Merrill Warkentin's Service Activities

Dr. Warkentin has served the academic community in various capacities, including numerous journal editing and reviewing activities, guest editorships, as reviewer for academic conferences, and conference involvement. Some details ...

Professor Warkentin is an Associate Editor of the Information Resources Management Journal. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Information Systems Security and a Senior Associate Editor of eGovernment Quarterly (eGQ) journal. He has served several journals as guest editor and numerous journals (IRMJ, Decision Sciences, MIS Quarterly, IEEE Transactions, JEUC, JECO, JECR, etc.) and conferences as reviewer. Professor Warkentin was the Guest Editor of two special issues of the Journal of End User Computing in 2003. He has served in numerous national conferences (DSI, AMCIS, HICCS, IRMA, ICEIS, ECIS, INFORMS, ISOneWorld, and the World Congress on Expert Systems) and many regional conferences as program chair, track chair, session chair, discussant, and reviewer. He is http://www.iceis.org/ for ISOneWorld again this year, and is on the http://www.iceis.org/ for Web2004 and IRMA2005. He was a Track Chair and Member of the Local Organizing Committee for IRMA2004. He was the Track Chair for the DSS Track at the 2003 Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) National Conference. He was the Senior Editor and Track Co-Chair for the Decision Support Systems Track of the 2002 AIS Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS). For the International Conference of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA), Dr. Warkentin is the Track Co-Chair for the E-Commerce Technologies Management Track and a Member of the Local Organizing Committee in 2004, was a Program Committee Member in 2003, was the Program Chair in 1998, and was the Track Chair for the Multimedia Track in 1997. Dr. Warkentin will be a Senior Program Committee Member for teh 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS2005), and was a Senior Program Committee Member for the 4th, 5th, and 6th International Conferences on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS2002, ICEIS2003, and ICEIS2004), and a Program Committee Member for the 3rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS2001). He is a Program Co-Chair for the 2004 ISOneWorld Conference and a Program Committee Member (Research-in-Progress Co-Chair) for the 2003 ISOneWorld Conference. He was the Mobile Commerce Track Chair for the 2002 ISOneWorld Conference. He was also the 1998 Track Chair for the DSS Track for the national Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) conference. He has also served as Proceedings Editor for the Systems Dynamics Society. He has served SEDSI and NEDSI as campus rep for several institutions in addition to service as session chair, discussant, and reviewer at many annual and regional conferences. Professor Warkentin has served ten universities as an External Reviewer for candidates for promotion and tenure. He has also been a consultant to ACM/DPMA/AIS as a reviewer of the "IS'95 Model Curriculum" for MIS and a book reviewer for various publishers.

Internal Service. Professor Merrill Warkentin has been active in many capacities at his various institutions. He served university-level committees, Business colleges committees, and departmental committees, and was particularly active in the areas of technology assessment and oversight, faculty recruitment, curriculum review, accreditation review, student organizations, and research awards. Dr. Warkentin has been an active part of four successful AACSB accreditation or re-accreditation processes. He was the Director of faculty recruitment for years and served both the evening program and the traditional full-time program as Director of Programs in MIS and eCommerce, where his responsibility included curriculum development and review, faculty staffing (for 14 courses), and academic oversight and coordination. At Mississippi State, Dr. Warkentin is active in strategic planning, library acquisitions, PhD program planning, and also works very closely with the MIS doctoral students in the area of research skills.