Gordon Davis

Education

BA/BS 1955

• Political Science and Accounting Idaho State University

MBA 1957

• Stanford University

PhD 1959

• Business Administration Stanford University

Expertise

• MIS planning
• Information requirements determination
• Management of knowledge work
• Conceptual foundations for information systems

Selected Works

• "Management Information Systems," (ed.) Vol. III, Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, 1997
• "Writing the Doctoral Dissertation," with C. Parkers, Barron's Educational Series, 1997
• "Personal Productivity with Information Technology," with D. Naumann, McGraw Hill, 1997
• " Managing Information: How Information Systems Impact Organizational Strategy," with S. Hamilton, Business One Irwin, 1993
• "Management Information Systems: Conceptual Foundations, Structure and Development," with M. Olson, McGrawHill Book Co., 1st ed. 1974, 2nd ed. French, Chinese, Spanish, Indonesian and Dutch eds., 1985

Current Activities

Administrative Appointments

• Publisher, MIS Quarterly

Current Research

• Productivity from information technologies
• Management of knowledge work

Editorial Appointments

• Editorial boards: Accounting, Management and Information Technologies, Information Systems Journal, MIS Quarterly

Honors and Awards

• IFIP Silver Core Award, 1989
• Award for Information Systems Excellence by Oakland University, 2000
• LEO Award for Lifetime Service to Field of Information Systems, AIS, 2000
• Honorary doctorate, Stockholm School of Economics, 1999
• Honorary doctorate, Univ. of Zurich, 1995
• DPMA Outstanding Educator Award, 1993
• Honorary doctorate, Univ. of Lyon, France, 1990

Scholarly Service

• Outstanding Alumnus, Idaho State University, 2002
• Fellow of the Association for Information Systems, 2000
• President of Association for Information Systems, 1998
• U.S.A. representative, Technical Committee 8 (Information Systems), International Fed. for Info. Processing, 1982 2001
• ACM representative to model IS curriculum design, from 1970 to present
• ACM Fellow, 1996