John F. Tripp, Jr., Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D., Information Technology Management (Minor in Organizational Studies)

  The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University, 2012

  Dissertation: Impacts of Agile Method Adoption & Use on Project Success: A Contingency View

  Committee: V. Sambamurthy (Chair), Brian Pentland, Roger Calantone, John Wagner

• Master of Business Administration

  The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, 2005

• Master of Music

  The Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, 1993

• Bachelor of Music

  The Cleveland Institute of Music, 1991

Academic Employment

• 2026 to Present

  Associate Professor of Management (with tenure)

  Clemson University

  Effective August 2026

• 2019 to 2026

  Tenure-Track Assistant Professor

  Clemson University

• 2014 to 2024

  Visiting Professor

  Indian School of Business

  · Semi-annual courses in Data Visualization for ISB’s Advanced Management Program in Business Analytics

• 2017 to 2019

  Visiting Professor

  Clemson University

  · Data Visualization in Clemson’s MBA Program

• 2012 to 2019

  Assistant Professor

  Baylor University

Publishing Statistics

Total citations

2,327

h-index

16

i10-index

19

Most cited

Technology, Humanness, and Trust: Rethinking Trust in Technology, JAIS · 928 citations

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

1. Tripp, J. & Sambamurthy, V.. (Forthcoming). Can only managers enact formal control? The role of team-managed formal control in Agile project success. Information & Management. · Conditionally accepted, May 2026
2. Tripp, J., Wimble, M., & Shortridge, A. M.. (2025). Advancing the Third Wave of Geospatial Analytics in IS Research through Spatially Explicit Theory and Methods. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 57(1), 35.
3. Tripp, J. & Sambamurthy, V.. (2025). How Agile feedback practice use impacts software quality. Journal of Computer Information Systems, 65(3), 314–330. DOI
4. Cunningham, S., DeAngelo, G., & Tripp, J.. (2024). Did Craigslist’s Erotic Services reduce female homicide and rape?. Journal of Human Resources, 59(1), 280–315. DOI
5. Tripp, J., McKnight, D. H., & Lankton, N. K.. (2023). What most influences consumers’ intention to use? Different motivation and trust stories for Uber, Airbnb, and TaskRabbit. European Journal of Information Systems, 32(5), 818–840. DOI
6. Dinger, M., Thatcher, J. B., Grover, V., & Tripp, J.. (2022). Workgroup embeddedness and professionalism among IT professionals: Impacts on work-life conflict and organizational citizenship. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 23(5), 1295–1332. DOI
7. Chipidza, W. & Tripp, J.. (2021). Symbolic capital and the basket of 8: What changed after the creation of the basket?. Decision Support Systems, 149. DOI
8. Lankton, N. K., McKnight, D. H., & Tripp, J.. (2020). Understanding the antecedents and outcomes of Facebook privacy behaviors: An integrated model. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 67(3), 697–711. DOI
9. Chipidza, W. & Tripp, J.. (2018). The social structure of the Information Systems collaboration network: Centers of influence and antecedents of tie formation. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 42, Article 16. DOI
10. Tripp, J. & Armstrong, D. J.. (2018). Agile methodologies: Organizational adoption motives, tailoring, and performance. Journal of Computer Information Systems, 58(2), 170–179. DOI
11. Lankton, N. K., McKnight, D. H., & Tripp, J.. (2017). Facebook privacy management strategies: A cluster analysis of user privacy behaviors. Computers in Human Behavior, 76, 149–163. DOI
12. Tripp, J., Riemenschneider, C., & Thatcher, J. B.. (2016). Job satisfaction in Agile development teams: Agile development as work redesign. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 17(4), 267–307. DOI
13. Wimble, M., Tripp, J., Phillips, B., & Milic, N.. (2016). On search cost and the long tail: The moderating role of search cost. Information Systems and e-Business Management, 14, 507–531. DOI
14. Lankton, N. K., McKnight, D. H., & Tripp, J.. (2015). Technology, humanness, and trust: Rethinking trust in technology. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 16(10), 880–918. DOI
15. Wimble, M., Tripp, J., & Pentland, B.. (2015). Want pudding? An analytic model of the benefits and constraints of process standardization in services. Journal of Management Systems, 25(1).

Manuscripts Under Review

1. Tripp, J.. Education and Internet use in influenza vaccination decisions: A national survey study, 2016–2024. · Under review at an FT 50 or other top journal
2. Tripp, J.. The supervisory paradox: How AI delegation transforms productive labor into cognitive vigilance. · Under review at an FT 50 or other top journal
3. Tripp, J.. What if AI is writing the reviews? Compositional entry signatures in online review corpora after ChatGPT. · Under review at an FT 50 or other top journal
4. Tripp, J. & Hansen, S.. Material foundations of psychological safety: How socio-technical artifacts enable action in software teams. · Under review at an FT 50 or other top journal
5. Tripp, J.. Does digital exposure dissolve thick barriers? Cultural distance deepening in 17 years of cross-border lending. · Under review at an FT 50 or other top journal
6. Tripp, J.. A realized network value model of individual platform use. · Under review at an FT 50 or other top journal
7. Tripp, J.. Market infrastructure as surveillance, surveillance as market infrastructure: The ethics of business monitoring. · Under review at an FT 50 or other top journal
8. Tripp, J. & Lankton, N.. Alignment and misalignment as boundary conditions of trust transfer. · Under review at an FT 50 or other top journal

Working Papers and Manuscripts in Preparation

A selection of papers in the active pipeline, targeted at FT 50 and other top journals. Additional conceptual projects in earlier stages are not listed here.

1. Tripp, J.. Architectures of emotion: A socio-technical theory of group emotion in IS.
2. Tripp, J.. Reach without customization: How a cross-border lending platform substitutes for missing institutions.
3. Tripp, J.. Is time still money? Temporal theater and evaluative time in AI-mediated knowledge work.
4. Tripp, J.. Learning in a different order: How generative AI restructures the epistemic sequence of research.
5. Tripp, J.. Functional absorption: How general-purpose AI agents displace specialized software.
6. Tripp, J.. Risk displacement in AI-enabled software development.
7. Tripp, J.. AI investments as real options: Evidence from corporate disclosures.
8. Tripp, J., Declan, A., & Taylor, A.. The ROI trap: How economic logics shape organizational responses to AI ethics regulation in healthcare.

Book Chapters

1. Tripp, J. (2019). Data Visualization. In Pochiraju, B. & Seshadri, S. (Eds.), Essentials of Business Analytics. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol. 264. Springer, Cham. DOI

Published Conference Proceedings

1. Chipidza, W., Tripp, J., Kim, T., & Akbar, E. (2021). Gender and racial homophily in email networks and the moderating role of business unit on network structure: Evidence from a large financial services company. Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS).
2. Chipidza, W. & Tripp, J. (2020). The effect of turnover intention on tie formation in online organization networks. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 53rd.
3. Tripp, J., Saltz, J., & Turk, D. (2018). Thoughts on current and future research on agile and lean: Ensuring relevance and rigor. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
4. Leidner, D., Tripp, J., & Zhang, S. (2016). Understanding the value of reputation systems in enterprise social media (ESM): Mutual influence between online and offline performance. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).
5. Leidner, D., Tripp, J., & Zhang, S. (2016). Understanding the value of reputation systems in enterprise social media (ESM): The impact on ESM engagement behaviors. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).
6. Lankton, N., McKnight, D. H., & Tripp, J. (2016). Privacy management strategies: An exploratory cluster analysis. Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS).
7. Giddens, L. & Tripp, J. (2015). It’s my tool, I know how to use it: A theory of the impact of BYOD on device competence and job satisfaction. Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS).
8. Tripp, J. & Riemenschneider, C. (2014). Toward an understanding of job satisfaction on agile teams: Agile development as work redesign. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
9. Tripp, J. & Armstrong, D. (2014). Exploring the relationship between organizational adoption motives and the tailoring of agile methods. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
10. Schmidt, C., Tripp, J., Kude, T., Heinzl, A., & Spohrer, K. (2013). Team adaptability in agile information systems development. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).
11. Lankton, N. & Tripp, J. (2013). A quantitative and qualitative study of Facebook privacy using the antecedent–privacy concern–outcome macro model. Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS).
12. Tripp, J., McKnight, D. H., & Lankton, N. (2011). Degrees of humanness in technology: What type of trust matters?. Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS).
13. McKnight, D. H., Lankton, N., & Tripp, J. (2011). Social networking information disclosure and continuance intention: A disconnect. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 44th.
14. Wimble, M., Tripp, J., Hillison, D., & Pentland, B. (2010). Want pudding? An analytic model of the benefits and constraints of process standardization in services. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).
15. Wimble, M., Tripp, J., Hillison, D., & Pentland, B. (2009). You can have your pudding: A service-oriented approach to process standardization. Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS).
16. Tripp, J. (2008). Transformative nature of strategic IT vision. Midwest Association for Information Systems Conference (MWAIS), 3rd.

Teaching at Clemson University

Awards

• 2024 MBA Teacher of the Year, Clemson University
• 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award, European Journal of Information Systems
• 2020 Graduate Teaching Award, Clemson University, Department of Management
• 2016 Early Career Award, Association for Information Systems
• 2012 Best Reviewer Award, 7th Pre-ICIS International Research Workshop on IT Project Management
• 2011 Best Reviewer Award, 6th Pre-ICIS International Research Workshop on IT Project Management
• 2011 Excellence in Research Award, Michigan State University Department of Accounting & IS
• 2009 Excellence in Teaching Award, Michigan State University Department of Accounting & IS

Editorial Appointments

• 2022 to Present

  Associate Editor

  Journal of the Association for Information Systems

• 2016 to 2019, 2025 to Present

  Associate Editor

  Communications of the Association for Information Systems

• 2018

  Associate Editor

  European Journal of Information Systems (Special Issue on Software Development)

• 2013 to 2018

  Associate Editor

  International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)

Service to Clemson University

• 2021 to Present

  Senator, Faculty Senate

  Research Committee (2025 to present); previously Academic Policies Committee (2023 to 2025); Alternate Senator (2021 to 2023)

• 2025 to Present

  Co-Director, M.S. Data Science and Analytics Program

  With Ellen Breazel

• 2025

  Co-Chair, Committee on TPR Committee Structure

  Drafted new TPR structure approved by department and Faculty Senate

• 2024

  Member, Annual Review Evaluation Committee

• 2019 to 2024

  Faculty Advisor, AIS Student Organization

• 2019 to 2020

  Member, MIS Senior Faculty Search Committee

• 2019 to 2020

  Member, Clemson Online Advisory Board

Service to the Discipline

• 2025

  External Reviewer, Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

  Austria’s national funding agency, equivalent to the U.S. NSF

• Program Committee, Social Media Coordinator

  AMCIS 2018, New Orleans

• 2017 to 2018

  Mini-track Chair

  Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Agile and Lean Discovery and Development

• Program Committee, Review Coordinator

  ICIS 2012, Orlando

Journal reviewing

MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Decision Sciences, Journal of Trust Research.

Grants

• NSF CAREER

  PI, National Science Foundation · In preparation · Target July 22, 2026

  Education plan and research-bearing classroom study on humanness and trust. Approximate budget $635K to $750K.

• Powers Summer Research Grant

  PI, Clemson Powers College of Business · Funded · Summer 2026

  Group Emotion empirical study, 2x2 experimental design.

• Understanding and Visualizing Emergency Department Clinician Well-Being and Strain

  Co-Investigator, National Institutes of Health

  PI: Emily Tucker. Visualization and analytics for ED clinician well-being.

Professional Experience Prior to Academia

Over 15 years in senior technology and IT leadership before entering academia. This industry experience shapes an applied perspective on systems design, implementation, and user-centered development that continues to inform research and teaching.

• 2007 to 2010

  IT Director, Business Information Systems

  Team Detroit

• 2002 to 2007

  Director of Systems Development

  J. Walter Thompson

  Led enterprise platform development and technology strategy for major clients

• 1997 to 2000

  IT Specialist

  IBM