Heinz-Karl Klein (25 November 1939 — 18 June 2008) was a professor and scholar who made fundamental contributions to the philosophical foundations of the field of

information systems An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems are composed by four components: task, people ...

, and the subfields of systems development, data modeling, and interpretive research in information systems. He is a widely cited scholar in these areas. Dr. Klein earned his Dipl. Kfm. (equivalent of an MBA) and Ph.D. from the Faculty of Business Administration,

University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

. In 1998, he received an honorary doctorate from the

University of Oulu The University of Oulu ( fi, Oulun yliopisto) is one of the largest universities in Finland, located in the city of Oulu. It was founded on July 8, 1958. The university has around 13,000 students and 2,900 staff. 21 International Master's P ...

for his academic contributions to the development information systems research in Finland. He received the Paper of the Year award for 1999 from

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 ...

, the leading journal in the field of

.MIS Quarterly website with Paper of the Year awards
From 2001 to 2004 he was a doctoral program director at

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then calle ...

. In his last years he was Invited Chair at

Salford Business School Salford Business School is located 3 km west of Manchester city centre in the Maxwell Building on the Peel Park Campus of the University of Salford. As a business school it offers business management courses, business services and busine ...

University of Salford , caption = Coat of ArmsUniversity of Salford , mottoeng = "Let us seek higher things" , established = 1850 - Pendleton Mechanics Institute 1896 – Royal Technical Institute, Salford 1967 – gained ...

, and Adjunct Professor at the School of Management of Binghamton University. He has also held a variety of research and teaching appointments at major research Universities in Germany, Canada, Finland, Denmark, New Zealand, and South Africa. His mentoring of doctoral students and junior faculty has produced several nationally and internationally renowned university professors.

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Binghamton University obituary
{{DEFAULTSORT:Klein, Heinz 1939 births 2008 deaths American sociologists Information systems researchers American people of German descent Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Academics of the University of Salford Binghamton University faculty