vol. XXI no. 2 Page 1 2 • Universities and academic institutions need to change. Most of the basic structures and traditions of today’s universities and academic institutions reflect 20th-century realities, with disciplinary silos and one-way delivery of candidates and knowledge to society. In a knowledge and service economy, universities must participate more actively in solving realworld problems. They must adopt interactive forms of knowledge creation that involve collaboration with other constituents in society. • Robinson’s Executive Doctorate in Business is based on engaged scholarship. The Executive Doctorate program is different from a traditional PhD. The focus is on addressing contemporary business problems rather than specialized issues within one academic discipline. Also, research is conducted in close interaction with business professionals, thus contributing to practical problemsolving as well as theory. Such engaged scholarship helps participants become practitioner researchers and thereby improve their executive skills. Our Executive Doctorate program is therefore an exciting meeting place for business executives and research professors to grow individually and contribute to the transformation of society. We have engaged some of the very best scholars at Robinson to implement the new program. To make the program a success, we will continue to need participation of visionary executives with ambitions to go beyond the MBA. We look forward to hearing from you and exploring how you could participate in this exciting project. For detailed information about the Executive Doctorate in Business program, visit: robinson.gsu.edu/execdoctorate. Lars Mathiassen is a professor of computer information systems, a Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar, and a cofounder of the Center for Process Innovation –– a joint collaboration between Robinson and the GRA. Mathiassen has published extensively in leading academic and practitioner journals and currently serves on the editorial boards of Information and Organization; Information Systems Journal; Information, Technology and People; and the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. He holds a doctor of technology degree from Aalborg University in Denmark and a Ph.D. from Oslo University. Previous Page | Top

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