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Carol Saunders

Carol Saunders PhD

Healthcare Management, Healthcare Technology
Orlando, Florida, United States of America

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Carol Saunders, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus of Management at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Saunders has received lifetime accomplishment awards from two disciplines the LEO award in the Information Systems (IS) discipline and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the OCIS Division of the Academy of Management. She is an Association of Information Systems Fellow, a Schӧller Senior Fellow, and the 2020 Distinguished Educator (awarded by the Education Special Interest Group for Information Systems). She served on a number of editorial boards, including a three-year term as Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly.

She served as General Conference Chair of the premier IS conference, ICIS, and as the Program Co-chair of AMCIS 2015. She was Vice President of Publications for the Association of Information Systems from 2016 – 2019. Carol helped found the Organization Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) division of the Academy of Management and served in a variety of positions including its program chair and division chair. She was the Distinguished Fulbright Scholar at the Wirtschafts Universitat – Wien (WU) in Austria and earlier held a Professional Fulbright with the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute. She has held research chairs in Germany, New Zealand, Singapore, and the Netherlands.

Her current research interests include overload, sourcing, virtual teams, business models, and control. She has published in top-ranked management, IS, computer science, and communication journals.
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