Robert C. Dauffenbach

Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Programs, Professor of Management Information Systems and Director, Center for Economic and Management Research, Michael F. Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma

Dr. Dauffenbach received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Wichita State University in 1968 and 1969 and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1973. He served on the faculties of Wayne State University and the University of Illinois prior to coming to Oklahoma. He joined the faculty at Oklahoma State University in 1977 and served as Director, Office of Business and Economic Research, 1985-1990. He assumed duties as Director, Center for Economic and Management Research, University of Oklahoma, in the fall of 1990. In 1997 he was named Exxon Research Fellow in the Price College. In 2002, he was named Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs.

Dr. Dauffenbach's principal training is in human resource economics and econometric methods. He has received extensive funding of his research on scientific and technical personnel from the National Science Foundation. He has served on various study panels of the National Academy of Sciences that investigated science and engineering personnel research and data needs for the 1990's. He has served on the Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists Personnel study panel as well as on a National Academy of Engineering panel investigating adaptability and mobility of engineers. He is author or co-author of articles appearing in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Economics and Business, Journal of Economic Development, Journal of Labor Research and International Journal of Manpower. He is co-author of The Engineering Degree Conferral Process: Analysis, Monitoring, and Projections and Projections of Supply of Scientists and Engineers to Meet Defense and Non-Defense Requirements, reports to the National Science Foundation. Most recently, he is co-author of Building a Better Oklahoma: Current Realities, a component of the state economic development plan.

The Center for Economic and Management Research publishes the monthly Oklahoma Business Bulletin and annual Statistical Abstract of Oklahoma. CEMR is a storehouse of information on the Oklahoma economy. Staff of CEMR have made numerous and significant contributions to public policy research and business decision making in Oklahoma. The ORIGINS on-line economic development data base system, funded by state government, is operated through CEMR. The ORIGINS system is available on the Internet, and includes a variety of enhancements that allow clients to obtain information quickly. This award winning systems provides many examples of how to maintain large scale databases and extend usage to the general public. CEMR has recently produced a series of leading economic indicators, called the Price College Indicators, that foreshadow changes in the national and state economies. CEMR has also engaged in surveys of labor market conditions in 18 Oklahoma communities to provide information useful to economic development officials.

He is a member of the American Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, and the Association for University Business and Economic Research.

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