Our friend and colleague Rolf Wigand passed away on September 25, 2020, at the age of 76. He is survived by his wife Dianne, his brother Rainer, and many cousins. His son Andreas died earlier the same year.After holding management positions in his native Germany, he moved to Texas Tech University where he was a track and field athlete and earned bachelor's and master's degrees. He later was awarded a Ph.D. from Michigan State University, continuing in the fields of business and communication. He began his professorial career in communication at Arizona State University in 1975 and moved in 1991 to Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. In 2002, he became the Maulden-Entergy Chair and Distinguished Professor of Information Science and Management at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. After retiring in 2014 he moved back to Arizona and was affiliated with the Emeritus College at ASU. Throughout his career, he served as a visiting professor on four continents, held several administrative positions, and was a consultant to many businesses.We know him best for his highly productive career as a researcher. He wrote or edited 21 books and over 500 research papers. Over 3500 articles cited his work in the past five years. He collaborated on publications with over a hundred scholars. His most cited works include editions of books in multiple languages co-authored with Arnold Picot and Ralf Reichwald entitled "Information, Organization and Management" and "Die grenzenlose Unternehmung" (The limitless enterprise), which apply economic theories of organization to new organizational forms, including markets. (Picot et al. 1996;Wigand et al. 1997) The Handelsblatt Management Bibliothek listed these editions as among the "75 best management books of all time" (Handelsblatt 2005).