Ephraim R. McLean (born January 7, 1936) is an American organizational theorist, and Regents' Professor (Emeritus) of Information Systems and holder of the G.E. Smith (GRA) Eminent Scholars' Chair at the

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. Known as one of the founders of the MIS discipline in the 1960s, his work with

William H. DeLone William Hook DeLone (born 1946) is an American organizational theorist, and Professor at the American University, Department of Information Technology, known for his work with Ephraim R. McLean on the information systems success model and on "meas ...

on the

information systems success model The information systems success model (alternatively ''IS success model'' or ''Delone and McLean IS success model'') is an information systems (IS) theory which seeks to provide a comprehensive understanding of IS success by identifying, describin ...

is world-renowned.

Life and work

McLean obtained his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering in 1958 at

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, his MS in Business Administration in 1967 from

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, where in 1970 he also obtained his PhD. After his graduation at Cornell University, McLean served at the U.S. Ordnance Corps, and then joined

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. He moved from manufacturing management into computer systems analysis. In 1965 he joined the

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faculty, where he wrote the MIS field's first books on computer and management. In 1969 he moved to the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, where he founded one of the world's first MIS department. Eventually in 1987 he moved to the

at the Georgia State University, where he became Professor in information Systems, chairman of the Department of Computer Information Systems, and Director of its Center for Research in Information Systems.Profile Ephraim R. McLean
Georgia State University. Accessed 11.02.2015.

Selected publications

*McLean, Ephraim R., and George Albert Steiner. ''Strategic planning for MIS.'' Wiley, 1977. *Ephraim R. McLean. ''Decision support systems: A Decade in Perspective Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 16–18 June 1986'' *Turban, Ephraim R. McLean et al. ''Information technology for management.'' John Wiley & Sons, 2008. Articles, a selection: * Delone, William H., and Ephraim R. McLean. "Information systems success: The quest for the dependent variable." ''Information systems research'' 3.1 (1992): pages 60-95. *Tiwana, Amrit, and Ephraim R. Mclean. "Expertise integration and creativity in information systems development." ''Journal of Management Information Systems'' 22.1 (2003): pages 13-43. * Delone, William H., and Ephraim R. McLean.
The DeLone and McLean model of information systems success: a ten-year update
" ''Journal of management information systems'' 19.4 (2003): pages 9-30. * Delone, William H., and Ephraim R. Mclean.
Measuring e-commerce success: Applying the DeLone & McLean information systems success model
" ''International Journal of Electronic Commerce'' 9.1 (2004): pages 31-47.

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