homepage > awards > outstanding researcher award

Outstanding Researcher Award

The AIET section operates an annual competition to identify the Outstanding Researcher of the year. The purpose of this award is to recognize a researcher for their outstanding published research in the field of AI/ET. The winner of this award is honored with a plaque usually presented at the Annual AI/ET Section Business Meeting.

The primary criteria for the award are:

  1. Impact of the research on the field of AI/ET
  2. Relevance to the larger accounting information systems community
  3. Relevance to the larger information systems community
  4. Originality and innovation of the research
Call for Nominations for the 2008 Award

The formal call for nominations for the 2008 award was issued in February 2008.

Please send your nomination (as an attachment to an email) by 31 MARCH 2008 to the Chair of the committee for this award:

Professor Stewart A. Leech
Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
Email: saleech@unimelb.edu.au

Selection process for the award:

  • Nominations should be sent by the annual date proposed (announced as appropriate by email each year).
  • To be eligible for consideration, the nominee must be a current member of the AAA.
  • A member of the AI/ET Section must nominate the individual.
  • The nominating letter must include a statement as to why the individual is nominated and an assessment of the individual's research (which can include peer-reviewed books, monographs, and journal articles relating to research in the field of AI/ET).
  • Members of the Executive Committee are ineligible for the award.
(NB. - Research contribution is broadly defined and not limited to any type of specific research contribution.)


Previous Recipients of this Award

  • 1994 - Barbro Back
  • 1995 - Dan O'Leary
  • 1996 - Raj Srivastava
  • 1997 - Carol Brown
  • 1998 - Miklos Vasarhelyi
  • 1999 -
  • 2000 - Amelia Baldwin
  • 2001 - Alex Kogan
  • 2002 - Ram Sriram
  • 2003 - Steve Sutton
  • 2004 - Andrew Lymer
  • 2005 - Roger Debreceny
  • 2006 - Stewart Leech
  • 2007 - Bill McCarthy


Do please feel free to contact us with any queries or questions you have about anything you find on these pages - the section's webmanager, Andy Lymer, can be contacted on a.m.lymer@bham.ac.uk.