Sonia
From PhD life at Bentley
Hi!
I am Sonia Vilvovsky, a Business PhD student at Bentley College, Waltham, MA.
After completing my B.A. in Economics and Computer Science in Tel Aviv University (Ramat Aviv, Israel) I worked in software industry. I designed and developed the interactive module of a huge network management system, and also have done some freelance projects. The interest to information systems brought me to IT-oriented Bentley College, where I earned my M.S. in Accountancy, and started the Business PhD program at Fall 2006.
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[edit] RESEARCH INTERESTS
Information Systems development and adoption
Information Systems introduction and organizational alignment
Gender differences in computer use
Outsourcing and off-shoring
Information Technology in public and not-for-profit organizations
My research advisor and dissertation committee chair is professor Jane Fedorowicz.
I currently participate in the NSF funded Public Safety Networks Study as research assistant.
[edit] Currently working on
- Outsourcing in public organizations
- A theoretical framework for managing outsourcing relationships between client and vendor
- Technology enactment in public and cross-sectoral inter organizational collaborations
- Gender differences in teenagers' elective use of computer technology
- Off shoring, work immigration and IT jobs market in the United States
[edit] NON-RESEARCH INTERESTS
My main non-research interests are 11 and 8 years old, and study in 6th and 3nd grades respectively.
Here they are on the right:
Not much time for other hobbies, but at least I remember what they are.
I used to read a lot of poetry (in Russian), and even wrote some. Seems that this my interest fully exhausted after five years of running a poetry mail list, and editing the New England Russian Poetry almanac.
My another passion (severe condition) is knitting. Even if one day I loss the interest to it as it happened with poetry, I still have to use up the 75 pounds of yarns currently stashed at my home.
Even though my family changes homes way too often, we still love to travel. The adventures of last two years include canyons of Utah and Arizona, Puerto Rico, Niagara Falls, Quebec, and Yellowstone National park. This is in addition to visits to Israel, our home country; all our extended family resides there.
[edit] COMMENTS FROM OTHER PHD STUDENTS
Sonia, when are you going to translate your published Russian poetry into English so we can enjoy it as well!?! --Wilson
