FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The Sam M.
Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas has announced the
appointment of Moez Limayem as chair of the information systems department,
effective June 1.
Limayem comes to the Walton College from
Lausanne University in Switzerland where he was professor and director of the
information systems graduate programs in the information systems department,
HEC Lausanne. He replaces Fred Davis, holder of the David D. Glass Chair in
Information Systems. Davis, who was chair of the information systems department
from 1996 to 2007, is returning to the faculty to teach and research.
“We are very excited to have an
international researcher of Dr. Limayem’s stature join the Walton College to
lead the information systems department,” said Walton College Dean Dan Worrell.
“He is an outstanding teacher and has extensive research and consulting
experience in academic, private business and governmental information
technology fields.
“In addition, we are deeply appreciative
of the contributions made by Dr. Davis. During his tenure, he and his faculty
built a wide range of real-world technology facilities to help students land
top technology jobs right out of college. Through gifts and partnerships with
top technology companies, such as IBM, NCR and SAP, the information systems department
has developed an enterprise systems curriculum to mirror the technology of
corporations.”
Tom Jensen, chair of the marketing and
logistics department, said, “The search committee and faculty in the department
were very impressed by Dr. Limayem’s education, research, international
experience and management style. He brings a lot of knowledge that
complements and augments the other faculty.”
Limayem
was previously a professor and the BBA Electronic Commerce program director at
the information systems department at City University of Hong Kong. He was also
the chair of the management information systems department at Laval University
in Quebec, Canada. He holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in management
information systems from the University of Minnesota. His current research
interests include information technology adoption and usage, centralized
resource management, knowledge management and electronic commerce. He has had
several articles published or forthcoming in many journals such as MIS Quarterly,
Management Science, Information Systems Research, Communications of
the ACM, Journal of AIS, IEEE Transactions, Accounting, Management &
Information Technologies, Group Decision and Negotiation, and Small
Group Research. Limayem is on the editorial board of several
important journals such MIS Quarterly. He has been invited to
present his research in many countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia
and the Middle East. He won the best MIS paper award at the Administrative
Sciences Association of Canada conference in 1998 and at the International
Conference on Information Systems conference in 2003. Limayem is the current
elected president of the Association of Information and Management. He is also
the program co-chair for ICIS 2008 and the chair of the AIM 2007 conference.
In 1994,
Professor Limayem won the prestigious Hermes Award for excellence in teaching.
In 1995 and 1998, he won the award for the best MIS teacher in the faculty of
Business Administration at Laval University, and more recently, he received the
3M award for the best teacher in Canada. In November 2001, he won the Teaching
Excellence Award at City University of Hong Kong. In January 2003 and October
2004, he received the best teacher award of the information systems department at
City University of Hong Kong. Limayem has more than 15 years of experience in
executive training in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong and several European
countries. He is the highest rated executive MBA instructor at City University
of Hong Kong, Concordia University and at Laval University. Limayem also acts
as a consultant for the UNESCO and several private and public companies. His
consultancy services cover e-government, e-commerce, business process
re-engineering and customer relationship management.
Davis
earned a Doctor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan
School of Management in 1986 and has served on the business school faculties at
University of Michigan, University of Minnesota and University of Maryland. He
holds a bachelor of science from Wayne State University in industrial
engineering. He has taught a wide range of information technology courses at
the undergraduate, master’s, doctoral and executive levels. Davis serves as
associate editor for the scholarly journal Management Science and has
published extensive research on user acceptance of IT in the workplace and
computer-assisted planning and decision making. Current research interests also
include IT training and skill acquisition, the motivation and retention of IT
professionals, virtual teams, and technology-supported distance learning. He
teaches decision support systems, organizational productivity with information
technology, business problem-solving, an MBA field project and a doctoral
research seminar.