125306574.
  • Joey F. George; Manjul Gupta; Gabriel Giordano; Annette M. Mills; Vanesa M. Tennant; Carmen C. Lewis (2 February 2018). "The Effects of Communication Media and Culture on Deception Detection Accuracy". Management Information Systems Quarterly. 42 (2): 551–575. doi:10.25300/MISQ/2018/13215. ISSN 0276-7783. Wikidata Q125306559.

References edit

  1. ^ Mills, Annette Marie (1996). Investigating the determinants of user sophistication: a perspective from social cognitive theory (PhD thesis). University of Waikato.
  2. ^ a b c "AIS Fellow Award – History of AIS". Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  3. ^ University of Canterbury. "Academic profile: Professor Annette Mills". profiles.canterbury.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Working Groups – Privacy Foundation New Zealand". Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  5. ^ a b "WMS research seminar: 'My Home, My Castle – The New Frontline for Enterprise Cybersecurity ' : Events Calendar". events.waikato.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  6. ^ "Patron & Committee – Privacy Foundation New Zealand". Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  7. ^ NZVCC. "50 Years of Commonwealth Scholarships: New Zealand 1959–2009" (PDF). Universities New Zealand. Retrieved 6 April 2024.

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