Carol Brown named MIS Quarterly Executive’s new editor-in-chief
Brown is a professor in Stevens’ Howe School of Technology Management
HOBOKEN , N.J. ― Carol Brown, a Distinguished Professor in Stevens Institute of Technology’s Howe School of Technology Management, has been named be MIS Quarterly Executive’s third editor-in-chief. She will begin her term on January 1, 2009 .
Brown has served as a senior editor for MISQE since 2004. During that time, she also served as gues t editor (with Christina Soh) of the September 2007 special issue on IS capabilities, served as program chair of SIM Academic and led this year’s AMCIS MISQE workshop.
In addition to her editorial work for MISQE, Brown was editor-in-chief of Information Systems Management. She has also served as an AE for MIS Quarterly. Brown’s own research has long emphasized the issues and challenges facing IT practitioners. She has published two of the most popular MISQE articles. Her work has also appeared in ISR, JMIS, MISQ, and Organization Science. She is a coauthor of a leading textbook for graduate level students, Managing Information Technology, 6 th edition, 2008 (Pearson/Prentice Hall).
Currently a member of the New Jersey chapter of SIM , Brown served as the vice president for Academic Community Affairs on the SIM Executive Board from 1998 to 2000, during which time she established the annual SIM Academic Workshop as a pre-ICIS conference event and collaborated on SIM -sponsored projects to disseminate practices for attracting, recruiting and retaining IT professionals. She also served as an officer for the SIM -Indianapolis chapter from 2001-2004. She is a three-time winner of SIM ’s annual paper award competition.
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