Richard Boland has been a Professor of Information Systems at Case Western Reserve University since 1989. Before that, he was a Professor of Accountancy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been a visiting Professor at UCLA, and at the Gothenburg School of Economics. He also holds an appointment as a Senior Research Associate at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. Professor Boland's research emphasizes interpretive studies of how individuals experience the design, and use of information systems in organizations. Some representative publications include 'Perspective making and perspective taking in communities of knowing', Organization Science (1995), 'Knowledge representation and knowledge transfer', Academy of Management Journal , (2001), and Managing as Designing , (Stanford University Press, 2004).