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CAIS Awards

Each year, the CAIS recognizes outstanding contributions from authors, reviewers and members of the editorial board. Please congratulate those recognized on this page.

Paul Gray Award for the Most Thought Provoking Paper

This award was established in 2015 in memorandum of the CAIS founding Editor-in-Chief, the late Paul Gray, and recognizes a published CAIS paper voted as the most thought-provoking paper. The Award Selection Committee for the Paul Gray award is composed of three current and past Editor-in-Chiefs of CAIS.

• 2023 Paul Gray Award Winners: Yadav, J., Yadav, A., Misra, M., Rana, N. P., & Zhou, J. (2023). Role of Social Media in Technology Adoption for Sustainable Agriculture Practices: Evidence from Twitter Analytics. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 52, 833-851.
• Savarimuthu, B., Corbett, J., Yasir, M., & Lakshmi, V. (2023). Improving Information Systems Sustainability by Applying Machine Learning to Detect and Reduce Data Waste. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 53, 189-213.
• 2022 Paul Gray Award Winner: McCaffrey, M. (2023). Loot Boxes, Problem Gambling, and Problem Gaming: A Critical Review of the Emerging Literature. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 52, 132-163.
• 2021 Paul Gray Award Winner: Conboy, K. (2021). Enabling Promethean Leaps: An Examination of Storytelling Techniques in Information Systems Development. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 48, 333-351.
• 2020 Paul Gray Award Winner: O'Leary, D., & Storey, V. C. (2020). Discovering and transforming exhaust data to realize managerial value. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 47, 315-337.
• 2019 Paul Gray Award Winner: Someh, I., Davern, M., Breidbach, C. F., & Shanks, G. (2019). Ethical Issues in Big Data Analytics: A Stakeholder Perspective. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 44:34, 718-747.
• 2018 Paul Gray Award Winner: Cranefield, J., Oliver, G., Pries-Heje, J. (2018). Political satire and the counter-framing of public sector IT project escalation. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 43, 133-158.
• 2017 Paul Gray Award Winner: Levy, M. and Germonprez, M. (2017). The potential for citizen science in information systems research. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 40, 22-39.
• 2016 Paul Gray Award Winner: Lacity, M., Khan, S., Carmel, E. (2016). Employing U.S. military families to provide business process outsourcing services: A case study of impact sourcing and reshoring. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 39, 150-175.
• 2015 Paul Gray Award Winner: Niederman, F., Crowston, K., Koch, H., Krcmar, H., Powell, P., and Swanson, E.B. (2015). Assessing IS research impact. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 36, 127-138.

Best Associate Editor Award

This award was established in 2015 in recognition of outstanding commitment from a member of the editorial board of CAIS. It is awarded annually by the Editor-in-Chief and announced in January.

• 2023 Best Associate Editor Award Winners: Mary Granger, The George Washington University, and Craig van Slyke, Louisiana Tech University
• 2019 Best Associate Editor Award Winner: Iris Junglas, College of Charleston
• 2018 Best Associate Editor Award Winner: Devendra Bahadur Thapa, Universitetet i Agder, and Karlheinz Kautz, RMIT University
• 2017 Best Associate Editor Award Winner: Thompson Teo, National University Singapore
• 2016 Best Associate Editor Award Winner: Tina Blegind Jensen, Copenhagen Business School
• 2015 Best Associate Editor Award Winner: Paul Benjamin Lowry, City University of Hong Kong

Best Reviewer Award

This award was established in 2015 in recognition of outstanding, constructive, timely and developmental contributions from a CAIS reviewer. It is awarded annually by the Editor-in-Chief on basis of nominations from the editorial board and announced in January.

• 2019 Best Reviewer Award Winner: Jeremy Ezell, James Madison University
• 2018 Best Reviewer Award Winner: Craig Van Slyke, Louisiana Tech University
• 2017 Best Reviewer Award Winner: Gustaf Juell-Skielse, Stockholm University
• 2016 Best Reviewer Award Winner: Chitu Okoli, Concordia University
• 2015 Best Reviewer Award Winner: Jeff Proudfoot, Bentley University