UALR Paper Named Best at International Conference

Dr. Rolf Wigand, who holds UALR’s Maulden-Entergy Distinguished Professor of Information Science and Management Chair, and three co-authors received two awards at the International Conference on Information Systems in Montreal. They received the 2006 Best Paper Award in MIS Quarterly for the article “Industry-wide Information Systems Standardization as Collective Action: The Case of the U. S. Residential Mortgage Industry.” They also received the “2006 One of Five Best Papers Awards in the Field of Information Systems” awarded by the Senior Information Systems Editors Group, whose members are current and past senior editors of the leading journals in information systems.