Holsapple Named Decision Sciences Institute Fellow
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 8, 2010) − Professor Clyde W. Holsapple, holder of the Rosenthal Endowed Chair in Management Information Systems in the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics, will be inducted as a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) at the organization’s 2010 Annual Meeting in San Diego later this year. Holsapple becomes only the 109th DSI Fellow in the organization’s more than 40-year history, joining notable scholars from such prestigious business schools as Wharton, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Duke, North Carolina, Texas, Michigan, Arizona, Minnesota, Wisconsin, UCLA, and the London Business School.
Fellows of the Institute are determined by a committee of peers and the DSI Board of Directors as persons having made exceptional career contributions to the decision sciences disciplines in terms of their research, scholarship, teaching, and service accomplishments. Selection as a DSI Fellow is the highest honor the institute bestows on scholars in the decision sciences.
"I would like to share this honor with Warren Rosenthal, the Gatton College, colleagues, and students -- all of whom have been important contributors to an academic environment that has offered a supportive climate in which scholarly efforts could bear this fruit," said Holsapple.
With thousands of members, the Decision Sciences Institute is the world’s premier organization devoted to the science, practice, and teaching of decision making in business and related disciplines. Through its conferences, publications, and professional development services, the institute fosters the dissemination and discussion of research for understanding and improving decision processes.
"We congratulate Clyde Holsapple on yet another recognition of his fantastic contributions to the field of decision science and information systems and the University of Kentucky," said D. Sudharshan, dean of the Gatton College. "We are indeed fortunate to have him here in our college."
Holsapple has contributed to the decision sciences in several capacities. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce. He has served as senior editor of Information Systems Research; inaugural area editor for both Decision Support Systems and the INFORMS Journal on Computing; and associate editor of Management Science and Decision Sciences.
In addition, Holsapple, who has taught in the Gatton College since 1988, has published over a dozen books, including "Decision Support Systems – A Knowledge-based Approach," "Foundations of Decision Support Systems," the Handbook on Decision Support Systems, the Handbook on Knowledge Management, and "Business Expert Systems."
Covering a variety of decision science disciplines, Holsapple has authored nearly 150 research articles in journals such as Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Operations Research, Organization Science, Journal of Operations Management, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology, and many others. In all, contents of Holsapple’s publications have received more than 6,000 citations.
Holsapple is recipient of the Gatton College's inaugural Robertson Faculty Research Leadership Award, the state of Kentucky’s R&D Excellence Award, the Essential Science Indicators Top 1% Designation by Thomson-Reuters, and several best paper awards in international conferences and journals. He is a recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Teaching at the University of Kentucky and the Computer Educator of the Year Award from the International Association for Computer Information Systems. Holsapple has chaired more than 25 completed doctoral dissertations.
Prior to coming to UK, Holsapple held tenured faculty positions at Purdue University and the University of Illinois.