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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">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 1<sup>st</sup> 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. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">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. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Kalle Lyytinen, AIS VP of Publications</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Kalle Lyytinen [<u><span style="color:blue"> mailto: <a href="mailto:kalle@po.cwru.edu"><span style="color:blue">kalle@po.cwru.edu</span></a></span></u>]<br>
Iris S. Wolstein Chair; Director of Academic Affairs</p><p class="MsoNormal">Doctor of Management Programs: <a href="http://weatherhead.case.edu/degrees/doctor-management/">http://weatherhead.case.edu/degrees/doctor-management/</a><br>
The Weatherhead School of Management<br>Case Western Reserve University<br>Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7235<br>Tel: +1-216-368 5353, fax: +1-216-368 4776, Mobile: +1-216-543 6667<br>Home page <u><span style="color:blue">URL:</span></u> <a href="http://home.cwru.edu/~kjl13/"><span style="color:blue">http://home.cwru.edu/~kjl13/</span></a><u><span style="color:blue"> <br>
Research Projects: Digitalization of routines: <a href="http://www.orgdna.net/the-research-project/">http://www.orgdna.net/the-research-project/</a></span></u>; Requirements: <a href="http://weatherhead.case.edu/requirements"><span style="color:blue">http://weatherhead.case.edu/requirements</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Publications: <i>scholar.<b>google</b>.com/citations?user=yX-R0QwAAAAJ&hl=en</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>