[AISWorld] MIS Quarterly Appoints New Editor-in-Chief

[Jan DeGross]

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.