Eric Villafranca


Adjunct Professor

Education

Baylor University - McLennan County, Texas
Ph.D., Information Systems, Anticipated 2023
M.S., Information Systems, 2016

Sam Houston State University - Huntsville, Texas
M.B.A., General Business, 2015

University of Arkansas - Little Rock, Arkansas
B.B.A., Management Information Systems, 2012

Research Interests

Software Skills
Programming: R, C#, Java, Lua
Applications: Tableau, Visual Studio, Excel, STATA, R-Studio, Gephi 

Courses Taught

Management Information Systems 

Selected Publications

Hadavi, Y., Villafranca, E., and Petter, S. 2022. “The Duality of Empowerment and Marginalization: A Replication,” AIS Transactions on Replication Research (8:2), pp1-18.

Koch, H., Peters, U., Villafranca, E., and Koch, K. 2019. “How a Low-margin Business Co-created Analytics Capabilities through an Innovation Partnership,” MIS Quarterly Executive (18:3), pp. 157-173.

Honors & Awards

  • Teaching Fellowship, Bentley University & The Ph.D. Project
    Awarded travel and expenses to attend the summer teaching seminar 2023
  • Departmental Awards
    Travel award for research presentation to new faculty at Baylor University 2023
  • Doctoral Consortiums
    Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) 2019
    Americans Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2018