Bob Galliers

Professor Emeritus Bob Galliers joined Bentley in July 2002 as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. He was appointed the University Distinguished Professor upon stepping down as Provost in July 2009 until his retirement from Bentley in July 2017.

As Provost, he headed up Bentley's progress to university status and EQUIS and EDAMBA accreditations. AACSB and NEASC accreditations were reconfirmed during this period in addition. In line with his university-wide role, he held a joint appointment as Professor in the Information & Process Management and Sociology departments.

He is currently a Senior Adviser of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Quality Services, Brussels, Belgium and Professor Emeritus at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick in the UK, where he was Dean in the late 1990s.

Prior to joining Bentley, he was Professor of Information Systems and Research Director in the Department of Information Systems at the London School of Economics (LSE). Before joining LSE, Galliers served as Lucas Professor of Business Management Systems and Dean of Warwick Business School in the UK, and earlier as Foundation Professor and Head of the School of Information Systems at Curtin University in Australia. He has held Visiting Professorships at the LSE, King's College, London, Brunel University and Loughborough University, UK; the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales and Bond University, Australia; Hong Kong City and Hong Kong Polytechnic Universities; University of St Gallen, Switzerland; University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; National University of Singapore, the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Belgium and INSEAD, France.

He serves on the international advisory boards of a number of business schools, including those at the University of Tilburg in The Netherlands; Turku University, Finland, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland and Bradford University, UK. He was a member of the EFMD's EQUIS Accreditation Board for the period 2009-2016 and has served on the Chartered Association of Business Schools (UK) Management Committee for its Academic Journal Guide since 2012.

He holds an AB (honors) degree in Economics from Harvard University; a Master's degree with distinction in Management Systems from Lancaster University; a PhD in Information Systems from the LSE, and an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Turku School of Economics & Business Administration, Finland.

He served as the founding editor-in-chief of The Journal of Strategic Information Systems; one of eight leading IS journals recognized by the Senior Scholars of the Association for Information Systems. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and the Association for Information Systems (FAIS), of which he was President in 1999. He received the AIS LEO Award for exceptional lifetime achievement in IS in 2012.

He has published over 100 articles in many leading international journals on information systems and management (e.g., MISQ, JAIS, JMIS, ISJ, EJIS, JIT, JMS, BJM and LRP), and has authored or co-authored 16 books, including "Managing Digital Innovation: A Knowledge Perspective" (Springer, 2020) ; "Strategic Information Management: Theory and Practice" 5th edition (Routledge, 2020); "The Routledge Companion to Management Information Systems" (Routledge, 2017); "The Routledge Handbook on Management Information Systems" (Routledge, 2015); "The Oxford Handbook of Management Information Systems" (Oxford University Press, 2011); "Exploring Information Systems Research Approaches: Readings and Reflections" (Routledge, 2007); "Rethinking Management Information Systems" (Oxford University Press, 1999), and "IT and Organizational Transformation" (Wiley, 1998). "The Cambridge Handbook of Qualitative Digital Research" is due to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.

His research is transdisciplinary in nature, focusing primarily on organizational innovation/transformation and the associated management of change issues; the processes and practices of information systems strategizing; organizational knowing, and the intra- and extra-organizational impacts of digital technologies.

He has been keynote speaker at more than 60 major international conferences and symposia including the European Conference on IS; the Australasian Conference on IS; the Scandinavian Conference on IS; the UKAIS Conference, and the Mediterranean Conference on IS. He has supervised 27 PhD students to completion (including 5 at Bentley) and his work has been cited approximately 16,000 times according to Google Scholar.