Accounting recognition
Accounting and MIS professor receives national recognition for research
9:11 a.m., Sept. 5, 2012--Guido Geerts, professor of accounting and management information systems (MIS) in the University of Delaware's Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, received the 2012 Outstanding Contribution to Research Award from the Strategic and Emerging Technologies (SET) Section of the American Accounting Association.
The award is given to a scholar whose research has an impact on the field of strategic and emerging technologies, is relevant to the larger accounting information systems community, and shows originality and innovation.
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Geerts’ research focuses primarily on enterprise ontologies, or representations of knowledge about the processes, activities and organization of enterprises. Specifically, Geerts has contributed to the formal specification of enterprise ontologies, their employment in business process modeling and their integration in accounting applications.
“I am obviously honored to receive this award,” said Geerts. “Being recognized by your peers for your research contributions is as good as it gets.”
William E. McCarthy, a professor of accounting in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University, was Geerts’ doctoral co-supervisor and remains a long-time mentor.
“Guido is richly deserving of this research award from the American Accounting Association,” said McCarthy. “His European educational heritage in computer science methods has given him a sustainable knowledge advantage in the fields of accounting systems and enterprise computing, and he has parlayed this advantage into a continuous record of successful publications since achieving his doctorate in 1993.”
McCarthy also noted that Geerts has become one of the top design science researchers in accounting.
“Guido has additionally achieved an enviable record of editorial and academic leadership in those intervening 20 years,” he said.
Frederik Gailly, an assistant professor at the University of Ghent (Belgium) further noted, “Guido’s scholarly work is highly regarded and I used his research on formal specifications of ontologies as starting point for my Ph.D. dissertation. During the last two years, Guido and I have worked together on a number of research projects which enabled me to observe the high standards of scientific rigor and integrity he applies to his work. This is a well-deserved honor for his exceptional research contribution to the accounting information systems field.”
Geerts’ received a bachelor's degree and doctorate in economics from the Free University Brussels (Belgium) and joined the UD faculty in 2000. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Information Systems, the premier accounting information systems journal; a guest editor for a special issue on business process modeling (International Journal of Accounting Information Systems); and a guest editor for a special issue on enterprise ontologies (Journal of Information Systems). He served as chair of the Department of Accounting and MIS for the last three years.