Faculty profile

McLain, D. L., & Wu, J. (in press). The Influence of Information Sources on Process and Content Confidence When Making Ill-Structured Managerial Decisions, with J. Wu, International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences.

McLain, D. L. (2023). Time to Respond: Identification, Proximity, and Safety at Work. In Time and Fractals: Perspectives in Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Management (pp. 101-118). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

McLain, D. L., & Wu, J. (2023). The Degradation of Goals over Time: How Ambiguity and Managerial Cognition Shape Distributions of Project Time and Cost with Evidence from Actual and Simulated Projects. In Time and Fractals: Perspectives in Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Management (pp. 79-100). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

McLain, D. L. (2023). Differentiating between Decisions and Decision-Making: The Role of Confidence in Predicting Performance for Complex Strategic Decisions. Business Research Consortium Academy Journal of Business, 13(1), 91-108.

Bonzo, S., Dickman, C., McLain, D. L. (2022). Care Delivery Innovation: An Event Systems Theory Case Study, with C. Dickman and S. Bonzo, Business Research Consortium Academy Journal of Business, 12(1), 161-177.

McLain, D. L., & Wu, J. (2022). Information and Ill-Structured Decisions: The Effects of Web Use and Feedback, with J. Wu, International Journal of Decision Sciences, Risk, and Management, 10(3), 189-211.

Bonzo, S., McLain, D. L., & Avnet, M. (2016). Process Modeling in the Operating Room: A Socio-Technical Systems Perspective, Systems Engineering, 19(3), 267-277.

McLain, D. L., & Kefallonitis, E. (2016). Safety, Comfort, and the Reduction of Fear: Healthcare Messaging and Marketing, with E. Kefallonitis, International Journal of Strategic Innovative Marketing, 3(1).

McLain, D. L., Armani, K., & Kefallonitis, E. (2015). Ambiguity Tolerance in Organizations: Definitional Clarification and Perspectives on Future Research. Frontiers in Psychology-Cognitive Science, 6(April).

McLain, D. L. (2014). Sensitivity to Social Information, Social Referencing, and Safety Attitudes in a Hazardous Occupation. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 19(4), 425-436.

Arquero, J. L., & McLain, D. L. (2010). Preliminary validation of the Spanish version of the Multiple Stimulus Types Ambiguity Tolerance Scale (MSTAT-II). The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 13(1), 476-484. Note: This paper presents the Spanish-language version of the MSTAT-II.

McLain, D. L. (2009). Quantifying project characteristics related to uncertainty. Project Management Journal, 40(4), 60-73. Note: This paper introduces three metrics that quantify common sources of project uncertainty.

McLain, D. L., & Aldag, R. J. (2009). Complexity and familiarity with computer assistance when making ill-structured business decisions. International Journal of Technology and Decision Making, 8(3), 407-426. Note: This paper breaks away from the many studies that have measured attitudes as the dependent variables and focuses on performance. The study also incorporated ecologically-valid decision situations.

McLain, D. L. (2009). Evidence of the properties of an ambiguity tolerance measure: The Multiple Stimulus Types Ambiguity Tolerance Scale–II (MSTAT–II). Psychological Reports, 105(December), 975-988. Note: This paper provides a detailed analysis of the popular 13-item version of the MSTAT; which has been researched as possibly the best existing measure of AT.

McLain, D. L., & Jarrel, K. (2007). The perceived compatibility of safety and production expectations in hazardous occupations. Journal of Safety Research, 38(3), 299-309, with K. Jarrell. Note: This empirical paper tests a duality model of safety and task performance and presents new measures of safety constructs.

McLain, D. L., & Dube, S. (2007). The transition from traditional to modern management in Turkey: The observations of Turkish manager Deniz Ilgun. European Review of Organizing, ISSN 1776-3037, 1-16, February. Note: This paper is about the history, culture, and personalities that describe entrepreneurship in Turkey following the Ottoman Empire. The authors spent considerable time with the interviewee in his place of business and particularly in the study of private hospitals and the development of healthcare tourism.

Note: From 1999 to 2004, I conducted post-doctoral studies at MIT and served as a visiting professor of technology management at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs.