The award was presented to Sebastian Lins for his dissertation titled “Unveiling and enhancing the Effectiveness of Information System Certifications”. Lins is now at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

The award was presented to Mohammadreza (Reza) Ebrahimi, supervised by Hsinchun Chen, at The University of Arizona for his dissertation “AI Enabled Cybersecurity Analytics: Detecting and Defending against Cyber Threats”. Reza is now at the University of South Florida.

The award was presented to Jeffrey K. Mullins at the University of Arkansas for his dissertation “Getting Serious about Games: A Study of Work and Play through Information Systems”. He was supervised by Rajiv Sabherwal.

The award was presented to Sagar Samtani, supervised by Hsinchun Chen, from the University of Arizona for the dissertation “Developing Proactive Cyber Threat Intelligence from the Online Hacker Community: A Computational Design Science Approach”.

The award was jointly given to Arvind Karunakaran, supervised by Wanda Orlikowski, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for the dissertation “Truce Structures: Examining Cross-Professional Coordination in the Wake of Technological and Institutional Change” and Abhijith Anand, supervised by Rajeev Sharma, from The University of Waikato, for the dissertation “New Perspectives on Understanding the Business Value of Business Analytics Systems.”

Tthe award was given to Thi Van-Hau Trieu, supervised by Andrew Burton-Jones, both from University of Queensland, for the dissertation entitled “Three essays on effective use in business intelligence systems context.”

The award was given to Julia M. Mayer, supervised by Quentin Jones, both of New Jersey’s Science and Technology University, USA, for the dissertation entitled “Mediating chance encounters through opportunistic social matching.” 

The award was given to Roman Lukyanenko, Memorial University of Newfoundland, supervised by Jeff Parsons of Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, for the dissertation entitled “An Information Modeling Approach To Improve The Quality Of User-Generated Content.” 

The award was given to Kevin Yili Hong, Temple University, supervised by Paul Pavlou at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, for the dissertation entitled “Three Essays on Online Labor Markets.” 

 The award was given to Ben Eaton, supervised by Carsten Sørensen at the London School of Economics and Political Science, for the dissertation entitled “The Dynamics of Digital Platform Innovation: A Study of Modular and Architectural Innovation in Apple’s iOS.” 

The award was given to Beibei Li, supervised by Anindya Ghose at New York University, for the dissertation entitled “Analyzing Consumer Behavior on Product Search Engines: Interplay between Search and Social Media.”  The First Runner‐Up is Wietske van Osch, supervised by Michel Avital at Amsterdam University, for the dissertation entitled “Generative Collectives.”  The Second Runner‐Up is Shachar Reichman, supervised by Gal Oestreicher‐Singer at Tel Aviv University, for the dissertation entitled “The Quest for Content: How User‐Generated Links Can Facilitate Online Exploration.”

The award was given for Ryad Titah’s dissertation entitled, “The Alignment of Business and IT strategy in Multi-Business Organizations,” completed at HEC Montreal.  His advisor was Henri Barki.  First Runner-up: Sean Hansen‘s “A Socio-technical Perspective on Requirements Engineering,” supervised by Kalle Lyytinen at Case Western Reserve University.  Second Runner-up: Quianquian Liu‘s “How Do We Use Online Customer Review?  A Cognitive Psychological Perspective,” supervised by Elena Karahanna at University of Georgia.

The award was given to Peter J. Reynolds for his dissertation entitled, “The Alignment of Business and IT strategy in Multi-Business Organizations,” completed at the Australian School of Business, School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship. 

The award was given to Nicholas Berente for his dissertation entitled, “Institutional Logics and Loosely Coupled Practices: The Case of NASA’s Enterprise Information System Implementation,” completed at Case Western Reserve University.  Additionally, we had second and third place recipients this year.  Second place was awarded to James Howison for his dissertation entitled, “Layered Collaboration: A Socio-Technical Theory of Motivation and Organization for Free and Open Source Software Development,” completed at Syracuse University.  Third place was awarded to Hong Guo for his dissertation entitled, “For Whom the Bell Tolls: A Two-Sided Market Analysis and Public Policy Implications for the Net Neutrality Debate,” completed at University of Florida.

The award was given to Gal Oestreicher-Singer, for his work entitled, “The Visible Hand of Networks in Electronic Commerce” based on his dissertation completed at Stern School of Business, New York University.

The award was given to Sinan Aral, for his work entitled, “Essays on Information, Technology & Information Worker Productivity,” based on his dissertation completed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The award was given to Andrew Burton-Jones, for his work entitled, “New Perspectives on the System Usage Construct,” based on his dissertation completed at Georgia State University.

The award was given to Zan Huang, supervised by Hsinchun Chen, for his work entitled, “A Unified Recommendation Framework Based on Probabilistic Relational Models,” based on his dissertation completed at the University of Arizona. 

The award was given to Paul Pavlou for his work entitled, “IT-enabled dynamic capabilities in new product development: Building a competitive advantage in turbulent environments,” based on his dissertation completed at University of Southern California.

The award was given to Atreyi Kankanhalli for her work entitled “Understanding Contribution and Seeking Behavior in Electronic Knowledge Repositories,” based on her dissertation completed at the National University of Singapore.

The award was given to Otto Koppius for his work entitled “Information architecture and electronic market performance,” based on his dissertation completed at Erasmus University Rotterdam. 

The award was given to Olga Volkoff for her work entitled “A Grounded Theory Process Model of Enterprise System Implementation,” based on her dissertation completed at the University of Western Ontario. 

The two award recipients were Dr. Virginia Franke Kleist for her work, “Information Technology and Information Goods Intensity as Predictors of Organizational Expansion Activity,” based on her dissertation completed at University of Pittsburgh, and Dr. David Lawrence Paul for his work, “Telemedicine: A Study of Virtual Collaboration and Trust in Hypercompetitive Environments,” based on his dissertation completed at the University of Texas at Austin. 

The award was given to Dr. Sabine Hirt for her work titled “Dynamics of Media Choice Behaviour in Multinational Organizations,” and based on her dissertation completed at UCLA.

The award was given to Dr. Ranganathan Chandrasekaran for his work, ”Understanding the Context, Process, and Outcome of Strategic IT Decisions,” completed at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, India. 

The award was given to Dr. Mayuram Krishnan for his paper titled “Costs and Quality Considerations in Software Product Management,” based on his dissertation work completed at the University of Michigan. 

The award was given to Dr. Amarnath Prakash for his paper titled “Reducing Cycle Time Through Interorganizational Linkages: An Empirical Study of the U.S. Apparel Industry,” which was based on his dissertation work completed at the University of Memphis. 

This award was given to Sandra Slaughter for her Ph.D. dissertation work, “Software Development Practices and Software Maintenance Performance: A Field Study, ” University of Minnesota.

The award was presented to Betty Vandenbosch for her dissertation entitled “ESS Impact Viewed from a Learning Perspective,” based on work completed at Western University.

1st place was jointly awarded to Dr. Lawrence Loh for his dissertation titled “The Economics and Organization of Information Technology Governance: Sourcing Strategies for Corporate Information Infrastructure,” based on his dissertation work completed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and to Dr. Yolande E. Chan for her dissertation titled “Business Strategy, Information Systems Strategy, and Strategic Fit: Measurement and Performance Impacts,” based on work completed at Western University.

The award was given to Dr. Guy G. Gable for his dissertation titled “Consultant Engagement Success Factors: A case study and survey of factors affecting client involvement in, and satisfaction with, consultant engagement in computer system selection projects,” based on his dissertation work completed at the University of Bradford.