Robert D. Galliers is

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’s Distinguished Professor Emeritus having previously served as Provost. He also holds an honorary appointment as Visiting Professor of Information Systems at Loughborough University. Previously, Bob held professorships at the London School of Economics, Warwick Business School (where he served as Dean), and Curtin University. He has held a number of visiting professorships internationally and serves on various university advisory boards. He is the former editor-in-chief of The

Journal of Strategic Information Systems The ''Journal of Strategic Information Systems'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering management, business, and organizational issues associated with the use of information systems. It was established in December 1991 and is publi ...

, which he has led from 1991 (its foundation) to December 2018; Bob is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Association for Information Systems, of which he was President in 1999. He received the

Association for Information Systems The Association for Information Systems (AIS) is an international, not-for-profit, professional association for scholars of information systems that was established in 1994. The association publishes journals, organizes conferences, and provides ...

LEO Award for exceptional lifetime achievement in 2012 and an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Turku University, Finland in 1995. Bob Galliers has widely published in leading Information Systems journals such as

MIS Quarterly ''Management Information Systems Quarterly'', referred to as ''MIS Quarterly'', is an online-only quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in management information systems and information technology. It was established in 1 ...

Information Systems Research ''Information Systems Research'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in the areas of information systems and information technology, including cognitive psychology, economics, computer science, operations research, ...

and the

Journal of Management Information Systems The ''Journal of Management Information Systems'' ''(JMIS)'' is a top-tier peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes impactful research articles making a significant novel contribution in the areas of information systems and information technol ...

. Among notable contributions to the field of Information Systems, Professor Galliers introduced the notion of Information Systems Strategizing (in contrast with

Michael Porter Michael Eugene Porter (born May 23, 1947) is an American academic known for his theories on economics, business strategy, and social causes. He is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School, and he was one of t ...

's conception of strategy). Strategizing, according to his latest publications, involves ongoing processes of knowledge exploration and exploitation.

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