Elie Geisler Extended Bio - 2005
Eliezer (Elie) Geisler is Professor and Associate Dean for research at the Stuart Graduate School of Business, at the Illinois Institute of Technology. . He holds a doctorate in Organization Behavior from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Dr. Geisler is the author of over 90 papers in the areas of technology and innovation management, the evaluation of R&D, science and technology, and the management of medical technology. He is the author of 8 books, including: Management of Medical Technology: Theory, Practice and Cases, (1998) Kluwer Academic Publishers (With Ori Heller); The Metrics of Science and Technology (2000), and Creating Value with Science and Technology (2001). His most recent books are: Installing and Managing Workable Knowledge Management Systems (Praeger, 2003, co-authored with Rubenstein) Technology, Health care and Management in the Hospital of the Future (Praeger, 2003, with Krabbendam and Schuring); and Knowledge Management: Concepts and Cases (M.E. Sharpe 2009, With Wickramasinghe).
Dr. Geisler was the founder and editor of the Department of Information Technology for the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (1991-1999), and is founder and associate editor of the International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management. He consulted for major corporations and for many U.S. federal departments, such as Defense, Commerce, EPA, Energy, and NASA. Dr. Geisler is currently Director of IIT’s Center for the Management of Medical Technology (CMMT ). He co-chairs the annual Conference on the Hospital of the Future, in conjunction with universities in the Netherlands, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Denmark, and Italy.
Dr. Geisler’s areas of research, teaching and consulting are the management and evaluation of research, development, knowledge, and technological innovation. He developed the stage approach to the evaluation of technology and technological organizations. He is a leading scholar in the area of measurement of complex phenomena and the metrics of science and technology. His book on metrics was translated into Chinese, in the People’s Republic of China. Dr. Geisler also pioneered the systematic study of management of medical technology and co-authored a textbook in this growing topic.
He was chair of the College of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship of the Institute of Management Sciences and is the elected chair of the Special Interest Group on healthcare technologies for the Association for Information Systems. He is a reviewer for leading journals in management and technology management. Dr. Geisler serves on the boards of Sinai Medical Center and Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
Representative Publications:
“The Measurement of Scientific Activity: Research Directions in Linking Philosophy of Science and Metrics of Science and Technology Outputs”, Scientometrics, 62(2), 2005, 269-284
“Information Technologies and Technology Commercialization: The Research Agenda”, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 44 (4), 1997, 339-346
“An Integrated Cost-Performance Model of Research and Development Evaluation”, Omega, 23(3), 1995, 281-294
“Harnessing the Value of Experience in the Knowledge-Driven Firm”, Business Horizons, 42(3), 1999, 18-26
“Good Bye Dodo Bird: Why Social Knowledge is Cumulative, Expansive, and Non-Evolutionary”, Journal of Management Inquiry, 10(1), 2001, 5-15
“Strategic Management and Implementation of Textual Data Mining in Government Organizations”, Technology analysis & Strategic Management, 11(4), 1999, 493-525 (with Kostoff)
“Mapping the Knowledge-Base of Management of Medical Technology”, International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 1(1), 1999, 3-10
“The Metrics of Technology Evaluation: Where We Stand and Where We Should Go From Here”, International Journal of Technology Management, 24(4), 2002, 341-374.
“Differences in Additive Complexity Between Biological Evolution and the Progress of Human Knowledge”, Emergence, 5(2), 2003, 42-55 (With Ritter).
