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Maryland iSchool Assistant Professor Ping Wang Receives Best Paper Award College Park, MD (10/14/10)--The Academy of Management's Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) Division recognized University of Maryland iSchool Assistant Professor Ping Wang, along with Portland State University's Neil C. Ramiller, with its Best Published Paper Award at the Academy's Annual Meeting in Montreal on August 9, 2010. Wang and Ramiller were recognized for their paper, "Community Learning in Information Technology Innovations," which originally appeared in MIS Quarterly in December 2009. This award is presented annually to the best research paper authored or co-authored by an OCIS member and published during the previous year. The winning paper is judged on its potential to have significant impact on the study and understanding of organizations, communications, and information systems. Wang and Ramiller's paper uses an analysis of public discourse around enterprise resource planning to demonstrate the reciprocal relationship between community and organizational learning in information technology innovation. From this evidence, they propose a model of the learning cycle that draws on community-level theory and complements existing literature on IT innovation and learning. The paper is available online at: http://www.misq.org/archivist/bestpaper/WangRamiller.pdf About Maryland's iSchool The College of Information Studies, Maryland's iSchool, empowers people, organizations and society to use information effectively through its research and undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. Maryland's iSchool enables students and faculty to create new ways for people to connect with information that will transform society and is ideally located in the information capital of the world- the Washington DC metro region. The iSchool is transforming itself as well, from a small college with a strong foundation in library and information studies programs to a fast-growing and groundbreaking center of expertise that will help people manage the information explosion from childhood to adulthood. For more information visit www.ischool.umd.edu<http://www.ischool.umd.edu> Mary Carroll-Mason Communications Coordinator College of Information Studies, Maryland's iSchool 4110D Hornbake Library College Park, MD 20742 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> (301) 405-1260 ischool.umd.edu<http://ischool.umd.edu/>