Cynthia (Cindy) Riemenschneider

Professional Summary

Cindy Riemenschneider completed her PhD in 1997. She has held faculty positions at San Jose State University and the University of Arkansas. In 2008, she moved to Baylor University as an associate professor from Fayetteville, Arkansas. She became a full professor at Baylor University in 2013 and received the Helen Ligon Professorship in 2015. From 2013 to 2019, she served as the associate dean for Research and Faculty Development in the Hankamer School of Business.  Most recently, she was awarded the Association of Computing Machinery SIGMIS (an international organization) Leadership Excellence Award in May 2024.

Education

• 1997 – PhD, Management Information Systems, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
• 1984 – MBA, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
• 1983 – BBA, Management/Marketing, Baylor University, Waco, Texas

Courses

• QBA 3305 – Business Data Analytics
• QBA 2302 – Business Data Analysis I
• MIS 6310 – Foundations of IS Research

Research Interests

• IT professional workforce issues
• Women and minorities in the IT profession
• IT professional turnover and turnaway intention

Selected Publications

• Jia, R., Riemenschneider, C. and Jia, H. (2025) “Autistic Traits, Theory of Mind, and Implications for IT Professionals’ Emotional Labor and Mental Wellbeing” MIS Quarterly, 1-35.
• Riemenschneider, C., Armstrong, D. J., (2021) “The Development of the Perceived Distinctiveness Antecedent of Information Systems Professional Identity,” MIS Quarterly, 45(3), 1149-1186.
• Armstrong, D., Riemenschneider, C., Giddens, L. (2018) “The Barriers Facing Women in the Information Technology Profession:  An Exploratory Investigation of Ahuja’s Model,” Information Systems Journal, Vol. 28 Issue 6, p1082-1124.
• Tripp, John F.; Riemenschneider, Cindy; and Thatcher, Jason B. (2016) "Job Satisfaction in Agile Development Teams: Agile Development as Work Redesign," Journal of the Association for Information Systems: Vol. 17: Iss. 4, Article 1.
• Armstrong, Deborah J., Brooks, J. G., and Riemenschneider, C. K. (2015) “Exhaustion from Information Systems Career Experience: Implications for Turn-Away Intention,” MIS Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 713-727.