prof. dr. A. (Albert) Boonstra

Prof. dr. Albert Boonstra

11 September 1959.

SUMMARY

Professor Albert Boonstra holds the Information Management chair of the Faculty of Economics & Business at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. 

He specializes in the implementation challenges of advanced information technologies and their transformative effects on organizations. He is particularly interested in the social, political, and organizational change implications of innovative information technologies in healthcare. Healthcare organizations where he conducted research include Amsterdam Medical Center (AMC), University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Leeuwarden Medical Center (MCL), Lentis Mental Care, Red Cross Hospital Beverwijk (RKZ), and Home Care Groningen. Albert Boonstra also served as a researcher and consultant in IT-enabled organizational change projects at various organizations, including  ABN-Amro, Rabobank, Postbank, Royal Wagenborg, ING, Achmea Insurance, KPN, FBTO, Heineken Netherlands, NDC Publishers, Menzis, and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is a frequently invited speaker at international academic and practitioner-oriented events.

He published his research in four textbooks and in various international journals, including Information Systems Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, Social Science & Medicine, JMIR Human Factors, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Journal of Business Research,  Information Technology & People, Communications of the ACM, International Journal of Project Management, International Journal of Information Management, Project Management Journal, New Technology, Work & Employment, Journal of Air Transport Management, Business Process Management Journal, International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, BMC Health Services Research, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Journal of General Management, International Journal of Operations and Production Management,  International Journal of Project Organisation and Management and International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance.

This link  provides Google Scholar's overview of Albert Boonstra's publications and references to his work.

He also teaches courses in this field for students and experienced managers. He served as a visiting professor at the University of Western Illinois, University of Glasgow, University of Aarhus, Universidade Catholica Portuguesa Lisbon, University College Dublin, and Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia). He also contributes to the Business Administration Programs of Twente School of Management (TSM), Tilburg University (TIAS-Nimbas), the Executive Master of Finance and Control, and the Management and Economics of Healthcare course of the University of Groningen.

Albert Boonstra is also committed to the improvement of degree programs. In that role, he contributed to the development, evaluation, and auditing of various undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate programs (see 'education')

Albert Boonstra earned his Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow and holds a Master's in Business Administration from the same university. He also holds degrees in Economics and Law.

PRESENT POSITION

Professor of Information Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen.
Research Director of the Research Programme Innovation & Organization at the Unversity of Groningen.
Fellow of the SOM Research Institute at the University of Groningen.
Research fellow of the Aletta School of Public Health.



EDUCATION

Doctor in Philosophy (1995), University of Glasgow, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Management Studies, Thesis title: 'Alternative Approaches to the Application of Information Systems in Professional Organisations.'

Master of Business Administration (1991), University of Glasgow, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Management Studies.

Bachelor's degree  (1983), Economics and Business Administration (teacher education), Groningen.        

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Senior editor of  Information Systems Journal .

Member of Board of Editors of  Information & Management .

Member of the supervisory board of the Groningen University Fund (GUF).

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Social Sciences & Humanities of the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

Senior editor of  International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management

Regular referee for several journals, including MIS Quarterly, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information Systems Frontiers, European Management Journal,  Information Systems Journal, Computers in Industry, Information Technology & People,  Information & Management,  International Journal of Project Management, International Journal of Electronic Government Research, Information Resources Management Journal, European Conference of Information Systems, Applied Clinical Informatics, International Conference of Information Systems, Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice, International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), BMC Health Services Research. 

Team member of  AACSB - accreditation process at Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen, 2009-2011.

Albert Boonstra also reviews book manuscripts in his field for international publishers such as Oxford University Press, Sage, Routledge, Pearson, Palgrave, and Thomson.

(Co) supervisor of Ph.D. projects of:
- Jim Yonazi, Adoption of eGovernment in Developing Countries, completed in June 2010; (w. Prof. Henk Sol)
- Karel de Bakker, Dialogue on Risk: Effects of Project Risk Management on IS Project Success, completed in 2011. (w. Prof. Hans Wortmann)
Karel de Bakker's thesis and other research can be downloaded from the following website: http://www.debee.nl/;
- Eveline Hage, How ICTs can promote quality of life in remote areas; see this link, completed in 2015 (w. dr. Marjolein van Offenbeek).
- Edin Smailhodzic, Effects of Online Health Communities on patient-doctor interactions (w. dr. David Langley, TNO), completed in 2017;
- Franka van der Hende, Internationalizing curricula in higher education (w. dr. Jan Riezebos);
- Magda Tasma, Developing and implementing a decision support system for clinical practitioners of patients with psychotic disorders (w. Lentis);
- Lukas Roebroek, completed in 2021.

Member of Ph.D. committees of Larissa Sjarbaini, University of Groningen (2009), Ineke Delies, University of Groningen (2009), Akos Nagy University of Tilburg  (2009), Nural Indarti University of Groningen  (2010), Wouter van Diggelen, University of Groningen (2011), Annabella Habinka Basaza Ejiri, University of Groningen (2012), Victor Hermano Rebolledo, University of Valladolid (2014), Liz Teracino, University of Groningen (2017), Kenny Lienhard, University of Lausanne/IMD (2017), Nick Oostervink, Vrije Universiteit (2017), Arjan de Kok, University of Utrecht (2017), Arnold Commandeur, University of Groningen (2019), Jan-Jaap Moerman, University of Twente (2020), Nikolai Fabian, University of Groningen (2022), Jasmina Rueger, Wageningen (2022), Rube van Poelgeest (2022).

Author of books in the field of ICT Management, published by Prentice-Hall, including:
-  Managing Information Systems, an Organizational Perspective 
   (with David Boddy & Graham Kennedy). Editions in 2002, 2005, and 2009.
 - ''ICT, mensen en Organisaties" (ICT, people, and organizations). Editions in 2002, 2005, and 2010.

Contributor to European and Asian/Australian management summer schools.

Member of the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (Centeris) scientific committee, 2021, 2022, 2023. 

Member of the International Conference on Project Management (ProjMan) scientific committee, 2021, 2022, 2023.

Member of the National Congres Public Management recommendation committee, The City of the Future 2019.

EARLIER POSITIONS AND ACTIVITIES

January 2015 - January 2019: Vice Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business.

Associate editor of the 'General IS Topics' track of the European Conference on Information Systems in Guimaraes (ECIS 2017).

Keynote speaker at the 10th IADIS International Conference on Information Systems, Budapest, 10-12 April 2017.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the AIS affiliated conference CENTERIS 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2015. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems – aligning technology, organizations, and people. http://centeris.eiswatch.org  

General Chair of ProjMan 2015 International Conference on Project Management.

Member of the scientific committee of the International Conference on Project Management 2021, to be held in Braga (Portugal).

Member of the scientific committee of the 5th edition of ProjMAN - International Conference on Project Management, 8-10 November 2017.

Member of the expert panel of the parliamentary inquiry '  ICT projects in the public s ector, May/June 2012.

2022, 2011, and 2001:  Supervisor of International Business Research projects in respectively Thailand, Vietnam, and India. Research and consultancy for Dutch companies.

1990-2007: Research on information systems management for many profit and not-for-profit organizations. These organizations include ABN-Amro, Rabo-bank, Postbank, Royal Wagenborg, ING, Achmea Insurance, FBTO, Heineken Netherlands, NDC Publishers, AMC-Hospital Amsterdam, MCL medical center Leeuwarden, University Medical Center Groningen, Menzis, KPN, and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

2007-2014: Programme director of the MSc Business Administration Program of the University of Groningen.

2004-2007:  Programme Director of the BSc Business Administration Program of the University of Groningen.

2003:  Visiting lecturer at Summerschool for Executive-MBA, held at the Griffith University (Australia, Brisbane).

2001:  Supervisor of the International Study Project India. Research and consultancy for 12 global companies in Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, and New Delhi.

1995-2000: Head of the Department of Finance and Deputy Director of the Institute of Economic and Business Studies at the Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden.

1998- 2000: Lecturer in the doctoral program of the Open University of the Netherlands in the following fields: Information Management, Managerial Decision Making, Diagnosing Organizations, and Corporate Strategy.

1988-2000: Lecturer at the Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden and project manager/consultant in different IT and organization development projects. Contributor to graduate courses (MBA) of the Leeuwarden Business School. Supervisor of undergraduate and graduate students who was working on dissertations.

1996-98: Member of the National Dutch Steering Committee (HOI), which advises Dutch Universities on higher vocational education about the teaching program in IT management.

1995 and 1998: Visiting lecturer at the University of Western Illinois, USA.

1992-2005: Lecturer at the European Summer Schools for Advanced Management of 1992 (Dublin), 1993 (Lissabon), 1994 (Aarhus), Leeuwarden (1995), Glasgow (1996), Dublin (1997) en Aarhus (1999, 2000), organized by the Business Schools of the Universities of Aarhus, Glasgow, Loughborough, Lisbon, and Marseille.

1996-2002: Lecturer at the Asian Summerschool for Advanced Management (AISAM) held in Penang (Malaysia) and organized by the University of Adelaide, Deakin University, The University of Queensland, The University of Sydney, the University of Tasmania and The University of Western Australia.

1994/5: Chairman of the development group 'International Management' for developing the Study Programme 'International Financial Studies and Law' in cooperation with representatives of Sheffield Hallam University, Université d'Auvergne (Clermont Ferrand), and the Fachhochschule Frankfurt.

1994/5: Dutch coordinator of the development of the study programme 'International Business and Management in cooperation with the universities of Oslo (Norway), Wilhelmshaven (Germany), Valencia (Spain), Birmingham (City University), Växjo (Sweden), and Wismar (Germany). 

1983-88: Lecturer in Finance and Economics at a College in Sneek (Friesland, The Netherlands).

1982-83: Lecturer in Economics and Law at a High School (Nijenborgh) in Groningen.


PERSONAL

Married to Aly Boven (in 1983) and father of Anke (1985), Saskia (1987), and Agnes (1989).