Clay K. Williams

823 total citations
17 papers, 560 citations indexed

About

Clay K. Williams is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Management Information Systems and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Clay K. Williams has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 560 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in Management Information Systems and 5 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Clay K. Williams's work include Critical Realism in Sociology (5 papers), Complex Systems and Decision Making (4 papers) and Technology Adoption and User Behaviour (4 papers). Clay K. Williams is often cited by papers focused on Critical Realism in Sociology (5 papers), Complex Systems and Decision Making (4 papers) and Technology Adoption and User Behaviour (4 papers). Clay K. Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States. Clay K. Williams's co-authors include Donald E. Wynn, Elena Karahanna, Greta L. Polites, Larry Seligman, Anne Powell, Douglas B. Bock, Jo Ellen Moore, Kevin C. Desouza, Gregory S. Dawson and David Preston and has published in prestigious journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems and Journal of the Association for Information Systems.

In The Last Decade

Clay K. Williams

16 papers receiving 518 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Clay K. Williams United States 12 271 124 123 114 84 17 560
Jijie Wang United States 4 230 0.8× 97 0.8× 375 3.0× 78 0.7× 90 1.1× 6 615
João Baptista United Kingdom 11 290 1.1× 96 0.8× 113 0.9× 122 1.1× 197 2.3× 32 695
Martha García‐Murillo United States 13 167 0.6× 119 1.0× 95 0.8× 57 0.5× 226 2.7× 52 626
Nor Zairah Ab. Rahim Malaysia 9 244 0.9× 76 0.6× 279 2.3× 77 0.7× 49 0.6× 48 552
Sherif Kamel Egypt 10 210 0.8× 66 0.5× 245 2.0× 89 0.8× 88 1.0× 48 638
Intan Salwani Mohamed Malaysia 13 217 0.8× 82 0.7× 298 2.4× 132 1.2× 81 1.0× 58 683
Robey United States 2 159 0.6× 50 0.4× 74 0.6× 153 1.3× 179 2.1× 2 561
Marke Kivijärvi Finland 8 232 0.9× 109 0.9× 268 2.2× 47 0.4× 66 0.8× 21 505
Aderonke A Oni Nigeria 12 151 0.6× 81 0.7× 206 1.7× 59 0.5× 57 0.7× 39 529
Virginia Ilie United States 9 296 1.1× 93 0.8× 353 2.9× 122 1.1× 71 0.8× 17 634

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All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Cochran, Justin, Clay K. Williams, & Saurabh Gupta. (2025). Business-Driven Information Systems Change. Understanding the change processchange process. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. 37(1). 1 indexed citations
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Wynn, Donald E. & Clay K. Williams. (2024). Issues and Opinions: A Rejoinder to "Questioning the Third Way Rhetoric of Critical Realism". ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems. 55(4). 128–134. 1 indexed citations
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Wynn, Donald E. & Clay K. Williams. (2020). Recent Advances and Opportunities for Improving Critical Realism-Based Case Study Research in IS. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 50–89. 22 indexed citations
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Wynn, Donald E. & Clay K. Williams. (2019). Criteria and Recommendations for IS Research that Bridges the Academic-Practitioner Gap. Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Clay K. & Donald E. Wynn. (2018). A critical realist script for creative theorising in information systems. European Journal of Information Systems. 27(3). 315–325. 17 indexed citations
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Dawson, Gregory S., James S. Denford, Clay K. Williams, David Preston, & Kevin C. Desouza. (2016). An Examination of Effective IT Governance in the Public Sector Using the Legal View of Agency Theory. Journal of Management Information Systems. 33(4). 1180–1208. 40 indexed citations
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Williams, Clay K., et al.. (2014). Explaining Users' Security Behaviors with the Security Belief Model. Journal of Organizational and End User Computing. 26(3). 23–46. 17 indexed citations
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Wynn, Donald E., Clay K. Williams, Elena Karahanna, & Ramana Madupalli. (2013). Preventive Adoption of Information Security Behaviors. International Conference on Information Systems. 3 indexed citations
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Karahanna, Elena, Clay K. Williams, Greta L. Polites, Ben Liu, & Larry Seligman. (2013). Uncertainty Avoidance and Consumer Perceptions of Global e-Commerce Sites: A Multi-Level Model. 3(1). 12–47. 20 indexed citations
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Williams, Clay K. & Elena Karahanna. (2013). Causal Explanation in the Coordinating Process: A Critical Realist Case Study of Federated IT Governance Structures1. MIS Quarterly. 37(3). 933–964. 77 indexed citations
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Karahanna, Elena, Greta L. Polites, Clay K. Williams, Ben Liu, & Larry Seligman. (2013). The Influence of Uncertainty Avoidance on Consumer Perceptions of Global E-Commerce Sites. 12 indexed citations
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Moore, Jo Ellen, et al.. (2012). Is employee attitudes and perceptions at varying levels of software process maturity. MIS Quarterly. 36(2). 601–624. 33 indexed citations
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Wynn, Donald E. & Clay K. Williams. (2012). Principles for conducting critical realist case study research in information systems. MIS Quarterly. 36(3). 787–810. 166 indexed citations
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Moore, Jo Ellen, Clay K. Williams, & Mary Sumner. (2012). The role of informal control in PMO lite environments. 47. 27–30. 1 indexed citations
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Powell, Anne, et al.. (2012). e-Voting intent: A comparison of young and elderly voters. Government Information Quarterly. 29(3). 361–372. 58 indexed citations
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Polites, Greta L., Clay K. Williams, Elena Karahanna, & Larry Seligman. (2012). A Theoretical Framework for Consumer E-Satisfaction and Site Stickiness: An Evaluation in the Context of Online Hotel Reservations. Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce. 22(1). 1–37. 75 indexed citations
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Wynn, Donald E. & Clay K. Williams. (2008). Critical Realm-Based Explanatory Case Study Research in Information Systems. International Conference on Information Systems. 202. 16 indexed citations

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