AIS Fellow Award Winner - Blake Ives
			Blake Ives Blake has provided leadership in building a global community of IS academics through the creation of ISWorld Net, with positions with the leading IS journals, as Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly, as a visiting scholar and researcher, and through his active roles in ICIS and AIS. Blake is the Ourso Family Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at the E. J. Ourso College of Business Administration at Louisiana State University. At LSU he also serves as Director of the Center for Virtual Organization and Commerce. He is currently on leave from LSU and is Martin F. Schmidt Chair and Visiting Professor at the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. Prior to joining LSU, Blake held tenured posts at Dartmouth College and Southern Methodist University, where he was Constantine Distinguished Professor of MIS and Chair of the MIS Department. He also spent a year as a visiting researcher at IBMÕs LA Scientific Center. Blake was awarded the distinguished Marvin Bower Faculty Fellowship at Harvard Business School and the John Olin Fellowship at Templeton College, Oxford University, where he has since served as an affiliate Fellow. He has also been a visiting faculty member at London Business School, University College Dublin, the University of Georgia, and QueenÕs University (Canada). He is the author of numerous scholarly papers, together cited over 1,000 times. Among the more notable are publications focused on information for competitive advantage, applying information technology to the customer service life cycle, user involvement in information systems development, global information systems, user involvement in systems development, and the impact of technology on business education. Blake has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including MIS Quarterly (MISQ) and Information Systems Research. His eleven years on the MISQ board included three as Editor-in-Chief. Blake has played a visible role at the boundary of the academic and practitioner communities. He served for three years on the Board of Directors for the Society for Information Management International (SIM) and also several years on the executive committee of its Dallas Chapter. He has twice had papers given awards in the SIM paper contest. Blake has championed numerous initiatives to employ the Internet in the creation and dissemination of information systems knowledge. While Editor-in-Chief of the MIS Quarterly he developed the web site, required e-mail communication among members of the editorial board, and initiated the first steps in online reviewing and publication. He served until recently as Senior Editor of Electronic Productions for MIS Quarterly as well as Editor of its electronic arm, MISQ Discovery. BlakeÕs concept of Òliving scholarship,Ó as illustrated by Discovery contributions in both qualitative and survey research, demonstrates how a scholarly publication can play both an archival and leading edge role within the discipline. Blake has helped to guide the development of the AISÕs two electronic publications. He is founder and past Editor of ISWorld Net, a virtual community consisting of some 2,000 information systems faculty from over 50 countries. Among its resources, ISWorld Net includes a researcher distribution list, an archive of messages to that list, a worldwide faculty directory, a conferencing facility, lists of information systems department, programs, journals, conferences, and so on. Blake has been very involved with the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). He served as Co-Conference Chair for ICIS Dallas (1994), Chair of the ICIS Executive Committee (1995), and will be Co-Chair for ICIS New Orleans (2001). He was Co-Chair of the first international doctoral consortium, held in Copenhagen in 1990 and in his tenure on the ICIS board has been a strong proponent of moving the conference to locations outside of the U.S.