Dr. Lazar Rusu

Biography

Lazar Rusu is a Professor at Stockholm University with over 40 years of professional experience in both industry and academia, particularly in the field of information systems. He has held several short-term positions, including Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Brighton in 1998 and at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2000. Rusu has also served as a senior researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm from 2002 to 2005 and in 2008 to 2009, and as a Visiting Professor at Antwerp Management School, Belgium from 2019 to 2020. His expertise covers various educational levels, including undergraduate, master's, and doctoral programs. Professor Rusu's research interests focus on critical topics such as business-IT alignment, governance, outsourcing, and digital transformation. He leads research groups in Management Governance Digital Transformation at Stockholm University, and his findings have been published widely in prestigious international conferences and journals within the information systems field. He is also recognized for his contributions to research projects backed by both European Union and national funding agencies. Furthermore, Rusu is a Distinguished Member of the Association for Information Systems and received the IBM Academic Award in 2020, along with the Outstanding Reviewer Award at the Americas Conference on Information Systems in the same year.

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