[AISWorld] Suprateek Sarger has been nominated as the new EIC of JAIS

[Kalle Lyytinen]

Dear Colleagues,



AIS Council has nominated Professor Suprateek Sarker as the next
Editor-in-Chief for Journal of the Association for Information Systems
(JAIS) for 2013-2016 starting 1st  of September, 2013.   Suprateek was
recommended by a search committee, which consisted of David Avison, Joey
George, Matti Rossi, Shirley Gregor, Ron Weber, and Kalle Lyytinen (Chair).
During the search the committee reviewed nominations of nearly twenty
candidates and interviewed several strong candidates. During his tenure Dr.
Sarker plans to continue to improve the high quality of the journal,  to
expand its global reach and to serve better all IS research communities.
 We look forward working together with Dr. Sarker in strengthening JAIS as
it seeks to serve globally the information systems community. Dr Sarker
provides the following information about his achievements and academic
background.



Suprateek Sarker is currently Philip Kays Professor of Information Systems
at the Washington State University, Pullman, USA. He is also a visiting
professor at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and at Aalto
University, Finland. He received his Ph.D. from the University of
Cincinnati where he not only learned how to conduct qualitative studies but
also to appreciate the value of pluralism with respect to research
approaches. Suprateek's work has been published in several top
journals in the discipline. He serves as (or has served as) a Senior Editor
for the MIS Quarterly, as Editor-in-Chief for Journal of IT Cases &
Applications Research (JITCAR), as a Special Issue Co-Editor for the
European Journal of Information Systems, and as an Editorial Board Member
for the Journal of the AIS, the Journal of MIS, IEEE Transactions on
Engineering Management, IT & People, and the Journal of IT for Development.
He is a past co-recipient (with Professor Sundeep Sahay) of the Stafford
Beer Medal from the OR Society (United Kingdom) for a paper on virtual
teamwork that was published in the European Journal of Information
Systems.



Sincerely



Kalle Lyytinen, AIS VP of Publications



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