AIS Fellow Award Winner - Sirkka Jarvenpaa
			Sirkka Jarvenpaa Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa is the James L. Bayless/ Rauscher Pierce Refsnes, Inc. Chair in Business Administration at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas. At the McCombs Business School, she co-directs the Center for Business, Technology and Law, a research center that focuses on how political, legal, and cultural issues affect the structures and designs of e-business. On the campus she is actively involved in several campus assignments, such as the MBA Policy Committee, Track Leader in the cross-functional Center for Customer Insight, and Steering Committee Member in the Women's Studies program. Sirkka received her B.S. from Bowling Green State University and her M.B.A.and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Her visiting scholar appointments at other universities include the distinguished Marvin Bower Fellowship at the Harvard Business School, and visiting scholar appointment at Queen's University, University of Melbourne, and MIT's Sloan School of Management. Her current research projects focus on electronic business and mobile commerce. During her fellowship at Harvard, she wrote some of the earliest case studies on Internet business. From 1996 to 1998, her work addressed how Internet organizations build trust in virtual relationships with their customers and with their employees. Her current work focuses on managing knowledge and intelligence, how the Internet shapes both psychological and economic forces of ownership with digital knowledge assets, and how these ownership issues affect Internet firms' market, technology, and policy strategies. Sirkka has received several best paper awards including two Society of Information Management (SIM) Paper awards, as well as the MIS Quarterly Best Paper award and the Academy of Management Organizational Communication and Information Systems Best Paper Award. She is the Joint Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, as well as Senior Editor of Information Systems Research. She has served as a senior editor for MIS Quarterly and an associate editor for many other journals. In May of 2002 she will become Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. Highlights of her service for the Information Science field include her terms as Vice President for the Association for Information Systems (AIS) in 1995 and 1996, and her many chair roles (program, Ph.D., consortium, planning, conference treasurer) for the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). She also frequently contributes to industry conferences on e-business as a speaker or panelist.