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Areas of Research Interest: IS planning; strategic impacts, uses, and applications of IS;
electronic commerce; top management impacts; change management;
organizational and behavioural impacts of
information systems and technology; ethics of computer and information usage;
information resource management
Areas of Teaching Interest: MIS strategy, data communications and networking, electronic
commerce, information resource management
Dr. Brabston is associate professor of management
information systems in the Department of Accounting and Finance at the University of Manitoba. Prior to coming to Winnipeg in 1997,
Dr. Brabston taught at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for four years. Before that, Dr. Brabston managed information
resources in the arenas of banking, political campaigns, fund-raising, and
academic administration. Mary brings a comprehensive and practical view to
her analysis of how information systems and technology can help organizations
to achieve their potential. Her teaching and research interests involve strategic
planning and applications of information systems, information resource
management, and ethics. Her work has appeared in such publications as the
Journal of Computing and Information Technology, the Journal of Computer
Information Systems, the Journal of Information Systems Education, Human
Resources, and the Journal of Data and Industrial Management.
Dr. Brabston serves on University Senate and Senate
Executive and chairs the Asper School’s Undergraduate Program Committee; she also co-chairs the
Dean’s Advisory Committee on Co-operative Education. Mary is also
faculty advisor to Beta Gamma Sigma, the MIS Students Association, and the
Commerce Students Association.
Mary's checkered background gives her a jaundiced view of
what information systems can actually do. Those who can translate her
Southern drawl into proper English become friends for life.
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