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
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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.
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Carroll-Mason
Communications
Coordinator
College of
Information Studies, Maryland's iSchool
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