Heinz K Klein  
Assoc. Prof. em. and Adjunct Professor
Area: MIS
Office: AA 276
Office phone: (607) 777-6068
E-mail: hkklein@binghamton.edu
 
 

Educational Background
Degrees granted/granting universities:
  • University of Munich (German equivalent of MBA and Ph.D. (Dr. rer. publ.)
  • Unversity of Oulu (Dr. h.c.)
 
Current research and teaching interest:
  • HEINZ K. KLEIN earned his Dipl.Kfm. (equivalent of MBA) and Ph.D. at the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Munich. In 1998, he received an honorary doctorate by the University of Oulu for his academic contributions to the development information systems research in Finland and in 2000 the MISQ Best Paper Award for 1999. From 2001 to 2004 he was doctoral program director at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is currently Invited Chair at Salford University in greater Manchester (U.K.) and Adjunct Professor at the School of Management of the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he previously has lead the IS group. He also has held a variety of research and teaching appointments at major research Universities in Germany, Canada, Finland, Denmark, New Zealand, and South Africa. Well known for his contributions to the philosophy of IS Research, foundations of IS theory and methodologies of information systems development, he has written journal articles on rationality and the emancipatory ideal in information systems development, epistemological principles of interpretive field research, critical realism and the intellectual foundations of alternative approaches to information systems development. His work has been published in the best journals of the field such as, MISQ, ISR, Information and Organization, ISJ, CACM, JMIS, Decision Sciences, and others. He co-authored or edited several research monographs and international conference proceedings. He has also contributed widely read book chapters on selected issues of information systems research. He serves on the editorial boards of scholarly journals and the  "Wiley Series in Information Systems". His mentoring of doctoral students and junior faculty has produced several nationally and internationally renowned university professors.
 

Most Significant Publications
Research Publication
  • 1. Articles in Peer-refereed Journals Iivari, J. Hirschheim, R. and Klein, H. K. (2004): Towards A Distinctive Body of Knowledge for Information Systems Experts: Coding ISD Process Knowledge in Two IS Journals, Info Systems J. (2004) 14, 313–342 Klein, Heinz K (2004): Seeking the New and the Critical in Critical Realism: déjà vu? Information and Organization, 14 (2004), 123-144, www.elsevier.com/locate/infoandorg. Hirschheim, R. and Klein, H. K., 2003, Crisis in the IS Field? A Critical Reflection on the State of the Discipline, Journal of the Association of Information Systems (JAIS), Volume 4 Article 10 October, pp. 237-293. Klein, Heinz K. and Hirschheim, Rudy (2001): Choosing between competing design ideals in information systems development, Information Systems Frontiers, (Kluwer Academic Publishers), 3:1, 75-90 (March 2001). Hirschheim, R., Iivari, J. and Klein, H.K. (2000): A Dynamic Framework for Classifying Information Systems Development Methodologies and Approaches, Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Winter 2000, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 177–216. Truex, D. P., Baskerville, R., and Klein, H.K., (1999): Growing systems in emergent organizations, CACM vol. 42, No. 08, Aug. 1999, pp. 117-123. Klein, H.K. and Myers, M. (1999): A set of principles for conducting and evaluating interpretive field studies in information systems, MIS Quarterly, March 1999, pp. 67-93. (This paper received the MIS Quarterly's Best Paper Award for 1999.) Hirschheim, R., Iivari, J. and Klein, H.K. (1998): “A paradigmatic analysis contrasting information systems development approaches and methodologies”, Information Systems Research, Vol. 9, 2 (June 1998), pp. 164-193. Klein, H.K. and Hirschheim, R. (1998): The Rationality of Value Choices in Information Systems Development", Foundations of Information Systems [peer-refereed electronic journal: http://www.cba.uh.edu/~parks/fis/fis.htm], http://www.cba.uh.edu/~parks/fis/kantpap.htm. Hirschheim, R.; Klein, H.K.; Lyytinen, K. (1996): "Exploring the intellectual structures of systems development: a social action theoretic analysis”, Accounting, Management and Information Technologies (AMIT, as of 2001 renamed Information and Organization, http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/9/6/4/), Vol. 6, No. 1/2 1996, pp.1-64. Klein, H.K. and Kraft, P. (1994): "Social control and social contract in netWORKing: total quality management and the control of work in the United States", Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2:89-108. Hirschheim, R. and Klein, H. K. (1994): "Realizing emancipatory concerns in information systems development: The case for ETHICS", MIS Quarterly, Vol.18, No.1 (March 1994), pp. 83-109. Ngwenyama, O. and Klein, H. K. (1994): "An exploration of expertise of knowledge workers: towards a definition of the Universe of Discourse for knowledge acquisition, Information Systems Journal (formerly J. of Information Systems, Blackwell Scientific), Vol.4, No.2 (April 1994), pp.129-140.
  • 2. Book and Refereed Conference Proceedings to be added

 

 

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