Ephraim R. McLean

Ephraim R. McLean (born January 7, 1936) 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 1987 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:

gollark: You have to deal with trusting a server and maybe key distribution and stuff.
gollark: Fair, although they're somewhat more *complex* than "magic uninterceptable channel"l.
gollark: So only stuff like PotatOS ship strong crypto nowadays.
gollark: The other way would be some sort of hypercomplex crypto solution, but it would probably have its own problems and I think SquidDev said no to including that sort of thing in core CraftOS.
gollark: If they made it magically uninterceptable, that would be uncool and bad for learning.

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.
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