University of Illinois at Chicago, Management Information Systems, 2012

Marmara University, Engineering Management, 2003

Istanbul Technical University, Industrial Engineering,1986

Melike Findikoglu holds a PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and completed postdoctoral research at Technion, Israel. Before academia, she held managerial roles in financial services and management consulting. Her research focuses on value creation through alliances, particularly in high-tech industries, the strategic use of information systems, and organizational resilience. She also has a long-standing interest in ICT-enabled transformation within organizations and societies, especially  in the healthcare industry. Her work has been published in top-tier journals, including Strategic Organization, Journal of Small Business Management, European Journal of Information Systems, and Journal of Information Technology. She currently serves as a Senior Associate Editor at European Management Journal in the Business Strategy and Organizational Theory domains.

Alliance Formation and Management, Alliance Contingencies and Value Creation, IT Firms’ Service Partnership Strategies, Small- and Medium-sized Firms’ Growth and Resilience Drivers, Governance Decisions in International Business Under Animosity, Information and Communication Technologies-Enabled Organizational Change & Societal Development, Organizational IS Strategies

• Linking Macro-level Goals to Micro-level Routines: EHR-enabled Transformation of Primary Care Services
• Do Small and Medium-sized IT Firms Form Service Partnerships with Non-Local IT Firms? An Assessment of Facilitators
• A Best Practice Paradox: The Contingent Value of Dedicated Alliance Function
• Organizational Contingencies and the Value of Partnering Experience

WORK IN PROGRESS

• Boundary Conditions for Value Creation in Alliances
• IT Service Partnerships: Exploring Partner Selection Drivers of Small- and Medium-sized IT Service Providers
• Ethnic Minority-owned SMEs: A Resource-Based Perspective of Firm Resilience
• Firms’ Governance Mode Choices for International Business under National Animosity

Information Systems Project Management (MIS 324), Introduction to Management Information Systems (MIS 311), Fundamental of E-Business (MIS 306), Digital Transformation in Business (MIS 305)