Brief Sketch
The J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Georgia State University, Detmar
has conducted research in the areas of Net-enhanced organizations (e-Commerce), information security,
technological innovation, IS methodological issues, and international IT studies. He holds a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration)
in MIS from Indiana and a PhD in English from Penn State. He has published 140 papers in journals such
as
MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Information Systems Research, Organization Science, Journal of MIS,
Journal of AIS, Information & Management, Communications of the AIS, IEEE Transactions on
Engineering Management, Communications of the ACM, OMEGA, Academy of Management Executive
, and
Sloan Management Review.
Detmar has been selected as the incoming Editor-in-Chief of
MIS Quarterly, with a term starting in January of 2008.
Previously he has served as Senior Editor for
MIS Quarterly,
Information Systems Research,
Journal of the AIS (JAIS) and DATA BASE. He was also Co-Editor
of DATA BASE
for Advances in Information Systems. Previously, he was Associate Editor
for
Management Science as well as an editorial board member
on a host of other journals. His consultancies with industry have been in the areas of information security,
e-Commerce, and technological innovation.
He teaches masters level courses at Georgia State University in:
eCommerce Strategy,
IT Strategies for Management,
Systems Integration and IT Outsourcing,
International IT Policies and Issues, and Computer Security Management, and doctoral seminars in
Quantitative Methods in IS Research, &
Experimental Design.
He serves as Director of Research and Doctoral Programs in the Robinson College of Business.
He is former VP of Publications for the Association for Information Systems. He was appointed AIS Fellow in 2005.
