Information Systems Society

Information Systems Society President's Service Award

This award aims to recognize IS academics who have exhibited extraordinary dedication in serving the IS community over time. Nominees are expected to be deeply involved with ISS-related organization activities, administrative roles, and leadership positions that benefit the growth and impact of the IS field, the engagement of IS professionals, and broader impact to the IS and business community.

The ISS President’s service award also recognizes IS academics who support the IS community across the globe and have a positive impact on underrepresented parts of the IS community.

ISS Bapna-Ghose Social Justice Best Paper Award

This best paper award’s purpose is to foster and encourage high quality IS research that makes an impact towards improving social justice outcomes. The award’s concept of social justice research is broadly scoped to include all facets of modern IS, analytics, digital platforms and AI perspectives, as well as the full palette of methodologies. It specifically aims to direct, recognize and reward IS research that helps positively move the interlocking gears of education, housing, healthcare, transportation, employment, income and criminal justice outcomes and policies for Black/African-Americans, Latinx/Hispanic-American and Native Americans populations.

ISS Practical Impacts Award

This award honors distinguished information systems academics who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and sustained impact on the industry.

ISS Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Award

The award is named in honor of University of Minnesota professor, Gordon Davis, who was part of the founding fathers of the information systems discipline. The award recognizes and honors young scholars who are on a path towards making outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.

ISS Teaching Innovation Award

The primary aim of the award is to recognize IS faculty who have made outstanding pedagogical contributions to the IS discipline.

ISS Management Science Best Paper Award

The award is given to the paper published in Management Science in the previous three years (2017-2019) that is deemed most deserving for its contribution to the theory and practice of information systems (IS).

ISS Sandra A. Slaughter Early Career Award

The Information Systems Society (ISS) invites nominations for the ISS Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award. The award will recognize and honor early career individuals who are on a path towards making outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.

ISS Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award

The INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) invites submissions for the Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award (NCDA). The NCDA is named in honor of two University of Arizona professors, Jay Nunamaker and Hsinchun Chen, who have made significant contributions to the field of Information Systems over the past several decades. The NCDA has been created to recognize and reward outstanding dissertation research by scholars in the field of Information Systems.  The winner of the 2018 Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award will receive a US$1000 prize.

ISS Distinguished Fellow Award

The primary aim of the award is to recognize individuals who have made outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.