The Association for Information Systems (AIS) is an international, not-for-profit,

professional association A professional association (also called a professional body, professional organization, or professional society) usually seeks to advocacy, further a particular profession, the interests of individuals and organisations engaged in that professio ...

for scholars 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 ...

that was established in 1994. The association publishes journals, organizes conferences, and provides a forum for

professors and managers. It has members in more than 100 countries. The association is led by a president who is annually elected from one of three world regions—the Americas, Europe and Africa and Asia-Pacific—on a rotating basis. The governing council is made up of elected functional vice-presidents and other officers and council members who are elected in the three world regions. The association organizes four annual conferences for IS researchers, educators and students: The International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), which alternates between the three world regions, and three regional conferences: the

Americas Conference on Information Systems The Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) is an annual conference for information systems and information technology academics and professionals sponsored by the Association for Information Systems. AMCIS is widely considered to be o ...

(AMCIS), the

European Conference on Information Systems The European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) is an annual conference for information systems and information technology academics and professionals and was affiliated with the Association for Information Systems (AIS). The organization of ...

(ECIS), and the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS).

Publications

The association publishes academic journals including: *

Journal of the Association for Information Systems The ''Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS)'' is a top-tier peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers research in the areas of information systems and technology. It is an official journal of the Association for Information S ...

(JAIS) * Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS) * Revista Latinoamericana Y Del Caribe De La Associacion De Sistemas De Informacion (RELCASI) * Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems (PAJAIS) * Journal of the Midwest Association for Information Systems (JMWAIS) * Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA) * Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS) * AIS Transactions on Replication Research (TRR) *

AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction ''AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction'' is a quarterly peer review, peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on human–computer interactions. It was established by Ping Zhang and Dennis Galletta in 2009 and is published by t ...

(THCI) Affiliated journals include: *

Business & Information Systems Engineering Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE) is an international scholarly and double-blind reviewed journal which publishes scientific research on the effective and efficient design and utilization of information systems by individuals, group ...

(BISE) *

Management Information Systems 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 19 ...

(MISQ) * MIS Quarterly Executive (MISQe) *

Information Systems Journal ''Information Systems Journal'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers all aspects of information systems, with particular emphasis on the relationship between information systems and people, business, and organisations. The jo ...

(ISJ) * Systèmes d'Information et Management (SIM) * Foundations and Trends in Information Systems (FnTIS) Both AIS published titles and affiliated journals are included in th
AIS eLibrary
which is accessible as a benefit of membership.

Leo Award

Since 1999 the AIS annually grants the Leo Award to one or more persons, who have made exceptional contributions to the research and practice of Information Systems. Award recipients have been:https://aisnet.org/page/LeoAward at aisnet.org. Retrieved June 8, 2011. * 1999 : C. West Churchman, J. Daniel Couger, Börje Langefors,

Enid Mumford Enid Mumford (6 March 1924 – 7 April 2006) was a British social scientist, computer scientist and Professor Emerita of Manchester University and a visiting fellow at Manchester Business School, largely known for her work on human factors and ...

* 2000 : Gordon B. Davis * 2001 : Richard O. Mason * 2002 : Jay Nunamaker, Paul Gray * 2003 :

Frank Land Fred Frank Land (born Frank Landsberger; October 1928) is a German-born information systems researcher and was the first United Kingdom Professor of Information Systems. He is currently emeritus professor in the Department of Information Syst ...

, John F. Rockart * 2004 :

William Richard King William Richard King, the thirty-sixth President of The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS), is a retired American university professor who studied and researched management science and information systems at the University of Pittsburgh in Pen ...

Rob Kling Rob Kling (August 1944 – 15 May 2003) was a North American professor of Information Systems and Information science at the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University Indian ...

* 2005 : Andrew B. Whinston * 2006 : Niels Bjørn-Andersen, Phillip Ein-Dor * 2007 :

Izak Benbasat Izak Benbasat is a Turkish–Canadian professor and scientist, currently the Sauder Distinguished Professor of Information Systems and professor of information-system management at the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business T ...

, Ephraim McLean * 2008 :

Dewald Roode Johannes Dewald Roode (July 16, 1940 – Sept 27, 2009) was a South African academic and Professor at the University of Pretoria, specializing in Information Systems research. Biography Dewald Roode received a B.A. in theoretical physics, an M.A ...

, M. Lynne Markus, Robert W. Zmud, Kenneth L. Kraemer * 2009 : Daniel Robey, E. Burton Swanson * 2010 : Blake Ives, Carol Saunders * 2011 : Richard (Rick) Watson, Ron Weber * 2012 :

Bob Galliers Robert D. Galliers is Bentley University’s Distinguished Professor Emeritus having previously served as Provost. He also holds an honorary appointment as Visiting Professor of Information Systems at Loughborough University. Previously, Bob held p ...

, Detmar Straub * 2013 :

Rudy Hirschheim Rudolf A. (Rudy) Hirschheim is the Ourso Family Distinguished Professor of Information Systems in the E.J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University. Hirschheim is a top-ranking information systems researcher, notable for his researc ...

Kalle Lyytinen Kalle Lyytinen (born August 19, 1953 in Helsinki) is the Iris S. Wolstein Professor of Management Design at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management, where he is also director of their Doctor of Management program. His rese ...

* 2014 : Joey George, Ting-Ping (T.P.) Liang * 2015 : Dennis Galletta,

Allen Lee Allen Lee Peng-fei, CBE, JP (; 24 April 194015 May 2020) was a Hong Kong industrialist, politician and political commentator. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, serving from 1978 to 1997 and was the Senior Member of t ...

, Kwok Kee Wei, Dov Te'eni * 2016 : Richard Baskerville, James Marsden * 2017 : Sirkka Jarvenpaa, Vallabh Sambamurthy * 2018 : David Avison, Jane Fedorowicz * 2019 : Ritu Agarwal, Michael D. Myers,

Arun Rai Arun Rai (born 1963) is an Indian-born American scientist. Arun Rai is a permanent Regent's Professor at the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University and holds J. Mack Robinson Chair of IT-Enabled Process Innovation and Supply Chai ...

* 2020 : Cynthia Beath, Varun Grover, Elena Karahanna, Jae Kyu Lee

References

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