Message on Behalf of the MIS Quarterly Office at the University of Minnesota
Dr. Arun Rai has been appointed as the next Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly effective January 1, 2016. Arun is Regents’ Professor of the University System of Georgia, J. Mack Robinson Chair of IT-Enabled Supply Chains and Process Innovation, and Harkins Chair of Information Systems in the Center for Process Innovation and Department of Computer Information Systems at the Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. He has served on the faculty at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and held visiting appointments at universities in Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, and Slovenia. Arun is a co-founder of the Robinson College’s Center for Process Innovation (CEPRIN), an interdisciplinary research center that promotes industry–university partnerships on how digital innovation can address business and societal problems. Arun received his Ph.D. in MIS from Kent State University in 1990. He holds an MBA from Clarion University of Pennsylvania (1987) and a Master of Science and Technology from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (1985).
Arun was appointed Regents’ Professor in 2006 by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia for outstanding contributions in research, teaching, and service. He was named a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2010 for outstanding contributions to the Information Systems discipline in research, teaching, and service, and he received the INFORMS Information Systems Society Distinguished Fellow Award in 2014 for outstanding intellectual contributions to the Information Systems discipline.
Arun has served as a senior editor for Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and as an associate editor for Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Journal of MIS, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, IEEE Transaction on Engineering Management, and Decision Sciences. In addition, he has been a panelist at the National Science Foundation and served as track co-chair for major conferences, as a counselor for several junior faculty and doctoral consortia, and as president of the AIS Special Interest Group on the Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology.
Arun is replacing Paulo Goes, who has served as Editor-in-Chief since January 1, 2013.
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