Biography
M. Lynne Markus is the John W. Poduska, Sr. Professor of Information and Process Management at Bentley University and Senior Editor in charge of the Theory and Review Department of MIS Quarterly, the leading journal in the Information Systems field. In fall 2008, she served as Visiting Scholar at MIT Sloan’s Center for Information Systems Research.
Professor Markus's research interests include the organizational architectures of multinational enterprises, IT governance and the board of directors, data and process standardization, and interorganizational information sharing and systems. She is the author or editor of five books and more than 100 other scholarly publications, one of which was awarded MIS Quarterly’s 2006 Paper of the Year, 2006 AIS Publication of the Year, and Bentley’s 2008 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution. She was named a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2004 and received Bentley’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, a lifetime achievement award, in 2005.
Markus has extensive international experience, including more than three years in Asia, having taught at universities in Hong Kong (as Chair Professor of Electronic Business at City University of Hong Kong), Singapore (as Shaw Foundation Professor at Nanyang Business School), Portugal (as Fulbright-FLAD Chair in Market Globalization), Canada (as Fulbright—Queen’s Visiting Research Chair in the Management of Knowledge-Based Enterprises), and in France (at the Université Paris Dauphine and Université de Nantes). She is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Information Management Research Centre (Nanyang Business School, Singapore) and the Monieson Centre (Queen’s University, Canada).
Markus holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University.
