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John L. King is Professor and Dean of the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Previously, he was Professor of Information and Computer Science and Management and a research scientist at the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO) at the University of California, Irvine. At UCI he was chair of the Department of Information and Computer Science and conducted research on the development of high-level requirements for information systems design and implementation. Drawing on engineering and the social sciences, he studies the organizational and institutional forces that shape how information technology is developed. In addition to chairing his department at Irvine, Dr. King served as chair of the University of California Committee on the Library and was a member of the Systemwide Library and Scholarly Advisory Committee. In 1990, he was the Marvin Bower Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Harvard Business School. In 1993-1995, Dr. King was Editor-In-Chief of the INFORMS journal, Information Systems Research, has been co-editor-in-chief of Information Infrastructure and Policy since 1989 and is a member of several other editorial boards, including that for the Journal of Strategic Information Technology and the ACM Computing Surveys, for which he was associate editor from 1989-97. Dr. King holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of California, Irvine.