<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px">The 2014 INFORMS Information Systems Society</span> Distinguished Fellow <span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px">Award</span></u></b><br>
<br>The INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS<span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px">) supports the intellectual interests of information systems scholars who are members of INFORMS. In addition to providing support for</span> academic <span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px">forums such as the annual Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), the spring Theory in Economics of IS (TEIS) workshop, and the summer Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research (SCECR) conference, the society also provides support for editorial activities and publication of Information Systems Research.</span><br>
<br>This is <span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px">a call for nominations for</span> ISS Distinguished Fellow <span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px">Awards for 2014. The primary aim of the award</span> is <span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px">to recognize individuals who have made outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline. The awards committee recognizes the multi-dimensional nature of intellectual contributions and will pay attention to a variety of scholarly contributions, including, but not limited to:</span><br>
<br><br>1. Publications that have made a significant impact on theory, research, and practice.<br><br>2. Intellectual leadership in the discipline as reflected in editorial appointments, particularly of INFORMS journals.<br>
<br>3. Intellectual stewardship of the field as reflected in the mentoring of doctoral students and young researchers<br><br>Nominators are encouraged to provide the awards committee with specific indicators of the nominee's contributions in these and other categories.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px"><br>An Awards Committee has been formed to recommend candidates for the award for 2014. The committee members are Ravi Bapna (chair, ex officio-</span><span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px">ISS</span><span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px">), <span class="">Izak</span> Benbasat, V. Sambamurthy and Sumit Sarkar. At this stage, nominations for the award are invited from the information systems community at large. Though self-nominations are discouraged, anyone can submit a nomination to the chair of the awards committee by email to: </span><span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px"><a href="mailto:dsarppo@umn.edu" target="_blank">dsarppo@umn.edu</a></span><span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px"> (please state the subject as “Nomination for 2014 </span><span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px">ISS</span><span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px"> </span><span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px">Fellow</span><span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px">”). The deadline for submission of nominations </span><span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px">is</span><span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px"> </span><span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px">July 30, 2014.</span><span style="line-height:14.720000267028809px"><br>
<br>The nomination should include a brief (not to exceed two pages) description of the candidate’s achievements and eligibility for the award, and should be accompanied with a CV and/or a bio. Members of the awards committee may add other candidates at their discretion and judgment.<br>
<br>The awards committee will deliberate upon the pool of nominees and make recommendations to the Chair of the Information Systems Society. Winners of the award will be informed by September 15, 2014. The 2014 ISS Distinguished Fellows will be announced during the Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) to be held in conjunction with the INFORMS annual meeting in San Francisco on November 8, 9, 2014. A plaque and a letter from the society will be presented, followed by a reception and felicitation of the award winners.<br>
<br>It is a condition of the award that the Fellows be members of the Information Systems Society, and, except for unusual circumstances approved by the Chair of ISS, remain members of the Society until they retire from full-time work.</span></p>
<div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ravi Bapna</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Board of Overseers Professor of Information and Decision Sciences</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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