Alexandra Durcikova

Division Director, Management Information Systems

Associate Professor of Management Information Systems

John Mertes Presidential Professor

Research Areas:

Knowledge Management
End-user security

Email	Phone
alex@ou.edu	(405) 325-5721

Alexandra Durcikova is an Associate Professor in the Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma. She has two research streams. The first stream focuses on the adoption of Electronic Knowledge Repositories (EKR) by individuals in organizational settings. The second stream focuses on end-user security behavior; specifically, the goal is to develop a deeper understanding of how different types of technical controls and educational controls influence employees’ compliance with security policies. Alexandra relies primarily on survey methods and experiments. Her work appeared in ISR, JMIS, CAIS, I&M, CACM, IJHCS, and IJKM.

Education

Ph.D. in Management Information Systems, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2004
Master of Science in Solid State Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 1994

Awards

NSF grant ($500,000) research project titled "TWC SBE: Small: Building the human firewall: Developing organizational resistance to semantic security threats." 2014, Co-PI
DHS/OIS Post Apprehensive Survey of Illegal Immigrants ($496,928) 2011 (Awarder to Borders, project lead)
Best Paper Award in the Knowledge Management Systems Track at HICSS 2010
Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence 2009-2010
CITeR Research Award ($40,000) 2010 (awarded to J. Jenkins, G. Ross, A. Durcikova, and J. Nunamaker)
IBM Faculty Research Award ($40,000) 2008

About OU's Price College of Business

The University of Oklahoma Michael F. Price College of Business has experienced significant growth over the past five years, becoming OU’s second-largest college with over 5,800 students. The college offers highly ranked undergraduate, master’s, executive and doctoral programs across six academic divisions. More information is available at price.ou.edu