Mary Brown

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Office: Fretwell 435L
Phone: 704-687-7117
Email: marbrown@uncc.edu
Academic Interests
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POLS_browSelect Publications

  • “Understanding E-Government Benefits: An Examination of Leading-Edge Local Governments” The American Review of Public Administration, 6 2007; vol. 37: pp. 178 – 197.
  • “The Acquisition of Joint Programs:The Implications of Interdependencies” CrossTalk, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, May 2007
  • “Joint Capabilities and Systems of Systems Solutions: A Multidimensional Approach to Understanding Cost Drivers”  Defense Acquisition Review Journal.  April-July 2005.  with Robert Flowe
  • “Measurement and Analysis: What Can and Does Go Wrong?” IEEE Computer Society Annual Conference Proceedings. 2004. with Dennis Goldenson.
  • “Achieving Advanced Electronic Government Services: Opposing Environmental Constraints” Public Performance & Management Review, 28:1 p.96 – 113.

Specialties

  • E-Government
  • Intergovernmental Relations
  • Public Policy
  • Complex Adaptive Systems

Courses Taught

  • Intergovernmental Relations
  • Foundations of Public Policy
  • Information Systems in Government

Biography
Mary Maureen Brown (Ph.D. University of Georgia) is a Professor of Public Administration at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a Senior Fellow with the Center for Excellence in Municipal Management at George Washington University, and a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.  Brown has over 15 years experience in cross-organizational information systems integration in government.  For the past four years she has been the principal investigator of a multi-million dollar research grant with the U.S. Department of Defense for the development and design of a program methodology for the acquisition of joint information systems.  Her research interests center on participatory design, knowledge management, and joint problem solving and program planning.  She has extensive experience in the design and development of various technologies for the purposes of reengineering government work processes and facilitating cross-organizational information sharing.