Nigel Melville

Associate Professor of Technology and Operations

Education
PhD University of California Irvine 2001
MS ECE University of California Santa Barbara 1990
BS EE University of California Los Angeles 1988
Biography

Nigel Patrick Melville is a sociotechnical scientist at the University of Michigan. His primary scientific contributions are in the information systems field of technology-enabled change, seeking to explain how organizations employ digital technologies to enhance operations and achieve strategic objectives. Professor Melville's expertise includes digital transformation and innovation, AI capabilities and risk, and energy informatics. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles with more than 10,000 citations. Prior to academia, Professor Melville worked as product engineer and co-founded a CRM software company. He has lived in England, Japan, Bolivia, India, and the U.S., earned degrees in electrical and computer engineering and information systems, and has partnered with Google, Amazon, Riot Games, Microsoft, Bouygues Immobilier, Indeed, and others

Latest Faculty News & Research
Green IT Standards, Sustainability Monitoring Capability and Profits: The Role of Cost- versus Environment-Focus
Authors
Mithas, S., Saldanha, T., Khuntia, J., Whitaker, J., Melville, N.,
Published Date
2022
Authors
Mithas, S., Saldanha, T., Khuntia, J., Whitaker, J., Melville, N.,
Source
Management Information Systems Quarterly (MIS Quarterly)
Volume
46
Issue
4
Pages
2367-2386
Models for API Value Generation
Authors
Melville, N., and Kohli, R.
Published Date
2021
Authors
Melville, N., and Kohli, R.
Source
MIS Quarterly Executive
Volume
20
Issue
2
Pages
151-167
Authors
Seidel, S., Bharati, P., Fridgen, G., Watson, R., Albizri, A. Boudreau, M., Butler, T., Kruse, C., Guzman, I., Karsten, H., Lee, H.; Melville, N., Rush, D., Toland, J., and Watts, S.
Published Date
2017
Authors
Seidel, S., Bharati, P., Fridgen, G., Watson, R., Albizri, A. Boudreau, M., Butler, T., Kruse, C., Guzman, I., Karsten, H., Lee, H.; Melville, N., Rush, D., Toland, J., and Watts, S.
Source
Communications of the AIS
Volume
40
Issue
3
Pages
40-52
Does Technological Progress Alter the Nature of Information Technology as a Production Input? New Evidence and New Results
Authors
Paul Chwelos, Ron Ramirez, Ken Kraemer, Nigel Melville
Published Date
2010
Authors
Paul Chwelos, Ron Ramirez, Ken Kraemer, Nigel Melville
Source
Information Systems Research
Volume
21
Issue
2
Pages
392
Information Systems Innovation for Environmental Sustainability
Authors
Nigel Melville
Published Date
03/2010
Authors
Nigel Melville
Source
Management Information Systems Quarterly (MIS Quarterly)
Volume
34
Issue
1
Pages
1-21
Information Technology Infrastructure, Organizational Process Redesign, and Business Value: An Empirical Analysis
Authors
Ron Ramirez, Nigel Melville, Edward Lawler
Published Date
11/2010
Authors
Ron Ramirez, Nigel Melville, Edward Lawler
Source
Decision Support Systems
Volume
49
Issue
4
Pages
417-429
Blog, not book: "INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: IT, Resource Productivity, Environmental Preservation, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution" (> 63000 hits)
Authors
Melville, N.
Published Date
2019
Authors
Melville, N.
Source
Wordpress
The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment, (eds.), Oxford: , p. 624.
Authors
Nigel Melville
Published Date
11/2011
Authors
Nigel Melville
Source
Oxford University Press
Pages
327-344
Information Systems, Business, and the Natural Environment: Can Digital Business Transform Environmental Sustainability?
Pratima Bansal and Andrew Hoffman