Footnotes
- Information on this and other SIM initiatives can be obtained by contacting SIM headquarters at:
The Society of Information Management, 401 North Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611-4267; phone 312-644-6610.
- Information concerning membership in SIM is included in the statement of Editorial Policy that appears at the front of this issue [ see hardcopy or visit SIM home on World Wide Web - ed..]
- There are 1889 names of North American faculty in the 1992 edition of the Directory of Management Information Systems Faculty. There are 800 more names in the 1993 edition of the Directory of Information Systems Faculty in Europe. Assuming perhaps 1,000 IS professionals in Asia and the rest of the world, and another 1,000 interested people who are not represented in the existing directories, there might be a total population of 4-5,000 potential members.
- A task force to investigate the need for a new society was initiated by Paul Grey and others at the December 1992, International Conference on Information Systems in Dallas. Inquiries, suggestions, and proposals can be directed to Bill King, who chairs that effort. The address is Katz Graduate School of Business, Mervis Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260. [Because of these efforts, this editorial, and the energies of former MIS Quarterly Editor Bill King, the
Association for Information Systems was founded in 1995. In 1996 AIS became a sponsor of the Management Information Systems Quarterly- ed.]