This research project is funded by a research grant from the German National Science Foundation [Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (http://www.dfg.de )], Bonn, Germany. The research is being carried our jointly between Professor Ulrich Frank, Information Systems and Enterprise Modelling, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and Rolf Wigand, Department of Information Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

The Anglo-American research discipline of Information Systems (IS) differs significantly from the German counterpart Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI), in particular with respect to research objectives and applied research methods. Constructive research approaches - sometimes referred to as “design science” - are predominantly applied in the discipline of Wirtschaftsinformatik. These approaches are aimed at the design of new ways of organizing business processes, as well as supporting information and communication systems. On the other hand, Information Systems is geared to the ideal of behavioristic social sciences, i.e. IS researchers empirically analyze actually existing cases for developing, introducing, or using information and communication technologies in business firms.

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UALR News | 17 December 2007 5:30 pm

Dr. Rolf Wigand, who holds UALR’s Maulden-Entergy Distinguished Professor of Information Science and Management Chair, and three co-authors received two awards at the International Conference on Information Systems in Montreal.

They received the 2006 Best Paper Award in MIS Quarterly for the article “Industry-wide Information Systems Standardization as Collective Action: The Case of the U. S. Residential Mortgage Industry.”

They also received the “2006 One of Five Best Papers Awards in the Field of Information Systems” awarded by the Senior Information Systems Editors Group, whose members are current and past senior editors of the leading journals in information systems.

Updated 12.18.2007