BB&T Visiting Professorship Fund

Description

• Title of endowment – BB& T Visiting Professorship Fund
• Date established – August 28, 2003
• Purpose of endowment – To provide annual programs in business leadership and ethics for students, faculty and members of the business community. Funds from the endowment would also be used to recognize student and faculty initiatives and other quality benchmarks sought for the continuing improvement of the Gordon Ford College of Business and its quest to foster entrepreneurship and leadership among its business graduates and faculty.\
• College/department where housed – Gordon Ford College of Business
• Status – William R. King , Ph.D. of the University of Pittsburgh was the BB&T Visiting Professor in 2004-2005. He currently serves as a Professor in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business.
  

Degrees
BS in Industrial Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 1960
MS in Operations Research, Case Institute of Technology (now Case Western Reserve University), 1962
PhD in Operations Research, Case Institute of Technology (now Case Western Reserve University), 1964

Courses Recently Taught
MBA:
BMIS 2586 Impact Analysis
TELE 2411 Information Technology in Organizations

PhD:
BMIS 3011 Current Issues in Information Systems Research
BMIS 3021 Knowledge Management Systems
BMIS 3108 Advanced Topics in Information Systems

Interest Groups
Management Information Systems; Strategy, Environment, and Organizations

Profile
William R. King's research interests are primarily in information systems, strategic planning, and management science. He is internationally known as a prolific and effective author, educator, researcher, and consultant.

He was the founding president of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and a past president of The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS) (1989–90), an international professional society with 8,000 members, which he guided to merge with the OR Society of America to form INFORMS. He has twice served as chair of ICIS— the annual International Conference on Information Systems (1988; 2005), has served as editor-in-chief of the Management Information Systems Quarterly, the primary journal in the field of information systems, and was the key figure in the founding of a new journal, Information Systems Research.

King has been selected for many honors and awards, including the McKinsey Foundation Award as coauthor of Systems Analysis and Project Management, an "outstanding contributor to the literature of management," the Institute of Industrial Engineers Book-of-the-Year Award, and designation as a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Decision Sciences Institute, and the Association for Information Systems (AIS).  Recently, he was given the Leo Lifetime Exceptional Achievement Award by AIS.

Since coming to the Katz School in 1967 after receiving his PhD from Case Institute of Technology (now Case Western Reserve University) and serving on the faculty of the Air Force Institute of Technology (while on active duty as an Air Force officer), King has directed numerous funded research studies. He was instrumental in the Katz School being successful in obtaining a multimillion-dollar grant from IBM that was awarded in a national competition involving hundreds of graduate business schools. This grant has resulted in significant changes in Katz's MBA program, the design and implementation of a double degree (MBA and MS in MIS) program, the development of significant research, and the establishment of relationships with corporations and other educational institutions. Earlier in his tenure at Katz, he designed and implemented the modern version of the school's PhD program, founded and directed the Strategic Management Institute, and was instrumental in the development of a graduate program in telecommunications that is supported by five schools of the University.

He serves in editorial roles with a number of journals, including Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, and OMEGA: The International Journal of Management Science.

As a consultant, he has served a large number of Fortune 500 corporations, Congressional committees, government agencies, and overseas firms. During 2002 and 2003, King had three major surgeries, including two liver transplants. In January 2004, he returned to his full-time duties at Katz.

Research Interest Areas
Information Systems, Strategic Planning and Policy, Quantitative Methods, Operations Research/Manufacturing/Operations Management

Publications
“Antecedents of Knowledge Transfer from Consultants to Clients in Enterprise System Implementations” (with Laurie Kirsch and Dong-Gil Ko) MIS Quarterly, Vol 29, No 1, March 2005, pp 1-27.

“Integrating National Culture into Individual IS Adoption Research: The Need for Current Individual Level Measures” (with Dennis Galletta and Scott McCoy) Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Vol 15, No 12, 2005, pp 211-224.

 “Outsourcing and the Future of IT,” Information Systems Management, Volume 21, Issue 4, Fall 2004.

“IT Offshoring: Prospects, Challenges, Educational Requirements and Curriculum Implications,” (with G. Davis, P. Ein-dor, and R. Torkzadeh), Senior Scholars Paper, Proceedings of the InternationalConference on Information Systems (ICIS), December, 2004. 

“The Critical Role of Information Processing in Creating an Effective Knowledge Organization” (accepted by Journal of Database Management; Special Issue on Knowledge Management in Organizations: Systems and Methodologies)

“Measuring the Performance of Information Systems: A Functional Scorecard” (with J. Chang) Journal of Management Information Systems, in press.

“Process Improvement in IS Development,” Information Systems Management, accepted; in press.

“Knowledge Sharing” The Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, (David G. Schwartz, Editor), Idea Group Publishing,  in press.

“Knowledge Transfer” The Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, (editor: David G. Schwartz), IdeaGroup Publishing, in press.

"The Most Important Issues in Knowledge Management" (with P. Marks and S. McCoy),  Communications of the ACM, Vol. 45, No. 9, September 2002, pp. 93–97.