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Ephraim R. McLean

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Ephraim R. McLean (born 1930s) is an American organizational theorist, and Professor of Information Systems at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, known for his work with William H. DeLone on the information systems success model and on "measurement of information systems effectiveness."[1][2]

Life and work

McLean obtained his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering in 1958 at Cornell University, his MSc in Business Administration in 1967 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where in 1970 he also obtained his PhD.

After his graduation at Cornell University, McLean served at the U.S. Ordnance Corps, and then joined Procter & Gamble. He moved from manufacturing management into computer systems analysis. In 1965 he joined the MIT Sloan School of Management faculty, where he wrote his first books on computer and management. In 1969 he moved to the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, where he founded and directed its first Information Systems Research Program.

Eventually in 1978 he moved to the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at the Georgia State University, where he became Professor in information Systems, chairman of the Department of Computer Information Systems, and Director of its Center for Research in Information Systems.[3]

Selected publications

  • McLean, Ephraim R., and George Albert Steiner. Strategic planning for MIS. Wiley, 1977.
  • Ephraim R. McLean. Decision support systems : a decade in perspective : proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.3 Working Conference on Decision Support Systems : A Decade in Perspective Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 16–18 June 1986
  • Turban, Ephraim R. McLean et al. Information technology for management : making connections for strategic advantage. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

Articles, a selection:

References

  1. ^ Taylor, Shirley, and Peter A. Todd. "Understanding information technology usage: A test of competing models." Information systems research 6.2 (1995): 144-176.
  2. ^ Alavi, Maryam, and Dorothy E. Leidner. "Review: Knowledge management and knowledge management systems: Conceptual foundations and research issues." MIS quarterly (2001): 107-136.
  3. ^ Profile Ephraim R. McLean, Georgia State University. Accessed 11.02.2015.